The Energon Pub

[Optimus Z]

Another question that bothers me is when new "cybertronions" are "born" wouldn't they all be the same age? For example why are bumblebee and cheetor "teens" and then Blackarachnia is an adult when she is "activated"? Sorry little things like that just bug me. Thanks.

[Glyph]

No explanation except for narrative imperative, I'm afraid. There has been some exploration of the idea that TFs 'mature' as they get older, though this is usually only a psychological rather than a physiological change. They can, however, upgrade their bodies to better reflect their more developed sense of themselves.

I guess we can theorise, at least in the post-Sparks perspective, that not all sparks have the same level of 'maturity' - if Primus / the Matrix / the Allspark (pick your preferred mythos' term) represents the totality of possible Transformers, then a single spark split off from the source might seem 'older' or 'younger' depending on what personality aspects it has - and that the protoform adapts itself accordingly to 'fit' a more youthfully-styled body to the sense of self within the spark. This can probably happen irrespective of the physical 'age' of the Transformer, although we should obviously expect older TFs to tend towards a more psychologically mature state as they accumulate experience; thus, 'teenage'-seeming TFs would be in the distinct minority of a very long-lived race.

[K-9]

Another question that bothers me is when new "cybertronions" are "born" wouldn't they all be the same age? For example why are bumblebee and cheetor "teens" and then Blackarachnia is an adult when she is "activated"? Sorry little things like that just bug me. Thanks.

Well characters such as Blackarachnia may be older, as they may have had lives on cybertron before entering the stasis pods and beginning the mission. The Spark could have lived a different life previously before she was reactivated and reprogrammed in Beast Wars. For example in Beast machines we had new characters such as Jetstorm, who were "adult" as that spark had existed for longer in other guises such as Silverbolt, and whoever he was before the Beast Wars. It's possible that Cheetor just came into existance later than the other characters, and so is less mature.

[Sloptank]

Sparks are energy, right? Energy is always being spent and used up.