Universal stream
The Transformers multiverse consists of at least 15,962,782 cataloged universal streams (1,176,325 of which have "come to termination"), according to the TransTech Cybertronians' exhaustive records.<sup id="cite_ref-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-0" title="">[1]</a></sup> There are at least 59,927,225 realities that the TransTech Cybertronians have yet to catalogue. <sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1" title="">[2]</a></sup>
These are the handful of as-yet officially-named universal streams and the continuity family or individual continuities they refer to:
- Primax—the Generation 1 continuity family
- Primax 984.0 Gamma—the Marvel Comics US continuity
- Primax 207.0 Epsilon—the Classics continuity, a splinter timeline of the Marvel Comics continuity
- Primax 1291.0 Zeta—the "Another Time and Place" text story continuity, a dead-end splinter thread of the Marvel Comics continuity
- Primax 095.0 Beta—the universal stream that's home to Generation 2 Bullet Bike's tech spec bio
- Primax 787.3 Alpha—the Japanese The Headmasters animated series continuity.
- Tyran—the live-action film continuity family
- Tyran 707.04 Delta—The 2007 film itself.
Deciphering the terminology
Each universal stream's name consists of three parts, beginning with a noun which refers to the continuity family of origin, a number that indicates the "real world" date of creation, and a Greek letter that denotes the form of media. For example, "Primax 984.0 Gamma" refers to the Generation 1 Marvel Comics continuity, with "Primax" referring to the Generation 1 continuity family, "984.0" indicating a publication date of September 1984 (with "0" indicating an unknown day of publication), and "Gamma" denoting a comic book or manga series.
List of known continuity family indicators:
- Primax—the Generation 1 continuity family
- Tyran—the live-action movie continuity family
- Malgus—the Animated continuity family<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2" title="">[3]</a></sup>
- Aurex—the Unicron Trilogy continuity family<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3" title="">[4]</a></sup>
Supplied by writers Greg Sepelak and Trent Troop, a list of Greek letters and the media to which they refer:
- Alpha—animated series
- Beta—tech spec/toy/pack-in comic only ("box")
- Gamma—comic book series
- Delta—motion picture/live action
- Epsilon—club/convention fiction
- Zeta—text stories, storybooks and other prose works (printed)
- Eta—radio/audiocentric universes, books on tape
- Theta—live performance/spoken word
- Iota—Internet-only information (not involved with club/convention)
- Kappa—games (video and otherwise)
Using this information, we could, in theory, determine the names of yet-unnamed universes on our own. For example, the Transformers Animated cartoon continuity would be Malgus 1207.26 Alpha.
See also
References
<ol class="references"><li id="cite_note-0"><a href="#cite_ref-0" title="">↑</a> This information, and most of the bulk of the article, comes from the text story "Withered Hope." <li id="cite_note-1"><a href="#cite_ref-1" title="">↑</a> In "Worlds Collide, Part 4", the Autobots scanned 75,890,007 realities in addition to their own before locating Optimus Prime, adrift in the multiverse. <li id="cite_note-2"><a href="#cite_ref-2" title="">↑</a> Mentioned in "Withered Hope", but confirmed as Animated in "Bee in the City". <li id="cite_note-3"><a href="#cite_ref-3" title="">↑</a> Mentioned in "I, Lowtech" as the origin cluster of the Omnicons.</ol>
