#transformers stardrive

[melyonza]

What if Stardrive appears in Earthspark?

Stardrive is a transformer that appears in the comics. Her story begins with her being a protoform. The ship where she was traveling was attacked and only she survived.

She was rescued by the space knights. She was raised away from her kind. She knew she was a transformer thanks to the education she received from her rescuers, as well as how she learned the history of the species from her.

This made Stardrive the first Transformer to be raised away from her kind and by other beings.

In Earthspark I imagine her as a newborn Terran who was unfortunately found by someone else. Either by bad people or by another human child.

In case she was found by another good human child. The Maltos would know that something is wrong because they would not stop feeling strange emotions that do not come from the Terrans at home, so they would suspect that one is missing.

Stardrive, like Twitch and Thrash, would learn about her species thanks to Transformers comics but would feel that there was something different about her.

At some point it would be discovered by GHOST or Mandroid. Or perhaps in a battle she meets her family who would welcome her with pleasure.

[honorarycassowary]

Stardrive is the saddest woobie to ever grace Transformers media and I want to protect her so badly. Nobody has ever loved her, and she’s barely been shown respect or recognized as a person. I reread the whole mini today and I remembered she was very sad but the depths of sadness she experiences still got me. And she’s only five years old!! I wanna see her school days and her adventures before meeting Prowl. I want her to show up in another continuity. She deserves the world!

[cuppajj]

FERAL MOMENTS RN?? WHIRL IRONFIST IMPACTOR LOCKDOWN BULKHEAD STARDRIVE SPRINGER??? STAR SABER????

[askvectorprime]

What is the story of stardrive in idw2019?

Dear Stardrive Seeker,

Not all newly-forged Cybertronians spend their early lives on Cybertron—always, there are those Cybertronians born with an instinctual thirst for adventure, who yearn to venture beyond the confines of their metallic homeworld. Thus, in the years following the War of the Threefold Spark, the Cybertronian government authorized the creation of a cultural exchange program between the Cybertronian commonwealth and some friendly galactic neighbors, an incentive program where newly forged Cybertronians could study abroad on a diverse range of planets, assimilating the local culture and language as part of a possible career in Xeno-Relations.

I should comment, briefly, on the history of the Solstar Order—it originated corewards of Cybertron, not far from the barricaded region of space known as the “Quintessence”, and expanded outwards not through conquest, but by carefully negotiating trade agreements and alliances with alien civilizations and gradually building a strong federation of many diverse species: Elonians, Intriessians, Karkans, and more. By the era of the Nominus Edict, the borders of the Solstar Order nearly bumped up against remote Cybertronian colonies like Velocitron and Omicron. Despite their proximity, the two star-nations had only ever enjoyed a strained relationship. The Solstar Order consolidated much of its recent power by absorbing the defeated remnants of other empires, smashed to bits by Cybertronian hegemony—in particular, a large contingent of Szorian refugees who’d seen their homeworld obliterated by the Titan Waypoint eyed the Transformers with a deep and abiding distrust. More recently, tensions flared when unscrupulous elements of the Cybertronian government conspired with the ambitious Natalus to abruptly declare that the planet Probat was a Cybertronian colony, despite the fact that no Cybertronians lived there—deliberately smashing years of careful accession agreements that would’ve seen the citizens of Probat join their galactic government.

Into this already-tense environment came Stardrive—already a model mentee with a rare triple-changing bodyframe, a knack for languages, and eying a possible career in Xeno-Relations—who announced that she would like to study abroad on the planet Elonia. The request, while highly unusual, went through, and before long Stardrive had arrived in Solstar space and enrolled in a xeno-linguistics program on the planet Ofsted XVII, with a minor in astro-navigation. Although she faced prejudice and even outright discrimination from many of her organic classmates—and indeed, more than one lecture hall had to be renovated so that she could fit into their classrooms—Stardrive persevered.

One day, Stardrive and her class were on a field trip to monitor the unique phenomenon known as the “Quintessence”, a seemingly insurmountable barrier of electrical energy that prevented the Solstar Order from expanding any closer to the galactic core. Suddenly, while monitoring the phenomenon aboard an orbital research station, Stardrive witnessed a bizarre astrological phenomenon: what appeared to be a nebula somehow shifted into a massive portal that crackled with arcane power, a gateway through which a new kind of shapeshifting lifeform came to attack their vessel! The creatures, their slug-like bodies immune to conventional weaponsfire, easily breached the station’s hull and devoured many of the beings inside. Those who survived were infected with toxic biomatter and converted into more of their kind. However, the invaders hadn’t prepared to deal with a Cybertronian, whose mechanical biology rendered her immune to their necrotic touch, and whose tight-beam plasma blasters could simply burn through their arcane biology. Fighting her way through the hordes, Stardrive piled as many students as she could—including their professor, Rom K’atsema—into her space fighter alternate mode, then beat a hasty retreat as the station exploded behind her.

By the time Stardrive limped back to Elonia, it soon became clear that the Solstar Order faced a grave crisis. The “Dire Wraiths”, as they were now called, had launched coordinated invasions of outlying worlds like Xeres and Buras, and lightly-armed planetary garrisons had already been overwhelmed. Although the Solstar Order’s celebrated diplomatic corps had long since assumed that they could defuse any problem with negotiations, it soon became clear that they were fighting an enemy that had no obvious means of communications, and would accept nothing less than total extinction. It soon became clear that the Solstar Order would need something new to combat the hordes… and, eventually, all eyes fell upon the one Cybertronian in their midst.

Before long, Solstar scientists had gathered enough firsthand testimony and video recordings to draw up a weapon capable of meeting the aliens head-on: a full-body suit of armor forged from artificially-synthesized cybertonium that would be cybernetically grafted to one’s skin, equipped with a plasma-blasting “neutralizer” powered by a miniature energon reactor. While the scientists referred to their creation as merely an “anti-Wraith battle armor”, it was Rom who joked that the suit resembled the knights of old—and so it was he who volunteered to become the first organic to undergo the procedure, and emerge as “Rom, the Space Knight!” Inspired by his example, other courageous members of the Solstar Order stepped up to undergo the process, and over time the efforts of these “Space Knights”, supported by Stardrive herself, gradually helped push the Wraiths back.

It soon became clear that Stardrive couldn’t fight alone; fortunately, the Cybertronian embassy on Elonia was able to pull the strings that would allow Sentinel Prime to authorize the deployment of the Wreckers on the technicality that the Dire Wraiths posed a threat to Cybertronian territory—namely, their embassy on Elonia. Supported by a hundred Space Knights, Stardrive and the Wreckers took part in the effort to take back Xeres, which had, by this point, been turned into a grotesque hive-world where billions of fast-breeding Wraiths reproduced. Their victory was pyrrhic; they were able to cut off the primary source of the infestation, but only by destroying the planet and scattering millions of Wraiths across their member worlds. The Solstar Order would have to prepare for a protracted war against the alien infiltrators, who'd already put down roots on dozens of planets—but Stardrive, honorary Space Knight, gladly agreed to support the Space Knights in their quest.

[that--unusual-person]

stuff i drew in class

[lazyhomestay]

Tried something (。。)

[randomtfscreencaps]

[robotclownindulgence]

Stardrive appreciation post! I love this funky little space knight

[liaswritesrobots]

As much as I love Starscream I can't say he didn't have this coming

[dariiy]

Found a WIP of a crack ship with the blue girls for the cancelled zine, had to finish it ;3c

Please, do not repost work without permission!

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[maranigai]

A bunch of sketches with human!Shockwave from 2005IDW comics. Because I love Shockwave and I love humanformers and I also have nothing else to post.

1) human!Shockwave|canon!Shockwave, the canon frame is from “Unicron” №6. 

2) and 3) Portraits, “Onyx” and senator.

4) One of the outfits of the senator.

5) A quick joke sketch for a friend.

[tfwiki]

Tonight’s presentation: A monster of three worlds! Part Knight, part Cybertronian, and Part Wraith, there’s nothing in the galaxy quite like STARDRIVE... as her enemies have found out! Find out everything right now, and be back tomorrow as the CREATURE FEATURE continues!

[askvectorprime]

Dear Vector Prime, since Star Saber adopted Jan, it is possible for human parents to adopt child Cybertronians? Also have there been cases where Cybertronians turned to human religion & vice-versa?

Dear Adoptive Asker,

Although I have never known of a case where this first scenario came to pass, I can relate several similar cases to you. The “second-generation” Autobots and Decepticons who emerged from the Cyberfactories on Earth received legal personhood under the laws of whatever sovereign Earth nations they had been “born” in, and under such laws I believe it would be possible for a human to adopt a Cybertronian and become their legal guardians. Although the beings in question were not human, I believe that the Elonian conclave who raised Stardrive saw her as a surrogate child, but their preconceptions about my kind—combined with their general lack of understanding regarding Cybertronian biology—meant that this relationship was not always as smooth as it could be.

To answer the second part of your question, I have never known Cybertronians to take much note in Earth religions beyond a surface-level interest in various religious relics. Perhaps this is merely due to our differing biologies inspiring different myths—although one conceptualization of the Cybertronian afterlife as a great “tree” is remarkably similar to the religious preconceptions of one specific human religion. Intriguingly, this same religion celebrates a holy period, based on an incident where a small amount of combustible fuel lasted for much longer than expected—which would be reason for any Cybertronian to celebrate!

[ckret2]

Stardrive, who has always been identified and self-identified as the lone Cybertronian on Elonia, is familiar only with the aspect of Cybertronian culture that Elonians know about: warfare.

She's shocked when she learns that, with the war over, the Camiens have creating a gallery on Mercury to display the collected artwork of the Cybertronian diaspora.

She's even more shocked when she learns that they want her—as the lone Cybertronian from Elonia—to contribute <i>her</i> art.

The only problem is she doesn't <i>make</i> art. But she'll do her best. And, in the process, maybe learn what "Cybertronian art" <i>is</i>.

(Originally published in the Transformers "Snapshots" zine @tfsnapshots. Chapter 1 is the 1,500 word version of this fic published in the Transformers Snapshots fanzine; chapter 2 is the full 5,300 word version. Tumblr sometimes hides posts with links from the tags, so I’d be very grateful for any reblogs to help new readers find my writing! And if you enjoy the fic, I always love to receive comments, either here or on AO3.)

[brandxspandex]

While many of the deaths in the Unicron mini fell flat for me, I do think that Soundwave had a really good one which fit his character just right. 

[anotherramblingfangirl]

Did...did Rom and Livia just straight-up adopt a child?

I mean, it’s sure looking like they might have.

Just...took one look at the orphan and went “I guess this is our daughter now”.

It also looks like Stardrive has happily reunited with space-dad Rom too, which is nice. It’s what she deserves.

Note: I actually hope this new little kid ends up following the family tradition and becoming a Space Knight too. 

She’s had a front row seat to a lot of chaos as well as heroism throughout Unicron. Makes sense she might be inspired and grow up to want to be a hero to!

And while the usual source of Ore to create a Space Knight is destroyed, we’ve seen that it’s regenerative. 

Such as how this here was Livia in 0, who we can see now is completely fine, with all the metal grown back:

Meaning they could probably regrow their order too, by just taking tiny bits of armour currently had, giving it to a new recruit and allowing the rest of the mass needed for a full suit to simply generate from that.