[116] Exactly what it is Priss is trying to do is something we'll have to explore later.

[176] The Transformers: Energon-style Galvatron, in terns of physical configuration, though obviously he isn't supposed to be that character - he's another iteration of the "original" model, as seen in Hammer Time.

[256] Of "Cyclonus, the warrior, and his" fame.

[323] Seriously, what is with that?

[411] Whatever a C-beam may happen to be.

[633] We knew going into this project that Starscream had to say this sometime, preferably on an occasion when it would turn out to be true.

[638] Ultrafans may recognize this move as Ultraman Taro's signature finisher, Ultra Dynamite. Few Transformers can perform it with conviction.

[717] This is one of my favorite bits of dialogue in this whole series thus far. Skywarp sort of stole this scene unexpectedly. His inaccuracy when teleporting at extreme range and his general need for supervision come straight from his old Tech Specs.

[850] She means 1992, when anyone involved in the Wedge's emergency launch from Earth at the end of the original Undocumented Features had the opportunity to go back to Earth rather than stay signed up for Really Wild Space Adventures. The operation to return those who wished to go home was shown in UF 2, The Long Road.

[918] Reflects a conversation Terror and Cheryl Zukowsky had over in Rogue Squadron, and also ties into one of the design goals we had for the Cybertron Dreams revamp from the beginning, which was, "No casual binary bondings."

[1020] No accidental binary bondings, either.

[1086] Because of the damage to Megatron's gun barrel shown in the amazing Fred Perry illustration Phil commissioned to depict an earlier point in this fight, we had to lose the diamond-arc muzzle moment from the Cybertron Dreams version, but frankly I think the Ultimate Raving Beam of Death image that replaces it easily rocks as much, and has a much higher general "Megatron! Fuck yeah!" quotient (if arguably a somewhat lower Priss one).

[1145] I have a lot of love for the way Thundercracker came across here, too. It's kind of the "all Seekers have their moment" episode.

[1234] Kitbash is an original character based on a theoretical repaint/retool of the Transformers Animated Arcee toy.

[1290] One gets the impression that they've had this conversation often, starting long before Megatron was actually Kitbash's superior.

[1312] I like the way this bit unfolds a lot better than the rather wordier original. It's basically Megatron saying, without saying it, "I'm Megatron, and even in my present condition I will do whatever the hell I want."

[1344] Megatron had always intended to hand Blue over to Onslaught for the final phase of the game; he just didn't anticipate doing so because he was genuinely incapacitated.

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Well, you could put a diamond-arc somewhere else. Like, say...

> "Doom comes to Cybertron," Galvatron told him. "My mission is
> to notify the children of Primus that our dread lord approaches - and to
> demonstrate the futility of resistance by making an example of the Prime
> who presumed to oppose him four centuries ago. I am commanded to offer
> you this one chance: Join me in this divine errand and you will survive
> the apocalypse to come." Galvatron folded his arms across his barrel
> chest and smiled complacently at his template. "What say you,
> Megatron?"
> For a second or two, Megatron stood so still he might as well
> have been a mere statue, his face utterly impassive.
> Then, calmly, he replied, "I say... "

...right here.

> With a speed and decisiveness that took even Galvatron aback,
> the Decepticon commander raised his right arm and blasted Galvatron's
> grey-clad companion straight through the chest with a full-power shot
> from his fusion cannon. The blast shattered its target's plastron,
> sending his already-collapsing wreckage flying back into the structure
> behind him - which, being an ancient fuel storage tank filled with the
> fumes of its long-exhausted contents, exploded in a towering fireball
> upon the fiery wreck's impact.
> "... no," Megatron concluded.

This is actually more intellectually satisfying, from my view. Binary bonding through a smartgun link seems as practical as playing City of Heroes on a 2400 baud modem.

Peter Eng
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