of Triple Changers and Cybertronian measurements
So The Allspark Almanac finally got here. It's full of lovely pictures and information not previously known. As expected, it's also forcing me to retcon a bunch of stuff with Blitzwing. So if you see him saying something that seems to directly contradict something he's said before (especially concerning his origin), blame the fact that the information wasn't available yet.
And, so this post won't be completely useless: here's some official Cybertronian measurements from the Animated 'verse.
nanoklik: a unit of time, defined as the duration of 8,589,934,592 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the cesium 133 atom. About a second.
cycle: a unit of time equal to 100 nanokliks. About 1.5 minutes.
megacycle: a unit of time equal to 100 cycles. About 2.6 hours.
solar cycle: a unit of time equal to 10 megacycles. About a day.
deca-cycle: a unit of time equal to 10 solar cycles.
orbital cycle: a unit of time equal to 32 solar cycles. About a month.
stellar cycle: a unit of time equal to 320 solar cycles. About a year.
mechanometer: a unit of distance, defined as the distance traveled by light in a vacuum in 1 / 268,435,456 of a nanoklik. About 1 meter.
hic: a unit of distance equal to 1024 mechanometers. About 1 kilometer.
standard unit: a unit of mass, defined as 210 / (25 - 22) • 6.02214179x1023 atoms of 28Si, equal to about a kilogram.
kilounit: a unit of mass equal to 454 standard units.
I'll just be over here figuring out how to work the new information on Blitz in, and lamenting the fact that I still know next to nothing about his pre-war self.
Good times.
And, so this post won't be completely useless: here's some official Cybertronian measurements from the Animated 'verse.
nanoklik: a unit of time, defined as the duration of 8,589,934,592 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the cesium 133 atom. About a second.
cycle: a unit of time equal to 100 nanokliks. About 1.5 minutes.
megacycle: a unit of time equal to 100 cycles. About 2.6 hours.
solar cycle: a unit of time equal to 10 megacycles. About a day.
deca-cycle: a unit of time equal to 10 solar cycles.
orbital cycle: a unit of time equal to 32 solar cycles. About a month.
stellar cycle: a unit of time equal to 320 solar cycles. About a year.
mechanometer: a unit of distance, defined as the distance traveled by light in a vacuum in 1 / 268,435,456 of a nanoklik. About 1 meter.
hic: a unit of distance equal to 1024 mechanometers. About 1 kilometer.
standard unit: a unit of mass, defined as 210 / (25 - 22) • 6.02214179x1023 atoms of 28Si, equal to about a kilogram.
kilounit: a unit of mass equal to 454 standard units.
I'll just be over here figuring out how to work the new information on Blitz in, and lamenting the fact that I still know next to nothing about his pre-war self.
Good times.