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	*[[The Frontiers of Our History\|#17]]		*[[The Frontiers of Our History\|#17]]
	*[[Point of No Return\|#18]]		*[[Point of No Return (AWJ)\|#18]]
	*[[Witness to the Covenant\|#19]]		*[[Witness to the Covenant\|#19]]
	*[[Beyond Point Omega\|#20]]		*[[Beyond Point Omega\|#20]]

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	''Date Index 316.075 [[AU]]''		''Date Index 316.075 [[AU]]''

	[[Apelinq (BM)\|Apelinq]], Squadron Commander of the [[~~Wrecker~~]]s, awaits word from the [[Maximal Elder\|Council of Elders]] regarding recent terrorist attacks on the outskirts of [[Cybertropolis]]. [[Imperial Peace Marshal\|Peace Marshal Command]] had assured him that everything is under control, but he has his doubts. Going it alone, he continues his search for any trace of the still-missing [[Maximal]] vessel, the ''[[Axalon (BW)\|Axalon]]''.		[[Apelinq (BM)\|Apelinq]], Squadron Commander of the [[Wreckers]], awaits word from the [[Maximal Elder\|Council of Elders]] regarding recent terrorist attacks on the outskirts of [[Cybertropolis]]. [[Imperial Peace Marshal\|Peace Marshal Command]] had assured him that everything is under control, but he has his doubts. Going it alone, he continues his search for any trace of the still-missing [[Maximal]] vessel, the ''[[Axalon (BW)\|Axalon]]''.

	===Journal 2: Pieces of a Puzzle===		===Journal 2: Pieces of a Puzzle===
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	*[[Apelinq (BM)\|Apelinq]] (1)		*[[Apelinq (BM)\|Apelinq]] (1)
	*''Other [[~~Wrecker~~]]s'' (2)		*''Other [[Wreckers]]'' (2)
	*''The [[Maximal High Council\|High Council]]'' (5)		*''The [[Maximal High Council\|High Council]]'' (5)
	*''[[Imperial Peace Marshal]]s'' (6)		*''[[Imperial Peace Marshal]]s'' (6)

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	\|date=[[February]] [[2001]] to [[June]] 2001 (BotCon: Beyond)		\|date=[[February]] [[2001]] to [[June]] 2001 (BotCon: Beyond)
	\|writer=[[Rob Gerbracht]]		\|writer=[[Rob Gerbracht]]
	\|continuity=3H [[Beast Era]] ~~continuity~~		\|continuity=[[Beast Era timeline (3H)\|3H Beast Era continuity]]
	}}		}}

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	*The [[Vehicon general]] [[Mirage (BM)\|Mirage]] is said to have attacked Apelinq when the Vehicons arrived in Polyhex in response to the appearance of Primal Prime's team. As Apelinq was not one of Mirage's assigned targets in "VEHICON ALERT!", this suggests that either Mirage broke rank to engage a foe he wasn't supposed to, or circumstances somehow forced Mirage into attacking Apelinq.		*The [[Vehicon general]] [[Mirage (BM)\|Mirage]] is said to have attacked Apelinq when the Vehicons arrived in Polyhex in response to the appearance of Primal Prime's team. As Apelinq was not one of Mirage's assigned targets in "VEHICON ALERT!", this suggests that either Mirage broke rank to engage a foe he wasn't supposed to, or circumstances somehow forced Mirage into attacking Apelinq.
	*Apelinq was basically stuck on prehistoric Earth from about midway through Season 2 of ''Beast Wars'' to right after "[[Master Blaster]]".		*Apelinq was basically stuck on prehistoric Earth from about midway through Season 2 of ''Beast Wars'' to right after "[[Master Blaster]]".
	*Journals 18 and 20 retroactively declare that Apelinq's thought bubbles from Page 17, and his dialogue from Page 21, of "Terminus" were actually lines that he was recording into those respective log entries. What's more is that the thought bubbles from Panel 4 of Page 17 are now revealed to have been a quote from an excerpt of the [[Covenant of Primus]] (here referred to as the "Book of Primus") titled the "[[Sojourner's Passage]]", which also makes the reference to the "Machine Age" into being a scriptural term for the events of ''Beast Machines''. And the reference to "Primal" on Page 21 of that comic is now confirmed to refer not to Optimus Primal but to Primal Prime.		*Journals 18 and 20 retroactively declare that Apelinq's thought bubbles from Page 17, and his dialogue from Page 21, of "Terminus" were actually lines that he was recording into those respective log entries. What's more is that the thought bubbles from Panel 4 of Page 17 are now revealed to have been a quote from an excerpt of the [[Covenant of Primus]] (here referred to as the "Book of Primus") titled the "''[[Sojourner's Passage]]''", which also makes the reference to the "Machine Age" into being a scriptural term for the events of ''Beast Machines''. And the reference to "Primal" on Page 21 of that comic is now confirmed to refer not to Optimus Primal but to Primal Prime.
	*Journal 19 is the first, last, and only time that a connection has ever been made between the [[Covenant of Primus\|Covenant of Primus book]] and the [[Covenant (group)\|Covenant of Primus group]].		*Journal 19 is the first, last, and only time that a connection has ever been made between the [[Covenant of Primus\|Covenant of Primus book]] and the [[Covenant (group)\|Covenant of Primus group]].

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	*The [[Vehicon general]] [[Mirage (BM)\|Mirage]] is said to have attacked Apelinq when the Vehicons arrived in Polyhex in response to the appearance of Primal Prime's team. As Apelinq was not one of Mirage's assigned targets in "VEHICON ALERT!", this suggests that either Mirage broke rank to engage a foe he wasn't supposed to, or circumstances somehow forced Mirage into attacking Apelinq.		*The [[Vehicon general]] [[Mirage (BM)\|Mirage]] is said to have attacked Apelinq when the Vehicons arrived in Polyhex in response to the appearance of Primal Prime's team. As Apelinq was not one of Mirage's assigned targets in "VEHICON ALERT!", this suggests that either Mirage broke rank to engage a foe he wasn't supposed to, or circumstances somehow forced Mirage into attacking Apelinq.
	*Apelinq was basically stuck on prehistoric Earth from about midway through Season 2 of ''Beast Wars'' to right after "[[Master Blaster]]".		*Apelinq was basically stuck on prehistoric Earth from about midway through Season 2 of ''Beast Wars'' to right after "[[Master Blaster]]".
	*Journals 18 and 20 retroactively declare that Apelinq's thought bubbles from Page 17, and his dialogue from Page 21, of "Terminus" were actually lines that he was recording into those respective log entries. What's more is that the thought bubbles from Panel 4 of Page 17 are now revealed to have been a quote from an excerpt of the [[Covenant of Primus]] (here referred to as the "Book of Primus") titled the "''Sojourner's Passage''", which also makes the reference to the "Machine Age" into being a scriptural term for the events of ''Beast Machines''. And the reference to "Primal" on Page 21 of that comic is now confirmed to refer not to Optimus Primal but to Primal Prime.		*Journals 18 and 20 retroactively declare that Apelinq's thought bubbles from Page 17, and his dialogue from Page 21, of "Terminus" were actually lines that he was recording into those respective log entries. What's more is that the thought bubbles from Panel 4 of Page 17 are now revealed to have been a quote from an excerpt of the [[Covenant of Primus]] (here referred to as the "Book of Primus") titled the "[[Sojourner's Passage]]", which also makes the reference to the "Machine Age" into being a scriptural term for the events of ''Beast Machines''. And the reference to "Primal" on Page 21 of that comic is now confirmed to refer not to Optimus Primal but to Primal Prime.
	*Journal 19 is the first, last, and only time that a connection has ever been made between the [[Covenant of Primus\|Covenant of Primus book]] and the [[Covenant (group)\|Covenant of Primus group]].		*Journal 19 is the first, last, and only time that a connection has ever been made between the [[Covenant of Primus\|Covenant of Primus book]] and the [[Covenant (group)\|Covenant of Primus group]].

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The artifact of Omega Point

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	*In Journal 5, Apelinq refers to the terrorist attacks as having occurred "over the past cycle". This is incongruous with how the term "cycle" in the Beast Era is supposed to equate to roughly one minute. Apelinq most likely meant to say "over the past ''stellar'' cycle".		*In Journal 5, Apelinq refers to the terrorist attacks as having occurred "over the past cycle". This is incongruous with how the term "cycle" in the Beast Era is supposed to equate to roughly one minute. Apelinq most likely meant to say "over the past ''stellar'' cycle".
	*Journal 11 has Apelinq claim that Rodimus searched "half the entire planet" looking for survivors, but came up short. Really? He never even once found a ''hint'' of Optimus Primal's team? Did he even think to check in [[Cybertropolis]], the ''central city of Cybertron'', at all? Or did that city just ''happen'' to be in the planetary half that he didn’t search?		*Journal 11 has Apelinq claim that Rodimus searched "half the entire planet" looking for survivors, but came up short. Really? He never even once found a ''hint'' of Optimus Primal's team? Did he even think to check in [[Cybertropolis]], the ''central city of Cybertron'', at all? Or did that city just ''happen'' to be in the planetary half that he didn’t search?
	*In Journal 17, Apelinq recognizes that he has arrived in the middle of the Beast Wars and seems to know all about it. How? How would he have even been aware of the Beast Wars at all? He hails from a point in time before any knowledge of it would have been made public on Cybertron. Was he informed about it by Primal Prime upon first meeting him before Apelinq got flung to the past? This is never explained.

	===Other errors===		===Other errors===

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	===Transformers references===		===Transformers references===
	*First and foremost, Apelinq is presented here as a member of the [[~~Wrecker~~]]s, who were originally an elite [[Autobot]] unit from the [[United Kingdom\|UK]]-exclusive issues of the [[The Transformers (Marvel comic)\|Marvel Generation 1 comics]]. Both the team and their rally cry of "Wreck and Rule!" first debuted in the story "[[Target: 2006]]. "Apelinq's War Journals" marks the first use of the team in American ''Transformers'' fiction, and the second American use of their rally cry (the first having been its previous use in "Terminus").		*First and foremost, Apelinq is presented here as a member of the [[Wreckers]], who were originally an elite [[Autobot]] unit from the [[United Kingdom\|UK]]-exclusive issues of the [[The Transformers (Marvel comic)\|Marvel Generation 1 comics]]. Both the team and their rally cry of "Wreck and Rule!" first debuted in the story "[[Target: 2006]]. "Apelinq's War Journals" marks the first use of the team in American ''Transformers'' fiction, and the second American use of their rally cry (the first having been its previous use in "Terminus").
	*The [[Maximal Elder\|Council of Elders]] was first mentioned in the ''Beast Machines'' episode "[[Master of the House]]", while the "[[Maximal High Council\|High Council]]" was first mentioned in the ''Beast Wars'' episode "[[Deep Metal]]".		*The [[Maximal Elder\|Council of Elders]] was first mentioned in the ''Beast Machines'' episode "[[Master of the House]]", while the "[[Maximal High Council\|High Council]]" was first mentioned in the ''Beast Wars'' episode "[[Deep Metal]]".
	*Apelinq invokes [[Primus]] and the [[Pit (BW)\|Pit]] more than once.		*Apelinq invokes [[Primus]] and the [[Pit (BW)\|Pit]] more than once.
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	*The [[Tripredacus Council]] was first introduced in the ''Beast Wars'' episode "[[The Agenda (Part 1)]]".		*The [[Tripredacus Council]] was first introduced in the ''Beast Wars'' episode "[[The Agenda (Part 1)]]".
	*After a minor appearance in "VEHICON ALERT!", [[Hot Rod (G1)\|Rodimus]] is more formally reintroduced here as a member of the Wreckers for the first time. He originally appeared as "Hot Rod" in ''[[The Transformers: The Movie]]'', in which he inherited the Matrix and became "Rodimus Prime". Here, he is simply named "Rodimus". The in-fiction reason for this name change would later be given in "[[Departure]]", but for a real-world reason, [[Hasbro]] apparently lost the [[trademark]] for the name "Hot Rod" at the time and would go on to use "Rodimus" as a substitute for the non-[[Prime (rank)\|Prime]] version of the character. The usage of the name here would be the first sign of things to come for over a decade.		*After a minor appearance in "VEHICON ALERT!", [[Hot Rod (G1)\|Rodimus]] is more formally reintroduced here as a member of the Wreckers for the first time. He originally appeared as "Hot Rod" in ''[[The Transformers: The Movie]]'', in which he inherited the Matrix and became "Rodimus Prime". Here, he is simply named "Rodimus". The in-fiction reason for this name change would later be given in "[[Departure]]", but for a real-world reason, [[Hasbro]] apparently lost the [[trademark]] for the name "Hot Rod" at the time and would go on to use "Rodimus" as a substitute for the non-[[Prime (rank)\|Prime]] version of the character. The usage of the name here would be the first sign of things to come for over a decade.
	*Journal 17 states that Megatron "tramples on the sacred ground of our race's heritage", referring to his entering the [[Ark (G1)\|Ark]] in either "[[The Agenda (Part III)]]" or "[[Master Blaster]]".		*Journal 17 states that Megatron "tramples on the sacred ground of our race's heritage", referring to his entering the [[Ark (G1)\|Ark]] in either "[[The Agenda (Part III)]]" or "[[Master Blaster]]", or possibly even to his assault on the Maximal base inside the ''Ark''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s mountain in "[[Cutting Edge]]".

	===Real world references===		===Real world references===

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	*In Journal 5, Apelinq refers to the terrorist attacks as having occurred "over the past cycle". This is incongruous with how the term "cycle" in the Beast Era is supposed to equate to roughly one minute. Apelinq most likely meant to say "over the past ''stellar'' cycle".		*In Journal 5, Apelinq refers to the terrorist attacks as having occurred "over the past cycle". This is incongruous with how the term "cycle" in the Beast Era is supposed to equate to roughly one minute. Apelinq most likely meant to say "over the past ''stellar'' cycle".
	*Journal 11 has Apelinq claim that Rodimus searched "half the entire planet" looking for survivors, but came up short. Really? He never even once found a ''hint'' of Optimus Primal's team? Did he even think to check in [[Cybertropolis]], the ''central city of Cybertron'', at all? Or did that city just ''happen'' to be in the planetary half that he didn’t search?		*Journal 11 has Apelinq claim that Rodimus searched "half the entire planet" looking for survivors, but came up short. Really? He never even once found a ''hint'' of Optimus Primal's team? Did he even think to check in [[Cybertropolis]], the ''central city of Cybertron'', at all? Or did that city just ''happen'' to be in the planetary half that he didn’t search?
			*In Journal 17, Apelinq recognizes that he has arrived in the middle of the Beast Wars and seems to know all about it. How? How would he have even been aware of the Beast Wars at all? He hails from a point in time before any knowledge of it would have been made public on Cybertron. Was he informed about it by Primal Prime upon first meeting him before Apelinq got flung to the past? This is never explained.

	===Other errors===		===Other errors===

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	*[[Re-visitations\|#16]]		*[[Re-visitations\|#16]]
	*[[The Frontiers of Our History\|#17]]		*[[The Frontiers of Our History\|#17]]
	*[[Point of No Return\|#18]]		*[[Point of No Return (AWJ)\|#18]]
	*[[Witness to the Covenant\|#19]]		*[[Witness to the Covenant\|#19]]
	*[[Beyond Point Omega\|#20]]		*[[Beyond Point Omega\|#20]]

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	After nearly three years of ambiguity, the identity of the artifact from ''Reaching the Omega Point'', which first turned up in the "Visitations" script reading, is at last finally revealed... ''kind of''.		After nearly three years of ambiguity, the identity of the artifact from ''Reaching the Omega Point'', which first turned up in the "Visitations" script reading, is at last finally revealed... ''kind of''.

	Journals 15 and 16 refer to Apelinq having first lost and then reclaimed his Transfer Interlink, in direct reference to the events of "Visitations". However, he also refers to ~~the act of reclaiming~~ his cure for Megatron's virus in the same Journals, making the cure and the Interlink the two most likely candidates for the artifact's identity. But determining which of these two is supposed to be the artifact is not so simple:		Journals 15 and 16 refer to Apelinq having first lost and then reclaimed his Transfer Interlink, in direct reference to the events of "Visitations". However, he also refers to having reclaimed his cure for Megatron's virus in the same Journals, making the cure and the Interlink the two most likely candidates for the artifact's identity. But determining which of these two is supposed to be the artifact is not so simple:
	*In "Visitations", the artifact was first said to be a "Predacon" device of "futuristic" design, which applies to neither the Interlink nor the antivirus since both were owned by the ''Maximal'' Apelinq, whose home time was the same as the Beast Wars' original participants, making neither Apelinq nor his technology any more "futuristic" than any of the Beast Warriors.		*In "Visitations", the artifact was first said to be a ''Predacon'' device of "futuristic" design, which applies to neither the Interlink nor the antivirus since both were owned by the ''Maximal'' Apelinq, whose home-time was the same as the Beast Wars' original participants, making neither Apelinq nor his technology any more "futuristic" than any of the Beast Warriors.
	*The implication behind this ~~original~~ description suggests that the artifact was originally supposed to have been a device that hailed from [[Shokaract]]'s future era, rather than ~~being~~ a personal belonging of Apelinq's. However, both "Terminus" and its recap of "Visitations" confirm the artifact from the script reading to indeed have been taken by Apelinq, which Journal 16 lines up with in its description of Apelinq having retrieved both his Transfer Interlink and his antivirus from the events of the script reading, thereby most likely [[retcon]]ning away any inherent ties the artifact was to originally have had with Shokaract's future timeline.		*The implication behind this description suggests that the artifact was originally supposed to have been a device that hailed from [[Shokaract]]'s future era, rather than a personal belonging of Apelinq's. However, both "Terminus" and its recap of "Visitations" confirm the artifact from the script reading to indeed have been taken by Apelinq, which Journal 16 lines up with in its description of Apelinq having retrieved both his Transfer Interlink and his antivirus from the events of the script reading, thereby most likely [[retcon]]ning away any inherent ties the artifact was to originally have had with Shokaract's future timeline.

	With that said, there are a few clues that suggest the artifact to be the Transfer Interlink:		With that said, there are a few clues that suggest the artifact to be the Transfer Interlink:
	*"[[Herald]]" ~~referred~~ to the artifact as a "key" capable of "breaching—or indeed sealing—the dimensional wall." This is later referenced in "Terminus" at a point where the narration refers to the artifact as Apelinq's own "key" to the future. The Transfer Interlink is indeed an object that can both open and close transwarp portals, as Journal 14 refers to an attempt made by Apelinq to close the transwarp gateway that brought Primal Prime's team to Cybertron, while Journals 17 and 18 refer to a transwarp program that Apelinq can use to reopen transwarp gateways, but which will only work in tandem with his Transfer Interlink.		*"[[Herald]]" refers to the artifact as a "key" capable of "breaching—or indeed sealing—the dimensional wall." This is later referenced in "Terminus" at a point where the narration refers to the artifact as Apelinq's own "key" to the future. The Transfer Interlink is indeed an object that can both open and close transwarp portals, as Journal 14 refers to an attempt made by Apelinq to close the transwarp gateway that brought Primal Prime's team to Cybertron, while Journals 17 and 18 refer to a transwarp program that Apelinq can use to reopen transwarp gateways, but which will only work in tandem with his Transfer Interlink.
	*Journal 15 only makes direct mention of the Transfer Interlink having been lost, while the loss of the antivirus is instead merely implied.		*Journal 15 only makes direct mention of the Transfer Interlink having been lost, while the loss of the antivirus is instead merely implied.
	*Though Journal 16 refers to Apelinq having recovered both items at the same time, there was explicitly only ''one'' device, not two, that Apelinq made off with in "Visitations". This would suggest that, prior to his logging Journal 16, Apelinq either reclaimed one of the two ''outside'' of the script reading's events, or that both objects could in fact be the ''same'' object instead of separate ones. The latter notion is even supported by how Journal 16 indisputably refers to the antivirus as a ''program'', while Journals 17 and 18 also mention a Transwarp program that only works in conjunction with the Interlink.		*Though Journal 16 refers to Apelinq having recovered both items at the same time, there was explicitly only ''one'' device, not two, that Apelinq made off with in "Visitations". This would suggest that, prior to his logging Journal 16, Apelinq either reclaimed one of the two ''outside'' of the script reading's events, or that both objects could in fact be the ''same'' object instead of separate ones. The latter notion is even supported by how Journal 16 indisputably refers to the antivirus as a ''program'', while Journals 17 and 18 also mention a Transwarp program that only works in conjunction with the Interlink.

	And when all is said and done, logical reason would beg the questions of ''how'' and ''why'' a cure for Megatron's virus in the ''Beast Machines'' cartoon would be of ''any'' relevance to anything in the ''Omega Point'' storyline. Why would Shokaract send Antagony to search for a cure to a centuries-old virus that helped ''benefit'' Shokaract's former life? What threat would the antivirus pose to the [[Dark Essence]]? How could the antivirus breech or seal the "dimensional wall"? None of this makes any sense for the antivirus to be the artifact. The Transfer Interlink at least has its transwarp program to connect itself to the artifact's description in "Herald"~~. But~~ the antivirus has no relevance to the ''Omega Point'' storyline whatsoever.		And when all is said and done, logical reason would beg the questions of ''how'' and ''why'' a cure for Megatron's virus in the ''Beast Machines'' cartoon would be of ''any'' relevance to anything in the ''Omega Point'' storyline. Why would Shokaract send Antagony to search for a cure to a centuries-old virus that helped ''benefit'' Shokaract's former life? What threat would the antivirus pose to the [[Dark Essence]]? How could the antivirus breech or seal the "dimensional wall"? None of this makes any sense for the antivirus to be the artifact. The Transfer Interlink at least has its transwarp program to connect itself to the artifact's description in "Herald", but the antivirus has no relevance to the ''Omega Point'' storyline whatsoever.

	However, despite all of this, there are still a few other points that lean more towards the antivirus being the artifact:		However, despite all of this, there are still a few other points that lean more towards the antivirus being the artifact:
	* The recap of "Visitations" ~~featured~~ in the BotCon 2000 comic unambiguously presents the artifact as a "sealed canister", which "Terminus" ~~itself~~ reiterates in its depiction of the artifact as a vial containing a visible yellow-green liquid. This not only strongly implies the antivirus ~~as being~~ the artifact, but also a physical liquid substance instead of a program, making Journal 16's calling it an "antivirus program" seem more like another retcon.		*The recap of "Visitations" found in the BotCon 2000 comic features artwork that unambiguously presents the artifact as a sealed, vial-shaped canister, which "Terminus" reiterates in its depiction of the artifact as a vial containing a visible yellow-green liquid. The Interlink itself is later depicted in the [[BotCon 2002]] comic story "[[Betrayal]]" as a small computer console accessed by little keypads mounted on the insides of Apelinq's forearms, which does ''not'' match the visual depiction of the artifact taken by Apelinq in the BotCon 2000 "Visitations" recap art. This not only strongly implies the antivirus to be the artifact, but also a physical liquid substance instead of an intangible program, making Journal 16's calling it an "antivirus program" seem more like another retcon.
	*The recap of "Apelinq's War Journals" included in the BotCon 2001 comic describes the antidote to Megatron's plague as "a virtual '''key''' that might seal the tyrant's fate while securing the Wreckers' last hope for salvation." Though the context is different, the precise use of the word "key" in specific regards to the cure feels a little too on the nose for both "Herald" and "Terminus" likewise referring to the artifact as a "key" to be just a coincidence.		*The recap of "Apelinq's War Journals" included in the BotCon 2001 comic describes the antidote to Megatron's plague as "a virtual '''key''' that might seal the tyrant's fate while securing the Wreckers' last hope for salvation." Though the context is different, the precise use of the word "key" in specific regards to the cure feels a little too on the nose for both "Herald" and "Terminus" likewise referring to the artifact as a "key" to be just a mere coincidence.
	*And most ~~glaringly~~ of all (depending on how much value one puts into [[authorial intent]]), [[3H Productions\|3H]] member [[Glen Hallit]] once openly ''insisted'' that the artifact was absolutely the antivirus and ''not'' the Transfer Interlink at all.<ref>[https://groups.google.com/d/msg/alt.toys.transformers/mmW3dom5GiA/OwEuiAOkSj4J alt.toys.transformers post by Glen Hallit made on 2002/03/29]: "The interlink had nothing to do with the battle... The artifact was the antivirus to Beast Machine{{sic}} Megatron's virus that hurt all of Cybertron."</ref>		*And most tellingly of all (depending on how much value one puts into [[authorial intent]]), in [[2002]], [[3H Productions\|3H]] member [[Glen Hallit]] once openly ''insisted'' that the artifact was absolutely the antivirus and ''not'' the Transfer Interlink at all.<ref>[https://groups.google.com/d/msg/alt.toys.transformers/mmW3dom5GiA/OwEuiAOkSj4J alt.toys.transformers post by Glen Hallit made on 2002/03/29]: "The interlink had nothing to do with the battle... The artifact was the antivirus to Beast Machine{{sic}} Megatron's virus that hurt all of Cybertron."</ref> '''''HOWEVER''''', in [[2018]], when shown this post of his from sixteen years prior, a rather baffled Glen Hallit had completely forgotten about having ever made this claim and couldn't remember why he had made it in the first place.<ref>Via personal correspondence with Glen Hallit at [[Unofficial conventions\|RoboCon 2018]].</ref>

	In short, the artifact was evidently written ~~originally~~ with the intent of being a nebulous object left open enough for later writers to fill in the blanks on its identity. But in the end, said blanks were never completely filled in either a consistent or conclusive manner. Therefore, it remains ultimately [[Personal canon\|up to the reader]] as to which of Apelinq's two personal belongings one wishes to perceive as the identity of the artifact.		In short, the artifact was evidently first written with the initial intent of being a nebulous object left open enough for later writers to fill in the blanks on its identity. But in the end, said blanks were never completely filled in either a consistent or a conclusive manner. Therefore, it remains ultimately [[Personal canon\|up to the reader]] as to which of Apelinq's two personal belongings one wishes to perceive as the identity of the artifact.

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