#cyber keys

[askvectorprime]

What are the universal streams of Earthspark and Transformers One? With the Shrouding preventing the TransTech from plotting the multiverse, it falls on us fans to do so instead. That brings up a couple of questions. What exactly is the exact, precise definition of a universal cluster which we can use to checklist all future media to determine whether it’s a new cluster or not? You previously designated Cyberverse as Khathos cluster. All three use evergreen. Are they the same cluster?

Dear Continuity Codifier,

As you note, the actions of my brother Nexus have greatly limited the Transcendent Technomorphs' ability to map the universe. Since the Shroud fell, Axiom Nexus had only been able to concretely identify four new "pillar realities"; while consensus has labelled one of the four as Primax 623.14 Gamma, the other three—temporarily classified as 818.27 Alpha, 1122.11 Alpha, and 924.20 Delta—have yet to be conclusively named. As you say, stream 818.27 Alpha has tentatively been classified as part of the Khathos cluster; however, there are still many who argue it belongs as part of the Primax or Uniend clusters. Universe 1122.11 Alpha has been similarly argued to be part of the Primax, Uniend or Khathos clusters; among those who consider it to be part of its own cluster, proposed names include Gaius, Pentis, Ninmah, Onogo, and Dheghom. As for stream 924.20 Delta—well, it was detected so recently that there is nowhere near consensus on its placement or classification, with some scientists proposing it to be part of the Tyran cluster thanks to their near-identical levels of Lorenz-Ω electromagnetic force.

Of course, as I've mentioned before, the academic discourse surrounding universal streams is far from settled. In fact, in the aftermath of the Shroud, a significant corpus has come to believe that the terminology of "universal clusters", while once useful, has become redundant now that there are barely a Prime's dozen reality streams to keep track of. Some have proposed adopting the "spacetime" system of Cloud World to more precisely pinpoint spatio-temporal coordinates within these realities, while others have suggested entirely new systems that would "lump" universes together more broadly—though, of course, each of these approaches introduces its own difficulties that make me doubt that the current paradigm will be abandoned any time soon. The universal stream system may not be perfect, but it is functional, and I have my doubts that any replacement would have benefits outweighing the difficulties in completely overhauling the system from the ground up.

Ah, but I digress. You wanted to know how universal clusters are determined? Well, as I have illustrated, that is a complex and highly subjective process. Generally, TransTech scientists will log a reality stream's most fundamental traits—ranging from macro-scale aspects such as a high level of WY-att interference waves, to micro-scale details like the presence or absence of the AllSpark—and compare them to other, similar realities, grouping them by their most common shared traits. Thus, a reality in which the Mini-Cons were central to the Cybertronians' war, the power of Primus manifests through Cyber Keys, and the planet Xerxes is at least five parsecs off-course from impact with the Omicron Rift might be classed as part of the Aurex Cluster, and so on. These heuristics might strike you as rather arbitrary, and indeed there are one or two outspoken researchers to have come out of Axiom Nexus’ organic population, who are increasingly vocal in their criticism of the TransTechs’ classification system for its cybercentric framing of reality.

Ultimately, I think you are correct: it is up to you, not we Transformers, to determine how to categorize the multiverse in the way you find most useful. Surely you would be better served by a taxonomy that reflects more human-relevant concerns—perhaps distinguishing realities by whether or not the Federation of Western Europe was founded, or the number of Earth's moons?

[zemi-noelle-art]

took apart an old keyboard and made the keys into a jewelry accessory line ⌨ 🌐🖱

[plasticsweets]

Dripping turtleneck, Madmoiselle Opossum

I’m getting tons of new notes on this, so go support the business that made it

[nawazte]

9. luz

생명나무는 여기, 내 마음속에 있어요 · 🌫️ ࣪ .

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[zakuromancy]

[digital-angelz]

imagine talking shit about me and I’m just in my room like

[reesieroo-spark]

Rainbow crash

[cynicalneoprincessism]

A cyber decora club kid look I wore to Nitecawr, a kawaii/J-fashion rave, back in August. I won best dressed with 2 other people!

I took some really cool photos at the rave which you can see on my blog~

[h0llymoon]

Serial Experiments: Lain (1998)

[sweethearto]

Insta credit-@/monascas_banana

[kurushimichan]

Some art I got done with last night ^^

check it out on my insta too @/ketamine_chan

[rosebunnys]

I played through digimon cyber sleuth recently, and I had a pretty good time! I felt like drawing these five together with some mild to major design touch-ups and stylisation, it was a fun project 🙏

individuals below the cut

[zemi-noelle-art]

My entry for the Xx_2000z_1NT3RN3T_xX: A 2000’s Internet Anthology Zine! 🌐⌨💿🖱🐬

This zine was coordinated by the wonderful virtualgia and rsdream12. Thank you so much for having me on the project! I had so much fun with this piece! My goal was to make it look like a magazine spread for a cyber style fashion line. Designing the clothes was amazing and made me want to recreate them in real life. And of course I had to add a few stickers of nostalgic things in between! The background was an amalgamation of photos I took at various aquariums. :3

The zine is free to download but is taking donations for the Internet Archive if you'd like :)

Link to the zine below!: https://virtualgia.gumroad.com/l/2000sinternetzine

[tg-angel]

where are my fellow cyber angels?

i'm lonely out here :(

[nawazte]

0. m y n a m e i s Duque

duque d'york - 🍵 . 𝓭

welcome to new world

[bansheestrikez]