Solarbot (species)
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The Solarbots (ソーラーボット Sōrābotto) are an ancient race of highly advanced robotic beings from a faraway galaxy who are descended from Cybetronians.
They are a very unique species, being made up of a combination of living metal and pure energy. They have evolved a very high level of heat resistance, and are said to have lived within the very stars themselves, where they mined the energon from within. A Solarbot is also capable of converting mere sunlight into pure energon, negating the necessity of ingesting fuel that is required for other cybertronic life. Solarbots possess a form of energy shielding that protects them from most forms of energy-based weaponry, and they can extend this shielding to other cybertronic life that they attach to. They can scan the forms of others to appear more comforting, and are also capable of converting themselves into a condensed ball of light.
They communicate via a strange language made up of photonic pulses, mostly incomprehensible to normal lifeforms. In addition to this, they can also communicate with other species telepathically.
Fiction
Fun Publications Shattered Glass continuity
Millions of years ago, the ancestors of the Solarbots fled Cybertron under unknown circumstances, travelling deep into space and learning to mine energy from stars. They evolved into their current forms, adapting to live within the outermost layer of stars. Solar Requiem
The Solarbots lived in harmony in an interconnected civilisation, not unlike their ancestors, within the coronas of the stars of a distant galaxy. However, the stars grew dark, consumed by a malevolent force. They were pushed towards extinction, with only a flicker of hope remaining in the dim glimmer that was once their homes. High Noon
Toys
Shattered Glass
- Solarbot is a transparent yellow redeco of the Rewind/Eject cassette mold. He includes a sticker of the Battle Beasts "Sunburst" insignia.
- This mold was also used to make Flip Sides, Rosanna, and Shattered Glass Rewind.
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Notes
- As e-HOBBY Solarbot includes the Battle Beasts "Sunburst" insignia as an applicable sticker, it could be assumed that this insignia represents the Solarbots as a whole. Solarbot's bio quote also references "the light of the sunburst".
- The Solarbots method of communicating via pulses of light is vaguely similar to the concept of Morse code, which can similarly be telegraphed via pulsing lights.
- The idea of it allowing them to communicate on an intergalactic scale, however, is a lot less grounded. Light takes several years to travel between different stars (hundreds of thousands of years between galaxies), and an object as small as a Solarbot would most likely not be visible either way at such a distance. This is, of course, a race of magic sun-dwelling energy robots we are talking about, but the stories offer it up as a logical alternative to the usual auditory communication devices everyone else uses.
