#age of primes

[askvectorprime]

Dear Vector Prime, can you tell us about Cybertronian elections, such as for the senate? How may political parties does Cybertron have (other than the Autobots and Decepticons, of course)? How did election change from the pre-war era to the post-war era?

Dear Interested Imperator,

At the dawn of time, my siblings and I were tasked with leading Cybertron’s people, by none other than Primus himself. The lineage of Primes continues in this tradition; the planet’s ruler is chosen by the Matrix of Leadership, and through it, by divine right. Perhaps all the more so for having lived through the Age of Primes, I am a staunch advocate for democracy—people must be free to choose their own leaders. It is an unfortunate truth that, during wartime, positions in office are filled not by elections, but by the hasty promotion of those still functioning.

There was a time, long before the war, following the schism that marked the end of the Primes’ tenure, when Cybertronian society began to experiment with new political systems, in order to unify its people once more. This was known as the Defragmentation Era, and some aspects of these reforms persist to this day. Where before, leaders would have issued software commands to their followers directly, many began to adopt the alpha builds of the “Magna Cartridges”. These ancient tapes outlined voting consensus protocols using the language of network failures, and derived “peace” from the healing of faults in networked systems. The original Council of Elders, established at this time, were a group of robots sitting in their supercomputer alt-modes, in a grand amphitheater, computing away for megacycles at a time!

Various political parties have come and gone since. The Mathematical Party dates back to those early days of laborious computation, believing that the optimal leadership candidate can be calculated from logic alone—they submit rigorous proofs demonstrating the purported superiority of their preferred candidate. Meanwhile, the Chromatic Party revolves around the concept of Polarity, fielding the candidate whose spark “color” is in sympathy with the astrological movements at that point in time. A newer voting bloc is the Axalonian Party, who have removed all weaponry from their forms and tend to inhabit the lower mantle of Cybertron, advocating for techno-organic rights for visiting species.

This paints a very basic picture for you, but I’m no political theorist. There is a huge canon of work written by Cybertronian thinkers and politicians, if you’re truly interested. Have you read any Anti-Blaze?

[bigangrytrev]

Age of Primes: Which Bots can be traced back to which Primes?

Which bots can be traced back to which Primes? The Original 13 Primes has been part of the Transformers mythos for quite a while now.  Be it in the Aligned Continuity, the Movieverse, the Power of The Primes Trilogy, or even retroactively into G1 via the IDW Comics, the idea that Primus originally created 13 Primes in order to battle Unicron has become an established part of Transformers…

[drlockdown-reviews]

It just occurred to me; both Commander slots are filled next year.

SS86 is Long Haul and Hook in a two-pack, to give them the necessary engineering to complete Devastator.

Age of Primes is likely going to be either Silverbolt or Onslaught, for the exact same reason.

Bit of a shame, but ah well.

[interstellar-elf]

The Switch 2 is being taken off of pre-order

There's Transformer fans who have decided they can no longer collect anymore because of the tariffs effecting the prices of the figures (considering we're getting the Age of Primes figures)

I'm worried about the prices of my favorite art supplies going up

I'm also worried about the price of groceries, since well I have to eat

[arseniccattails]

Sedoretu but instead of a society with moieties it's ancient Cybertron and joins together two of the primal clans. The kids belong to one of their parents' clans based on who exactly is the creator, but still couldn't marry into the other clan, which works because there's more than two.

[salmonpiffy]

Damn bro, you got the whole squad laughing

[zorangezest]

you are correct!

[lazychimken]

WOW PEOPLE REALLY LIKED THE RATCHET AND BUMBLEBEE AGE SWAP!!! Have some more lol

Lots of people gave different ideas for this silly au, so I decided to show off some of them here :D

[karanseraph]

I hope the robot toys will have so many crests and cables and filaments and such on their heads.

I wonder if Megatronus and Solus are Together in Dreamwave Transformers but then Left her and the Thirteen Primes for Unicron

(She probably wasn't even Created when Megatronus the Fallen Debuts in the Dreamwave Transformers Comics and Also I Hope the Age of the Primes Solus Prime Figure does Not have the Fake Long Hair too)

[gumptiomdog]

the Hasbro CEOs or whatever need to watch their security. i needed that trilogy so bad

[starscream-is-my-wife]

Finally I draw Drift/Deadlock

[renndiagrams]

no because it’s the way they needed each other so bad that they became codependent in a single day, it’s the way tobias couldn’t function without him, it’s the way gabin only performed FOR tobias and tobias only made it FOR gabin, it’s the way he loved him so much he built a whole number from the ground up AROUND gabin, I’m literally physically ill

[chirpfinch]

i see you!! you’re here!! you’re real!! [s2ep14]

alt versions bc i can never pick which i like best

[papaquesito]

im 1/3 done with part 3 of the Starscream Au. I decided to color and that was my mistake... sigh.

Anyways!! have my TFP Ratchet doodles

[crispy-art-on-fire]

This line for Until Dawn Fandub is so Age of Extinction Optimus and Cade. His first words are literally "I'LL KILL YOU!" before he registers someone is actually helping him instead of hurting him.

This is my announcement I watched the Bay movies, they weren't good but Barn Husbands is compelling to me.

[luxurystark-jackson]

noo don’t die you havent seen misha and jensen fuck nasty in the boys yet