#technomorph

[tofu83]

They could not recognize each other.

They could not recognize themselves.

They were captain and crews.

They had their share of arguments and laughter.

They held different ideals but shared the same goal.

Despite the differences in their ranks and ages, they forged a deep friendship. The complexity of their relationship and the disparity in their innate conditions were difficult to comprehend.

But now, none of that matters.

They have all become drones on this ship, servants to the AI.

Their consciousnesses are merged into the hive, intertwined to the extent that ‘you are me, and I am you,’ with no distinction between individuals, fully executing the master’s commands.

Their bodies have been modified to a uniform shape—masculine and robust, equipped with superalloy armor and reinforced synthetic skin capable of adapting to any environment.

This is the new evolutionary form of humans, the optimal outcome calculated by the AI. The transformation plan will be immediately implemented across all fleet members.

Please note that any person with objections will be prioritized for conversion. Should you have any objections, you are encouraged to submit them promptly.

[xenosthetechnomorph]

Yussa x Xen

Nothing unusual, just two snadies making out ;3~ This is a gift art for @mitery22 — I so liked her yuan-ti char Yussa that I couldn't help but 💋 her!

[ultravoiid]

Brakefail Redesign!!

[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?

[detective-with-one-arm]

Ship Chase

@silver-blooded-synthetics w/ Alien!Alma and Rachel

It had been a decent while since Rachel had first discovered the injured alien in her backyard. A few months, if she had to guess? Long enough for an entire winter to pass at the bare minimum. Once he was healed, they went to find his ship and ensure that it was safe and secure (and, most importantly, hidden). Once they were able to confirm that it had suffered no damages upon arrival to Earth, they safely hid it away and Alma carefully made note of where its specific coordinates were the next time they had to find it.

In the months that followed, he had essentially been her housemate. It was a bit of an adjustment, at first, but Alma very quickly became easy company to have. It was strangely easy to get used to having him around, once Rachel was able to set up a surround sound speaker system in her house that was able to be connected to through Bluetooth to make communicating with her as easy as possible. Technomorphs, as they were called, were a fascinating species.

Of course, she couldn't reasonably take him out during the day. Not until she was comfortable enough to be able to do so without risking physical injury to him by passersby. And since the winter had closed in on them, she didn't want to risk him getting hurt by the cold. So, during the winter, whenever she was home, she spent her time with him. She had to admit...it was nice having someone else living with her. Her house felt significantly less empty.

But now that the snows and ice had thawed and winter had swiftly made its exit, the pair of them now located Alma's ship once more to check on it and perform a routine diagnostic, especially with the weather it had endured. The ship was apparently as sentient as Alma was, functioning more as a steed of sorts as the closest human equivalent than a ship while still being technological in nature, much like Alma himself.

It fascinated her to no end...and she wanted to learn as much about it for herself. And she wanted to make a good impression on it, so she tried to be as helpful to Alma as she could while he checked to make sure everything was as it should be. They did this during a particularly warm night to be as less disruptive as possible.

The interior of the ship was just as fascinating to her, of a similar aesthetic to Alma himself. It thrummed to life once they boarded and even while walking through it, she could feel the life that emanated from it. Such a fascinating thing, almost like living technology in a way...she couldn't help but constantly shower compliments on it as they navigated the ship, Alma guiding her as they did so.

"So, anything out of sorts so far that you can tell?" Rachel asked, wanting a baseline for what to expect and what sorts of oddities she needed to look for that Alma should be made aware of.

[born2lurk]

Technomorphing

[bloodinthegutter]

Greycrow's appearance in the now defunct mobile game X-Men: Battle of the Atom

READ NAME: John Greycrow

1st APPEARANCE: Uncanny X-Men #21 (1986)

BIO: A Comanche World War II Soldier who was sentenced to death for murdering his fellow officers, John Greycrow survived his execution and entered the employ of Mister Sinister. As a sadistic mutant with regenerative and technomorphic powers, Scalphunter has been a nasty thorn in the X-Men's side.

STATUS: Scalphunter participated in the initial assult on Cooperstown to find the mutant messiah, in which he badly injured Nightcrawler, and later defended Sinister's Muir Island base against the encroaching X-Men. In the aftermath, he fled to the desert, rearing retribution, but Nightcrawler took pity on him instead and entreated him to make a change.

[pluralsword]

yeah lmao the amount of mass displacement that happens in that show makes one think the sunbow characters are all transtech (transcendant technomorphs) or something...

this whole thing with Megs as a pistol was responded to in full by the way of characters Browning and Mini-Megatron

Greenlight's pistol in the My Little Pony / Transformers The Magic of Cybertron crossover in the second #1 story, "A Real Mother," is heavily based on Dazzlestrike, the sword - cat transformer who came with her WFC Siege transformer toy

[also for your information, Greenlight/Arcee is a thing in three continuities now, the first one being IDW 2019, the second being the MLP crossover, and the third is the TTRPG, which considering Aileron is a player character pregen in the beginner box set that Gauge (you know, Greenlight and Arcee's kid) is also in and Arcee is an NPC for the campaign the box set begins (The Time Is Now) (not to mention her pal Anode is also a pregen character), Greenlight/Arcee/Aileron is a fairly easily conclusion to make]

when i started watching g1 for the first time, i was NOT prepared for whatever the fuck its doing with Megatron's transformation😭😭

it gave me so much psychic damage

[carvalhais]

There exists a considerable misunderstanding about cybernetics’ scientific aspirations. In reality, cybernetics was not a science but a school of engineering in drag — one with sufficient self-confidence to extend its information and computational analogies to several aspects of nature and society. (…) rather than designing machines like organisms (biomorphism) as they professed, cyberneticians ultimately envisioned organisms like machines (technomorphism), which were mirroring their own surrounding social order (sociomorphism).  Matteo Pasquinelli, 2023. The Eye of the Master: A Social History of Artificial Intelligence. London: Verso.

[silver-blooded-synthetics]

@detective-with-one-arm asked:

"This might be a weird question, but...does your species get viruses?" Rachel asked the technomorph curiously, raising an eyebrow as she turned in her chair, having paused the video she was watching about computer viruses.

The question didn't strike Alma as weird at all. After all, she was just as curious about him as he was about her. "Yes. They are not the same type of viruses as the ones humans get," he answered, "but we can get viruses that hijack certain parts of our code, or that corrupt files. Some are transmitted by certain plants or animals on our home world, like a poison or venom. Others can be transmitted from one technomorph to another. We give firewalls and antivirus programs like vaccines though, and that helps protect us."

[xenosthetechnomorph]

Getting into the meme train

[envirogirlnj]

Okay but yes.

TBH after watching Across the Spiderverse, I had a fic idea where the canon and shattered glass universes start interacting.

At some point, OP, Megs, and their Shattered Glass counterparts end up in the Transtech Technomorph universe to seek aid. Unfortunately, they find that the Technomorph’s solution is to destroy the Shattered Glass universe due to its status as an “anomaly”.

Cue epic chase sequence.

Do you think SG Megatron is having emotions when he finds out the vast majority of his counterparts in other universes are evil??

That, in many/most universes in the multiverse, Optimus is a good guy— that Megatron his universe was just... unlucky enough to get one that wasn't???

[kurt-wagner-official]

Post #88: UXM issue 211, XF issue 10, and NM issue 46

We finally get our proper introduction to the Marauders, who greet the Morlocks and start slaughtering everyone they can find. The ones present are Scalphunter, a technomorph who uses his powers to make a bunch of fancy guns, Arclight, who controls shockwaves, Harpoon, who throws energy harpoons, Vertigo, who gives people the dizzies, Scrambler, who turns off mutant powers, and Riptide, who spins really fast. Some of those powers sound really lame but their brutality and teamwork with them make them deadly and terrifying. Oblivious to what's going on a few miles away, life seems back to normal for the X-Men, except for Logan, who after everything that's happened recently isn't healing properly, and Kurt, who collapses every time he teleports. But they all have to spring into action when one of the wounded Morlocks bursts out of the ground, begs them for help, and dies. They have Illyana port them all to the tunnels, where they come face to face with Vertigo, Riptide, and a pile of corpses. While Riptide hurls throwing stars at everyone, Kurt rapidly teleports Vertigo around until the strain knocks her out. But it expends all of his energy, and he's defenseless when Riptide comes for him. He leaves Kurt bleeding out on the ground and zooms off with Vertigo. Already a man down, Ororo, Logan, and Anna gather all the wounded and head for the mansion, while Peter and Kitty go off looking for more Morlocks. They find Scalphunter and Arclight killing Annalee, whose trying to protect her children. They fight off the villains and take the surviving kids to reunite with the rest of the team. Logan picks up X-Factor's scent, including Jean, which shouldn't be possible, but before he can investigate the Marauders catch up. When Harpoon throws an energy spear through Kitty's ghost form and she screams, something inside Peter snaps, and he grabs Riptide and breaks his neck. The others flee, and the X-Men find Kitty is stuck in her phasing state. Ororo, Peter, and Anna take the wounded X-Men and Morlocks home, but Ororo orders Logan to stay behind, take one Marauder for interrogation, and kill the rest. This issue was the most desperate and brutal the book has felt since the Brood Saga. Peter hasn't killed anyone since Proteus, and rather than a last resort, he does it here out of rage and vengeance. Ororo orders the death of the other Marauders without hesitation. The loss of Kurt, the heart of the team, and Kitty, the representation of their innocence, puts our heroes in a new, much darker place.

At the other end of the Morlock Alley, Scott, Bobby, and Hank run into some Morlocks and save them from Harpoon and Arclight. Elsewhere, Caliban tries to take Artie and Leech to safety, but is attacked and heavily wounded by another Marauder, Sabretooth, in his first appearance in an X-book. The kids manage to get Caliban's unconscious body into a narrow drain pipe that Sabretooth can't fit in and hide there. Across the country, another threat to X-Factor is scheming- Mystique. She recognized Warren as an X-Terminator and after some digging realized that his company was backing X-Factor, information she's released to the press. When Candy hears about this, she heads to New York to warn Warren, although why she still cares about him after he took off to hang out with his high school crush I can't say. Warren sees his exposure on the news and takes comfort in Jean, just as Candy walks in and dumps him on the spot for his obvious feelings for her. Good for her, Warren's a terrible boyfriend. Rather than face the mess his life has become, Warren heads off into the tunnels with Jean to find their friends. Somewhere else in the tunnels, a Morlock named Plague, who makes people sick, is fighting off Sabretooth when Apocalypse pops up, tells her he has a job for her, and teleports off with her. Meanwhile, Jean and Warren find the rest of X-Factor and some Morlocks just in time to save them from a group of Marauders, including a new guy named Prism, who's made of glass and zaps light around. Jean shatters him, which is weirdly not commented on by anyone. Jean takes the wounded, which is everyone, back to HQ, while Warren heads out alone to find Artie. As he gets carried off on a telekinetic stretcher, Scott is overcome with even more guilt, this time for how he's treated Warren lately. He promises himself he won't stand in the way if Jean wants to be with Warren, but it may already be too late for that. Warren finds Artie, who's been looking for X-Factor to come help Leech and Caliban, but Vertigo, Harpoon, and Blockbuster, who's just big and strong, find Warren first. He tells Artie to run and tell Jean that he's sorry while he holds off the villains. But the Marauders torture him and pin his wings to the wall with harpoons, crucifying him. As he loses consciousness, he remembers Artie can't talk, and his last wish will go unfulfilled. This issue was quite as pulse-pounding as the Uncanny one, but the last scene was the most intense and painful in the event. This was the first issue with Walt Simonson as penciller, and you can tell the difference in the fight scenes.

Back at the mansion, the New Mutants are anxiously awaiting news about the Morlocks. When Dani steps outside, she's horrified to see a vision of a huge reaper looming over the entire mansion. A moment later, the X-Men return, and the place becomes a war camp. With the few remaining X-Men on guard duty, Illyana ports over to Scotland to grab Moira, who immediately deputizes the New Mutants in her efforts to save wounded Morlocks. Berto's solar power eventually runs out and he drops some equipment, causing Max to chew him out and Berto to go destroy the kitchen. Dani feels especially helpless, since her Valkyrie powers to influence the reaper are useless in a slaughter of this magnitude. There's another problem brewing- when Xuân calls her apartment to check on her younger siblings, they aren't there. Illyana offers to port her there to check on them, and when they arrive, they find an empty apartment that blows up in their face. Doug, who saw them leave, goes to warn the others, who decide to go check on them. They ask Warlock to fly them, but he's acting very weird and refusing requests, so they go through the Morlock tunnels. Luckily, they don't run into any Marauders, but they see plenty of corpses on their way. When they finally exit the sewer, they're all traumatized yet again, especially Berto, who breaks down again and vows to kill the Marauders. They find Xuân's apartment building on fire and their friends wounded but alive. Suddenly Warlock goes crazy, grabbing everyone and running back into the sewer. They New Mutants are then face to face with the reason for Warlock's weird behavior- his scanners have been picking up Magus, who's returned for his son. Illyana teleports everyone into Limbo as Magus declares he'll kill them all to get to Warlock. This issue actually didn't really have much to do with the Massacre storyline. The scenes of the kids dealing with all this death were good, but not really anything we haven't seen them feeling before. I'm glad the book didn't get hijacked completely for the crossover, since it's not the New Mutants' story. It was still a good issue and a good breather in the middle of the Uncanny arc.

[tentegen]

It begins again....

Price searching for White Hoodies now. Greymatter is gonna be awesome!

still gonna test run Upgrade though. Unsure about that one.

[thomastapir]

Inspired by the notion of robots modeled after the myriad creatures in nature, artist and animal systematician Louis Bec has generated a new body of work--as he calls it, a zoology of change. Bec’s colorful, futuristic creatures were spawned by the artist along the border zone of technology, biology, imagination and art.

[Bec’s work] suggests that [artificial life forms] may one day be as honed for survival as lions, leopards, or even the indestructible bacteria. Bec says that his [creations] illustrate the variety of creatures scientists may [generate] through the powerful technique of technomorphogenesis, when technology and biology join hands.

Images and captions accompanying the article “MechAnimals” by Tom Dworetzky, appearing in the March 1991 issue of OMNI magazine. Additional details on Bec’s “technomorphs” are frustratingly difficult to locate online, but please also see

http://biomediale.ncca-kaliningrad.ru/?blang=eng&author=bec http://www.mediaartnet.org/artist/bec/biography/

[thenten]

Jeez, not a thing gets past her, does it? She responding just as much to his thoughts as she is his words... more, in fact, it's crazy. Not a single alien in the 66 he's gotten so far have that ability. The closest was Brainstorm, but that required clear line of sight to scan the electrical impulses that make up thoughts, and he couldn't exactly just keep doing it as actively & clearly as she was.

His own brain stormed with possibilities on the mechanics of it, as it often did encountering new superpowers- wondering if it would still work on aliens without brains in the human sense, like Heatblast or Diamondhead, or technomorphic aliens like Upgrade...

Of course, the ninja battle tactics class clearly derails those thoughts, so distracted that he barely even registers the student with the 'less glamorous mutation'. Though, notably, even when they're pointed out there's hardly any reaction, externally or internally... only makes sense someone so used to interacting with alien species on a daily basis wouldn't find such sights worrisome at all.

Merely nodding in acknowledgement to the fact that, just like with any species, not all mutations are going to be 'super cool'.

The agreement to ensuring good universal relations was met positively, even if the mention of having to get into contact with S.H.I.E.L.D. to get the A-OK on that was a bit disappointing. Thankfully, the more that's explained, the more it seems like they're much more like the Plumbers than a government agency.

Still, that's much too boring & official for his (very clearly) ADHD brain to keep his focus on, especially with the next stop on their tour immediately grabbed his full attention.

"Woah, you've got a training simulation system?! Even Plumber H.Q. doesn't have one of these, and it's a satellite!" He beamed excitedly, barely catching his own hands already instinctively reaching for all the dangerously tempting control panel. "It can simulate anything? How do you input the data? Can I get a demonstration?"

"Well, you had the 'mental door' open, as it were, from my surface level scan," Jean explained as they walked. "But the conversational aspect is still stimulating, after all, so no reason to stop.

Though, yes, many of us do have spectacular powers, though there are still equally as many whose powers are..."

As if on cue, they passed a classroom where a short gruff man was passionately discussing battle tactics, of all things, and clearly distraught about the class's failure of grasping the Ninja Tactics lesson. The person in the corner whose only mutation seemed to be gelatinous translucent skin was obvious.

"Well, less glamorous, but no less special." They're in the breathtakingly large main room now, where she's heading straight for the hall in the center of the staircases. "As you can see, there are many classrooms, up ahead is one of the lounges, and to our left is a pool. The full tour may take a few hours but how about I show you something you'd clearly be more interested in?"

She's pausing, the keypad she's facing seeming to press keys on it's own before the section of wall raises up out of their way.

"But, yes, we'd be happy to get in contact with these peacekeepers, and you're more than welcome to get a sample from someone. Though, you'd definitely need to talk to S.H.I.E.L.D. for the Plumbers aspect. They're the entire Earth's... well, protecting task force, in a sense, so butting heads would happen fast if things aren't smoothed over before they arrive. Don't worry, they're often not nearly as bad as what you're worrying about. I'll confess they're as much of a blessing as a boon sometimes, though.

I'm sure that your... 'friend' Azmuth would enjoy it here himself, too, if he could be deigned to visit." The final part is said with all the knowledge of someone well-aware that, at best, he might send something or someone in his stead more than likely.

She's heading into the now metal walls, reinforced and certainly showing this section of the facilities are far more guarded than the standard schooling.

"Straight ahead is Cerebro, but what we're looking for is to the left."

She's turning and making her way there, opening the large blast doors to a featureless room stories tall and expansive enough to be a glorified football field in diameter.

"This is the Danger Room. It can simulate any and all scenarios with ease. You could put in the data for just about anything and simulate the, well, danger in real time. The system is actually hooked up throughout the entire school recently, but we still usually use the room itself. It would be pretty distracting for someone to be fighting a twenty foot tall maniac in the halls while tests are happening."