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:''The Venerable Ones are religious figures from the [[Generation 2 (franchise)|Generation 2]] portion of the [[Generation 1 continuity family]].''
:''The Venerable Ones are religious figures from the [[Generation 2 (franchise)|Generation 2]] portion of the [[Generation 1 continuity family]].''


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[[Image:Venerable Ones.jpg|right|thumb|350px|"What do you think about this, Villainus?"<br>"Nehhh! He-Man!"]]


The '''Venerable Ones''' are a group of minimally three [[Transformer clothing|cloaked]] [[Transformer]]s that fulfill some religious duty in [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertronian]] society. They're the kind of company that will utilize a lot of vague phrases to say they aren't going to be of the level of use you might have hoped them to be.  And there's invariably one of them lurking around in the background looking suspiciously evil.  What's up with that?
The '''"Venerable One[s]"''' are a group of minimally three [[Transformer clothing|cloaked]] [[Transformer]]s that fulfill some religious duty in [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertronian]] society. They're the kind of company that will utilize a lot of vague phrases to say they aren't going to be of the level of use you might have hoped them to be.  And there's invariably one of them lurking around in the background looking suspiciously evil.  What's up with that?


==Fiction==
==Fiction==
===Marvel ''Generation 2'' comics===
===Marvel ''Generation 2'' comics===
When [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Optimus Prime]] sought answers to his nightmares, he came to the Venerable Ones to gain access to the [[Matrix of Leadership|Creation Matrix]]. They set him up for an out-of-body experience, mumbled some ominous stuff that probably meant they already knew what was going on right before they triggered the ride, and lastly welcomed him back in reality. {{storylink|The Power and the Glory}}
The Venerable One's live in a subterrainean level of Cybertron.
 
While [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Optimus Prime]] went to them in order to gain access to the [[Matrix of Leadership|Creation Matrix]] and decipher his prophetic nightmares, it seems he never did this before and neither had anyone else: their way of accessing the Matrix had never been tested before. They set him up for an out-of-body experience, mumbled some ominous stuff that probably meant they already knew what was going on right before they triggered the ride, and lastly welcomed him back in reality. (There's a ''reason'' why nobody had sought them out for this before.)
 
Despite their occultic trappings, the Venerable Ones were using ''SCIENCE!'' to cause visions: the natural harmonics of the underground infrastructure's geometry would create a resonance in the Matrix, acting as a psychic amplifier. Optimus assures us that the science "sounds reasonable enough". {{storylink|The Power and the Glory}}
 
==Trivia==
 
"Venerable One" is what Optimus calls one of them. That could be their real name, it could not.


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Revision as of 00:14, 4 December 2011

The Venerable Ones are religious figures from the Generation 2 portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.
"What do you think about this, Villainus?"
"Nehhh! He-Man!"

The "Venerable One[s]" are a group of minimally three cloaked Transformers that fulfill some religious duty in Cybertronian society. They're the kind of company that will utilize a lot of vague phrases to say they aren't going to be of the level of use you might have hoped them to be. And there's invariably one of them lurking around in the background looking suspiciously evil. What's up with that?

Fiction

Marvel Generation 2 comics

The Venerable One's live in a subterrainean level of Cybertron.

While Optimus Prime went to them in order to gain access to the Creation Matrix and decipher his prophetic nightmares, it seems he never did this before and neither had anyone else: their way of accessing the Matrix had never been tested before. They set him up for an out-of-body experience, mumbled some ominous stuff that probably meant they already knew what was going on right before they triggered the ride, and lastly welcomed him back in reality. (There's a reason why nobody had sought them out for this before.)

Despite their occultic trappings, the Venerable Ones were using SCIENCE! to cause visions: the natural harmonics of the underground infrastructure's geometry would create a resonance in the Matrix, acting as a psychic amplifier. Optimus assures us that the science "sounds reasonable enough". The Power and the Glory

Trivia

"Venerable One" is what Optimus calls one of them. That could be their real name, it could not.