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For those of you who have been reading WaW, you know that I love Cybertronian techno-jargon...especially with respect to their anatomy. I try my best to define strange terminology as it is used, but sometimes I intentionally leave out explanations to really make their bodies/culture/science seem distinct from our own.

I'm commissioning a lot of fanart for WaW because a)I want to support fellow artists and b) my job leaves me with very little free time for personal art projects. One of the pieces I've commissioned (by the lovely and talented ) will feature the inside of Ratchet's chest, and I wanted to provide her with a bit of a guide to maker her job easier (especially since we've never been given a canon image of anyone's inner workings)

Optimus doesn't count because the matrix of leadership was blocking all of the details...

Ne-who, explanations...

The image in the upper left is a simple cut-away diagram, showing all of the plates in their normal alignment with the underlying anatomy visible.

The image bottom-center shows the interior of the chest cavity when the plates are opened naturally. All the major components are labeled. Obviously words like "shoulder-cap" and "medial-plate" are English translations of Cybertronian terminology. Other words like "t'vre" are pronounced phonetically but have no viable English translations. To make Ratchet's internals seem a bit older, I referenced a lot of old car engines where all the pipes and lines and whatnot are exposed and there's a lot of excess space to make it easier for objects to be changed out when they fail. Newer models would be much more compact.

His spark chamber is completely enclosed to protect the spark within (otherwise it would "evaporate" or dissipate if exposed to the atmosphere). There's a prominent welding scar that runs diagonally across the entire organ. It restricts motion of the spark-casing, and as such his body is unable to pump energon as well as it used to.

And finally...the bust. I like it, but I can't shake how much Ratchet looks like Iron Man when you take off his helm.

I don't have much else to say...I've been working on this all day.

Enjoy

Transformers belongs to Hasbro...I just draw fanarts.

Link to the fanfiction that inspired all of this craziness. War and Wings: Chapter 1 part 1--Truth or Dare
Rated T for generic humor, romance stuff---no porn (sorry ), wartime violence, blood, Cybertronian cursing, and an eventual bar fight...
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Saturday…
Ratchet used to hate Saturdays.
Humans, for reasons that the seasoned medic could not fathom, lumped seven of their solar cycles into a unit of time called a "week," the first five cycles of which were mostly devoted to education, work or a combination of the two. The last two cycles of the week, colloquially known as Saturday and Sunday, seemed to function as a sort exaggerated holiday, whereby the humans would, on the whole, abstain from work or school and recreate in various ways.
Jack, Miko, and Rafael--the human children who had, inadvertently, stumbled into the middle of their millennia-old, civil war with the Decepticons--were no different from other humans, except that their recreational activities spanned the gauntlet from

Description
For those of you who have been reading WaW, you know that I love Cybertronian techno-jargon...especially with respect to their anatomy. I try my best to define strange terminology as it is used, but sometimes I intentionally leave out explanations to really make their bodies/culture/science seem distinct from our own.

I'm commissioning a lot of fanart for WaW because a)I want to support fellow artists and b) my job leaves me with very little free time for personal art projects. One of the pieces I've commissioned (by the lovely and talented ) will feature the inside of Ratchet's chest, and I wanted to provide her with a bit of a guide to maker her job easier (especially since we've never been given a canon image of anyone's inner workings)

Optimus doesn't count because the matrix of leadership was blocking all of the details...

Ne-who, explanations...

The image in the upper left is a simple cut-away diagram, showing all of the plates in their normal alignment with the underlying anatomy visible.

The image bottom-center shows the interior of the chest cavity when the plates are opened naturally. All the major components are labeled. Obviously words like "shoulder-cap" and "medial-plate" are English translations of Cybertronian terminology. Other words like "t'vre" are pronounced phonetically but have no viable English translations. To make Ratchet's internals seem a bit older, I referenced a lot of old car engines where all the pipes and lines and whatnot are exposed and there's a lot of excess space to make it easier for objects to be changed out when they fail. Newer models would be much more compact.

His spark chamber is completely enclosed to protect the spark within (otherwise it would "evaporate" or dissipate if exposed to the atmosphere). There's a prominent welding scar that runs diagonally across the entire organ. It restricts motion of the spark-casing, and as such his body is unable to pump energon as well as it used to.

And finally...the bust. I like it, but I can't shake how much Ratchet looks like Iron Man when you take off his helm.

I don't have much else to say...I've been working on this all day.

Enjoy

Transformers belongs to Hasbro...I just draw fanarts.

Link to the fanfiction that inspired all of this craziness. War and Wings: Chapter 1 part 1--Truth or Dare
Rated T for generic humor, romance stuff---no porn (sorry ), wartime violence, blood, Cybertronian cursing, and an eventual bar fight...
____________________________________________________________________________________________
Saturday…
Ratchet used to hate Saturdays.
Humans, for reasons that the seasoned medic could not fathom, lumped seven of their solar cycles into a unit of time called a "week," the first five cycles of which were mostly devoted to education, work or a combination of the two. The last two cycles of the week, colloquially known as Saturday and Sunday, seemed to function as a sort exaggerated holiday, whereby the humans would, on the whole, abstain from work or school and recreate in various ways.
Jack, Miko, and Rafael--the human children who had, inadvertently, stumbled into the middle of their millennia-old, civil war with the Decepticons--were no different from other humans, except that their recreational activities spanned the gauntlet from