Biofuel

"What if the secret ingredient is... people!?" "Oh, there's already a soda like that. Soylent Cola." "Oh, how is it?" "It varies from person to person."

In the possible twilight years of the Cybertronian race, biofuel is developed as an alternative to energon as a means of powering Transformers when the latter could no longer be found or processed anywhere in the known universe. It is made from the harvesting and processing of organic life forms, even intelligent life.

Fiction

Last Bot Standing

“	So be reminded that feeding is the right of all sentient beings!	”
—The Veteran, twisting Optimus Prime's motto to justify the use of biofuel., "Last Bot Standing issue 3"

In the far future, after the Great War had brought about the ends of countless worlds and cultures and had exhausted all know sources of energon, a small group of the last remaining Transformers in the universe realized that their survival required finding a new source of energy to sustain themselves. This collection of both former Autobots and Decepticons, who under the leadership of Steeljaw, modified themselves to subsist on a new power source they developed that was derived from processed organic life: biofuel. With the collection of this new form of subsistence in mind, the survivors took to the universe to find worlds with organic life that they could harvest and process into biofuel. The fact that some of the "resources" they harvested were sentient became of little concern to the survivors. Last Bot Standing #2

Eventually, the survivors made their way to the planet Donnokt with the intention of harvesting and farming the world's early-industrial inhabitants for fuel. However, on this world was also the long-dormant Rodimus. After eons of seeing so many worlds and civilizations devastated from getting caught in the crossfire of Cybertronian conflict after conflict, Rodimus was mortified to find that there were surviving Transformers who had developed a new horrifying method of harming and exploiting innocent beings in their endless search for energy sources and promptly took action to put an end to the process. Last Bot Standing #3

Notes

• Riotgear had developed a taste for "raw" biofuel.
• Among the survivors, conversing with beings that were captured for processing was seen as a "vulgar" and "obscene" act.
• In the real world, biofuel refers to liquid fuels that are converted from biomass in an extremely short time, as opposed to the very long natural process of biomass decaying into fossil fuels. This includes bioethanol, which is made from the fermentation of crops such as corn or sugarcane; and biodiesel, which is often made from processing used cooking oil.

See also

• Pink alchemy - A Decepticon method of extracting energon from living organic beings.

External Links

• Biofuel at Wikipedia