The Energon Pub

News Credits: 1 · by ***Galvatron*** » Wed May 21, 2008 8:28 am

MagnusPrimal wrote:
***Galvatron*** wrote:
MagnusPrimal wrote:There's really been no reason given why the don't use solar power. You'd think if they would set up solar power 'farms', either on a planet or in space, they could fill up a lot of energon cubes, with very little effort expended. Especially if they kept quiet about it, and didn't let the other side know of it's location.

Well it would make for an abundant power source yes but solar power is still turned into steam power or other means to turn the generators etc...also you need vast solar arrays covering many acres or miles of land or in this case space but it would make for a large and tempting target for any decepticons ( evil plan formulating ) that either want to steal it or obliterate it.

It would obviously have to be heavily defended.

Not if you accept the premise that Cybertronian tech is much more advanced than Terran tech, and their solar absortion devices would be much smaller and more efficient. Heck, look at what they did with Grapple's tower! Have a few of those, hidden, do it quietly, no fuss, no muss, you've got a nice little energy source that no one knows about!

Perhaps so but you forget in that episode where it says that the top of the tower is in another time zone so that sounds pretty big to me. You can't have it hidden so much as it will have to be in direct sunlight to absorb the energy and it will be lit up like a christmas tree... Decepticons ATTACK!!!

News Credits: 3 · by **MagnusPrimal** » Wed May 21, 2008 9:56 pm

***Galvatron*** wrote:Perhaps so but you forget in that episode where it says that the top of the tower is in another time zone

How is it possible for the base of a tower to be in one time zone and the top to be in another?

News Credits: 1 · by ***Galvatron*** » Wed May 21, 2008 11:46 pm

MagnusPrimal wrote:
***Galvatron*** wrote:Perhaps so but you forget in that episode where it says that the top of the tower is in another time zone

How is it possible for the base of a tower to be in one time zone and the top to be in another?

Don't ask me I always wondered that too but Devastator was as tall or taller than the tower so that would mean the same for him too.

The only other thing I can think of was maybe it was supposed to be a comment made to describe it like "holy crap that thing is huge", something of an exaggeration to say the least.

News Credits: 5 · by **Sledge** » Thu May 22, 2008 7:18 am

It was just another one of those lines that Spike should have been slapped for. See also "It's like Sherlock Holmes with floppy disks!" and "They don't call them DECEPticons for nothing."

News Credits: 3 · by **MagnusPrimal** » Thu May 22, 2008 10:49 pm

Sledge wrote:It was just another one of those lines that Spike should have been slapped for. See also "It's like Sherlock Holmes with floppy disks!" and "They don't call them DECEPticons for nothing."

Ah. Spike said it. Exagerrated (to say the least) for effect. And wrong, but it's Spike. That's like using a light year to measure time (who else watches The Big Bang Theory?).