Editing Transformation Cog (Thirteen)

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[[File:IDW2019 Amalgamous TCog.jpeg|thumb|upright|1.67|Get it? '''T'''-Cog?]]
[[Amalgamous Prime]]’s '''Transformation Cog''' is similar in many ways to the [[Transformation cog (biology)|transformation cog]]s of every other [[Transformer]]; it allows the owner to <s>transform</s> [[Transformation|convert]]. The key difference is that as the first – and to an almost unrecognisable level, most powerful – this relic often serves as the original pattern from which its commonplace variant sources its design.

Amalgamous Prime owes his infinite transformational abilities to his [[Artifacts of the Primes|artifact]], and exposure to it can also grant perfectly ordinary Cybertronians the [[Shifter|same abilities]]... but [[Mutacon|at great cost]].

==Fiction==
===Aligned continuity family===
====''The Covenant of Primus''====
The very first Transformation Cog belonged to [[Amalgamous Prime]]. The artifact allowed its holder to take any shape or form its wielder desired. It would eventually become the template for the simplified T-cogs incorporated into the physiologies of all Cybertronians.

After Cybertron's [[Golden Age]], [[Mercury (COP)|Mercury]] and her displaced fleet of [[Neutronia]]n refugees discovered Amalgamous's original Transformation Cog orbiting a black hole. The refugees brought the artifact aboard the ship, but the mysterious energies the Transformation Cog emitted had the unexpected side effect of altering the crew, granting them advanced shapeshifting abilities and the power to combine with one another into an infinite amount of forms. Even so, Mercury and her new [[Mutacon]]s set out to find Amalgamous Prime, hoping that he could undo the change before the Mutacons permanently merged into a single being. {{storylink|Transformers: The Covenant of Primus|The Covenant of Primus}}

===Generation 1 continuity family===
====2005 IDW continuity====
{{note|The [[2005 IDW continuity]]’s [[Guiding Hand]] story included its own origin for transformation unconnected to the [[Thirteen]] origin chronicled in the ''[[Transformers: The Covenant of Primus|Covenant of Primus]]'', the latter being published a year later, but with the [[Transformers Roleplaying Game]]’s explicit conflation of Amalgamous Prime and Adaptus, it seems pertinent to chronicle this here.}}
According to legend, transformation itself came about when [[Adaptus]] was “stripped bare” and reduced to the first Transformation Cog. {{storylink|Primus: You, Me, and Other Revelations}} This turned out not to be the case. {{storylink|Crucible (Part 5): The Unremembering|The Unremembering}}
====2019 IDW continuity====
The original Transformation Cog was one of the fourteen [[Artifacts of the Primes]]. {{storylink|Lord of Misrule: Sea of Rust I|Sea of Rust I}}

==Toys==
===''Age of the Primes''===
[[File:AOTP-AmalgamousPrime.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|Does this mean [[Shockwave (disambiguation)|Shockwave]] also keeps his T-Cog on his face?]]
<ul class = "iconlist">{{Bp-pr9|The Thirteen Amalgamous Prime (Voyager Class, [[2026]])}} </ul>
{{toydesigner|[[Mark Maher]] (Hasbro), [[Hisashi Yuki]] (TakaraTomy)}}<ref>[[July 25]], [[2025]]'s [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T18IQaMuGVk Transformers Brand Panel Recap | SDCC 2025 | Hasbro Pulse] on YouTube, with [[Mark Maher]], [[Evan Brooks]] and [[Nate Purswell]].</ref>

: Released as part of the first 2026 wave of ''[[Transformers: Age of the Primes|Age of the Primes]]'', [[Amalgamous Prime#Age of the Primes|Amalgamous Prime]] features two versions of his signature Transformation Cog. One is based on the T-cogs found in [[Transformers: Prime (cartoon)|Transformers: Prime]] and can store on the end of his [[Scythe (Thirteen)|Scythe]], while the other has a more traditional design and is capable of storing in his head to function as an eyeball. Gnarly. 

::*''[https://www.instagram.com/p/DOzRWSjACdX/ Designer commentary on Amalgamous Prime from Mark Maher on Instagram'']''

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==References==
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==See Also==
*[[Mul-T-Cog]]

[[Category:Artifacts of the Primes]]