Andromeda - Axiom Nexus News Reporter

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Andromeda -
Axiom Nexus News Reporter
First published April 29–
October 18, 2015

Andromeda brings you all of the hot news in Axiom Nexus!

Synopsis

2015

  • April 30 — Andromeda interviews Garara about a recently discovered fuel on Cybertron. Garara theorizes that it is due to the long decay of an ancient group of Offworlders and their civilization, who all decomposed into a blue substance that they could refine into fuel.
  • May 4 — The last deca-cycle of sports has been exciting and punctuated by several events. The first is an Offworlder-attended fight between Punch... and his other self, Counterpunch. The TransTech were treated to a fight of their own, with Star-Upper fighting Ironclad. The final event was equinicon racing, which Rook reports on.
  • May 6 — Andromeda introduces a special series of reports Rook will make on various Axiom Nexus establishments.
  • May 13 — Andromeda reports on Transwarp Dominion Initiative leader Leadfoot speaking to the Ministry of Higher Dimensional Sciences about the unmanned sentry outpost monitoring the Skriix, the aggressive species from Skriixos V who could potentially threaten TransTech monopoly on transdimensional travel. One of the primary electro-cell banks is no longer online after a Recyclon incursion into Skriix space resulted in a brief conflict that breached the protective Filtrek-K cloaking shield. The remaining cell is at 78% capacity, meaning that failure is not expected to occur for a long time but continued monitoring worthwhile.
  • May 19 — Andromeda interviews fashionista Needlenose.
  • May 21 — Andromeda reports on the membership of the Convoy, with information acquired from Cheetor.
  • June 1 — Andromeda introduces two Mini-Con interns, Deduce and Groundbreak, who are to help with her broadcast. Unfortunately, Deduce is insistent on using formal wording during a report on a black hole eating planets in the Theta-Six star cluster, and Groundbreak tries to get a security job with Cheetor and challenges Romy to an arm wrestling match while she tries to report on purported threats to the stability of Axiom Nexus caused by an uptick of newly arriving lowtech. Romy then segues to Rook's interview with Beachcomber and Gutcruncher.
  • June 10 — Andromeda reveals the sixth entity on Cybertron's Most Wanted list. Oilmaster is a Pretender who was a bounty hunter in his home universal stream and is now Cryotek's enforcer. Among the oozing Pretender's misdeeds was the removal, conversion to alt-mode thruster housing, and reinsertion of a poor robot's leg. The Offworlder Zone Security Administration has found information on Oilmaster's next target and is planning a sting, but maybe Romy shouldn't have just said that.
  • June 27 — Andromeda reports that, in the aftermath of the Waruder invasion, Vector Prime has been botnapped. Witness Flash Runner and her friend Hurricane Hunter indicate that it was Sideways who had done the deed, recognizing him from his appearance on Cybertron's Got Talent. ANN intern Crosswise is missing.
  • July 30 — Andromeda gives some good news in contrast to the recent more dark news. Good Sandokan Overcast, brother to Jetfire, helped out Spy-Eye when the drone had gotten lost in Axiom Nexus. Andromeda then turns to Sonar for the weather.
  • August 16 — Andromeda reports on rumors that a a blue rodent-former 'bot in the Offworlder Zone has been bragging about helping save Axiom Nexus from the Waruders with an interdimensional gate. Andromeda brings in Minister Rhinox for an interview, and Rhinox takes the opportunity to explain about the difficulties of interdimensional travel, including the various beings lurking in transwarp space which no sane 'bot would want to encounter.
  • September 28 — Andromeda, though on assignment, took a moment to visit Ask Vector Prime and answer a question about the Rock Bots.
  • September 28 — From outside the High Senate building, Andromeda reports on an emergency session, Megatron and Starscream soon emerge and announce that all contact with the Tyran Cluster has been lost.

2016

  • March 10 — More Beast Wars coverage with Terrorsaur.
  • March 24 — Andromeda reports on the High Senate vote in favor of equal rights for organic hardlight changelings in the Offworlder Zone. This is followed by the continuation of Beast Wars coverage with the mystery of Razorbeast, who proves a problem as there is no footage of him from Primax 296.22 Alpha. This is solved by Miss-Q, who gets the Razorbeast of Primax 296.0 Beta, who happens to be in Axiom Nexus. While this Razorbeast wants to discuss the relationship between Primax 296.22 Alpha and Primax 206.15 Gamma, Romy just wants him to spout the catchprases of Primax 206.15 Gamma's Razorbeast.
  • March 30 — Beast Wars, for the last time on Andromeda's segment, with the Tripredacus Council.
  • May 1 — Andromeda interviews Hawk, the human member of the Convoy.
  • May 4 — In honor of the human celebration of Star Wars Day, Andromeda has Nightbeat do his R2-D2 impression, which, as interpreted by Aston, includes cursing.
  • May 20 — Andromeda's newscast is ominously cut off in the middle of its first sentence.

Mentioned characters

(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)

Autobots/Maximals Decepticons Others

Notes

Transformers references

  • Garara is a TransTech version of one of the Jaki from the Go! franchise—specifically, the redeco of Beast Hunters Twinstrike.
  • Leatherhide is a TransTech version of Leatherhide, a cancelled redeco of Beast Wars Mutant Soundwave for the 2003 Universe toyline.
  • Punch/Counterpunch fighting himself seems to be a callback to his split-personality nature.
  • Star Upper was introduced in the Beast Wars II manga.
  • Dillesol and Boltaneon were Cybertronian days and months, respectively, mentioned in the second AllSpark Almanac. The D. Manus Industrial average (short for Dirk Manus) was also introduced there.
  • The Voltronic Galaxer is from "Blaster Blues".
  • The transdimensional radiowave scrambler was seen in issue 10 of the Marvel U.S. comic.
  • Speed Dial was the cell phone AllSpark Mutation from the "Real Gear Robots" subline of the first live action movie toyline.
  • Galactic Express was mentioned in "Five Faces of Darkness, Part 1".
  • Guardian Speed is a redeco of Cybertron Six-Speed, released as part of a promotion for the Revenge of the Fallen toyline.
  • Trans-spatial cylinders were technology introduced in the Transformers Classified series of young adult novels.
  • Uniend 610.23 Zeta is the universe of Exodus, while Guardian Speed's home universe is Aurex 503.21 Gamma, the Panini series of exclusive UK Armada comics.
  • The Vraz-Halogen Act takes its name from two Autobot High Council members, one from The War Within, and the other from Exodus, respectively.
  • The Hydradread/Highbrow Hybrid Technologies is named after the Generation 2 Stormtrooper and the Generation 1 Headmaster.
  • Beachcomber protests over the possible abuse of the resources of the Iocus Cluster and the combinations they could make out of its inhabitants is a reference to the Hero Mashers toyline of mix-and-match figures.
  • Kitte Shūshū is Stampy's mother mentioned offhandedly in the Beast Wars Neo manga.
  • The Cybertronian day Gerbesol appears to be a reference to Steve Gerber, a story editor on the Generation 1 cartoon.
  • The Skriix are from the PlayStation Beast Wars video game while the Recyclons are from a G1-based Legends anthology book.
  • The Filtrek-K cloaking shield is probably of the Filtrek shield technology from the Dreamwave Armada comic.
  • The Cybertronian day Maleksol appears to be a reference to Bryce Malek, an episode writer on the G1 cartoon.
  • Tarn became a judge on Cybertron's Got Talent after the unexpected death of Ego, which occurred in "I, Lowtech".
  • The Cybertronian day Glutsol appears to be a reference to Donald F. Glut, another G1 cartoon episode writer.
  • Needlenose having a Mini-Con assistant named Sunbeam and a Cyberdroid assistant named Zigzag is a reference to his G1 Nebulan Targetmaster partners.
  • This Facebook page gives a name to the previously unnamed combined form of the Sky Terror Mini-Con Team, the Chaos Saber.
  • Ghoulon's home reality was destroyed by the Swarm.
  • The X-Dimension is mentioned. Apparently, no one ever returns from it.
  • Meanwhile, the Japan-exclusive X-Dimension redeco of the Air Defense Mini-Con Team is given the name Zephyr Blade Mini-Con Team. Their combined form, having been nicknamed the "Fire Saber" by fans, is dubbed the Pyro Saber here.
  • The Cybertronian day Wisesol appears to be a reference to David Wise, yet another G1 cartoon episode writer.
  • Alternity veteran Nemesis Prime/Black Convoy has become a member of the Convoy.
  • Convoy member Sentinel Maximus is noted as a native of Primax 797.18 Epsilon, confirming that he is the same Sentinel Maximus who appeared in The Wreckers and Cybertron comics.
  • The Waruder invasion mentioned took place in BotCon 2015's exclusive comic, "Cybertron's Most Wanted".
  • The missing intern Crosswise is a reference to his status as one of Sideways's partner Mini-Cons.

Errors

  • Convoy member "Hero Prime" is mistakenly stated to be a native of Primax 094.0 Beta when he is in fact a native of Primax 895.0 Gamma. After this was pointed out by a Facebook commenter, the Editor acknowledged the correct universal stream in a comment, saying that Andromeda was distracted from being starstruck by Cheetor.
  • The Facebook page for the Editor also notes that Andromeda left out the thirteenth, classified entry on the list of Convoy members.
  • Convoy member Primal Prime is stated to be a native of Primax 509.28 Epsilon here, but the Rook Facebook page corrects this to Primax 700.0 Beta.

See also

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