updated edition, 10/15/97

|sf> OK, here's my intro to "Twins and Tales."  First of all, most of the 
characters and some references are made to things that are copywrited by
Hasbro.  I'm not doing this for money and neither should anyone else.  

	Secondly, I *did* use some Generation 2 characters and I meant to 
use them.  (These include Jetstorm, Deluge, Skram, and Turbofire.)  Just a 
reminder as I've said before, Scorpia is a gold G2 watch and a scorpion, 
not a made up character.  I first posted the original introduction and
parts 1-4 in 1994, before there were Beast Wars, Beast Wars cartoons, or 
a Beast Wars Jetstorm.

	Third, there are some characters that are new.  These include
Edge, Rosestar, Ravine, Yell (aka Yellow/Maize), Flamethrower, Safari,
and Cloudscape.  The tech specs for Edge, Rosestar, Yell 
(aka Yellow/Maize), and Flamethrower are all up on my beta.html page
	As far as the planned cameo, no one vulunteered, so I made up 
my own character, whom I haven't shared yet.  She'll hopefully come up in
a later part.  Any other characters were in the "after movie" episodes 
of the Transformers cartoon and should be fairly obvious.

	Fourth, I've made up tech specs of Edge and Flamethrower and
have started to draw computer pictures of them.  (Since my Grex account
cannot display pictures, the point of pictures is somewhat moot.  However,
I *do* have a small picture of Edge available on WWW.  See my future.html 
for further details.  If this happens, I'll also put them w/ wherever and 
whenever my story is posted, reposted, or put on WWW/FTP.  I'd appreciate 
that whenever & wherever this story is reposted that this uncut intro be 
included.  The tech specs are optional reading, but they might help
some people unfamilar w/ my characters.

	Fifth, I thought I'd draw an ASCII map of the Scientist base on
Thane (I'll admit, the structure is not complex.).

		outside:  25 smaller one or two room buildings  all
	unconnected

		________________________________
		|           |                   |
		|  shelf    |     SET SPACE     |
		|           |                   |
		|           |       BRIDGE      |
		| EMERGENCY |_____________  \___|
		|            \                  |
		|  CLOSET   |                   |
		|           |   MAIN AREA       |
		|           |   OF BASE         |
		|  _        |                   |
		| |_|       |                   |
		| secret    |                   |
		| trapdoor  |                   |       
		|___________|__________  _______|
			    |           /       |
			    |   CHECK-IN ROOM   |
			    |________    _______|
	

	If anyone has any comments or spelling errors (especially comments)
they'd like to talk about, go right ahead.  Reply (or post) w/ any such 
suggestions.  This was my first FANFIC, so I guess that's all that's 
necessary.  Also, if you have any questions, I might perhaps be willing to 
entertain those too.  Have fun.