Biofuel

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"Oh, there's already a soda like that. Soylent Cola."
"Oh, how is it?"
"It varies from person to person."

In the possible twilight years of the Cybertronian race, biofuel is developed as an alternative to energon as a means of powering Transformers when the latter could no longer be found or processed anywhere in the known universe. It is made from the harvesting and processing of organic life forms, even intelligent life. While functional, this process offers only the bare minimum of energy to function, leaving the subject in a constant state of lethargy, starvation, and a constant need to hunt for more.

Fiction

Last Bot Standing

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In the far future, after the Great War had brought about the ends of countless worlds and cultures and had exhausted all know sources of energon, a small group of the last remaining Transformers in the universe realized that their survival required finding a new source of energy to sustain themselves. This collection of both former Autobots and Decepticons, who under the leadership of Steeljaw, modified themselves to subsist on a new power source they developed that was derived from processed organic life: biofuel. With the collection of this new form of subsistence in mind, the survivors took to the universe to find worlds with organic life that they could harvest and process into biofuel. The fact that some of the "resources" they harvested were sentient became of little concern to the survivors. Last Bot Standing #2 The modification left Steeljaw's pack unable to process energon as fuel, leading them to instead scan only for viable organic matter. Last Bot Standing #3 Though biofuel sustained the remnants of the Cybertronian race, it failed to truly refuel them, leaving Steeljaw's followers constantly tired and hungry along with forcing them to overwrite their own memories to conserve their limited fuel. Without a more substantial power source, the pack could not even build a long-term spacecraft, instead using biofuel to launch themselves from world to world like bullets fired from a gun. Last Bot Standing #4

Eventually, the survivors made their way to the planet Donnokt with the intention of harvesting and farming the world's early-industrial inhabitants for fuel. However, on this world was also the long-dormant Rodimus. Eager to induct a new member into their ranks, Steeljaw ordered Rodimus fitted with a biofuel compatible intake system and for Rodimus' organic friend Shib Wallkis to be processed. Last Bot Standing #2 Leaving a portion of his forces to watch Rodimus, Steeljaw led the rest to Fembrance to harvest its resources. At the Veteran's urging, Shib was allowed to say a last goodbye to Rodimus, the girl taking the chance to stick an energon key into Rodimus' chest. Restored by the energon, Rodimus unleashed a superheated burst of exhaust on the visitors' biofuel rendering plant, destroying it and any chance of them continuing their harvest. Last Bot Standing #3

When Steeljaw discovered Donnokt's supply of energon, he promised to render all life on the planet into biofuel before he was informed of the plant's destruction, leaving the pack with nothing to fuel their conversion back to energon. Despondent at the loss of biofuel, Steeljaw nearly detonated the planet's energon before he was stopped by a remorseful Sharpclaw and Rodimus. Last Bot Standing #4

Notes

• Riotgear had developed a taste for "raw" biofuel.
• Among the survivors, conversing with beings that were captured for processing was seen as a "vulgar" and "obscene" act.
• In the real world, biofuel refers to liquid fuels that are converted from biomass in an extremely short time, as opposed to the very long natural process of biomass decaying into fossil fuels. This includes bioethanol, which is made from the fermentation of crops such as corn or sugarcane; and biodiesel, which is often made from processing used cooking oil.

See also

• Pink alchemy

External Links

• Biofuel at Wikipedia