Technorganic

Technorganics are a unique subspecies or mutation of Cybertronians from the planet Cybertron, which in turn can be considered as nether robot nor carbon-based lifeform.

Anatomy
Technorganics share a similar biology to other Cybertronians, except their physiology includes both technological and biological components. They generally transform into animals of a similar biology.

Powers and abilities
Technorganics share many of the same abilities as regular Cybertronians. Representing the next evolutionary leap in Cybertronian life, they additionally possess a suite of abilities that border on the supernatural.

Technorganics' physical forms meld organic tissue and technology together at the cellular level, combining the strengths of both.

Certain Technorganics can perform a unique method of transformation through fluid shapeshifting, accompanied by a burst of brightly colored energy.

Technorganics are invisible to traditional Cybertronian and Quintesson scanners even while in beast mode, no longer giving off an "energy signature" like ordinary machines.

Technorganics are immune to most anti-Cybertronian viruses, including the debilitating transformation virus engineered by Megatron. Conventional CR chambers also have no effect on them.

While in robot mode, techorganics can utilize biologically enhanced nanosurgical capabilities, allowing them to heal faster and easily recover from grievous injuries.

In combat, technorganics mostly possess powerful built-in weapons such as deflector shields, sonic attacks, and electrical blasters.

Several technorganics possess telepathic abilities.

Botanica possesses several unusual abilities even beyond the ken of her fellow technorganics. Most notably, she has developed a symbiotic connection to Cybertron's organic core, growing sick and weak if cut off from its energy. She can also create technorganic plants at will.

Weaknesses
Technorganics share many of the same weaknesses as regular Cybertronians.

While in robot mode, technorganics are as readily detectable in scanners as regular Cybertronians.

Though powerful and durable, technorganics are not invulnerable as sufficient conventional firepower can render them unconscious or even physically damage them.

Much like regular Cybertronians, technorganics are vulnerable to spark extractors.

Ingesting seemingly organic fruit can cause technorganics to mentally devolve into primitives, though the effects can be undone if the tree generating this fruit were to be destroyed.

Technorganics are vulnerable to the Key to Vector Sigma, a device which can convert organics into "technomatter". As such, the Key can use technorganics to convert to a metalized state, resulting in pain, hysteria, and eventually deactivation unless its effects are reverted.

Culture and society
Technorganics generally share a similar culture to regular Cybertronians. Though they still retain their ancestral transformation ability, certain technorganics must re-learn how to transform by conscious thought and effort, a practice long since abandoned in favor of automating the process via the onboard computers that their new bodies lacked.

In order to transform in their current state, technorganics must first practice a mental discipline that saw them achieve a zen-like "still point". Some of them occasionally use the mantra "I am transformed" to help until they get the hang of doing it on their own.

If this state of mental balance were to be lost, a technorganic would usually revert from robot to beast mode. Several technorganics including Nightscream, Silverbolt, and Botanica appear to get the knack of transforming from the get-go.

Primax Cluster
The Oracle possessed the ability to reformat any compatible Cybertronian into a technorganic body, as part of its mission to perpetuate the Great Transformation. To this end, it sought out the recently returned Optimus Primal and guided him to the Vector Sigma Chamber. There, the Oracle reformatted him and his fellow Maximals, Cheetor, Rattrap, and Blackrachnia, into the first technorganic Cybertronians. The Oracle used the organic matter brought back from prehistoric Earth by Primal's crew as the basis for this dramatic upgrade.

The Maximals would eventually extend the Oracle's ethos to new plant life and eventually Cybertron itself. Cybertron had long been a planet of metal upon metal, "technology" alone. At the end of the conflict between the Maximals and Vehicons, Cybertron was reformatted planet-wide, creating a new Earth-like world, a mix of technorganic flora and fauna, oceans(presumably full of water, and vast green cities.

This "new" Cybertron possessed cities of varying construction; some largely technorganic in nature, others retaining more "traditional" inorganic metal or stonework construction, depending on the part of the planet. The technorganic reformatting created trees bearing Energon fruits, in addition to purifying several highly polluted areas.

Evidence arose that the Quintessons had seemingly orchestrated the entire Great Transformation, hoping to invade the planet and take advantage of its weakened, disoriented inhabitants. When they followed through on this plan, they discovered that the technorganic inhabitants of Cybertron had developed beyond their specifications. The technorganics had also become more powerful than anticipated, as they more than capable of besting an invasion force of Sharkticons.

However, it was ultimately revealed that Primus had indeed masterminded the entire plan, using the Quintessons as pawns in his own game. When the truth came out, he thanked them for helping his children achieve this great leap forward.

Cybertron's transition to its technorganic state meant that it no longer operated on pure Energon. When the Star Seekers attempted to use Unicron's head to drain all of Cybertron's Energon in 2984, their scheme failed due to this development.

Aurex Cluster
The Decepticon known as Predacon experimented on himself with "biomechanical" technology to integrate organic tissue into his natural robotics, something that most other Cybertronians often find repulsive.

Malgus Cluster
When the Autobot Elita-1 was attacked by alien spiders on the planet Archa Seven, she attempted to use her ability to download and replicate the abilities of other mechanoids on the creatures. However, the process wound up mutating her into a technorganic form with an alternate mode based on the spiders.

Taking the name "Blackarachnia", Elita was initially revulsed by her unnatural new form, as were many around her. In time, she eventually embraced her transformation and sought to replicate it on other Cybertronians, successfully cross mutating the fugitive Autobot Wasp with an actual Earth wasp to create "Waspinator".

When a Cybertronian protoform materialized in Isaac Sumdac's lab, it scanned the scientist's DNA rather than a customary mechanical alternate mode. The result was Sari Sumdac, outwardly an ordinary organic human by all appearances whose true nature was unknown even to her, but whose Cybertronian abilities were unlocked when she was upgraded by the AllSpark Key.

Alternate history
In Primax 208.06 Zeta, the Oracle instead reformatted Predacons Waspscream, Terrorsaur, Tarantulas, and Rampage into technorganics.