Post by Hoist on Aug 26, 2015 8:49:24 GMT -5
Welcome to TTF's 13th anniversary celebrations! HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!
When I first thought about "thirteen years" and tried to decide what the theme should be this year, at first I was at a lost. All I could think of was the - "13 - unlucky for some" aspect. Then, just over a month ago it stuck me with the parallels. It stuck me that in Transformers lore there are the infamous "The Thirteen", the thirteen original Transformers, and our message board was now 13 years old! That got me thinking, who were the thirteen that helped either shape or played an important part in TTF's history? They can be members or roleplay characters or NPC/cannon characters..
So Here is TTF's Original 13!
[li]Rodimus Prime (Character) An important piece in our Renegade history and therefore TTF's is Rodimus Prime. After Optimus Prime died (The real one), the RENEGADES really began to flourish on Cybertron. Having stopped taking orders from the then "Fake" Optimus Prime for the war with Unicron over Cybertron Earth (2005), he took command and the Renegades took it to the Decepticons on their terms, brandishing their own form of "Justice". It would be a long time before the Renegades would clear their name but back in those days Rodimus saw them as having committed the TF version of mutiny and Optimus Prime put a price on their head to bring them back in and lock away the key, if they were brought back alive. Eventually when Optimus returned (Then as Powermaster Optimus), only then did Rodimus realize how wrong he had been (About the Renegades) and relinquished the Matrix back to Optimus Prime.[/li]
[li]Optimus Maximus/Maximus/Max Convoy (Character) Our First Renegade leader and our message board's establishing fan faction and therefore an important element to TTF's history. First played by Ravage 18 (As Optimus Maximus) the character was given the matrix by a dying (Powermaster) Optimus Prime to strengthen and re-format the very damaged and rogue Autobots (Also some Maximals) under his new command. jazz took over the role as the charater transitioned into Maximus Convoy/Max Convoy.[/li]
[li]Arvadatron(Character) [/li] TTF's first Rp main bad guy, previous aliases also known as Armada or Lord Armada; however Arvadatron is his official name. You can read about how he came to be involved in the RENEGADES history - Here under the section Return To Power. After the death of Jhaixus, the only planet to retain some of it’s internal power was the Thorne World. The last of the Cybertronians gathered there in small camps across the planets where they scavenged for energy, weapons and any supplies they needed. Arvadatron’s star ship came across a strong power source out in space amidst a field of debris that looked as if it had once been apart of a metallic world like the once within the HUB. The power source was much smaller then expected. A crystallized ball of rock, giving off tremendous readings. Aravadatron found himself drawn to it. Each time he gazed upon the rock, he felt as if it was calling to him. When Arvadatron finally took the rock into his hands, he began to find his answers. The crystallized rock came from the Unicron, the God of Chaos. It had once been apart of Unicron's spark that was once pure energy that had now formed into the hard crystallized substance that Arvadatron now held in his hands. Arvadatron was now connected to the crystal as it feed him information about Unicron, Primus, Cybertron, and the war between the Autobots and the Decepticons. Arvadatron's mind was invaded by what was left of Unicron's dark and twisted soul. Arvadatron own spark became poisoned with dark ambition. Arvadatron soon ordered that the ship and the rest of the armada return to the HUB.
[li]Unicron[/li] Primus's arch nemesis at the beginning of time and the reason a victorious - if weakened Primus had to give his live into a barren asteroid that would become known as Cybertron. As Cybertron, Primus created billions of individual robots that would later divide into Autobot and Deceticon, created in case of the threat of Unicron, the giant planet eater ever returned. After the battle of Unicron in 2005 (TFTM 1986), Unicron would drift into unknown space and (After the first Renegade Rp) would eventually become the new secret HQ of the Renegades.
[li]Primus aka the TF fandom! Okay maybe it's a stretch but with out Transformers and the fandom none of us would be here and none of us would have met! Incredible when you think of it the biggest factor that has brought us all together - and not just us but all TF fans with only live one thing left..[/li]
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That is to once again thank all of you for continuing to support Total Transformers and it's website totaltfs.com! I hope you enjoyed this little article! Quick mention that there is a new default skin now simply known as TF Default 2015. With all the talk about the Renegades, this one is significant as it's the very first time our fan faction - The Renegades has been used as a primary main theme which usually is related to either a TF show of something in TF history (Exceptions being the Star Wars ones and Dr Who of course.) so give it a try and see what you think!
Cheers & much love,
Hoist & the TTF Staff.
When I first thought about "thirteen years" and tried to decide what the theme should be this year, at first I was at a lost. All I could think of was the - "13 - unlucky for some" aspect. Then, just over a month ago it stuck me with the parallels. It stuck me that in Transformers lore there are the infamous "The Thirteen", the thirteen original Transformers, and our message board was now 13 years old! That got me thinking, who were the thirteen that helped either shape or played an important part in TTF's history? They can be members or roleplay characters or NPC/cannon characters..
So Here is TTF's Original 13!
- Number 1... Optimus Prime - This actually works in dual ways as a key to our RENEGADE faction, but also the Transformers Admin Optimus Prime.
Many will know this by now, but some newcomers to the forum won't. Back in the day myself, Jazzman Crothers and Heavy Handed Assault met at a similar Transformers message board that ultimately became known as Civil War. Back then it was known as The Ultimate Transformers Board.Before it was turned into a Transformers roleplaying forum, there was the original admin - Optimus Prime. Much like this message board there was a very close community, it was full of banter and discussion and fun times such as all the Decepticon fans rallying together in a thread to "attack" the Autobot fans. I myself joined in creating a "For the love of God!!! Autobots attack!!!" thread, and all was good.
Then, one day the then admin "Optimus Prime"announced he wanted to move us to another message board. That was fine, after all it was still a ProBoard (Who host this forum.) However, one day us members woke up to the shocking revaluation that the admin had deleted everything of our past - all the threads, all the content and all banter built up between us members - all of it. Understandably we were pissed, and now didn't want to move. It still went ahead and those that did go along didn't stay with him on that other board. The remaining board of course was taken over by member Sunstreaker (Also known as Blot), who re-developed it into a Transformers forum and where our RENEGADE faction was born.
So you see - if it wasn't for this major lack of judgment from the former admin, the board would have not got developed, the Renegades might not have come into existence which has become the main thing here at Total Transformers. So in a way his enormous faux pas Heled shae the Renegades and likewise Total Transformers. - HeavyAssault - During the previous online scuffle mentioned above, whilst the then admin did what he did, we members over there rebelled by saying we wouldn't move in a mass heated thread. It was HeavyAssault that yelled out something about "Renegade Autobots unite" as we were rebelling against him - "Optimus Prime".So we have HeavyAssault to thank for our third faction the RENEGADES, for when the board was redeveloped as a Transformers roleplay board it was there our RENEGADES became a bonified thing, an actual physical third fan faction.
HeavyAssault (the character) was also a key beginning in our Renegade history when years later we actually began thinking about our serious back-story. If any of you know the back story to the Renegades then you'll know what I mean. If not - then in short it's this. During the time of G1 (just before the movie) Optimus prime had been captured and held by Megatron with a duplicate or clone, built by Megatron in his place. With the Decepticons always one step ahead, Latryx7 (Jazz) suspected an intel leak and confided in fellow comrade Hoist (played by me), the two worked together on the Autobot moonbase, repairing injured Autobots back from the front line. Things were confirmed to Latryx7 when he was sent on a no-win situation mission with Hoist and no-one was expected to come back in Optimus's mind. It was there, in a hopeless situation where the ex-vehicon HeavyAssault turned up and saved their necks. You can imagine the great surprise to the fake "Optimus prime" when both bots turned back up at base and with an ex-vehicon in tow and just walked freely into the base with said bot. - Sunstreaker - Also known as Blot. As the second owner of The Ultimate Transformers Board which became Transformers: Civil War underneath him, he transformed the board into a roleplay board over there following the treacherous former admin's work. It was with the -re-birth of that forum and the very generous nature of sunstreaker, that he allowed us to go ahead with this third fictional faction - The Renegades. So it's thanks to him that the RENEGADES even got the go ahead for his belief in us to create this third faction and go along with it, allowing us to develop as we went along and giving us free reign.
For that, we will always owe a huge debt of gratitude towards him. - Hoist - (Me.) I don't believe in tooting my own trumpet. All I did was create this place. Back in the day whilst on another Transformers forum, I created a sci-fi ProBoard but was over time became disillusioned with said message board and certain personas. It was always inevitable I would eventually create my own Transformers message board as I wanted a more family, friendly community that I could talk to like-mined TF fans on my level. After The other board fracas much later when the RENEGADES formed, I was the second person to jump on the idea of the Renegades, Jazz (Latryx7) being the final of the original founders.
- Latryx7 - I've got him as Latryx7 and not Jazz as we know him here today as that's who he went by as his handle. Latryx/Jazz was the third person to jump on board the idea of the RENEGADES and form the last that would make u the three of the founders of our faction, but it goes much further than that. He has been paramount to the formation of the Renegades as we bounded ideas back of each other for our factions "Official back story". It was him who came up with the idea of Unicron's Floating head - so early on, as our base of operations as far as the early days of the Renegade website formed, and came u with our early factions fan-fics like RAW, thought about using the G2 faction sinner as our faction logo and took over the Rp rules and helped develop them extensively as they are today. (Special mention to Onix Solo as well for his involvement in the last 2 years for his extensive work helping develop our rp weapons.) In the last several months+ he has also created the back-history for our first enemy faction from back in the day, The Destructicons; giving them an established back history at last.
He has of course been my rock here, my right-hand man and has grown from global mod to Co-Admin, I couldn't wish for anyone better who who I would trust implicitly. - Ravage18 - This is a very special and important mention. If memory serves me right, he was from the TF site and community The Axalon(.co.uk) and brought our original rp rules over here to TTF and and re-designed them exclusively for our forum. Before Jazz took over we will always have a huge debt of honor to repay Ravage18 on creating a set of rp rules exclusively for us here and becoming the founder. Something (That I am only now just thinking of) he will recognized for physically on the board. Wherever he is know we hoe that he is well and in good health and thank him for his life-time contribution to Total Transformers Message Board.
- Generation 1 - This might seem a strange one, but one of the many questions we get asked about our faction the RENEGADES is when is it set or it's origins take Generation place? The question has always been in and around G1 and past it in our own fan canon universe as it is today. Many of the original characters of the Renegade universe - be they fan characters or canon ones; were on Cybertron long before they Optimus and his crew went to Earth in G1. When our Universe started it's own point in the TF universe, it was some time before the TF movie of 1986 (set in 2005), when in our universe Optimus had - as mentioned been captured and replaced by a duplicate/clone built by Megatron. Something would be resolved in TFTM '86 time when the Autobots were on a shuttle to Earth (Canon) and in our universe, the real Optimus had escaped Megatron and deal with the duplicate/fake/clone. By which time in the (Canon) universe the shuttle with Ironhide, prowl, Brawn and Ratchet & co had been boarded by cons and the Autobots killed. The real Optimus being the one that came down to earth with the Dinobots.
As you can see our faction which TTF is built on has a lot to thank Generation One for! - Moffman57 (TTF Member)
[li]Rodimus Prime (Character) An important piece in our Renegade history and therefore TTF's is Rodimus Prime. After Optimus Prime died (The real one), the RENEGADES really began to flourish on Cybertron. Having stopped taking orders from the then "Fake" Optimus Prime for the war with Unicron over Cybertron Earth (2005), he took command and the Renegades took it to the Decepticons on their terms, brandishing their own form of "Justice". It would be a long time before the Renegades would clear their name but back in those days Rodimus saw them as having committed the TF version of mutiny and Optimus Prime put a price on their head to bring them back in and lock away the key, if they were brought back alive. Eventually when Optimus returned (Then as Powermaster Optimus), only then did Rodimus realize how wrong he had been (About the Renegades) and relinquished the Matrix back to Optimus Prime.[/li]
[li]Optimus Maximus/Maximus/Max Convoy (Character) Our First Renegade leader and our message board's establishing fan faction and therefore an important element to TTF's history. First played by Ravage 18 (As Optimus Maximus) the character was given the matrix by a dying (Powermaster) Optimus Prime to strengthen and re-format the very damaged and rogue Autobots (Also some Maximals) under his new command. jazz took over the role as the charater transitioned into Maximus Convoy/Max Convoy.[/li]
[li]Arvadatron(Character) [/li] TTF's first Rp main bad guy, previous aliases also known as Armada or Lord Armada; however Arvadatron is his official name. You can read about how he came to be involved in the RENEGADES history - Here under the section Return To Power. After the death of Jhaixus, the only planet to retain some of it’s internal power was the Thorne World. The last of the Cybertronians gathered there in small camps across the planets where they scavenged for energy, weapons and any supplies they needed. Arvadatron’s star ship came across a strong power source out in space amidst a field of debris that looked as if it had once been apart of a metallic world like the once within the HUB. The power source was much smaller then expected. A crystallized ball of rock, giving off tremendous readings. Aravadatron found himself drawn to it. Each time he gazed upon the rock, he felt as if it was calling to him. When Arvadatron finally took the rock into his hands, he began to find his answers. The crystallized rock came from the Unicron, the God of Chaos. It had once been apart of Unicron's spark that was once pure energy that had now formed into the hard crystallized substance that Arvadatron now held in his hands. Arvadatron was now connected to the crystal as it feed him information about Unicron, Primus, Cybertron, and the war between the Autobots and the Decepticons. Arvadatron's mind was invaded by what was left of Unicron's dark and twisted soul. Arvadatron own spark became poisoned with dark ambition. Arvadatron soon ordered that the ship and the rest of the armada return to the HUB.
[li]Unicron[/li] Primus's arch nemesis at the beginning of time and the reason a victorious - if weakened Primus had to give his live into a barren asteroid that would become known as Cybertron. As Cybertron, Primus created billions of individual robots that would later divide into Autobot and Deceticon, created in case of the threat of Unicron, the giant planet eater ever returned. After the battle of Unicron in 2005 (TFTM 1986), Unicron would drift into unknown space and (After the first Renegade Rp) would eventually become the new secret HQ of the Renegades.
[li]Primus aka the TF fandom! Okay maybe it's a stretch but with out Transformers and the fandom none of us would be here and none of us would have met! Incredible when you think of it the biggest factor that has brought us all together - and not just us but all TF fans with only live one thing left..[/li]
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That is to once again thank all of you for continuing to support Total Transformers and it's website totaltfs.com! I hope you enjoyed this little article! Quick mention that there is a new default skin now simply known as TF Default 2015. With all the talk about the Renegades, this one is significant as it's the very first time our fan faction - The Renegades has been used as a primary main theme which usually is related to either a TF show of something in TF history (Exceptions being the Star Wars ones and Dr Who of course.) so give it a try and see what you think!
Cheers & much love,
Hoist & the TTF Staff.