#skalorr

[askvectorprime]

A question I’ve had for a very long time; why is Xobitor considered its own cluster and not just part of Cymond?

Dear Cluster Concerned,

Many have asked that very question.

I remember back when the Cymond cluster was first discovered, following a Waruder infestation on Axiom Nexus, the Ministry for Higher Dimensional Sciences was in furious debate over the cluster and its ramifications. And to make matters worse, the Xobitor cluster seemed very much related to it. Many felt the Xobitor cluster should be folded into Cymond; others felt that due to the rules of primacy, all of the tentative Cymond streams should instead be cataloged as Xobitor, since it had first been categorized. Bots argued for cycles about quark flavors, quantum resonances, dimensional strings… It was, in short, exhausting.

The current Xobitor and Cymond Cluster designations are in some ways a compromise, as most things are when it comes to Universal Streams. Xobitor is distinguished by the existence of a Cybertron analogue named Skalorr—with Cymond streams, by contrast, being commonly recognised as having no direct analogues to Cybertron.

[askvectorprime]

Since the Go-bots & Gobotron are versions of the Transformers & Cybertron/Primus, and since they were once organic, were they the result of the organic life on Cybertron actually living for much longer?

Dear GoBot Gofer,

For someone with a lifetime of nine billion years, "longer" is something of a useless measurement. But yes, comparatively speaking, organic life did get to a much further stage of evolution on GoBotron than it tends to on Cybertrons that start out as organic worlds. Though you did not ask, the same is true of Skalorr and its Protecton and Terrakor inhabitants.

However, there is a notable difference between the organic inhabitants of various Cybertrons and those of GoBotron and Skalorr. Normally, the animals that exist on organic worlds that become Cybertron are those that had already evolved before Primus' presence. This is not true of the GoBeings of GoBotron, or the Protectons and Terrakors of Skalorr. They are of Primus' essence, their... what do you call them? Souls? The impulses that run through the electronic neurons in their brains are composed of the same energy as our sparks. I am not sure why my creator chose this route; perhaps their distance from the center of the multiverse prevented the formation of the living metal required for a Cybertronian body. Perhaps Primus simply chose to. There are some decisions I am not privy to.

Of course, for similarly unknown reasons, Primus's invisible hand ultimately set in motion events that would change this. The inspiration for the GoBot bodytype, the GoBeing that became the Last Engineer. The explosion of the Skallorrian sun, and the decision to make Robotix bodies. Now that I am thinking about these worlds, I find it quite funny—how different we are, and yet how alike! Already they are much closer to the technorganic goal than is normal for most Cybertronians, and yet they are still so far from it. Fascinating.