Ultra Magnus, drone of Primus. He probably has a good reason.

But what reason? :P Did Optimus become all tyrannical and evil and such after the war? Did he majorly screw up? Did Primus get angry at him for having such a gas-guzzling alt. mode?

Heh, LOL. Nah, considering it's my Magnus muse talking, it's probably that Optimus's spark is at some sort of risk if it remains in his body and Magnus is not willing to lose him, so the quickest and easiest way to protect him is to recall his spark to the Allspark to protect it until whatever can be solved.


Would they even have auras or would their auras work differently? I personally imagine their electromagnetic fields are their auras.

I was thinking like Spark auras - energy emitted by their sparks that shows up around them like a silhouette. For that matter, what about different-colored Sparks? They can't ALL be sparkly gold things.

Well that is how I see electromagnetic fields - their fields resonate in a pattern that is the same as their sparks, and probably broadcast their moods a bit as well. They might also have sensors that allow them specifically to read electromagnetic fields so they can pick up mood changes in other Cybertronians by the changes in their fields.
As for colours of sparks, well that apparently came up in Beast Machines - everyone has different coloured sparks.


They serve specialty energon, oil confectionary (and anything else you can think that a robotic race might eat - I'm personally very influenced by i_stalk_piccolo's writing when it comes to Cybertronian foods).

I believe a fanfic by Cyndi on ff.net mentioned having rust sticks and wax/oil truffles, so I was wondering, what other kinds of food could they have? What does energon taste like, and can there be different flavors?

Actually, Cyndi is i_stalk_piccolo - so yes, that was exactly what I was thinking of. There's also a writer on dA at the moment who is writing a fic based on a fanart series, where Megatron infected Prowl and Hot Rod with a virus that makes them act like wild cougars. Some of the food he's been using to tame them with is stuff like polymer rubber soaked in energon. I think the logic is that their internal repair systems would use the polymer to repair stuff like wire sheathing and anything else that might need more flexible material than metal.

Personally, I imagine that any metal their bodies have somewhere in their construction, any plastics, any lubricants, coolant, etc. could be potential food for them. All it'd need is to be in a form they can swallow and digest - rust sticks are a good example, since rust is brittle.

Also, I had an idea at one time that was probably inspired by something in a fic that energon made from different fuel sources would taste different - like coal-based energon would taste different to oil-based, or solar, or energon crystals.


Actually, from what I've seen through fandom about the senate, Cybertron seems more like the Roman Empire after the Ceasars were established.

I....had not known that. I was going off the wikipedia article, which mentioned how Prime was a religious leader, and the ultimate authority. Mayhap the latter part is because of the wartime policy...

Well one could imagine that the rank of Prime used to be that, but in more modern times fairer forms of governing were brought into effect, so a senate was established to moderate between the people and Prime. The problem is that right before the war, the senate was highly corrupt, the Prime at the time (Sentinel Prime) was ineffective (probably crippled by the senate who didn't want him doing away with their nice money-making schemes. Then the Decepticons rose from the ranks of those the senate were oppressing and ended up killing them off, so all that's left is Optimus acting as a military commander, first and foremost, and effectively is the sole authority for the Autobots.