It maps to his own experience fairly easily. The AllSpark might be like the Mother Grub, except without the genetic contributions. The hot spots being the caves, essentially. It's interesting to think about.

And much like the AllSpark for robots, Alternia would be hopeless without the Mother Grub. Not that he wasn't already basically aware of the fate of Cybertron. He declines to comment on that for now.

"Okay, but if there's no genetics involved, then what even determines how new robots used to come out? Like, were you spawned looking like that?" he asks.