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robot satan ([personal profile] robotsatan) wrote in [community profile] robothell2014-12-19 11:20 pm

[ INTRO LOG ]

You don't know how you got here. One minute you were walking, sleeping, maybe dead -- then you're here, your feet suddenly carrying you down an empty street. Where's here?

Any Cybertronian would recognize this as their home planet, Cybertron, but it's not a Cybertron they've ever known. It has all the familiar hallmarks, but none of the specifics -- the city isn't one anyone here could identify, and even at a glance it's obvious that no one's set foot on the planet's surface in hundreds of years. The city and its surrounding areas all bear the marks of devastating war, of dust and rust collected over centuries. With no one in sight -- right at first, anyway -- there's plenty to explore. In fact, if you start walking, you'll find that your feet may just carry you in one particular direction.

A) The crater.
On one edge of the city is a massive crater left by some wartime weapon that seems to have taken out a large chunk of the surrounding metropolitan area. At the center of the crater it's broken through the surface of the terrain to reveal what looks like it might be a promising energon deposit. There is some strange but native vegetation growing around the edges, too, that no Cybertronian would be able to identify -- small, metallic, brittle-looking sprouts that bear a curiously organic-looking fruit of some kind that doesn't look like it's intended for consumption by any natives of the planet. In one rocky nook of the crater, light catches on the surface of a pool of water, which seems strangely out of place on Cybertron. On closer inspection, it seems that somehow an underground water source has formed a spring in the crater.

B) The center of the city.
If you follow where your feet seem to want to carry you, you'll find yourself in the middle of the ruined city. It seems that the center of the city was once home to a massive forum, and some of the pillars and structures still stand. At the very center of the forum is a massive, elaborately constructed fountain, although it has now long since run dry of whatever used to fill it. One of the low, inner walls of the forum has a terminal embedded in its surface, although it looks curiously ancient, out of place with the rest of the city, and unlike the rest of the technology still left around, there doesn't seem to be any way to power it on or operate it. There are a few scattered pools of water and a few of the strange metallic plants in the city, too, but they're not quite as plentiful as in the crater.

The planet was obviously once home to a massive network of communication relays, but those have all been long since destroyed. However, with the bits and pieces left behind and a few determined minds, it wouldn't be too hard to build a working, if rudimentary, one...

[personal profile] d_17nolonger 2015-03-12 04:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Interesting. He'll make a note to ask more about Rodimus' world later; this whole concept is really interesting. Plus it might give more insight into this war. "I wasn't given a name when I was sparked, so I chose it for myself. I thought it was fitting."
rodders: <user name=brodinsons> (DEBATING BAD LIFE CHOICE #6239)

[personal profile] rodders 2015-03-13 03:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Do you know what all the world building in IDW comics has failed to completely and utterly failed to address? How people get their names. But because the universe where Rodimus did not name himself Hot Rod is not a universe worth living in, we're gonna go with something like that.

"Neither was I, but no one is going to name themselves after any of the Guiding Hand." He just shrugs - he's never really bothered to ask himself where Megatron got his name from - he just assumed it was one of those things that always was like that.

[personal profile] d_17nolonger 2015-03-24 02:53 am (UTC)(link)
"Being nameless on my Cybertron meant you were nothing. Disposable. Besides, it got attention." Megatronus pauses; Rodimus probably doesn't care much about his personal story, given the Megatron that he knows, so perhaps now is a good opportunity to change the subject and learn more. "The Guiding Hand?"
rodders: <user name=brodinsons> (AWWW YEAH)

[personal profile] rodders 2015-03-28 10:12 pm (UTC)(link)
"Yeah. Primus, Mortilus, that lot. Cyclonus can probably tell you more, him or Drift I guess."

He's not the most religious bot around, so he doesn't know much. Also no one told him about any form of Cybertronian religion when he was running around on Cybertron, so he doesn't even know from exposure.