Universal stream
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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.[1] There are at least 59,927,225 realities that the TransTech Cybertronians have yet to catalog.[2] Bug Bite claims that there are fifteen quadrillion concurrent realities.[3]
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 series.
List of known continuity family indicators:
- Aurex—the Unicron Trilogy continuity family.[4]
- Gargent—the Tonka GoBots continuity family.[5]
- Malgus—the Animated continuity family.[6]
- Nexus—the cluster where the TransTech world of Axiom Nexus resides.[5]
- Primax—the Generation 1 continuity family.
- Quadwal—the "real world".[7]
- Tyran—the live-action movie continuity family.
- Viron—the Robots in Disguise continuity family.[5]
- Yayayarst—the Go-Go-Go-Bots continuity family.[5]
- Xobitor—the, uh, Robotix continuity family.[5]
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 Unicron Trilogy cartoon continuity would be Aurex 802.23 Alpha.
Officially-designated universal streams
These are the handful of as-yet officially-named universal streams and the continuity family or individual continuities they refer to:
- Aurex—the Unicron Trilogy continuity family
- Aurex 103.10 Alpha—the Micron Densetsu cartoon.[citation needed]
- Aurex 802.23 Alpha—the Armada cartoon.[citation needed]
- Malgus—the Animated continuity family
- Malgus 1207.26 Alpha—the Animated cartoon continuity.[citation needed]
- Primax—the Generation 1 continuity family:
- Primax -408.24 Epsilon—if one breaches "the dimensional barrier between the Positive Polarity Universes" and the Negative, one can reach the Shattered Glass universe.[8]
- Primax 095.0 Beta—the universal stream that's home to Generation 2 Bullet Bike's Tech Spec bio.[9]
- Primax 109.0 Beta—the original home of Alternity Convoy Vibrant Red.[citation needed]
- Primax 207.0 Epsilon—the Classics continuity, a splinter timeline of the Marvel Comics continuity.[10]
- Primax 406.3 Eta—the Kiss Players radio drama.[citation needed]
- Primax 787.3 Alpha—the Japanese The Headmasters cartoon continuity.[9]
- Primax 903.0 Beta—the Binaltech continuity.[citation needed]
- Primax 905.0 Beta—the Binaltech Asterisk continuity.[citation needed]
- Primax 984.0 Gamma—the Marvel Comics US continuity.[10]
- Primax 1291.0 Zeta—the "Another Time and Place" text story continuity, a dead-end splinter thread of the Marvel Comics continuity.[10]
- Primax 1286:3 Kappa—The Mystery of Convoy game.[citation needed]
- Quadwal—a strangely divergent continuity family.
- Quadwal -3760.925 Theta—the world in which Jim Sorenson and Bill Forster were recruited to write the AllSpark Almanac.[11]
- Tyran—the live-action film continuity family
- Tyran 407.01 Beta—the tech-spec of Protoform Optimus Prime.[citation needed]
- Tyran 707.04 Delta—the Transformers film.[10]
References
- ↑ This information, and most of the bulk of the article, comes from the text story "Withered Hope."
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Games of Deception
- ↑ Mentioned in "I, Lowtech" as the origin cluster of the Omnicons.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 Established in the AllSpark Almanac II.
- ↑ Mentioned in "Withered Hope", but confirmed as Animated in "Bee in the City" and AllSpark Almanac.
- ↑ Established in the AllSpark Almanac. "Quadwal" is a pun on the term "fourth wall", the barrier between fiction and reality which is "broken" when characters in a work of fiction acknowledge either the audience or their fictional nature.
- ↑ SG Aquarius' bio
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 "I, Lowtech".
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 "Withered Hope".
- ↑ AllSpark Almanac
