From the sound of it, a Great-Mother reproduces by vivisecting an interesting lifeform and then builds a daughter with new capabilities based on the information gained from the vivisection.
Well, given how expansive the Mother Star matter is, I'm not surprised he called in the biggest gun he could. And Lord Malvolio would have the raw strength of will needed to haul the Mother Star for disposal solo.
Not the wisest idea to share that with him, but given the evident state of Dominator research into the immaterial realms, it's not like he could use it easily.
Oh, yes, OL.
Flaunt that you know 'the rules' better than the knowledge-hungry scientists... I would not be surprised if they someday look to capture you for 'questioning' involving said rules.With any luck, not anymore. If there are, they're very good at hiding, and will ideally stay hidden.
And a very empty place too. Seriously, unless you can magically scan the empty space between systems, you're not likely to find anything in all that nothing.
In other words, you busted heads until they stopped being silly buggers and calmed down.
I suppose he gets around their restrictions on political involvement by not being a corpsman. Though I expect the local Lanterns are keeping a close eye on his borders.
They're not dead yet. Where there's life, there's hope. And depression, but that's starting to fade as normality settles back in.
Honestly, the Reach would at least keep a world in good order after taking over, even if they commit slow genocide.
He certainly has a knack for alliteration.
Well, that explains the theatricality of his behaviour.
And there'd probably be some resentment about 'alien powers poking their proboscii into personal problems...'
To quote the Romance of the Three Kingdoms: 'The empire, long divided, must unite; long united, must divide. Thus has it ever been.' It's not the first time China's central government ever collapsed into many little states. They'll sort themselves out eventually...
Or operate more like the Yakuza. For all that they're criminals, they do have an almost proprietorial care for their territory. After all, unrest makes for unprofitability.
And why do I get a vast, booming voice in mind when I hear her speak... Booming yet feminine.
In theory, she could make multiple offspring from a single template, couldn't she? The mixing of her and her sample's characteristics simply produce a new blueprint for a ship model, so to speak...
I'd say too dumb to live, but he does put data ahead of his own life, so...
In any other species, that might sound almost reverent.
Yeah... No. Let's not hand them the data that may lead them to produce the technology for localised time-reversals...
I mean, the remains of Pluto are right there. Nice little rock to curl up in while fabricating your offspring.
Oh, boy. Earth is just the most fascinating bait for
Which means there may be other teams out there he doesn't know about, or another party is poking their proboscii in...
Might be a heck of a commute out here, unless she plans to settle closer to Earth.
At least keep her from going on a collecting rampage across Earth for interesting biological specimens...
About damn time. Honestly, there's few problems that can't be settled with the simple solution of 'toss it into the sun'... Of course, the ones that can't are the tricky ones.
How about you throw it into a different sun instead of the one multiple civilizations are currently using?
The thing is the size of a small planet, I'm not sure even Malvolio can easily carry something that large between starsystems.
And future problems are for future Paul!
That do tend to be how superhero comic storylines work yes.
Making minor alterations to time. And with most things, in theory yes but in practice no.
Yes, though at a certain point the meaning of 'biological' gets unclear.
They tracked her down and reprogrammed her.
No.
Swamp Thing was using Dominion technology to increase his intelligence. They picked that up and hacked him.
The dominators used her to try and study real space/Dream interactions. She's perfectly capable of reproducing on her own.
No.
He's not going to kill them now that they're unarmed and in custody.
Basically. But Great-Mother has a lot of technological knowledge anyway. This doesn't make her that much more dangerous.
I'll give you six out of ten.
Seems simple: offer Dr. Sivana new lab assistants.
Offering a bunch of people that were brought up in a mad scientist society that sees everything around them as something to be dissected to a guy that's embraced such thinking will surely not backfire spectacularly.
Ooh, surprise addendum. Interesting that Ratchet's giving them a once-over. Presumably he wanted to see details of Shockwave's work before he considers letting Arcee and Jack get any of the same modifications.
Well, relatively speaking about your size. In the G1 comics, at least, Micromasters were still about eight feet tall in bot mode, and had alt-modes scaled to match. Mini-cons are a bit smaller than that, mostly. So you'll basically be the short guy around town.
Oh, boy. When the old mech starts talking like that, you know something's up.
I mean, cross-wiring her Processors into a separate psuedo-organic drone can't have been done without making some changes. I would at least hope Shockwave didn't do a crude hack job.
Not that that technology isn't a bit crazy in the first place.
If their dealings with Cybertronians were anything like the depiction in G1 comics, I'm not surprised.
Presumably upset about the results of unusual science as committed by Shockwave.
No doubt Pull used his Ring, if he started with one, to accomplish that, at the cost of its charge...
Careful, guys, play up that too much and Jack might start having second thoughts...
How far down her body? I mean, it's not like she's got much space in a flier's frame to start with.
Ah. If she were more G1-designed, I'd make a crack about her Intakes, but the Prime flier design lacks that element.
Ooh, that's worrying. Transformation Cogs are fairly important to cybertronians, after all. Not quite analogous to a heart, but issues with them tend to be about as critical.
Oh, my. No wonder he's concerned. I wonder where Shockwave even got that sort of technology from. Studies of beast-formers, perhaps, like his work on the predacons?
What, interactions through her organic drone?
Which is still a strange concept for a race of living robots. Regenerative nanites, presumably. But they still need good materials to work with.
Interesting way to do it. I presume that's how she's able to interact without lag or feedback issues.
Right out of Beast Wars, of course. Because their organic shells somehow protected them from the energon deposits of the world they landed on...
Interesting. Which raises questions about what would happen to one or the other if they're damaged.
So no beast modes anytime soon. Pity, the Transmetal designs of Beast Wars and its Japanese sequels were... Sometimes bizarre, but always fascinating. Beast-robot-vehicle triple-changers, for instance.
Busted indeed. At least it's not around anyone you need to keep fooling.
Seriously, he's never seen any superhero stuff even once? Surely he wasn't at least suspicious?
Oooh. That's probably good. One of the most weird examples of organic-cybertronian cross-contamination was, again, G1 Marvel, with Hi-Q and Optimus Prime...
...A pity they couldn't have gotten a second opinion before going under the las-scalpel...
Welp. Bit of a dampener on the romantic prospects, but at least they're aware of the issues now.
Hope some of the genius Autobot scientists are around, then. Like Highbrow or Perceptor...
Better to make sure the process is safe, definitely.
Nebulon technology requires that every point of connection...
That should say 'sense'.
Thank you, corrected.
Because this SI had never heard of a 'pawl'.
The hazard of being a writer is you can only write what you know. You always need to know more things.
Zoat is the only author I know of that could build up to such a concept without it feeling as cringey as all the other fanfic instances.
Not even a fraction of it.
Just say it matter of factly and only elaborate if she takes you seriously, which she won't.
