Adaptus

Adaptus is a deity from the IDW portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.

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Adaptus is a Transformer deity, believed to have "forged" the Cybertronians and given them the ability to transform. As such, the transformation cog is associated with him.

Worshippers of Adaptus specifically are called Adaptusians.

Fiction

IDW Generation 1 continuity

First appearance: The Transformers vol. 1 #23 (invoked); More than Meets the Eye Annual 2012 (depicted)

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Though legends would remember him as an immortal deity, Adaptus was a decidedly mortal robot, not so different from those that would come after him. The Unremembering Adaptus was ancient; as a member of the Guiding Hand, supposedly the first four Transformers to come into existence after the creation of their progenitor, Primus, he was created at the same time as Mortilus, Solomus, and Epistemus. Primus: You, Me, and Other Revelations This original quintet of Transformers would go on to ignite the hot spots that would propagate the Transformer species in ages to come, and this act would immortalize them as the creators of the Cybertronian race. The Unremembering Later generations would remember Adaptus as an agent of change; supposedly blessed with an "infinity" of shapes and sizes, he would introduce the art of transformation to Cybertron. Alongside the first generation of Transformers — the benevolent Knights of Cybertron, the Guiding Hand would supposedly shape much of early Transformer culture, to the point where later generations would remember this prehistoric era had been a paradise for both the body and spirit. Primus: You, Me, and Other Revelations

Ultimately, however, Adaptus would be the 'bot who brought about its downfall. Worried that their immortal, utopian society would only bring about stagnation and prevent the mechanical race from accessing the "higher realms," the way organic beings could, Adaptus sought to bring war to Cybertron and encouraged the Guiding Hand and their followers to strike out at other civilizations across the galaxy. The other members of the Guiding Hand refused to so, and so Adaptus turned on his own kind instead, bringing conflict to Cybertron for the first time. In the subsequent conflict, Adaptus was defeated and fled to a hidden base on Cybertron's first moon, readying a powerful electromagnetic pulse that would leave the inhabitants of Cybertron confused and disoriented while he made his escape. Adaptus's plan was a success: his ambitions gave rise to the neurological condition known as "information creep," while at the same time leaving the other four members of the Guiding Hand with no recollection of their origins, with Primus himself becoming a "compulsively forgettable" 'bot who would eventually take the name of "Rung."

With the population of Cybertron in no state to stop him, Adaptus was able to retrofit the moon with tri-thrusters; having cracked the secrets of interstellar travel, Adaptus discovered the network of subspace tunnels known as the Warren and piloted his impromptu starship into the breach. The Unremembering

Over the next few million years, the passage of time and rise of information creep would see the truth jumbled and blurred beneath layers of conflicting mythologies; the Guiding Hand were mistakenly deified as supernatural gods, and subsequent generations of Cybertronians would remember Mortilus, bringer of death, as the warlike god who had betrayed his comrades and sparked what they remembered as the "God War." The Unremembering Primus: You, Me, and Other Revelations In this garbled sequence of events, Adaptus was an innocent god who had taken up arms to defeat Mortilus, and in the process was "stripped bare," reduced to the first transformation cog. Though defeated, Adaptus passed the legacy of transformation to future generations of Cybertronians as his gift to them. Primus: You, Me, and Other Revelations Some religious sects came to believe that Forged Transformers, who were formed naturally from sparks that emerged from hot spots were associated with Adaptus. These forged Transformers possessed a natural fluidity of movement in their hands that made them ideal for precise, delicate work such as medicine, which was seen by some as proof of Adaptus's existence. Life After the Big Bang

A different group of Transformers became known as the Militant Monoform Movement, who symbolically rejected Adaptus by surgically removing their transformation cogs. Life After the Big Bang Some religious movements venerated Adaptus above all others, becoming known as "Adaptusians." Swerve was one such adherent. Twenty Plus One

The real Adaptus, meanwhile, still existed; having fled Cybertron aboard his retrofitted moon, he escaped through time and space, jumping forward millions of years into the Earth year 2016, where he witnessed a horrifying sight: a monstrous robot cast in the image of Primus laying waste to the Benzene Cluster. Using the Warren, Adaptus was able to jump backwards through time once more, where he began preparing for the arrival of the threat. Taking on the moniker "The Grand Architect," he built up a network of secret contacts, procuring sentio metallico in preparation of his ultimate goal: to "prepare, confront, [and] repel" the threat he had forseen. The Unremembering The Return of The King He used the gear-like hieroglyph that had once been his personal coat of arms as his personal insignia,which his closest troops wore on their bodies. Animals These troops were just as mysterious as the Architect himself; they were all unfamiliar to modern Cybertronians, their names unrevealed. Chasing the Infinite

Though unaffiliated with the faction, the Architect's men used Decepticon Worldsweeper ships to move around, and reorganized the missing "Phantom Fleet" into a flotilla of mobile laboratories and staging grounds for the Grand Architect's various campaigns. Despite their slow speed, the ships became synonymous with his forces in the present day for those in the know. Animals An Axe to Break the Ice

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Remembering a legend from his time that, if correctly positioned, Cybertron could reflect and channel light into a devastating beam of power, Adaptus reasoned that five Cybertrons would channel exponentially more, and set about gathering resources to build what he called the "God Gun," but with the real Cybertron ravaged by milions of years of war, Adaptus required a pristine Cybertron, and set about building a massive mold, a "negative" of Cybertron that he could use to recreate the planet five times over. Farsickness When the project was complete, Adaptus discarded the mold, which became known as the "Necroworld," and became home to the reclusive Mortilus, now a recluse known as the "Necrobot." The Not Knowing

Around the Earth year 2009, the Architect discovered criminal scientists Scorponok and Flame floating in space, following their escape from the Decepticon Justice Division. Declaring that the pair "belonged to him, now," the Architect brought them into his service. Kill All 'Cons The pair assumed high-ranking positions among his followers, helping to organize and co-ordinates his agents. An Axe to Break the Ice Chasing the Infinite These affiliates worked to create strange genetic experiments from sentio metallico supplied by blacksmiths: fusions between the organic and technological, including the hybrid Treecons The Ties That Bind and the multi-changing Infinites. Chasing the Infinite These bizarre creatures were early prototypes for the Grand Architect's main plan: in order to scour the Benzene cluster clear of life and give him the space to create his God Gun, he would deliberately introduce biomechanical sleeper agents into the robo-phobic Black Block Consortia, using them to provoke a war between the Consortia and the Galactic Council. Farsickness

The Grand Architect's experiments met with repeated failure. One facility on the planet Corritan had to be decommissioned, and while the pods from it were being transported to a new location, they became contaminated and the entire batch had to be abandoned. Chasing the Infinite Rules of Disengagement After the death of the Architect's agent Demus, it was decided that the lifeforms growing in the facility he was tending, on Tebris VII, would simply be aborted, rather than risk the greater delay that a repeated instance of contamination would incur. Animals This proved a wise decision, as the facility on the next-nearest planet to which they would have been moved, Fortuna, was also compromised under unrevealed circumstances. Chasing the Infinite

During a conflict on Luna One, Solomus — in his modern guise as "Chief Justice Tyrest" — attempted to open a spacebridge to the mythical "Cyberutopia." Instead, the spacebridge portal somehow opened into Adaptus's own mind, and when the Autobot Skids stepped through, he was greeted by a vision of the God Gun and the Grand Architect's own consciousness, who communicated with the amnesiac Autobot through a psychedelic medley of sensations. This Calamitous Life Farsickness Subsequently, Skids turned and left, and Adaptus, seeking a new body, attempted to drag him back... but instead found the body of Pharma, who had been grievously wounded. Adaptus took Pharma for his own, wearing the Autobot's body. Farsickness In time, Tyrest himself would come to join the Adaptus's forces, though he remained unaware of his storied past as Solomus. A Dance Before Dying

Eventually, the Catharsian Mengel, based on the planet Troja Major, reported that she had successfully used the ancient source of knowledge known as the Magnificence to bring one of the Architect's lifeforms to term—an "Infinite," able to transform into anything, and even heal itself back from death. With the successful birthing of one of these mechs, the Architect's plans moved into their final phase, and he gave the order to begin tying up loose ends. While Scorponok and his men were on Troja Major to collect the Infinite, a summons was sent out to all the blacksmiths he had previously employed, calling them to the planet so his troops could execute them. Anode, Lug, and Wipe-Out were able to evade his death squads, but could not stop the Architect's forces from acquiring the Infinite. An Axe to Break the Ice Chasing the Infinite

Around that time, the Lost Light arrived at Mederi, running into the Grand Architect's fleet of Worldsweepers. Getaway struck a deal with the Architect, claiming Rodimus and his ragtag team were coming to stop his plan, and that Getaway would stop them in exchange for a place at the table. In order to prove Getaway wasn't lying and to have a chance of stopping him, the GA had Scorponok turn all of the Lost Light crew into Sparkeaters. Lūstrāre

Soon enough, Benzene was cleared, the pathway sterilized, and the preparations for "The Drilling" began. As "the Beast" approached, the Grand Architect began summoning his generals to him. A Dance Before Dying Lūstrāre

The Functionist Universe

In a parallel timeline where the Great War never occurred, the Functionist Council venerated Adaptus above the other members of the Guiding Hand. Social engineering-based atrocities such as mass recalls were carried out in his name. The Custom-Made Now A World Misplaced

Under Functionist rule, Kalis was renamed "Adaptica" in honor of Adaptus and a statue of the god adorned the entrance to the city. A World Misplaced

Ask Vector Prime

In some universes, Adaptus was one of the Thirteen following the dissolution of the group as multiversal singularities. When the Thirteen spent time in Ancient Greece, Adaptus was fascinated by the ocean, and the holomatter avatar Adaptus used to interact with the human population wound up inspiring the legend of the god Poseidon. Vector wondered if his memory might live on in Sub-Atlantica. Ask Vector Prime, 2015/08/08

Following the breaking up of the Thirteen, Vector described how Adaptus and four of his other siblings retreated into the Realm of the Primes, while he underwent self-induced amnesia to keep hidden the location of the pieces of Nexus Prime. During a later battle between Vector—now believing himself an ordinary Transfomer—and Mogahn the Mass, Vector's consciousness transcended into the Realm of the Primes, where Adaptus and his siblings unlocked his memories of his past. Vector returned to normal space and wrested away Mogahn's Cyber Caliber, using a gift Adaptus had bestowed on him to reformat the blade into Rhisling, with which he vanquished Mogahn. When Vector recounted this event in his internet Q&A column, he casually remarked that Adaptus would later be called "Amalgamous", causing his readers to express confusion, since they understood Adaptus and Amalgamous Prime to be separate beings from different universes' versions of the Thirteen. The distressed Vector realized he was conflating the memories of two different universes, which ought to have been impossible. As such, it becomes hard to know whether Adaptus was truly part of those events or not. Ask Vector Prime, 2015/07/12

Beast Wars: Uprising

Adaptus was one of the gods worshipped by Builder and proto-former alike. His Cog was very special. Derailment

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Primus Solomus Epistemus Mortilus Adaptus