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AzimuthAcolyte: Transformation cog -> Transformation cog (biology) update

2025-09-09T22:37:21Z

Transformation cog -> Transformation cog (biology) update

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	[[File:TransformersOne-CoglessMiners.jpg\|thumb\|right\|upright=2.4\|I'm literally neurodivergent and a miner.]]		[[File:TransformersOne-CoglessMiners.jpg\|thumb\|right\|upright=2.4\|I'm literally neurodivergent and a miner.]]

	Born in the wake of the [[Quintesson]] war, '''cogless bots''' (sometimes referred to pejoratively as '''no-cogs''') are a caste of manual laborers who occupy the bottom-most rung of the [[Cybertron (planet)\|Cybertronian]] hierarchy. Although smaller and weaker than other Cybertronians, their work in the planet's subterannean layers—most prominently the miners who physically extract [[energon]] from Cybertron's crust—is vital to the continued existence of Cybertronian society. True to their name, they lack the [[transformation cog]]s innate to other members of the species, and as a result don't possess [[alternate mode]]s or the ability to access their built-in weapons.		Born in the wake of the [[Quintesson]] war, '''cogless bots''' (sometimes referred to pejoratively as '''no-cogs''') are a caste of manual laborers who occupy the bottom-most rung of the [[Cybertron (planet)\|Cybertronian]] hierarchy. Although smaller and weaker than other Cybertronians, their work in the planet's subterannean layers—most prominently the miners who physically extract [[energon]] from Cybertron's crust—is vital to the continued existence of Cybertronian society. True to their name, they lack the [[Transformation cog (biology)\|transformation cog]]s innate to other members of the species, and as a result don't possess [[alternate mode]]s or the ability to access their built-in weapons.

	==Fiction==		==Fiction==

Alientraveller: adding the term 'no-cogs'

2025-06-04T10:46:59Z

adding the term 'no-cogs'

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	[[File:TransformersOne-CoglessMiners.jpg\|thumb\|right\|upright=2.4\|I'm literally neurodivergent and a miner.]]		[[File:TransformersOne-CoglessMiners.jpg\|thumb\|right\|upright=2.4\|I'm literally neurodivergent and a miner.]]

	Born in the wake of the [[Quintesson]] war, '''cogless bots''' are a caste of manual laborers who occupy the bottom-most rung of the [[Cybertron (planet)\|Cybertronian]] hierarchy. Although smaller and weaker than other Cybertronians, their work in the planet's subterannean layers—most prominently the miners who physically extract [[energon]] from Cybertron's crust—is vital to the continued existence of Cybertronian society. True to their name, they lack the [[transformation cog]]s innate to other members of the species, and as a result don't possess [[alternate mode]]s or the ability to access their built-in weapons.		Born in the wake of the [[Quintesson]] war, '''cogless bots''' (sometimes referred to pejoratively as '''no-cogs''') are a caste of manual laborers who occupy the bottom-most rung of the [[Cybertron (planet)\|Cybertronian]] hierarchy. Although smaller and weaker than other Cybertronians, their work in the planet's subterannean layers—most prominently the miners who physically extract [[energon]] from Cybertron's crust—is vital to the continued existence of Cybertronian society. True to their name, they lack the [[transformation cog]]s innate to other members of the species, and as a result don't possess [[alternate mode]]s or the ability to access their built-in weapons.

	==Fiction==		==Fiction==

Broadside: They're very explicitly not Transformers

2025-05-31T17:11:53Z

They're very explicitly not Transformers

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	[[File:TransformersOne-CoglessMiners.jpg\|thumb\|right\|upright=2.4\|I'm literally neurodivergent and a miner.]]		[[File:TransformersOne-CoglessMiners.jpg\|thumb\|right\|upright=2.4\|I'm literally neurodivergent and a miner.]]

	Born in the wake of the [[Quintesson]] war, '''~~Cogless~~''' ~~Transformers~~ are a caste of manual laborers who occupy the bottom-most rung of the [[Cybertron (planet)\|Cybertronian]] hierarchy. Although smaller and weaker than other Cybertronians, their work in the planet's subterannean layers—most prominently the miners who physically extract [[energon]] from Cybertron's crust—is vital to the continued existence of Cybertronian society. True to their name, they lack the [[transformation cog]]s innate to other members of the species, and as a result don't possess [[alternate mode]]s or the ability to access their built-in weapons.		Born in the wake of the [[Quintesson]] war, '''cogless bots''' are a caste of manual laborers who occupy the bottom-most rung of the [[Cybertron (planet)\|Cybertronian]] hierarchy. Although smaller and weaker than other Cybertronians, their work in the planet's subterannean layers—most prominently the miners who physically extract [[energon]] from Cybertron's crust—is vital to the continued existence of Cybertronian society. True to their name, they lack the [[transformation cog]]s innate to other members of the species, and as a result don't possess [[alternate mode]]s or the ability to access their built-in weapons.

	==Fiction==		==Fiction==
	===''One'' film===		===''One'' film===
	~~Cogless Transformers~~ were created at some point after [[Sentinel Prime (One)\|Sentinel Prime]] took office after he allied with the Quintessons, deposed the [[Thirteen\|Primes]] and lost the [[Matrix of Leadership]]. Without free access to [[energon]], Sentinel began removing the transformation cogs from newborn Transformers and press-ganged them into a life of manual labor, and successfully convinced the citizens of Cybertron into believing that they had simply been born without transformation cogs. Over the next fifty cycles, ~~Cogless~~ laborers came to fill many low-ranking positions in Cybertronian society such as sanitation work, but the most important job of all was mining whatever usable veins of energon remained from the Cybertronian strata: under Sentinel Prime's leadership, most of that energon was funneled away to appease his Quintesson masters, leaving little for the people of Cybertron. Despite the long hours and extremely dangerous working conditions, miners received little respect from the other citizens of [[Iacon (polity)\|Iacon]]. When not mining energon, miners lived together in a large communal barracks.		The cogless were created at some point after [[Sentinel Prime (One)\|Sentinel Prime]] took office after he allied with the Quintessons, deposed the [[Thirteen\|Primes]] and lost the [[Matrix of Leadership]]. Without free access to [[energon]], Sentinel began removing the transformation cogs from newborn Transformers and press-ganged them into a life of manual labor, and successfully convinced the citizens of Cybertron into believing that they had simply been born without transformation cogs. Over the next fifty cycles, cogless laborers came to fill many low-ranking positions in Cybertronian society such as sanitation work, but the most important job of all was mining whatever usable veins of energon remained from the Cybertronian strata: under Sentinel Prime's leadership, most of that energon was funneled away to appease his Quintesson masters, leaving little for the people of Cybertron. Despite the long hours and extremely dangerous working conditions, miners received little respect from the other citizens of [[Iacon (polity)\|Iacon]]. When not mining energon, miners lived together in a large communal barracks.

	When a small group of ~~cogless Transformers—~~[[Optimus Prime (One)\|Orion Pax]], [[Megatron (One)\|D-16]], [[Elita-1 (One)\|Elita-1]], and [[Bumblebee (One)\|B-127]]—discovered [[Alpha Trion]] in [[Mouth of Unicron\|the grave of the Primes]], Trion revealed that the circumstances of their birth were a lie, and that Sentinel had actually removed their transformation cogs before they came online. However, Trion also bequeathed them four of the original transformation cogs from the Primes, which caused them to spontaneously grow into stronger forms capable of transformation.		When a small group of cogless—[[Optimus Prime (One)\|Orion Pax]], [[Megatron (One)\|D-16]], [[Elita-1 (One)\|Elita-1]], and [[Bumblebee (One)\|B-127]]—discovered [[Alpha Trion]] in [[Mouth of Unicron\|the grave of the Primes]], Trion revealed that the circumstances of their birth were a lie, and that Sentinel had actually removed their transformation cogs before they came online. However, Trion also bequeathed them four of the original transformation cogs from the Primes, which caused them to spontaneously grow into stronger forms capable of transformation.

	During the subsequent battle to overthrow Sentinel Prime, Orion roused many of his former cogless comrades to action, who battled Sentinel Prime's [[Tracker]]s using their jet packs and mining equipment. After Orion Pax—now Optimus Prime—received the Matrix of Leadership, the cogless 'bots all received transformation cogs of their own; the caste was presumably abolished in favor of the newly autonomous "[[Autobot]]s". {{storylink\|Transformers One (film)\|One}}		During the subsequent battle to overthrow Sentinel Prime, Orion roused many of his former cogless comrades to action, who battled Sentinel Prime's [[Tracker]]s using their jet packs and mining equipment. After Orion Pax—now Optimus Prime—received the Matrix of Leadership, the cogless 'bots all received transformation cogs of their own; the caste was presumably abolished in favor of the newly autonomous "[[Autobot]]s". {{storylink\|Transformers One (film)\|One}}
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	*Many of the Cogless [[generic]]s have color schemes that evoke existing Transformers characters: a yellow, black and red [[Jazz (One)\|Jazz]] resembles [[Jackpot (G1)\|Jackpot]], an orange and purple [[Moonracer (One)\|Moonracer]] resembles [[Lancer]], a recolor of "[[Not Chromia]]" seems to be based on [[Greenlight]], a ''different'' Not Chromia could be [[Lug (IDW)\|Lug]], a blue [[Sideswipe (One)\|Sideswipe]] looks like [[Deep Cover#War for Cybertron Trilogy\|''War for Cybertron Trilogy'' Deep Cover]], an orange and pink [[Arcee (One)\|Arcee]] resembles [[:File:G1ArceeProto.jpg\|her cancelled prototype from the original toyline]] and a white-and-blue [[Brawn (One)\|Brawn]] seems intended to evoke [[Twin Twist (G1)\|Twin Twist]]. A [[Barricade (IDW)\|purple-crested, gold-faced]] [[Prowl (One)\|Prowl]] can also be seen in the crowd during Orion's big speech. Since none of these characters have been officially named (and they all appear multiple times across the same scenes, though the same is also true of most of the named Cogless), we're considering these to be [[homage]]s rather than actual appearances of these characters.		*Many of the Cogless [[generic]]s have color schemes that evoke existing Transformers characters: a yellow, black and red [[Jazz (One)\|Jazz]] resembles [[Jackpot (G1)\|Jackpot]], an orange and purple [[Moonracer (One)\|Moonracer]] resembles [[Lancer]], a recolor of "[[Not Chromia]]" seems to be based on [[Greenlight]], a ''different'' Not Chromia could be [[Lug (IDW)\|Lug]], a blue [[Sideswipe (One)\|Sideswipe]] looks like [[Deep Cover#War for Cybertron Trilogy\|''War for Cybertron Trilogy'' Deep Cover]], an orange and pink [[Arcee (One)\|Arcee]] resembles [[:File:G1ArceeProto.jpg\|her cancelled prototype from the original toyline]] and a white-and-blue [[Brawn (One)\|Brawn]] seems intended to evoke [[Twin Twist (G1)\|Twin Twist]]. A [[Barricade (IDW)\|purple-crested, gold-faced]] [[Prowl (One)\|Prowl]] can also be seen in the crowd during Orion's big speech. Since none of these characters have been officially named (and they all appear multiple times across the same scenes, though the same is also true of most of the named Cogless), we're considering these to be [[homage]]s rather than actual appearances of these characters.
			*The ''[[Transformers One Sourcebook]]'' for the [[Transformers Roleplaying Game]] distinguishes the cogless from the Transformers—that is, Cybertronians capable of transforming—by referring to them simply as '''Bots'''.

	==See also==		==See also==

AzimuthAcolyte: Alpha Trion (One) -> Alpha Trion update

2025-05-14T21:38:23Z

Alpha Trion (One) -> Alpha Trion update

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	Cogless Transformers were created at some point after [[Sentinel Prime (One)\|Sentinel Prime]] took office after he allied with the Quintessons, deposed the [[Thirteen\|Primes]] and lost the [[Matrix of Leadership]]. Without free access to [[energon]], Sentinel began removing the transformation cogs from newborn Transformers and press-ganged them into a life of manual labor, and successfully convinced the citizens of Cybertron into believing that they had simply been born without transformation cogs. Over the next fifty cycles, Cogless laborers came to fill many low-ranking positions in Cybertronian society such as sanitation work, but the most important job of all was mining whatever usable veins of energon remained from the Cybertronian strata: under Sentinel Prime's leadership, most of that energon was funneled away to appease his Quintesson masters, leaving little for the people of Cybertron. Despite the long hours and extremely dangerous working conditions, miners received little respect from the other citizens of [[Iacon (polity)\|Iacon]]. When not mining energon, miners lived together in a large communal barracks.		Cogless Transformers were created at some point after [[Sentinel Prime (One)\|Sentinel Prime]] took office after he allied with the Quintessons, deposed the [[Thirteen\|Primes]] and lost the [[Matrix of Leadership]]. Without free access to [[energon]], Sentinel began removing the transformation cogs from newborn Transformers and press-ganged them into a life of manual labor, and successfully convinced the citizens of Cybertron into believing that they had simply been born without transformation cogs. Over the next fifty cycles, Cogless laborers came to fill many low-ranking positions in Cybertronian society such as sanitation work, but the most important job of all was mining whatever usable veins of energon remained from the Cybertronian strata: under Sentinel Prime's leadership, most of that energon was funneled away to appease his Quintesson masters, leaving little for the people of Cybertron. Despite the long hours and extremely dangerous working conditions, miners received little respect from the other citizens of [[Iacon (polity)\|Iacon]]. When not mining energon, miners lived together in a large communal barracks.

	When a small group of cogless Transformers—[[Optimus Prime (One)\|Orion Pax]], [[Megatron (One)\|D-16]], [[Elita-1 (One)\|Elita-1]], and [[Bumblebee (One)\|B-127]]—discovered [[~~Alpha Trion (One)\|~~Alpha Trion]] in [[Mouth of Unicron\|the grave of the Primes]], Trion revealed that the circumstances of their birth were a lie, and that Sentinel had actually removed their transformation cogs before they came online. However, Trion also bequeathed them four of the original transformation cogs from the Primes, which caused them to spontaneously grow into stronger forms capable of transformation.		When a small group of cogless Transformers—[[Optimus Prime (One)\|Orion Pax]], [[Megatron (One)\|D-16]], [[Elita-1 (One)\|Elita-1]], and [[Bumblebee (One)\|B-127]]—discovered [[Alpha Trion]] in [[Mouth of Unicron\|the grave of the Primes]], Trion revealed that the circumstances of their birth were a lie, and that Sentinel had actually removed their transformation cogs before they came online. However, Trion also bequeathed them four of the original transformation cogs from the Primes, which caused them to spontaneously grow into stronger forms capable of transformation.

	During the subsequent battle to overthrow Sentinel Prime, Orion roused many of his former cogless comrades to action, who battled Sentinel Prime's [[Tracker]]s using their jet packs and mining equipment. After Orion Pax—now Optimus Prime—received the Matrix of Leadership, the cogless 'bots all received transformation cogs of their own; the caste was presumably abolished in favor of the newly autonomous "[[Autobot]]s". {{storylink\|Transformers One (film)\|One}}		During the subsequent battle to overthrow Sentinel Prime, Orion roused many of his former cogless comrades to action, who battled Sentinel Prime's [[Tracker]]s using their jet packs and mining equipment. After Orion Pax—now Optimus Prime—received the Matrix of Leadership, the cogless 'bots all received transformation cogs of their own; the caste was presumably abolished in favor of the newly autonomous "[[Autobot]]s". {{storylink\|Transformers One (film)\|One}}

TheAmazingPoncho: /* Notes */

2025-01-28T17:41:46Z

Notes

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	==Notes==		==Notes==
	[[File:TFOneCoglessMinersConceptArt.jpg\|thumb\|right\|250px\|Minin' away/I don't know what to mine/I'll mine this anyway]]		[[File:TFOneCoglessMinersConceptArt.jpg\|thumb\|right\|250px\|Minin' away/I don't know what to mine/I'll mine this anyway]]
	*Many of the Cogless [[generic]]s have color schemes that evoke existing Transformers characters: a yellow, black and red [[Jazz (One)\|Jazz]] resembles [[Jackpot (G1)\|Jackpot]], an orange and purple [[Moonracer (One)\|Moonracer]] resembles [[Lancer]], a recolor of "[[Not Chromia]]" seems to be based on [[Greenlight]], a ''different'' Not Chromia could be [[Lug (IDW)\|Lug]], a blue [[Sideswipe (One)\|Sideswipe]] looks like [[Deep Cover#War for Cybertron Trilogy\|''War for Cybertron Trilogy'' Deep Cover]], an orange and pink [[Arcee (One)\|Arcee]] resembles [~~https~~:~~//tfwiki.net/wiki/~~File:G1ArceeProto.jpg her cancelled prototype from the original toyline] and a white-and-blue [[Brawn (One)\|Brawn]] seems intended to evoke [[Twin Twist (G1)\|Twin Twist]]. A [[Barricade (IDW)\|purple-crested, gold-faced]] [[Prowl (One)\|Prowl]] can also be seen in the crowd during Orion's big speech. Since none of these characters have been officially named (and they all appear multiple times across the same scenes, though the same is also true of most of the named Cogless), we're considering these to be [[homage]]s rather than actual appearances of these characters.		*Many of the Cogless [[generic]]s have color schemes that evoke existing Transformers characters: a yellow, black and red [[Jazz (One)\|Jazz]] resembles [[Jackpot (G1)\|Jackpot]], an orange and purple [[Moonracer (One)\|Moonracer]] resembles [[Lancer]], a recolor of "[[Not Chromia]]" seems to be based on [[Greenlight]], a ''different'' Not Chromia could be [[Lug (IDW)\|Lug]], a blue [[Sideswipe (One)\|Sideswipe]] looks like [[Deep Cover#War for Cybertron Trilogy\|''War for Cybertron Trilogy'' Deep Cover]], an orange and pink [[Arcee (One)\|Arcee]] resembles [[:File:G1ArceeProto.jpg\|her cancelled prototype from the original toyline]] and a white-and-blue [[Brawn (One)\|Brawn]] seems intended to evoke [[Twin Twist (G1)\|Twin Twist]]. A [[Barricade (IDW)\|purple-crested, gold-faced]] [[Prowl (One)\|Prowl]] can also be seen in the crowd during Orion's big speech. Since none of these characters have been officially named (and they all appear multiple times across the same scenes, though the same is also true of most of the named Cogless), we're considering these to be [[homage]]s rather than actual appearances of these characters.

	==See also==		==See also==

Katsumi: typo fix

2025-01-08T12:30:03Z

typo fix

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	When a small group of cogless Transformers—[[Optimus Prime (One)\|Orion Pax]], [[Megatron (One)\|D-16]], [[Elita-1 (One)\|Elita-1]], and [[Bumblebee (One)\|B-127]]—discovered [[Alpha Trion (One)\|Alpha Trion]] in [[Mouth of Unicron\|the grave of the Primes]], Trion revealed that the circumstances of their birth were a lie, and that Sentinel had actually removed their transformation cogs before they came online. However, Trion also bequeathed them four of the original transformation cogs from the Primes, which caused them to spontaneously grow into stronger forms capable of transformation.		When a small group of cogless Transformers—[[Optimus Prime (One)\|Orion Pax]], [[Megatron (One)\|D-16]], [[Elita-1 (One)\|Elita-1]], and [[Bumblebee (One)\|B-127]]—discovered [[Alpha Trion (One)\|Alpha Trion]] in [[Mouth of Unicron\|the grave of the Primes]], Trion revealed that the circumstances of their birth were a lie, and that Sentinel had actually removed their transformation cogs before they came online. However, Trion also bequeathed them four of the original transformation cogs from the Primes, which caused them to spontaneously grow into stronger forms capable of transformation.

	During the subsequent battle to overthrow Sentinel Prime, Orion roused many of his former cogless comrades to action, who battled Sentinel Prime's [[Tracker]]s using their jet packs and mining equipment. After Orion Pax—now Optimus ~~Prime—recieved~~ the Matrix of Leadership, the cogless 'bots all ~~recieved~~ transformation cogs of their own; the caste was presumably abolished in favor of the newly autonomous "[[Autobot]]s". {{storylink\|Transformers One (film)\|One}}		During the subsequent battle to overthrow Sentinel Prime, Orion roused many of his former cogless comrades to action, who battled Sentinel Prime's [[Tracker]]s using their jet packs and mining equipment. After Orion Pax—now Optimus Prime—received the Matrix of Leadership, the cogless 'bots all received transformation cogs of their own; the caste was presumably abolished in favor of the newly autonomous "[[Autobot]]s". {{storylink\|Transformers One (film)\|One}}

	==Notes==		==Notes==

AwkButTf at 21:25, 12 November 2024

2024-11-12T21:25:00Z

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	[[File:TFOneCoglessMinersConceptArt.jpg\|thumb\|right\|250px]]		[[File:TFOneCoglessMinersConceptArt.jpg\|thumb\|right\|250px\|Minin' away/I don't know what to mine/I'll mine this anyway]]
	*Many of the Cogless [[generic]]s have color schemes that evoke existing Transformers characters: a yellow, black and red [[Jazz (One)\|Jazz]] resembles [[Jackpot (G1)\|Jackpot]], an orange and purple [[Moonracer (One)\|Moonracer]] resembles [[Lancer]], a recolor of "[[Not Chromia]]" seems to be based on [[Greenlight]], a ''different'' Not Chromia could be [[Lug (IDW)\|Lug]], a blue [[Sideswipe (One)\|Sideswipe]] looks like [[Deep Cover#War for Cybertron Trilogy\|''War for Cybertron Trilogy'' Deep Cover]], an orange and pink [[Arcee (One)\|Arcee]] resembles [https://tfwiki.net/wiki/File:G1ArceeProto.jpg her cancelled prototype from the original toyline] and a white-and-blue [[Brawn (One)\|Brawn]] seems intended to evoke [[Twin Twist (G1)\|Twin Twist]]. A [[Barricade (IDW)\|purple-crested, gold-faced]] [[Prowl (One)\|Prowl]] can also be seen in the crowd during Orion's big speech. Since none of these characters have been officially named (and they all appear multiple times across the same scenes, though the same is also true of most of the named Cogless), we're considering these to be [[homage]]s rather than actual appearances of these characters.		*Many of the Cogless [[generic]]s have color schemes that evoke existing Transformers characters: a yellow, black and red [[Jazz (One)\|Jazz]] resembles [[Jackpot (G1)\|Jackpot]], an orange and purple [[Moonracer (One)\|Moonracer]] resembles [[Lancer]], a recolor of "[[Not Chromia]]" seems to be based on [[Greenlight]], a ''different'' Not Chromia could be [[Lug (IDW)\|Lug]], a blue [[Sideswipe (One)\|Sideswipe]] looks like [[Deep Cover#War for Cybertron Trilogy\|''War for Cybertron Trilogy'' Deep Cover]], an orange and pink [[Arcee (One)\|Arcee]] resembles [https://tfwiki.net/wiki/File:G1ArceeProto.jpg her cancelled prototype from the original toyline] and a white-and-blue [[Brawn (One)\|Brawn]] seems intended to evoke [[Twin Twist (G1)\|Twin Twist]]. A [[Barricade (IDW)\|purple-crested, gold-faced]] [[Prowl (One)\|Prowl]] can also be seen in the crowd during Orion's big speech. Since none of these characters have been officially named (and they all appear multiple times across the same scenes, though the same is also true of most of the named Cogless), we're considering these to be [[homage]]s rather than actual appearances of these characters.

Kiddiecraft: /* Notes */

2024-11-12T17:56:56Z

Notes

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	[[File:TFOneCoglessMinersConceptArt.jpg\|thumb\|right\|250px]]		[[File:TFOneCoglessMinersConceptArt.jpg\|thumb\|right\|250px]]
	*Many of the Cogless [[generic]]s have color schemes that evoke existing Transformers characters: a yellow, black and red [[Jazz (One)\|Jazz]] resembles [[Jackpot (G1)\|Jackpot]], an orange and purple [[Moonracer (One)\|Moonracer]] resembles [[Lancer]], a recolor of "[[Not Chromia]]" seems to be based on [[Greenlight]], a ''different'' Not Chromia could be [[Lug (IDW)\|Lug]], a blue [[Sideswipe (One)\|Sideswipe]] looks like [[Deep Cover#War for Cybertron Trilogy\|''War for Cybertron Trilogy'' Deep Cover]], and a white-and-blue [[Brawn (One)\|Brawn]] seems intended to evoke [[Twin Twist (G1)\|Twin Twist]]. A [[Barricade (IDW)\|purple-crested, gold-faced]] [[Prowl (One)\|Prowl]] can also be seen in the crowd during Orion's big speech. Since none of these characters have been officially named (and they all appear multiple times across the same scenes, though the same is also true of most of the named Cogless), we're considering these to be [[homage]]s rather than actual appearances of these characters.		*Many of the Cogless [[generic]]s have color schemes that evoke existing Transformers characters: a yellow, black and red [[Jazz (One)\|Jazz]] resembles [[Jackpot (G1)\|Jackpot]], an orange and purple [[Moonracer (One)\|Moonracer]] resembles [[Lancer]], a recolor of "[[Not Chromia]]" seems to be based on [[Greenlight]], a ''different'' Not Chromia could be [[Lug (IDW)\|Lug]], a blue [[Sideswipe (One)\|Sideswipe]] looks like [[Deep Cover#War for Cybertron Trilogy\|''War for Cybertron Trilogy'' Deep Cover]], an orange and pink [[Arcee (One)\|Arcee]] resembles [https://tfwiki.net/wiki/File:G1ArceeProto.jpg her cancelled prototype from the original toyline] and a white-and-blue [[Brawn (One)\|Brawn]] seems intended to evoke [[Twin Twist (G1)\|Twin Twist]]. A [[Barricade (IDW)\|purple-crested, gold-faced]] [[Prowl (One)\|Prowl]] can also be seen in the crowd during Orion's big speech. Since none of these characters have been officially named (and they all appear multiple times across the same scenes, though the same is also true of most of the named Cogless), we're considering these to be [[homage]]s rather than actual appearances of these characters.

	==See also==		==See also==

Jurassith at 17:48, 12 November 2024

2024-11-12T17:48:45Z

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	==Notes==		==Notes==
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	*Many of the Cogless [[generic]]s have color schemes that evoke existing Transformers characters: a yellow, black and red [[Jazz (One)\|Jazz]] resembles [[Jackpot (G1)\|Jackpot]], an orange and purple [[Moonracer (One)\|Moonracer]] resembles [[Lancer]], a recolor of "[[Not Chromia]]" seems to be based on [[Greenlight]], a ''different'' Not Chromia could be [[Lug (IDW)\|Lug]], a blue [[Sideswipe (One)\|Sideswipe]] looks like [[Deep Cover#War for Cybertron Trilogy\|''War for Cybertron Trilogy'' Deep Cover]], and a white-and-blue [[Brawn (One)\|Brawn]] seems intended to evoke [[Twin Twist (G1)\|Twin Twist]]. A [[Barricade (IDW)\|purple-crested, gold-faced]] [[Prowl (One)\|Prowl]] can also be seen in the crowd during Orion's big speech. Since none of these characters have been officially named (and they all appear multiple times across the same scenes, though the same is also true of most of the named Cogless), we're considering these to be [[homage]]s rather than actual appearances of these characters.		*Many of the Cogless [[generic]]s have color schemes that evoke existing Transformers characters: a yellow, black and red [[Jazz (One)\|Jazz]] resembles [[Jackpot (G1)\|Jackpot]], an orange and purple [[Moonracer (One)\|Moonracer]] resembles [[Lancer]], a recolor of "[[Not Chromia]]" seems to be based on [[Greenlight]], a ''different'' Not Chromia could be [[Lug (IDW)\|Lug]], a blue [[Sideswipe (One)\|Sideswipe]] looks like [[Deep Cover#War for Cybertron Trilogy\|''War for Cybertron Trilogy'' Deep Cover]], and a white-and-blue [[Brawn (One)\|Brawn]] seems intended to evoke [[Twin Twist (G1)\|Twin Twist]]. A [[Barricade (IDW)\|purple-crested, gold-faced]] [[Prowl (One)\|Prowl]] can also be seen in the crowd during Orion's big speech. Since none of these characters have been officially named (and they all appear multiple times across the same scenes, though the same is also true of most of the named Cogless), we're considering these to be [[homage]]s rather than actual appearances of these characters.

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	==Notes==		==Notes==
	*Many of the Cogless [[generic]]s have color schemes that evoke existing Transformers characters: a yellow, black and red [[Jazz (One)\|Jazz]] resembles [[Jackpot (G1)\|~~Generation 1~~ Jackpot]], a recolor of "[[Not Chromia]]" seems to be based on [[Greenlight]], ~~an orange and purple~~ [[~~Moonracer~~ (~~One~~)\|~~Moonracer]] resembles [[Lancer~~]], a blue [[Sideswipe (One)\|Sideswipe]] looks like [[Deep Cover#War for Cybertron Trilogy\|''War for Cybertron Trilogy'' Deep Cover]], and a white-and-blue [[Brawn (One)\|Brawn]] seems intended to evoke [[Twin Twist (G1)\|Twin Twist]]. A [[Barricade (IDW)\|purple-crested, gold-faced]] [[Prowl (One)\|Prowl]] can also be seen in the crowd during Orion's big speech. Since none of these characters have been officially named (and they all appear multiple times across the same scenes, though the same is also true of most of the named Cogless), we're considering these to be [[homage]]s rather than actual appearances of these characters.		*Many of the Cogless [[generic]]s have color schemes that evoke existing Transformers characters: a yellow, black and red [[Jazz (One)\|Jazz]] resembles [[Jackpot (G1)\|Jackpot]], an orange and purple [[Moonracer (One)\|Moonracer]] resembles [[Lancer]], a recolor of "[[Not Chromia]]" seems to be based on [[Greenlight]], a ''different'' Not Chromia could be [[Lug (IDW)\|Lug]], a blue [[Sideswipe (One)\|Sideswipe]] looks like [[Deep Cover#War for Cybertron Trilogy\|''War for Cybertron Trilogy'' Deep Cover]], and a white-and-blue [[Brawn (One)\|Brawn]] seems intended to evoke [[Twin Twist (G1)\|Twin Twist]]. A [[Barricade (IDW)\|purple-crested, gold-faced]] [[Prowl (One)\|Prowl]] can also be seen in the crowd during Orion's big speech. Since none of these characters have been officially named (and they all appear multiple times across the same scenes, though the same is also true of most of the named Cogless), we're considering these to be [[homage]]s rather than actual appearances of these characters.

	==See also==		==See also==

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	[[File:TransformersOne-CoglessMiners.jpg\|thumb\|right\|upright=2.4\|I'm literally neurodivergent and a miner.]]		[[File:TransformersOne-CoglessMiners.jpg\|thumb\|right\|upright=2.4\|I'm literally neurodivergent and a miner.]]

	Born in the wake of the [[Quintesson]] war, '''~~Cogless~~''' ~~Transformers~~ are a caste of manual laborers who occupy the bottom-most rung of the [[Cybertron (planet)\|Cybertronian]] hierarchy. Although smaller and weaker than other Cybertronians, their work in the planet's subterannean layers—most prominently the miners who physically extract [[energon]] from Cybertron's crust—is vital to the continued existence of Cybertronian society. True to their name, they lack the [[transformation cog]]s innate to other members of the species, and as a result don't possess [[alternate mode]]s or the ability to access their built-in weapons.		Born in the wake of the [[Quintesson]] war, '''cogless bots''' are a caste of manual laborers who occupy the bottom-most rung of the [[Cybertron (planet)\|Cybertronian]] hierarchy. Although smaller and weaker than other Cybertronians, their work in the planet's subterannean layers—most prominently the miners who physically extract [[energon]] from Cybertron's crust—is vital to the continued existence of Cybertronian society. True to their name, they lack the [[transformation cog]]s innate to other members of the species, and as a result don't possess [[alternate mode]]s or the ability to access their built-in weapons.

	==Fiction==		==Fiction==
	===''One'' film===		===''One'' film===
	~~Cogless Transformers~~ were created at some point after [[Sentinel Prime (One)\|Sentinel Prime]] took office after he allied with the Quintessons, deposed the [[Thirteen\|Primes]] and lost the [[Matrix of Leadership]]. Without free access to [[energon]], Sentinel began removing the transformation cogs from newborn Transformers and press-ganged them into a life of manual labor, and successfully convinced the citizens of Cybertron into believing that they had simply been born without transformation cogs. Over the next fifty cycles, ~~Cogless~~ laborers came to fill many low-ranking positions in Cybertronian society such as sanitation work, but the most important job of all was mining whatever usable veins of energon remained from the Cybertronian strata: under Sentinel Prime's leadership, most of that energon was funneled away to appease his Quintesson masters, leaving little for the people of Cybertron. Despite the long hours and extremely dangerous working conditions, miners received little respect from the other citizens of [[Iacon (polity)\|Iacon]]. When not mining energon, miners lived together in a large communal barracks.		The cogless were created at some point after [[Sentinel Prime (One)\|Sentinel Prime]] took office after he allied with the Quintessons, deposed the [[Thirteen\|Primes]] and lost the [[Matrix of Leadership]]. Without free access to [[energon]], Sentinel began removing the transformation cogs from newborn Transformers and press-ganged them into a life of manual labor, and successfully convinced the citizens of Cybertron into believing that they had simply been born without transformation cogs. Over the next fifty cycles, cogless laborers came to fill many low-ranking positions in Cybertronian society such as sanitation work, but the most important job of all was mining whatever usable veins of energon remained from the Cybertronian strata: under Sentinel Prime's leadership, most of that energon was funneled away to appease his Quintesson masters, leaving little for the people of Cybertron. Despite the long hours and extremely dangerous working conditions, miners received little respect from the other citizens of [[Iacon (polity)\|Iacon]]. When not mining energon, miners lived together in a large communal barracks.

	When a small group of ~~cogless Transformers—~~[[Optimus Prime (One)\|Orion Pax]], [[Megatron (One)\|D-16]], [[Elita-1 (One)\|Elita-1]], and [[Bumblebee (One)\|B-127]]—discovered [[Alpha Trion]] in [[Mouth of Unicron\|the grave of the Primes]], Trion revealed that the circumstances of their birth were a lie, and that Sentinel had actually removed their transformation cogs before they came online. However, Trion also bequeathed them four of the original transformation cogs from the Primes, which caused them to spontaneously grow into stronger forms capable of transformation.		When a small group of cogless—[[Optimus Prime (One)\|Orion Pax]], [[Megatron (One)\|D-16]], [[Elita-1 (One)\|Elita-1]], and [[Bumblebee (One)\|B-127]]—discovered [[Alpha Trion]] in [[Mouth of Unicron\|the grave of the Primes]], Trion revealed that the circumstances of their birth were a lie, and that Sentinel had actually removed their transformation cogs before they came online. However, Trion also bequeathed them four of the original transformation cogs from the Primes, which caused them to spontaneously grow into stronger forms capable of transformation.

	During the subsequent battle to overthrow Sentinel Prime, Orion roused many of his former cogless comrades to action, who battled Sentinel Prime's [[Tracker]]s using their jet packs and mining equipment. After Orion Pax—now Optimus Prime—received the Matrix of Leadership, the cogless 'bots all received transformation cogs of their own; the caste was presumably abolished in favor of the newly autonomous "[[Autobot]]s". {{storylink\|Transformers One (film)\|One}}		During the subsequent battle to overthrow Sentinel Prime, Orion roused many of his former cogless comrades to action, who battled Sentinel Prime's [[Tracker]]s using their jet packs and mining equipment. After Orion Pax—now Optimus Prime—received the Matrix of Leadership, the cogless 'bots all received transformation cogs of their own; the caste was presumably abolished in favor of the newly autonomous "[[Autobot]]s". {{storylink\|Transformers One (film)\|One}}
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	[[File:TFOneCoglessMinersConceptArt.jpg\|thumb\|right\|250px\|Minin' away/I don't know what to mine/I'll mine this anyway]]		[[File:TFOneCoglessMinersConceptArt.jpg\|thumb\|right\|250px\|Minin' away/I don't know what to mine/I'll mine this anyway]]
	*Many of the Cogless [[generic]]s have color schemes that evoke existing Transformers characters: a yellow, black and red [[Jazz (One)\|Jazz]] resembles [[Jackpot (G1)\|Jackpot]], an orange and purple [[Moonracer (One)\|Moonracer]] resembles [[Lancer]], a recolor of "[[Not Chromia]]" seems to be based on [[Greenlight]], a ''different'' Not Chromia could be [[Lug (IDW)\|Lug]], a blue [[Sideswipe (One)\|Sideswipe]] looks like [[Deep Cover#War for Cybertron Trilogy\|''War for Cybertron Trilogy'' Deep Cover]], an orange and pink [[Arcee (One)\|Arcee]] resembles [[:File:G1ArceeProto.jpg\|her cancelled prototype from the original toyline]] and a white-and-blue [[Brawn (One)\|Brawn]] seems intended to evoke [[Twin Twist (G1)\|Twin Twist]]. A [[Barricade (IDW)\|purple-crested, gold-faced]] [[Prowl (One)\|Prowl]] can also be seen in the crowd during Orion's big speech. Since none of these characters have been officially named (and they all appear multiple times across the same scenes, though the same is also true of most of the named Cogless), we're considering these to be [[homage]]s rather than actual appearances of these characters.		*Many of the Cogless [[generic]]s have color schemes that evoke existing Transformers characters: a yellow, black and red [[Jazz (One)\|Jazz]] resembles [[Jackpot (G1)\|Jackpot]], an orange and purple [[Moonracer (One)\|Moonracer]] resembles [[Lancer]], a recolor of "[[Not Chromia]]" seems to be based on [[Greenlight]], a ''different'' Not Chromia could be [[Lug (IDW)\|Lug]], a blue [[Sideswipe (One)\|Sideswipe]] looks like [[Deep Cover#War for Cybertron Trilogy\|''War for Cybertron Trilogy'' Deep Cover]], an orange and pink [[Arcee (One)\|Arcee]] resembles [[:File:G1ArceeProto.jpg\|her cancelled prototype from the original toyline]] and a white-and-blue [[Brawn (One)\|Brawn]] seems intended to evoke [[Twin Twist (G1)\|Twin Twist]]. A [[Barricade (IDW)\|purple-crested, gold-faced]] [[Prowl (One)\|Prowl]] can also be seen in the crowd during Orion's big speech. Since none of these characters have been officially named (and they all appear multiple times across the same scenes, though the same is also true of most of the named Cogless), we're considering these to be [[homage]]s rather than actual appearances of these characters.
			*The ''[[Transformers One Sourcebook]]'' for the [[Transformers Roleplaying Game]] distinguishes the cogless from the Transformers—that is, Cybertronians capable of transforming—by referring to them simply as '''Bots'''.

	==See also==		==See also==

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	Cogless Transformers were created at some point after [[Sentinel Prime (One)\|Sentinel Prime]] took office after he allied with the Quintessons, deposed the [[Thirteen\|Primes]] and lost the [[Matrix of Leadership]]. Without free access to [[energon]], Sentinel began removing the transformation cogs from newborn Transformers and press-ganged them into a life of manual labor, and successfully convinced the citizens of Cybertron into believing that they had simply been born without transformation cogs. Over the next fifty cycles, Cogless laborers came to fill many low-ranking positions in Cybertronian society such as sanitation work, but the most important job of all was mining whatever usable veins of energon remained from the Cybertronian strata: under Sentinel Prime's leadership, most of that energon was funneled away to appease his Quintesson masters, leaving little for the people of Cybertron. Despite the long hours and extremely dangerous working conditions, miners received little respect from the other citizens of [[Iacon (polity)\|Iacon]]. When not mining energon, miners lived together in a large communal barracks.		Cogless Transformers were created at some point after [[Sentinel Prime (One)\|Sentinel Prime]] took office after he allied with the Quintessons, deposed the [[Thirteen\|Primes]] and lost the [[Matrix of Leadership]]. Without free access to [[energon]], Sentinel began removing the transformation cogs from newborn Transformers and press-ganged them into a life of manual labor, and successfully convinced the citizens of Cybertron into believing that they had simply been born without transformation cogs. Over the next fifty cycles, Cogless laborers came to fill many low-ranking positions in Cybertronian society such as sanitation work, but the most important job of all was mining whatever usable veins of energon remained from the Cybertronian strata: under Sentinel Prime's leadership, most of that energon was funneled away to appease his Quintesson masters, leaving little for the people of Cybertron. Despite the long hours and extremely dangerous working conditions, miners received little respect from the other citizens of [[Iacon (polity)\|Iacon]]. When not mining energon, miners lived together in a large communal barracks.

	When a small group of cogless Transformers—[[Optimus Prime (One)\|Orion Pax]], [[Megatron (One)\|D-16]], [[Elita-1 (One)\|Elita-1]], and [[Bumblebee (One)\|B-127]]—discovered [[~~Alpha Trion (One)\|~~Alpha Trion]] in [[Mouth of Unicron\|the grave of the Primes]], Trion revealed that the circumstances of their birth were a lie, and that Sentinel had actually removed their transformation cogs before they came online. However, Trion also bequeathed them four of the original transformation cogs from the Primes, which caused them to spontaneously grow into stronger forms capable of transformation.		When a small group of cogless Transformers—[[Optimus Prime (One)\|Orion Pax]], [[Megatron (One)\|D-16]], [[Elita-1 (One)\|Elita-1]], and [[Bumblebee (One)\|B-127]]—discovered [[Alpha Trion]] in [[Mouth of Unicron\|the grave of the Primes]], Trion revealed that the circumstances of their birth were a lie, and that Sentinel had actually removed their transformation cogs before they came online. However, Trion also bequeathed them four of the original transformation cogs from the Primes, which caused them to spontaneously grow into stronger forms capable of transformation.

	During the subsequent battle to overthrow Sentinel Prime, Orion roused many of his former cogless comrades to action, who battled Sentinel Prime's [[Tracker]]s using their jet packs and mining equipment. After Orion Pax—now Optimus Prime—received the Matrix of Leadership, the cogless 'bots all received transformation cogs of their own; the caste was presumably abolished in favor of the newly autonomous "[[Autobot]]s". {{storylink\|Transformers One (film)\|One}}		During the subsequent battle to overthrow Sentinel Prime, Orion roused many of his former cogless comrades to action, who battled Sentinel Prime's [[Tracker]]s using their jet packs and mining equipment. After Orion Pax—now Optimus Prime—received the Matrix of Leadership, the cogless 'bots all received transformation cogs of their own; the caste was presumably abolished in favor of the newly autonomous "[[Autobot]]s". {{storylink\|Transformers One (film)\|One}}