Units of time
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Transformers, being extraterrestrials, are often overheard stating measurements in units that are unfamiliar to humans. Further, Transformers in different universes often use different units for measurement, and sometimes even use the same unit name but define it differnetly. Following is a list of units of time that Cybertronians have been observed using.
Specific unit definitions
- Astrosecond
- .498 seconds
- Defined by Dreamwave's More Than Meets The Eye #8 as 1/1000th of a breem. Astroseconds as referenced in the Generation 1 cartoon seem to be shorter, but were never defined.
- Breem
- 8.3 minutes
- Originally defined in the Marvel Comics, also used in Dreamwave's comics.
- Cycle (G1 UK comics)
- 2 hours
- In the UK G1 comic story, "Target 2006", Ultra Magnus timed his mission on Earth in Cycles that were exactly equal to 2 hours.
- Cycle (Beast Wars)
- ~1 minute
- Beast Wars cartoon story editors Bob Forward and Larry DiTillio stated that the "cycles" used in their series were very roughly equivalent to a minute. Maybe more, maybe less, but something of that order of magnitude.
- Cycle (IDW comics)
- 1 hour 15 minutes (1.25 hours)
- Defined for use in the IDW universe by Simon Furman in a forum post.[1]
- Deca-cycle (Beast Wars)
- ~1 year
- As with the Beast Wars cycle, this unit is on the order of a year, as defined by the series' story editors.
- Deca-cycle (IDW comics)
- ~3 weeks
- Defined for use in the IDW universe by Simon Furman in a forum post.
- Klik
- 1.2 minutes
- Defined for use in the IDW universe by Simon Furman in a forum post.
- Mega-cycle (Beast Wars)
- ~1 hour
- As with the Beast Wars cycle, this unit is on the order of an hour, as defined by the series' story editors. Used incongruously in The Agenda, Part 1 to refer to a much longer span of time. (One of the Tripedicus council says, "His ship and the Axalon both vanished last megacycle. The Maximal probes never found them.") Ben Yee cites a statement from DiTillio that another unit -- the deca-cycle -- is roughly year-like in length.[2] This may be the unit that was intended for that line of dialogue.
- Mega-cycle (IDW comics)
- 93 hours
- Defined for use in the IDW universe by Simon Furman in a forum post.
- Meta-cycle
- 13 months
- Defined for use in the IDW universe by Simon Furman in a forum post.
- Nano-klik
- As with the Beast Wars cycle, this unit is on the order of a second, as defined by the series' story editors. Used similarly in IDW comics.
- Stellar cycle (Beast Wars)
- ~400 days
- Orbital period (a Cybertronian "year") for Cybertron as stated by Larry DiTillio in information sent to Ben Yee. DiTillio also volunteers that Cybertron's rotational period (a "day") is ~20 hours.
- Stellar cycle (IDW comics)
- ~7.5 months
- Defined for use in the IDW universe by Simon Furman in a forum post.
- Vorn
- 83 years
- Originally defined in the Marvel Comics, also used in Dreamwave's comics.
