#transwarp

[stra-tek]

The Official Star Trek(R) Fact Files(TM) entry on transwarp.

Note "Eugene's limit of warp factor 10", dropping Gene Roddenberry's TNG-era writing room decrees into the universe😂

[blade-liger-4ever]

The Binder's take on Cheetor and Rodimus - I actually like them thanks to it

Cheetor...I can hardly believe they made him so standout from his original depiction. I mean, he literally doesn't get caught in the Binder's outline, whereas in Beast Wars he could barely go two episodes without landing himself in the clutches of the enemy. And his arrogance and nobility being a sort of tug-of-war over his personality, insofar as it's hard to discern his true nature under his cocky, self-assured exterior....dang, that's what Arcee thought Smokescreen was. Heh, I can see them going at it hammer and tongs.

His precognition actually getting addressed is a relief, because I still don't know what the point of it was in the cartoon itself. I can see this version of Cheetor becoming Alpha Trizer more easily than his BW counterpart, and now I wonder how I could/can work that whole upgrade thing into his arc.

And now I have an idea of Cheetor going on travels with the Autobots in his past after a chance encounter with Jetfire/Skyfire via the latter's transwarp drive....that'd be a fun arc for him and Smokescreen actually, hmmm....

Okay, I already have set plans for Hot Rod/Rodimus Prime in my AU, and while he's been dead for some time...I think I can take a version of the Binder's idea of him and spin him into a new character. Make him an orphan from the streets who survived on his guts into young adulthood to become an Autobot after Megatron declares war. His arrogance and ego - more tempered, since he's not a leader or even trying to become one - are gonna be the result of his pride from handling himself as well as he did before everything went to Pit. Upon joining, he takes the name Rodimus because of the reputation he had, and because he looked up to the Prime during the few times he got to learn any kind of history.

That wasn't shrouded in vagueness, that is.

He's also just A Guy. Like he's part of a squad of sorts in the background, but tries to clean up a lot of messes he and his crew get mixed up in. Until Clobber joins, he's basically surviving on energant to function.

I don't believe it, the Binder really did make me love two characters I can rarely, if at all, stand.

[star-trek-likes-vs-dislikes]

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[timeliner2004tf]

Plastic ( Highlighted FanFiction )

Story by Alexis-Carlo

« You know, doc, I figured out the secret » - said the Autobot, coughing up Energon. There was a time when Ratchet knew all his patients’ names. Now, looking at this burnt crisp in front of him, he couldn’t even tell what he was supposed to turn into. Joints and metal fused, circuits sparking - « The secret behind the war »

« And what’s that, soldier ? » - replied Ratchet, in a weary voice

« I’ve done the calculations. Cybertron’s population, even in the glory days, never passed above 10 million. 6 million years and we still haven’t wiped each yet ? It’s practically impossible » - he spat up fluid, burn metal crisping like paper - « Something’s been guiding us. Beyond Primus, beyond Unicron, beyond gods. Has been since Megatron walked into Iacon. Wanna know how I found out ? »

Ratchet stared. He had heard talks like this from soldiers close to death before but this disquieted - « Go on, soldier »

« I was part of a raiding party on Shockwave’s Tower. Prowl didn’t tell us much other than that he was preparing a weapon. Me and my troops walked in and off went something. They told us later there was no sign of radiation or thermal detonation – this was something beyond that. Perceptor said it used transwarp energy to break in worlds above ours. I called it the Truth Bomb. My troops all died in an hour, they couldn’t handle what they saw » - suddenly the burnt automaton pulled the Autobot medic closer - « I was sent to the edge of the universe. Plastic. Slaggin’ plastic. And I saw outside. Our war, our pain ? The constant expansion and killing of everything that gets in our way ? All constructed to sell play items to the little bastard protoforms of some stupid race. Our war is nothing more than a backstory behind pieces of plastic. And all the neutrals, the rank-and-file ? We’re nothing. Just concepts in stupid, pointless fiction » - the soldier started to laugh. Electrodes attached to him signaled to a screen that his electro-pulse was fading. « You know, I lost people when Uraya exploded. My friends, neighbors, people who I had known for years. I wondered for a long time…” how could this happen ? “. Now I know » - his innermost Energon started to leak - « Slaggin’ plastic...»

A flatline sounded out. Acid rain poured down on the makeshift hospital. Sounds roared in the distance. Ratchet stared at the Sparkless body in front of him, greying as living metal died

Somewhere, in a world above, fingers typed at a keyboard as Ratchet left the body, moving on to his next patient

[lyroart]

Happy threshold day everybody!!! Happy 25th birthday lizard babies!!! It is 25 right? Times flies (edit: it's 26)

[daakureisaiko]

[pundus]

"New Warp Scale"

While "The Great Experiment" of the USS Excelsior was mostly a failure in terms of the trailblazing transwarp drive, leaps and bounds were made in warp field dynamics and thresholds of speed at conventional warp were broken. These new heights reached by cochranes of subspace variance would revolutionize the warp factor scale.

[whirligig-girl]

Phoenix jumps to transwarp