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| :''The Magnificence is an artifact from the [[IDW continuity|IDW]] portion of the [[Generation 1]] [[continuity family]]''
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| [[Image:SpotlightHotRod Magnificence.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Sometimes, you have a plot device, and some other times, you have THE Plot Device!]]
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| '''The Magnificence''' is nothing less than a complete database and map of the known universe, and every exploitable resource within it. This coveted artifact is the ultimate Magic 8-Ball; any question posed to it will be granted an immediate and accurate answer. Just ''how'' this works remains a bit of a mystery.
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| ==Fiction==
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| ===IDW comics continuity===
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| {{ongoing}}
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| The Magnificence once resided on the ruins of the [[Omega Bunker]] on the silicon steppes of the world of [[Ki-Aleta]]. While within the bunker, it was kept safe by the fearsome [[Omega Guardian]]s, but apparently not safe enough. The Guardians, the bunker, and the artifact itself were built by an unknown ancient race.
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| A team of Autobots led by [[Hot Rod (G1)|Hot Rod]] sought out the Magnificence to keep it out of Decepticon hands. The team managed to decoy the Omega Guardians successfully with holograms and automated gun systems. However, sabotage from the Autobot known as [[Doubledealer|Dealer]] led to the decoy system failing and the majority of the team being slaughtered by the Guardians. Dealer was unable to procure the Magnificence, though, as Hot Rod made good his escape and hid the artifact in parts unknown. {{storylink|Spotlight: Hot Rod}}
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| After extended urging from Dealer, Hot Rod sought out the Magnificence from where he had hidden it. This turned out to be Ki-Aleta, much to Dealer's surprise. High atop a rock formation surrounded by ionized clouds, it was inaccessible to mechanical life forms save by making the treacherous climb up the rock face itself. Upon retrieving it, Hot Rod demonstrated that it was not only a chronicle of old information, but new information as well. Using it to reveal Dealer's treachery, he then queried it as to the details of the [[Expansion]]. {{storylink|Spotlight: Doubledealer}}
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| ==Trivia==
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| * The Magnificence has a superficial resemblance (including coloration) to the [[Pearl of Bahoudin]] from the [[1985]] ''[[The Transformers (cartoon)|The Transformers]]'' episode "[[Trans-Europe Express]]".
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| * [http://forum.idwpublishing.com/viewtopic.php?t=5032 In a Q&A], Simon Furman said he originally intended to show that using the Magnificence had a price: "the information or what information precipitates mostly turns out to be a poisoned chalice... there was going to be a Hot Rod payoff, in which he goes well and truly through the wringer as a consequence of his mining of the Magnificence". Due to the revised (and shorter) nature of ''[[Revelation (IDW)|Revelation]]'', this subplot was dropped, though Hot Rod ''did'' go through the wringer in ''[[Maximum Dinobots]],'' but for different [[Scorponok (G1)|reasons]].
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| * In the same Q&A, he said he considered making the Magnificence a [[Quintesson]] artifact but changed his mind.
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| [[Category:MacGuffins]]
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