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Wow Autobot Beat that was very detailed. Where did you get these ideas and supporting facts? Because any one of those 3 theory would work and makes sense.

@Autobot Beat: I agree with DevilsLight with the theories you have about Cybertronain reproduction. Impressive too.

And I find it somewhat amusing of how much time you took to come up with the cybertronian version of the talk. No offense really, I just find it a little amusing yet impressive.

I'm not rly sure about reproduction.
There must be a sensitive subject dealing with reproduction or something???
It's a sensitive subject among some cultures and races...usually.
At one point, some bot out there must have gotten a smack in the face by a female bot because he made a sexual comment. lol.

go to lilformers

Realistically?

I see protoforms (empty shells) recieving a spark from Primus/The Allspark/Vector Sigma.

I like the idea of spark sharing, but it's mostly fanon speculation.

I think spark sharing can happen with any 'gender'. I prefer to think of transformers as genderless, truly autonomous; they just took on whatever voice/appearance suited them and their purposes best... the physical resemblances like 2 eyes, nose, etc was purposefully chosen to be able to better relate and communicate with humans. I think they're much less human looking then they let on and simply chose their human appearances. I very much doubt that robots would be human looking or take on a humanoid form for many other reasons...

There's a solid reason why decepticons are less human looking, simply because they chose not to 'soften up' in order to relate.

I also think family is more of an emotional bond between transformers. I think they can have a nuclear family ("mother", "father", "children") unit, but it's just not common. The upper class probably had the money and resources to pour into a couple of young over the years (think about how old cybertronian can get... raising a child could take hundreds of thousands of years and many expensive upgrades to adult form!) but the majority of cybertronians were sparked as adults on assembly lines. It would be a waste of resources to wait for the children to grow up, get schooling and become mature/useful to society when they could have them immediately intelligent and ready to contribute. They wouldn't age, so the fact they're already so old wouldn't matter at all.

Who knows, though? If a spark is your most basic 'soul', spark merging could be used to pass information and memories through a first person point of view in a totally unprecedented way; to get to the absolute truth if you think someone is lying to you. /cough/starscream/cough/ I think there's a whole multitude of uses outside of just sex... Imagine bearing yourself to someone, entirely and the kind of trust that would imply.

woah.

Random fact for you;;

Sigma is a math term. A 'sigma' is statistical term otherwise known as a standard deviation.

For example: if I were to produce 200,000 cars and I estimate that 35 of my cars were to get damaged on the production line, therefor, 190,965 would be the amount of cars that I would successfully produce.

A low sigma value (35 cars) indicates that the cars tend to be very close to the car I want, the ideal car, undamaged; whereas a high sigma (say... 535 of my cars were damaged) indicates that the cars are very poorly made.

=]

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I do understand that they are bipedal looking on their own. I just feel that it's almost... silly. They're like a parody of their weaker human counterparts, they look a like on a more then cosmetic level. They were mentioned to be genderless in movie 'verse, at least in the first one. I don't claim to understand, though. >_>

I mean, I have thought a bit about their anatomy; a spark, their most basic unit of life and sentience, a major pump and filter for energon, a major pump and filter for lubricant, a major pump and filter for coolant, all of which could be used as hydraulics, an intake valve for such energy, a central processing unit, memory files, their circuitry, some nanites to heal wounds and malfunctions.... they have very similar major organs and systems to humans, but they function on different energy sources. And don't age, obviously.

Notice I didn't mention engine? It's because they don't run on internal combustion, just energon. They could use the pumping motion of the pistons to push energon through them, mounted on either side of the engine, but none of the combustion. They're not stupid enough to set energon on fire. They would have something that looked, even pumped pistons like an engine, just not an actual functioning engine, like the ones in cars. I also think all the wires might be a bit of a give away, when it comes to functioning car anatomy. They would have a lot more, no where near the battery, then absolutely necessary in a car...

When I think about it, having a functioning car thats insides looked human and was a transformer is kind of... impossible.

Before someone says "They don't have nanites, it's not cannon!" (I'm sorry if it is cannon, but I just don't know) if they didn't, even a small wound could bleed them to death. I'm sure they could close off the valves to it (they have many and better, almost hyper awareness over their systems, far superior control to what a human would), but it would be practical to have something there to fix it so they woun't lose function of wherever they shut off power to. They would need medical attention even more then humans did and eventually grime would build up in the unmaintained parts and fill with bacteria. D: They're intensely complex, so even the smallest rupture or a gear misalignment would be disasterous without some internal repair and cleaning system.

Painful stuff.

...trypticon doing wat now??
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WHYYYYYYYY.

I understand its cannon that they're humanesque, it just seems kind of.... unlikely to me.

On the note about nanites, I totally understand the re-routing idea, but it doesn't really address the problem of bacteria and disease getting under their armor and into the oh-so-tiny gears/wires/what not. It would be like an immune system and repair system all at once. >>

I also think that gasoline wouldn't exist on Cybertron, simply because the largest known source of it here comes from the dead bodies of organics decomposing over millions of years under the earth's crust. We didn't make it, it simply was. They could synthesize it, sure, but it wouldn't be easy. For a population that large, it would take an incredible amount of hydrogen, carbon and oxygen. I very much doubt they have a lot of oxygen in their atmosphere, but they do have combustion which means they must have some. They could also synthesize oil, but again, it would be impractical as it too is made of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and a tad bit of sulfur. It would be very difficult to refine the process of making oil/gasoline because hydrogen, carbon and oxygen can form hundreds of different bonds, making a lot of waste when the "ideal" chemical bonds are not formed. On top of that, burning that much fuel of any kind is terrible for the atmosphere, changing weather patterns (they have water, carbon and hydrogen, they could have weather) and blocking out light/trapping heat.