[OOC] Transformers - One Shall Fall

[rocketrobie2]

One of you guys can post again, I'm just gonna have Sklog sulk in the corner for a little longer.

[Forsythe]

You cna still post filler =P Putting the old chassis on a pedestal, digging a cave isntead of a room? =D

[pyroman]

Now, time for a few more wanderers!

[Forsythe]

I could probably get away with Nightscrema listening in but meh, sudden autobot meltdowns are going to be more fun.

[pyroman]

So, obviously with techno-organic bots like Blackarachnia and Sklog, they have some sort of pain receptors due to their semi-organic nature, but I've always wondered about normal bots and such. I've always just thought of the metaphysical spark being able to somehow allow solid metals and stuff too feel using science-magic.

[ShiningSector]

So, obviously with techno-organic bots like Blackarachnia and Sklog, they have some sort of pain receptors due to their semi-organic nature, but I've always wondered about normal bots and such. I've always just thought of the metaphysical spark being able to somehow allow solid metals and stuff too feel using science-magic.

@pyroman

I don't think there has ever been an official explanation how Transformers "feel" so its best to roll with your own interpretation.

All we know is that they go "ow" like we do if they are damaged from an attack. We can feel pain because of our nervous system and the many nervous receptors (or in this case, nociceptors) that create and send impulses to our brains, informing us of what we are feeling and how severe it is.

I imagine most Transformers sharing a similar concept. However, it is evident that they clearly have incredible tolerance to the aftermath of any damage taken or they simply don't register much at all unless there is plenty of internal damage sustained that can critically effect how they function afterwards. I'm pretty sure most of us have seen more than one Transformer cartoon and seen a character not complaining (in pain) that their arm was blown off and sees damage as an unfortunate happenstance.

EDIT: I rather not get too involved with the Spark concept as there are many branching continuities that describe its overall involvement in different ways. The general gist I see is that the Spark is literally the physically manifestation of a Transformer's soul and a body cannot survive without it (though there are a few weird cases where that is not quite true to an extent).

EDIT 2: My grammar this evening sucks so badly, I've re-edited this post multiple times already.

[pyroman]

to be honest, I think that pain would be more a mental thing than anything else in regards to transformers. I remember specifically the team trainwreck comic posted on here where a little bot lost his legs or something like that, and considering that they don't seem to need their legs (or any real appendages for that matter) to function, visual stimuli would seem to be the best, if not the only way to tell if they were injured, unless, of course, the were hit in the chest or the head.

[ShiningSector]

to be honest, I think that pain would be more a mental thing than anything else in regards to transformers. I remember specifically the team trainwreck comic posted on here where a little bot lost his legs or something like that, and considering that they don't seem to need their legs (or any real appendages for that matter) to function, visual stimuli would seem to be the best, if not the only way to tell if they were injured, unless, of course, the were hit in the chest or the head.

@pyroman

Perhaps that is one method to verify damage. We can see that Tailgate (the little bot) also had internal readouts that also informed him what was going on as well. However in that scene, we only seen the aftermath of his accidental tumble that put him in that predicament. But with your later statement, yes, Transformers do not require their limbs to function so long as their head and most of their main body remains intact.

Also, here is Starscream blowing his foot off.

[Forsythe]

Regarding trypticon, I like the version where he was turned into the Nemesis.

[pyroman]

If it's cool with all of you, in this continuity, Trypticon was about This close to being turned into a massive, fully sentient, robot space station in the shape of godzilla, but in the decepticon's rush to follow the Arc to wherever it was going, it could not be completed in time for Megatron's christening. So, we have a massive, mostly functional (but inactive) devastating space station hanging above the planet.

[Forsythe]

OH, I could do THINGS with this, I am SO fine with it :D

[ShiningSector]

I think I may have started something...

I mentioned some backstory on Trypticon in my previous post but I did not anticipate what you had in mind for his role here so should I re-edit?

[pyroman]

@ShiningSectorYou can edit it if you want, or just go with a seam-filled retcon and roll with things, whichever you prefer.

[ShiningSector]

@pyroman

[pyroman]

[ShiningSector]

Nay! Lets be stupid!

EDIT: Will post later this evening.

[pyroman]

@ShiningSectorto this day, I still cannot believe that Weird Al's Dare to be stupid was in the first transformers movie. If that were me, I'd still be talking about this song and it's involvement in the movie until I'd die.

[Forsythe]

OK hold on, regarding Earth... If the exodus just happened, wouldn't that mean the year is about 198000 BC or how long were the transformers in stasis there? :D

[pyroman]

@ForsytheSpace bridges were only operational one way, and when the Autobots left, it was about then.

Currently, though, it is about the 1980's.

Edit: Our bots have been asleep (or working, in prism's case) for a long time

[ShiningSector]

@ShiningSectorto this day, I still cannot believe that Weird Al's Dare to be stupid was in the first transformers movie. If that were me, I'd still be talking about this song and it's involvement in the movie until I'd die.

@pyroman

The Transformers movie soundtrack is filled with artists from the time the movie was made. You had Lion doing the main theme and *squees* Stand Bush, well, being Stan Bush and others too. It was a pretty big though underdog-ish film at its time.