Randomhero wrote:One error I actually noticed is nightbeat saying the Necrobot Is the oldest he's met yet he's met Alpha Trion- a thirteen-, Galvatron and nova prime. Not to mention Omega Supreme and a Titan, both of which were considered the oldest cybertronians in existence. Metroplex is believed to know the guiding hand and the Knights to which he won't speak of because the current generation is unworthy.
So back to this one.
Turns out, this is very likely not an error after all.
I decided to re-read the entire series. Not in one sitting, mind you, just slowly over the next several months. Before bed last night I noticed something in
Autocracy:
This was a lightbulb-going-off moment. Nightbeat remarks on how old Censere is because he mentions "The First War", and while Censere doesn't claim to have met the Knights of Cybertron, who I was reminded by the line above
pre-date the 13 Primes, he knew someone that did claim to know them. This puts him around, especially given his origin of somewhere destroyed in "The First War", right about when the 13 would come about. Nightbeat does not know Alpha Trion's age as far as we know, since this wasn't brought up during their only encounter in
Spotlight: Orion Pax, and does he even know he's met Metroplex? Metroplex would have been in city mode by the time Nightbeat returned from the Dead Universe at the end of Dark Cybertron, so maybe he knows he was there but he's never shown to communicate with him.
So, in short, this is just Nightbeat talking, yes, but it's also not a mistake from his point of view, and the little line in the picture here set off a chain of events in my head that, I think, prove this assertion.
Carry on as you were now, my little stream of consciousness post is over