The Energon Pub

Sun May 27, 2007 2:04 pm

Well I went ahead and did a head swap on the SWTF Vadar Tie Fighter. But now I'm in need of a name, and I'm trying to decide what to do with the box on his chest, for now Its painted silver with a rubsign plastered on, but I'm thinking I need to do something different there. Any suggestions for a name or what to do with the box?

Sun May 27, 2007 2:22 pm

heh,always fun to see how a headswap can heavily improve a tf.

Sun May 27, 2007 5:08 pm

It's from Energon Landmine (or Landquake... actually I think it is Landquake, 'cos of the blue visor).
Actually I like the rubsign placement, I think it fits nicely, as does the new head. As for the name... are you keeping it in the SWTF universe or is it just going to be a normal TF? And is it an Autobot or Decepticon?

Sun May 27, 2007 7:39 pm

Yeah the head is off a junker Landquake I had laying around.

As for the background, I'm going to be redoing pretty much all the SWTFs I have. I'm going with a storyline where when the great war was going on and Prime saw that they were going to run out of Energon he started sending out teams to search for new sources.

One such group of Autobots was attacked by a Decepticon team sent to track and obtain and Energon they might find, and during the battle both ships got sucked into a wormhole. When they got spit out the other side all of them were in stasis lock. The ships floated a further through space and then crashed on a planet at the outer rim of the Galactic Republic. A few hundred years later group of salvage scavengers found the ships and finding no life and impressed with some of the tech basically tore the ships and the bots inside apart.

By some fluke the memory cores and other key systems from the bots ended up getting sold off and eventually integrated into new ships over the years that followed. Interaction with a maintenance droid inadvertently reawakened one of the Autobots, who finding himself unable to transform and with no knowledge of what had passed since the battle began secretly searching for and reawakening his comrades.

Meanwhile one of the Decepticons was awakened by a scientist who had become interested in the alien technology he'd bought of the scavengers and began awakening his own brethren.

However do to the initial damage to their systems, the later tinkering by the salvage group and the various individuals who figure out ways to merge their tech into their ships all of the Transformers have found themselves changed, both physically in that they have to modify themselves and relearn to Transform, and in the fact that for most of them their memories are damaged.

So short answer yes its in the Star Wars universe, or at least a version of it. This guy is still trying to determine his allegiance. He was awakened by the leader of the Decepticon group, but he has fragmented memories of serving with the Autobots. He's also been influenced by the dark side of the force, which is what has brought all the Transformers out of stasis to begin with. (I'm ignoring Episode one and the tiny bacteria is the Force crap

) They've all become hybrids who no longer need Energon to survive, their systems feeding directly off the source, making them all targets for both the Jedi and the Sith.

Sun May 27, 2007 10:03 pm

I dunno why, but Rainstorm's just popped into my head. Must be the weather. :roll:

I think under the circumstances, he could do with a name that doesn't sound particularly good or evil.

Sun May 27, 2007 10:18 pm

Yeah thats what I was kinda looking for. Was almost thinking something akin to Ronin. He's a noble warrior who isn't really sure what side of the war he's on anymore. And one of the reason I went with that head was to go with the Knight in armor look that it already had.

Wed May 30, 2007 6:24 pm

So anyone have any ideas for a name for this guy? Right now I'm kinda leaning towards Ronin, but I'm trying to think up name thats similiar in concept but more Medieval Europe in origin to go with his black night type armor look.

Wed May 30, 2007 7:13 pm

Mordred (pronounced More dread)

Thu May 31, 2007 9:56 am

Dreadnought

Thu May 31, 2007 3:31 pm

Oooh, I like both Ionus and Dreadnaught. I think I may go with Dreanaught for him. Ionus should work for another character I'm making for this little world of mine.

Fri Jun 01, 2007 11:32 am

To throw my two cents in, I like Ionus for this guy, because the TIE in Tie fighter stands for Twin Ion Engine. Which brings up another point, tecnically Darth Vader's ship shouldn't be called a Tie Fighter, because it has Four Ion engines. :wink:

Qie fighter sounds too silly though.

Fri Jun 01, 2007 12:15 pm

FIE fighter? :lol:

Fri Jun 01, 2007 1:07 pm

J.T.Silversmith wrote:To throw my two cents in, I like Ionus for this guy, because the TIE in Tie fighter stands for Twin Ion Engine. Which brings up another point, tecnically Darth Vader's ship shouldn't be called a Tie Fighter, because it has Four Ion engines. Qie fighter sounds too silly though.

You my friend have far to much Star Wars knowledge me thinks:)

If I actually do the fanfic/photocomic for this which I've suedo planned this guy will actually end up with two names, so I may have to keep that in mind.

Fri Jun 01, 2007 1:40 pm

Ramrider wrote:FIE fighter?

Quickly vader! the deathstar is on fire!
Dammit palpatine,for the last time: it's FIE fighter!

Mon Sep 10, 2007 5:02 pm

seeker chest? nice look for him

too bad they dident come like that. i would like to see more swtf customs. i was considering on doing one out of one of theyre upcoming cloneship and ep1 jedifighter(starscrream)