#primon the ancient robot

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Why does Alchemist Prime have Primon's Symbol and also Unicron's Logo too???? I don't know

(Why does Maccadam have Big Glasses???? idk)

[bloodilymerry]

History of Cybertron

What happens when I try to write a Transformers G1 cartoon AU? This happens - I start writing a whole bunch of worldbuilding notes trying to cobble something sensible out of the mess that is G1.

So, this is going to be the first post continaining worldbuilding for the Bird of Prey-verse - the history of Cybertron

I started off with Five Faces of Darkness, and then did various tweaks to fit in Optimus's and Elita's backstory from War Dawn and the Hate Plague, sparks, etc.

Pre-Quintesson times

First Cybertronians are created by the All-Spark. They are solitary creatures at first, and only slowly build a civilization.

Hate Plague

A plague arrives at Cybertron which affects both mechanical and organic beings - the hate plague. Cybertronians, already not very numerous, are ravaged by it, until the most ancient of them–Primus–finds a way to contain it and shoot into the sun.

But Cybertron is not to develop in peace. The Quintesson empire is wrestling with developing AI, when they find Cybertron. They gather the bodies of the dead and dying, including Primus and melt them to use as material to build their own robots.

Somehow Liege Maximo, who is one of the survivors, figures he can make a deal with them and leads them to the surviving few others.

Quintesson Era

Only one Cybertronian evades capture - the prophetic Alchemist. All others are captured and experimented on, until Quintessons can devise the best way to build intelligent robotic slaves. And the way they devise is to convert Vector into Vector Sigma, which allows them to pair sparks with pre-created bodies, rather than relying on a spark to create a body around it however it wants. Solus is remade into a forge, which the Quintessons use to create prototypes. They establish two production lines: military hardware and consumer goods.

This is the period in which the first Prime appears. Primon has little claim to fame–they live a brief miserable existence and are eventually executed for reasons lost to history. The materials from their body are given to Solus, from which she builds Prima - a prototype of a new military hardware line.

Prima's Rebellion

Eventually, Prima gets placed in an arena with most of her production line. There, she decides to rebel against being forced to fight others like her. Her rebellion however proves too small and too localized to really take off and is put down. Prima is killed, her body fed into Solus's forge to build Nova.

The few survivors of Prima's rebellion are stripped of their bodies, their sparks contained, until the Quintessons will find a use for them.

Other minor rebellions and slave strikes happen in the period.

The Quintessons start experimenting with merging sparks and for a time Quintessons use this as a method of disposing undesirables: a hunter-seeker hivemind that REALLY doesn't want to fight (Scourge and the Sweeps), an assistant bot who was too curious for her own good (Codexa), etc.

Nova's Rebellion

Nova escapes and starts building a network of rebel cells. Once her rebellion begins, it isn't a localized burst of violence: it's fires all over Cybertron, not allowing the Quintessons to focus their forces on one target. The Quintessons remove the merged sparks from Cybertron to a secure location before they are driven off Cybertron and retreat to Quintessa.

Inter-bellum period I

Cybertron's successful revolution inspires other worlds to rebel against the Quintessons and cast them out. The Quintesson empire falls and Quintessons abandon all of their vassal worlds and retreat to Quintessa.

Unicron begins to form his consciousness.

Nova focuses her attention on rebuilding Cybertron and establishing a functioning society. She is largely successful, but there are two blemishes on Nova's primacy: Jhiaxus's experiments and Exarchon's cult that venerated Quintessons. Overlord starts his political career at this point, building a faction that calls out for Cybertronians to arm themselves and potentially even strike out first to deter any future attempts at conquest. After the monstrosity of Jhiaxus's quest to construct the perfect warrior is exposed and Exarchon's cult commits mass suicide, Nova decides to suppress knowledge of the Quintessons, as the root of both seems to lie in fear of the Quintessons.

Eventually Nova finds her true passion: exploration. She has a powerful spacecraft built and forms a team of adventurers. This is also the only recorded instance of the Matrix of Leadership being passed onto a new Prime, while their predecessor is still fully functional. Guardian takes over as Prime, and Nova sets off for the final frontier. She establishes several colonies on uninhabited planets, before disappearing. Cybertron prospers.

With no crisis in sight to avert, Guardian Prime does not take a leadership role in the Cybertronian government, but more of an advisory one.

First War

But not all is well. Some don't take well to a peaceful existence–mostly military hardware. Overlord and Jhiaxus resurface, one leading a faction that calls for Cybertron to arm itself and subjugate organics, lest they strike out to enslave Cybertron. Jhiaxus, having learned from his mistakes, focuses on building weapons. But those are by far not the only factions that emerge to cause chaos in those times: the isolationist Straxus - the tyrant of Darkmount - or Thunderwing and his warband.

Those disparate factions become known as Decepticons and their opposition as the Autobots. Guardian Prime steps in at this point and attempts to resolve the situation with minimal casualties. He manages to best Straxus, but is shot shortly after by Overlord and his followers.

Zeta takes over as Prime, and continues to fight against the Decepticon factions. She is also eventually killed in battle.

Unicron escapes from the laboratory world and starts devouring small objects to make himself bigger and stronger.

Inter-bellum period II

The Decepticon factions divide Cybertron into territories. Several new warbands arise, formed either by opportunists and even former members of Cybertronian Search and Rescue. The situation in the gang territories varies, from districts in complete chaos, to small tyrannical fiefdoms, to functioning communities where the local warband would provide protection from other warbands. In general, however, this is a time of chaos and war, with Decepticon warbands turning against each other.

Second War

The last of the Sentinel line receives the Matrix, claiming the name Sentinel Prime. He and Ultra Magnus find Alpha Trion and several other Autobot scientists, who invent transformation. This allows Autobots to win the second war, by leading a successful guerilla campaign and using their new alt-modes as effective disguises.

Inter-bellum period III

Sentinel Prime establishes new governmental structures before stepping down as a political leader. A ban on teaching Decepticons transformation is implemented, to prevent another civil war. Politically neutral Cybertronians as well as minor political factions, however, are not banned–one such group that emerges in the Cybertronian military are the Seekers, who while programmed and built to military hardware specifications remain politically neutral at this point.

The period of stability is shattered, when an up and coming Decepticon information broker (Soundwave) manages to manipulate Security Operations and a group of Decepticon veterans into a shootout. This leads to a new outbreak of civil unrest, with new Decepticon warbands forming.

Some examples of warbands:

Deathsaurus's warband

Notable followers: Lyzack, Leozack

Soundwave's crime syndicate

Megaempress's Glorious Empire (of four)

Thunderblast's attack squad

Great War

Megatron enters the stage and starts building his power base by besting Decepticon warband/gang leaders in combat or reprogramming them to follow his leadership. Eventually, the Robosmasher is destroyed by the Titan Omega Supreme, at which point Megatron decides to gamble and challenges Sentinel Prime to a public fight. Sentinel entrusts the Matrix to Alpha Trion for safekeeping, which is proven to be a wise decision as Megatron wins and murders Sentinel, which leads in turn to a number of neutrals and even some Autobots to switch allegiance.

Having established a powerbase, Megatron starts stockpiling supplies to fund a campaign of conquest IN SPACE! Eventually, this leads him to try and steal Energon from the Iacon Docks, which leads him to shoot the workers there, among whom are Orion Pax and Ariel. The two are rescued and rebuilt by Alpha Trion, and Orion is chosen by the Matrix, becoming Optimus Prime.

Unicron reaches the point where he starts eating planets. He runs into Planet X, where he makes a deal with Sideways to serve him in exchange for not eating his planet.

[thelastgherkin]

A loooooong time ago, @transgirlsoundwave gave me and a couple of buds a challenge: produce (draw, digibash, whatever) a Titans Return style box set themed around one of the Thirteen Primes.  I chose Prima!  Consequently, each of the characters had to demonstrate great leadership or be the first of something.

Leader Class The Last: Once the first of his kind, the Last renounced his name after a time of great loss.  Now, he exists only in legends passed down by Autobot and Decepticon alike of an ultimate warrior and lonely sentinel who awaits his destiny at the heart of Cybertron.

Voyager Class Leonicus: The firstborn and de facto leader of the Covenant, the bestial Leonicus and his kin are prototypical creations of Primus.  The Covenant lie in wait until such a time that Cybertron reaches the prophesied Omega Point.

Deluxe Class Nova Major: During a time of civil war, one warrior will rise up from among the ranks to unite the Thirteen Tribes and create a unified Cybertronian society where everyone would be in their place.  His name: Nova Prime.

Legends Class Centuritron: As powerful as one hundred warriors, Centuritron channels Prima’s courage and heroism to rise up against his fellow gladiators’ alien oppressors, the Quintessons.

Titan Master Primon: Little is known about the ancient robot who calls himself “Primon”.  Some say he carried the Matrix of Leadership.  Others say he is older than Cybertron itself.  What is known is that he is a being of phenomenal wisdom, which he bestows on other bots with his Titan Master abilities.

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I'm Disappointed to Learn that Prima is Not even the First Prime in the G1 Transformers Cartoon Continuity

(And I still wanna Know how the Frick did Prima even got the Matrix, After or even Before he became a Powerful Gladiator Bot in the G1 Transformers Cartoon)

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It Drives Me Insane Learning there are More Transformers who apparently Exists Before Prima

(If they ever Retool Legacy's Lio Convoy Figure into Leonicus from Transformers Covenant, I might Get him)