Age of Primes
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An ancient epoch of Cybertronian history, the Age of Primes, also known as the Age of the Thirteen[1], Era of the Primes[2], or Primal Era[3], was when the Thirteen walked Cybertron and ruled over its people. It always tends to end with death, tragedy, and the memory of the Thirteen disappearing into legends.
Fiction
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[edit]The Covenant of Primus
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The Age of Primes began directly after the Expulsion of Unicron. Returning to Cybertron, the Thirteen started to focus on their interests and projects.
- Primes focused on developing civilization:
- Primes focused on Energon projects:
- Primes focused on creative interests:
- Primes who traveled freely between cliques:
During this period the feelings between Megatronus and Solus deepened into true and mutual love. This surprised the more distant and insular Primes like Prima, Vector Prime and Alpha Trion, but the later Primes (especially Thirteen, Onyx Prime, and Micronus Prime) smiled at the idea and enjoyed seeing their friend Solus happy. Megatronus was naturally jealous of her, but she was in large the hub that connected all the Primes into friendship and family.
Resentment grew between Prima and Megatronus's respective groups, with Megatronus' group finding the former group bossy and controlling. The cliques of the Primes led to secrets amongst them, such as Prima's opinions regarding the later Primes (Thirteen being an exception) as malicious or evil. While Alpha Trion attempted to dispute Prima's views by arguing Primus' inability to defeat Unicron alone, Vector Prime sided with Prima, and Alpha Trion eventually remained quiet on the matter. Meanwhile, Liege Maximo would covertly work with Megatronus and Quintus on a secret Farm that would contain robotic beasts. These secrets would lead to the War of the Primes, the conflict that concluded the Age of Primes with Solus Prime's demise and the creation of the Well of All Sparks. The Covenant of Primus
Aligned novels
[edit]Alpha Trion would remember the "times of the Thirteen" not permitting much levity. Exiles
2005 IDW continuity
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Following the departure of the Knights of Cybertron, Primus: You, Me, and Other Revelations Cybertronian society devolved into a barbaric, feudal society, ruled by various warlords and Primes. Origin Myths It was to this era that the Decepticon scientist Shockwave found himself hurled back to following the destruction of his chronal drive. Wandering the deserts of Cybertron for years, he eventually came across the shepherd Onyx. Recognizing the shepherd's place in history, Shockwave slew him and fashioned his remains into a suit of armor that allowed the Decepticon to become "Onyx Prime", naming one of Onyx's pupils as "Megatronus". The First Who Was Named
As Megatronus and his Darklanders ran amok across Cybertron, Onyx set out to bring together the rest of the Thirteen. First, he found Liege Maximo Origin Myths and his army of bestial Maximals. Endless Forever Then, Onyx and his "menagerie" of Maximals traveled to the village that would day become Crystal City, meeting an alliance of Primes: Alchemist, Vector, Solus, Nexus, and Alpha Trion.
Onyx inspired their followers to take up arms and stop Megatronus' army together, using the young Alpha Trion's belief in the power of myths and legends to goad the young civilization into taking a stand. The next morning, Onyx and his forces joined the fight against Megatronus; but the emergence of three Titans allowed Onyx the opportunity to establish a "truce" with Megatronus, uniting the now eight Primes. Origin Myths The eight original Primes were soon joined by Prima, Amalgamous Prime, Quintus Prime, Micronus Prime, and a mysterious Thirteenth Prime, thus signaling the beginning of the Age of Primes. The Crucible
The Primes ruled together as they built a new civilization on Cybertron, The Crucible with Liege Maximo and his followers becoming known for being skilled diplomats and negotiators. Heavy As they began to wield powerful artifacts and the power of Titans, the Thirteen's egos grew as they began to believe that they were immortal and that only a Prime could kill another Prime. The Crucible
Prima, now known as the Primes' leader, was encouraged by Onyx to turn the Cybertronian race's natural drive to conquer outward: to spread Pax Cybertronia across the galaxy. Time Will Rust The First Who Was Named Onyx and Megatronus led the first of these interstellar colonization missions; though their chronicler Alpha Trion would remember this expedition as one of interstellar goodwill, aimed at spreading the "light" of Cybertronian civilization to their neighbors, the truth was far uglier: when the Omega Sentinel fleet arrived on the planet Antilla, the genocidal ambitions of the Cybertronians became clear, sparking a brutal conflict between the Cybertronian colonizers and the native Antillans. Shockwave informed Trion, who had chosen to gloss over the carnage in his official chronicle of events, that Antilla would become his world; Shockwave's means of ensuring that each of Cybertron's eventual colonies would "belong" to each member of the Thirteen. The First Who Was Named The invasion finally came to an end when an Antillan scientist developed and deployed a destructive superweapon that annihilated all life on the planet. Our Finest
But the Age of Primes was never meant to last forever. Onyx continued to manipulate the Primes, using the simmering tensions between the tribal leaders to pave the way for the next chapter in Cybertronian history: the First Cybertronian Civil War. Using Prima's blame on Megatronus for the Antillan mission failing, Onyx encouraged his other protégé, the Liege Maximo, to join forces with Megatronus and stage a coup against Prima. This coup would end with the death of Solus Prime, the first blow in the civil war. The First Who Was Named The Crucible
By the time the war came to an end, nearly all of the Thirteen were dead or off-world, leaving Alpha Trion as the last Prime still on Cybertron. The Crucible
2019 IDW continuity
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Long ago, the Thirteen Primes ruled Cybertron before they were sundered and their time ended. Following the end of their age, most of their artifacts were lost. Prime The Matrix of Leadership and Enigma of Combination were the only two artifacts that had been seen following the Primes' disappearance Sea of Rust I
The Age of Primes gave way to the Age of the Firstforged. A Dust of Crystals End of Time
One film
[edit]D-16, moments after having killed Sentinel Prime, claimed Megatronus Prime's T-Cog and declared that the Age of Primes was over, urging the High Guard and Cogless citizens of Cybertron to rise up against the false prophets that had led them. Transformers One
Games
[edit]Transformers: Earth Wars
[edit]The temporally displaced Orion Pax remarked that "this Age of Primes thing" felt like bad news for everyone. Holding Pattern
Armada Universe
[edit]The Skyboom, made up of the Mini-Cons Dirt Boss, Downshift, and Mirage, was one of several incredibly powerful weapons from the Age of Primes. Portents
The Sentius Twins discussed how a prophecy dating back to the establishment of the Primal Basilica at the dawn of time, which foretold the coming of a second Age of Primes, was now on the horizon of fulfillment. Age of Primes
Notes
[edit]Foreign names
[edit]- Japanese: Prime no Jidai (プライムの時代 Puraimu no Jidai, "Era of Primes")
- French: Âge des Primes ("Age of Primes")
- German: Zeitalter des Primes ("Age of Primes")
- Italian: Era dei Prime ("Era of Prime")
- Korean: Prime ui Sidae (프라임의 시대 Peulaim-ui Sidae, "Era of Primes")
- Mandarin: Zhìzūn Shídài (至尊時代, "Era of Majesties")
- Portuguese: Era dos Primes ("Era of Primes")
- Russian: Epokha Praymov (Эпоха Праймов, "Epoch of Primes")
- Spanish: Era de los Primes ("Era of the Primes")
- Turkish: Prime'ların Çağı ("Age of Primes")
References
[edit]- ↑ "Coda: Alpha Trion" in Transformers: Exiles
- ↑ Page 59, Transformers: The Covenant of Primus
- ↑ Age of Primes - Redux (Earth Wars)
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