"Transformers-Fractures" brainstorm thread
Posted: Sun Jul 19, 2009 3:06 amI'm hoping I can get a little brainstorming going here, since I don't seem to be able to at any of my normal haunts. See, I've been collecting TFs since '84, and, for some reason after I read the "Universe '08" bios for Nemesis Prime, Galvatron, and Acid Storm, I was suddenly struck with the idea of creating an overarching story for them all (as well as a couple of non-TFs). What I'm going to ultimately do with it, I don't know, but there are some elements that seem to be...stuck, I guess.
I've included elements from various TF sources, from G1 to Beast Era to the Unicron Trilogy and TF: Animated to the live-action movies, but not everything will be as it was originally.
Anyway, I guess I ultimately want to see if there actually IS any interest in me elaborating on this in any way. I know, it's horribly "n00bish" of me, but if I can pull something readable out of 25 years of toy collecting, it'll be worth it.
It is the year 2009.
The war between the Autobots and Decepticons has been in stalemate ever since the Siege on Autobot City in 2005, when Optimus Prime and Megatron, the leaders of both factions, took each others' lives in single combat, ending the intense day-long slaughter. The Autobots have entrenched themselves on Earth, entering into a treaty with a native governmental body, the United Nations, exchanging technology and protection from Decepticon forces in exchange for asylum and aid in retaking their home world from Decepticon control and future aid in bringing the dead planet back to life.
It is a trying time for both factions; operating under UN control, the Autobots have established bases in several countries globally in cooperation with the oft-times stiflingly strict UN accords as well as local governmental policies. As they are without the guidance of a Prime, due to the Matrix of Leadership remaining silent as to Optimus' replacement, the Autobots have no choice but to bend to human command; in reaction, some Autobots have "retired" from active service, choosing to serve the war effort in alternate ways, while others form covert groups to try and speed up the reclamation of Cybertron.
For the Decepticons, however, it is a dark time indeed. Despite their still-unquestioned control over Cybertron, it is a rule over a dead world, with any efforts to revive it quickly shouted down by the petty squabbling of internal politicking and delusional, grandiose plans for galactic conquest, with Earth remaining a particularly ripe target despite the Autobot-human allegiance and their repeated victories on that front. Without Megatron's charismatic if iron-fisted rule, the Decepticons have splintered into three distinct sub-factions, with Megatron's usurper, Starscream, claiming rule over all. Lacking his predecessor's power and fearsome reputation, however, Starscream's rule is only recognized by a handful of his fellow Seekers and various others among the Decepticons "stranded" on Earth; many have become little more than petty thugs and terrorists, offering their services to human dictators and insurgents in exchange for fuel and safe haven from Autobot/human forces.
However, on Cybertron, one of Starscream's Seekers, Acidstorm, delves deep into the forgotten recesses of the former Decepticon capital city, Polyhex, operating under the orders of "Project: Stormbringer," an internal directive buried so far within his programming that he wasn't even aware it existed until it began guiding his actions down this possibly traitorous path. Deep, deep within the beyond "Top Secret" levels of the main Decepticon command bunker, Acidstorm finds the Pit, a place for beings who are meant to be forgotten by all others. Indeed, he only finds two beings remaining functional amongst the corpses of long-abandoned experiments and prisoners: an insane, cackling femmebot named "Crasher," and the object of his mysterious quest, a mechanoid designated by its creator, Straxus, as "Nemesis Prime."
Meanwhile, back on Earth, former Autobot ally Buster Witwicky, makes a discovery of his own: once, shortly after meeting the Autobots, he was temporarily given the Creation Matrix, an amazing power derived from the Matrix of Leadership that made him a master over all things mechanical, Transformers included, in order to keep it out of Decepticon hands. It was too much power for a human to wield, however, so it was fortunate the Autobots were able to rescue Optimus Prime and transfer the power back to him before permanent damage was inflicted.
One doesn't touch the power of gods without being changed forever, though; years later, after a life derailed and ambitions unfulfilled, Buster finds himself back at the place it all began, his late father's garage. Perhaps roused by the familiar surroundings, Buster finds the fraction of the Creation Matrix still within him awakened by a potentially fatal accident that results in his dirt bike being changed into the loyal (if somewhat simple) Autobot-wannabe, Wheelie. Experimenting, Buster uses his far-more-limited Matrix powers to turn several motorcycles (his hobby was restoring them) into the Autobot Intelligence Corps: Elita-1, Arcee, Chromia, Moonracer, and Nightbird; due to his weakened powers, they were all roughly human-scale. Fashioning himself a suit of ability-augmenting armor based on his old motocross equipment, Buster tried to lead his new creations into battle...only to be nearly decimated during their first encounter with Crasher, shortly after her arrival with Acidstorm and Nemesis Prime on Earth, unintentionally beginning a running rivalry between the Corps and the Decepticon racecar (as well as beginning a potentially dark interest in the Decepticons within the spark of Nightbird...).
A second faction, composed of spaced or Cybertron-bound 'cons and led by the deadly Bludgeon, have been growing in power since adopting a more cult-like stance, with their worship of a supposed entity known as "The Chaos-Bringer" filling the space once filled by Megatron's fierce rhetoric. While they lack the specialized and deadly skills of Starscream's faction, their use of mass-produced drones allows them to operate efficiently and with a minimum of the personality conflicts inherent in an army staffed by fully sentient beings, and the arrival of a mysterious general named Galvatron and his personal lieutenant/bodyguard, Cyclonus, has spurred these self-styled "Destructicons" into a flurry of action that harkens terrifyingly back to Megatron's reign.
Not all of the "Destructicons" want to follow the Way of the Chaos-Bringer, however. Two who'd been press-ganged into service, Crumplezone and Gasket, took advantage of the confusion following Galvatron's arrival to flee, reasoning that, with an entire dead planet to hide on, there was no way for the to find them. Unfortunately, they discovered that, while the planet may have been dead, cannibalistic "mutants" still roamed the darkened corners of Cybertron, preying upon any mechanoid foolish enough to leave the Decepticon bases...and with their only ally being a weary young battle-fatigued Autobot named Wedge, their chances of survival were beginning to look slim, especially once the formerly-deceased Decepticon founder, Cryotek, mutated by millions of years of Nucleon exposure, discovers them.
As if this wasn't already volatile enough, a third faction of Decepticons, primarily composed of beast-form sentients and biomechanical monstrosities, broke off from the rest due to dissatisfaction at their treatment by the other 'cons. With the aide of prior AWOL Decepticon-turned-space-pirate Cannonball and his crew, these defectors stole the "Predacon," a Decepticon warship equipped with an experimental trans-warp drive, and now roam the space ways, preying upon any unfortunate enough to cross their path. While these "Predacons" seem content with this new arrangement, their de-facto commander, Overbite, has recently found his hands full with the arrival of a preening, ambitious mechanoid with the alt-mode of an extinct Earth tyrannosaurus, who, despite his claims of loyalty, seems to be secretly fomenting mutinous thoughts towards returning and reclaiming Cybertron for their own purpose, yesss...
I've included elements from various TF sources, from G1 to Beast Era to the Unicron Trilogy and TF: Animated to the live-action movies, but not everything will be as it was originally.
Anyway, I guess I ultimately want to see if there actually IS any interest in me elaborating on this in any way. I know, it's horribly "n00bish" of me, but if I can pull something readable out of 25 years of toy collecting, it'll be worth it.
It is the year 2009.
The war between the Autobots and Decepticons has been in stalemate ever since the Siege on Autobot City in 2005, when Optimus Prime and Megatron, the leaders of both factions, took each others' lives in single combat, ending the intense day-long slaughter. The Autobots have entrenched themselves on Earth, entering into a treaty with a native governmental body, the United Nations, exchanging technology and protection from Decepticon forces in exchange for asylum and aid in retaking their home world from Decepticon control and future aid in bringing the dead planet back to life.
It is a trying time for both factions; operating under UN control, the Autobots have established bases in several countries globally in cooperation with the oft-times stiflingly strict UN accords as well as local governmental policies. As they are without the guidance of a Prime, due to the Matrix of Leadership remaining silent as to Optimus' replacement, the Autobots have no choice but to bend to human command; in reaction, some Autobots have "retired" from active service, choosing to serve the war effort in alternate ways, while others form covert groups to try and speed up the reclamation of Cybertron.
For the Decepticons, however, it is a dark time indeed. Despite their still-unquestioned control over Cybertron, it is a rule over a dead world, with any efforts to revive it quickly shouted down by the petty squabbling of internal politicking and delusional, grandiose plans for galactic conquest, with Earth remaining a particularly ripe target despite the Autobot-human allegiance and their repeated victories on that front. Without Megatron's charismatic if iron-fisted rule, the Decepticons have splintered into three distinct sub-factions, with Megatron's usurper, Starscream, claiming rule over all. Lacking his predecessor's power and fearsome reputation, however, Starscream's rule is only recognized by a handful of his fellow Seekers and various others among the Decepticons "stranded" on Earth; many have become little more than petty thugs and terrorists, offering their services to human dictators and insurgents in exchange for fuel and safe haven from Autobot/human forces.
However, on Cybertron, one of Starscream's Seekers, Acidstorm, delves deep into the forgotten recesses of the former Decepticon capital city, Polyhex, operating under the orders of "Project: Stormbringer," an internal directive buried so far within his programming that he wasn't even aware it existed until it began guiding his actions down this possibly traitorous path. Deep, deep within the beyond "Top Secret" levels of the main Decepticon command bunker, Acidstorm finds the Pit, a place for beings who are meant to be forgotten by all others. Indeed, he only finds two beings remaining functional amongst the corpses of long-abandoned experiments and prisoners: an insane, cackling femmebot named "Crasher," and the object of his mysterious quest, a mechanoid designated by its creator, Straxus, as "Nemesis Prime."
Meanwhile, back on Earth, former Autobot ally Buster Witwicky, makes a discovery of his own: once, shortly after meeting the Autobots, he was temporarily given the Creation Matrix, an amazing power derived from the Matrix of Leadership that made him a master over all things mechanical, Transformers included, in order to keep it out of Decepticon hands. It was too much power for a human to wield, however, so it was fortunate the Autobots were able to rescue Optimus Prime and transfer the power back to him before permanent damage was inflicted.
One doesn't touch the power of gods without being changed forever, though; years later, after a life derailed and ambitions unfulfilled, Buster finds himself back at the place it all began, his late father's garage. Perhaps roused by the familiar surroundings, Buster finds the fraction of the Creation Matrix still within him awakened by a potentially fatal accident that results in his dirt bike being changed into the loyal (if somewhat simple) Autobot-wannabe, Wheelie. Experimenting, Buster uses his far-more-limited Matrix powers to turn several motorcycles (his hobby was restoring them) into the Autobot Intelligence Corps: Elita-1, Arcee, Chromia, Moonracer, and Nightbird; due to his weakened powers, they were all roughly human-scale. Fashioning himself a suit of ability-augmenting armor based on his old motocross equipment, Buster tried to lead his new creations into battle...only to be nearly decimated during their first encounter with Crasher, shortly after her arrival with Acidstorm and Nemesis Prime on Earth, unintentionally beginning a running rivalry between the Corps and the Decepticon racecar (as well as beginning a potentially dark interest in the Decepticons within the spark of Nightbird...).
A second faction, composed of spaced or Cybertron-bound 'cons and led by the deadly Bludgeon, have been growing in power since adopting a more cult-like stance, with their worship of a supposed entity known as "The Chaos-Bringer" filling the space once filled by Megatron's fierce rhetoric. While they lack the specialized and deadly skills of Starscream's faction, their use of mass-produced drones allows them to operate efficiently and with a minimum of the personality conflicts inherent in an army staffed by fully sentient beings, and the arrival of a mysterious general named Galvatron and his personal lieutenant/bodyguard, Cyclonus, has spurred these self-styled "Destructicons" into a flurry of action that harkens terrifyingly back to Megatron's reign.
Not all of the "Destructicons" want to follow the Way of the Chaos-Bringer, however. Two who'd been press-ganged into service, Crumplezone and Gasket, took advantage of the confusion following Galvatron's arrival to flee, reasoning that, with an entire dead planet to hide on, there was no way for the to find them. Unfortunately, they discovered that, while the planet may have been dead, cannibalistic "mutants" still roamed the darkened corners of Cybertron, preying upon any mechanoid foolish enough to leave the Decepticon bases...and with their only ally being a weary young battle-fatigued Autobot named Wedge, their chances of survival were beginning to look slim, especially once the formerly-deceased Decepticon founder, Cryotek, mutated by millions of years of Nucleon exposure, discovers them.
As if this wasn't already volatile enough, a third faction of Decepticons, primarily composed of beast-form sentients and biomechanical monstrosities, broke off from the rest due to dissatisfaction at their treatment by the other 'cons. With the aide of prior AWOL Decepticon-turned-space-pirate Cannonball and his crew, these defectors stole the "Predacon," a Decepticon warship equipped with an experimental trans-warp drive, and now roam the space ways, preying upon any unfortunate enough to cross their path. While these "Predacons" seem content with this new arrangement, their de-facto commander, Overbite, has recently found his hands full with the arrival of a preening, ambitious mechanoid with the alt-mode of an extinct Earth tyrannosaurus, who, despite his claims of loyalty, seems to be secretly fomenting mutinous thoughts towards returning and reclaiming Cybertron for their own purpose, yesss...
), so I can have a visual cue to use, especially if I can actually teach myself to draw inorganic characters. There are several that I want to include that either have too many toys to choose between or too few, which is where I'd like to get some feedback (for now).