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Universal stream

2018-03-13T21:15:39Z

Joshi:

[[Image:InvasionPrologue-Rhinox.jpg|right|thumb|300px|"Hey, let's call this new stream 'Phartz'."<br>"Heh heh. Cool."]]
'''Universal stream''' is the term used by the [[Transcendent Technomorph]]s to describe a specific point in time within the timeline of a single universe/dimension/reality inside the [[Multiverse]], with said point usually, but not always, denoting the universe's point of origin. The TransTech have cataloged over 15,962,782 universal streams (over 1,176,325 of which have "come to termination"), grouping [[continuity family|related universes]] into what are known as '''universal clusters''' and devising a classification system used to give each individual stream an alphanumeric designation.

{{quote|Ultimately, it is important to remember that these are just labels, of no particular import... [[List of universal streams|not worth devoting your mental energies to]].|[[Vector Prime]]|[[Ask Vector Prime#Facebook|Ask Vector Prime, 2015/08/26]]}}

==Universal clusters==
There are six "main" universal clusters:

[[Image:Autobots unite monument valley AOE.jpg|thumb|upright=2.5|IMPORTANT.]]

*'''[[Primax]]'''—the [[Generation 1 continuity family|Generation 1]] continuity family. Points of commonality between universal streams in this cluster involve the forces of [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] and [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] battling over the resources of [[Earth]]. It also includes the [[Beast Era]], a possible future which both factions evolve into the small and semi-organic [[Maximal]]s and [[Predacon (BW)|Predacons]].
*'''[[Viron]]'''—the [[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2001 franchise)|2001 ''Robots in Disguise'']] continuity family, a small cluster in which [[Optimus Prime (RID)|Optimus Prime]]'s Autobots combat [[Megatron (RID)|Megatron]]'s Predacons.
*'''[[Aurex]]'''—the [[Unicron Trilogy]] continuity family. In this cluster, the Autobots and Decepticons struggle over such power-boosting items as [[Mini-Con]]s and [[Cyber Planet Key]]s while also contending with the threat of [[Unicron]].
*'''[[Tyran]]'''—the [[live-action film series|live-action movie]] continuity family, a violent cluster in which the search for the lost [[AllSpark]] brings the Autobots and Decepticons to Earth, and humanity becomes heavily involved in the conflict.
*'''[[Malgus]]'''—the ''[[Transformers Animated (franchise)|Animated]]'' continuity family, a cluster in which the war has ended and Cybertron is at peace, and [[Optimus Prime (Animated)|Optimus Prime]]'s Autobots are superheroes on a near-future version of Earth.
*'''[[Uniend]]'''—the [[Aligned continuity family]], a cluster where Cybertron was poisoned by [[Dark Energon]] and left uninhabitable for a long time by [[Megatron (WFC)|Megatron]] in his war against [[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus Prime]]. Although previously ''separate'' from the rest of the multiverse, its quantum membrane was recently punctured by the passage of the [[Dark Spark]]. Later events in this cluster's streams involve [[Bumblebee (WFC)|Bumblebee]] taking command of a small team of Autobots to fight [[Steeljaw (RID)|Steeljaw]].

Other minor clusters include:

[[Image:DetentionEscape Optimus and Bumblebee.jpg|thumb|upright=1.5|NOT QUITE THAT IMPORTANT.]]

*'''[[Fornax]]'''—the ''[[Kre-O]]'' continuity family, home to modular brick-built Transformers.
*'''[[Iocus]]'''—a cluster essentially made up of overlapping aspects of ''other'' clusters, it is home to forgettable side-merchandise like ''[[Hero Mashers]]'', ''[[Bot Shots (franchise)|Bot Shots]]'', ''[[Construct-Bots]]'', ''[[Battle Masters]]'', and ''[[Attacktix]]'', populated by 'bots functionally indistinct from their counterparts elsewhere in the multiverse, giving the outward appearance of worlds in which characters from different universes exist side-by-side.
*'''[[Nexus]]'''—the technologically advanced cluster where the ''[[Transformers: TransTech|TransTech]]'' world of [[Axiom Nexus]] resides.
*'''[[Quadwal]]'''—the "real world", in which Transformers exist primarily as [[toy]]s.
*'''[[Yayayarst]]'''—the [[Go-Bots continuity family|Go-Bots]] continuity family, home to the [[Go-Bot (species)|Go-Bots]] of [[Botropolis]].

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Clusters in the farthest reaches of the multiverse only tenuously connected to the Transformers include:

[[Image:Cykillgobots.jpg|thumb|upright=0.7|WELL, ''WE'' LIKE IT.]]

*'''[[Cymond]]'''—the continuity family of various [[TakaraTomy]] non-''Transformers'' franchises, right on the border between the Multiverse and the wider [[Megaverse]].
*'''[[Gargent]]'''—the ''[[GoBots]]'' continuity family, home to the [[Guardian (GoBots)|Guardians]] and [[Renegade]]s of [[Gobotron]].
*'''[[Lukas]]'''—the ''[[Star Wars Transformers]]'' continuity family, where the [[Jedi]] battle the [[Sith]] using transforming mecha. This cluster is said to have "thin barriers" with realities from elsewhere in the [[Omniverse]].
*'''[[Rovio (universal cluster)|Rovio]]'''—the ''[[Angry Birds Transformers (mobile game)|Angry Birds Transformers]]'' continuity family, a cluster where the dimensionally-displaced [[AllSpark|"EggSpark"]] accidentally changed the natives of [[Piggy Island]] into the [[Autobird]]s and [[Deceptihog]]s.
*'''[[Xobitor]]'''—the ''[[Robotix]]'' continuity family, home to the [[Protecton]]s and [[Terrakor]]s of [[Skalorr]].

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==Deciphering the terminology==
{{see|List of universal streams}}
Each universal stream's name consists of three parts, beginning with the continuity family of origin, a number that indicates the "real world" date of creation, and a Greek letter that denotes the form of media. Supplied by writers [[Greg Sepelak]], [[Trent Troop]], and [[Jim Sorenson]], the list of Greek letters and the media to which they refer are:

*'''Alpha'''—animated series
*'''Beta'''—tech spec/toy/pack-in comic only ("box")
*'''Gamma'''—comic book series
*'''Delta'''—motion picture/live action
*'''Epsilon'''—club/convention fiction [[Image:Once upon a time grimlock canon.jpg|right|thumb|400px|Basically, you could classify this as a universe, [[Primax 490.07-G Gamma]] cos it's a comic that Grimlock drew in a comic from 7th April 1990. <br> <br>Someone will do it too.]]
*'''Zeta'''—text stories, storybooks, and other prose works (printed)
*'''Eta'''—radio/audiocentric universes, books on tape
*'''Theta'''—live performance/spoken word
*'''Iota'''—Internet-only information (not involved with club/convention)
*'''Kappa'''—games (video and otherwise)
*'''Lambda'''—covers, still images, and advertisements (there's [[IDW Publishing|so many]] Lambdas these days that Vector Prime stopped keeping track {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime#Facebook|Ask Vector Prime, 2015/06/07}})

So, for example, '''Primax 984.17 Alpha''' refers to the continuity of the [[The Transformers (cartoon)|original Generation 1 cartoon]], with '''"Primax"''' referring to the Generation 1 continuity family, '''"984.17"''' indicating the first episode's airdate of [[September 17]], [[1984]], and '''"Alpha"''' denoting an animated series. Using this information, we could, in theory, determine the names of yet-unnamed universes on our own—for example, the "[[Decepticon Dark Commander Grand Scourge]]" pack-in comic would be "Primax 915.0 Gamma".

Furthermore, a minus symbol at the beginning of a universal stream's number indicates that this particular reality is a '''negative polarity universe''', where the morals and personalities of most living beings (especially Cybertronians) are radically inverted. Thus far, at least eight negative polarity universes have been revealed, but [[Vector Prime]] has hinted at the existence of many more, with the caveat that they are not as common as '''positive polarity universes'''. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime#Facebook|Ask Vector Prime, 2015/05/14}} {{storylink|Epilogue Two}}

In the case of sources that identical streams of multiple universes could be connected to (such as story collections and anthologies, multiple versions of a video game, or comic book cover variants) a one or two-letter suffix is added to the number to indicate the actual source material. For example, from the ''[[Transformers Legends (book)|Transformers Legends]]'' anthology, [[Aurex 1104.30-DB Zeta]] is the "[[Lonesome Diesel]]" short story by [[David Bischoff]], while [[Aurex 1104.30-JH Zeta]] is the "[[Fire in the Dark]]" short story by [[John Helfers]].

==Alternate terminology==
While the TransTech use this system, people within the clusters often do not. They may use other terms or none at all:

*The GoBots of several Gargent realities, such as [[Gargent 984.08 Alpha]], refer to an alternate reality as a "Level", as depicted in the ''Challenge of the GoBots'' cartoon and later ''Transformers''-[[canon]]ized by [[Ask Vector Prime#Renegade Rhetoric|Renegade Rhetoric]]. Unlike a "stream", a "level" can refer to a main universe's entire timeline in addition to all of its splinter timelines. The GoBots' home universe is the 1st level while the dread reality ruled by Queen [[Exor]]'s [[Insectoid]]s is the 21st level. [[Primax 984.0 Gamma]], as well as its splinter [[Primax 207.0 Epsilon]], is dubbed the 22nd level in "[[Withered Hope]]", and one or more [[Viron]] realities is dubbed the 44th level in "[[Echoes and Fragments]]". Other GoBot-populated realities or reality systems include the 8th, 13th, 17th, 19th, 25th, 28th, 30th, 33rd, and 52nd levels.
*The [[Alternity]] previously used the term "World" and the Transformers of [[Cloud World]] (Primax 514.29 Gamma) do. They thus dub Primax 903.0 Beta as [[BT World]], Primax 785.06 Alpha as [[OG World]], Aurex 103.10 Alpha as [[Aurex 103.10 Alpha|MD World]], Malgus 1207.26 Alpha as [[Malgus 1207.26 Alpha|TH World]], Primax 1005.19 Gamma as [[Primax 1005.19 Gamma|Crest World]], Uniend 911.05 Alpha as [[Uniend 911.05 Alpha|AM World]], Primax 1086.01 Alpha as [[Primax 1086.01 Alpha|CS World]], and one odd one as [[Flatworld]].
*The Autobots of [[Primax 085.0 Eta]] call universal streams "Strata", with [[Gargent 087.0 Kappa]] called Strata 22 in "Ask Vector Prime".
*The Quintessons call the universe of [[Menonia]], Menonia, as that's what the locals call it.
*Various dimensions aren't counted under this terminology and are given more descriptive names by their discoverers: "the [[X-Dimension]]", "[[limbo]]", "the [[Dead Universe]]", and the extremely descriptive "[[Alpha Q's universe]]" among others.

==How many streams?==
The size of the multiverse is vast and unknown. While the TransTech have records of just shy of sixteen million universes, there are certainly many more. When the Autobots of universal stream [[Aurex 402.24 Gamma]] began scanning alternate realities when their [[Optimus Prime (Armada)|Optimus Prime]] became lost in the multiverse, they worked through 75,890,007 realities in addition to their own before locating him. {{storylink|Worlds Collide, Part 4 of 4}} Dimensional traveller [[Bug Bite (GoBots)|Bug Bite]] from [[Gargent 984.08 Alpha]], meanwhile, has claimed that there are over fifteen quadrillion concurrent realities, {{storylink|Games of Deception}} though [[Vector Prime]] has stated that this figure includes the entire [[Omniverse]]. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime#Facebook|Ask Vector Prime, 2015/05/21}}

==<s>Don't</s> Cross the Streams==
[[File:WarToEndAllWars5-HotRodimusPrimesAnswer.jpg|thumb|left|350px|"Haw, that guy up there said ''farts''!"]]

Spatial-temporal powers like the TransTech, the Alternity and [[Planicron|Flaternity]], and the Transformers of Cloud World could hop reality willy-nilly, and [[Unicron]] has been known to move to new universes after he devours or is driven from one. [[Primus]] and Unicron can pluck you out of your reality and put you in another, and "[[Rhythms of Darkness!]]", "[[Worlds Collide, Part 1 of 4|Worlds Collide]]", and the [[Universe War]] all involve one or both sending agents to another reality.

For most of the multiverse, however, crossing from one universe to the other is bloody hard. Many never make contact with another universe and those that do, may only do so temporarily and in circumstances hard to replicate. There does exist dedicated technology to link one world and a specific other, as the Quintessons used with Menonia.

In late 2015 Quadwal time, interdimensional travel and communication, even to the hyper technologically-advanced TransTech, was rendered nigh-impossible as a result of [[Out of the One, Many|a cosmic event]].

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==Major streams==
[[File:Master builders prime basketball.jpg|upright=1.2|thumb|The most important and iconic stream of them all.]]

Nearly two hundred streams have been named, over half of which are Primax realities. Among all of the known universes, however, there are nine known "pillar" realities, a set of universes that can be thought of as "foundational", with unusually high amounts of branching points and quantum echos. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime#Facebook|Ask Vector Prime, 2015/11/01}} The origin streams for these nine universes are:

*[[Primax 984.0 Gamma]]—the [[The Transformers (Marvel comic)|U.S. Marvel ''The Transformers'' comic]].
*[[Primax 984.17 Alpha]]—[[The Transformers (cartoon)|''The Transformers'' cartoon]].
*[[Primax 496.22 Alpha]]—the ''[[Beast Wars: Transformers (cartoon)|Beast Wars]]''/''[[Beast Machines: Transformers (cartoon)|Beast Machines]]'' cartoons.
*[[Viron 901.8 Alpha]]—the 2001 ''[[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2001 cartoon)|Robots in Disguise]]'' cartoon.
*[[Aurex 802.23 Alpha]]—the ''[[Transformers: Armada (cartoon)|Armada]]/[[Transformers: Energon (cartoon)|Energon]]/[[Transformers: Cybertron (cartoon)|Cybertron]]'' cartoons.
*[[Primax 1005.19 Gamma]]—the [[IDW Generation 1 continuity|IDW Generation 1 comics]]/[[Hasbro Universe]].
*[[Tyran 707.04 Delta]]—the [[Transformers (film)|live-action ''Transformers'' films]].
*[[Malgus 1207.26 Alpha]]—the [[Transformers Animated (cartoon)|''Animated'']] cartoon continuity.
*[[Uniend 911.05 Alpha]]—the ''[[Transformers: Prime (cartoon)|Prime]]''/''[[Transformers: Rescue Bots (cartoon)|Rescue Bots]]''/''[[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015 cartoon)|Robots in Disguise]]'' cartoon continuity.

==See also==
*[[List of universal streams]]
*[[Multiverse]]
*[[Megaverse]]
*[[Omniverse]]

==Notes==
Cor, all that's really complicated isn't it! This is down to it originally being a joke on how fragmented the multiverse was back in 2008 (it only got worse!) and to make the TransTech seem more detached and alien. [[Greg Sepelak|Greg "M Sipher" Sepalak]], co-creator of the format, specified that the TransTech gave the universes "techy, unintuitive-sounding terms... since they're really just points of data to them (rather like the naming of exoplanets or individual asteroids and etc) rather than ongoing stories about characters."<ref>[https://www.allspark.com/forums/topic/101932-tfwikinet-thread-30/?p=3411810 The Allspark Forums, 2nd January 2016]</ref>

==References==
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Elite Guard

2009-04-25T23:54:54Z

Joshi:

{{disambig2|the Autobot military team|the episode featuring them|The Elite Guard}}
:''The Cybertron Elite Guard is a distinguished team of Autobots in the [[Animated]] and [[Generation 1]] [[Continuity family|continuity families]]. It is also known as the Autobot Elite Guard.''

[[Image:Cyb Elite Guard Badge.png|right|300px]]

The Cybertron '''Elite Guard''' is the pinnacle of the [[Autobot]] military force, reserved for only the most distinguished graduates of the [[Autobot Academy]]. Its members are specialists, masters in their fields, and the unit is only called upon in the most dire of situations. It reports directly to the [[Supreme Commander]] of the Autobots. It also engages in some pretty shady business from time to time, to experimenting on [[Jetfire (Animated)|other]] [[Jetstorm (Animated)|Autobots]], create [[Omega Supreme (Animated)|weapons of mass destruction]], all the way to hiring [[Lockdown|unscrupulous bounty hunters]].

==Fiction==
===''Animated'' cartoon===
[[Image:Eliteguardleaveshuttle.jpg|right|250px|thumb|The Mighty Thor, Black Panther, and the Tick pretending to be Captain America.]]

The Elite Guard served under the direct command of [[Ultra Magnus (Animated)|Ultra Magnus]]. The term "Prime" designated an officer's rank within the Elite Guard, while "Magnus" was used for the rank of the Elite Guard commander.

====Members====
*[[Ultra Magnus (Animated)|Ultra Magnus]] (Supreme Commander)
*[[Jazz (Animated)|Jazz]]
*[[Blurr (Animated)|Blurr]] (Member of [[Cybertron Intelligence]])
*[[Sentinel Prime (Animated)|Sentinel Prime]]
*[[Jetfire (Animated)|Jetfire]]
*[[Jetstorm (Animated)|Jetstorm]]
*[[Safeguard (Animated)|Safeguard]] (Combined form of Jetstorm and Jetfire)
*[[Warpath (Animated)|Warpath]]

====Former Members====
*[[Optimus Prime (Animated)|Optimus Prime]] - Demoted to [[space bridge]] repair.
*[[Shockwave (Animated)|Longarm Prime]] - Promoted away from active duty.

[[Optimus Prime (Animated)|Optimus Prime]] somehow left/was kicked out of the Guard for reasons unknown. He was then reassigned to space bridge repair duty.

Bumblebee and Bulkhead also registered to join the Guard. After Bumblebee and Bulkhead accidentally destroyed part of a simulated battlezone and injured their drill sergeant [[Sentinel Prime (Animated)|Sentinel Minor]], they were both given the boot and reassigned to space bridge repair duty. {{storylink|Autoboot Camp|Autoboot Camp}}

After seeing [[Optimus Prime (Animated)|Optimus Prime]] save them from an incident on the asteroid they were working on, [[Bumblebee (Animated)|Bumblebee]] commented that with moves like that, Prime should have gone into the Cybertron Elite Guard. Gee, way to rub salt in the wound, there, Bumblebee... {{storylink|Transform and Roll Out!|Transform and Roll Out!}}

Shortly after the battle with [[Megatron (Animated)|Megatron]], the Elite Guard arrived to retrieve the [[AllSpark (Animated)|AllSpark]]. (Great timing, guys.) Upon learning that the AllSpark had been dispersed, [[Ultra Magnus (Animated)|Ultra Magnus]] confined Optimus Prime's crew to the Elite Guard's ship while he, [[Sentinel Prime (Animated)|Sentinel Prime]], and Optimus Prime went to investigate [[Autobot ship (Animated)|Optimus' vessel]], where the battle had taken place. When trouble at a [[Sumdac Systems]] manufacturing plant was detected, the Autobots and Elite Guard managed to hold off the malfunctioning police drones being made there long enough to allow Optimus, [[Prowl (Animated)|Prowl]], and [[Jazz (Animated)|Jazz]] to get [[Sari Sumdac]] to the assembly line and shut it down. {{storylink|The Elite Guard|The Elite Guard}}

After an extended period with no evidence of a Decepticon presence on Earth, Magnus was prepared to gather up the Autobots and ship out back to Cybertron. He urged Optimus to testify as to his experiences on Earth to calm the general fears of Megatron still being alive. When he protested that Megatron ''was'' still alive and that he'd be falsifying evidence, Sentinel angrily stated that nobody was asking him to lie, just to agree with his (in his humble opinion quite excellent) scans showing there were no Decepticons on earth. Besides, Sentinel cajoled, if he smoothed things over with Cybertron Command Optimus might just be able to be reinstated into the Elite Guard. {{storylink|Mission Accomplished|Mission Accomplished}}

[[Blurr (Animated)|Blurr]] was left on Earth to try and find the Decepticon base and keep an eye on Optimus's crew. However, [[Master Disaster]], with the help of an AllSpark-powered remote control, forced Blurr to do his bidding until Sari stole the remote from him. {{storylink|A Bridge Too Close, Part II|A Bridge Too Close, Part II}} {{storylink|Velocity|Velocity}}

''The Elite Guard oversaw the extraction of flight technology from Starscream to create [[Jetfire (Animated)|Jetfire]] and [[Jetstorm (Animated)|Jetstorm]], who managed to join the ranks of the Elite Guard in record time. {{storylink|Rise of Safeguard|Rise of Safeguard}}''

===Generation 1===
====Members====
*[[Thunder Clash]]
*[[Kup (G1)|Kup]]
*[[Landshark]]
*[[Flak]]

{{comingsoon}}

==Notes==
* Despite [[Shockwave (Animated)|Shockwave]]'s on-package [[bio]] saying that, as Longarm, he rose through the ranks of the Elite Guard to reach his current position, [[Derrick Wyatt]] has informed the wiki that Longarm is not actually a member of the group in the cartoon. This is borne out by the fact that Longarm lacks the Elite Guard's winged Autobot symbol.

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