Solus Prime

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Among the Thirteen, Solus Prime is the Maker and creator. Among her friends she is much loved both for her abilities to forge nearly any device they need and for her intelligence and positive supportive personality. If she has any flaw it is a fierce and angry temper that quickly flares up at any sign of injustice. She finds joy in creation, which is why she's particularly close friends to Nexus Prime, Micronus Prime, and Onyx Prime who revel in similar pursuits. Her closest relationship however is to Megatronus. The two are bound by a close devoted romantic love unique among the Thirteen and spend much of their time online and off rejoicing in each other's presence. (The fact that both have quick fiery tempers surely won't cause issues down the road.)

All female Transformers are patterned from her template and thus are gifted with a similar processing architecture, which is the main differentiation between them and their male counterparts. Solus was once a multiversal singularity who existed as one being throughout all of space and time, but that is no longer the case.

Many of the arsenal of magnificent weaponry and icons wielded by the other original Transformers are her impressive handiwork, created by an icon of her own, the Forge of Solus Prime, aided by her unique cognitive systems specializing in wide ranging and powerful parallel processing, and manifesting in the holographic lattice known as the Creation Lathe. Her creations include:

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The Covenant of Primus

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The Covenant of Primus

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Near the dawn of time, while the Thirteen were struggling with the threat of Unicron, Megatronus commissioned Solus Prime to create a weapon of incredible destruction to use against the Chaos Bringer. Solus Prime had strong reservations, but after a long period of time managed to create the Requiem Blaster. She gathered the interested members of the Thirteen to witness a test of its powers, and leveled a mountain. She pointed out that power corrupts and worried that the existence of such a weapon could possibly lead to their own downfall. Ultimately, the Thirteen voted seven to six to keep the Requiem Blaster and not destroy it.

It was Solus Prime's sudden murder at the hands of the enraged Megatronus that caused the first major schism in the Thirteen. After Megatronus became The Fallen and was defeated by the remnants of the Thirteen, a tomb was fashioned for Solus Prime out of a meteor and set adrift in the stars, reachable only by a series of space bridges.

Countless years later, Optimus Prime came across Solus Prime's tomb while searching for a mystical artifact. A semi-sentient hologram of Solus Prime appeared and warned Optimus and his Autobots to leave. Solus Prime directed them towards a Space Bridge which would take them to the location of the lost Requiem Blaster. Exiles

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According to legend, at the beginning of time, Unicron and Primus battled each other for eons, with neither side remaining victorious for long. Till, that is, Primus created the Thirteen. These Thirteen defeated Unicron and cast him into space. One Shall Rise, Part 1 At some point statues of Solus Prime and the Thirteen were created and placed in the high council chamber. One Shall Rise, Part 3 In more recent times, her forge was among the artifacts sealed the Vaults of Iacon, and was later sent to Earth by Alpha Trion, where it was found and used by Optimus Prime and the Autobots. Operation Bumblebee, Part 2

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It was said that Solus Prime used the Matrix of Leadership to forge the Star Saber. Lagrange Nexus Prime claimed that Megatronus broke a promise to Solus Prime, which led to war between the Thirteen and their respective tribes. The war forced most of the Thirteen, including Solus Prime, to leave Cybertron. She resided on another planet, the location of which was later discovered by Shockwave. As with the other Primes, Shockwave sent one of his Regenesis ore to Solus's hiding place. The Crucible

Solus Prime was the central figure of the Caminus colony's religion, the Way of Flame. The Sparks of all Camiens are believed to partake of hers. The Sum and Its Parts

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Vector Prime shared many happy memories with his sister. When the Thirteen spent time in ancient Greece of some universal streams, the male holomatter avatar Solus used inspired/co-opted the myth of Hephaestus, blacksmith of the gods. Ask Vector Prime, 20/7/15 During this time, (s)he crafted the Aegis of Athena and the trident of Poseidon, and was "bonded" to Liege Maximo (who manifested as the female Venus) by Prima in hopes of quelling the animosity that had flared up between them. It didn't go so well; "Interesting times," Vector Prime recalls. Ask Vector Prime, 8/8/15 Vector also noted that there were universal streams where she was known as Solus Convoy. Ask Vector Prime, 24/6/15

As the original Cybertronian master forger, Solus created the Zeonomicon for Logos Prime Ask Vector Prime, 30/7/15 and the Terminus Blade for her siblings to cross dimensions in their campaign against Unicron, though the latter was soon rendered obsolete by technological advancement and carelessly discarded. Out of the One, Many

As Megatronus began acting for evil causes, his siblings among the Thirteen resolved to keep the all-powerful Star Saber out of his hands. To this end, Solus Prime used her forge to split the mighty blade into five pieces. Nexus Prime volunteered to split himself into five pieces to hide the five fragments across the multiverse. Ask Vector Prime, 18/5/15 Out of the One, Many The Origin Matrix, the most powerful fragment, was hidden on prehistoric Earth of Primax -408.24 Epsilon and time-locked by Vector Prime. Ask Vector Prime, 18/5/15

Vector Prime stated that Solus went on to be the first of the Thirteen to perish. However, this was at a time after the opening of the Uniend Cluster and soon before the Shroud, so it is uncertain whether Vector was referring to the Uniend or non-Uniend version(s) of Solus. Ask Vector Prime, 14/6/15

After escaping from the clutches of Sideways in Axiom Nexus, Vector Prime (deliberately playing up to the public image of himself as a doddering old fool) pretended to momentarily mistake his Axiom Nexus News colleague Andromeda for his sister Solus Prime. Rook - Axiom Nexus News: Investigative Journalist

When Nexus Prime united the Terminus Blade and the Star Saber, the other Thirteen were drawn to the event—including an expression of Solus's singularity that existed from a time before she had perished. Time and space were rewritten that day, as the walls between the multiverse grew stronger and less permeable. A consequence of strengthening the multiverse was that Solus Prime and the original Thirteen could no longer continue to exist as multiversal singularities, and so they were splintered and scattered throughout the multiverse. And so the one became many, sentient reoccurring themes each appearing in their own way, if at all, in all the worlds of the multiverse. Out of the One, Many

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Suns are capable of forging any raw element under the right conditions, so it's fitting that Solus Prime can forge anything from raw elements.
The explanation for the use of the 'she' pronoun for Solus, as detailed in her section of the Covenant, is that Cybertronians do not possess gender, but instead use pronouns as a result of a communication protocol designed to help factilitate dialogue between Cybertronians and the members of races who possess gender, as a means of recognizing and celebrating difference. This does not conflict with the Autobit regarding Arcee being an "exception", as the explanation does not preclude the possibility that a Cybertronian could voluntarily self-identify with a gender, merely that they do not inherently have a gender, female, male, or anything in-between.