The Great War - What's it all for?

[Verno]

But Blackarachnia's not exactly a historian - and while she does possess impressive knowledge of historical events, it would have been knowledge that she acquired on prehistoric Earth since that was where she was "born" -- she'd never been on Cybertron (at the time) to access more extensive historical archives.

Yes, this raises another interesting dilemma: Who was Blackarachnia.

I refuse to believe that Maximals in stasis were nothing more than blanks with Sparks. They had to have some kind of life or memories from before going into the pod.

Take Grimlock for example. He emerged from a Stasis Pod and was Grimlock, not someone else. Granted in some universes he's dead by the time of the signing of the Pax Cybertronia, but he retains all his memories.

Blackarachnia's pod wasn't damaged, so no risk of loss of memory there, she simply had a Shell Program put on top of her Maximal Programming.

Quandary.