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screaming into the void again…

because being in more than one fandom is both the best thing in the world and absolute hell. My poor little brain hyperfixates on one little microscopic part of a fandom and then stray thoughts form others invade and lead to this.

bare with me here.

you have transformers: we love talking, sentient robots (that turn to various dodads) with some ambiguous morals committing war crimes against each other and occasionally humanity as well.

and then you have Star Wars: we loves humans and humanoids that are space wizards. We humans and humanoids that are not space wizards. Everyone is also committing war crimes against each other.

now put them together.

Several months ago this post came into my feed (I have no idea where it is, who created, but if someone could find it I would love that) where the long and the short of it can be summarized as “what if Coruscant is actually Cybertron that got colonized by a bunch of humans?”

again.

Obviously this summary cuts out many intricate details, but I thought it was a very clever and neat idea. And it got my gears turning.

Star Wars and Transformers could actually go really well together. Not just because they take place in space and the characters are participating in civil wars.

Here’s an example: Robophobia

Star Wars droids are treated like second class citizens. Despite showing capacity for both emotions and desires, my case: Artoo going to that droid massage parlor in an episode of the Clone Wars and 3PO constantly exhibiting crippling anxiety are still kept in servitude via periodically erasing the memories of past experiences. The IDW comics sees many races hating cybertronians because of the destruction their race’s several million year war has brought to their homes, and this are not welcome in many organic establishment and have to go as holoforms.

this could a very interesting dynamic. Droid are not seen as legitimate beings (regardless of their capacity to show sentience) cybertronians on the other hand are technically biological beings despite their metal shells. In transformers: prime Starscream explains to Silas and the rest of MECH that cybertronian body parts are not technology but biology and need energon (the lifeblood of cybertronians) to work. And shows this by cutting his arm and letting energon seep into the parts MECH had collected and Frankensteined together and voila! they worked.

to recap: you have a world where any thing made of metal is considered lesser, suddenly they’re exposed to a race of metal aliens that are at least 20 feet tall and easily 100 times their mass, that get offended if they’re called “droid” and implied that they are supposed to do shit for them.

This could shake up dynamics, maybe droids see this and want the same respect, maybe they don’t care. But cybertronians will change what it means to be alive, the races in the Star Wars universe are all organic, they are all born in some way. Cybertronians? They come out of the ground in at least 2 continuities (prime, the well, IDW literally come out of the ground, they dug up) in earthspark they come out out primordial soup. Regardless of the method it’s rarely organic (the closest thing is budding).

so you have a metal thing that is alive. Which brings me to my second example: Metal!

cybertronians are made of metal! (Living metal, I digress) and there are plenty of fictional metals in Star Wars, but I want to focus on one in particular: Beskar! The metal used to make Mandalorian armor. It is strong enough to not cut when exposed to a light saber (or blaster shots), which is a blade of plasma.

different transformers continuities have shown time and time again that cybertronians are actually really hard to kill. IDW 2 Ratch outright says when he is looking over the body of Rubble, Bumblebees mentee, after he is killed by Six Shot. And in the same story a young cybertronian (I can’t remember her name forgive me) get a a clear shot to the head, through her visor and out the back. But she survives, is horribly traumatized by the experience, but is alive. This creates concerning implications for the weapons used during the civil war. They are specifically made for killing another cybertronian and are capable of taking down a warrior very quickly.

the weapons used by the each respective franchise look visually that different from each other, which leads me to believe that they work the same way but one is obviously more powerful. How does this lead back to Beskar. The Mandalorian shows us that, if powerful enough, something could cut Beskar. When Din Djarin is fighting Moff Gideon, he’s using the Beskar spear given to him by Ahsoka. When it clashes with the Dark Saber, it starts to heat up, implying that the Dark Saber is actually more powerful than even a regular Light Saber.

now returning to the original concept, the wepons used by rebels, storms troopers, and bounty hunters are significantly less powerful than weapons used by Cybertronians. If they were to use their weapons against them, they likely would absorb the shot similarly to Beskar and receive not damage.

how does this circle back to Beskar? Well the old republic before the empire is stated in the prologue of the novelized version of A New Hope written by Ryder Windham, it is stated that the republic kid 25,000 years old. The war between Autobots and Decepticons was 4 million. I don’t have to do the math to tell you that 25,000 is a mere fraction of 4 million. And it is plenty of time for Mandalore to be an early battle field where thousands of Autobots and Decepticons lost their lives and were Barrie’s under layers and layers of sediment only to be rediscovered in the mines, harvested, and melted down in Beskar alloy.

Yes! There it is folks! What if Mandalorians are wearing the melted down corpses of dead cybertronians?

I’m not done.

this next part less of rambling about two things until they make sense and more of talking about a plot point in a fic that I never finished while I’m ranting about these two, because why not?

the clone war was a deadly and ultimately pointless conflict. In some continuities of transformers the civil war much the same. In led them back to square one, only now they’re stuck on a dead world. In this particular story, the cybertronian conflict has already ended, and they’re not too eager to enter another. However they are forced into one, and they are cranky about it.

energon has a lot of energy, hence the name. And to the republic, desperate to end the war quickly, this is a very attractive resource. They would take it and be amazed by its capabilities. It makes their shops go ZOOM, it increases firepower! Suddenly they’re winning, the war looks hopeful. All is good, great even, until the Cybertronians realize they have rats, and go get their shit back. Will fight them? Will they join them? Who knows never got that far. Maybe I’ll come back to it.

Anyway, I’ve beaten this point into the ground, you get it, I don’t know how many even made it this far into my rambling XD

I’ve been typing this out for 45 minutes. if you have anything to add please do

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seriously though, if hasbro can make published crossovers such as Star Trak, Terminator, Avengers, Power Rangers, and My Little Pony; Star Wars is not the weirdest thing to mix in.