“ | The television screen is the retina of the mind's eye. | ” |
The Junkions, led by Wreck-Gar, exist on the Planet of Junk, but visit Earth regularly for religious and entertainment purposes. With a culture based on Earth TV, they tend to be difficult to understand by Cybertronian robots, but most have their pumps in the right places. Although a few Junkions have joined the Autobots (or the Mercenaries), most Junkions remain loyal and dedicated to the defense of their home planet first and prioritize their homeworld over the war on Cybertron.
Relationships[]
Autobots[]
Although they lean towards the cause of the Autobots, until recently Wreck-Gar did his level best to keep the Junkions out of the Cybertronian civil war. However, with Benin-Jeri officially re-joining the Autobots and encouraging Wreck-Gar to do the same, the Junkions' alliance with the Autobots has become more official.
Mercenaries[]
Some Junkions, like Detritus, have decided to put their combat skills to use off-planet, and hire themselves out at mercenaries.
"Neutrals"[]
Some Junkions claim to be 'neutral,' although Decepticons regularly disregard these claims of neutrality.
History[]
MUX Canon History[]
For the complete article, see Junkion History
The Junkions are thought to be refugees of the Cybertronian war. Many of the original Junkions were escaped salvage/construction bots from the time of the Quintesson occupation, joined by Autobots, Decepticons, and neutrals who were tired of the war and were willing to try again somewhere new.
The Junkions' impressionable nature led to a total restructuring of their society after discovering their homeworld, Junk, was receiving transmissions from a planet several light-years away. These transmissions were signals from Earth television stations that were bleeding off into space.
Junkions love television even more than humans do, and most spend all their time watching TV, memorizing it, and mimicking their favorite shows and commercials. This makes Junkions exceedingly difficult to understand, as most of them have taken to speaking in a jumbled string of media quotes and pop-culture references.
The Junkions eventually used their considerable technical skill to build spaceships from the scrap that composes their home planet and since then visit Earth regularly for religious and entertainment purposes.
Although they lean towards the cause of the Autobots, the Junkion leader, Wreck-Gar, at first did his best to keep the Junkions out of the Cybertronian civil war. However, when human lives or media are threatened the Junkions have been known to come to the rescue in a display of heroic violence that isn't suitable for younger viewers.
Junkions also possess the unique ability to patch themselves back together with whatever they happen to find laying around. Minor injuries and battle damage are patched up in a few seconds with anything from duct tape to old toaster-ovens. This leads to most Junkions living up to their name, having a rough, 'junky' appearance. This ability is even more pronounced on the Planet of Junk (and less so in a sterile desert environment).
MUX History[]
The Junkions eventually used their considerable technical skill to build a spaceship from the scrap that composes their home planet and since then visit Earth regularly for religious and entertainment purposes.
Although they lean towards the cause of the Autobots, the Junkion leader, Wreck-Gar, is doing his best to keep the Junkions out of the Cybertronian civil war. However, when human lives or media are threatened the Junkions have been known to come to the rescue in a display of heroic violence that isn't suitable for younger viewers.
In 2005, an Autobot shuttle containing Ultra Magnus, Perceptor, Springer, Arcee, and Daniel Witwicky was damaged in a battle with Megatron. It was piloted to Junkion for repairs. The Decepticons tracked them down in order to kill Ultra Magnus. The native Junkions revealed themselves, deemed the Autobots intruders, and attacked them. The battle halted when Hot Rod, Kup and the Dinobots landed on the planet, and subsequently made peace with the Junkions using the universal greeting.
In 2007, Benin-Jeri revealed himself to be a former Autobot, and pledged to Optimus Prime that he would help advance Autobot-Junkion relations.
Later, the core of Junkion was discovered to be the Requiem Blaster, which was needed to destroy the Fallen. When the Blaster was removed, the shell that is Junkion started to break apart, and is currently held together by giant chains keeping its various pieces precariously connected.
Government[]
Per the history of the Junkions, regularly acknowledged as an exodus from Cybertron to escape The Great War - it would make sense to abandon the City State/Feudalism of Cybertron's Overlords past, turning from notions that would follow a method like the Autobot Monarchy (the Matrix being, quite literally a god's selection of a leader) and a definite resistance to the Decepticon style of Autocratic Dictatorship.
Because the Junkions are made up of neutrals as well as former Autobots and Decepticons, at their core, the bad taste of those leaderships would have logically created a new adoption for what would be considered the best possible from Junkion perception.
What developed was a Decentralized Meritocratic system of government. Clans/houses of Junkions of similar mindset, caste, or whatever else would have drawn them together. Most clans contain at least a sample of each caste. Specifically, to avoid the possibility of developing into competing houses/clans, which would have just led to the City-State borders of the First through Third Cybertronian Wars and that eventually led to the rise of Megatron and the Great War that followed.
Having members of each caste guarantees a clash of personalities, priorities and preferences which would have guaranteed a melting pot of ideas with regular disagreement. This would be the basis of evolution, overcoming obstacles by developing means to adapt to them. Thus, strengthening the culture overall.
It would also mean that clans would not bend to any other clan. Inter-Clan conflict would be acknowledged, even accepted to some degree. But there would need to be at least a council if not a singular figure who could command unity from the disparate sub-factions of the Junkions. Often it is a single figure, most recently Wreck-Gar, who led because he was the best choice. He was impartial. His focus was the continuation and survival of the Junkions.
The Junkion clans have their own agendas, behavior, allies, and enemies within Junkion society. The Junkions tend to operate independently and to outsiders it could look like abject anarchy. But Wreck-Gar was Junk'Alor (Literal translation: Chieftain of Junkion) and Junk 'Alor was the one figure that the Junkions agreed had full authority if the situation warranted. Which was not often at all.
Junk'Alor's authority extended to audge when a clan, or individual, was a threat to the culture as a whole and little often else - until a Crusade was called. Crusades being defenses of Junkion, one of its allies, or even a monumental quest to retrieve something. Most often a Crusade was called for conquest of a new world, or to pay retribution to a figure that had threatened the Junkions as a whole. Junkions bicker, work together, and go their own way. Until something threatens them as a whole - then they come together as one and often with a single leader who is a figurehead until the situation demands that they aren't any longer. In recent times, that was Wreck-Gar - who remained the Junkion Leader once they'd been dragged into The Great War.
In 2024, however, Wreck-Gar's commitment to Junkion leadership was questioned due to his commitment to the Autobot/Decepticon war, and so a new Junk'Alor was chosen -- Pile-Up.
==Credit==
- Much of the structure of the Junkion faction was created by Bossmek.