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| :''Endspark is a cultural concept of death
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| [[Image:Tftm prowl blowsmoke.jpg|thumb|250px|Mmm... taste that carbon scoring!]]
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| '''Endspark''' is the moment when Transformer's lifeforce, its [[spark]], gutters and dies, leaving it truly and ''irrevocably'' dead. The term carries a connotation of a cold, atheistic view of the world<ref>[[Starscream (Movie)|Starscream]] makes several comments in <u>[[Ghosts of Yesterday]]</u> that fall on the 'scientific rationalist' end of the spectrum— including a belief that machine life arises from [[Atechnogenesis|natural evolution]] on p143.</ref> rather than any comforting cycle of reincarnation and return to a [[Primus|creator]].
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| When a spark is extinguished it leaves residual carbon scoring on the [[Structure|shell]]'s [[Laser core|spark core]], which can be detected to confirm actual death rather than spark removal. {{storylink|Revelations Part I: Discovery}}
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| {{quote|"Farewell Optimus Prime," [Starscream] whispered to himself. "Time for Endspark."|[[Starscream (Movie)|Starscream]]|[[Ghosts of Yesterday]] p280|style=2}}
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| Cybertronian theology holds that an extinguished spark does not truly go offline, it merely returns to the [[Well of All Sparks]]<ref><tt>"The sparks from each of these casualties of war returned to the source, reuinting with the essence of Primus in the Well of All Sparks at the planetary core."</tt><u>[[Transformers: The Ultimate Guide]]</u> <small>(1st ed.)</small> p11, "The Well of All Sparks"</ref>, where its experiences are added to the collective knowledge the Transformer race. ''As it happens the theology is right...''
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| ==See Also==
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| *[[Atechnogenesis]]
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| *[[Death]]
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| ==Footnotes==
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| <references/>
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| [[Category: Transformer culture]]
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