Codexa

Codexa is a Transformer from the 2019 IDW portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.

"You never call! You never write! You only come and visit when you need something! You have any idea how boring it is being stuck to a wall like this?"

Bonded to Cybertron itself, the Cybertronian known as Codexa is a wise sage, and a frequent advisor to Orion Pax when the Senator needs an ear. However, her long hibernation, combined with her decrepit physical form, has rendered her more than a little scatterbrained, prone to muddling details and forgetting the identities of her visitors.

Fiction

2019 IDW continuity

First appearance: Transformers #3

During the Age of Expansion, Codexa became head archivist of Cybertron. As the Titans frontlined Cybertron's colonial era, Codexa witnessed many of their feats, but took an increasingly dim view of how the Cybertronian race had encroached on other populated worlds in its never-ending quest for new sources of energy. The Change In Your Nature Part Five Codexa became the mentor to a young archivist named Orion Pax, and encouraged his development. They walked in the Light Garden at one point, where she told him to always remember Cybertron was a living world. Radical Time

During the War of the Threefold Spark, Codexa, Nominus Prime and the Great Generals attended Highbrow's briefing regarding Exarchon's altered physiology. Darkness, Once Gazed Upon: Part One

While other Transformers who had lived through the Expansion yearned for a return to the days of conquest and colonization, Codexa took a dim view of the past and published The Way We Were, by One Who Saw It, which argued that the Nominus Edict that had permanently curtailed Cybertron's expansionism would prove a net positive for the universe. The Change In Your Nature Part Five

I love you too, Mom.

At one point, Codexa sent Orion Pax to observe the opening of the great Winged Moon before the politicians arrived, and encouraged him to go further out and visit the colonies to expand his horizons. Orion Pax: Free Fall Four kilocycles later, He returned to Cybertron with stories of his travels. Codexa had once intended Orion to succeed her as head archivist, but she had long suspected he would serve in other ways. After his exploration, Orion Pax confirmed he now realized he felt the same way. Proxima would replace Codexa as head archivist, while Orion Pax would follow his old friend Megatron into the Senate, perhaps serving as a bridge between the Autobots and Megatron's new party, the Ascenticons. Meanwhile, Codexa planned to go immersant upon her retirement, sublimating into the very nature of Cybertron itself. End of Time

By the present day, Codexa had indeed retired, retreating to a secluded chamber beyond the outskirts of Iacon. While conflicted over the rise of Megatron and his Ascenticons, Orion sought out Codexa for advice, The World In Your Eyes Part Three though as he reminisced on his history with the Ascenticon leader he revealed that he had actually come to her to seek validation for his next move—a move that might send him down the path of no return. Codexa simply responded that the "single song" of a united Cybertron had begun to falter, a statement that Orion could only agree with. Orion Pax: Free Fall

When Orion Pax merged with the Matrix of Leadership, its Mediator software greeted him in the likeness of Codexa to put him at ease. Prime

When the Sea of Rust began to collapse, Codexa felt the planet-wide tremor, fearing what would become of Cybertron. Enigmatic

In the aftermath of the battle, Optimus Prime and Ultra Magnus went to visit Codexa, though Optimus was unsure if the voice was truly just his mentor's anymore, who managed to impart on the two that Exarchon had returned and claimed Ruckus as a new body. Darkness, Once Gazed Upon: Part One

The Matrix's Mediator program once again took Codexa's form during a vision warning Optimus Prime of Cybertron's imminent collapse. Radical Time