![]() Transforming his city into a mobile fortress he heads toward it, tracking a lonely and dusty course across the scorched landscape. Finally fixing a few sensors he discovers an image of one of the symbols on a city in the north – A Decepticon symbol. He creates a small robot in their image, controlled entirely by him, sets him to work around him, repairing, modifying. Realises there were mechanical lifeforms there, in secret, in disguise. Symbols he hasn’t seen before, records in an unfamiliar language – Cybertronian. But there’s something odd, unfamiliar in the records. He sees that a war raged here once, the inhabitants fighting. He finds his records scrambled, damaged somehow… He sees snatches of history, fragments. ![]() He wonders at what point he became alive. On a double page splash we see the massive expanse that is the city of Metroplex – abandoned. He was built over centuries, added to, made larger and larger until one point he became a sentient city. Through pencil sketches, paintings, grainy photographs we see the construction of Metroplex. Here’s how things could have gone… Open on a sketch, done in a style circa 1000AD of a few huts. I wanted to explore the idea of an unintended consequence of the Transformers infiltrations and interference on alien worlds and to explore the idea of evolution and how places can become living things - the Spirit of the Place. So it’s safe to post because sadly it can never be, but I hope you enjoy a look at what could have been a very different tale, steeped in the Infiltration mythology and set in an undetermined time frame to allow it to be followed up on however future stories saw fit. ![]() It also predates Overlord’s appearance by quite a while. Some things to bear in mind here that this predates the actual Spotlight Metroplex, and the whole Titan storyline. I asked a little while on my Twitter and FB if people would be interested in seeing a pitch I developed for a Spotlight Metroplex.
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