Earth's Location

[klystron]

I'd like to think that the "co-ordinates" for Earth were in Navigational computers and the like, so 'bots didn't need to know them. That way it was easy for the information to be wiped from nav computer data banks.
Bit like GPS for us: we can type a location into a Garmin which will then tell us how to drive to it. We don't need to know (or remember) the exact lat/long co-ordinates.

Ark Navigational Main Menu -> Recent destinations -> Earth -> Engage!
Space flight = cakewalk.

[liegeprime]

Really? I always thought it just ended up somewhere around the edges of our solar system, hence why the Combaticons and Starscream were able to fly there on their own...
That must've been one big explosion that knocked it away, lucky for the Autobots it didn't wipe out Earth. Take that physics!

I'm in agreement with this theorem of Odie...

Another example/clue would be in the Cartoon movie itself... Optimus Prime flew from Cybertron's Moonbase to Earth to "stop Megatron Whatever the cost" but if you look at it, he received Blaster's distress signal basically in the morning of the attack ... and he arrived like, what, basically is the next morning ( as seen with the scenes - exchange of firepower and the setting and rising of the sun with Autobot city in smoke and ruins) either that's one freakin fast shuttle he uses or Cybertron's just around the corner of some Asteroid belt within the Solar system and not back to Alpha Centauri. Maybe, Cybertron just ended up in the fringes of our Solar system - beyond Eris after the events of Ultimate doom, coz I mean as Prime said they have to make a few "runs" to Earth to get more energon so they can stage a full attack on the Decepticons who have conquered Cybertron. Far enough that it doesn't need to revolve to our Star sun Sol, and as such remains dark as it's too far.

On a tangent query and possible additonal clue to where Earth is in relation to Cybertron's location - that transwarp wave they sent .. does it wave through space AND time? or just space... even so, for a wave to reach Cybertron like as quickly as they predicted then that would mean it's like just near and not like gazillion light years away on another nebulae basically.

So for me, Cybertron isnt in it's original galaxy post the Ultimate doom event but rather just free floating in space beyond our solar system yet not so far that it's really easy to get to Earth if one has a good transwarp drive or Warp engine tech (as in Star trek's ships) it's just a matter of which direction to head to since in Space basically it's like as your in the middle of the ocean in a speedboat, unless you've got GPS or something you can just keep on driving to whatever location and you wouldn't find the freakin Earth your looking for. :P especially as (incorporating the lost info theorem) in time the direction for Earth hasn't been installed anymore in the GPS/Navigational systems of current ships since by this time, how many years has it been? well a century or what.. BUt anyways that's my take on this

[Ode to a Grasshopper]

The Odieverse has it orbiting the sun somewhere out from Earth, mostly for the humor value of Cybertron messing around with the morning newspaper horoscopes section.

[liegeprime]

The Odieverse has it orbiting the sun somewhere out from Earth, mostly for the humor value of Cybertron messing around with the morning newspaper horoscopes section.

erm okay let me rephrase that, Im in agreement with part of Odie's theorem and interject my own at some point.....

[Ode to a Grasshopper]

erm okay let me rephrase that, Im in agreement with part of Odie's theorem and interject my own at some point.....

That's just what a Cyberius would say!

As an aside, the Odieverse is very much a different beast to the standard G1 canon(s). In this case I'd still have placed it somewhere in the same solar system as Earth post-Ultimate Doom, but then continuity in the G1 toon was never that big a deal.

[Verno]

So if they moved Cybertron, could they not have moved Earth? Big Space-Bridge or some planetary engines?

[Ode to a Grasshopper]

So if they moved Cybertron, could they not have moved Earth? Big Space-Bridge or some planetary engines?

Yep.

[Verno]

Yep.

Glad to know it's not off the table.

So maybe it's both!

1. Co-ordinates of Earth's original location are only known by a few and forgotten/lost by the masses.

2. Earth was moved for it's own protection after the end of the Great War, to let it rebuild on its own, without meddling Transformers.

[griffin]

And then it was renamed Ravalox...

[liegeprime]

Yep.

Well that's one episode for Global warming

Im so tempted to answer the continuity errors with some answers of my own hehehe e.g. point 3 of Continuity errors - the answer is simple - Serendipity

Point 2 of your findings Verno though is still debatable - Earth didn't get moved, Cybertron most likely did... it's got no sun to tether it in orbit so it just hurls into space without a proper orbit... moving further from earth or any other way as millenia has passed, we are not sure. Earth stays in it's orbit coz the sun will continue to exert it's gravitational pull keeping it more or less in it's proper place and orbit.