Nominus Edict

Named after, possibly even passed by, Nominus Prime, the Nominus Edict is designed to ensure peace and stability for Cybertron and its people. In practice however, it seems more to stifle their potential and ambitions.

There are six known articles of the Edict:

• No further colonies will be established unless by unanimous agreement of the Senate.
• No Energon harvesting will be undertaken in sectors inhabited or claimed by other sentient life, or in sectors adjoining such sectors.
• Energon reserves stored on Cybertron or in the immediate system will at all times be maintained at a level sufficient to supply all foreseeable needs for ten kilocycles.
• The Senate will define a frequency of forgings that is consistent with the maintenance of such reserves.
• The Senate will define a level of Energon provision directly to all Cybertronians that is consistent with the maintenance of such Energon reserves.
• Non-integral weapons judged to possess lethal capability will be prohibited on Cybertron and its immediate system.

Fiction

IDW 2019 continuity

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The Nominus Edict was passed sometime after the war against the Threefold Spark as a way to keep the peace on the planet. Orion Pax: Free Fall According to Megatron, the passing of the Nominus Edict caused "hundreds" to be exiled while weapons were either destroyed or sealed away. In the name of preserving energon, not only was the precious substance hoarded to reduce the risk of shortages, but forgings were limited. The Edict also affected Cybertron's interstellar policies, restricting the development of new colonies so as to not antagonize alien races. The World In Your Eyes Part Five When the Winged Moon first came online, Megatron felt that the Edict had overstayed its welcome and now served only to keep the Cybertronian race trapped by their fear of the past. Orion Pax: Free Fall

At a rally in Tarn, Megatron heavily criticized the Edict, lamenting that it had led to their kind constricting their own multi-faceted nature and wasting Primus's gifts. The World In Your Eyes Part Two After an aborted lesson in alternate modes, Windblade explained to Rubble how rare a newborn was ever since the Edict had been passed, noting that such a law would only change if the Ascenticons got their way. The World In Your Eyes Part Three So rare had forgings become that Bumblebee could not recall the last time that two had happened within a hundred cycles of one another. The World In Your Eyes Part Four

Megatron gave another speech criticizing the Nominus Edict, opining it had caused a cascading effect that served only to limit their species, both at home and in space. The World In Your Eyes Part Five