Sabrblade wrote:
You can blame the Beast Wars Sourcebook's profile from Transmetal 2 Prowl for all that. At the time that profile was written, the Binaltech story wasn't done yet and the Sourcebook went and took inspiration from the then-incomplete Binaltech story, only for what the Sourcebook did to be undone by the Binaltech story when it resumed, thereby making what the Sourcebook wrote no longer make any sense.
It took the Ask Vector Prime Facebook from years later to finally fix the mess with input from Hirofumi Ichikawa, but did so by having to jump through several hoops to fix it because of how messy it was in the first place. Had the Sourcebook originally left alone the then-still-in-progress Binaltech story, then such complications on the "Prowl II" matter wouldn't have arisen.[/quote][/quote]
Well that's a good real world reason Hirofumi Ichikawa must of read the profile and thought 'oh bother me'
ok at the time of writing this i haven't re-read the BW Prowl II & BW Prowl sourcebook profiles.
If the Bineltech Prowl (whom replaces G1 Prowl in 2010) is Prowl II/2 and that Prowl years later becomes Magnaboss Prowl then how do we get Prowl II(who in turn becomes Prowl 2 in the Car Robots furture) and Magnaboss Prowl at the sametime...
ok this needs a spreadsheet and lots of chocolate....and some crisps/chips
EDIT
Just this from Vector Prime over on facebook and it has settled my fried mind.
Dear Vector Prime
Q:Would you mind clarifying the enigma behind the identity of Prowl II from Beast Wars? And what about the Spy Changer Prowl 2 from Robots in Disguise?
A: Dear Prowl Parson,
Both can trace their origins to the Temporal Nexus that is the Binaltech Project. You have perhaps witnessed many of these events in the BT World timeline preserved through the actions of the Alternity. Following the death of Prowl in the OG World, Prowl and Wheeljack crossed back to their original timeline, before the Trial of Primacron. Wheeljack, still wary after the death of their OG World doppelgängers, had brought Prowl's Beta BT unit with them. They eventually transferred their sparks to OG World bodies, leaving their BT bodies in cold storage.
The Prowl II in many Primax-reality iterations of the Beast Wars was created from Prowl's Alpha BT unit. Early in its history, it housed Chip Chase's life essence and Prowl's datatrax. (Come to think of it, this is not at all dissimilar to the process employed by the Protectons and Terrakors on Skalorr.) Thus, when Professor Chase fell very ill, Wheeljack suggested another consciousness transfer. Very curious that our sparks and your... élan vital? Animus? ...are so compatible. It was an experimental procedure, and did not work perfectly. Some memories were lost, and consciousness could not be restored. The body was put into stasis, and eventually upgraded with Maximal technology in the hopes of saving the being--or is it beings?--within. It was a partial success. Prowl II was once again among the living.
Prowl 2, on the other hand, was created from the Beta BT unit, a striking electric blue body created as a BT backup for Prowl but never used. Like the primary unit, it was programmed with Prowl's memory engrams and personality. For hundreds of centuries it was locked away, forgotten. It was rediscovered when Fire Convoy was undertaking preparations to travel to the year 2000 in pursuit of the Destrongers, at the behest of the Convoy Council. The memories contained within the shell were invaluable, and so the body was rebuilt using Spychanger technology and infused with life by Vector Sigma. Prowl 2 taught the Dimensional Patrol much about life on late 20th century Earth, and volunteered to return with Fire Convoy's team... but Heinrad cautioned that the risk of a temporal paradox was too great. Thus was he fated to remain in the distant future, anxiously awaiting word from his new companions about the attempt to safeguard Earth's past.
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I shall sleep tonight lol.
