User blog:Bzero/Theme General

In general, our theme is based on the original G1 cartoon, which forms the bedrock structure on which everything else can be added but must not contradict. So, the Transformers were built by Quintessons as products. Megatron led the modern Decepticon revolution. Orion Pax was a dockworker who was killed by Megatron and resurrected by Alpha Trion into Optimus Prime. The Transformers crash-landed on Earth four million years ago and woke back up in 1984.

To that we added elements from the non-canon animated movie (Ultra Magnus, Arcee, Blurr), non-canon third season (Technobots, etc), and the non-canon Japanese series (Star Saber, Deathsaurus, etc). Then from the Marvel comic (Circuit Breaker, Autobot Headquarters called the Ark, Unicron, etc). We brought in history from Marvel UK (Vos and Tarn, Megatron’s background as a gladiator, Polyhex, Wreckers, etc). Much later, elements were added from the live-action movies and video games.

Finally, recently, we’re bringing in a lot from the IDW 2005 continuity. This is fine, but please remember this is not an IDW MUX. Not all players are familiar with IDW, and not everything from IDW is canon. We’ll address specifics in future articles, but in general, know that in the cartoon MOST of Transformer history has been lost. Most Transformers don’t even know their own early history, much less details about past Autobot administrations. Which does at least give us lots of wiggle room.

Most of these articles are going to start as modified TFWiki articles and then get edited and expanded. Note, this is largely OOC information – most Transformers will NOT know all of these details, and there are many secrets we’re leaving out that can only be revealed ICly. Like the real world, the truth is filtered through the lenses of incomplete historical accounts written by people with their own biases and misconceptions.

The “true history” of the Autobots is a lot different than the “truths” taught by the Decepticons. Thematically, the Autobots are generally good (with some notable exceptions) and the Decepticons are generally evil (with some notable exceptions). Each side, however, thinks they are on the right side of history and will argue as such. Each character can and should have a unique POV. Each character can argue their view is correct. OOCly, however, the real truth is known only to certain admin. ;)

If you have any questions about specifics, please ask. For more details, watch this space. =)