Bottom Out wrote:the autobots would be considered terrorists. Decepticons ruled cybertron..and the autobots tried to over throw them...
KoH4711 wrote:I think it was set up in Origins that there was some kind of caste system in place, and the ruling Autobots were at least somewhat oppressive. I tend to think, at the very least, there was some kind of inequality. How else do you raise a whole army? (If we're looking at this on the level of political systems, I'd also prefer not to think it's just a question of "Decepticons are evil".)
wildfire405 wrote:It has been my understanding that the Decepticons are just inherently different in that they don't fit into the autobots preconceived concepts of a functional society. Thereby they were forced into professions that were not what they desired--mining, gladiatorial fight-for-fun stuff. . . I also imagine they were at least part of the military, if Cybertron needed one before the big split.
Being that the Decepticons were probably forced into their roles, or that there 'genetics' or alternate formes dictated their position in life, it suggests the society leans toward a dictatorship in that they are forced into their place in the great machine that is society.
If your alt form is a crane, great, you're up for construction. . . your alt form spews expensive energon coffee, great you run the new Cybertronian Starbucks . . . your alt form has vicious sharp claws and you shoots explosive energy blasts. . . uhh, you're in demolitions. . . to hell with where you might want to go.
Electron wrote:sledge your comments are like a fat chick raping a hot dog, its unpleasent to watch but in the end its gonna happen
Mr O wrote:I'm part Irish, part Scottish, very Welsh, mostly drunk, somewhat Transformers nerd and all bastard.
Mr. Kemp wrote:For those who were asking what the Decepticons could do, just have them serve in the military, operating strictly under a planetary defense function.
That is what I think too. It cheapens the whole idea of alts, and to me it makes the character less interesting if he/she changes their alt mode too many times. It is more interesting if the character has to pick something very specific, and then has to adapt to a new look and feel, even though this 'new' mode is close to their old one. I have the idea that ground- based and air-based Transformers are probably each sub-species of Transformers, that their respective modes have very mode-specific adaptations to their bodies and their minds.T Honk wrote:
I also dont like this new trend of multiple scans for new alts. It should come at a cost. Maybe extremly painful or limited times in a life due to the loss of something crutial to the process after repeated use.
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