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starscreamthefirst
starscreamthefirstOn ‘seekers’ there’s a clarification I’d like to make. We’re not a different race, or subspecies, or much different from most any Cybertronian despite what some like to romanticize on the idea of. It’s strictly a military division. Equivalent to say a wrecker, a seeker is not a type of cybertronian, but a rank.
I ‘created’ the seekers as a branch of highly trained flyers under my own administration. Sharing the same frame type was one of the many dictations I made as part of being such. We were all cold constructed so that was simple work, nothing particularly special. It was equivalent to a military uniform.
Not all flyers are seekers. Being a seeker is a choice. A flyer could choose to join the seekers or not to. Being a flyer was not a choice. Those who are forged/constructed into flyer caste can not change this. (Of course there were some ways around that if you knew the right people, but then we are going underground with that.) Point is being a flyer is not the same as being a seeker.
We do not all hail from Vos. This is a misconception it would seem on account of us having trained at Cybertron’s War Academy which was located there. Vos, unlike what some seem to idealize, was not a seeker paradise by any means, it was just another of Cybertron’s low brow city-states. There was an overwhelming amount of grounders as per any other place and seekers as flyers were bottom tier of the caste as anywhere else. No seeker sanctum unfortunately.
Being a seeker or rather being ‘flyer caste’ was not respected. There were high amounts of casteism towards our frame type. You were seen as practically useless to the political view of functionalism even with the strides we made for what our purpose was deemed by the council. We were viewed as expendable in that manner. Which is partly why the seekers were created, to band an elite group of fliers together and show militarized unity for a greater purpose than what we were dealt.
The idea of seekers being this unique culture with mating rituals and cultural differences from other Cybertronians is a cute idea for fan fiction and fantisization, but not realistic by any means. The truth of the Seekers, are flyers unified as a Cybertronian Air Force under Starscream, and I wish to see more of that reflected on as it were.
I ‘created’ the seekers as a branch of highly trained flyers under my own administration. Sharing the same frame type was one of the many dictations I made as part of being such. We were all cold constructed so that was simple work, nothing particularly special. It was equivalent to a military uniform.
Not all flyers are seekers. Being a seeker is a choice. A flyer could choose to join the seekers or not to. Being a flyer was not a choice. Those who are forged/constructed into flyer caste can not change this. (Of course there were some ways around that if you knew the right people, but then we are going underground with that.) Point is being a flyer is not the same as being a seeker.
We do not all hail from Vos. This is a misconception it would seem on account of us having trained at Cybertron’s War Academy which was located there. Vos, unlike what some seem to idealize, was not a seeker paradise by any means, it was just another of Cybertron’s low brow city-states. There was an overwhelming amount of grounders as per any other place and seekers as flyers were bottom tier of the caste as anywhere else. No seeker sanctum unfortunately.
Being a seeker or rather being ‘flyer caste’ was not respected. There were high amounts of casteism towards our frame type. You were seen as practically useless to the political view of functionalism even with the strides we made for what our purpose was deemed by the council. We were viewed as expendable in that manner. Which is partly why the seekers were created, to band an elite group of fliers together and show militarized unity for a greater purpose than what we were dealt.
The idea of seekers being this unique culture with mating rituals and cultural differences from other Cybertronians is a cute idea for fan fiction and fantisization, but not realistic by any means. The truth of the Seekers, are flyers unified as a Cybertronian Air Force under Starscream, and I wish to see more of that reflected on as it were.
