Cybertronian Wildlife?

[Predabot]

Yes, this is something hardly ever mentioned or seen, but it does appear that even tho the Transformers are the dominant life-form on Cybertron, it has produced other forms of life as well.

The ones I know of are: Mecha-mosquitos, Turbo-rats, and Cybertrons very own micro-organisms: Scraplets.

How do you lads think these creatures fit in to the evolution of the TF? Atleast some of them appear to be able to transform, and might well then be some kind of prototypes Primus did prior to creating intelligent life, no?

Or could it be that they are not indigenous, but rather has migrated there? In the original idea for the TF, coming about from the natural evolution of a metal-world, they certainly fit into the plan, but alas as we all know, that's no longer the prime origin of the TF.

I suppose most of them are extinct tho, seeing as there's been a couple of million years of world war on that poor chard of a world..

[spiderfrommars]

There's also been mention of turbo foxes and petro rabbits.

Even though Primus intended Cybertron to be for the Transformers it could be that some regions of the planet had their own naturally evolving life forms.

[Impactor returns 2.0]

i wonder how there are so many of the same 'model' transformers.

Apart from a few seekers etc, there dont seem to be many TF models that are similar but then u have somthing like, scraplets where there are millions of them. - or were scraplets found in space, i forget.

I guess a similar race could be the quints, they have lots of the same model. Sharkticons etc...

I always wondered how different your average Decepticon and autobot was from one another, we only seem to see the top class models, I expect even bumblebee and wheelie are probably considered top-end TF back on cybertron, when judged against the normall TF model?

[Aaron Hong]

Don't forget Ravage, Laserbeak and their lot. And Sky Lynx, what's with him having a regular-TF intellect but being stuck in a beast mode?

[Guest]

i wonder how there are so many of the same 'model' transformers.

Apart from a few seekers etc, there dont seem to be many TF models that are similar but then u have somthing like, scraplets where there are millions of them. - or were scraplets found in space, i forget.

I guess a similar race could be the quints, they have lots of the same model. Sharkticons etc...

G2 budding might've been a from of cloning, or if you follow the cartoon, they were mass-produced.

always wondered how different your average Decepticon and autobot was from one another, we only seem to see the top class models, I expect even bumblebee and wheelie are probably considered top-end TF back on cybertron, when judged against the normall TF model?

Given that the lengthy war probably did a 'survival of the fittest' job on them, it's not really a mystery that below Bumblebee on the performance ladder would be empties like pre-spacebridge Spanner and not much in between.

Don't forget Ravage, Laserbeak and their lot. And Sky Lynx, what's with him having a regular-TF intellect but being stuck in a beast mode?

Maybe the anthropomorphic model just didn't appeal to him. Or maybe he decided the beast modes were better suited for whatever purpose he decided he'd give himself?

[Predabot]

He does seem to be a somewhat excentric individual that Lynx-lad, so it's possible that he just wanted to be diff, and maybe that's why he thinks he's so damn much better than everyone else... ( he does appear to be an incredible fighting-machine tho)

About the diff in TF-models, I think there are some baseline standards in their physionomy, like joints and transformation-cogs brain-modules, portions of the central circuitry-system and such. But that then they appear to have come up with the clever idea of designing all the new purely matrix-spawned bots for different purposes.

Alas, hence why they now have different standard forms than the bi-pedal humanoid-like form that the original TF all appear to have had.