stardrive

Stardrive is the saddest woobie to ever grace Transformers media and I want to protect her so badly. Nobody has ever loved her, and she’s barely been shown respect or recognized as a person. I reread the whole mini today and I remembered she was very sad but the depths of sadness she experiences still got me. And she’s only five years old!! I wanna see her school days and her adventures before meeting Prowl. I want her to show up in another continuity. She deserves the world!

IDW Stardrive

Half wraith form under the cut for original requester

I am still alive 😭 🙏🏻

Hi! This isn't really an ask so much as a comment - I read one of your books back in probably the early 2000s, I think it was an Alternity novel? And I don't remember name of the book but I remember your name (mostly because of the fun duality of it being the same name twice but with a different vowel), and I don't remember the plot of the story, but there was a part that I think kindled my interest in linguistics! The main character was trying to say something to someone else in another language and it was the equivalent of like, trying to indicate something made you way happier by saying "happierererer" and I just found the idea fascinating, and that has stuck with me to this day. I also remember generally liking the book, so thanks! If I still have it I think I'll go read it again.

Thank you! --Though for a moment I couldn't think which novel you meant: it would've been one of the "StarDrive"-branded trilogy.

Anyway, I'm glad you liked it! Those were fun to write. :)

Coeli's Picks: Men, part 3 (Dishonorable Mention)

Just in time for April Fool's Day, here are some truly eyebrow-raising and head-scratching costumes. I know neither of these shows had a huge budget, but that's no excuse.

Coeli's comments:

"If I had to look at them, so do you!"

Blake's 7 (s4e4, "Stardrive")

"Punk space pirates who totally fail to come across as menacing:"

Doctor Who (s10 e5, "Carnival of Monsters") / Leslie Dwyer as Vorg (and Cheryl Hall as Shirna)

No seriously, why is his costume Fruit Loops?

I've been re-reading some chapters of The echo garden and happened to remember this scene so I have two questions.

1. Will we see Stardrive again?

2. Who was Stardrive referring to when she said this

Her body slumped. Her eyes went white. Her field sharpened. “Soundwave. You're in his mind.”

Was it Astrotrain? Maybe Im just delulu but Im sure its him.

1) no, not in this fic. I’ve thought she would be great for a sequel, though. so if i write a sequel, she might be back

2) Rodimus :D When she was trying to tear into Rodimus, she saw Soundwave in his mind, and vice versa with Soundwave. That’s how she knows to hurt him with the phrase “you’re not good enough for Rodimus”.

Transformers ask: Stardrive

Oh now *THAT* is the kind of lesser knowm character I'm talking about.

So to integrate her into a story I'd have to change her character and backstory a bit....Have her be part of a crew of Autobot's who were stranded on Mars in the time between the Ark's landing and reawakening (Something close to Sentinel Prime in DotM but not exactly) and then take her Cybertronian Knight idea and make it more Ronin, someone wandering the moon and protecting a ghost ship until she's found.

As for her alt mode.... canonically she knows she's different from other Cybertronians, being raised among organic lifeforms and I feel like there's only one vehicle we have that fits

The opportunity Rover

What is the story of stardrive in idw2019?

Dear Stardrive Seeker,

Not all newly-forged Cybertronians spend their early lives on Cybertron—always, there are those Cybertronians born with an instinctual thirst for adventure, who yearn to venture beyond the confines of their metallic homeworld. Thus, in the years following the War of the Threefold Spark, the Cybertronian government authorized the creation of a cultural exchange program between the Cybertronian commonwealth and some friendly galactic neighbors, an incentive program where newly forged Cybertronians could study abroad on a diverse range of planets, assimilating the local culture and language as part of a possible career in Xeno-Relations.

I should comment, briefly, on the history of the Solstar Order—it originated corewards of Cybertron, not far from the barricaded region of space known as the “Quintessence”, and expanded outwards not through conquest, but by carefully negotiating trade agreements and alliances with alien civilizations and gradually building a strong federation of many diverse species: Elonians, Intriessians, Karkans, and more. By the era of the Nominus Edict, the borders of the Solstar Order nearly bumped up against remote Cybertronian colonies like Velocitron and Omicron. Despite their proximity, the two star-nations had only ever enjoyed a strained relationship. The Solstar Order consolidated much of its recent power by absorbing the defeated remnants of other empires, smashed to bits by Cybertronian hegemony—in particular, a large contingent of Szorian refugees who’d seen their homeworld obliterated by the Titan Waypoint eyed the Transformers with a deep and abiding distrust. More recently, tensions flared when unscrupulous elements of the Cybertronian government conspired with the ambitious Natalus to abruptly declare that the planet Probat was a Cybertronian colony, despite the fact that no Cybertronians lived there—deliberately smashing years of careful accession agreements that would’ve seen the citizens of Probat join their galactic government.

Into this already-tense environment came Stardrive—already a model mentee with a rare triple-changing bodyframe, a knack for languages, and eying a possible career in Xeno-Relations—who announced that she would like to study abroad on the planet Elonia. The request, while highly unusual, went through, and before long Stardrive had arrived in Solstar space and enrolled in a xeno-linguistics program on the planet Ofsted XVII, with a minor in astro-navigation. Although she faced prejudice and even outright discrimination from many of her organic classmates—and indeed, more than one lecture hall had to be renovated so that she could fit into their classrooms—Stardrive persevered.

One day, Stardrive and her class were on a field trip to monitor the unique phenomenon known as the “Quintessence”, a seemingly insurmountable barrier of electrical energy that prevented the Solstar Order from expanding any closer to the galactic core. Suddenly, while monitoring the phenomenon aboard an orbital research station, Stardrive witnessed a bizarre astrological phenomenon: what appeared to be a nebula somehow shifted into a massive portal that crackled with arcane power, a gateway through which a new kind of shapeshifting lifeform came to attack their vessel! The creatures, their slug-like bodies immune to conventional weaponsfire, easily breached the station’s hull and devoured many of the beings inside. Those who survived were infected with toxic biomatter and converted into more of their kind. However, the invaders hadn’t prepared to deal with a Cybertronian, whose mechanical biology rendered her immune to their necrotic touch, and whose tight-beam plasma blasters could simply burn through their arcane biology. Fighting her way through the hordes, Stardrive piled as many students as she could—including their professor, Rom K’atsema—into her space fighter alternate mode, then beat a hasty retreat as the station exploded behind her.

By the time Stardrive limped back to Elonia, it soon became clear that the Solstar Order faced a grave crisis. The “Dire Wraiths”, as they were now called, had launched coordinated invasions of outlying worlds like Xeres and Buras, and lightly-armed planetary garrisons had already been overwhelmed. Although the Solstar Order’s celebrated diplomatic corps had long since assumed that they could defuse any problem with negotiations, it soon became clear that they were fighting an enemy that had no obvious means of communications, and would accept nothing less than total extinction. It soon became clear that the Solstar Order would need something new to combat the hordes… and, eventually, all eyes fell upon the one Cybertronian in their midst.

Before long, Solstar scientists had gathered enough firsthand testimony and video recordings to draw up a weapon capable of meeting the aliens head-on: a full-body suit of armor forged from artificially-synthesized cybertonium that would be cybernetically grafted to one’s skin, equipped with a plasma-blasting “neutralizer” powered by a miniature energon reactor. While the scientists referred to their creation as merely an “anti-Wraith battle armor”, it was Rom who joked that the suit resembled the knights of old—and so it was he who volunteered to become the first organic to undergo the procedure, and emerge as “Rom, the Space Knight!” Inspired by his example, other courageous members of the Solstar Order stepped up to undergo the process, and over time the efforts of these “Space Knights”, supported by Stardrive herself, gradually helped push the Wraiths back.

It soon became clear that Stardrive couldn’t fight alone; fortunately, the Cybertronian embassy on Elonia was able to pull the strings that would allow Sentinel Prime to authorize the deployment of the Wreckers on the technicality that the Dire Wraiths posed a threat to Cybertronian territory—namely, their embassy on Elonia. Supported by a hundred Space Knights, Stardrive and the Wreckers took part in the effort to take back Xeres, which had, by this point, been turned into a grotesque hive-world where billions of fast-breeding Wraiths reproduced. Their victory was pyrrhic; they were able to cut off the primary source of the infestation, but only by destroying the planet and scattering millions of Wraiths across their member worlds. The Solstar Order would have to prepare for a protracted war against the alien infiltrators, who'd already put down roots on dozens of planets—but Stardrive, honorary Space Knight, gladly agreed to support the Space Knights in their quest.

Meet Stardrive

Full Name: Spaceknight Cadet Stardrive of the Solstar Order

Date of Protoform Generation: Elos 19th, 4017 (Which by our calculations is roughly Mon 07 / Dei 19 / 1480AH)

Favourite Colour: Silver

Hobbies/Likes: Finding out new things of Cybertronian culture, living up to the ideals of the Spaceknights that came before her, proving herself more then just a machine.

Dislikes/Fears: Finding out new things of Cybertronian culture, not living up to the Spaceknights' example, being dismissed as just a machine.

-Stardrive's protoform was first uncovered by the Solstar Order after an incident involving a Decepticon starcruiser (presumably) and as such it was a hot debate as to how Stardrive could fit into the power structures of the Solstar Order. In the time it has taken her to reach the Cybertronian equivalent of young adulthood, the Solstar Order had opened relations with the Cybertronian Commonwealth for her sake and her sake alone.

-Prior to arriving on Acadeimos, Stardrive had to be recharged through an improvised Energon Generator. In fact, the very idea that she could regain energy by consuming energon-infused matter was novel to her, and she quickly developed a rather ravenous appetite. This might've been shocking had the cook who served her on that first day not have started out serving fuel to Energon Miners on Messatine and thus was familiar with such unfamiliarity.

-In addition to the usual classes of her grade, Stardrive is spending quite a bit of time learning about Cybertronian cultural practices… but she can't help but find easy comparisons between such practices and those of cultures present within the Solstar Order, a phenomenon that almost consistently puzzles her.

It's in the extra side comic crossover with ROM focusing on Stardrive, sweet baby girl, who's raised away from her species (she was a lost Camien protoform) by a group that thanks all Cybertronians are inherently monstrous and that's how she's taught to view them. They do raise her with their other kids though and give her a giant handmade alien teddy bear which is adorable. I love my girl. She becomes part Dire Wraith and the ultimate poor little wet cat energy.

Ohhh okay, wait now that I think of it I'm thinking I've 100% seen a picture of her and like yes

What if Stardrive appears in Earthspark?

Stardrive is a transformer that appears in the comics. Her story begins with her being a protoform. The ship where she was traveling was attacked and only she survived.

She was rescued by the space knights. She was raised away from her kind. She knew she was a transformer thanks to the education she received from her rescuers, as well as how she learned the history of the species from her.

This made Stardrive the first Transformer to be raised away from her kind and by other beings.

In Earthspark I imagine her as a newborn Terran who was unfortunately found by someone else. Either by bad people or by another human child.

In case she was found by another good human child. The Maltos would know that something is wrong because they would not stop feeling strange emotions that do not come from the Terrans at home, so they would suspect that one is missing.

Stardrive, like Twitch and Thrash, would learn about her species thanks to Transformers comics but would feel that there was something different about her.

At some point it would be discovered by GHOST or Mandroid. Or perhaps in a battle she meets her family who would welcome her with pleasure.

stuff i drew in class

Prompt I

ROM vs Transformers;

Stardrive;

isolation

Direct Hit! by Bobby Block

2 besties hanging out on a spaceship with no underlying feelings that might be one sided :D