What do you think what happend with tom and sara during the toonami hiatus? (08-2012 ish)
Not entirely sure...but! You know how in the first intro with TOM 5 and SARA v3 sounded like they hadn't seen each other in a while? So between seeing them together last back in 2007 (her showing up the April Fools run was apparently not canon) and her reintroduction in 2013, I think they separated for some reason. I like thinking that SARA voluntarily went to help someone. Perhaps an old friend/ally like the Dronomeks? Something also must've happened in between this time to make SARA have to revert to a face on a screen again and no longer a more physical looking hologram. Maybe it had something to do with the Absolution mk III's capabilities? Or cuz of their lower budget- I like to think them having more budget and less airtime back in 2004 is what made it so she was able to have a full body in the first place since it also means the ship is saving enough energy for it now that they were working one day a week and not five. No idea what happened between that time to make TOM 3.5 become TOM 5...they've been holding that story over our heads for over ten years now... Maybe all this could be explained...if they told us what HIS origin story was! And where did that version of the Absolution come from? Was mk II destroyed like mk I was? Was it revamped into mk III? Is it a completely different ship that just has a legacy title? Besides that...I'd say before SARA left temporarily, it would be interesting if Fusion fall was canon for them somehow- that at least explains what they were doing in 2011. Maybe some interdimensional shenanigans caused them to go to the post apocalyptic warring anime version of CN City or something idk. Before though...I also gotta wonder what 3 was doing during the 2007-08 timeframe when he essentially lent the block to his clone/twin. (Yeah that's canon by the way.) Unlike 5, I actually have a theory on 4's existence- he one was one of the other spare bodies in those pods seen in the Intruder when TOM 2 was first awakened that crash landed onto the planet we see him on after mk I exploded...as for why he looks like that...emergency repairs. Ship of theseus'd himself...heck maybe that's why he's 4...maybe he called himself 3 until something happened where his appearance changed greatly before meeting 3 and it just so happened to line up. Other than what I listed...probably the usually stuff, but just off screen?
