Star system

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[[Image:|right|300px|thumb|To get to "another galaxy", you've got to go past a few hundred billion of these.]] A solar system (more properly, star system or stellar system) is a grouping of one or more stars, commonly orbited by one or more <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Planet" title="Planet">planets</a> and various other cosmic detritus.

Transformers typically travel to different star systems in the course of their adventures. As star systems are generally several light years apart, this requires some sort of faster-than-light propulsion, or an instantaneous gateway system of some kind, such as a <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Space_bridge" title="Space bridge">space bridge</a>.

<a name="Fiction"></a><h2><span class="editsection">[<a href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Solar_system&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Fiction">edit</a>]</span> <span class="mw-headline">Fiction</span></h2> Notable solar systems in Transformers fiction include:


[[Image:|right|150px|thumb|GodGambit Saturn.jpg]] [[Image:|right|150px|thumb|Theprobetranswarpprobe.jpg]]


<a name="Marvel_Comics"></a><h3><span class="editsection">[<a href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Solar_system&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Marvel Comics">edit</a>]</span> <span class="mw-headline">Marvel Comics</span></h3>


<a name="Beast_Wars_cartoon"></a><h3><span class="editsection">[<a href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Solar_system&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Beast Wars cartoon">edit</a>]</span> <span class="mw-headline">Beast Wars cartoon</span></h3> [[Image:|right|150px|thumb|CybertronBW SolarSystem.jpg]]

<a name="IDW_Comics"></a><h3><span class="editsection">[<a href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Solar_system&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: IDW Comics">edit</a>]</span> <span class="mw-headline">IDW Comics</span></h3>

<a name="Transformers_.282007.29"></a><h3><span class="editsection">[<a href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Solar_system&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Transformers (2007)">edit</a>]</span> <span class="mw-headline">Transformers (2007)</span></h3>

<a name="Those_poor.2C_confused_writers"></a><h2><span class="editsection">[<a href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Solar_system&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Those poor, confused writers">edit</a>]</span> <span class="mw-headline">Those poor, confused writers</span></h2> A star system should not be confused with a galaxy, which is a massive grouping of millions of star systems. A single galaxy is unfathomably huge, with our own <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Milky_Way" title="Milky Way">Milky Way</a> Galaxy containing several hundred billion stars. The distances between galaxies are several orders of magnitude greater than the distances between the star systems they contain.

Unfortunately, in Transformers fiction, "galaxy" is frequently used in places where "star system" makes a lot more sense, or at least is not as jarring. Given that all interstellar travel is based on fictional technologies, it's not inconceivable that characters might actually come from or travel to other galaxies. But the notion seems an unnecessary complication at best (<a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Star_Wars" title="Star Wars">a single galaxy is a more-than-ample playground for fictional adventures</a>) and often outright contradicts information given elsewhere. Cartoon animation, for example, almost never supports the idea that characters actually leave the Milky Way galaxy.

Notable examples of galaxy/solar system confusion include:




[[Image:|right|300px|thumb|Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving, revolving at nine hundred miles an hour...]] Remarkably, the <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/The_Transformers_%28cartoon%29" title="The Transformers (cartoon)">Generation 1 cartoon series</a> seems to portray Cybertron consistently as being originally located outside our galaxy. The episode "<a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Roll_For_It" class="mw-redirect" title="Roll For It">Roll For It</a>" shows Cybertron outside of a spiral galaxy (though it is also shown against a field of stars, instead of the empty black void that should be there if it's located in inter-galactic space). The episode later shows a rather confusing visual of the space bridge energy beam emanating from an empty point in space alongside a galaxy, but not going into the galaxy. Later, in "The Ultimate Doom", Optimus Prime comments that the pylons of the Decepticons' Cybertron-centered space bridge "form a pyramid, with the apex beyond this galaxy."


<a name="Galaxy_.E2.89.A0_Universe"></a><h3><span class="editsection">[<a href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Solar_system&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Galaxy ≠ Universe">edit</a>]</span> <span class="mw-headline">Galaxy ≠ Universe</span></h3> On more rare occasions, "universe" is used in place of "galaxy" or even "solar system", to even more ridiculous effect. Since the universe includes millions of galaxies, each containing billions of stars, the following usages of "universe" seem painfully misworded:


could destroy the universe. Suns have exploded on a pretty regular basis for billions of years, and so far, the universe is still ticking away.

  • Various Decepticons have made the claim that they plan to rule not merely the galaxy but rather the universe, such as <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Starscream_%28G1%29" title="Starscream (G1)">Starscream</a> in "<a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/The_Revenge_of_Bruticus" title="The Revenge of Bruticus">The Revenge of Bruticus</a>" -- "I will rule the universe, even if I am the only one left in the universe!" That's a lot of conquering to do there, buddy!

<a name="References"></a><h2><span class="editsection">[<a href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Solar_system&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: References">edit</a>]</span> <span class="mw-headline">References</span></h2> <ol class="references"><li id="cite_note-Duel-0"><a href="#cite_ref-Duel_0-0" title="">↑</a> <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Duel_on_the_Asteroid" title="Duel on the Asteroid">Duel on the Asteroid</a> <li id="cite_note-The_Probe-1"><a href="#cite_ref-The_Probe_1-0" title="">↑</a> Featured, but not named in <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/The_Probe" title="The Probe">The Probe</a>.</ol>

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