Genetronic Translink System
The Genetronic Translink System (ジェネトロニック・トランスリンク・システム Jenetoronikku Toransurinku Shisutemu), shortened to GT System (GTシステム), is a device that allows a singular spark or laser core to simultaneously control many duplicate bodies. Conceived of by Chip Chase during the Binaltech Project, the principle was to place an Autobot's spark in subspace where it could access translink ports back to the real world, connecting to multiple Transformer bodies at once. It was designed to bolster the number of operational Autobots in the aftermath of Swindle's modified Cosmic Rust infection, which resulted in them being substantially outnumbered by the Decepticons. This technology was used in different ways by several Autobots.
- Smokescreen was the first Autobot inputed with a GT system. He became capable of operating in up to four different bodies at once. Used sparingly, each of his bodies would gain new memories and experiences while active, and later download and consolidate these experiences into a single history.<ref>Binaltech Smokescreen and Smokescreen GT toy bios</ref>
- Jazz was given a GT system, but used it solely in conjunction with only one other Binaltech body. Nicknamed "Zoom-Zoom", this body was given its own AI in addition to being connected with Jazz, allowing it to function with varying degrees of skill even when Jazz is not "possessing" it.<ref>Binaltech Meister's toy bio</ref>
- Wheeljack adapted the GT system to govern three unique bodies for himself. He maintained his original Autobot body, but installed a translink receiver in it so that he could also function in a second Binaltech upgraded form. These bodies were known as his "Alpha Unit" and "Beta Unit" bodies, with a third "Omega Unit" shrouded in secrecy. Wheeljack engineered this version of the process after learning of his own impending doom from the time-traveling Ravage. He believed this "Body Shop Project" could simultaneously preserve the timestream and save himself and the other Autobots fated to die.<ref>Binaltech Wheeljack's toy bio</ref>
- Prowl had a single back-up body known as the BT-15 GHS unit (Generic Host Shell), a blue variation of his own Binaltech body frame. Not only could Prowl command the GHS, but it was also open to translinks from other Binaltech Autobots, enabling them to summon it as an emergency duplicate if necessary.<ref>Binaltech Prowl's toy bio</ref>
- Skids employed the GT system in a different way. Instead of using multiple copies of himself, he used the translink as an emergency escape system, allowing him to subspatially "beam out" of his body if substantially injured, and take over a new Binaltech body held in reserve at a secure location.<ref>Binaltech Skids's toy bio</ref>
Early testing had demonstrated the possibility of personality problems and mental instability if the GT system was overused, but no official cases were ever disclosed.
Nonetheless, the system has been involved in one significant loss, with the emergency attempt to use the GT system to remotely install Prowl's spark into his new Binaltech body ultimately proving unsuccessful, and the spark seemingly lost. For now, Prowl is up and operational again with Chip Chase's life-force substituting for the missing spark.
Since Smokescreen's original GT upgrade, GT system compatibility has been included in all Binaltech body frames. It is not known whether the system has been retrofitted to other earlier units.
Fiction
Japanese generation 1 cartoon continuity
Story of Binaltech
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Battle fatigued from the threats of Unicron and the Decepticons, Autobot High Command sought to activate the large switch, which would render all Transformers inert. Though they were aware that such a device would mean their own deactivation, they counted on humanity to round up the Decepticons and reactivate them. When Mirage flipped the switch, all Transformers across the galaxy shut down, save those in Binaltech bodies, their dimensionally disconnected sparks immune to its effects. Kill Switch
Legends comic
Smokescreen used the GT System to control up to eight bodies simultaneously, but when the time came to return his mind to a single body, something went wrong and his mind fractured into multiple personalities vying for control. GT07, an evil personality that lived to destroy, came out on top and left the Autobots, though he was plagued by the voices of the other Smokescreens in his head. LG-EX Big Powered Prologue Part One
Wings Universe
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Ask Vector Prime
In one Viron universe, Mirage was able to use the Genetronic Translink System during the Spark War to operate a Vehicon body remotely even while his spark remained in Megatron's clutches. Ask Vector Prime, 2015/09/22
Toys
Robots in Disguise (2001)
- Mirage GT (2002)
- The first GT toy. This was later retconned to be a GT body for the former Spychanger Mirage.
Binaltech
{{#if:|}}- Smokescreen (2003)
- Smokescreen GT (2004)
- Smokescreen had four separate toys across the Binaltech toyline, and was accordingly cast as the only Autobot that chose to maximize the GT System by operating four bodies at once.
- Meister Velocity Red Mica Edition (September 30, 2004)
- This redeco of Binaltech Meister was repurposed as Jazz's Roller-esque semi-autonomous secondary body affectionately nicknamed "Zoom-Zoom".
- Prowl Vivid Blue Pearl Edition (2005)
- The BT-15 GHS Unit is a prototype "Generic Host Shell" usable by any Autobot equipped with the GT system. Though nominally Prowl's backup body, it can be used by other Autobots in an emergency.
Notes
- The concept of the GT system and its name seem to have been inspired by the Hasbro release of Mirage GT in the Robots in Disguise toyline. As there was already a Mirage character in that line and "Mirage GT" was given no bio or explanation as to who or what the "GT" was, the writer for the Binaltech profiles took the opportunity to work an explanation into the Binaltech storyline. It would not be until years later that "Mirage GT" was confirmed in the Facebook version of Ask Vector Prime to also utilize the GT system.