Canon Character Stats and Ages

[Leathurkatt]

Just to help out a bit, I thought I would post a list of Official Stats for the established Movie canon bots for everyone. If need be I can locate stats for other bots as well. Just PM me and I'll get them to you, or you can find them here.

Speed Rating Chart
1 = 72mph
2 = 90mph
3 = 112mph
4 = 140mph
5 = 175mph
6 = 218mph
7 = 272mph
8 = 340mph
9 = 425mph
10 = 531mph

AUTOBOTS
Optimus Prime
Affiliation: Autobot
Height: 28 feet
Weight: 4.3 metric tons
Strength: 10
Intelligence: 10
Speed: 7
Endurance: 10
Rank: 10
Courage: 10
Firepower: 10
Skill: 9
Hypercoil musculature, unrelenting endurance and strength, and a Spark that is the most powerful energy source known to Autobots after the Allspark and Matrix.

Bumblebee
Affiliation: Autobot
Height: 16 feet 2 inches
Weight: 1.6 metric tons
Strength: 6
Intelligence: 8
Speed: 6
Endurance: 5
Rank: 5
Courage: 10
Firepower: 3
Skill: 9
Exo-armor covered in solar receptors he can revert to emitters and power his solar accelerator cannon, relatively small fast maneuverable and hard to hit, and has the best traction on even the slickest surfaces.

Ironhide
Affiliation: Autobot
Height: 22 feet
Weight: 3.8 metric tons
Strength: 8
Intelligence: 6
Speed: 5
Endurance: 9
Rank: 8
Courage: 9
Firepower: 7
Skill: 5

Jazz
Affiliation: Autobot
Height: 15 feet
Weight: 1.3 metric tons
Strength: 6
Intelligence: 6
Speed: 9
Endurance: 7
Rank: 8
Courage: 9
Firepower: 6
Skill: 5

Sideswipe
Affiliation: Autobot
Height: 15 feet
Weight: 1.5 metric tons
Strength: 8
Intelligence: 7
Speed: 8
Endurance: 6
Rank: 5
Courage: 7
Firepower: 3
Skill: 9

Ratchet
Affiliation: Autobot
Height: 20 feet 1 inch
Weight: 6.7 metric tons
Strength: 4
Intelligence: 9
Speed: 6
Endurance: 5
Rank: 5
Courage: 10
Firepower: 3
Skill: 10
Has dense heavy armature and multiple redundant systems he can cannibalize to repair other bots.

Jetfire
Affiliation: Autobot
Height: 50 feet
Weight: 30.6 metric tons
Strength: 8
Intelligence: 8
Speed: 9
Endurance: 4
Rank: 5
Courage: 7
Firepower: 9
Skill: 5

Arcee (All stats except weight apply to all three components.)
Affiliation: Autobot
Height: 7 feet
Weight: Tripartite Combiner Cybertronian, Each component listed separately:
Red Ducati 848 bike = 370 pounds
Blue Suzuki B-King bike = 518 pounds
Purple MV Agusta F4 750 Series Oro bike = 396.8 pounds
Strength: 8
Intelligence: 6
Speed: 8
Endurance: 5
Rank: 5
Courage: 7
Firepower: 7
Skill: 9

Skids
Affiliation: Autobot
Height: 8 feet
Weight: 1709 pounds
Strength: 4
Intelligence: 6
Speed: 7
Endurance: 4
Rank: 2
Courage: 8
Firepower: 5
Skill: 3

Mudflap
Affiliation: Autobot
Height: 8 feet
Weight: 1956 pounds
Strength: 4
Intelligence: 5
Speed: 7
Endurance: 5
Rank: 2
Courage: 9
Firepower: 4
Skill: 3

DECEPTICONS
Megatron
Affiliation: Decepticon
Height: 35 feet
Weight: 5.7 metric tons
Strength: 10
Intelligence: 10
Speed: 10
Endurance: 10
Rank: 10
Courage: 9
Firepower: 10
Skill: 9
Has a dark matter power core, has internal repair systems that make him even harder to kill, and has multiple weapon systems though he favours crushing/mauling/eviscerating enemies with his bare hands.

Starscream
Affiliation: Decepticon
Height: 31 feet
Weight: 19.7 metric tons
Strength: 8
Intelligence: 4
Speed: 10
Endurance: 7
Rank: 9
Courage: 5
Firepower: 8
Skill: 8

Barricade
Affiliation: Decepticon
Height: 16 feet
Weight: 1.6 metric tons
Strength: 8
Intelligence: 5
Speed: 8
Endurance: 6
Rank: 5
Courage: 5
Firepower: 5
Skill: 4

Frenzy
Affiliation: Decepticon
Height: 3 feet
Weight: 6.5 pounds
Strength: 2
Intelligence: 9
Speed: 5
Endurance: 4
Rank: 4
Courage: 9
Firepower: 5
Skill: 10
Alt Mode

Soundwave
Affiliation: Decepticon
Height: 22 feet
Weight: 4 metric tons
Strength: 4
Intelligence: 9
Speed: 8
Endurance: 5
Rank: 8
Courage: 7
Firepower: 9
Skill: 9

Ravage
Affiliation: Decepticon
Height: 4 feet
Length: 15 feet
Weight: 0.9 metric tons
Strength: 6
Intelligence: 9
Speed: 7
Endurance: 7
Rank: 4
Courage: 10
Firepower: 4
Skill: 4

Devastator
Affiliation: Decepticon
Height: 100 feet (45 feet tall on all fours, is physically incapable of standing fully upright)
Scavenger: 86 feet, Overload: 30 feet, Hightower: 50 feet, Longhaul: 60 feet,
Mixmaster: 30 feet, Rampage: 20 feet, Scrapper: 45 feet
Weight: 24.1 metric tons
Scavenger: 4.5 metric tons, Overload: 3.6 metric tons, Hightower: 3.5 metric tons, Longhaul: 3.5 metric tons, Mixmaster: 3.1 metric tons, Rampage: 2.9 metric tons, Scrapper: 3 metric tons
Strength: 10
Intelligence: 2
Speed: 2
Endurance: 10
Rank: 9
Courage: 10
Firepower: 10
Skill: 3

Blackout
Affiliation: Decepticon
Height: 55 feet
Weight: 20.87 metric tons
Strength: 8
Intelligence: 6
Speed: 8
Endurance: 7
Rank: 7
Courage: 5
Firepower: 9
Skill: 5

Scorponok
Affiliation: Decepticon
Height: 3.8 feet
Weight: 2 metric tons
Strength: 5
Intelligence: 1
Speed: 6
Endurance: 8
Rank: 3
Courage: 6
Firepower: 5
Skill: 3

Primary Source

[Leathurkatt]

Transformers can pretty much live indefinitely provided they have enough Energon. Without Energon, they would gradually shut down and go into stasis lock, which will keep their Spark in kind of a holding pattern of sorts, but even that won't last too long, no more than a century or so, before the Spark fades and goes out. That seems to be the only way they would actually die of natural causes, Energon starvation. Aside from that, they'd have to actually be killed.

Their mental maturity is subjective once they reach physical maturity (12 Ano-Cycles). For more information on that, please see the "Growth Stages" listed in the Transformers Spawning file. As for chronological ages, we don't have anything definitive per se. But, from what I've been able to gather from the comics and movies, this list is in order of oldest to youngest for the movie verse time line:

Came on line during the Tribal Wars:
Kup and Que
Ironhide and Ratchet
Megatron
Optimus Prime
Ultra Magnus (younger than Optimus only by an ano-cycle or three)
Starscream, Thundercracker, Skywarp (and a fair number of other Seekers)
Wheeljack and Prowl
Elita One

Came on line during Reunification:
New Seekers (These can come on line at any point during Reunification, though in general are still older than Cliffjumper, Dino, and Bumblebee.)
Moonracer, Arcee, and Chromia
Mirage
Jazz
Cliffjumper and Dino
Bumblebee (Matured only a few ano-cycles before the war, he was stated as having just been assigned his first post after training with the Security Forces when the Eschems Nebula Aliens attacked Cybertron and the war started shortly after the alien attack so he may have been the last one spawned before the war started.)

Came on line during the war:
Sideswipe and Sunstreaker (early war before the Allspark was launched)
Skids and Mudflap (youngest known)

[Leathurkatt]

The Cybertronian timeline I have been able to extrapolate for the Movie verse storyline (with additions from the Aligned continuity) is as follows:

Age of the Primitives: It is during this time that many of the creatures on Cybertron actually developed, beginning with Predacon type creatures, as well as Driller Beasts and Subterranean "Slugs" along side some of the smaller Mechanimals. Predacons and Drillers were in direct competition for resources, often feeding on each other for survival as large pockets of raw Energon became harder to find. At some point during this time, the Predacons began to die out and Drillers began to dwindle in both size and numbers, allowing the more prolific and smaller Mechanimals to flourish all across Cybertron.

Rise of the Dynasty: This is the time of the original 13 Transformer Primes, the first of their race and the dawn of Cybertronian life and civilization. It is unknown if the 13 Primes spontaneously evolved from the more primitive creatures after coming in contact with the Allspark, or if Primus himself actually created them from scratch. The timeline of their reign is also unknown, yet its end is well marked by the betrayal of Megatronus Prime and the start of the War of the Primes when Megatronus Prime is stripped of his title and became known as The Fallen.

War of the Primes: A 5000 Ano-Cycle war tore Cybertron and the 13 Great Primes apart, ending in the destruction of the Citadel of the Primes by The Fallen and the disappearance of the 13 Original Primes. This betrayal also marks a period of great turmoil (approximately 150 Ano-Cycles) when the direct descendants of the Primes, in particular the descendants of Prima (the Matrix Bearer and first of the 13), were hunted down and slaughtered by agents of The Fallen under his last direct orders before his own disappearance.

The Golden Age of Cybertron: Following the War of the Primes, there was a great Golden age when a Caste System is implemented and an age of great scientific and cultural achievement, such as the great scientific center of Cybertron known as Crystal City, as well as the construction of the great cities of Iacon, Nova Cronum, Stanix, Simfur, Tagon Heights, Altihex, Polyhex, Kaon, Vos Star Air Command, Trypticon Station, even Six Lasers. It is unknown how long this time of peace and great achievement lasts, but its end is marked by a great uprising from the lower castes, destroying the peace and fracturing the Autobot citizens into combative tribes scattered across Cybertron.

The Tribal Wars: With the Autobots segregated into isolated tribes fighting for resources and territory, fighting for survival. It was several thousand Ano-Cycles (exact time frame unknown) before Sentinel Prime rose up out of the ashes and, with a young Optimus and Megatron by his side, finally managed to unify the tribes and left Cybertron under their joint command as Reunification took hold and brought peace to their race once again.

Reunification: For nearly 3000 years Cybertron knew peace under the collective leadership of Optimus, head of the science and research divisions, and Megatron, Lord High Protector of Cybertron.

The Cybertronian War: When the Eschems Nebula aliens attack Cybertron, Megatron leads the Cybertronian Defense Forces to annihilate them, then returned with the intent to take over all of Cybertron. His betrayal marks the start of the War, lasting 1000 Ano-Cycles and the rise of the Decepticons under Megatron's command.

The Great Exodus: After 1000 Ano-Cycles of war between Optimus Prime's Autobots and Megatron's recently named Decepticon forces, Optimus is forced to do the unthinkable, launch the life-giving Allspark into the far reaches of space, dooming their home planet to a slow death in the hopes of keeping it out of Megatron's insidious reach. It is shortly after the Allspark launch that the Autobots embark on a mass exodus in an attempt to find the Allspark, a search lasting nearly 4500 Ano-Cycles (14400 Earth years).

The War of Earth: The Allspark lands on Earth, and 12000 years later, the Autobots and Decepticons follow its signal. Beginning when both sides descended on Earth between 2003 and 2007, the war continues as Humans side with the Autobots against the Decepticons in a desperate bid to save Earth and its inhabitants from destruction, though some humans have secretly turned against both sides.



For those who wish to implement the Cybertronian Caste system for during the time of Reunification before Megatron's betrayal and the start of the Great War as a throwback to a time between the War of the Primes and the Tribal Wars; here's the complete list of Cybertronian Castes as far as I understand it:

High Castes:
The Primes (by the implementation of the Caste System after the War of the Primes, there is only ever one Prime in place and is selected by the Matrix of Leadership alone, though nominated by the High Counsel until the true Prime is selected)
High Councillors of Cybertron
Other Government Positions
Seekers
Soldiers and Defense Forces
Science and Exploration
Art and Music (performers)

Middle Castes:
Security Forces
Programming Caste
Cultural investigator
Data Caste
Building and civil engineering

Low Castes:
Industrial Workers and Miners
Smelting Pit and Resource Reclamation
Refuse Disposal
Hazardous Waste Disposal