Editing Solus Prime

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[[File:Solusprime covenant profile.jpg|thumb|right|263px|Rosie the riveted.]]

Among the legendary [[Thirteen|original Thirteen Primes]], the smith '''Solus Prime''' is the Maker and creator. Known in legend as the first daughter of [[Primus]] (and thus the first [[female Transformer]] in Cybertronian history), she is beloved amongst her fellow Primes and her followers as much for her quick wit and caring personality as her seemingly limitless ability to forge objects to fit any need. If she has any flaw, it is that she is quick to anger, her righteous fury eager to spark at any perceived sign of injustice. She finds fulfillment in her arts, which is why she's particularly close to her siblings [[Nexus Prime|Nexus]], [[Micronus Prime|Micronus]], and [[Onyx Prime]], each creators in their own ways. Her closest relationship, however, is to [[The Fallen|Megatronus]], mightiest of the Primes. The two are bound by a burning passion unique among the Thirteen, and spend much of their time in each other's company. Granted it's a bit of a red flag the big lug is as hot-heated as she is without the brains to balance it, but we're sure those crazy kids will work it out.

Much of the [[Artifacts of the Primes|arsenal of heaven-rattling weaponry and reality shaping artifacts]] wielded by the rest of her pantheon are her handiwork, created via an icon of her own, the [[Forge of Solus Prime]], aided by her unique cognitive systems needed to wield it (made manifest in the in-built holographic simulations known as her [[Creation Lathe]]) as well as her adorable helper, [[Malleus Minotaurus]]. And with the power of the [[Forge Fire Amulet]], she can undo any mistakes.

Her known surviving creations include:

{{collist|2|* The [[Star Saber (Thirteen)|Star Saber]]
* The [[Requiem Blaster (Thirteen)|Requiem Blaster]]
* The [[Chimera Stone]]
* The [[Apex Armor (Thirteen)|Apex Armor]]
* The [[Infinite Combinatoric]]
* The [[Chaos Edge]]
* The [[Cyber Caliber]]
* The [[Quill]]
* The [[Zeonomicon]]
* The [[Terminus Blade]]
* The [[Enigma of Combination]]
*[[Vector Sigma]] (with [[Micronus Prime]])
}}

That said, Solus Prime's influence extends far beyond the products of her own hands. The patron saint of the influential [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertronian]] colony world of [[Caminus (planet)|Caminus]], she inspires perhaps the fiercest devotion of any of the gods, with the adherents of her [[Way of Flame]] occupying a [[Mistress of Flame|powerful place]] in Transformer society well into the present day.

Unknown to even her most ardent of acolytes, Solus hid one final weapon: Life itself, in the form of a [[Orthia|mighty warrior]] imbued with a fragment of her own power of creation. Sealed within a [[Female Autobots|select group]] of unsuspecting mortals of her choosing, this weaponer's weaponer is only to be unleashed in the face of an existential threat to Cybertronian kind. She can only pray her last Shield is never needed.

==Fiction==
===Aligned continuity family===
====''The Covenant of Primus''====
Solus Prime was the fourth Prime created by [[Primus]] to defeat [[Unicron#Aligned continuity family|Unicron]]. The builder and creator of the Thirteen, Solus opted to remain a free agent as the newborn Primes strategized for their upcoming battle against the chaos-bringer. As part of their training, Solus created a holo-suite, which contained a virtual copy of Unicron for the Primes to train against. The Primes quickly learned that their enemy was more than capable of trouncing them in direct combat.

Solus Prime befriended the conflicted Megatronus, building for him the first set of [[Dark Energon]] [[Dark Energon skin|skin]]s. At Megatronus's urging, she constructed the Requiem Blaster, a weapon that she considered virtually unstoppable. Doubtful at what she had created, the Requiem Blaster led to a heated debate amongst the Thirteen, with [[Liege Maximo]] pointing out that the moody Megatronus could easily turn on his brothers and become unstoppable. Solus Prime defended Megatronus, arguing that Megatronus- who had successfully resisted the temptation of his inner demons- was perhaps best suited to carrying the destructive weapon. Megatronus was proud of her speech, and Solus Prime continued to churn out new weapons and artifacts for her brothers, working closely with them in order to mimic some of their innate powers. Continuing their training, Solus worked with [[Quintus Prime|Quintus]], [[Micronus Prime]], and [[Alpha Trion]] to build a [[Vector Sigma|computer]] capable of predicting all of Unicron's potential moves.

Eventually, the time came to launch an assault on Unicron himself. Wielding her Forge and a sword, Solus led the charge through [[Vector Prime]]'s [[space bridge]] and onto Unicron himself. After [[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus Prime]] shut down Unicron from the inside, the weary but triumphant Primes headed back to [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]. Unbeknownst to them all, Unicron's presence had left them all a little more susceptible to their inner darkness.

[[File:COP-Megatronusshootssolus.jpg|thumb|250px|right|Yeah, we're not fond of this scene either.]]

In the era that followed, Solus continued to work at her Forge, building useful items for the burgeoning settlement of the Primes. She and Megatronus remained close to each other. Tensions between the Primes began to grow on the day that Solus refused to make a suit of armor for Liege Maximo, who claimed that he was building some robotic creatures for company. As a gift, Liege Maximo gave her one of the creatures, whom she adopted as a pet. After some wheedling from Maximo, Solus decided to forge the armor in question.

[[Prima]] and some of the other Primes got word of the "farm", and called a vote to decide its future. Solus voted against the continuation of the project, but not without a defiant remark aimed at Prima, who had cast aspersions on Megatronus's character.

Megatronus confronted Solus Prime over Maximo's suit of armor, which had been completed long ago but had never been delivered to its intended recipient. Their disagreement eventually grew into a full-fledged fight after Megatronus killed her pet, which had secretly been recording Solus Prime's actions. In the chaos, Megatronus fired the Requiem Blaster without thinking, fatally wounding Solus Prime. Before Solus passed away, however, she professed her love for him. Solus's body returned to the core of Cybertron and [[Primus]], and the passage it left behind became the [[Well of All Sparks]].

Following the death of Liege Maximo, the surviving Primes built a tomb in her memory, far away from Cybertron. There, they held a funeral for their fallen comrade. A repentant Megatronus attended the celebration, where he mused that Solus Prime had seen something good in him and that he would find a way to live up to that.

Following the beginning of Cybertronian civilization, one-thirteenth of Cybertron's population considered themselves descendants of Solus Prime, and possessed a very similar neural structure to their progenitor. {{storylink|Transformers: The Covenant of Primus|The Covenant of Primus}}

====Aligned novels====
Near the dawn of time, while the Thirteen were struggling with the threat of [[Unicron#Aligned continuity family|Unicron]], [[The Fallen|Megatronus]] commissioned Solus Prime to create a weapon of incredible destruction to use against the Chaos Bringer. Solus Prime had strong reservations, but after a long period of time managed to create the Requiem Blaster. She gathered the interested members of the Thirteen to witness a test of its powers, and leveled a mountain. She pointed out that power corrupts and worried that the existence of such a weapon could possibly lead to their own downfall. Ultimately, the Thirteen voted seven to six to keep the Requiem Blaster and not destroy it.

It was Solus Prime's sudden murder at the hands of the enraged Megatronus that caused the first major schism in the Thirteen. After Megatronus became The Fallen and was defeated by the remnants of the Thirteen, a tomb was fashioned for Solus Prime out of a meteor and set adrift in the stars, reachable only by a series of [[space bridge]]s.

Countless years later, [[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus Prime]] came across Solus Prime's tomb while searching for a mystical artifact. A semi-sentient hologram of Solus Prime appeared and warned Optimus and his Autobots to leave. Solus Prime directed them towards a Space Bridge which would take them to the location of the lost Requiem Blaster.
{{storylink|Transformers: Exiles|Exiles}}

====''Prime'' cartoon====
[[Image:OneShallRise1-SolusPrime.jpg|left|thumb|I'm a godly being from the dawn of creation... but I'm not [[Override Prime|the first female Prime]]?!]]
According to legend, at the beginning of time, [[Unicron#Aligned continuity family|Unicron]] and [[Primus]] battled each other for eons, with neither side remaining victorious for long. Till, that is, Primus created the [[Thirteen]]. These Thirteen defeated Unicron and cast him into space. {{storylink|One Shall Rise, Part 1}} At some point statues of Solus Prime and the Thirteen were created and placed in the high council chamber. {{storylink|One Shall Rise, Part 3}} In more recent times, her forge was among the artifacts sealed the [[Vaults]] of [[Iacon (polity)|Iacon]], and was later sent to Earth by Alpha Trion, where it was found and used by Optimus Prime and the Autobots. {{storylink|Operation Bumblebee, Part 2}}

====2015 ''Robots in Disguise'' cartoon====
In the distant past, Megatronus destroyed Solus Prime. {{storylink|Battlegrounds, Part 2}}

[[Strongarm (RID)|Strongarm]] occasionally swore by Solus Prime, {{storylink|True Colors}} as did [[Fixit (RID)|Fixit]]. {{storylink|Decepticon Island (Part 1)}} {{storylink|Combine and Conquer}}
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===2005 IDW continuity===
{{first|[[The Crucible|''Robots in Disguise'' #34]] (mentioned); [[The Sum and Its Parts|''Windblade'' #1]] (depicted)}}

[[File:Windblade 1 solus prime.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Rosie the Riveter. Wait, we already made that joke. Ah, crap.]]

In the age following the departure of the [[Knights of Cybertron]], Solus Prime was one of the many Primes that arose on prehistoric Cybertron, tribal leaders who gathered like-minded followers. {{storylink|Heavy}} Approximately twelve million years ago, Solus and her tribe joined a coalition of like-minded Primes—[[Nexus Prime|Nexus]], [[Vector Prime|Vector]], [[Maccadam|Alchemist Prime]], and [[Alpha Trion]]—and founded the village that would eventually become the [[Crystal City]].

One evening, Vector brought news that [[The Fallen|Megatronus]] and his [[Darklands|Darklander]]s had invaded the neighboring city of [[Protihex|Protohex]] and slain [[Septimus Prime]]. Solus was unmoved, but when [[Shockwave (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Onyx Prime]] and [[Liege Maximo]] arrived to confirm Vector's warnings, they agreed to join forces. The next morning, the Primes watched as Onyx's army of beasts battled the Darklanders until a trio of [[Titan (group)|Titans]] emerged from the ground and gave Onyx the opportunity to reach Megatronus and call for a truce. The eight Primes then agreed to an alliance, and were joined shortly afterwards by [[Prima]] and his northern alliance. {{storylink|Origin Myths}}

Over the next two million years, the Primes ruled benevolently; Solus Prime became known for her friendship with Megatronus {{storylink|Heavy}} and her endless creativity, using her [[Creation Lathe]] to build the collection of weapons, artworks, and scientific devices that comprised the "Artifacts of the Primes." {{storylink|Conquerors Part 1: Aphelion|Aphelion}} Solus even commanded the loyalty of a Titan, [[Caminus (Titan)|Caminus]]. {{storylink|The Sum and Its Parts}} In time, however, some of the Primes grew arrogant, and sought to preserve their hold on power by claiming that they were functionally immortal: it was falsely claimed that only a Prime could kill a Prime. {{storylink|The Crucible}}

Unbeknownst to the other Primes, however, "Onyx Prime" was not who he appeared to be—in reality, "Onyx" was a convenient identity assumed by a time-travelling [[Shockwave (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Shockwave]], who sought to guide history along its preordained course while analyzing the variables that inevitably led his race to fall to civil war. {{storylink|The Falling, Interlude: The First Who Was Named|The First Who Was Named}} Solus eventually forged a powerful sword for Prima that incorporated the [[Matrix of Leadership]] and dubbed it the "[[Star Saber (Thirteen)|Star Saber]]" {{storylink|Conquerors Part 2: Lagrange|Lagrange}} causing "Onyx" to realize that—in order to maintain the timeline and ensure that the Matrix of Leadership would one day find its way to [[Nova Prime|its next bearer]]—he would have to engineer the fall of the Primes as history dictated.
[[File:TheFirstWhoWasNamed-MegatronusKillsSolus.jpg|thumb|upright=1.65|left|Alex {{w|Women in refrigerators|the refrigerator'd.}}]]

Following a disastrous offworld expedition, Prima blamed Megatronus for this failure; though Megatronus tried to convince Solus Prime that he had been in the right, she rejected his explanations, arguing that the Primes needed to use their powers to "light the way," not destroy indiscriminately. This rejection pushed him towards the more receptive [[Liege Maximo]], a betrayal that led to the two hatching a plan to stage a coup against Prima. When this treachery was revealed, Solus was able to defend Prima from the traitors, but at the cost of her own life—she was slain by her former friend Megatronus and impaled on her own Star Sabre. {{storylink|The Falling, Interlude: The First Who Was Named|The First Who Was Named}} The fallout from this act would, in turn, spark the [[First Cybertronian Civil War]], {{storylink|The Crucible}} and prompt some of Liege Maximo's own followers to turn against him; {{storylink|Heavy}} none of the Primes or their followers would ever learn that "Onyx" had deliberately orchestrated this entire sequence of events from the shadows. {{storylink|The Falling, Interlude: The First Who Was Named|The First Who Was Named}}

At some point before the [[Golden Age]], Caminus would leave Cybertron and colonize [[Caminus (planet)|a distant moon]] that he named after himself, founding a new Transformer civilization. {{storylink|A 'Bot and Her City}} This Transformer colony would develop a religion known as the [[Way of Flame]]. Based off the teachings and philosophies of Solus Prime, the religion deified the Thirteen as gods and venerated Solus Prime as the greatest among this pantheon, beliving that every Camien's [[spark]] contained a fragment of Solus's essence. {{storylink|The Sum and Its Parts}} On death, the devout held that all sparks returned to Solus Prime's forge, where it would be reincarnated as a new Cybertronian. {{storylink|The Life of Sideswipe}} The religious organization known as the [[Torchbearer]]s considered themselves servants of Solus Prime and organized themselves into groups of six to commemorate Solus Prime's Creation Lathe. {{storylink|Conquerors Part 1: Aphelion|Aphelion}}

===Fun Publications===
[[File:HephaestusSolusPrimeAVP.jpg|thumb|''Trust is not given, it’s forged'' <br/> ''Why should I lend him my support?'' <br/> ''He sacrificed his own cohorts!'']]
[[Vector Prime]] shared many happy memories with his sister. When the Thirteen spent time in ancient Greece of some [[universal stream]]s, the male holomatter avatar Solus used inspired/co-opted the myth of Hephaestus, blacksmith of the gods. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime|Ask Vector Prime, 2015/07/20}} During this time, (s)he crafted the Aegis of [[Alpha Trion|Athena]] and the trident of [[Adaptus|Poseidon]], and was "bonded" to Liege Maximo (who manifested as the female Venus) by [[Prima]] in hopes of quelling the animosity that had flared up between them. It didn't go so well; "Interesting times," Vector Prime recalls. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime|Ask Vector Prime, 2015/08/08}} Vector also noted that there were [[universal stream]]s where she was known as Solus [[Convoy (rank)|Convoy]]. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime|Ask Vector Prime, 2015/06/24}}

As the original Cybertronian master forger, Solus created the [[Zeonomicon]] for [[Logos Prime]] {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime|Ask Vector Prime, 2015/07/30}} and the [[Terminus Blade]] for her siblings to cross dimensions in their campaign against Unicron, though the latter was soon rendered obsolete by technological advancement and carelessly discarded. {{storylink|Out of the One, Many}}

As [[The Fallen|Megatronus]] began acting for evil causes, his siblings among the Thirteen resolved to keep the all-powerful [[Star Saber (Thirteen)|Star Saber]] out of his hands. To this end, Solus Prime used her [[Forge of Solus Prime|Forge]] to split the mighty blade into five pieces. [[Nexus Prime]] volunteered to split himself into five pieces to hide the five fragments across the multiverse. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime|Ask Vector Prime, 2015/05/18}} {{storylink|Out of the One, Many}} The [[Origin Matrix]], the most powerful fragment, was hidden on prehistoric [[Earth]] of [[Primax -408.24 Epsilon]] and time-locked by [[Vector Prime]]. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime|Ask Vector Prime, 2015/05/18}}

Vector Prime stated that Solus went on to be the first of the Thirteen to perish. However, this was at a time after the opening of the [[Uniend|Uniend Cluster]] and soon before the [[Shroud]], so it is uncertain whether Vector was referring to the Uniend or non-Uniend version(s) of Solus. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime|Ask Vector Prime, 2015/06/14}}

After escaping from the clutches of [[Sideways (Armada)|Sideways]] in [[Axiom Nexus]], [[Vector Prime]] (deliberately playing up to the public image of himself as a doddering old fool) pretended to momentarily mistake his [[Axiom Nexus News]] colleague [[Andromeda (TransTech)|Andromeda]] for his sister Solus Prime. {{storylink|Rook - Axiom Nexus News: Investigative Journalist|Rook - Axiom Nexus News, 2015/07/08}}

When [[Nexus Prime]] united the [[Terminus Blade]] and the [[Star Saber (Thirteen)|Star Saber]], the other [[Thirteen]] were drawn to the event—including an expression of Solus's singularity that existed from a time before she had perished. Time and space were rewritten that day, as the walls between the multiverse grew stronger and less permeable. A consequence of strengthening the multiverse was that Solus Prime and the original Thirteen could no longer continue to exist as multiversal singularities, and so they were splintered and scattered throughout the multiverse. And so the one became many, sentient reoccurring themes each appearing in their own way, if at all, in all the worlds of the multiverse. {{storylink|Out of the One, Many}}

===''Power of the Primes'' marketing material===
Solus Prime's [[Spark]] passed into the possession of one of the twelve [[Prime Master]]s; hidden within a suit of decoy armor, they safeguarded the abilities of the Primes until the present day. By uniting with a larger Transformer, the Prime Master could channel the powers of Solus's Spark and grant them unique abilities that varied with each new partner. {{storylink|#Power of the Primes|Octopunch / Solus Prime online bio}}

{{note|For a list of every permutation of Solus Prime's abilities, see [[Prime Master/Combinations|this link]].}}

===''Prime Wars Trilogy'' cartoons===
{{voiceactor|[[Jaime King]] (English)}}
[[File:Machinima-POTP-Solus.jpg|thumb|left|Well, I'm sure this heavy red filter on the scene doesn't bode poorly for me in the slightest!]]
Solus Prime created many tools to help defend against [[Unicron]], including the [[Enigma of Combination]] and the [[Requiem Blaster (Thirteen)|Requiem Blaster]]. After her lover Megatronus used the Blaster to vanquish Unicron, she welcomed him back to her forge. Its purpose now served, Solus believed the weapon should be destroyed to prevent its misuse, though Megatronus believed it was safer in his care. {{storylink|The Swamp}} The two began fighting over the weapon, inadvertently causing it to fire and mortally wound Solus. Dying in Megatronus's arms, her life force was released into the air before forming the Well of Sparks. {{storylink|Without Warning}} {{storylink|Consequences}} Because of her death, the other members of the [[Thirteen]] sealed the Blaster away and Megatronus began brainstorming a plan to reunite with Solus. {{storylink|Athenaeum Sanctorum (episode)|Athenaeum Sanctorum}}

Ultimately, Megatronus obtained the Enigma, Blaster and [[Matrix of Leadership]], combining their powers to siphon life energy from Transformers everywhere into the Well. As his team arrived and subdued Megatronus, [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] watched as the energy coalesced and Solus began to reform. Confused by her circumstances, she asked Megatron what was happening to her, which he explained. She proceeded to only stand and observe as Megatronus eliminated each of his foes. {{storylink|Collision Course}} Horrified by what she witnessed, Solus repeatedly begged Megatronus to stop, directing the others to destroy the machine tethering her to the Well. The machine eventually released the relics, causing Solus to begin to fade away. {{storylink|Megatronus Unleashed}} Still begging for help and for Megatronus to stop, Solus took matters into her own hands and used the energy of the sparks to grow in size and grabbed Megatronus. Calling him out on the many atrocities he had committed, including causing her death, she pulled him down into the Well, killing them both and releasing all the accumulated sparks. {{storylink|Saga's End}}

===''Cyberverse'' cartoon===
Solus Prime was one of the [[Thirteen]], {{storylink|Dweller In The Depths (Cyberverse)|Dweller In The Depths}} {{storylink|Silent Strike}} {{storylink|The Other One}} later generations sometimes invoking her name as a form of swearing. {{storylink|Shadowstriker (episode)|Shadowstriker}}

After gaining control of the [[AllSpark|Allspark]], [[Starscream (Cyberverse)|Starscream]] believed he had pulled Solus Prime's spark back to the world of the living and implanted it into one of his "[[scraplet|children]]", though some questioned the legitimacy of his claims. {{storylink|Parley}}

===2019 IDW continuity===
[[File:ADustOfCrystals-AgeOfTheFirstforged.jpg|thumb]]

One of the Thirteen Primes, {{storylink|Lord of Misrule: Sea of Rust I|Sea of Rust I}} Solus Prime forged the [[Matrix of Leadership]] during the [[Age of Primes]], an act that was said to be guided by Primus himself. {{storylink|War World: Prime|Prime}} 

She survived the end of the Age of Primes, living into the [[Age of the Firstforged]] where her own Ur-Forge brought forth new life on Cybertron. {{storylink|End of Time}} In that age, Solus Prime was once visited by a supplicant named [[Solomus]], who shared his vision for [[Crystal City]]. Solus and [[Maccadam|Alchemist Prime]] helped Solomus bring his dream to fruition. {{storylink|A Dust of Crystals}}

===''Legacy'' marketing material===
[[Malleus Minotaurus]] was originally Solus Prime's blacksmith assistant.<ref>{{citesocial|link=https://www.youtube.com/live/3Pkz6oTI7W4?feature=shared&t=2104|name=Mark Maher|site=YouTube|title=Hasbro Pulse &#124; Transformers 40th Anniversary Fanstream &#124; March 7, 2024|year=2024|day=07|month=03}}</ref>

===''One'' film===
{{voiceactor|[[María José Guerrero]] (Latin-American Spanish)}}
Solus Prime was one of the original thirteen Primes created by Primus. When the Quintessons invaded Cybertron, Solus fought with her fellow Primes against them. She would join the Primes in a secret meeting with the Primes' aide [[Sentinel Prime (One)|Sentinel]], unaware that it was a trap. As the Primes held their own, Sentinel enacted his plan and shot Solus with the deceased Nexus Prime's weapon. The force of the blast sent her flying into a pile of fallen [[Quintesson Soldier]]s, impaling her one of their blades. Solus and her kin laid there for fifty cycles until miners [[Optimus Prime (One)|Orion Pax]], [[Megatron (One)|D-16]], [[Elita-1 (One)|Elita]], and [[Bumblebee (One)|B-127]] discovered their bodies with Alpha Trion's message for help.

A vision of Solus Prime and the other Primes later appeared as Alpha Trion declared a damaged Orion Pax to be the next wielder of the Matrix of Leadership, Optimus Prime. {{storylink|Transformers One (film)|One}}

===Energon Universe===
After Optimus Prime found himself in the [[Hall of the Primes]], he saw a statue of Solus Prime among the others. {{storylink|Transformers (2023) issue 22|Transformers #22}}

===''Age of the Primes'' marketing material===
[[Micronus Prime]] worked with Solus Prime to create the system that would evolve into the supercomputer [[Vector Sigma]] during the [[Thirteen]]'s [[Expulsion of Unicron|ancient battles]] with [[Unicron]]. {{storylink|Micronus Prime#Age of the Primes|''Age of the Primes'' Micronus Prime bio}}

===''End of G1 Universe''===
Solus Prime was one of thirteen elected to become [[Prime Leader]]s to lead the unified Maximal population of [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]. She was part of the [[Prime Council]] that berated [[Lio Convoy (BW)|Leo Prime]] for allowing [[Predacon (Prime)|Predacons]] to invade [[G1 World|their world]] from another universe. Solus later joined fellow Prime [[The Fallen|Megatronus]] in his plan to use the concentrated energy of the [[Allspark]] to bring them over to the next universe, but was defeated by the former Leo Prime in battle. {{storylink|Age of Primes (End of G1 Universe)|Age of Primes}}

==Games==
===''Transformers: Forged to Fight''===
In a [[Transformers: Shattered Glass (franchise)|negative polarity universe]], the noble Megatronus sacrificed his life to protect Solus' own. His heroics would later be recounted by a heroic [[Megatron (SG)|Megatron]] to his [[Megatron (Movie)|evil doppelganger]]. {{storylink|Shattered Bridges}}

===''Transformers: Earth Wars''===
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|link=[https://tfew.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/4733780017183-Prime-Cores-Bot Bot Prime Cores at Transformers: Earth Wars Wiki]<br>[https://tfew.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/4733786689311-Prime-Cores-Building Building Prime Cores at Transformers: Earth Wars Wiki]
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}}

;'''Solus Prime Core'''
Solus Prime's [[Prime Master#Transformers: Earth Wars|Prime Core]] (her "heart" as one of the primordial [[Thirteen|Thirteen Primes]]) fell to Earth under mysterious circumstances along with those of her siblings to become a hotly contested resource in the [[Earth Wars (conflict)|Earth Wars]]. {{storylink|Power of the Primes (Earth Wars)|Power of the Primes}}

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;'''Solus Prime'''
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|date= [[November 28]]th, [[2025]]
|notes=Solus' in-game design is based on her [[#Age of the Primes|''Age of the Primes'' Deluxe class toy]].
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===''Transformers Roleplaying Game''===
Solus Prime was the first female Transformer, and the ‘bot responsible for forging the various artifacts of the Primes. She was close to Megatronus, and in many accounts of the Thirteen her death led to the fall of the Primes. On Earth, some humans knew her as the god {{w|Hephaestus}}. {{storylink|Transformers One Sourcebook}} Some Cybertronians believed that Solus Prime crafted the [[Enigma of Combination]] using her supernatural [[Forge of Solus Prime|Forge]]. The Torchbearers of Caminus venerated Solus Prime, and organized themselves into six in tribute to her [[Creation Lathe]]. {{storylink|The Enigma of Combination}}

==Toys==
===''Power of the Primes''===
[[File:POTP-Prime-Master-Solus-Octopunch.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66]]
<ul class = "iconlist">{{Bp-d1| '''Solus Prime''' (Prime Master, [[2018]])}}</ul>
:* ''TakaraTomy ID number'': '''PP-28'''
:* ''TakaraTomy release date'': '''[[September 29]], 2018'''
:* ''Accessories'': [[Octopunch (G1)#Power of the Primes|Octopunch]] decoy armor, tentacle device
{{toydesigner|[[John Warden]] (Hasbro)}}

: ''[[Power of the Primes (toyline)|Power of the Primes]]'' Solus Prime is a [[Prime Master]] with [[Octopunch (G1)|Octopunch]] decoy armor, visually based on the original [[Pretender]]'s inner robot and shell.

: This toy has identical features to the other Prime Masters in the line. The decoy armor has a weapon piece which can fold out to create a weapon mode, or detach and be held in the armor's 3 mm-compatible hand. The [[Titan Master]]-like robot can store inside the decoy armor or ride [[Size class|Legends Class]] figures in vehicle mode, and is fully compatible with toys from the previous ''[[Titans Return (toyline)|Titans Return]]'' line. The "Power Swap" gimmick means its [[spark]] form can plug onto any decoy armor's weapon form (which has a [[5 mm post]] to be held by larger figures), Deluxe Class figures' chest armor, Voyager Class figures' bucklers, Leader Class figures' [[Matrix of Leadership/toys#Power of the Primes|Matrix]] (in place of their Matrix core), [[combiner]]s' torsos (in place of their [[Enigma of Combination]]), or the [[Scepter of Sparks]]. With the power of [[You|your]] imagination, this bestows the Prime Master's [[Prime Master/Combinations|unique power]] on the larger figure.

: Solus Prime was retooled with a new [[Prime Master]] sigil as [[Prima#Power of the Primes|Prima Prime]].
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===''Titans Return''===
[[File:TF-Generations-Special-Edition-Prime-Master-Solus-Prime.jpg|200px|thumb|Refrigerator not included.]]
<ul class = "iconlist">{{Bp-a1|'''Repugnus''' (Special Edition, 2018)}}</ul>

: Available only with ''[[Titans Return (toyline)|Titans Return]]'' Deluxe Class [[Repugnus (G1)#PWTSE|Repugnus]] and [[Hedgehog#Titans Return|Dastard]], this version of Solus Prime is a [[redeco]] of the above Prime Master featuring translucent parts, and lacking the decoy armor. This "Special Edition" set celebrates the ''Titans Return'' portion of the ''[[Prime Wars Trilogy]]''.

: This set was an [[Amazon (website)|Amazon.com]] online [[exclusive]].
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===''Age of the Primes''===
[[File:TF-Age of the Primes-Solus Prime.jpg|thumb|300px|The legendary hammertruck.]]
<ul class = "iconlist">{{Bp-pr4|'''The Thirteen Solus Prime''' (Deluxe Class, [[2025]])}}</ul>
:*''TakaraTomy name:'' '''Solus Prime''' (ソラスプライム)
:*''TakaraTomy ID number:'' '''AOTP-02'''
:*''TakaraTomy release date:'' [[2025]] [[June 28]]
:*''Accessories:'' [[Forge of Solus Prime#Age of the Primes|Forge of Solus Prime]]
{{toydesigner|[[Mark Maher]] (Hasbro), [[Yūya Ōnishi]] (TakaraTomy)}}<ref name=AOTPnotes>[[December 12]], [[2024]]'s [https://www.instagram.com/p/DDQUfxzPWXQ/ Mark Maher's designer commentary] on Instagram. </ref>

:Released in the first wave of ''[[Transformers: Age of the Primes|Age of the Primes]]'' Deluxe Class toys, Solus Prime is inspired primarily by the character’s appearance in the ''[[Transformers: Power of the Primes (cartoon)|Power of the Primes]]'' series. She transforms into a Cybertronian armored mini-truck. 

:Her Forge hammer splits into its head, shaft, and pommel components; for Solus to hold the hammer, the head first has to be detached, and then the shaft slid into her hand.  The hammer head is branded with her personal insignia, while the pommel can be wielded as a separate grenade accessory<ref name=AOTPnotes/> (designed after the [[neutron bomb]] seen in "[[Tanker Hijack Operation]]").<ref>A Mark Maher Instagram Story, archived via [https://www.tfw2005.com/boards/threads/solus-prime-bts.1271190/page-29#post-23325751 TFW2005.]</ref>  The whole accessory can be stored in a 5 mm port due to a flip out post in the head.

:Solus' arm flaps and the mushroom pegs for her feet swivels are notoriously prone to popping out with minimal force. Luckily, they are easy to re-attach to her without issue.

:While her box art and 3D renders depict her as having pink eyes like her appearance in the Prime Wars Trilogy, the final toy has green eyes.

:Solus Prime was revealed at [[Cybertron Con 2024]], and went up for preorder on [[December 10]].

::*''[https://www.instagram.com/p/DDQUfxzPWXQ/?img_index=10 Designer commentary on Solus Prime from Mark Maher on Instagram'']''
::*''[[Source:Transformers Age of the Primes bios#AOTP02|Machine translation of Solus Prime's TakaraTomy bio]]''

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==Notes==
*''Solus'' is [[Latin language|Latin]] for "only". It is in the masculine form.
*Solus, like other members of the Thirteen, was once a [[multiversal singularity]] who existed as one being throughout all of space and time, but that is [[Shroud|no longer the case]].
*An alternate name that crops up often in the [[Binder of Revelation]] is '''Pandora Prime,''' after the Greek myth of {{w|Pandora's box}}. Apparently Hasbro viewed her (or at least, her death) as the root of all evil in the Transformers universe. However, this name never showed up in any published media.
*In certain [[Transformers: Classics#Fiction|very rare circumstances]], her "first girl" title is superseded by [[Gaea|an aunt]].
*The origins of Solus's gender situation as the "first female Transformer" are explicated at length in a somewhat ill-advised attempt to provide an in-universe explanation for why there are so many fewer girl robots than boy ones in the Thirteen-centric [[2013]] [[Aligned continuity family|Aligned]] novel ''[[Transformers: The Covenant of Primus]]''. In this story, written in-character from the perspective of her brother [[Alpha Trion]], it is exposited that Cybertronians do not come by the concept of "gender" naturally, with Trion going so far as to explicitly stress that the [[Cybertronian language]] originally contained a single pronoun before the Transformers made contact with the wider universe. HOWEVER. Solus and her daughters are revealed to possess a unique "processing architecture" separating them from the other 12/13ths of Transformer-kind that her brothers postulated was necessary to perform the elaborate {{w|parallel computing|parallel processing}} involved in generating and operating her Creation Lathe. It is this particular physiological distinction that the Transformers seized on in an attempt to illustrate their own variation to gendered races as some kind of diplomatic exercise. 
**The book goes on to depict the Transformers' [[Age of Wrath|first contact with an extraterrestrial species]] quite some time after Solus Prime's death, producing the implication that the alien concept of gender was retroactively imposed on her based on contemporary Cybertronian social mores. Uncomfortable {{w|gender essentialism}}? Inadvertent reproduction of the scholarly debates around {{w|LGBTQ history|LGBTQ historical figures}}? Both? Neither? You decide!
**This exposition failed to recur in Solus Prime's subsequent decade of appearances, possibly because someone realized that "the girl robots are defined by their ability to multitask" was both dodgy and naff, but probably just because it's an unwieldy level of world-building detail for your average children's cartoon. 
**Meanwhile, contributions by brand ur-loremaster  [[Jim Sorenson]] (the man responsible for much of the Thirteen's multiversal escapades) have taken the topic in a very different direction, going so far as to suggest the Thirteen exhibit the kind of lackadaisical relation to gender typified in real-life classical mythology, with Solus in particular incarnating as the male smith-god {{w|Hephaestus}} on the Thirteen's historical excursions to [[Earth]] in the long running in-universe advice column ''[[Ask Vector Prime]]'' and the ''[[Transformers Roleplaying Game]]''.

===Foreign names===
* ''Japanese:'' '''Solus Prime''' (ソラスプライム ''Sorasu Puraimu'')
* ''Mandarin:'' '''Sài Tiān Jiāo''' (赛天骄, "Race the Proud of Heaven")

==Gallery==
<gallery>
PowerOfThePrimes-OctopunchSolusPrime-CardArt.jpg|''Power of the Primes'' packaging art.
Potp-Solus-Prime-Concept.JPG|''Power of the Primes'' cartoon concept art.
SolusPrime-PowerofthePrimes.jpg|''Power of the Primes'' cartoon render.
One-Solus-Prime.jpg|''One'' film.
AOTP Solus Prime concept art.jpg|''Age of the Primes''<br>concept art.
File:Age Of The Primes Solus package Art.jpg|''Age of the Primes''<br>packaging art.
AOTP Solus Prime Hasbro China promo art.jpg|''Age of the Primes'' promotional art.
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