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It's a good job you did there. I was particularly amazed at how you were able to identify the cities on Primus toy. And made maps out of them too. I didn't even know the toy had that much level of details until i saw your video.
Official fiction, surprisingly, does not list many cities (someone correct me if I'm wrong). I ended up having to find an old Transformers MUD manual and read through all of the descriptions to try to accurately place names.
It was really a necessity to be able to say exactly where the players might go. Even before I bought Cybertron on eBay, my players (which are all 3 of my daughters) didn't want to return to Earth. Once I was armed with the toy they had great fun deciding where to go, which necessitated me remembering what building was what, let alone what city held what, which meant I had to make some maps. As they explore, the labeled areas get filled in.
In turn, I had to figure out how big Cybertron was, because once it came time for Cybertron to autonomously shift to another solar system to engage in Matter Reclamaition, I had to be able to describe it all.
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About the fictional super metal and gravity manipulation, you got a point there. My head was sucked too deep into real world science again, that i forgot this is fiction. The mere existence of Unicron and Cybertron alone is already fiction. So it's actually a good mix of real science and fictional science that you have cooked up here. Not too extreme on either side.
I try to keep things in the realm of plausability, as Walt Disney said.
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... Matter Reclamation ... 2 possible outcomes of this process. First, is the typical matter-into-pure-energy conversion, like the cartoon. Small amount of matter can be disintegrated into a very large amount of energy. Second idea is that, matter accumulates in the Reclamation chamber. More and more matter is sucked in. But the size of Unicron remains unchanged. This will result into increasing density ...
In our fiction option 1 happens, but either could be going on. If you accept Mass Factoring <?> whatever the term is for what G1 Soundwave & Megatron can do, where parts become smaller (which I just can't accept because if that were possible, they could theoretically make a near limitless number of parts smaller and transform, like the All Spark in the 2007 Movie, into anything they want at any time - and damaging these systems would be odd - it would be like some kind of living TARDIS, constantly morphing) I suppose Option 2 makes sense as well.
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Here's another idea. About the tectonics. The solid crust floating over liquid mantle may not be as simple as a solid plate floating on a pond of water. The "liquid-like" behavior of the mantle may well be something of thick goo-like semi-solid state. Movement of this substance, as well as the "solid" crust, is extremely slow and gradual. So, if Unicron were to step on Earth's surface, i think most likely, he will not sink. Maybe the crust may deform to a certain degree. But it won't be as quick as to give way and let Unicron's giant foot sink in.
That sounds more accurate - earthquakes would rock over that corner of the Earth like a ripple, but he wouldn't have enough weight to just sink anymore than the continents themselves do, even with much greater pressure per square mile. We'd need to know how much Unicron weighs and get someone who knows more about physics
Auto Bot:About the size of Cybertron, i have no idea about it at all. So i'm gonna accept yours, as is. For now. Your result seems to be pretty convincing. In my own opinion, i think the size may well be closer to your original estimate, than the quarter-moon size.
I wanted that to be true, too, so I figured out how big the moon was and went backwards and found out that the buildings, at that point, make no sense. Like the Earth, things should be much smaller and condensed on the toy for that to look right. *shrugs* But I found out it was still cool once I figured out what happens when these dudes touch down.
Auto Bot:I think your two-part video is ok as it is. For those who wants to go to the "meat", they may follow my advice to skip video-1. For those who are amused by a more lengthy feature, they can consume both videos.
Do not be bothered too much by my "30 seconds" comment. I am in no way trying to set a time limit to the calculation part. What i was trying to point out was, you can do a quick ratio, and then present the results outright. Pointing out which part is compared to what part. Without going into the number crunching details.
You can try out that method in your future videos.
Still, I appreciate the realization of how to present material.
I'm off to eat food! Thank you so much for writing.
And yes, G1 Cybertron was big enough to affect gravity, which makes the drawings of it make less sense, as you could see everything clearly, and then the disasterous 1986 movie makes less sense when you see Galvatron on Unicron, who then claws Cybertron. In other words, the official G1 cartoons did such a horrendous job at understanding and representing scale, it is better to discount them and use them only as inspiration.
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