This is a blog meant to explain and detail the cosmology of the Transformers Multiverse and give a more in depth explanation on its ratings. Massive credit to RippleFrog on the forum for this.
Size of the Multiverse[]
Timelines are full-fledged universes in transformers with their own stream designations, stuff like the Marvel continuity alone was already a multiverse in the 80s, coming from even Unicron himself. [1]
We see this play out again on-panel in the IDW comics, when Perceptor states "an infinity of universes" were born from his tampering with the paradox locks.[2]
There is no reason to think Perceptor is incorrect in his assessment, Transformers already understood the fundamentals of time travel in the IDW continuity, the paradoxes were what they couldn't prevent. Finally, Ask Vector Prime explicitly states this applies to all universes that aren't "deterministic". Given that there are infinite universes, and we've only seen one deterministic universe in all of TF fiction, the number of them likely doesn't matter.
Vector Prime's quotes are as follows:
Q: Dear Vector Prime,
Who or what exactly is Megatron X, the Transformer who appeared in a version of the Beast Wars? Also, how does one categorize universes where there are multiple outcomes?
A: Dear Dimensional Inquisitor,Megatron X has seldom appeared outside of Primax 1099.01-N6 Kappa or Primax 700.12-N4 Kappa. Both universes are highly, highly volatile. To put it mildly, they exist in a state of constant flux, with the probabilities churning through multiple resonance patterns and flipping from one state to the next to the next.
Interestingly, though there are an uncountable infinity of modalities for these universes to exist in, they tend to unerringly snap into one of twelve stable quantum-hyperwave endstates. Though I myself do not find it necessary to catalog each of these outcomes, I imagine Rhinox would choose to label them I through XII. Thus, one could travel to Primax 700.12-N4 Kappa IV, where Tigatron and Airazor are able to live blissfully together. Or one could examine Primax 1099.01-N6 Kappa XI, where Tarantulas led a battle fleet to prehistoric Earth, leading to disastrous consequences.
It is this very instability which attracted the Vok, agents of whom created Megatron X as an emissary, enhanced in the image of the most potent active spark in the conflict. In another timestream, the Vok would similarly create Tigerfalcon.
What is curious to me is that, despite many similarities between the aforementioned universes and the dimensions of Primax 1099.01-PS Kappa and Primax 700.12-SP Kappa, similarly chaotic realities, the Vok have never to my knowledge shown any interest in these realities. Perhaps this is because the latter reality-matrices have only two stable quantum-hyperwave endstate, compared to the dozen from the former.
Note the bold. Each universe has an infinity of modalities they can exist in. Now initially, these sound like mere possibilities, not real universes, but Vector Prime makes it abundantly clear right after that each of these modalities can be catalogued as their own Universal stream, only that he doesn't feel the need to do so, but Rhinox would. He states again that Universes are branch points for further universes to spawn from.
Q: Dear Vector Prime,
What universe contains the timeline shown here: http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Generation_1_cartoon_timeline_(Japan)
A: Dear Jarring Japanophile,
There is no one stream that contains all of what is listed, but a vast network of tributaries and distributaries weaving in and out, to forge something approximating a vast, twisting, winding river.
The "source" of the river would be Primax 785.06 Alpha. This seems the foundational reality, though dozens more dip in or split off from there.
Interestingly, there seem to be two more, slightly competing streams that wend their way through the entirety of the reality system; Primax 1206.0 Beta and Primax 807.11 Zeta. It almost seems as if some extra-dimensional being or beings attempted to impose order on a system shattered by MegaZarak's destruction of the stable axis of this reality; perhaps The Source or the Chronarchitect or the Alternity or even the Swarm or an evolved Humanity tried to pick up the broken pieces of these timestreams and haphazardly glue them together.
The TFCC Comics also reiterate Marvel's idea that each action creates a new universe.[3]
With this in mind we have a clear picture of how the multiverse works: each universe, of which there are an infinite amount, spawns infinite new universes of its own, and those continue the chain indefinitely, which grants the size of the Multiverse as Low Complex Multiverse level or Low 1-C
This covers the true size of the multiverse, but another thing that has been ignored in the linked and other threads are Transformers' higher dimensions.
Higher Dimensions[]
We know from Vector Prime that the transformers cosmos is governed by 17 dimensions.
Q: Dear Vector Prime,
What other sort of dimensions and realities exist outside of the Multiverse? What are they like, and who resides there?
A: Dear Omniversal Ontologist,
Imagine the strangest inhabited universe you can conceive of, places where gravity operates linearly and electromagnetism by the inverse cubed rule and topology has 13 basic dimensions instead of 17. How alien it must be. Then ponder the wildest universes those beings could articulate. Then realize that even these musings fail to capture the uncountable infinities that exist in the Omniverse.
That and more, much more, is what exists outside the Multiverse.
However, the Revenge Of The Fallen novel adaptation alludes to their being 21, as evident with "The other 17 dimensions" when he is possessed by the Allspark.[4]
Vector Prime is a higher dimensional being himself, so he should have first hand experience.
Q: Dear Vector Prime,
Your Uniend cluster incarnation has quite the magnificent set of facial hair. Why don't you have that more often? I think it suits you.
A: Dear Goatee Guy,
Do you think so? As I am currently in the process of assimilating that version of myself into the higher-dimensional Vector Prime singularity quantum wavestructure, perhaps when all is said and done his facial hair shall be mine.
We even have evidence that these dimensions were qualitatively superior to each other, as shown in the text story "Alternation"[5]
Those "Planicrons" were in fact the lower-world equivalent of Cybertronian species; they were the Transformers of the Flatworld. Planicrons were mechanical lifeforms with geometrical outlines, but now they formed a gestalt of a cosmic scale as a result of combining with each other and other species and materials
They devised a super spatial theory and a warp technology as the necessities of communication. During the process of their extreme evolution, their mental function had become one with the law of nature. They were the "living braneworld" and the first Transformer race that accomplished "All are One", although it was perhaps possible because their two dimensional world was limited in space. They also functioned as a cosmic sized two dimensional computer, and in accordance with their logic and intelligence, the Planicrons were good-natured.
We have direct reference here that the Planicrons 2D dimension was lower and limited compared to the 3D world, but more importantly we have a reference and confirmation of Brane Cosmology being used in Transformers here, as the Planicrons evolution turned them into a braneworld.
With all of the evidence shown, we can conclude Transformer's higher dimensions can be rated as Hyperverse level or 1-B
But we have one more section to go.
The Tree of Life[]
Singularity Ablyss is a short story run parallel to the plot of Beast Machines, written by a writer on the show, Bob Skir. It focuses on Megatron's journey to the afterlife and is heavily influenced if not outright borrowed from, the Kabbalah. This story was included in the 2004 anthology collection Transformers: Legends, and the first thing I want to cover is canonicity, as the book opens with a remark about the stories not being "in-continuity". Aside from this simply meaning they don't take place in the main timelines of their respective stories (like 99% of Transformers spinoff material), many of these stories were given explicit Universal Stream designations during Ask Vector Prime, firmly placing them within the canon. Singularity Ablyss received more, as it was established both as canon and, even in the post-Shroud era of Transformers, still the standard for the afterlife, over a decade after the original story was published. Additionally, AVP has even indicated unpublished and unofficial Transformers stories can still be considered canon (Simon Furman's apocryphal story Alignment was actually deemed canon outright by AVP, and will be referenced later in this as well), solidifying this book's place within the lore. Within the Tree of Life, there are 6 layers to it:
- Layer 1 - Foundation
- Layer 2 - The First Realm (Splendor and Eternity)
- Layer 3 - Beauty and Majesty
- Layer 4 - The Emotional Plane (Severity and Mercy)
- Layer 5 - The Penultimate level (Understanding and Wisdom)
- Layer 6 - The Crown
While TFwiki and the unofficial chart below mentions the "Abyss", the actual story has no mention of such a realm, and as such, will be ignored.
Taken from TFwiki. This image is unofficial, but follows the path Megatron follows in the story.
Before, we go further, I want to mention that throughout the story, we are shown that each realm is separate from the other, each one transcending the last, as both Megatron and Rhinox climb through the tree to ascend to its peak, The Crown. Evidence as such:
- The first realm is Splendor
- "As you can see, we have arrived at Beauty" he tells me. "The next sphere in our rise through the Tree of Life"
- "Beauty is the halfway point between the Kingdom and the Crown, the realm of the material and the wellspring of the Allspark," he continues, his words music woven in strands of golden thread, swirling and hovering in the ether.
- And as does this glorious comprehension awakens within me, the heart throbbing before me deepens from its golden hues into the crimson one normally associates with such an organ. It reddens, as does the world around us, and I suspect we have emerged into an entirely different sphere.
- "Understanding" he says, as this in itself would breed insight."The penultimate level before reaching The Crown"
- "Congratulations, Megatron. You are seeing truly for the first time," Rhinox teels me, and I realize that he is entirely correct. "And at last you have arrived at the final destination in your journey: The Crown"
The Kingdom and the Foundation[]
The Kingdom is immediately visible to Megatron upon dying. It is the corporeal plane. In Angel-Rhinox's words it is "less than a fraction of the top of an iceberg" and "the surface of the mirror, a vehicle for creating an image that yet contains neither mass nor value", and perhaps more importantly "Like a painting which merely represents a landscape, The Kingdom is a mere facade behind which lies the larger world."
Before I go further it must be established: the Kingdom is reality, the multiverse etc. of Transformers. We can cleanly establish it is not merely a higher dimension by examining the stories where higher dimensional entities appear in TF. In both examples below, these beings ascend to higher dimensions, but still live and die, while the Tree of Life (as it will be explored in further texts) is innately tied to the afterlife.
From the Alternity stories, we witness Megatron's death.[5]
The Planicrons gradually changed their indefinable shape to something somewhat more humanoid, and hit the now defenceless Megatherion with the same attack as the one Megatron used against the Alternity before. The Beast of Time gave out a roar that shook many universes and exploded, taking the aggregate consciousness of Megatrons with it.
And in Lost Light, the Omega Guardians, who had ascended to an unspecified higher dimension, had one of their number die attempting to force its way back below, its body becoming a portal network through time and space of the standard 3/4 dimensional universes.[6]
These two higher dimensional entities still experienced life and death, in some form, which I think should illustrate clearly that the Tree of Life/Afterspark/Afterlife is something else entirely. The story itself will double down on this however, as when Rhinox speaks of the Foundation, the base of the Tree, he states "all that you experienced was mere metaphor for the journey ahead"
Coupled with the painting analogy, we are beginning to establish that the Tree of Life is a deeper kind of reality and one unrelated to standard dimensions. Rhinox directly states "'Reality' is one of those concepts you are going to have to relinquish" immediately after, driving the point home. As also showcased in the text posted above, they will be ascending its bows to reach the Crown, or the Matrix where all sparks come from. This quite clearly places the Tree as a part of, or aspect of, Primus, as Primus is the source of all Transformer life, the source of sparks, the source of souls. Journeying through the Tree is the reunification of this with Primus.
Splendor and Eternity[]
Splendor and Eternity demonstrate to Megatron the cyclic and eternal nature of reality. There isn't much to unpack here, and in the second page his spark shifts back to his physical body. This happens off and on during the story, and most of those pages have no relevant information for this thread and as such are disregarded.
Beauty and Majesty[]
The most important thing here is the indication that the Matrix is the source of all things. This makes sense from a prior lore perspective, as despite many deliberately conflicting origins, the birth of Transformers' setting ultimately ties back into Primus.
Severity and Mercy[]
Here Megatron learns of the Emotional Plane, learning both Severity and Mercy, and how all beings in creation have the capacity for both. Just like Splendor and Eternity, there isn't much to unpack here that's relevant to cosmology's structure.
Understanding and Wisdom[]
Megatron is exposed to the sphere of pure information. His conclusion after this is that everything he experienced in his real, material life, was less real than what he experienced ascending the Tree of Life, despite his resistance to the journey and refusal to believe any of it from the outset. I believe this constitutes a very clear example of a deeper reality, wherein the main world is rendered, to quote the story "mere metaphor" in comparison.
However, this is not the end, because Megatron has not even made it to the final sphere yet.
The Crown[]
The first passage drives home that this is what Rhinox was trying to get him to understand all along. We also get more exploration on The Crown/Matrix. It is referred to as infinite, omniscient, omnipresent. Megatron even witnesses his lower physical form and soul during the process of ascension. He is no longer of the material world.
However, because Beast Wars Megatron has the biggest ego imaginable, he decides to kill himself and wipe out his own existence rather than willingly merge with God. Which by a fluke, he survives and is returned to his physical body, and the rest of the show's plotline plays out from there.
Bob Skir recently was interviewed about this story and provided his thought process on it. "What happens when Megatron looks into the face of God?" was the driving question of the story.
The Tree of Life would not appear again in Transformers, until over a decade later, it was briefly shown in the text story "Cultural Appropriation" from Beast Wars: Uprising by Jim Sorenson:
You have transcended the mortal plane. your spark has gone to the matrix where all sparks must some day journey.
The Allspark?
There are many names. Come, overshoot, the secret of cybertron await.
Reality started to fade, and Overshoot found himself in a void surrounded by endlessly tall columns of purple, green, yellow, silver, each representing a different path. He started to gravitate to the purple one, when he willed himself to stop. I'm not ready! We haven't finished the task you set for us!
Tread carefully. if you walk not through this door now, your spark may wander forever. the abLyss is ravenous.
His world had taken a red hue. He saw numbers, equations holding the meaning of life and more. Reluctantly he tore his gaze away from them, only for them to explode. He felt himself hurtle away from the force of the blast. the choice is made. There was a rushing sensation, similar to a fall but without the sense of gravity, and he found himself in a dank, enclosed space. Stiletto was there, and he called out to her, but she didn't hear. Next to her was Snapper, though the Predacon was hazy and indistinct. Stiletto was leaning over him, conversing, but he couldn't make out the words.
The Oracle (an aspect of Primus in most stories) even refers to it as "ablyss" in reference to Skir's story, and it is once again said to involve transcending the "mortal plane".
While only tangential, I also wanted to mention something from years prior, that I mentioned in Furman's story Alignment
For a long, protracted period it resisted, fought, struggled, hung on to the roots it had laid down in what it understood as reality. If it was not ready, not fully acclimatised to its new state of unbeing, it would be destroyed, consumed. It needed time, while time still had any meaning, to encompass the myriad contradictions and absurdities, it needed…
When Liege Maximo attempts to ascend to the realm of the dark gods (Unicron's species, as confirmed by Furman himself in the DK Transformers guide, where Alignment was also referenced despite being unofficial), he is said to start becoming an unbeing that embodies contradictions.
Above, the stars seemed to glow brighter, as if some celestial contact had been established. The Liege Maximo felt the first wrench, a dizzying pull at the very substance of its being. It knew it was changing, becoming different. The physical laws that had bound it began to slip away, its consciousness expanded across multiple plains to encompass the enormity of other realities, other possibilities. Above, the heavens themselves seem to warp, a tidal wave of unreality spreading like a virus through the substance of space and time. And at its epicentre, a portal began to form. It had no substance, no shape, no definable event horizon, but it assaulted the senses, pulling and tugging at the Liege Maximo like some hungry predator.
And "unreality" is said to flood the universe. Furman has used "Unspace" repeatedly in the marvel G1 comics, and it isn't portrayed like this, leading me to not conflate the two.
It began again, shrugging off its brief flirtation with anger, focusing again on the widening portal. The universe around them was wounded, crying out in pain, dying. Its agonies assaulted its new senses, ran fingernails down its expanded nervous system, but it remained resolute. Reality bubbled and boiled away, became distant white noise. It reached out to touch its destiny… …and was rejected.
"Reality bubbled and boiled away", again this could be nothing significant, but it is quite different from how standard higher dimensional ascension has been portrayed in Transformers.
Is this genuine Reality/Fiction Transcendence? + Addressing anti-feats and requirements[]
I will be referring primarily to the parameters set in this page
In particular, this section of the above page. Regarding that guideline's restrictions even if these requirements are met:
The realities are portrayed like parallel universes or otherwise as having just a finite difference in scale or having a similar nature.
This has been proven not to be the case, both in the story and in other Transformers stories dealing with parallel worlds, higher dimensions, and the afterlife.
The characters from both realities are generally being portrayed as comparable in power.
In general, this has never happened in Transformers, and this will be elaborated in-depth later on.
The author character completely live in the fictional medium themselves. For example the author character might have a book that contains the world, but the author themselves are also a character in it and don't exist outside it any more than other characters of that world.
This has happened in Transformers, but not in the context of anything discussed above. Ultimately irrelevant for TF fiction.
The fictional characters being able to attack the real ones without being shown to somehow have transcended their fictional world or having special abilities that allow it by being something rooted in a higher reality. Such instances often have to be analyzed on a case-by-case basis to judge how they are best rated. For more detailed information, see here.
As mentioned two points above, there's a very specific reason this has never happened: Unicron and Primus in their original, unbound states, have never appeared again in the 40 year history of the brand, only in flashbacks (and even then, this has only happened twice) where the only characters they interact with are each other. This is also key to understanding why their showings seem so random across Transformers, and it is perhaps as simple as a "not their true forms" trope. However even then, the entire cause of them taking on these lower, physical forms at all, is a result of their initial fight in the Marvel era that started Transformers' to begin with. Primus fooled Unicron into becoming trapped in this state, and while not explicitly stated, Unicron and Primus still use these bodies in every story: this seal and nerf has never been undone by them, leading to their stalemate as the background of Transformers lore. The key here is that any perceived weakness is only because it was imposed on them by a being of near equal power and existence: each other.[7] Additionally, as all sparks come from the higher being in this case, characters dying and returning to Primus would in this case be rooting themselves to the higher plane, even if this doesn't matter much as no-one has ever attacked Primus from this vantage point.
Of course, this story has been retconned numerous times to not be about the birth of one universe, but it still largely outlines how Transformers started. Unicron eats everything, including his old race of abstract beings (per Reaching the Omega Point), Primus is created from Unicron, they fight, they are sealed, the multiverse is born (extrapolated on further with Ask Vector Prime which posits that the birth of the multiverse was a side-effect of Primus' own coming into existence). That the Tree of Life exists well after this as some extension of Primus does more to indicate the level these two were on prior to confining themselves if anything.
Going back to the guideline thread:
Additionally, the showings should be reasonably clear. On top of the things already dismissed as genuine evidence, cameos of author avatars, hints at a "player" character without further context or similar things should be disregarded. In such cases it simply can't be sufficiently ascertained that the world is viewed as true "fiction". In some cases it's not even clear if it's more than a simple nod to the audience or humorous instance of Breaking the Fourth Wall, which is not to be taken seriously.
Singularity Ablyss is quite outspoken about the nature of reality and as such I do not believe it falls into this category for lack of clarity.
The Shroud[]
I thought this was worth addressing on its own as The Shroud allegedly "removed/destroyed multiversal singularities" from Transformers and thus could disqualify this. However, The Shroud is a bit more complex than I think has been understood in the past. For one, despite supposedly restricting multiversal singularities and travel, a multiversal Unicron appeared less than a year later in the Transformers Legends/Unite Warriors manga, and that same writer wrote extensive multiversal storylines for several years after. As I mentioned earlier, the Tree of Life's appearance in Beast Wars: Uprising was also after The Shroud chapters had been published, and given an entire cartoon within Transformers (Cyberverse) featured the multiverse/s extensively, and the mobile game Forged to Fight, featured multiverses all the way until early 2024, it would appear the Shroud is not all-encompassing.
And this is in fact, directly stated. Ask Vector Prime had already clarified The Shroud may not have necessarily affected everything:
November 3, 2015
Q: Dear Vector Prime,
Does the Shroud have an effect on the past of the multiverse, and if so is this why many of the characters in stories we here in Quadwal enjoy seem to already have been altered from a singularity state? . . A: Dear Singularity Scholar,
You are thinking in too linear a fashion. Indeed, certain oddities you have observed may well be due to the uneven distribution of the Shroud across the fourth dimensional axis. That is to say, it may have reached certain realities millions or billions of years in the past, and may not reach others for similarly incomprehensible lengths of time. Indeed, for all we know, there may be parts of the Multiverse it will NEVER reach, and others where the entire span of its history is Shrouded.
Essentially, there was always a handwave present to explain future writers doing whatever they wanted to do with the lore of their stories. Given further reveals that the Shattered Glass Multiverse was un-Shrouded by this, and Primus' omnipresent nature, it makes it unlikely they ceased to exist entirely as gods, especially as we know the Tree of Life still exists. With Rise of the Beasts even listing Unicron as a multiversal threat in early bios, it appears The Shroud is largely being ignored for future stories, even if it remains canon.
Further proof of this can be shown in the masterpiece Dia Burnout toy profile from 2023, which references both the Transtech and the Shroud specifically.
Translation via DeepL: Dia Burnout Role Armed Professional Motto: Skill and experience lead to harmony
Profile One day, a strange mass of molten metal flew out of a rift in space that suddenly opened up at a low altitude in a certain part of the earth. That was the situation when the robot now known as "DiaBurnout" arrived. The object's response to Spinout's friend/foe identification code, which joined the investigation, revealed that the metallic mass was one of the Earth defense weapons from another world just like his. It was restored and reconstituted into its original variable robot form by Cybertron's . However, it was only after that procedure that it was revealed that the City Turbo robot had a human pilot, and that a dimensional transfer accident had quantum-mechanically fused the machine and its crew! Since fighting off a long guerrilla war by the invaders, their defense forces had been reorganized and the main machine army was being used as a test bed for advanced AI development. City Robot was upgraded to a quasi-autonomous robot with a pseudo-personality program modeled after its personal pilot, Dia Cinders, and named itself "Burnout" after Dia's last name. They went into the field with their colleagues for a deep space adaptation test, where they discovered and tracked a swarm of Marauder drones of an unknown type. Riding the enemy's dimensional transport, they ended up on another planet, Sabertron, ruled by highly evolved Transformers called "Trans-Tech. The swarm of Marauders caused a disaster throughout the planet, including in the center of the planet, but Dyer and his team, along with local law enforcement officers and a group of wanted men, were able to successfully eliminate them. During the repatriation, they were caught in a cosmic phenomenon called "shroud," which prevents dimensional movement, and unfortunately they were thrown back to Earth, not to their home planet.
They thus became the super-robot DiaBurnout, a human-machine unit. Spinout and the Cybertronian military promised that they would not spare any support until Dia regained her human form and returned to her home planet.
The purpose of this section isn't to nitpick canon or scaling, but to illustrate that The Shroud has holes in it that do not necessarily denote Unicron and Primus have lost their abstract nature for being struck by it, especially as the entity doing so was one of Primus' vassal 13, and the Tree of Life and Afterlife continue to exist in spite of it.
With all this in mind, in can be safe to conclude that the Tree of Life is six layers into Outerverse Level.
Miscellaneous Realms[]
These realms aren't very important to the cosmology, but I felt are worth mentioning nonetheless.
Astral Plane[]
It is a mental realm beyond distance, with Beast Wars: Reborn showing that transcending time is required to access it[8]. Vector Prime alludes to it being a part of, or contained within the Allspark/Afterlife, and this is where Unicron and Primus' final battle took place back in the Marvel era.
“I have transcended time at the order of the Creator. I am Vector Prime!”
Vector Prime highlights the Astral Plane as being within the confines of the Allspark[9]:
Q: Did Unicron uphold his end of the deal?
Ask Vector Prime In the waning days of the Universe War, he did. Sunstorm, sensing that his Dark Lord was losing ground, demanded his boon. Within the confines of the Allspark, the part of me who had died sensed that Galvatron's spirit was being summoned. I battled him on the astral plane as he struggled back towards the corporeal. Alas, he proved a tenacious and formidable foe, and the pull of Unicron was as inexorable as gravity, as uncompromising as entropy.
It's safe to say that the Astral Plane likely exists within a similar plane as "The Crown" does, which is portrayed as being synonymous with the afterspark, leaving the Astral Plane at also six layers into Outerverse level or 1-A
Unspace[]
Unspace is extremely inconsistent, and this is even lampshaded in AVP, but Ramjet's TFCC Bio refers to it as a "timeless nonspace where ordered mathematics are nonsense"[10] which may prove relevant, as the guidelines here indicate statements regarding "all of time and space" may fall under this bracket.
It's also notable that most of the only instances we are shown of individuals surviving Unspace, it is with some small fragment of power granted by Primus or Unicron. Universe featuring The Wreckers goes into more detail.
Nothingness.
In the absolute nothingness Cryotek turned slowly. In the distance, though it was impossible to tell exactly how far, he saw Al-Badur floating, motionless, a look of abject horror cemented across his face. He reached out to the Quintesson… and after an eternity, his dragonhead arm connected. There was no sound as Al-Badur disintegrated, leaving a cloud of dust motes quickly fanning and spreading into imperceptibility across the vast nothingness. Curious. An illusion? No… something told Cryotek that Al-Badur’s being could not be sustained in this void. And that were it not for the fragment of Primus’ power still within him, he would have shared the Quintesson’s fate, his energy and mass dispersed irrevocably as it gave way to entropy.
Cloud World[]
In the the Transformers: Cloud World miniseries, we are introduced to the concept so SARA and the Cloud World.
Created by a mysterious being known as "The Creator", the Cloud World acts as a nexus that holds every single timeline together[11], which we have established to be Low Complex Multiverse level or Low 1-C
The universe began with a single event....
A multitude of Spacetimes were born in a tremendous explosion that obliterated all that had come before. Each Spacetime had its own "Flow of Time", which resulted in the uncontrolled expansion of spacetime.
The Creator of Life created a special spacetime world to manage the many Spacetimes, and in order to permanently manage the Flow of Time, he created robots, which are non-organic life forms, and assigned them the responsibility of stabilizing the turbulent spacetime, and gave them the being "SARA" to act as his intermediary and the spacetime world "Cloud".
Over the course of time, the robots evolved into super-robotic life forms with the ability to transform, and began to enjoy an advanced civilization as the custodians of Cloud called "Transformers."
SARA's whole role in this thing is that she is the being that maintains Cloud World[11], and if SARA were to lack energy, it would greatly impact both Cloud World and the multiverse[12]. There are multiple instances that showcase that SARA's existence is important to the Cloud World's stability as showcased below:
SARA, the oracle of the Creator, required a huge amount of energy to maintain Cloud World. As a result, the Transformers were tasked to travel back and forth between spacetime worlds with the help of an ability known as "Transformation" and SARA's own power. It is perhaps a natural consequence of their involvement in so many spacetime worlds that they have taken on a role that could be called "Spacetime Police."
Optimus mentions if SARA were to have insufficient energy, it would impact both the Cloud World and the stability of the multiverse[12].
Yes, it is. But SARA requires a huge amount of energy. If the supply of energy is insufficient, it will have a great impact on our world and the myriad of spacetime. Therefore, harvesting excess energy is essential.
In part 6 of Chapter 1, Cloud World had begun to collapse due to SARA's disappearance[13]
The Autobots failed to retake SARA and retreated. As a result, the energy supply continued to dwindle, the earth crumbled, and the Cloud World begins to collapse.
Stated again in Part 1 of Chapter 2[14].
The invasion was still going on in the Cloud World, which was on the verge of collapse without SARA.
- Megatron attempted to absorb all the power of SARA. And the lost of SARA would eventually lead to the collapse of Cloud World[15].
Megatron responded with his normal demeanor, even in the midst of a very unstable and dangerous situation where his body seemed to be enveloped in a flash of light as he took in the overflowing energy from SARA.
"What are you doing?"
Optimus asked, flinching at the aftermath of the energy that began to spread throughout the room.
"It's obvious... I'm going to get all the power of SARA and become the ruler of the entire spacetime world!"
Hearing Megatron's declaration, Brawn shouted in anger.
"Ruler of all spacetime? Taking away the power of SARA will lead to the collapse of the Cloud World, and you're talking nonsense!"
With all this in mind, both the Cloud World and SARA would scale to Low Complex Multiverse level or Low 1-C for being responsible for the stability of every timeline within the multiverse, and without either, would lead to disastrous consequences for its existence.
Conclusion[]
The size of the entire Transformers Multiverse with its sheer number of universes would be Low Complex Multiverse level (5 dimensions)
The size of the Multiverse's higher dimensions as a whole would be Hyperverse level (17 to 21 dimensions)
The Tree of Life is Outerverse level (6 layers)
References[]
- ↑ The Transformers (US) #69
- ↑ The Transformers: More Than Meets The Eye #38
- ↑ Transformers Collectors' Club #1
- ↑ Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (Novel)
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Transformers: Alternity "Alternation"
- ↑ The Transformers: Lost Light #23
- ↑ The Transformers (US) #70
- ↑ Beast Wars Reborn: Chapter 2 of 4, Master of the Game
- ↑ Ask Vector Prime/Facebook#August 3.2C 2015
- ↑ Transformers: Collector's Club #5
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 Transformers Cloud: Spacetime World: Guardians of Time Chapter 1 Prologue
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 Transformers Cloud: Spacetime World: Guardians of Time Chapter 1 Part 2
- ↑ Transformers Cloud: Spacetime World: Guardians of Time Chapter 1 Part 6
- ↑ Transformers Cloud: Spacetime World: Guardians of Time Chapter 2 Part 1
- ↑ Transformers Cloud: Spacetime World: Guardians of Time Chapter 1 Part 5