Post by Airazor on Apr 3, 2008 16:20:37 GMT -5
There is a video recording, accompanied by a transcription for those who don't want to sit through the video.
The video is merely a bust shot of Airazor, taken somewhere in the base from the looks of the background.
"The reality myself and my fellow Maximals hail from did once have Autobots and Decepticons. Aesthetically, our ancestors are a visible match for realities such as Perceptor's, Emirate Xaaron's, and Rodimus Prime's. There was a Great War, as well as an attack by Unicron. However, much of the information surrounding these times were classified by the Maximal Elders, so we cannot know which reality our history most closely resembles.
"At the time I was taken from, Cybertron had been in relative peace for three centuries. Autobots eventually became Maximals and Decepticons became the Predacons. A Predacon calling himself Megatron was not happy with the peace, and sought energy to restart the wars. This led to the conflict I participated in, called the Beast Wars. Rattrap would be a better source for information on the early part of the Beast Wars, as I was not online for it.
"Our team of Maximals was originally an exploration team, and the majority of the crew was carried in stasis pods, with just a skeleton crew to pilot the ship the Axalon. We ended up battling Megatron and his group, which caused both ships to crash-land on a then-unknown planet. Botanica has informed Rattrap and I that this planet is actually ancient Earth. When he realized the ship was going to crash, our captain Optimus Primal had all the stasis pods ejected into orbit around the planet. I come from one of these stasis pods. Mine later crashed on the planet, and I was brought online then.
"These organic-based alternate modes we sport are actually a technology only used by off-world teams, and can be quite useful. On ancient Earth there was a lot of unstable energon crystals. Enough to cause a strong enough radiation field that could send a normal Maximal into stasis lock within five cycles. Our beast modes protect us from the radiation, though we are still vulnerable in robot mode.
"Most of our fights with the Predacons are over energon or stasis pods. However, they aren't our only obstacle. The planet has many artifacts left over from an unknown alien race that were using the planet for some experiment. Many of these alien artifacts are dangerous. One such was a floating island that contained a powerful energy weapon. Another had been disguised as a second moon, and was meant to heat up all the unstable energon deposits and cause the planet to explode. When this was activated, we managed to blow it up instead before it could finish its job.
"The explosion of the alien machine sent out an unusual shockwave that ended up reformatting some of the members of both sides. These are known as transmetals. Their beast modes became metallic-based once more, and gained greater strength, armor, and a secondary means of transportation in beast mode.
"I left on a journey with one of the other Maximals at this point. There were several stasis pods in orbit when the planet-destroyer had exploded, and the shockwave had also knocked them out of orbit and out of contact with our ship. We had left to search for them, and had only minimal contact with home base.
"As I said before, Rattrap would be a better source for the start of the Beast Wars. Botanica knows more of what happened after the Beast Wars. Both would be a better source about Cybertron itself than I."
The video is merely a bust shot of Airazor, taken somewhere in the base from the looks of the background.
"The reality myself and my fellow Maximals hail from did once have Autobots and Decepticons. Aesthetically, our ancestors are a visible match for realities such as Perceptor's, Emirate Xaaron's, and Rodimus Prime's. There was a Great War, as well as an attack by Unicron. However, much of the information surrounding these times were classified by the Maximal Elders, so we cannot know which reality our history most closely resembles.
"At the time I was taken from, Cybertron had been in relative peace for three centuries. Autobots eventually became Maximals and Decepticons became the Predacons. A Predacon calling himself Megatron was not happy with the peace, and sought energy to restart the wars. This led to the conflict I participated in, called the Beast Wars. Rattrap would be a better source for information on the early part of the Beast Wars, as I was not online for it.
"Our team of Maximals was originally an exploration team, and the majority of the crew was carried in stasis pods, with just a skeleton crew to pilot the ship the Axalon. We ended up battling Megatron and his group, which caused both ships to crash-land on a then-unknown planet. Botanica has informed Rattrap and I that this planet is actually ancient Earth. When he realized the ship was going to crash, our captain Optimus Primal had all the stasis pods ejected into orbit around the planet. I come from one of these stasis pods. Mine later crashed on the planet, and I was brought online then.
"These organic-based alternate modes we sport are actually a technology only used by off-world teams, and can be quite useful. On ancient Earth there was a lot of unstable energon crystals. Enough to cause a strong enough radiation field that could send a normal Maximal into stasis lock within five cycles. Our beast modes protect us from the radiation, though we are still vulnerable in robot mode.
"Most of our fights with the Predacons are over energon or stasis pods. However, they aren't our only obstacle. The planet has many artifacts left over from an unknown alien race that were using the planet for some experiment. Many of these alien artifacts are dangerous. One such was a floating island that contained a powerful energy weapon. Another had been disguised as a second moon, and was meant to heat up all the unstable energon deposits and cause the planet to explode. When this was activated, we managed to blow it up instead before it could finish its job.
"The explosion of the alien machine sent out an unusual shockwave that ended up reformatting some of the members of both sides. These are known as transmetals. Their beast modes became metallic-based once more, and gained greater strength, armor, and a secondary means of transportation in beast mode.
"I left on a journey with one of the other Maximals at this point. There were several stasis pods in orbit when the planet-destroyer had exploded, and the shockwave had also knocked them out of orbit and out of contact with our ship. We had left to search for them, and had only minimal contact with home base.
"As I said before, Rattrap would be a better source for the start of the Beast Wars. Botanica knows more of what happened after the Beast Wars. Both would be a better source about Cybertron itself than I."