Two more bunnies
1. Earthborn autobots were never given cybertronian language encoding - nobody's noticed yet because they all speak in English anyway on Earth. New 'bots arrive from Cybertron and are stunned to meet someone who responds to their friendly greeting with a yell for Ratchet.
2. (G1) The crashed ship sent its occupants into stasis for 4 million years on Earth, right? Surely there must be some differences for the newly awakened.
a) On contacting Cybertron they find out that there's a peace treaty in place and rebuilding has begun
b) Non-stasis operations have continued, now both sides are much more brutal than the Earth groups - think Sentinel's battalion from Tainry's "Borealis"
2. (G1) The crashed ship sent its occupants into stasis for 4 million years on Earth, right? Surely there must be some differences for the newly awakened.
a) On contacting Cybertron they find out that there's a peace treaty in place and rebuilding has begun
b) Non-stasis operations have continued, now both sides are much more brutal than the Earth groups - think Sentinel's battalion from Tainry's "Borealis"