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 over 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.
- Fornax—the Kre-O continuity family.
- Gargent—the GoBots continuity family.
- Iocus—the Hero Mashers, Bot Shots, Construct-Bots and Battle Masters continuity family.
- Lukas—the Star Wars continuity family.
- Malgus—the Animated continuity family.
- Nexus—the cluster where the TransTech world of Axiom Nexus resides.
- Primax—the Generation 1 continuity family.
- Quadwal—the "real world".[4]
- Rovio—the Angry Birds Transformers continuity family.
- Tyran—the live-action movie continuity family.
- Uniend—the Aligned continuity family.
- Viron—the 2001 Robots in Disguise franchise continuity family.
- Xobitor—the, uh, Robotix family.
- Yayayarst—the Go-Bots continuity family.
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)
- Lambda—covers, still images, and advertisements
Using this information, we could, in theory, determine the names of yet-unnamed universes on our own: for example, Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers, also known as OG World, would be Primax 785.6 Alpha.
Officially-designated universal streams
These are the 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.[5]
- Aurex 402.0 Gamma—the Dreamwave Armada comic.[6]
- Aurex 503.21 Gamma—the Panini Armada comic.[7]
- Aurex 603.0 Kappa—The Energon Within video game.[8]
- Aurex 802.23 Alpha—the Armada cartoon.[8]
- Aurex 1107.23 Beta—the Tech Specs from the Black Friday release date of the Cannonball/Downshift "Search for the Pirate Moon" two-pack.[9]
- Fornax—the Kre-O continuity family.
- Fornax 711.01 Alpha—the Kre-O Transformers cartoon.[6]
- Fornax 813.0 Gamma—the Kre-O Transformers comic.[6]
- Gargent—the GoBots continuity family.
- Gargent -1084.22 Alpha—an evil GoBots mirror universe from the cartoon episode "Transfer Point".[8]
- Gargent 984.08 Alpha—the Challenge of the GoBots cartoon.[8]
- Lukas—the Star Wars continuity family.
- Lukas 577.25 Beta—the Star Wars Transformers continuity.[6]
- Malgus—the Animated continuity family.
- Malgus -411.27 Zeta—the "Shattered Glass Animated" universe.[10]
- Malgus 1207.26 Alpha—the Animated cartoon continuity.[11]
- 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.[12]
- Primax 095.0 Beta—the universal stream that's home to Generation 2 Bullet Bike's Tech Spec bio.[13]
- Primax 109.0 Beta—the original home of Alternity Convoy Vibrant Red.[14]
- Primax 206.24 Gamma—the Beast Wars Reborn text story.[15]
- Primax 207.0 Epsilon—the Classics continuity, a splinter timeline of the Marvel Comics US continuity continuity.[16]
- Primax 209.0 Gamma—the Beast Wars: Uprising universe, where the Great War never stopped, and the Maximals and Predacons are used as proxies for the Autobot and Decepticon armies.[17]
- Primax 388.0 Gamma—Japanese Generation 1 manga continuity, which branches off from cartoon continuity with the Super-God Masterforce manga.[8]
- Primax 406.3 Eta—the Kiss Players radio drama.[5]
- Primax 498.1 Alpha—the Beast Wars II cartoon continuity.[18]
- Primax 509.28 Epsilon—the Wings Universe continuity.[19]
- Primax 512.5 Gamma—the Regeneration One comic series.[6]
- Primax 514.29 Gamma—the Transformers Cloud continuity.[6]
- Primax 698.20 Theta—the world of "Visitations".[8]
- Primax 700.12-N4 Kappa—the Nintendo 64 Beast Wars Transmetals video game.[15]
- Primax 700.12-SP Kappa—the PlayStation Beast Wars Transmetals video game.[15]
- Primax 703.02 Gamma—the world of the Devil's Due Press's G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers continuity.[8]
- Primax 787.3 Alpha—the Japanese The Headmasters cartoon continuity.[13]
- Primax 798.0 Gamma—the Beast Wars manga continuity.[20]
- Primax 895.0 Gamma—the world of "The New Battle!!"[21]
- Primax 903.0 Beta—the Binaltech continuity.[22]
- Primax 905.0 Beta—the Binaltech Asterisk continuity.[23]
- Primax 984.0 Gamma—the Marvel Comics US continuity.[16]
- Primax 984.17 Alpha—the Generation 1 cartoon continuity.[8]
- Primax 1005.19 Gamma—the IDW Generation 1 continuity.[24]
- Primax 1087.09 Alpha—the Video Challenger opening of the Headmasters.[8]
- Primax 1099.01-N6 Kappa—the Beast Wars Metals 64 video game.[15]
- Primax 1099.01-PS Kappa—the Transformers: Beast Wars Metals: Clash! Intense Battle video game.[15]
- Primax 1291.0 Zeta—the "Another Time & Place" text story continuity, a dead-end splinter thread of the Marvel Comics continuity.[16]
- Primax 1286.3 Kappa—the Mystery of Convoy game.[5]
- Primax "whatever" Zeta—the Big Looker Storybook universe.[25]
- 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][26]
- Tyran—the live-action film continuity family.
- Tyran 207.28 Gamma—the IDW movie comics.[6]
- Tyran 307.27 Zeta—the world of Ghosts of Yesterday.[8]
- Tyran 407.1 Beta—the world of the movie toyline's Tech Specs.[5]
- Tyran 509.12 Zeta—Revenge of the Fallen: The Junior Novel.[6]
- Tyran 607.07 Kappa—the world of Capture the Cube.[8]
- Tyran 609.23-XP Kappa—the Revenge of the Fallen PC video game.[6]
- Tyran 707.04 Delta—the Transformers film.[16]
- Uniend—the Aligned continuity family.
- Uniend 610.23 Zeta—the Aligned book series begun by Transformers: Exodus.[7]
- Uniend 713.01 Alpha—the Go! cartoon.[15]
- Uniend 812.21 Kappa—the Fall of Cybertron video game.[6]
- Uniend 911.05 Alpha—the Prime cartoon.[6]
- Viron—the 2001 Robots in Disguise continuity family.
- Viron 403.0 Beta—the home stream to Dreadwing and Smokejumper.[8]
- Viron 704.08 Gamma—the "Ultra Magnus...to the Rescue?" comic.[6]
- Viron 901.8 Alpha—the Robots in Disguise cartoon.[9]
- Xobitor—the Robotix continuity family.
- Xobitor 286.0 Gamma—the Robotix comic.[8]
- Xobitor 1085.06 Alpha—the Robotix cartoon.[8]
- Yayayarst—the Go-Bots continuity family.
- Yayayarst 086.0 Beta—the world of First Transformers.[15]
- Yayayarst 201.11 Beta—the world of 1-2-3 Transformers.[8]
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"
- ↑ Transformers Animated: 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.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 "To Die Game!"
- ↑ 6.00 6.01 6.02 6.03 6.04 6.05 6.06 6.07 6.08 6.09 6.10 6.11 6.12 Transformers Animated: The Complete AllSpark Almanac
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 "Andromeda - Axiom Nexus News Reporter"
- ↑ 8.00 8.01 8.02 8.03 8.04 8.05 8.06 8.07 8.08 8.09 8.10 8.11 8.12 8.13 8.14 8.15 Transformers Animated: The AllSpark Almanac II
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Transformers I.Q. (issue #56)
- ↑ Transformers I.Q. (issue #58)
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 Transformers Animated: The AllSpark Almanac
- ↑ SG Aquarius' bio
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 "I, Lowtech"
- ↑ From Here to Alternity
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 15.2 15.3 15.4 15.5 15.6 "Ask Vector Prime" on Facebook
- ↑ 16.0 16.1 16.2 16.3 "Withered Hope"
- ↑ Depth Charge bio
- ↑ Transformers I.Q. #8
- ↑ "Invasion: Epilogue"
- ↑ Andromeda - Axiom Nexus News Reporter
- ↑ Optimus Prime bio
- ↑ "To Mega Therion"
- ↑ "The World Is Flat!"
- ↑ "Timeless"
- ↑ Hot Shot's Bot Thoughts
- ↑ The origin date of September 25, -3760 is also a reference; September 25, 3760 BC is the first day of the Hebrew calendar That answers THAT question.
