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The honest-to-Primus true history of the Guiding Hand and the earliest days of Cybertron is revealed at last as our heroes square up to save the universe.
As the Functionists' "Primus" tears its way through Adaptus's replicas of Cybertron, aboard Adaptus's Worldsweeper mothership, Whirl drowns out everyone else's reaction to the news that Rung is supposedly the real Primus with his raucous laughter. Nautica quiets the room and lets Rung speak... and as everyone watches, the truth of Adaptus's claim is seemingly proven when Rung regenerates his missing arm in the blink of an eye. Ratchet refuses to be believe it, of course, pointing out Rung's serial code, 100,000,000... only Rung now realizes that he's always been reading the number upside-down, and it's actually 000000001, denoting him as the first Cybertronian. Reflecting on his history of brushes with death and miraculous recoveries, of the nagging sense of not knowing he has always had about himself, Rung realizes that what Adaptus claims is true, as memories of the ancient past come flooding back. Rung begins to remember how it was Adaptus—not Mortilus, as the legends claim—who sparked the war among the Guiding Hand when he advocated attacking Cybertron's neighboring planets, believing that only in the crucible of conflict could the Cybertronian race adapt and evolve. Unable to stand against his brothers united, Adaptus fled to Luna 1 and unleashed a contingency plan, blasting Cybertron with an electromagnetic weapon that erased the minds of its entire population, including his brothers, who forgot their former identities and became mythologized as gods. Primus took the brunt of the blast, turning him into the perpetually forgettable, always-overlooked Rung.
Adaptus explains how, exploiting the confusion, he installed planetary engines on Luna 1 and used the now-mobile moon to flee into the Warren. Deposited by the space-time labyrinth in the far future, he arrived now, at this moment in time, and bore witness to the menace of the Functionist Primus—then proceeded to flee back into the past, adopting the alias of the "Grand Architect" to plan for the future, so that he could stop the danger the Functionists posed. Flame points out that that's not going very well, drawing Adaptus's attention back to the battle outside, and the steady erosion of his fleets by the faux-Primus, with even the self-regenerating Infinites—their powers inspired by Primus's own—proving unable to stand against the planet-sized menace. Before Adaptus can take action, however, Tyrest—that is, Solomus—shoots him in the back, his own memories now restored, and seething with rage at having had his life stolen from him. However, Solomus is no physical match for Adaptus, and is quickly and severely wounded—but before he can activate the teleporter concealed in his hand and escape, Adaptus lops that hand off with his chainsaw. Adaptus proceeds to impale Solomus with his saw, but falters for a moment when all the violence and viciousness causes Pharma's consciousness to briefly surface once more. Seeing an opening, Solomus deploys the finger-drill on his remaining hand and stabs it right through the distracted Adaptus's forehead, directly into his brain. Thus do the old gods die; the fatally-wounded pair perish together, their bodies explosively dissolving into inert sentio metallico.
Recovering Solomus's still-intact severed hand, Rodimus uses the teleporter to send himself to the Lost Light, then uses the ship to rescue the others from the Worldsweeper. The Lost Light and Megatron's Last Light both set down on the single remaining Cybertron, and our heroes reunite to discuss what to do next. Grimlock, Misfire, and Whirl suggest Rung use some of his divine powers to "smite" the other Primus, but Rung doesn't have any such abilities; he and the Guiding Hand were not actually gods, just the first of the Cybertronian race. The Magnificence—or as the crew now recognize it, Epistemus—speaks up to reveal that there is one thing Rung can do: he can use his ability to generate photonic crystals to create three new Matrices of Leadership, just as he created the original all those millions of years ago. Epistemus explains that those three Matrices can be positioned and opened by Rodimus, Ratchet, and Tailgate to simultaneously destroy the Functionist Primus's brain and transformation cog, and Vector Sigma, blowing it up from within. Everyone is a little confused over why the unassuming Tailgate must be one of the candidates; Epistemus explains that it is because he, innocent little 'bot that he is, can overcome the fabled "morality lock" that seals the Matrix. Given that Rodimus, Ratchet, and Tailgate will be trapped inside "Primus" when it explodes, Cyclonus refuses to allow them to go through with the plan, whereupon Epistemus's patience starts to run out, as he strangely begins referring to himself in the plural, and reveals that he was responsible for gathering them all here to enact this plan—teleporting Tailgate to Mederi, slowly teleporting Ratchet to make it seem as if he was disintegrating, and even speaking through Ten to direct them here.
As the Functionist Primus draws close to the final Cybertron, Rodimus refuses to allow Megatron and his crew to return to the unattended Last Light, preferring to keep them all together. And it is through unity that a new, less-explosive plan is formed: one by one, with each member of the crew volunteering a different suggestion, it is concluded that, rather than positioning three Matrices like bombs, they will instead direct the energy of twelve Matrices into Vector Sigma through Cybertron's hot spots, overloading and destroying the computer and the Functionist Council bonded to it. Epistemus flies into an unholy rage, refusing to allow this plan to go ahead, and unleashing bolts of energy that slay Froid, Sunder, and Nine-of-Twelve. Ratchet realizes that the voice speaking to them is not that of Epistemus; it is, in fact, the voice of the Omega Guardians, communicating via the Magnificence from the Higher Realms. The Guardians explain that they desire to return from this realm beyond—a typically impossible feat that they believe they can achieve using a tiny fault between realities that lies in the Benzene Cluster. One of their number once tried to return alone, but perished in the attempt, their four-dimensional corpse becoming the Warren, spanning all space, time and universes. Rodimus realizes that the Guardians specifically need "Primus" to blow up for their plan, intending for the planet-sized explosion to tear the fault open wide enough for them to traverse. The Guardians cackle that once they have returned, they will "eat everything", and mock the very idea that the crew can stop them... prompting Nickel to silence them by crushing the Magnificence between her hands.
The Last Light explodes as the Functionist Primus tears into the facsimile Cybertron, but at the last second, the Lost Light takes off, escaping the planet just before it is rent asunder. At Megatron's command, Crankcase swings the ship around to fly back towards the evil Primus, as the crew gets ready to save the universe!
"I'll tell you one thing... if there's a god, he's making less and less of an effort to make me believe in him."
—Ratchet reacts to the news that Rung is Primus
"It's finding new ways to help others, not hurt them, that inspires progress."
—Rung refutes Adaptus's outlook
"Not gonna lie—that's exactly how I wanna go out."
—Whirl watches Solomus and Adaptus explode into dust
"You're as effective a god as you are a psychiatrist."
—Froid zings Rung
"I'm not letting you out of my sight."
"Still? You still think I'm going to betray you?"
"Who said anything about betrayal? I just think that we're at our best when we're together."
—Rodimus and Megatron
"YOU CANNOT BEGIN TO IMAGINE WHAT WE ARE. WE ARE EXPANSIVE. WE ARE MANIFOLD. WE EXTEND IN EVERY DIRECTION. WE EXIST BEYOND THE PERIPHERY OF WHAT YOU TELL YOURSELF IS REAL. SO WHEN YOU SAY YOU WILL STOP US, HOW EXACTLY DO YOU PROPOSE TO DO THAT?" (Nickel crushes the Magnificence)
"They didn't see that coming."
—The Omega Guardians are no match for Nickel's dry-cool action hero wit
Megatron: "Turn us around." Crankcase: "As you command, Megatron." Rodimus: "'Yes' is fine. 'Sure thing' is also acceptable."
Rung has, of course, always been one of the central mysteries of More than Meets the Eye/Lost Light. His true nature, now revealed at last, was seeded in his very first on-panel appearance way, way back in The Transformers vol. 1 #22, when Senate cadets cruelly joked that he was some grand figure from Cybertronian myth, like "one of the Knights of Cybertron? The last of the Progenitors? Alpha Trion's long-lost spark brother?" How near they were, yet so far!
While cackling over the idea of Rung being "God", Whirl remembers how he strangled him back in More than Meets the Eye #2.
Rung's self-healing ability was also alluded to in More than Meets the Eye #2, in which Ratchet—while treating him for the first time in his life—marveled at how he was "in amazing shape" (even specifically noting that Rung's energon conduits and sub-cutaneous circuitry had started repairing themselves). Examples of his preternatural durability referenced in this issue include recovering after having his head blown off (in More than Meets the Eye #6) and being the only survivor of the crash of the Fateful Archetype (a story related in More than Meets the Eye #48).
It was also in issue #48 that Sunder hacked his mind, which Rung here describes as a "mental jolt" that brought suspicions that there was something "abnormal" about him to the surface. Perhaps that's why, when leaving his last will and testament in More than Meets the Eye #50, he requested that his body be dismantled, so that his alternate mode was put totally out of use, "just in case".
The flashback of the Guiding Hand's battle against Adaptus is laid out almost identically to the depiction of the God War in Lost Light #17, with their appearances shifted from the mythological designs to their actual bodies and Mortilus swapping places with Adaptus.
The "Higher Realms" were first mentioned in issue #14, when it was noted that the Omega Guardians had ascended to them.
In addition to explaining why everyone has always found Rung so forgettable—a running gag that also goes right back to More than Meets the Eye #1—Adaptus's electromagnetic weapon is credited with causing "the birth of information creep", the condition first named in More than Meets the Eye #31 that causes mechanical lifeforms to lose their memory data over time. This adds even more weight to Rung's original "promotional poster" released before More than Meets the Eye #1, which stated he "wants to be remembered".
Adaptus is revealed to have been responsible for installing planetary engines on Luna-1, explaining the presence of his coat-of-arms on the moon's surface, as seen in More than Meets the Eye #21.
The sight of Luna 1 disappearing into the Warren is specifically shown in a close-up reflection in Rung's glasses. This hearkens back to More than Meets the Eye #17, when Rung stared up at the moon-sized portal that was about to lead the Lost Light to Luna 1, and declared: "Is anyone else getting a sense of déjà vu?"
Tyrest/Solomus's concealed teleporter switch was previously used by him to escape imprisonment in More than Meets the Eye #21.
The precedent for Adaptus and Solomus's bodies dissolving into inert sentio metallico upon their deaths was established in More than Meets the Eye #51, when the deceased Censere/Mortilus did the same.
We previously heard the term "morality lock" in issues #2 and #15. It was in the latter that Flame remarked that "nobody believes" in the concept any more, prompting him to gasp "So it is real...!" in this issue.
The Omega Guardians, via the Magnificence, are revealed to have been responsible for teleporting Tailgate from his underground isolation chamber (where he was last seen in issue #7) to Mederi (where Cyclonus found him in issue #16). They were also responsible for triggering Ratchet's apparent discorporation in issue #13, and were the parties who spoke through Ten in the same issue, explaining Nightbeat's observation in issue #16 that Ten's voice had "sounded different"—because it wasn't his voice (the one he normally says "ten" in), but the Guardians speaking through him. That also explains Ten's giddy elation at being able to speak properly in issue #16 (thanks to Mederi's telepathic environment), since he hadn't actually been the one doing it before.
Cyclonus refers back to the time he "interfaced" with Vector Sigma; the footnote directs readers to More than Meets the Eye #1, which was when we first learned about it, though it actually happened off-panel during the events of The Transformers vol. 1 #30.
It is now clear that the reason the Magnificence sent the Scavengers to Mederi instead of Garrus 9 in Lost Light #15 was to make sure he was in place to carry out his role in the Omega Guardian's plan.
The single-panel flashback of the Guiding Hand shows Rung with his backpack attached—but per More than Meets the Eye #22, we know that he was only given that backpack millions of years later by the Functionist Council.
Crankcase claims the Lost Light is five miles long; only a third of the fifteen-mile measurement consistently given elsewhere.
When Megatron's spacecraft is destroyed, Brainstorm says "That's the Last Light 's totaled!" Either the first word of the sentence or the possessive s should be removed.
Originally solicited for release in August 2018, this issue arrived a little late, in the first week of September.
You might've noticed that no explanation is provided in this issue or the previous one for why Mederi had to be brought to the Benzene Cluster, given that all that happened to it was that it was destroyed by the Functionist Primus. Presumably, the young version of Adaptus must have seen this happening on his trip to the future, and was fulfilling an ontological paradox by making it happen.
Intentional or not, the above image of the Evil Primus ripping Cybertron in half bears a marked resemblance to Unicron doing the same in Unicron #4.
The format of Rung's serial number—"000000001"—implies that the population of Transformers is bound to a maximum of 999,999,999.
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Lost Light Volume 4 – cover art by Nick Roche and Josh Burcham
The Definitive G1 Collection Volume 87: Crucible – cover art by Dreamwave, Casey Coller and Tom B. Long
