Quote Originally Posted by Ode to a Grasshopper
I can live with most of it right up until the Cybertron=originally organic bit (and the bat skeletons),
To be fair, the idea of Cybertron once being an organic (and even technorganic) world is something that originated in G1. The G1 cartoon episode "Dweller in the Depths" (1986) actually shows Cybertron's core as being organic and that the Quintessons had conducted experiments in creating technorganic life known as Trans-Organics (and as revealed in Transformers Universe, the Oracle itself was a shell program created by the Quintessons in an attempt to harness the power of Vector Sigma).

In the G1 comics Cybertron was not scratch-made by Primus, but rather both he and Unicron re-created existing planetoids into Cybertron and the physical embodiment of Unicron commonly seen in TF canon (The Legacy of Unicron! (1988)). Later we see 'technorganic' (?) creatures from the depths of Cybertron emerge, claiming to be the indigenous inhabitants of Cybertron, long before Primus remade the world as Cybertron (On the Edge of Extinction! and Still Life! (1990-1991)).

Quote Originally Posted by Ode to a Grasshopper
Still, the Tankor saga was cool, and Strika and the drone (and Botanica too) were awesome characters.
By "drone" I'm guessing you mean the Diagnostic Drone? He was a pretty cool character.