Autobot Smoketreader wrote:Neat thread, Shortwave! Well done!!!
Name: Killswitch/Smoketreader/Preypacer.
Faction: Autobot/Autobot/Maximal Triple Changer.
Function:Conscripted Infantry Sergeant (on lifelong standby Emergency callback- Defensive warfare only)/Archaeology worker (Day time)/Teacher& Tutor (night time).
AltMode: Depends on the mission/ depends on the job/ Panther & Owl Fuzor.
Motto: "It's a Warriors duty to put his body between his enemy and their goal"/Same one as Poster I.D above/"Try to live and die as usefully as possible."
Would try to be as reliable as possible. Would try to have a select team. Usually pretty good at selected functions. Old fashioned, will fight against command chain to keep quality happening over quantity. Good with many tools and weapons. Can often detect hidden motives and impending danger. Ferociously proud of heritage, students and team-mates: believes his Generation should act as the Ancients of those to follow, rather than as the lost & rebellious children of Ancestors past.Detests invasion armies,traitors and half baked evil world conquering schemes.Can be known to be generous to the point of foolishness.Would spend a lot of spare time just enjoying AltModes.Has learnt to meditate and can 'talk' to Energy.Prone to getting rusty when on holidays.
I've been inspired by the rest of the posts to add more...and basically go nuts with this too cool thread*LOL*
So the Archaeological Altmode would be some kind of cargo land unit, but like the Droid carriers in the Phantom menace that carry the Droids into the Naboo battle, only Deluxe sized.The Cargo would be a team of about 4 to 6 littler Autobots who could get right down into the digging at a Human or little animal sized perspective rather than have a big Autobot crush everything accidentally. There'd be room to carry some finds back to wherever they're going as well.
Smoketreader would have a meaty Sports car parked somewhere and Scan it after work (kinda like changing from work clothes into casual clothes) and drive around for fun.(I reckon something like Axor or Lockdown).In the morning he'd scan the work mode again and go to work.
Weapons:
I figured that it would be fun if Autobots could reproduce by dividing (as well as other methods as listed in Wiki) so I'd spawn a new little critter every couple of hundred years.About the size of the Cellphone bot from TF1 to start with, they'd gradually grow 'up' and wander away.I'd keep them around (or they'd keep me around) when they're little as weapons and gear to let the lot of us survive as much as we can through numbers.They'd change their AltModes as they grow.
Here's some ideas I reckon would be fun as offspring:
*Laserwing and Buzzbeak: Military mode- thrown discs (like in Predator), Archaeology mode- Scarab type beetles, 'Civilian' mode- little screech owls.
*Freeformer: Military mode- telescoping spear (like in Predator, again), Archaeo mode- Snake (with lots of cameras and sensors), Civvie mode- a little monkey.
*Idler: Military mode- pop out multiple mini missile launcher (shoulder mounted), Archaeo mode- Guard dog or cat, Civvie mode- Big chunky engine attachment sticking out of bonnet.
*Flashdrive:Military mode- Bigass twin barreled infantry sized Turbocannon (subTransforms from stumpier shoulder setup to telescoping handheld jobbie), Archaeo mode- a bot about the size of a human with vacuum/leafblower pipe setups on the forearms, Civvie mode- Bigass exhaust pipes that can belch out smoke and flame.
*Hitch & Hike: ( a single bot that divided itself later) Military mode- two Katana type swords.Hitch has an Energon emitting gut hook under the tip whilst Hike subtransforms into a Cryogenic whip. Archaeo mode- these two hooligans use the excuse of transforming into a workbench to get out of digging and carrying. Civilian mode- Roof rack.
Technorain: (Female,divided from Freeformer).Military mode: Sensor Jamming console. Archaeo mode- Laptop. Civilian mode- Little Bot.
Somewhere on Cybertron there'd be a massive gun carriage-station waiting in stasis lock that Killswitch/PreyPacer/Smoketreader would transform into the haulwagon and head of, as seen in the Unicron Trilogy (I forget the character name).Maybe he'll get back to it someday.