It is unclear how this time should be interpreted.
Similarly, the history video at the very beginning of the episode refers to "millions of years", an Earth unit. This is probably a case of dialogue being written for human observers rather than indicating the existence of a "Cybertronian century", but it is included here for completeness. In the Transformers Animated premiere, " Transform and Roll Out", several references are made to the Great Wars ending "centuries ago", all prior to first contact between Transformers and Earth. In the story Meltdown! it was further defined as approximately 8.35 minutes. Originally defined in the Marvel Comics story " The Smelting Pool!," also used in Dreamwave's comics. Even ignoring this extreme case, astroseconds in general cartoon use appeared to be much less than one second each. In particular, in " Divide and Conquer" Shockwave states that the space bridge will materialize within 72 billion astroseconds, an interval exceeding a millennium if Dreamwave's definition is applied. Astroseconds as referenced in the original The Transformers cartoon seem to be much shorter, but were never defined. Dividing 183 minutes (or 10,980 seconds) by 3,000 astro-seconds, the end result is 3.66 Earth seconds per astro-second.ĭefined by Dreamwave's More Than Meets The Eye #8 as 1/1000th of a breem. Instead, Shockwave defines the time until the next space bridge launch window as occurring in 183 minutes when the scene was recorded, the line was changed to "3000 astro-seconds".
In the original script (available on the Shout! Factory season 1 DVDs), astro-seconds were not used. It was used in context of a set period of time, rather than a relative timespan.įirst mentioned in " Shadowplay (Conclusion): An Intimate Beheading" when an explosion occurred at the Jhiaxian Academy of Advanced Technology, specifically at "arc 1-13 on the 5th chord of the 4th Cycle 501." Given its use to mark the moment of an explosion and the division between two numbers, arcs may be a unit similar to minutes and hours, such as something happening at 10:15.Īstro-minutes are referenced in the Generation 1 cartoon episode " Fire in the Sky" and could be anything from actual minutes to hours.įirst mentioned by the original Transformers cartoon episode " Transport to Oblivion".
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