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It's | It's just another ordinary day on the ''[[Lost Light]]'': a swarm of long-dormant [[Nanocon]]s, hidden inside [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]]'s body for years, have suddenly become active again, and [[Brainstorm]] has shrunk [[Hot Rod (G1)|Rodimus]] and a team of [[Autobot]]s with his [[mass-displacement gun]] so they can enter Magnus's body and wipe them out. They are unable to stop the Nanocons before they reach Magnus's mouth, however, and at [[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]]'s direction, Magnus is forced to ''smile'' to crush them in his mouth-pistons and prevent their escape. Unfortunately for Magnus, this makes him a laughingstock aboard the ship, and he does not take it well. | ||
Once everyone is back at full size, preparations begin for the day's other big event: having passed his [[Autobot Code]] exam, [[Tailgate (G1)|Tailgate]] is getting his probationary Autobot [[insignia|badge]]. While [[Cyclonus (G1)|Cyclonus]] silently rebuffs an invitation to the [[Act of Affiliation]] ceremony, the other attendees deal with their own problems: [[Rewind (G1)|Rewind]] helps [[Chromedome (G1)|Chromedome]] through the shock of an inherited memory of death, [[Swerve (G1)|Swerve]] goes looking for [[Red Alert (G1)|Red Alert]] in the bowels of the ship and is horrified with the corpse of [[Ore]]—still enmeshed with the [[quantum generator]]s—begins talking to him, and [[Drift (G1)|Drift]] tries to convince Rodimus that he's saying "[['Til all are one]]" a bit too much. As Rodimus and Drift move to discussing their impending arrival on [[Theophany]], home of the [[Circle of Light]], Magnus enters, threatening to leave the ship over his mockery at the hands of the crew. Rodimus calms his down, and Magnus then voices his concern about their failure to make contact with the Circle of Light, despite Drift's assurances that the Circle can take care of themselves. | Once everyone is back at full size, preparations begin for the day's other big event: having passed his [[Autobot Code]] exam, [[Tailgate (G1)|Tailgate]] is getting his probationary Autobot [[insignia|badge]]. While [[Cyclonus (G1)|Cyclonus]] silently rebuffs an invitation to the [[Act of Affiliation]] ceremony, the other attendees deal with their own problems: [[Rewind (G1)|Rewind]] helps [[Chromedome (G1)|Chromedome]] through the shock of an inherited memory of death, [[Swerve (G1)|Swerve]] goes looking for [[Red Alert (G1)|Red Alert]] in the bowels of the ship and is horrified with the corpse of [[Ore]]—still enmeshed with the [[quantum generator]]s—begins talking to him, and [[Drift (G1)|Drift]] tries to convince Rodimus that he's saying "[['Til all are one]]" a bit too much. As Rodimus and Drift move to discussing their impending arrival on [[Theophany]], home of the [[Circle of Light]], Magnus enters, threatening to leave the ship over his mockery at the hands of the crew. Rodimus calms his down, and Magnus then voices his concern about their failure to make contact with the Circle of Light, despite Drift's assurances that the Circle can take care of themselves. | ||
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Tailgate's ceremony begins, with the audience members taking bets on how long it will take Rodimus to say "'Til all are one" (Brainstorm wins after five seconds). As Rodimus recounts his own Act of Affiliation, [[Skids (G1)|Skids]] notices that [[Ambulon]] is absent, and is inform by [[First Aid (G1)|First Aid]] that he is in the medibay, where a group of offline Autobots have suddenly reactivated and begun clutching their ears. And that's not the only strange thing going on: as Rodimus bends to draw Tailgate's Autobot symbol onto his chest, he instead writes "Let me out" in [[Cybertronian languages#IDW comics continuity|Old Cybertronian]]. As he immediately has no memory of doing so, Drift suspects he was possessed by something, and Ratchet's attempts to be rational are drowned out by word coming through on the comm from Swerve of Ore's sudden return to life as well. [[Perceptor (G1)|Perceptor]] instructs Swerve to keep Ore calm, lest he panic and trigger the quantum generators, so the talkative little 'bot pretends to be [[Pipes (G1)|Pipes]] and confesses to Ore all his hopes, fears and disappointments, particularly the guilt he carries following his accidental shooting of [[Rung]]. | Tailgate's ceremony begins, with the audience members taking bets on how long it will take Rodimus to say "'Til all are one" (Brainstorm wins after five seconds). As Rodimus recounts his own Act of Affiliation, [[Skids (G1)|Skids]] notices that [[Ambulon]] is absent, and is inform by [[First Aid (G1)|First Aid]] that he is in the medibay, where a group of offline Autobots have suddenly reactivated and begun clutching their ears. And that's not the only strange thing going on: as Rodimus bends to draw Tailgate's Autobot symbol onto his chest, he instead writes "Let me out" in [[Cybertronian languages#IDW comics continuity|Old Cybertronian]]. As he immediately has no memory of doing so, Drift suspects he was possessed by something, and Ratchet's attempts to be rational are drowned out by word coming through on the comm from Swerve of Ore's sudden return to life as well. [[Perceptor (G1)|Perceptor]] instructs Swerve to keep Ore calm, lest he panic and trigger the quantum generators, so the talkative little 'bot pretends to be [[Pipes (G1)|Pipes]] and confesses to Ore all his hopes, fears and disappointments, particularly the guilt he carries following his accidental shooting of [[Rung]]. | ||
As if things weren't bad enough, the ''Lost Light'' is then hailed by [[K'Gard|Captain K'Gard]] of the ''[[The Benign Intervention]]'', an enforcer of the [[Galactic Council]], who informs the Autobots that, as members of a race blacklisted from the council for their war, they are trespassing in one of their sectors. K'Gard shocks the Autobots by revealing that the Circle of Light have disappeared from Theophany, and Ultra Magnus—known and respected by the captain—is able to provide legal precedent that grants the Autobots an hour to investigate. Without discussion, K'Gard teleports | As if things weren't bad enough, the ''Lost Light'' is then hailed by [[K'Gard|Captain K'Gard]] of the ''[[The Benign Intervention]]'', an enforcer of the [[Galactic Council]], who informs the Autobots that, as members of a race blacklisted from the council for their war, they are trespassing in one of their sectors. K'Gard shocks the Autobots by revealing that the Circle of Light have disappeared from Theophany, and Ultra Magnus—known and respected by the captain—is able to provide legal precedent that grants the Autobots an hour to investigate. Without discussion, K'Gard teleports Rodimus and a team down to the planet's surface, where they discover [[Crystal City]] in ruins. Drift, having maintained an unrelentingly positive attitude about everything up until now, finally begins to crack and furiously stabs the ground with his [[Great Sword]]... causing a subsidence that dumps the Autobots into an underground cavern below Crystal City. Simultaneously, K'Gard brings Magnus to ''The Benign Inverntion'' and extends him a surprising invitiation: to join the Galactic Council! | ||
===3: Epiphanies=== | ===3: Epiphanies=== | ||
Below Crystal City, Rodimus and his team discover that the Circle of Light have been powering their city with a [[Metrotitan (body-type)|Metrotitan]], one of the living city-ships of the [[Knights of Cybertron]], and they promptly venture inside its gigantic body, straight to its brain. Musing that he used to pray in the shadow of Metrotitans, Cyclonus is convinced by Rewind to recount the "Primal Sacrament," the Transformers' creation myth, and so tells the tale of the [[Guiding Hand]]: how the creator-god [[Primus]] split his life-force into five, creating [[Mortilus]], embodiment of death, [[Solomus]], of wisdom, [[Epistemus]], of knowledge, and [[Adaptus]], of [[transformation]]. Following their creation of the Transformer race, Mortilus turned on the rest of the Guiding Hand and was destroyed after a brutal, costly war that saw Primus required to merge with [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] itself to survive, while Solomus became the [[Matrix of Leadership|Creation Matrix]], and Epistemus and Adaptus became the prototypical [[brain module]] and [[transformation cog]] that would be the basis of all others. The first Cybertronians blessed with these traits were the Knights of Cybertron, who set out to spread their gifts across the universe aboard their Metrotitans. Ratchet's complete dismissal of the story as utter nonsense finally brings him and Drift to blows, but before things get physical, Rodimus separates to the two and takes Drift for a walk, on which Drift confides that he knows Rodimus is going to be very important in the future. | |||
Chromedome, meanwhile, is instructed to tap into the Metrotitan's brain and find out what happened to the Circle of Light. And find out he does—Crystal City was razed by [[Legislator]]s—but far more distressing is the revelation that the Metrotitan is still alive, and psychically screaming in terrible pain, having heard the call to return to the reformatted Cybertron but lacking the power to teleport its colossal bulk. A destructive beam bursts from the tortured titan's eyes, shooting up into space and clipping ''The Benign Intervention'', prompting a furious K'Gard to cry treachery, return Magnus to the ''Lost Light'' and encase the ship in an incineration shield, and teleport a squad of troopers down to Theophany to finish the Autobots off. The troopers arrive just as Skids is realizing that the Metrotitan's psychic scream is responsible for all the recent weirdness—the offline Autobots and Nanocons reactivating, Rodimus's "possession"—and Drift and Rewind try to stop Chromedome re-entering its brain in the pursuit of proof of God, and battle breaks out. Believing the destruction of the ''Lost Light'' assured, Magnus contacts Rodimus to say farewell, but Rodimus has an idea and has Swerve put on the line. He instructs Swerve to put Ore into a panic, hoping that doing so will jump-start the quantum drives and teleport the ship away to safety, but after Rung, and the long discussion he has had about life and death with the revived [[Duobot]], Swerve refuses on the basis that Ore may die. With no options left and no guarantee of their own safety, Rodimus acquiesces to Brainstorm's original suggestion: shrink the Metrotitan with his mass-displacement gun in order to make him small enough to teleport away. The gun flares, and everything goes white... | |||
It's just another ordinary day on the ''Lost Light''. After the Metrotitan shrank to a small enough size, it teleport away, sending the Autobots back to the ''Lost Light'' and taking the psychically-linked Ore with it, in turn triggering the quantum drives and sending the ship to a safe distance away from the council. Or to hear Swerve tell it, the Autobots' act of kindness restored the Metrotitan's faith in them, and he sent them all to safety. Whatever the case, the mystery of what happened to the Circle of Light remains, and the ''Lost Light'' sets course for the [[Argon Nebulae]] to investigate a possible Decepticon lead. The universe is too hostile for Rodimus to wing it anymore. | |||
Back aboard ''The Benign Intervention'', Captain K'Gard reports to his superior officer. Having learned from Magnus that the Autobots are split between Cybertron and the ''Lost Light'', he proposes a "regime change", but sadly relates that Magnus turned down his offer to join the council. When he warned Magnus that staying with the ''Lost Light'' crew would only change him into something he was not, Magnus had nothing to say... he just smiled. | |||
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| "Primus: You, Me, and Other Revelations" | |||||||||||||
| Publisher | IDW Publishing | ||||||||||||
| First published | September 12, 2012 | ||||||||||||
| Cover date | August 2012 | ||||||||||||
| Written by | James Roberts | ||||||||||||
| Art by | Jimbo Salgado & Emil Cabaltierra | ||||||||||||
| Flashback art by | Guido Guidi | ||||||||||||
| Color by | Juan Fernandez with Joana Lafuente | ||||||||||||
| Letters by | Chris Mowry | ||||||||||||
| Editor | John Barber | ||||||||||||
| Continuity | IDW continuity | ||||||||||||
| Chronology | Current era (2012) | ||||||||||||
The dead rise, Ultra Magnus smiles, and everything you know is wrong!
Synopsis
1: Signs and Portents
It's just another ordinary day on the Lost Light: a swarm of long-dormant Nanocons, hidden inside Ultra Magnus's body for years, have suddenly become active again, and Brainstorm has shrunk Rodimus and a team of Autobots with his mass-displacement gun so they can enter Magnus's body and wipe them out. They are unable to stop the Nanocons before they reach Magnus's mouth, however, and at Ratchet's direction, Magnus is forced to smile to crush them in his mouth-pistons and prevent their escape. Unfortunately for Magnus, this makes him a laughingstock aboard the ship, and he does not take it well.
Once everyone is back at full size, preparations begin for the day's other big event: having passed his Autobot Code exam, Tailgate is getting his probationary Autobot badge. While Cyclonus silently rebuffs an invitation to the Act of Affiliation ceremony, the other attendees deal with their own problems: Rewind helps Chromedome through the shock of an inherited memory of death, Swerve goes looking for Red Alert in the bowels of the ship and is horrified with the corpse of Ore—still enmeshed with the quantum generators—begins talking to him, and Drift tries to convince Rodimus that he's saying "'Til all are one" a bit too much. As Rodimus and Drift move to discussing their impending arrival on Theophany, home of the Circle of Light, Magnus enters, threatening to leave the ship over his mockery at the hands of the crew. Rodimus calms his down, and Magnus then voices his concern about their failure to make contact with the Circle of Light, despite Drift's assurances that the Circle can take care of themselves.
2: Sacraments and Ceremonies
Tailgate's ceremony begins, with the audience members taking bets on how long it will take Rodimus to say "'Til all are one" (Brainstorm wins after five seconds). As Rodimus recounts his own Act of Affiliation, Skids notices that Ambulon is absent, and is inform by First Aid that he is in the medibay, where a group of offline Autobots have suddenly reactivated and begun clutching their ears. And that's not the only strange thing going on: as Rodimus bends to draw Tailgate's Autobot symbol onto his chest, he instead writes "Let me out" in Old Cybertronian. As he immediately has no memory of doing so, Drift suspects he was possessed by something, and Ratchet's attempts to be rational are drowned out by word coming through on the comm from Swerve of Ore's sudden return to life as well. Perceptor instructs Swerve to keep Ore calm, lest he panic and trigger the quantum generators, so the talkative little 'bot pretends to be Pipes and confesses to Ore all his hopes, fears and disappointments, particularly the guilt he carries following his accidental shooting of Rung.
As if things weren't bad enough, the Lost Light is then hailed by Captain K'Gard of the The Benign Intervention, an enforcer of the Galactic Council, who informs the Autobots that, as members of a race blacklisted from the council for their war, they are trespassing in one of their sectors. K'Gard shocks the Autobots by revealing that the Circle of Light have disappeared from Theophany, and Ultra Magnus—known and respected by the captain—is able to provide legal precedent that grants the Autobots an hour to investigate. Without discussion, K'Gard teleports Rodimus and a team down to the planet's surface, where they discover Crystal City in ruins. Drift, having maintained an unrelentingly positive attitude about everything up until now, finally begins to crack and furiously stabs the ground with his Great Sword... causing a subsidence that dumps the Autobots into an underground cavern below Crystal City. Simultaneously, K'Gard brings Magnus to The Benign Inverntion and extends him a surprising invitiation: to join the Galactic Council!
3: Epiphanies
Below Crystal City, Rodimus and his team discover that the Circle of Light have been powering their city with a Metrotitan, one of the living city-ships of the Knights of Cybertron, and they promptly venture inside its gigantic body, straight to its brain. Musing that he used to pray in the shadow of Metrotitans, Cyclonus is convinced by Rewind to recount the "Primal Sacrament," the Transformers' creation myth, and so tells the tale of the Guiding Hand: how the creator-god Primus split his life-force into five, creating Mortilus, embodiment of death, Solomus, of wisdom, Epistemus, of knowledge, and Adaptus, of transformation. Following their creation of the Transformer race, Mortilus turned on the rest of the Guiding Hand and was destroyed after a brutal, costly war that saw Primus required to merge with Cybertron itself to survive, while Solomus became the Creation Matrix, and Epistemus and Adaptus became the prototypical brain module and transformation cog that would be the basis of all others. The first Cybertronians blessed with these traits were the Knights of Cybertron, who set out to spread their gifts across the universe aboard their Metrotitans. Ratchet's complete dismissal of the story as utter nonsense finally brings him and Drift to blows, but before things get physical, Rodimus separates to the two and takes Drift for a walk, on which Drift confides that he knows Rodimus is going to be very important in the future.
Chromedome, meanwhile, is instructed to tap into the Metrotitan's brain and find out what happened to the Circle of Light. And find out he does—Crystal City was razed by Legislators—but far more distressing is the revelation that the Metrotitan is still alive, and psychically screaming in terrible pain, having heard the call to return to the reformatted Cybertron but lacking the power to teleport its colossal bulk. A destructive beam bursts from the tortured titan's eyes, shooting up into space and clipping The Benign Intervention, prompting a furious K'Gard to cry treachery, return Magnus to the Lost Light and encase the ship in an incineration shield, and teleport a squad of troopers down to Theophany to finish the Autobots off. The troopers arrive just as Skids is realizing that the Metrotitan's psychic scream is responsible for all the recent weirdness—the offline Autobots and Nanocons reactivating, Rodimus's "possession"—and Drift and Rewind try to stop Chromedome re-entering its brain in the pursuit of proof of God, and battle breaks out. Believing the destruction of the Lost Light assured, Magnus contacts Rodimus to say farewell, but Rodimus has an idea and has Swerve put on the line. He instructs Swerve to put Ore into a panic, hoping that doing so will jump-start the quantum drives and teleport the ship away to safety, but after Rung, and the long discussion he has had about life and death with the revived Duobot, Swerve refuses on the basis that Ore may die. With no options left and no guarantee of their own safety, Rodimus acquiesces to Brainstorm's original suggestion: shrink the Metrotitan with his mass-displacement gun in order to make him small enough to teleport away. The gun flares, and everything goes white...
It's just another ordinary day on the Lost Light. After the Metrotitan shrank to a small enough size, it teleport away, sending the Autobots back to the Lost Light and taking the psychically-linked Ore with it, in turn triggering the quantum drives and sending the ship to a safe distance away from the council. Or to hear Swerve tell it, the Autobots' act of kindness restored the Metrotitan's faith in them, and he sent them all to safety. Whatever the case, the mystery of what happened to the Circle of Light remains, and the Lost Light sets course for the Argon Nebulae to investigate a possible Decepticon lead. The universe is too hostile for Rodimus to wing it anymore.
Back aboard The Benign Intervention, Captain K'Gard reports to his superior officer. Having learned from Magnus that the Autobots are split between Cybertron and the Lost Light, he proposes a "regime change", but sadly relates that Magnus turned down his offer to join the council. When he warned Magnus that staying with the Lost Light crew would only change him into something he was not, Magnus had nothing to say... he just smiled.
Featured characters
(Characters in italic text appear only in flashbacks.)
(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
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Quotes
Notes
- This double-sized issue was released about 3 weeks late.
- Includes sketches of the Guiding Hand by Guido Guidi.
- This brings Ultra Magnus's lifetime smile count up to three.
Errors
- First Aid is erroneously colored as Swerve in the first panel on page 11.
- Skids is drawn with no left hand on page 15.
- Rewind appears to be flying in data slug mode at the top of page 18.[1]
- On the same page, Drift's entire body save for his head is colored entirely gray.
- Cyclonus sports green eyes on pages 20 and 21.
- Swerve appears on page 24 on the Metrotitan's face despite the fact that he's supposed to be talking to Ore on the Lost Light.
- Speaking of Swerve's appearance on page 24, the speech bubbles in that panel appear to be attributed to the wrong characters. Rodimus calls the team Crusadercons, a term Swerve came up with in issue 2 of MTMTE, and says that they're going on a Brain-Quest, which matches up with Swerve's love of quests. Swerve responds to the first of Rodimus's speech bubbles with hesitation.
- Tailgate is shown to be in the group that gets teleported to Theophany's surface, and is seen standing with Swerve on the Metrotitan's face. However, he's later shown to be still on the Lost Light with Ultra Magnus when the Metrotitan teleports everyone away.
- Blaster is erroneously colored pink with a purple head on page 31.
- Ratchet's hands are colored red on page 35.
Transformers references
- Nanocons were first mentioned in "Zero Point", where it was left ambiguous whether or not they really existed or were just figments of Roadbuster's imagination.
- Skyfall's death by drinking Gideon's Glue took place in the prose story "Bullets", also written by James Roberts, from the The Transformers: Last Stand of the Wreckers TPB & HC.
- During Cyclonus's story about Primus and the Guiding Hand, he stops to ask Rewind a question when he's about to name Primus's "opposite." He never does give the name, but we can guess who it might be; a certain chaos-bringer is keeping up his track record of not being mentioned by name in IDW continuity thus far.
Real-world references
- Drift's lengthy list of the virtues of Crystal City's denizens, and inability to give a similar list for his own crew, tailing off with "...and us with our... with our...", leading to his crewmates' put down is very similar to an exchange in the UK sci-fi comedy Red Dwarf VI episode "Legion".
Crew manifest
- Ore briefly returns to life before being teleported away with the Metrotitan.
- Swerve is having trouble locating Red Alert, who said his "last words" in Rules of Disengagement.
- Although Hyperion and Polaris were the only casualties, First Aid confirms that several Autobot sucked out of the ship in How to Say Goodbye and Mean It are off-line and in the medical bay.
Covers (3)
- Cover A: Hot Rod & co. look at the collapsed Metrotitan, by Tim Seeley
- Cover B: A fantail of pictures showing the cast with Crystal City at the centre, by Alex Milne
- Cover RI: Ultra Magnus, Rodimus, Ratchet and half a Metrotitan, linking with the Robots in Disguise Annual 2012 cover, by Jimbo Salgado
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Cover RI
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External links
References
- ↑ James Roberts: I'm afraid this is a misleading panel. Rewind can't fly in giant dataslug mode.
