Grand Cybertronian Taxonomy


 * The Grand Cybertron Taxonomy is a Functionistic classification tool.



Under Functionism, all Cybertronian life can be classified in one great system, known as the Grand Cybertronian Taxonomy, including the Transformers themselves. This classification determined the placement of Transformers on its hierarchy based on the user's alternate mode: those with common forms, such as memory sticks, became the disposable class, who ranked low socially to the point that they were seen as expendable. Other Transformers with industrial alternate modes such as forklifts and bulldozers found themselves pressed into manual labour. Those lucky Transformers with rarer and more specialized forms, such as proton microscopes, received more opportunities and rights than those without.

"Everyone's Shape Serves A Purpose"

- Functionist slogan