Around Mission City time, there are (I think) somewhere between a hundred and two hundred, simply because they've been killing each other for a very large amount of time after the Allspark was lost and there was no reproduction. But that's after a million years (give or take) of conflict out among the stars.
The planetary cataclysm would have destroyed a million or two million, whereas the survivors would be in the number of a million or five hundred thousand, in mostly equal ratios of Autobots to Decepticons---some degree less than the number lost, but not that much. I didn't pay too much attention to detail in that part of the story, but it took maybe a half hour from that catalyst shot for the core to the point where it hit critical. The immediate effect on everyone's power stations would be blatantly obvious, and every base on the planet would go on full alert. Also, everyone on the planet would hear it, feel it, unless they were very deep in recharge.
Optimus Prime gave the evacuation order as soon as Perceptor gave his analysis; Megatron made the same call. Thus, every mech on the planet recieved a priority call to evacuate. While many ignored that in favor of fighting, those that did would immediately start lining up at the launch tubes; flyers would go out after anyone on ground patrol or leave who's far away from a launch tube. It would also be tactically necessary to be able to move large numbers of troops into space or to escape a soon-to-be-overrun base, so it would not take very long to get everybody offplanet, and the massive death toll from the earlier exchange of fire and the masses who ignored orders in favor of killing each other meant that most people who actually tried to evacuate got to do so.
I see the Transformers having had a population around five to ten million during their heyday; then the war increased the death toll while fighting over the Allspark made using it difficult, and the population dropped over time; at the end there would've been three to four million; close to a million died in the barrage of fire and perhaps half died either in combat or by falling or when the core exploded; only a few of these were still waiting for launch.
Then they continued to fight as they ranged through the stars, and that brought the population down to almost nothing as they reached Earth. I've got several plot bunnies detailing this drop in numbers, mostly about interaction of small groups of survivors who sometimes aren't sure if they're the last of their kind, which can throw a monkey wrench into faction-based hatred and reasons for fighting.
Around Mission City time, there are (I think) somewhere between a hundred and two hundred, simply because they've been killing each other for a very large amount of time after the Allspark was lost and there was no reproduction. But that's after a million years (give or take) of conflict out among the stars.
The planetary cataclysm would have destroyed a million or two million, whereas the survivors would be in the number of a million or five hundred thousand, in mostly equal ratios of Autobots to Decepticons---some degree less than the number lost, but not that much. I didn't pay too much attention to detail in that part of the story, but it took maybe a half hour from that catalyst shot for the core to the point where it hit critical. The immediate effect on everyone's power stations would be blatantly obvious, and every base on the planet would go on full alert. Also, everyone on the planet would hear it, feel it, unless they were very deep in recharge.
Optimus Prime gave the evacuation order as soon as Perceptor gave his analysis; Megatron made the same call. Thus, every mech on the planet recieved a priority call to evacuate. While many ignored that in favor of fighting, those that did would immediately start lining up at the launch tubes; flyers would go out after anyone on ground patrol or leave who's far away from a launch tube. It would also be tactically necessary to be able to move large numbers of troops into space or to escape a soon-to-be-overrun base, so it would not take very long to get everybody offplanet, and the massive death toll from the earlier exchange of fire and the masses who ignored orders in favor of killing each other meant that most people who actually tried to evacuate got to do so.
I see the Transformers having had a population around five to ten million during their heyday; then the war increased the death toll while fighting over the Allspark made using it difficult, and the population dropped over time; at the end there would've been three to four million; close to a million died in the barrage of fire and perhaps half died either in combat or by falling or when the core exploded; only a few of these were still waiting for launch.
Then they continued to fight as they ranged through the stars, and that brought the population down to almost nothing as they reached Earth. I've got several plot bunnies detailing this drop in numbers, mostly about interaction of small groups of survivors who sometimes aren't sure if they're the last of their kind, which can throw a monkey wrench into faction-based hatred and reasons for fighting.
Holy shit, that was long.
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