Remain in Light 1 of 5: The Fecund Moon

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Synopsis

Somewhere, in a darkened room, Rodimus relates the grim tale of recent events to an unseen listener...

Ratchet verifies the death clock's scan of Tailgate, sadly confirming that the little 'bot has a fatal case of cybercrosis, brought about by nothing more than old age, which will kill him in just over three days. As the medic details the stages of the disease, including blindness, paralysis, and memory loss, Tailgate flees the medibay in a panic, racing back to his quarters, where he explains his news to Cyclonus. Cyclonus stoically advises Tailgate to make his peace and face death boldly, but then leaves the room in silence, and stops in the hallway to observe his reflection... which he almost punches in a sudden, furious rage, only to stop and instead tear gouges in his own face with his claws.

Examining security footage to determine what has become of the missing Ultra Magnus, Rodimus, Ambulon, and Blaster observe as the comatose Magnus suddenly sits bolt upright with impossible speed and appears to float to the shuttle bay. Mainframe reports that the signal from the shuttle Magnus left in has been detected, and the Lost Light sets course after it, soon finding that it leads through a colossal wormhole. Rodimus informs the crew that the ship will be going through the portal, giving anyone who wishes the option not to come, but nobody takes it. The ship enters the portal, and what lurks on the other side proves beyond imagining: the lost satellite of Cybertron, Luna 1, alleged home to the answer to every question, found at last.

As Rodimus waits in his quarters, morosely examining unread messages from Ultra Magnus on his datapad, Perceptor enters to report his preliminary findings: a lifesign scan, amazingly, suggests the moon is home to a billion lifeforms. Rodimus handpicks a small team to join him on the first expedition to the moon, confidentially informing them that all he really wants to do is find out what became of Ultra Magnus: Rung (to fill Magnus's role and tell him things he doesn't want to hear); Brainstorm; Whirl (in case there's any fighting to be done, though Whirl suspects it's positive discrimination); Chromedome (who Skids urges to search the moon for a solution to his lost memories); Ratchet; and Cyclonus, for his familiarity with the creation myth that Luna 1 is part of. Cyclonus agrees to come only on the condition that Tailgate gets to accompany them, desiring to give his tiny friend a great experience before his death, but he cautions Tailgate to disabuse himself of the notion that the moon may hold a cure to his condition. Swerve begs to come along, citing his metallurgical skills, but Rodimus refuses, accusing him of having abandoned that function to be a bartender.

Leaving the Lost Light under the stewardship of Fortress Maximus, the Autobots head down to the moon and deploy in M.A.R.B.s. They soon discover Magnus's shuttle, smashed open from the outside-in, but when Rodimus hops off the M.A.R.B. to examine it, his feet touching the moon's surface for the first time, the incredible happens: the entire moon lights up, as a billion sparks suddenly flare to life all over its surface. Luna 1, it transpires, is a gigantic "hot spot", a field where sparks are born, that has been fertilized after an ages-long wait when Rodimus touched it. As Rodimus wonders if the Matrix-half he is carrying could have been responsible, the other Transformers look in wonder on the field, the like of which Chromedome remarks had mostly ceased to be by his lifetime, since he was "constructed cold". Tailgate has heard this term thrown around a lot without understanding it, and the others explain that Chromedome was created using the energy from an extant spark, as opposed to "forged", born in a hot spot (which Whirl is eager to point out he was). Cyclonus calls the group's attention to a spark glowing green, which Brainstorm recognizes as a "superspark"—a vanishingly rare, insanely powerful Point One Percenter—and immediately begins excavating it over Perceptor's horrified protestations. Everyone discusses whether or not this is the right thing to do, but moral debates are promptly tabled by an explosive, unexpected arrival: a platoon of Decepticons led by Lockdown, who descend from the sky, weapons blazing, decrying Rodimus's team as trespassers!

Back on the Lost Light, the transmission from Rodimus's team is abruptly cut off, but Blaster and Maximus aren't sure if it's the moon or the ship that's being isolated. Down in the ship's oil reservoir, Skids is spending some time alone with this thoughts when suddenly, a familiar phrase gurgles out of the darkness: "Nineteen eighty-four". A platoon of the giant golden warrior robots he last saw just before joining the Lost Light crew bursts out of the reservoir's black depths, chanting their familiar refrain... but that's not all. More of the robots appear all across the ship: in Swerve's, which he has decided to close down; on the bridge; and everywhere in-between, these ones brandishing huge guns and declaring "Seventeen twenty-one".

Rodimus pauses in his story, reflecting on how many impossible things happened in one day, and realizes he has not even asked the name of his mystery listener. The older bot introduces himself as "Ambus"...

On Luna 1, as Rodimus's team flees the Decepticon attack, Ratchet's M.A.R.B. is hit and explodes, throwing the medic to the ground. A figure appears before the fallen Ratchet and offers its hand... and Ratchet looks up to see Pharma looming over him!

Featured characters

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Rodimus (3)
Ambulon (4)
Blaster (5)
Ultra Magnus (6)
Ratchet (7)
Chromedome (8)
Swerve (9)
Rung (10)
Fortress Maximus (11)
Skids (12)
Inferno (13)

First Aid (14)
Grapple (15)
Brainstorm (16)
Atomizer (17)
Huffer (18)
Gears (19)
Perceptor (20)
Whirl (21)
Ambus (28)
Pharma (30)

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Ransack (23)
Venom (24)
Lockdown (25)
Chop Shop (26)
"Den-O" (27)|

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Cyclonus (2)
Legislators (29)|

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Ambulon (4)
Blaster (5)
Ultra Magnus (6)
Ratchet (7)
Chromedome (8)
Swerve (9)
Rung (10)
Fortress Maximus (11)
Skids (12)
Inferno (13)

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First Aid (14)
Grapple (15)
Brainstorm (16)
Atomizer (17)
Huffer (18)
Gears (19)
Perceptor (20)
Whirl (21)
Ambus (28)
Pharma (30)

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Ambulon (4)
Blaster (5)
Ultra Magnus (6)
Ratchet (7)
Chromedome (8)
Swerve (9)
Rung (10)
Fortress Maximus (11)
Skids (12)
Inferno (13)

First Aid (14)
Grapple (15)
Brainstorm (16)
Atomizer (17)
Huffer (18)
Gears (19)
Perceptor (20)
Whirl (21)
Ambus (28)
Pharma (30)

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Ransack (23)
Venom (24)
Lockdown (25)
Chop Shop (26)
"Den-O" (27)|

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Ransack (23)
Venom (24)
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Cyclonus (2)
Legislators (29)|

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Quotes

"You're visiting Luna 1 for the experience, nothing else. This can't be about finding a cure."
"'Course not! 'Course it can't. ...why can't it?"
"It just can't."
"Right. Fine. So I'm not allowed to hope."
"Listen to me. Never. Hope. Hope is a lie."

—Cyclonus and Tailgate

"Time to break out the M.A.A.B.s and play 'Hunt the Crewmember.'"
"Wait—M.A.R.B.s or M.A.A.B.s"?
"'M.A.A.B.s or M.A.A.B.s?' What?"
"Mobile Autobot Repair Bay, or Mobile Anti-Assault Battlesuit?"
"The ones that turn into—the cool ones. The battlesuits."
"Right. We don't have any of those."

—Rodimus and Brainstorm

Brainstorm: "I was anti-apartheid. Went on the marches and everything. 'Equal rights for knock-offs!'"
Tailgate: "Eh?"
Chromedome: "Ignore him—he thinks it's four million years ago and he's being progressive."

"What are you—"
"Harvesting it."
"No, because harvesting takes skill. And patience. And time. You can't just—you can't just do precisely what you're doing now...!"

—Perceptor and Brainstorm

"Where are you going to put [the spark], Brainstorm? In your briefcase?"
"I wasn't, but if I did... oh, man. You've just blown my mind."

—Rodimus and Brainstorm

Notes

Continuity notes

Popular-but-unseen Spoke and Lockstock, mentioned in issues #12 and #16, get another name-drop in this issue, where it turns out they're just as well-liked by the ship's medibot—the Diagnostic Drone seen floating around the ship in multiple past issues (perhaps most prominently issue #7)—as they are by their crewmates.
Rodimus likens himself, Magnus, and Drift to Rossum's Trinity, the principle of Transformer biology introduced in issue #3.
Following last issue's surprise ending, Tailgate's looming death is revealed to be the result of cybercrosis, a rotting disease first mentioned in the More than Meets the Eye 2012 annual. For a dash of added irony, Tailgate was heard to hope in issue #12 that a cure for the disease had not been found, when expressing dislike of Dominus Ambus's do-goodery.
Ratchet notes that the cybercrosis has likely curdled Tailgate's innermost energon, which is sure to be the reason it appeared a sickly green color when Tailgate was seen pouring some out in issue #12, compared to the traditional pink-purple of everyone else's in that same issue. It is also pointed out that Tailgate's transformation cog likely no longer works, which he has not noticed because he hasn't transformed in so long; in fact, we've never seen him successfully transform at all through the run of the series, as when he last attempted it in issue #2 he got stuck halfway.
Ratchet also comments on Tailgate's 'full life', as everybody except Cyclonus still believes he's extremely well-read and accomplished.
It's not immediately clear what Rung might be referring to when he says he has a sense of déjà vu at the sight of the portal, but it's appropriate that he would be the one to feel it, as past issues have established him as a "historical constant" who has been around a long time and been present for nearly every major event in Cybertron history.
The portal looks a heckuva lot like the one Skids and the gold robots flew out of all the way back in issue #2.
Having lost his arm in issue #15, Chromedome is seen with a skeletal replacement on page 7 like that worn by Rodimus in issue #3, after he lost his own limbs. It has been built back up to a proper arm by page 10.
Fortress Maximus appears to be back in everyone's good graces, as he's seen with the group listening to Rodimus' opt-out speech, and is left in charge of the Lost Light when Rodimus travels to Luna 1.
Luna 1! This famous missing satellite of Cybertron's has been regularly mentioned across both More than Meets the Eye and Robots in Disguise since its legend was introduced in The Death of Optimus Prime. Reference is made to the quests that Swerve and Rodimus both undertook for it, which were originally commented on in issue #1 and the 2012 annual, respectively (though it's not clear if they were both on the same moonquest or not).
Callbacks are made to the deaths of Polaris and Shock (both from issue #2), Animus (issue #3) and Rewind (issue #15) .
The origin of Luna 1's nickname, "The Seething Moon", is revealed, as it is "seething" with unborn life. We got our first hint toward the sheer scope of what we see here back in issue #14, when we saw Overlord's spark emerge from Luna 2. That story saw Overlord's spark denoted as a "Point One Percenter" by its green coloration, which is how the Autobots identify another this issue.
We get a clear explanation for terminology we've been hearing since Chaos Theory: "Forged" Transformers are those whose sparks were grown naturally from the metal of Cybertron or one of its moons, while Transformers "constructed cold" were created using energy from another's spark. This process, in turn, is revealed to be another name for spark splicing, a population-enhancement program introduced by Nova Prime, mentioned in issue #11.
Skids is moping around in the ship's oil reservoir, where he was also seen ruminating in issue #8.
The Decepticons who attack Rodimus's team are Lockdown's "Titan Hunters" from Spotlight: Trailcutter. Ransack was not seen among the group in that issue; his presence here marks the first time all four Deluxe Insecticons have appeared together in IDW continuity. He was last seen in Robots in Disguise issue #3, implying that he somehow left Cybertron in the interim.

From the name he provides and his moustachioed visage, Rodimus's mysterious listener is obviously supposed to remind the audience of Dominus Ambus, Rewind's old (romantic) partner and master, seen in flashbacks in issue #12. His obviously shortened name and different color scheme (green and white versus Dominus's gold) ought to give readers pause, and as next issue will reveal, he's not what he appears.
The giant gold robots previously appeared back in issue #2. They've not been named in-story as of yet, but concept art from the first More than Meets the Eye trade paperback identified them as "Legislators", a term that has gone on to be used in IDW's catalogue solicitations for "Remain in Light".
Bonkers Autobot doctor Pharma appeared in issues #4 and #5, in which he got his hands lopped off. He's replaced one of them with a chainsaw. Groovy.
The Point One Percenter Spark the Autobots discover and which Brainstorm takes into his possession will eventually end up becoming hugely important.
Ratchet talks about death from old age, which is a phenomenon that has only recently been observed in the Transformer race. In the final issue of Lost Light, it is revealed that Ratchet was one of the few confirmed characters to die of old age.

Transformers references

Whirl explains that the harvesting of a spark involves taking with it a portion of the surrounding metallic matter, named "sentio metallico". Roberts created this term for his unofficial novel Eugenesis, where it was the name of the liquid metal matter that erupted from other Transformers' bodies and congealed into new lifeforms as part of the "budding" reproductive process seen in the original Generation 2 comic book. This seems to imply—as has been previously suggested by remarks about the irreplaceable nature of forged body parts—that forged bodies actually grow from this matter around the spark, where constructed cold bodies are simply built.
The Legislator's declarations of "seventeen twenty-one" refer to the issues of More than Meets the Eye that the five-part "Remain in Light" story appears in, starting with this issue, #17, and running until #21.

Real-life references

[[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}Remain in Light|{{#if:||Remain in Light}}]] is the title of an album by the band [[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}Talking Heads|{{#if:||Talking Heads}}]].
For the language-fanciers among you, "fecund" means "fertile". The full moon is often described as "fecund" in literature, owing to its mythological connections to fertility; here, that figurative language is given a far more literal double-meaning, as the moon in this story is literally bursting with life waiting to be born.
Brainstorm has a tiny model of [[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}RoboCop (franchise)#ED 209|{{#if:ED-209|ED-209|RoboCop (franchise)#ED 209}}]] from [[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}RoboCop|{{#if:||RoboCop}}]] on his desk.
Continuing the trend started by "V3" from Spotlight: Trailcutter, another new member of the Titan Hunters appears to be based on one of the title characters from the Japanese tokusatsu franchise [[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}Kamen Rider Series|{{#if:Kamen Rider|Kamen Rider|Kamen Rider Series}}]], in this case [[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}Kamen Rider Den-O (character)|{{#if:Kamen Rider Den-O|Kamen Rider Den-O|Kamen Rider Den-O (character)}}]].

Errors

The first sentence of the Story So Far page has an unnecessary comma.
In page 7 panel 1, Rung's dialogue of "dèjá vu" is misspelled—the diacritics are inverted; the correct spelling from French is "déjà vu".
Cover B has the panel above Rodimus's fist — the one closer to the reader — incorrectly colored yellow.

Other trivia

Like the "Shock and Ore" gag before it, the "M.A.A.B.s or M.A.R.B.s" joke is another one that works better if you imagine it spoken with James Roberts' native English accent, where the pronunciation of the words is virtually identical, versus the more obvious difference a North American accent yields.

Crew manifest

Tailgate discovers he is terminally ill.
11 deaths, 5 new arrivals (plus 20 or so Faders), one boxed, and one banishment since the launch.

Soundtrack

For all of "Remain in Light":

"A Dazzling End" from the Doctor Who [[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}Doctor Who: Series 4 (soundtrack)|{{#if:Series 4 soundtrack|Series 4 soundtrack|Doctor Who: Series 4 (soundtrack)}}]], by [[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}Murray Gold|{{#if:||Murray Gold}}]]
"The Universal" by [[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}Blur (band)|{{#if:Blur|Blur|Blur (band)}}]]

For this issue alone:

"Heaven" by the aforementioned Talking Heads
"A Comet Appears" by [[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}The Shins|{{#if:||The Shins}}]]

Foreign localization

Japanese

Title: "Hikari no Naka ni Tamarite: Hōjō no Tsuki" (光の中に溜まりて豊穣の月, "Gather in Light: Fecund Moon")

Swedish

Title: "Stanna i ljuset 1 av 5: Den sjudande månen" (Stay In the Light 1 of 5: The Seething Moon") or "Stanna i ljuset 1 av 5: Den fruktbara månen" ("Stay In the Light 1 of 5: The Fertile Moon") <ref>The Table of Contents and the actual story differ on the title.</ref>

Covers (5)

Cover A: The Lost Light crew face an onslaught of Legislators, art by Alex Milne, colours by Josh Perez
Cover B: Rodimus flees a Legislator, art by Sean Chen, colours by Tom Chu.
Cover RI: A despondent Tailgate alone beside a porthole, art by Nick Roche, colours by Josh Perez.
Con Edition: Blank white version for sketches, available exclusively at assorted conventions
Comicfolio edition: Cover A sans trade dress, included in a die-cut hardcover portfolio with a lithograph of Cover B. Limited to 250 copies, only available through the IDW Limited store.

Light their darkest hour!
Run Forrest, run!
Man up, Tailgate!
The Void!
It can be yours too, for only some outrageous sum.

Reprints

The Transformers: More Than Meets the Eye Volume 5 (November 13, 2013) ISBN 1613778023 / ISBN 978-1613778029
- Collects More than Meets the Eye issues #17–22.
- Bonus material includes art from most covers, and the prose story "The Sound of Breaking Glass".
- Trade paperback format.

Transformers: More Than Meets the Eye Box Set (December 2, 2015) ISBN 1631404741 / ISBN 978-1631404740
- Collects More Than Meets the Eye volumes 1–5.
- Bonus material unknown at this time.

The Transformers: The IDW Collection Phase Two: Volume 5 (February 22, 2017) ISBN 1631408445 / ISBN 978-1631408441
- Collects Primacy issues #1–4, Robots in Disguise issues #19–20 & #21–22, and More than Meets the Eye issues #17–21, #22 & "The Sound of Breaking Glass".
- Hardcover format.

Transformers: The Definitive G1 Collection: Volume 57: Remain in Light (August 21, 2019)
- Collects More than Meets the Eye issues #14–21, and "Signal to Noise" & "The Sound of Breaking Glass".
- Bonus material includes a cover gallery and a forward by Simon Furman.
- Hardcover format.

Transformers: Krig och hågkomst (July, 2021)
- Collects More than Meets the Eye issues #14–22, a special illustrated version of "The Sound of Breaking Glass", and Spotlight: Orion Pax.
- Swedish reprint. Hardcover format.

More Than Meets the Eye Volume 5 – cover art by Alex Milne and Josh Perez
More Than Meets the Eye Box Set – cover art by Marcelo Matere
The IDW Collection Phase Two: Volume 5 – cover art by Marcelo Matere and Tom B. Long
The Definitive G1 Collection: Volume 57: Remain in Light – cover art by Don Figueroa (Skids) and Alex Milne (Overlord)
Krig och hågkomst – cover art by Alex Milne and Josh Perez.