During October of 2015, Ask Vector Prime was taken over by various guest hosts while Vector was away, tying into the Club's "Another Light" storyline. A poll was taken on the most popular hosts, and Spacewarp, the final guest of the month on Spacewarp's Log, proved to be the second-most popular. As such, she was given her own page to detail her further adventures. Spacewarp, Just in case you haven't been following along up to this point, for the 2003 Universe toyline, a redeco of Armada Jetfire, along with his Mini-Con Comettor and the Space Mini-Con Team (Astroscope, Payload, and Sky Blast), as a Toys"R"Us exclusive Decepticon named Spacewarp, who homaged Generation 1 Astrotrain. However, this toy ultimately had no interest from any retailers, and ended up cancelled. In 2007, Fun Publications revisited this idea with the Timelines Astrotrain toy, with a new head based on the original. The Cybertron version of Astrotrain came with a Commetor redeco named Starcatcher, but because the Space Mini-Con Team's molds had degraded, he instead came with a redeco of the Cybertron Giant Planet Mini-Con Team (Longarm, Overcast, and Deepdive) as Astro-Hook, Astro-Line, and Astro-Sinker. Eight years later, Ask Vector Prime would revisit Spacewarp, giving her a gender and a personality as a Decepticon adventurer. Her Mini-Con partners were all given new identities: Comettor became Foldspace, while the Space Mini-Con Team became the Interstellar Marauders Mini-Con Team (Boom Tube, Starburst, and Jump Drive).
On November 2, her page began setting up, with her profile pic from her time as host being used again (art of her by Jesse Wittenrich), and her profile header being art of the Quartex region of space where the Rock Lords live, as seen in the Animated episode "TransWarped". Her about section gives the basic set-up: after leaving Axiom Nexus at the end of her run, she now travels around the universe.
November 3: Spacewarp's gives her introduction. Shanix was a form of currency first seen in issue #113 of the Marvel UK The Transformers comic. Spacewarp was worried about Shockwave abducting her for his experiments.
November 7: Our first post! The Pit is the Cybertronian version of hell first mentioned in the Beast Wars cartoon. Sparks were established to be made of positrons in the Beast Machines episode "Spark of Darkness". Moldavite I and Moldavite IV are in the same system as Moldavite VI, a planet known to be the home of Forever Glass, mentioned in issue #11 of IDW Publishing's More than Meets the Eye series. Moldavite I's alternative name, Pellucidus, and much of the idea for this post, comes from Pellucidar, a land inside the hollow Earth in a series of novels by Edgar Rice Burroughs, who first introduced the land in At the Earth's Core. Astroseconds were first mentioned in the Sunbow The Transformers episode "Transport to Oblivion". Pellucidar was accessible from the outside of Earth by polar tunnels; it was inhabited by prehistoric beasts, and had a sun in the middle of the planet, which is mirrored here by a heat and light generating crystal. The male Inner Moldavites are based on cowboys, while the females are based on the Amazon warrior woman stereotype, and named Valkyries, after the goddesses who select those who live and die in battle in Norse mythology; they also use stereotypical viking stuff, although both sides are science fiction-ized a little, with laser six-shooters and laser swords. Teximite Morbidius' name is pretty obvious. We'll go over who the Cybertronian is in the next piece; more blending of classical ideas here, with the Greek influence on the marble temple, and the sort of "god worshiping" seen in various classical stories about indigenous tribes. Frag is a standard sci-fi swear.
November 14: Continuing on from last post, Chromia is repurposed from the Galaxy Force Chromia White Version toy (known in America as Cybertron Thunderblast), redecoed from her normal toy in Super-God Masterforce Minerva colors. That toy was still a Decepticon, but she's depicted as an Autobot here, separate from Thunderblast. "Woah, Nelly" is a phrase you use to make a horse stop running. More pulp elements, with "Trial by Combat" between Spacewarp and Chromia. Halberd and glaives are types of pole-based weaponry. "Grand Poobah" is a term for a haughty individual, originating from the character Pooh-Bah from the Gilbert and Sullivan opera The Mikado. Sharkticons were the robotic servants of the Quintessons, first introduced in The Transformers: The Movie. An "entrance to another world that only opens every decade" is another classical fantasy element. Gurunium was a metal used in the construction of Victory Leo's body in the Victory manga. The Rajos River is named for Rojas, a martian from another Edgar Rice Burroughs series, the Barsoom series, specifically, Lllana of Gathol. Piranythons are a combination of piranhas and pythons, while Crocopotomuses are combinations of crocodiles and hippopotamuses. Living statues are another fantasy staple, though poetry-spouting spiders are new to me. We get a wild west duel between Spacewarp and Tex. Interstellar freighter's probably a generic term, but they were mentioned in the Transformers Choose-Your-Own-Adventure book Desert of Danger. Salvvatan III is in the same system as Salvvatan VI and Salvvatan VIII, seen in IDW Publishing's Spotlight: Metroplex.
November 20: The distress signal comes from Galaxy Shuttle, as we shall see, who was "attacked" while ferrying Vector Prime to Nebulos over in Ask Vector Prime.
November 21: Andegeans were a sentient reptiles seen in Blackthorne Publishing's Transformers in 3-D issue #3. Galaxy Shuttle was modified to look like one of their ships to allow him to get in range of Nebulos. A xebec was a type of Mediterranean sailing ship used mainly for trade. "Javil-on-the-spot" is a reference to the American slang term "Johnny-on-the-spot"; Javil was one of the Decepticon Sparkdash drones from Super-God Masterforce, redecoed from the Firecon Sparkstalker. Functionism is the belief that a Transformer's alt-mode should dictate their life, which led to a caste system on pre-war Cybertron; it was seen in IDW Publishing's comics, especially those by James Roberts.
Muons are a real type of particle. Frellus IV was first seen in the Facebook page Tornado - Decepticon Saboteur, inhabited by a species known as the Hasmata. The commercials for pharmaceuticals is basically Viagra, but for the Hasmata, their ears appear to be part of the reproductive process. Frellus VIII is new here. In the 2012 More than Meets the Eye annual, "city-bots" were given the name Metrotitans, after the city-bot of the same name from Zone, thought it became clear later on this was in error and they were meant to simply be called "Titans". Swindle is greedy, of course. Not sure if Dren'ead's ship (as we'll later learn the creature's name is) is a reference to anything. The "scorpion-chick" is Scorpia, Vector Prime's bodyguard. Both Vector Prime and Spacewarp had indicated the two had previously encoutnered each other. The "techno-cudgel" is basically a toy, which is explained later on for why it keeps "talking" when Dren'ead waves it around. The Inferno was an early name for the Pit in the Beast Wars cartoon, used before Inferno the character was introduced.
November 22: Scorpia and Vector seem to have begun their hinted-at relationship. A spark attack is the Transformer equivalent to a heart attack, mentioned in the second pack-in comic for the Energon toyline. I'm not sure if Dren'ead's name is a ref to anything. He and his father don't appear to be a reference to any specific species from the franchise. "Get the heck outta Dodge" is an American idiom, originating to both 19th century Dodge City as a cattle town, and the radio/television series Gunsmoke. Dren'ead's chewing on his "manipulatory appendages" is him sucking on his thumb. Dren'strm's name isn't a reference either, as far as I can tell. "Astramech" is a new term to describe Cybertronians (robots animated by an energy-based "soul) that will go on to see use in Beast Wars: Uprising. The idea of the old getting smaller as they age wouldn't work in real life, but hey! That's why it's real life. The Triangulum galaxy is a real place. The spaceship looks odd because it's a toy, and the cudgel talks because it's essentially a toy baseball bat. Gold-pressed latinum is a form of currency used by the Ferengi in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. The "moon" is the spaceship.
November 28: Hoo, this is a long one. Ulchtar was the pre-production name of Generation 1 Starscream. In The AllSpark Almanac II, an alternate version of Starscream was given that name. To explain: Ulchtar specifically came from the universe of The Energon Within, a Flash mini-game available on the CD-ROMs packed with the first wave of toys in the Universe toyline. The game opened up with a little "comic", depicting Megatron demanding for Starscream to collect 100 Energon cubes. Conveniently, "Starscream" was never named, so Jim decided to name that version, Ulchtar. According to Vector Prime, Spacewarp also hails from a universe for a Flash mini-game; in particular, the Transformers Cybertron: Primus Unleashed game. Hence, her "Starscream" is also named Ulchtar.
The TransTech version of Starscream is the Intelligence Director of Axiom Nexus. Following this, we have a brief summary of Starscream/Ulchtar's actions in Armada, Energon, and Cybertron. Starscream defected to the Autobots in the episode "Regeneration", before going back to the Decepticons in "Crack". He died firing on Unicron in "Cramp". In Energon, an amnesiac Starscream was revived by Alpha Quintesson in "Starscream the Mysterious Mercenary". He died following Megatron into the Energon Sun in "The Sun". For Cybertron, he was revived some point before the series began. Although he started his betrayal early, he outright defected away from Megatron's Decepticons in "Trap". He was turned into a combiner-sized giant in "Starscream", and temporarily became the size of Primus in "Titans". He vanished in "Showdown".
December 5: King Arthur Pendragon is a legendary British king, generally considered by historians an amalgamation of various legendary kings and generals, and from whom the Arthurian legends like the Knights of the Round Table center around. Hourglass is a new character, who derives her name from both the time-keeping device due to her time-traveling powers, and the term "hourglass figure", generally connected to the female body shape. A trollop is a vulgar and impolite woman. The idea of King Arthur in the 31st century, awakening after centuries of being kept in stasis, likely stems from Camelot 3000, a comic published by DC Comics, written by Mike W. Barr, penciled by Brian Bolland, inked by Bruce Patterson and Terry Austin, and lettered by Tatjana Wood. Avalon is an island from Arthurian legend, where his sword, Excalibur, was forged. The 31st-century version of Great Britain has expanded to most of the world's islands; aside from the modern components of the United Kingdom (England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales), it now consists of Ireland; North Atlantic Nordic country Iceland; Greenland, the world's largest island, part of the American continent but associated with the Kingdom of Denmark; continent/island Australia; the nearby island New Zealand; New Guinea, associated with the Australian continent; Madagascar, an island in the Indian Ocean off the coast of East Africa; Caribbean island Cuba; Manhattan, Staten Island, and Long Island, New York's islands; the various Canadian Island Territories, which includes roughly 30,000 islands; East Asian island Japan; Southeast Asian Island Borneo; the Caribbean island Hispaniola; Norwegian archipelago Svalbard; South American archipelago Tierra Del Fuego; American territory Puerto Rico; Southeast Asian island Indonesia; the 7,641 islands making up the Southeast Asian archipelagic country of the Philippines; Russian island Sakhalin; and East Asian island Taiwan.
The Spectral Knights and the Darkling Lords were the good and evil factions from Hasbro's Visionaries toyline and cartoon, magical knights from the planet of Prysmos, who fought after the Age of Science was stopped by the Age of Magic. The Inhumanoids, meanwhile, were subterranean monsters from Hasbro's Inhumanoids toyline and cartoon. Looks like no one cares about Antarctica and the Arctic. The Royal Navy, is, of course, the UK's navy. Ramak was a cancelled Series 2 Spectral Knight for Visionaries, while Galadria was a Spectral Knight who only appeared in the cartoon and Marvel comic. Mahina is a moon goddess from Hawaiian mythology. Braxe was a cancelled Series 2 Darkling Lord.
December 12: Primus transformed into a robot form from Cybertron in, appropriately enough, the Cybertron cartoon. You probably know what priests and preachers are, but for the rest: the Pope is (usually) the head of the Catholic Church. Pharaohs were monarchs in ancient Egypt, who served as the messenger of the gods to the people. A potentate is another term for a monarch. A parson is the priest of an independent parish church. A prelate is a high ranking member of a clergy in Catholicism. The Pharisees were a social movement and the main basis for Rabbinic Judaism. A pontiff was a member of the highest college of priests in the Roman era, the College of Pontiffs, and was later used to refer to any high ranking priest in general. And a vicar is a representative in several branches of Christianity.
A "milk run" is a term dating back to World War II, used by American and British forces to describe a mission that was expected to face minimal enemy resistance. Power converters is a fairly generic term, but I'm willing to bet it's a reference to the technology mentioned by Luke Skywalker in Star Wars: A New Hope. Regalis III is presumably in the same system as Regalis V, the planet from where Beast Machines Botanica picked up her plant alternate form, as mentioned in "Wreckers: Finale Part II". Armada Thrust, a tactician, was noted to have won the Decepticons major victories on a number of planets, including Duke, in the episode "Linkup". A mention of Energon Shockblast here; it was noted in the Japanese version of "Alpha Q: Identity" that he previously served in Tidal Wave's platoon, Tidal Wave himself under the command of Thrust. Hexacrates sounds like a generic term. Greater Ecclestius takes its name from Ecclesiastes, one of the books in the Tanahk (specifically, the Greek name for the book). A very Indiana Jones-esque adventure follows. The Omni-Mouth is prooobbabbly another name for Unicron. The Key of Typhus takes its name from an alternative spelling of Typhon, a serpentine monster from Greek mythology. Antu-particle looked like a misspelling of "anti" originally, but Antu was the first consort of Anu from Babylonian mythology.
December 20: In case you didn't know, Spacewarp's Mini-Con partners had their characterizations inspired by characters from Futurama. Foldspace was based on Professor Farnsworth, Boom Tube on Amy Wong, Starburst on Dr. Zoidberg, and Jump Drive on Hermes Conrad. Like Conrad and Zoidberg, Jump Drive dislikes Starburst.
December 27: Spacewarp paraphrases lyrics from Eminem's rap song "The Real Slim Shady" here. Quintesson music hasn't ever been seen, I think. The Szorians were mentioned in issue #6 of the Marvel Generation 2 music. Ragnarok & Roll was mentioned in The AllSpark Almanac II, and took its name from the title of an episode of The Real Ghostbusters.
Now onto 2016:
January 3: "Fo shizzle" is something of a catchphrase of rapper Snoop Dogg. The offworlder Spacewarp mentions is Autobot X, an Autobot made out of spare parts that was used to store Spike Witwicky's lifeforce while his body was going through a medical procedure, as seen in the Sunbow The Transformers episode "Autobot Spike".
January 7: A new header is used today, rendering Transformers: Spacewarp's Log in the style of the logo of Star Trek: The Next Generation, with a picture of space in the background.
January 10: Spacewarp quotes the lyrics from the song "Poker Face" by Lady Gaga. A comment tries to get her to quote lyrics from another Lady Gaga song, "Paparazzi".
January 17: Ask Vector Prime established that in some realities, the Greek Olympian gods were really holomatter avatars of the Thirteen. Evidently, that's what this guy asking the question was referring to. Varus VI is in the same system as Varus-5, a planet mentioned in issue #4 of IDW Publishing's Beast Wars: The Ascending. Steampunk is a subgenre of science fiction, with futuristic machines made of the steam and gear-base machinery of the Industrial Revolution. The depiction of exo-suited soldiers sounds vaguely similar to Warhammer 40,000, but I don't know enough about it to say for sure. A pit boss is someone who oversees a casino and the dealers there. Not sure if the Varusians' description is a ref to anything, "Any port in a storm" is a proverb believed to originate from the English erotic novel Fanny Hill. A linothorax is a type of upper body armor used in the ancient Mediterranean. A Thracian helmet is a type of helmet from Classical Greece, named for their resemblance to the caps worn by the people of Thrace. Greaves are a type of leg armor, mentioned in many ancient Greek texts, such as Homer's Iliad. Gear golumns are presumably golems (an artificial being from Jewish folklore) made of gears.
The guy who Spacewarp teams up with is Odysseus, a mythological Greek hero, and central character of Homer's other epic, the Odyssey. There, he was depicted as the king of Ithaca, his island home, which is believed to be the same place as modern Ithaca, although there's some debate about that. Transformers often mix up how old humans can live. The Odyssey focused on Odysseus and his men return from Troy after the Trojan War to Ithaca. His wife is Penelope, while his son is Telemachus. Calypso is a nymph (supernatural entities from Greek mythology), who held Odysseus on her island Ogygia, as told in the Odyssey. The Eastern Island Heads are Moai, monolithic human figures carved by the Rapa Nui people of Eastern Island in east Polynesia; pop culture sometimes associates them with aliens due to their exaggerated appearance. Cyvasse is a board game from George R.R. Martin's novel series, A Song of Fire and Ice. The story of the Trojan Horse from Virgil's Aeneid, which is filtered through Spacewarp's misunderstanding. The Greek siege on Troy took ten years. The Trojan Horse obviously didn't transform, but instead was used to get the Greeks inside. The actual phrase Spacewarp is thinking of is unrelated; "don't look a gift horse in the mouth." In English, it was first mentioned in a 1546 epigram by English writer John Heywood, but it's earliest origin is traced back to St. Jerome's Latin commentary on the Epistle to the Ephesians, from 400 A.D.
January 22: We have hints for what's coming tomorrow, with a screencap of the setting of the Robotix cartoon, Skalorr (from the episode "Battle of the Titans") set up as the new header.
January 23: Robotix was a 1986 animated miniseries produced by Sunbow Productions and Marvel Productions, and animated by Toei, the same team behind The Transformers, G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero, Visionaries: Knights of the Magical Light, and more. Each episode was 6 minutes, and ran as part of the Super Sunday series, a half hour block of four series of animated cartoons; aside from Robotix, there was Jem and the Holograms, Inhumanoids, and Bigfoot and the Muscle Machines. The cartoon was based off of the Milton Bradley children's construction toys of the same name, similar to Erector Sets or K'Nex. What little backstory the toyline gave, featuring warring armies of humanoids piloting reconfigurable ships, was ignored; instead, the Robotix began life as Protecton and Terrakors, two sentient species of reptiles living on the planet Skalorr. The peaceful Protectons fought against the evil Terrakor raiders led by Nemesis, who constantly attempted to steal the sentient computer in charge of the planet, Compu-Core, so Nemesis could have it pilot his warship, the Terrastar. However, when one of their suns began the process of going nova, the two species were forced to work together, and Compu-Core, the sentient computer in charge of much of Skalorr, placed them into stasis. Unfortunately, when radiation leaked into the Compu-Core's chamber, the computer was forced to absorb their essences from the Protectons and Terrakors. whose bodies were ruined. After three million years, the radiation subsided, and Compu-Core uploaded several Protecton and Terrakors into Robotix bodies she had designed to help repair Skalorr after the two races awoke. After waking up, the two factions started fighting again. They were aided by a group of humans who crash landed on Skalorr; the Protectons teamed up with Captain Exeter Galaxon, while the ship's traitorous lieutenant commander Kanawk and his fellow deserters worked with the Terrakors. Each Robotix had a cockpit that, when occupied by a human, allowed them to interface, reconfiguring their bodies, with new weapons, tools, and vehicle-like forms.
Eventually, Hasbro sold the toyline rights, and it is currently owned by Robotics and Things, who sell them as a STEM-based educational toy. However, they still own the rights to the cartoon, and it was released on DVD in the United Kingdom and Ireland back in 2003. In 2010, The AllSpark Almanac II linked the two eerily similar franchises together, retconning that the Robotix were the Transformers in a universe in the far reaches of the multiverse, with Skalorr being an alternate version of Cybertron, and Compu-Core being linked to Vector Sigma. The book, along with a few other pieces of fiction by Jim Sorenson, introduced more Robotix concepts in various pieces of fiction, such as the Protectons and Terrakors as factions. And so, with Spacewarp's Log, we get an actual Transformers/Robotix crossover for the next two days. Jim was assisted by Alan Swayze, the original story editor for the Robotix cartoon, who recalled what he could and dug up documents for the show for Jim, and fan David Thorn, who owned copies of the show's bible. The posts emulate the format of the show, with a cliffhanger for each post or "episode".
Anyway, on to:
Post 1: Hourglass was mentioned back in the post about King Arthur. Bombshell, her sister, obviously shares her name with the Insecticon, but like Hourglass, her name is a reference to a beauty term: an attractive sex symbol. This adventure seems to be set after Spacewarp met Foldspace, but before she met the Interstellar Marauders. Scraplets are metal-eating parasites introduced in the Marvel The Transformers comics. Hadean was the star that Cybertron was said to orbit in the pseudo-canonical novella Alignment, written by Simon Furman to tie up loose ends from Marvel's Generation 2 comic. The sun was canonized in The AllSpark Almanac II, where Cybertron was established to be part of the Hadean System.
The ship that attacks Spacewarp here is the one that attacked the human ship at the beginning of the Robotix cartoon in "Battle of the Titans"; more on that in a bit. It went unnamed in the cartoon, but Marvel published a one-issue Robotix comic that adapted the events of the first three episodes of the cartoon. Aside from the post using the spelling of the names we see here (unlike every other site chronicling the cartoon on the internet, which essentially uses the best guess), it gave several other details; the ship that pursued them was an Ejoornian Zanque-class dreadnought. In The AllSpark Almanac II, they were connected to the aliens seen in the IDW Publishing Transformers: Defiance mini-series, a prequel comic to the Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie. The Axiom Nexus Auto-Censors were introduced in Ask Sideways. As previously mentioned, The AllSpark Almanac II established that Skalorr was a version of Cybertron; other versions of Cybertron in the multiverse had been known as Skalorr before when it was an organic planet, until the Quintessons eco-structured it. The red sun Spacewarp sees is Skalorr's remaining sun. The asteroid field was seen in the final episode of the series, "The Final Attack", where the Terrakors were stranded after the Terrastar was destroyed, as we see here. The AllSpark Almanac II noted that the Xobitor cluster (where Robotix takes place) was thirteen million years behind the standard Cybertronian technological levels of the multiverse. The Robotix body's modularity was seen throughout the series, powered by interfacing with the humans; presumably, since the Robotix were designed as vehicles for rebuilding the planet, the Protectons and Terrakors would have interfaced with the machines themselves. The interfacing process is noted to be similar to powerlinxing, the process by which a Mini-Con partners to a larger Transformer, granting them power and new abilities. More on the Terrakor (and Protecton) symbols in a bit.
They all get named here, but as a list for referencing, the Terrakors and their allies include: their Megatron-esque leader Nemesis, partnered with the former Lieutenant Commander of the human ship (which I will give the name of in a bit), the cunning and treacherous Kanawk Creant; traitorous, Starscream-esque second-in-command Tyrannix, partnered to cool, slick, intelligence officer Gaxon Graves; serpentine Steggor, partnered with the cowardly navigator Nomo Yel; the simplistic Goon, partnered with uptight security chief Loopis Cur; and the quiet Venturak, a former double agent amongst the Protectons (we'll get to that in a bit), partnered with shifty communications officer Traxis Janussen. In the show, only captain Exeter Galaxon was given a name; what little material for the Robotix toyline there is online shows that the Tyrannix toy did come with a humanoid figured named Gaxon Graves. Otherwise, presumably all these names either came from the show bible, or are all-new. Nemesis, Tyrannix, Steggor, and Goon were the first Terrakors to show up in the cartoon; Venturak showed up later in "A Spy is Born", when Nemesis infiltrated Compu-Core's compound while the Protectons were distracted, and had Compu-Core replace the recently brought-online Protecton Kontor's essence with Terrakor spy Venturak.
The ship the humans arrived on Skalorr with was unnamed in the cartoon, but the comic gave her name as the Daniel Boone, a ship from Earth named after the 18-19th century American pioneer. I believe this is the first indication that the show was in the 22nd century; again, it might come from the show bible, or be complete made up here. "Needed concern" is probably meant to be "need not concern". The energo-sword was the weapon of Generation 1 Dinobots Grimlock, Slag, Sludge, and Snarl; "not the sharpest energo-sword in the arsenal" is a play on "not the sharpest tool in the shed", an idiom of unknown origin. The backstory of the Protectons and Terrakors was given in the episodes "Paradise Lost" and "Traitor In Our Midst", and is practically repeated verbatim here. The Robotix cartoon took place over a couple of days.
The valley seen here is the location of the oasis seen in the episodes "Firestorm at the Oasis" and "Captured"; Compu-Core stated in that episode that the oasis was 47 dronex north of the crystal mountains, dronex being an original term for a unit of measurement. Hics are a form of measurement mentioned in the Marvel UK Transformers Annual 1991 story, "The Magnificent Six!" The crystal mountains, or Siliton Mountains, as the show later calls them, is where the crystals used to power the Protecton and Terrakors' Robotix forms are found; they seen in the episodes "Zarru Takes the Plunge", "Attack of the Rock Creatures", and "All for One". Zanadon was the flying city where the Protectons lived prior to their sun going nova, and the Protectons briefly used it as a base in the cartoon, before the Terrastar shot it down in "The Final Attack". "Firestorm at the Oasis", along with a few other episodes, established that most of Skalorr's food supply was irradiated and inedible. Attached the post, we have a screencap of the Terrakors from "The Final Attack"; clockwise from the top right we have: Venturak, Steggor, Nemesis, Tyrannix, and Goon.
The Daniel Boone was established to have been launched from the Earth space probe, Deep Space Probe Delta, in the Marvel comic adaptation. She's established to be a Pioneer class here, since she's named after a famous pioneer. Apparently, Spacewarp met him, along with fellow 18/19th century American folk hero Davy Crockett. It's been indicated that he did wear a coonskin cap at some point in his life, but it's often associated with him thanks to the Walt Disney-produced miniseries, Davy Crockett. The image of the Daniel Boone is taken from the episode "Crash Landing".
Post 2: To start off, I'll go through the Protecton members and their allies. Argus is the noble leader of the Protectons, partnered with the captain of the Daniel Boone, Exeter Galaxon. Nara, Argus' lover and the only female member of the Protectons, is partnered with medical officer Steth Allo. The reliable strongbot Bront is partnered with the logical scientist Tauron Oxon. Jerrok, the smallest and fastest of the Protectons, is partnered with chief engineer Sphero Sol. And the bestial Boltar is partnered with operations officer Flexor Tul. Additionally, there is the youngest member of the crew, teenage boy Zarru. Argus, Nara, Bront, and Jerrok were the first group of Protectons to show up in the cartoon; Boltar's body was built out of parts found in Zanadon and powered with Boltar's essence in "The Factory of Death". Traxis always seemed slightly less evil than the other Terrakor-aligned humans. As previously mentioned, Compu-Core has stored the entirety of Skalorr's civilization in her databanks. Attached to the post is a screencap of the Protectons from "The Final Attack"; from left to right we have Boltar, Argus, Nara, Bront, and Jerrok. The Protectons and Terrakors had their own, vague faction symbols, based of symbols seen on the toys; attached to a comment on the post is Spacewarp's IFF ("identification, friend or foe") data on the two factions. Predacon Cybertronix (the cipher language of the faction from Beast Wars). In the top left, it says IFF. The yellow Protecton symbol is annotated with a note saying "PROTECTON DANGER LEVEL MODERATE TO LOW". The green Terrakor symbol is labelled with a note saying "TERRAKOR DANGER LEVEL HIGH". The two Cybertronix "emoticons" don't say anything in particular (the one near the Protecton symbol translates to two apostrophes above an H, while the one near the Terrakor symbol translates to two 9s above four Js), but instead represent Protecton and Terrakor faces. In the bottom right it says "UPDATE CAC3221682 SKALORR"; I'm not sure if "CAC3221682" is a reference to anything. "Honor among thieves" is a phrase originating from Athenian philosopher Plato.
Post 3: Compu-Core was obtained by the Terrakors in "Battle for Zanadon". Another mention of the unit of measurement, dronex. More on the crystalline circuit-sphere in a second. Attached to the post is a screencap of Compu-Core from "Battle for Zanadon", with some electrical effects added to represent her breaking down.
In The AllSpark Almanac II, it was revealed that Compu-Core was a node of Vector Sigma, the super-computer from the original The Transformers cartoon, which was at the time a multiverse singularity. The crystalline circuit-sphere that controls it is presumably the node through which it connects. Spacewarp finds it familiar, though her home universe does not have a Vector Sigma, it would seem. The image attached is a recolored version of the animation model for the Matrix of Leadership from the Sunbow The Transformers cartoon. Binary bonding is how a Nebulan or human or otherwise bonds with a Transformers to become a Headmaster, and other such things. G.I. Joe: Sigma 6 was the 2005 to 2007 revival of the franchise.
January 24:
Post 1: As seen in "A Spy is Born", Venturak's body was initially intended for Kontor, the Protecton who helped design Zanadon. Venturak spent much of the series pretending to be him. The giant apes are versions of one of the Trans-Organics from the Sunbow The Transformers episode "The Dweller in the Depths", where it was just one singular being; it is, of course, the source of the screencap. Airlandia was the setting of Hasbro's Air Raiders toyline; the Tyrants of Wind were the main antagonists of the toyline.
Post 2: The Jumpstarters-Autobot brothers Topspin and Twin Twist-were part of the original toyline, toys with a spring loaded transformation gimmick, whose bios claimed they could transform in half a second. At several points in this post and the next, Bront is referred to as Boltar accidentally, while Argus is accidentally referred to as Argon. Attached is an image of the Terrakor-aligned humans from "Attack of the Rock Creatures"; from left to right is Traxis, Gaxon, Kanawk, Loopis, and Nomo. The comment is pretty funny.
Post 3: Zanadon had closable "domes", which helped protect the inside of the city, presumably with some kind of force field. Transformers having automatic repair circuits is a fairly common thing. "SAMs" are surface-to-air missiles. Seeds are set up for a potential third "series" of Robotix, here. Another mention of Kontor. The ultra-rare metal arimaxium and stasis tube designer Diplodome were mentioned in the Robotix show bible, not showing up in the final cartoon or comic issue. The Terrakor's home. Terracoria, appeared in "The Lost Cities". Another screencap from "The Final Attack" to represent the Protecton-aligned humans; from left to right is Sphero, Steth, Flexor, Exeter, Tauron, and Zarru.
The Lunartix Empire were the main villains of the G.I. Joe: Star Brigade range of figures, evil alien bounty hunters. Sparky the sentient pulsar is all-new here. Pentamorph is a Quintesson, one of the biggest non-human aliens in the franchise, first appearing in The Transformers: The Movie; penta, like "quintus", means five. Cyberglyphics is the Cybertronian language seen in the live-action movies, first given that name in Revenge of the Fallen. Baba Yaga is a witch from Slavic folklore, who lives in a house with chicken legs. Gilgamesh was the historical king of the Sumerian city-state Uruk, whose deeds were chronicled in one of the earliest surviving pieces of literature, the Epic of Gilgamesh. Pequod was planet filled with mercury oceans seen in issue #64 of the Marvel The Transformers comic.
January 31: And so, we reach our final post (from Spacewarp herself). The events of this post were set up the previous day on Ask Vector Prime. Parthus and the Parthinian Raiders were seen in the Challenge of the GoBots episode ""Et Tu, Cy-Kill"". Spacewarp refers to the Parthinians as Wizard of Oz-rejects, in reference to the flying monkeys seen both in the 1900 book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and the 1939 MGM film adaptation, The Wizard of Oz. Three Amigos is the title of a 1986 comedy western. The Lattice of Armageddon doesn't appear to be a reference to anything; Spiral Yōkai is named after Yōkai, supernatural entities in Japanese folklore. The Shroud is the name that Axiom Nexus has given to the thickening of the multiversal walls, as caused by Nexus Prime in "Another Light". I don't think we saw Parthus' moons in the episode, but I'm not sure. I believe that Spacewarp trans-scans the battle cruiser. The ship and/or the entity are some kind of god and former multiversal singularity named Physis, although whether or not they're related to Primus and the others is unclear. Physis' name comes from a Greek philosophic term that is often translated in English as "nature." It shares several similarities with the supercomputer that brings Transformers to life, Vector Sigma, from Sunbow's The Transformers; its noted to be multi-faceted, and its line "You may call me Physis. Before the multiverse/megaverse was, I was." is paraphrased from Vector Sigma's introduction in "The Key to Vector Sigma, Part 1". Laser cores were power sources powering Cybertronians that were mentioned several times in the Sunbow The Transformers cartoon, and have been linked to sparks in modern fiction. The idea of the Megaverse comes from the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe-the Megaverse covers series published by them that don't really fit into the main Multiversal model, such as the New Universe or the Ultraverse. Physis' speech patterns seem to be inspired by the speech patterns of Barbelith, a satellite-like object from Grant Morrison's comic book series, The Invisibles; this in-turn inspired Johnathan Hickman to give those speech patterns to the Celestials, the cosmic gods in Marvel introduced in Jack Kirby's The Eternals, during his run on Fantastic Four. And so Spacewarp leaves to go back home, and have even more adventures. Vector Prime answers a comment asking about the Parthinians, posting an image of their character model.
May 2: Spacewarp's profile picture is changed to a mock-up of her toy as part of the Double Pretender Megatron toy, sold as part of the fifth Transformers Figure Subscription Service. A post by Vector Prime posts to urge fans to go sign up for the TFSS, so as to reciever her toy. And Megatron, too, I guess. But we all know what you're really after! The image is attached again to said post.