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	==Fiction==		==Fiction==
	===2005 IDW continuity===		===2005 IDW continuity===
	When [[Brainstorm (G1)/2005 IDW continuity\|Brainstorm]] created a [[Time case\|time machine]] to change history by preventing [[Megatron (G1)/2005 IDW continuity\|Megatron]] from ever coming to lead the [[Decepticon]]s in the first place, [[Hot Rod (G1)/2005 IDW continuity\|Rodimus]], Megatron and Perceptor gathered a team to follow him back in time to stop him. They arrived in [[Alyon]], four million years in the past, where [[Optimus Prime (G1)/2005 IDW continuity\|Orion Pax]] and his gang of rebels were defending a [[hot spot]] from the [[Senate]]'s forces and while Rodimus was distracted by the sudden appearance of [[Trailbreaker (G1)\|Trailbreaker]], Pax found the ringing time phone. On the other end was present-day Megatron, and the two had a conversation regarding Megatron's conflicting loyalties. After they saved the sparks from the hot spot, {{storylink\|Elegant Chaos Part 1: All Our Parlous Yesterdays\|All Our Parlous Yesterdays}} the group of [[time travel]]lers pursued Brainstorm further back, to [[Maccadam's Old Oil House\|Maccadam's New Oil House]] and then, after consulting with Perceptor and [[Ultra Magnus (G1)/2005 IDW continuity\|Ultra Magnus]] via the time phone, to the same place but earlier in 4th Cycle 499, where [[Rung (G1)\|Rung]] accidentally started a fight over a [[curly straw]] that got Megatron wrongly arrested. In the present day, Megatron worked out Brainstorm's plan {{storylink\|Elegant Chaos Part 2: Stet\|Stet}} and so the team were sent back to five million years ago in [[Con Facility 113]], the time and place of Megatron's construction. After disarming Brainstorm and talking him down, Perceptor told Rodimus that their mission wasn't over and that time was still being rewritten, because to everyone's surprise [[Rewind (G1)/2005 IDW continuity\|Rewind]] stepped up and killed the nascent Megatron instead.		When [[Brainstorm (G1)/2005 IDW continuity\|Brainstorm]] created a [[Time case\|time machine]] to change history by preventing [[Megatron (G1)/2005 IDW continuity\|Megatron]] from ever coming to lead the [[Decepticon]]s in the first place, [[Hot Rod (G1)/2005 IDW continuity\|Rodimus]], Megatron and Perceptor gathered a team to follow him back in time to stop him. They arrived in [[Alyon]], four million years in the past, where [[Optimus Prime (G1)/2005 IDW continuity\|Orion Pax]] and his gang of rebels were defending a [[hot spot (phenomenon)\|hot spot]] from the [[Senate]]'s forces and while Rodimus was distracted by the sudden appearance of [[Trailbreaker (G1)\|Trailbreaker]], Pax found the ringing time phone. On the other end was present-day Megatron, and the two had a conversation regarding Megatron's conflicting loyalties. After they saved the sparks from the hot spot, {{storylink\|Elegant Chaos Part 1: All Our Parlous Yesterdays\|All Our Parlous Yesterdays}} the group of [[time travel]]lers pursued Brainstorm further back, to [[Maccadam's Old Oil House\|Maccadam's New Oil House]] and then, after consulting with Perceptor and [[Ultra Magnus (G1)/2005 IDW continuity\|Ultra Magnus]] via the time phone, to the same place but earlier in 4th Cycle 499, where [[Rung (G1)\|Rung]] accidentally started a fight over a [[curly straw]] that got Megatron wrongly arrested. In the present day, Megatron worked out Brainstorm's plan {{storylink\|Elegant Chaos Part 2: Stet\|Stet}} and so the team were sent back to five million years ago in [[Con Facility 113]], the time and place of Megatron's construction. After disarming Brainstorm and talking him down, Perceptor told Rodimus that their mission wasn't over and that time was still being rewritten, because to everyone's surprise [[Rewind (G1)/2005 IDW continuity\|Rewind]] stepped up and killed the nascent Megatron instead.

	[[File:Time phone predestination an experts guide.jpg\|thumb\|left\|upright=1.7]]		[[File:Time phone predestination an experts guide.jpg\|thumb\|left\|upright=1.7]]

Saix at 20:04, 3 May 2019

2019-05-03T20:04:43Z

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	~~:''The time phone is a device from the [[2005 IDW continuity\|IDW portion]] of the [[Generation 1 continuity family]].''~~
	[[File:Time phone all our parlous yesterdays.jpg\|thumb\|upright=1.6]]		[[File:Time phone all our parlous yesterdays.jpg\|thumb\|upright=1.6]]
	The '''time phone''' is a way of communicating between different time periods, devised by [[Perceptor (G1)/2005 IDW continuity\|Perceptor]] aboard the ''[[Lost Light]]''.		The '''time phone''' is a way of communicating between different time periods, devised by [[Perceptor (G1)/2005 IDW continuity\|Perceptor]] aboard the ''[[Lost Light]]''.
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	Fortunately, Perceptor called Rodimus to tell him that they had a plan, teleporting him and Cyclonus to [[Unitrex]] where they were able to "invent" quantum engines in the past, charging their time case and inadvertently transporting the ''[[Lost Light\|Unitrex-1]]'' some way into the future. Having decided that the timeline was now safe, Rodimus told Perceptor to bring them all back to the present. {{storylink\|Elegant Chaos Part 3: Predestination: An Expert's Guide\|Predestination: An Expert's Guide}}		Fortunately, Perceptor called Rodimus to tell him that they had a plan, teleporting him and Cyclonus to [[Unitrex]] where they were able to "invent" quantum engines in the past, charging their time case and inadvertently transporting the ''[[Lost Light\|Unitrex-1]]'' some way into the future. Having decided that the timeline was now safe, Rodimus told Perceptor to bring them all back to the present. {{storylink\|Elegant Chaos Part 3: Predestination: An Expert's Guide\|Predestination: An Expert's Guide}}

	[[Category:IDW ~~Generation 1~~ technology]]		[[Category:IDW (2005) technology]]

Locoman: replaced: IDW Generation 1 continuity → 2005 IDW continuity (11)

2019-04-07T00:37:46Z

replaced: IDW Generation 1 continuity → 2005 IDW continuity (11)

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	:''The time phone is a device from the [[IDW ~~Generation 1~~ continuity\|IDW portion]] of the [[Generation 1 continuity family]].''		:''The time phone is a device from the [[2005 IDW continuity\|IDW portion]] of the [[Generation 1 continuity family]].''
	[[File:Time phone all our parlous yesterdays.jpg\|thumb\|upright=1.6]]		[[File:Time phone all our parlous yesterdays.jpg\|thumb\|upright=1.6]]
	The '''time phone''' is a way of communicating between different time periods, devised by [[Perceptor (G1)/IDW ~~Generation 1~~ continuity\|Perceptor]] aboard the ''[[Lost Light]]''.		The '''time phone''' is a way of communicating between different time periods, devised by [[Perceptor (G1)/2005 IDW continuity\|Perceptor]] aboard the ''[[Lost Light]]''.

	==Fiction==		==Fiction==
	===IDW ~~Generation 1~~ continuity===		===2005 IDW continuity===
	When [[Brainstorm (G1)/IDW ~~Generation 1~~ continuity\|Brainstorm]] created a [[Time case\|time machine]] to change history by preventing [[Megatron (G1)/IDW ~~Generation 1~~ continuity\|Megatron]] from ever coming to lead the [[Decepticon]]s in the first place, [[Hot Rod (G1)/IDW ~~Generation 1~~ continuity\|Rodimus]], Megatron and Perceptor gathered a team to follow him back in time to stop him. They arrived in [[Alyon]], four million years in the past, where [[Optimus Prime (G1)/IDW ~~Generation 1~~ continuity\|Orion Pax]] and his gang of rebels were defending a [[hot spot]] from the [[Senate]]'s forces and while Rodimus was distracted by the sudden appearance of [[Trailbreaker (G1)\|Trailbreaker]], Pax found the ringing time phone. On the other end was present-day Megatron, and the two had a conversation regarding Megatron's conflicting loyalties. After they saved the sparks from the hot spot, {{storylink\|Elegant Chaos Part 1: All Our Parlous Yesterdays\|All Our Parlous Yesterdays}} the group of [[time travel]]lers pursued Brainstorm further back, to [[Maccadam's Old Oil House\|Maccadam's New Oil House]] and then, after consulting with Perceptor and [[Ultra Magnus (G1)/IDW ~~Generation 1~~ continuity\|Ultra Magnus]] via the time phone, to the same place but earlier in 4th Cycle 499, where [[Rung (G1)\|Rung]] accidentally started a fight over a [[curly straw]] that got Megatron wrongly arrested. In the present day, Megatron worked out Brainstorm's plan {{storylink\|Elegant Chaos Part 2: Stet\|Stet}} and so the team were sent back to five million years ago in [[Con Facility 113]], the time and place of Megatron's construction. After disarming Brainstorm and talking him down, Perceptor told Rodimus that their mission wasn't over and that time was still being rewritten, because to everyone's surprise [[Rewind (G1)/IDW ~~Generation 1~~ continuity\|Rewind]] stepped up and killed the nascent Megatron instead.		When [[Brainstorm (G1)/2005 IDW continuity\|Brainstorm]] created a [[Time case\|time machine]] to change history by preventing [[Megatron (G1)/2005 IDW continuity\|Megatron]] from ever coming to lead the [[Decepticon]]s in the first place, [[Hot Rod (G1)/2005 IDW continuity\|Rodimus]], Megatron and Perceptor gathered a team to follow him back in time to stop him. They arrived in [[Alyon]], four million years in the past, where [[Optimus Prime (G1)/2005 IDW continuity\|Orion Pax]] and his gang of rebels were defending a [[hot spot]] from the [[Senate]]'s forces and while Rodimus was distracted by the sudden appearance of [[Trailbreaker (G1)\|Trailbreaker]], Pax found the ringing time phone. On the other end was present-day Megatron, and the two had a conversation regarding Megatron's conflicting loyalties. After they saved the sparks from the hot spot, {{storylink\|Elegant Chaos Part 1: All Our Parlous Yesterdays\|All Our Parlous Yesterdays}} the group of [[time travel]]lers pursued Brainstorm further back, to [[Maccadam's Old Oil House\|Maccadam's New Oil House]] and then, after consulting with Perceptor and [[Ultra Magnus (G1)/2005 IDW continuity\|Ultra Magnus]] via the time phone, to the same place but earlier in 4th Cycle 499, where [[Rung (G1)\|Rung]] accidentally started a fight over a [[curly straw]] that got Megatron wrongly arrested. In the present day, Megatron worked out Brainstorm's plan {{storylink\|Elegant Chaos Part 2: Stet\|Stet}} and so the team were sent back to five million years ago in [[Con Facility 113]], the time and place of Megatron's construction. After disarming Brainstorm and talking him down, Perceptor told Rodimus that their mission wasn't over and that time was still being rewritten, because to everyone's surprise [[Rewind (G1)/2005 IDW continuity\|Rewind]] stepped up and killed the nascent Megatron instead.

	[[File:Time phone predestination an experts guide.jpg\|thumb\|left\|upright=1.7]]		[[File:Time phone predestination an experts guide.jpg\|thumb\|left\|upright=1.7]]
	Rewind justified his actions by revealing that in the new timeline the [[galaxy]] at large was spared the brunt of the [[Great War (G1)\|Transformers' war]] with present-day Megatron listening over the time phone. However, [[Whirl (G1)\|Whirl]] refused to accept letting the [[Functionist Council\|Functionists]] win and stole Brainstorm's spare [[Point One Percenter]] [[spark]] from [[Moonbase One\|Luna 1]] to revive Megatron. Ultra Magnus called from the present day to let them know that this action had preserved their existing timeline, but that they were stuck in the past because the ''Lost Light''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s [[Quantum generator\|quantum engines]] were out of power. Faced with this bleak scenario, [[Tailgate (G1)\|Tailgate]] came up with a plan—to use the time phone to call [[Cybertron (planet)\|Cybertron]] on the day of the ''Lost Light''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s launch and convince themselves not to follow the same path. After Rodimus, Rung, [[Chromedome (G1)/IDW ~~Generation 1~~ continuity\|Chromedome]] and [[Riptide (G1)\|Riptide]] all chipped in with advice to their past selves, [[Cyclonus (G1)/IDW ~~Generation 1~~ continuity\|Cyclonus]] sneered at them, pointing out that even if their message got through, they would have undone all the good works they had achieved on their mission and Tailgate would have died of [[cybercrosis]]. {{storylink\|Elegant Chaos Part 3: Predestination: An Expert's Guide\|Predestination: An Expert's Guide}} The call did reach Cybertron but just too late, after the ''Lost Light''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s apparent destruction on launch, and in a fragmented form that omitted the most important information anyway. {{storylink\|Liars, A to D Part 1: How to Say Goodbye and Mean It\|How to Say Goodbye and Mean It}}		Rewind justified his actions by revealing that in the new timeline the [[galaxy]] at large was spared the brunt of the [[Great War (G1)\|Transformers' war]] with present-day Megatron listening over the time phone. However, [[Whirl (G1)\|Whirl]] refused to accept letting the [[Functionist Council\|Functionists]] win and stole Brainstorm's spare [[Point One Percenter]] [[spark]] from [[Moonbase One\|Luna 1]] to revive Megatron. Ultra Magnus called from the present day to let them know that this action had preserved their existing timeline, but that they were stuck in the past because the ''Lost Light''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s [[Quantum generator\|quantum engines]] were out of power. Faced with this bleak scenario, [[Tailgate (G1)\|Tailgate]] came up with a plan—to use the time phone to call [[Cybertron (planet)\|Cybertron]] on the day of the ''Lost Light''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s launch and convince themselves not to follow the same path. After Rodimus, Rung, [[Chromedome (G1)/2005 IDW continuity\|Chromedome]] and [[Riptide (G1)\|Riptide]] all chipped in with advice to their past selves, [[Cyclonus (G1)/2005 IDW continuity\|Cyclonus]] sneered at them, pointing out that even if their message got through, they would have undone all the good works they had achieved on their mission and Tailgate would have died of [[cybercrosis]]. {{storylink\|Elegant Chaos Part 3: Predestination: An Expert's Guide\|Predestination: An Expert's Guide}} The call did reach Cybertron but just too late, after the ''Lost Light''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s apparent destruction on launch, and in a fragmented form that omitted the most important information anyway. {{storylink\|Liars, A to D Part 1: How to Say Goodbye and Mean It\|How to Say Goodbye and Mean It}}

	Fortunately, Perceptor called Rodimus to tell him that they had a plan, teleporting him and Cyclonus to [[Unitrex]] where they were able to "invent" quantum engines in the past, charging their time case and inadvertently transporting the ''[[Lost Light\|Unitrex-1]]'' some way into the future. Having decided that the timeline was now safe, Rodimus told Perceptor to bring them all back to the present. {{storylink\|Elegant Chaos Part 3: Predestination: An Expert's Guide\|Predestination: An Expert's Guide}}		Fortunately, Perceptor called Rodimus to tell him that they had a plan, teleporting him and Cyclonus to [[Unitrex]] where they were able to "invent" quantum engines in the past, charging their time case and inadvertently transporting the ''[[Lost Light\|Unitrex-1]]'' some way into the future. Having decided that the timeline was now safe, Rodimus told Perceptor to bring them all back to the present. {{storylink\|Elegant Chaos Part 3: Predestination: An Expert's Guide\|Predestination: An Expert's Guide}}

	[[Category:IDW Generation 1 technology]]		[[Category:IDW Generation 1 technology]]

Emvee at 09:45, 9 September 2017

2017-09-09T09:45:42Z

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	==Fiction==		==Fiction==
	===IDW Generation 1 continuity===		===IDW Generation 1 continuity===
	When [[Brainstorm (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity\|Brainstorm]] created a [[Time case\|time machine]] to change history by preventing [[Megatron (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity\|Megatron]] from ever coming to lead the [[Decepticon]]s in the first place, [[Hot Rod/IDW Generation 1 continuity\|Rodimus]], Megatron and Perceptor gathered a team to follow him back in time to stop him. They arrived in [[Alyon]], four million years in the past, where [[Optimus Prime (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity\|Orion Pax]] and his gang of rebels were defending a [[hot spot]] from the [[Senate]]'s forces and while Rodimus was distracted by the sudden appearance of [[Trailbreaker (G1)\|Trailbreaker]], Pax found the ringing time phone. On the other end was present-day Megatron, and the two had a conversation regarding Megatron's conflicting loyalties. After they saved the sparks from the hot spot, {{storylink\|Elegant Chaos Part 1: All Our Parlous Yesterdays\|All Our Parlous Yesterdays}} the group of [[time travel]]lers pursued Brainstorm further back, to [[Maccadam's Old Oil House\|Maccadam's New Oil House]] and then, after consulting with Perceptor and [[Ultra Magnus (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity\|Ultra Magnus]] via the time phone, to the same place but earlier in 4th Cycle 499, where [[Rung (G1)\|Rung]] accidentally started a fight over a [[curly straw]] that got Megatron wrongly arrested. In the present day, Megatron worked out Brainstorm's plan {{storylink\|Elegant Chaos Part 2: Stet\|Stet}} and so the team were sent back to five million years ago in [[Con Facility 113]], the time and place of Megatron's construction. After disarming Brainstorm and talking him down, Perceptor told Rodimus that their mission wasn't over and that time was still being rewritten, because to everyone's surprise [[Rewind (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity\|Rewind]] stepped up and killed the nascent Megatron instead.		When [[Brainstorm (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity\|Brainstorm]] created a [[Time case\|time machine]] to change history by preventing [[Megatron (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity\|Megatron]] from ever coming to lead the [[Decepticon]]s in the first place, [[Hot Rod (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity\|Rodimus]], Megatron and Perceptor gathered a team to follow him back in time to stop him. They arrived in [[Alyon]], four million years in the past, where [[Optimus Prime (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity\|Orion Pax]] and his gang of rebels were defending a [[hot spot]] from the [[Senate]]'s forces and while Rodimus was distracted by the sudden appearance of [[Trailbreaker (G1)\|Trailbreaker]], Pax found the ringing time phone. On the other end was present-day Megatron, and the two had a conversation regarding Megatron's conflicting loyalties. After they saved the sparks from the hot spot, {{storylink\|Elegant Chaos Part 1: All Our Parlous Yesterdays\|All Our Parlous Yesterdays}} the group of [[time travel]]lers pursued Brainstorm further back, to [[Maccadam's Old Oil House\|Maccadam's New Oil House]] and then, after consulting with Perceptor and [[Ultra Magnus (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity\|Ultra Magnus]] via the time phone, to the same place but earlier in 4th Cycle 499, where [[Rung (G1)\|Rung]] accidentally started a fight over a [[curly straw]] that got Megatron wrongly arrested. In the present day, Megatron worked out Brainstorm's plan {{storylink\|Elegant Chaos Part 2: Stet\|Stet}} and so the team were sent back to five million years ago in [[Con Facility 113]], the time and place of Megatron's construction. After disarming Brainstorm and talking him down, Perceptor told Rodimus that their mission wasn't over and that time was still being rewritten, because to everyone's surprise [[Rewind (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity\|Rewind]] stepped up and killed the nascent Megatron instead.

	[[File:Time phone predestination an experts guide.jpg\|thumb\|left\|upright=1.7]]		[[File:Time phone predestination an experts guide.jpg\|thumb\|left\|upright=1.7]]

Emvee at 07:19, 4 October 2016

2016-10-04T07:19:21Z

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	==Fiction==		==Fiction==
	===IDW Generation 1 continuity===		===IDW Generation 1 continuity===
	When [[Brainstorm (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity\|Brainstorm]] created a [[Time case\|time machine]] to change history by preventing [[Megatron (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity\|Megatron]] from ever coming to lead the [[Decepticon]]s in the first place, [[Hot Rod/IDW Generation 1 continuity\|Rodimus]], Megatron and Perceptor gathered a team to follow him back in time to stop him. They arrived in [[Alyon]], four million years in the past, where [[Optimus Prime (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity\|Orion Pax]] and his gang of rebels were defending a [[hot spot]] from the [[Senate]]'s forces and while Rodimus was distracted by the sudden appearance of [[Trailbreaker (G1)\|Trailbreaker]], Pax found the ringing time phone. On the other end was present-day Megatron, and the two had a conversation regarding Megatron's conflicting loyalties. After they saved the sparks from the hot spot, {{storylink\|Elegant Chaos Part 1: All Our Parlous Yesterdays\|All Our Parlous Yesterdays}} the group of [[time travel]]lers pursued Brainstorm further back, to [[Maccadam's Old Oil House\|Maccadam's New Oil House]] and then, after consulting with Perceptor and [[Ultra Magnus (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity\|Ultra Magnus]] via the time phone, to the same place but earlier in 4th Cycle 499, where [[Rung (G1)\|Rung]] accidentally started a fight over a [[curly straw]] that got Megatron wrongly arrested. In the present day, Megatron worked out Brainstorm's plan {{storylink\|Elegant Chaos Part 2: Stet\|Stet}} and so the team were sent back to five million years ago in [[Con Facility 113]], the time and place of Megatron's construction. After disarming Brainstorm and talking him down, Perceptor told Rodimus that their mission wasn't over and that time was still being rewritten, because to everyone's surprise [[Rewind (G1)\|Rewind]] stepped up and killed the nascent Megatron instead.		When [[Brainstorm (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity\|Brainstorm]] created a [[Time case\|time machine]] to change history by preventing [[Megatron (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity\|Megatron]] from ever coming to lead the [[Decepticon]]s in the first place, [[Hot Rod/IDW Generation 1 continuity\|Rodimus]], Megatron and Perceptor gathered a team to follow him back in time to stop him. They arrived in [[Alyon]], four million years in the past, where [[Optimus Prime (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity\|Orion Pax]] and his gang of rebels were defending a [[hot spot]] from the [[Senate]]'s forces and while Rodimus was distracted by the sudden appearance of [[Trailbreaker (G1)\|Trailbreaker]], Pax found the ringing time phone. On the other end was present-day Megatron, and the two had a conversation regarding Megatron's conflicting loyalties. After they saved the sparks from the hot spot, {{storylink\|Elegant Chaos Part 1: All Our Parlous Yesterdays\|All Our Parlous Yesterdays}} the group of [[time travel]]lers pursued Brainstorm further back, to [[Maccadam's Old Oil House\|Maccadam's New Oil House]] and then, after consulting with Perceptor and [[Ultra Magnus (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity\|Ultra Magnus]] via the time phone, to the same place but earlier in 4th Cycle 499, where [[Rung (G1)\|Rung]] accidentally started a fight over a [[curly straw]] that got Megatron wrongly arrested. In the present day, Megatron worked out Brainstorm's plan {{storylink\|Elegant Chaos Part 2: Stet\|Stet}} and so the team were sent back to five million years ago in [[Con Facility 113]], the time and place of Megatron's construction. After disarming Brainstorm and talking him down, Perceptor told Rodimus that their mission wasn't over and that time was still being rewritten, because to everyone's surprise [[Rewind (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity\|Rewind]] stepped up and killed the nascent Megatron instead.

	[[File:Time phone predestination an experts guide.jpg\|thumb\|left\|upright=1.7]]		[[File:Time phone predestination an experts guide.jpg\|thumb\|left\|upright=1.7]]

Emvee: Created page with ":''The time phone is a device from the IDW portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.'' [[File:Time phone all our parlous yesterdays.jp..."

2016-10-03T20:20:50Z

Created page with ":''The time phone is a device from the IDW portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.'' [[File:Time phone all our parlous yesterdays.jp..."

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:''The time phone is a device from the [[IDW Generation 1 continuity|IDW portion]] of the [[Generation 1 continuity family]].''
[[File:Time phone all our parlous yesterdays.jpg|thumb|upright=1.6]]
The '''time phone''' is a way of communicating between different time periods, devised by [[Perceptor (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Perceptor]] aboard the ''[[Lost Light]]''.

==Fiction==
===IDW Generation 1 continuity===
When [[Brainstorm (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Brainstorm]] created a [[Time case|time machine]] to change history by preventing [[Megatron (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Megatron]] from ever coming to lead the [[Decepticon]]s in the first place, [[Hot Rod/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Rodimus]], Megatron and Perceptor gathered a team to follow him back in time to stop him. They arrived in [[Alyon]], four million years in the past, where [[Optimus Prime (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Orion Pax]] and his gang of rebels were defending a [[hot spot]] from the [[Senate]]'s forces and while Rodimus was distracted by the sudden appearance of [[Trailbreaker (G1)|Trailbreaker]], Pax found the ringing time phone. On the other end was present-day Megatron, and the two had a conversation regarding Megatron's conflicting loyalties. After they saved the sparks from the hot spot, {{storylink|Elegant Chaos Part 1: All Our Parlous Yesterdays|All Our Parlous Yesterdays}} the group of [[time travel]]lers pursued Brainstorm further back, to [[Maccadam's Old Oil House|Maccadam's New Oil House]] and then, after consulting with Perceptor and [[Ultra Magnus (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Ultra Magnus]] via the time phone, to the same place but earlier in 4th Cycle 499, where [[Rung (G1)|Rung]] accidentally started a fight over a [[curly straw]] that got Megatron wrongly arrested. In the present day, Megatron worked out Brainstorm's plan {{storylink|Elegant Chaos Part 2: Stet|Stet}} and so the team were sent back to five million years ago in [[Con Facility 113]], the time and place of Megatron's construction. After disarming Brainstorm and talking him down, Perceptor told Rodimus that their mission wasn't over and that time was still being rewritten, because to everyone's surprise [[Rewind (G1)|Rewind]] stepped up and killed the nascent Megatron instead.

[[File:Time phone predestination an experts guide.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.7]]
Rewind justified his actions by revealing that in the new timeline the [[galaxy]] at large was spared the brunt of the [[Great War (G1)|Transformers' war]] with present-day Megatron listening over the time phone. However, [[Whirl (G1)|Whirl]] refused to accept letting the [[Functionist Council|Functionists]] win and stole Brainstorm's spare [[Point One Percenter]] [[spark]] from [[Moonbase One|Luna 1]] to revive Megatron. Ultra Magnus called from the present day to let them know that this action had preserved their existing timeline, but that they were stuck in the past because the ''Lost Light''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s [[Quantum generator|quantum engines]] were out of power. Faced with this bleak scenario, [[Tailgate (G1)|Tailgate]] came up with a plan—to use the time phone to call [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] on the day of the ''Lost Light''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s launch and convince themselves not to follow the same path. After Rodimus, Rung, [[Chromedome (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Chromedome]] and [[Riptide (G1)|Riptide]] all chipped in with advice to their past selves, [[Cyclonus (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Cyclonus]] sneered at them, pointing out that even if their message got through, they would have undone all the good works they had achieved on their mission and Tailgate would have died of [[cybercrosis]]. {{storylink|Elegant Chaos Part 3: Predestination: An Expert's Guide|Predestination: An Expert's Guide}} The call did reach Cybertron but just too late, after the ''Lost Light''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s apparent destruction on launch, and in a fragmented form that omitted the most important information anyway. {{storylink|Liars, A to D Part 1: How to Say Goodbye and Mean It|How to Say Goodbye and Mean It}}

Fortunately, Perceptor called Rodimus to tell him that they had a plan, teleporting him and Cyclonus to [[Unitrex]] where they were able to "invent" quantum engines in the past, charging their time case and inadvertently transporting the ''[[Lost Light|Unitrex-1]]'' some way into the future. Having decided that the timeline was now safe, Rodimus told Perceptor to bring them all back to the present. {{storylink|Elegant Chaos Part 3: Predestination: An Expert's Guide|Predestination: An Expert's Guide}}

[[Category:IDW Generation 1 technology]]