Iocus

Iocus is a universal cluster. Known universal streams include:

• Iocus 606.0 Beta‎
• Iocus 214.24 Kappa

Fiction

TransTech

The repeal of the Vraz-Halogen Act heightened worries that Hydradread/Highbrow Hybrid Technologies would exploit the Iocus cluster. Andromeda - Axiom Nexus News Reporter

Organization on this wiki

• The Iocus cluster was designed to encompass all forgettable lines of side-merchandise, such as Bot Shots, Construct-Bots, Hero Mashers, and the like, which depict either various versions of characters from different series co-existing, blend together characteristics of characters from different series, or feature character designs generic enough that they don't really resemble any particular incarnation of a character. For a time, TFWiki gave each character from each of these series an article of their own (a page for Bot Shots Bumblebee, a page for Construct-Bots Bumblebee, a page for Hero Mashers Bumblebee, etc), which prompted The Complete AllSpark Almanac to invent the idea of the "Iocus" cluster, which could serve as a home for all these unremarkable, generic versions of characters (meaning that each iteration of Bumblebebee, for instance, could all go on one collective article).

Unfortunately, that happened just as TFWiki's editors had decided to abandon the idea of giving these characters articles of their own and had started folding them into their larger parent articles, which had to be promptly stopped after the "Iocus" idea came to light. Accordingly, the official Facebook Q&A, "Ask Vector Prime", massaged the idea a little, adding the Attacktix line to the Iocus cluster. Sine the Transformers featured in the Attacktix line were all pre-existing characters from the Unicron Trilogy, who it would be have been foolish to remove from their parent pages so they could be grouped with other "Iocus" versions, it was decided that TFWiki would return to is original plan and keep all "Iocus" versions of characters on the parent pages.

Notes

• Iocus is Latin for "a joke". Considering the personalities of its inhabitants, the title is oddly fitting.