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==Notes==
==Notes==
*[[Vector Prime]]'s sword, known as "[[Rhisling]]" in his bio in the [[Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 5|Club magazine]], was called "Cyber Caliber" in the instructions for his toy.
*"Cyber Caliber" was once believed to be an obscure alternate name for ''[[Transformers: Cybertron (franchise)|Cybertron]]''-era [[Vector Prime]]'s sword, "[[Rhisling]]".<ref>Previous revisions of the [[Rhisling]] page on {{SITENAME SHORT}} reported this fact variously citing instruction sheets or Japanese sources.</ref> That may have been true, but if so, the source of the source of the information currently remains lost to the fog of time—or vanishing online content.
* Before anyone gets technical on us, yes, we know it's supposed to be spelled "Calib'''u'''r" after Excalibur, as "caliber" is used for the diameter of a gun barrel. But that's the spelling Hasbro uses, so there's nothing we can do about it.
*The name may have been originally inspired by the famous fictional sword, Excalibur. If the original source of the name was Japanese, the English spelling of "Cyber Caliber" (as opposed to "Cyber Calib'''u'''r") may have come down to a transliteration choice.
*The name of this sword from ''Exiles'' is presumably an homage Vector Prime's sword, which, as stated above, may or may not have actually been called "Cyber Caliber".
 
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[[Category:Artifacts of the Primes]]
[[Category:Artifacts of the Primes]]
[[Category:Prime weapons]]
[[Category:Prime weapons]]

Revision as of 13:36, 16 May 2013

The Cyber Caliber is one of the relics of Thirteen. It is a large, powerful, and exceedingly sharp sword, and it is powerful enough that Nexus Prime was willing to sacrifice himself as to ensure its safety.

Fiction

Exiles

The Cyber Caliber was created by Solus Prime. After the defeat of Liege Maximo, Nexus Prime took custody of the relic and decided it must be hidden away till it could not be done without. He separated himself into five beings, each carrying and guarding a fragment of the Cyber Caliber. Much later, a newly reformed Nexus Prime granted it to Optimus Prime, who used it to fight Megatron to a standstill on the planet Junkion. After the Requiem Blaster was fired from the Nemesis, the Cyber Caliber had disappeared, blown away by the explosion. After the battle, each of the five Nexus Prime Transformers once again took a piece of the sword as they split up and headed out into space in different directions. Exiles

Notes

  • "Cyber Caliber" was once believed to be an obscure alternate name for Cybertron-era Vector Prime's sword, "Rhisling".<ref>Previous revisions of the Rhisling page on TFWiki.net reported this fact variously citing instruction sheets or Japanese sources.</ref> That may have been true, but if so, the source of the source of the information currently remains lost to the fog of time—or vanishing online content.
  • The name may have been originally inspired by the famous fictional sword, Excalibur. If the original source of the name was Japanese, the English spelling of "Cyber Caliber" (as opposed to "Cyber Calibur") may have come down to a transliteration choice.
  • The name of this sword from Exiles is presumably an homage Vector Prime's sword, which, as stated above, may or may not have actually been called "Cyber Caliber".

Footnotes

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