Are you an Autobot or a Decepticon ?

[USS Triumphant]

We are cherry picking from a lot of non compatible lore.

The Autobots on Earth might have been sleeping, but in the 80s cartoon, Shockwave had been waiting loyally for Megatron's return for 4 million years.

I liked Shockwaves loyalty.

Shockwave was very loyal to Megatron but so was Soundwave.

I prefer to think that Shockwave was the only one awake on Cybertron, acting as guardian to wake everything up if there was an emergency. And either he wasn't a big enough dick to just go around shooting Autobots while they were asleep, or for some reason he couldn't. (Like, they were locked away from him, or, he couldn't leave the control area.) And even when the Transformers that ended up stranded on Earth used the spacebridge to get to Cybertron and back, didn't you think it was odd how very, very little seemed to be going on? More than just Shockwave had woke up at that point, but the planet still seemed to be in "low light" mode or something.

I think Soundwave was "born" an Autobot (consumer line) but switched at some point to be a Decepticon. He's extraordinarily similar to Blaster. And, he was loyal to Megatron, not the position - he and his tapes carried the torn-up Megatron off of the battlefield in the animated movie, when all of the 'cons were in a hurry to split and there was no possible motive other than loyalty to Megatron. Personal loyalty.

Which option is best for the puppies? I'm a single-issue voter when it comes to this particular issue.

You don't get a vote. You're Wheelie. No takebacks. Now go sit in the corner, Wheelie, you Transformers hater you.

 

[Taylirious]

I keep wondering what would happen if The Borg assimilated Cybertron?

 

[Gaith]

You don't get a vote. You're Wheelie. No takebacks. Now go sit in the corner, Wheelie, you Transformers hater you.

The heck with that; I will be an independent DeLorean called the Gaithmeister, and I will spend my days rescuing all the forgotten puppies whose owners have been killed in the wars. I will concurrently assimilate and download my consciousness to a brain-dead handsome young man, so that I may also live as a human, and experience this thing we mortals call "love".