Sideswiped and Pulverized

BT Toons - New (Or Rather, Old) World Order

So, a new comic is now up. This one fleshes out exposition mainly. There's a few points to get out of it which are important, and I want to clarify a few things.

So basically, Technoraptors have been appearing in the comic for the past year in cameo form. They're a long-fermenting creation of mine and have been very well developed in my brain but never used except in my own stuff. However, being the canon nazi I am, I had to justify their appearance SOMEHOW, even though this is a different continuity than that one.

So, these Technoraptors are from a timeline that may or not diverge from the continuity they were developed for, only from a point that takes place AFTER said continuity's events. They hopped realities somehow and are now here in force.

As for their method to their madness... I could write an essay on this, but I'll just say their current modus operandi is an experiment of sorts - on inferior planets they would have just razed and terraformed in the past, they're pulling the same stunts the British Empire/East India Company did and basically coercing the loyalty of the locals. Basically, as long as they get to do what they want with the planet (which isn't much- given Earth's basically backwater to them it'll just serve as a food source and as an outpost) and leave the running of it to the locals. So we still have all our contemporary politics, just with the threat of massive eradication cannons hovering in the upper atmosphere, ready to fire in case some whackjob decides to muck up the existing world order too much.

Also, since they don't fight wars as often anymore, they can get off on watching them. There's probably a John Madden equivalent somewhere critiquing the American strategy in the Middle-East with the attitude of a Technoraptor (IE, just kill everyone with scorched-earth policy and take the oil).

The grand experiment they're performing in this reality? Well, it's on a macroscale of tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of years. And I'm not going to elaborate on it here, except to say there is a purpose to not simply razing Earth. (There's actually two. But I won't get into the second one given it isn't that important)

Also of note - though most Technoraptors serve the Imperium, it seems remnants of a splinter faction have somehow arrived here. It's pointless for me to tease more given that any teasing would go over everybody's heads, as none of this backstory is published.

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In the meantime, Human Alliance Sideswipe is mine. Neat figure. Corvette mode is GORGEOUS. Robot mode suffers from big backpack syndrome. HOWEVER. It's not the worst offender. Sadly, I own the worst offender - Methkitty aka Universe Cheetor, who looks alright until you stop looking at him straight on.



Now, what's far superior is Legends Tankor. He's a repaint of the Brawl mold from the first movie, but done up as a homage to Beast Machines Tankor. Amazingly, this works INCREDIBLY well, so well that I had to pick it up JUST for the character homage, being a Tankor fan.