Schrödinger's Box

Schrödinger's Box is a Cybertronian artifact in the Generation 1 continuity family.

Schrödinger's Box, a capsule composed of unknown elements was one of several items of Cybertronian origin on Earth gathered by the Intelligence and Information Institute. Its purpose and exact origins were unknown to the humans who possessed it—it is actually the flight recorder of Ravage's Transwarp cruiser from the Beast Wars. Among the information contained within is a copy of Ravage's consciousness.

Fiction

Story of Binaltech

After the dissolution of the Institute, Schrödinger's Box remained in the possession of former Institute staff who later used technology obtained from the Transformers to analyze the Box. Within it, they discovered the future consciousness of the Decepticon Ravage, and that it was a flight recorder from a starship centuries into the future. The consciousness from within the Box worked with the former III staff to bring about a new Binaltech body for himself. HAving obtained his body and finding that his efforts in the Beast Wars were for naught, Ravage destroyed all evidence of his existence, including presumably Schrödinger's Box. Ghosts of the Past

Notes

• The name comes from a famous thought experiment by physicist Erwin Schrödinger, involving the quantum state of an unobserved cat who may be alive or dead in a box.