#time warriors

[retrocgads]

USA 1997

[askvectorprime]

Dear Vector Prime, of all the eye colors you've had, which would you consider your favorite?

Dear Spectrum Savant,

At one point in my younger days, back when I was a member of the Time Warriors, exposure to chronogon radiation caused my colors to spontaneously shift. For some time afterwards, my optics were a rather unusual shade of amarklor, though they took on more of an onsible hue in the right lighting. I wasn't sure that it suited me, but Scorpia told me she found it very attractive.

[theavplayer]

Cyber Kombat [Skarlet, Liu Kang & Noob Saibot]

[wolf-lundgren]

[askvectorprime]

Who or what is Mogahn the Mass?

Dear Mass Monitor,

A figure from my past—a past of mine, at any rate. Mogahn was one of the most ancient beings in the multiverse, from an earlier realm, one where the Originators and Terminators had been waging their battle for almost as long as that plane had existed. Mogahn was the last of the Terminators, the only one to survive after his own kind bred the Hytherion to destroy their foes. Like the other Terminators, he was a mechanical being—at least at first. But when he lived past the ending of his own universe, and traveled to others, he became something much, much worse.

Mogahn's home universe had a higher quiddity than most others (I here use "quiddity" to mean a metric for how much something exists, how "real" it is), and so when he traveled to a new reality, he found himself more real than anything else therein. Nothing in existence could harm him—in fact, his mere presence laid bare the unreality of that existence, which suddenly found itself defined in the context of Mogahn.

The ground he strode over eroded under his tread; that upon which Mogahn walked, must surely have been Mogahn's feet. The armies that rose to slay him were slain by his hand; that with which Mogahn fought, must surely have been Mogahn’s fists. Metallic, organic, living, dead, starships, stars—all matter, everything that mattered in that universe could only be a thought in Mogahn's head, a part of Mogahn's body. His power was true solipsism, an unholy rendering of all unto one. Mogahn's conceptual mass pressed down on that universe, warping spacetime, folding it in two like a finished book, shut. And in adjacent dimensions, those onlooking the event horizon observed that curvature for the first time, and reckoned with their models of reality.

Those few beings who could pose tangible, realistic resistance to Mogahn the Mass were felled by the Cyber Caliber. When my fellow Time Warriors and I tried to defeat him, we tasted that blade's edge too many times to count, and only our chronowarping abilities allowed most of us to survive—myself being the sole exception, thankfully. I believe you know the rest: that lethal blow was what allowed me to discover my true nature, and thus awakened, able to see Mogahn for the ephemera he was, I called the Cyber Caliber to me. Using the knowledge granted to me by Adaptus, I reforged the blade—because the one thing as real as Mogahn the Mass must surely have been Mogahn’s sword, that with which Mogahn lost. I named it Rhisling.

Cleaved free by that blade, the Mass and all the lost sparks within now exist without a frame of reference, no longer defined by Mogahn yet unable to be returned to the existences they had once led; instead sinking into the void between dimensions. With its high quiddity, and the void's timelessness, the Mass may never fully dissolve—and until then, I must keep a careful watch, lest anyone tries to unleash it once more.

[askvectorprime]

Dear Vector Prime, we may be past giving universal stream designations to parts of the multiverse, but what would you call universes like Cyberverse, BotBots, and the IDW comics since 2019?

Dear Nomenclature Nerd,

That rather depends on whom I was discussing them with! When speaking with my siblings and other beings in tune with the multiverse, I would refer to them with a set of higher-dimensional "coordinates" that most beings would be unable to comprehend. With more mundane Cybertronians such as the Protectors or my fellow Time Warriors, I would typically describe the universes by the events and deviations that characterise them, or use local terminology such as the spacetime designations of Cloud World. And, when speaking with humans such as yourself, I would do much as you have, and use the names of the media through which they were broadcasted to your reality!

[askvectorprime]

Hi Mr. Vector Prime person. Do you recall a wannabe warlord asking Galvatron for advice on conquering his reality, and then Galvatron turning it around on him and invading his reality? Well, I know Galvatron had departed, but unfortunately there are still lotsa remnants of his Legion here causing a ruckus, and, um, I was wondering if you could spare a sec to help. We don’t have much in the ways of fighting giant robots, so it’s kinda getting desperate here…

Dear Besieged Buddy,

I must offer my most sincere apologies for the time it took to oust Megatron from the Realm of the Primes, but you should not have to worry for much longer. As you read this, my brave companions have arrived in your reality to ensure that the remnants of the Legion of the Damned will no longer menace your world. With Safeguard's wit and Scorpia's strength on your side, you are sure to succeed!

[askvectorprime]

Have you ever known a version of yourself to exist in Diaclone, or any other Cymond universe?

Dear Equivalent Expert,

There are several there I've had the pleasure to observe and even encounter, usually very different from each other.

One I remember was the human, Doctor Viktor Ponomarenko, one of the directing overseers of the Diaclone Corps. He seeks to use Freezon to find a way to end the Waruder-Human wars peacefully.

In another reality, the Brave of Time Vectorion defends the timestream with his human friends and fellow Time Warriors: Sasoria, Jiyūsion, Damasoul and Kalton.

And, of course, there is the Hyper Agent by the name of Cosmo Vector—though I believe that in her human guise, she simply went by "Cosmo".