An incomplete list of Transformers Meta I want to write

[yvannairie]

Managed to put a few more things from this into ITB but also unfortunately added stuff. The work, it never ends.

- The differences between frame type, class and series, and the differences between actual physical and social qualities and culturally constructed ones

• Some unpacking of the differences between what I think are software-based qualities and what are hardware/firmware-based (and about the jingle-jangle of those categories in a “living” system)

• Something about the social categories and the changes to the social hierarchy before the war (i.e. “robot authoritarianism and where it all came from”)

• Aerial infrastructure, air traffic control, and the general how-tos-and-why-fors of building cities for citizens that can fly (mostly Vos and Iacon b/c holy hell there’s a lot of cities on Cybertron I know absolutely nothing about)

• Intuition, lieutenant personalities, and why Starscream makes for an excellent SIC

• Alt-form founded social identity and the frame type-frame class divide

• The political and militaristic structure of Cybertron (with an emphasis on the differences between intelligence, security and law-enforcement w/r/t the Hall of Records and the function of a standing military)

• The military-internal structures, ranks and chain of command, and how they're different between conscript-armies like the Autobots and early Decepticons and the proper structured armies.

• Combat training and software suites, and personality as a function of the firmware rather than the software

• Post, cargo and logistics on Cybertron

• Legacy, inheritance, patronage and Cybetronian "parenthood"

• Communication standards, transmission encoding and protocol -- and human language analytics

• "But why are the robots sexy?" -- aesthetics, sexuality and social bonding

• Gaia theory, and the self-similarity between Primus and Cybetronians

• Logarithmic aging and the "maturity" of evolving code.

• (Building on ITB) The mechanics of sickness from external damage to energon poisoning, or the difference between ToxEn and viral nanites + categories of injury and repair strategies

• Frame class cross-relations and why it's easier to go from a flier to a grounder than the other way around

• Beastformers, and the limits of reformatting

I've actually got a lot of my headcanon histories for characters written out, they just need to be cleaned up and posted.