Regenesis
- Regenesis is a secret project from the IDW portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.
The Regenesis Program was created by Shockwave with the intent of seeding many planets with Energon-derived ores so that, in the distant future, he could harvest them.
The ores include:
- Ore-1, "Time", from LV-117, which allows travel through time
- Ore-2, "Death", from Gorlam Prime, which causes living matter to decay and die
- Ore-6, "Cold", from Arduria, which causes the cessation of thermodynamic processes
- Ore-7, "Change", possessed of transmutation properties
- Ore-8, "Destruction", from Tsiehshi, which manifests as radioactive and explosive crystals
- Ore-13, "Power Itself", from Earth, which boosts a Transformer's capabilities
- Ore-14, "Regeneration", from Cybertron and planted prior to the actual Regenesis program, which can resurrect cities and Transformers
In addition, if two or more of the ores are brought together, the synthesis can produce dramatic new effects, to say nothing of would might happen if all fourteen are united.
Fiction
IDW Generation 1 continuity
The first seed of what would later become the Regenesis program was created millions of years ago, in the Crystal City. Then, Shockwave was just Jhiaxus's understudy, working on a means to combat what he felt was the true threat facing Cybertron: lack of resources. However, the rampage of the newly created Monstructor made it seem that Shockwave's plan had failed, and the project was left in the ruins of the city.
However, the idea remained, and grew in Shockwave's mind. Many years later, Shockwave (now a Senator) hit upon the idea of making a new version of his original idea, and seeding distant worlds with energon. The idea remained even after Shockwave's very mind was violently altered by shadowplay, his punishment for speaking out against the status quo. And the nascent Decepticon movement granted him resources, intended to create another combined, but which Shockwave used to test his synthetic energon. Shockwaves
Shockwave initiated the Regenesis program over 600,000 years ago, dispatching thirteen rockets, each loaded with a different ore, to thirteen different planets scattered throughout space. Unknown to any but him at the time, Shockwave had not chosen the locations of the ores at random. They were in fact the resting places of the Thirteen and the Enigma of Combination. The Crucible As Shockwave had hoped, each ore had markedly different effects on the worlds they found their way to, with perhaps none stranger than that the first ore had on the planet LV-117. The very matter of the planet was mutated to the point of chronal instability, unhinging the entire world from the flow of linear time. Fortunately, after mastering the technology of the missile, LV-117's natives were able to develop a means of controlling their planet's voyages through the timestream. Syndromica (2) The second ore had detrimental effects on Gorlam Prime, causing the planet to fall under a state of "death" and creating a portal to the malevolent Dead Universe. Homecoming
Shockwave would discover the different fruits of his labors as he proceeded to visit the worlds he had attempted to seed in order to observe and, if necessary, control the Regenesis process. Arriving on the planet Arduria 500,000 years ago, he found that the ore that landed there had created a catastrophic loss of planetary heat that had proven fatal to the natives, but he considered it a learning experience nonetheless. Syndromica (1)
Ten thousand years ago, Shockwave arrived on the thirteenth world, prehistoric Earth, where the "Ore-13" brought by his rocket had successfully reacted with the local geology to the extent that the planet threatened to become so rich in Energon that its environment could become lethal to Transformers. Shockwave created global dampers that he then injected into the planetary crust to regulate the reaction, allowing the ore to safely develop into Ultra-Energon in the present day. Spotlight: Shockwave
At one point the titan Metroplex came into a sample of Ore-7. Wishing to take it from him, Shockwave sent an army of Ammonites to reclaim it, but he jettisoned it inside his thumb. As a result, the Ammonites tried killing him with a sample of Ore-2. The Becoming
In the present day, Jhiaxus and Bludgeon began a quest to seek out the other worlds that had been touched by Shockwave through Regenesis. Learning of their intent after a battle on Arduria, Orion Pax, Hardhead, Wheelie, and Garnak set out to stop them, pursuing them to their first objective on the LV-117. Syndromica (1) There, after a complicated journey through space and time, the Decepticons procured a control device from the natives that granted Jhiaxus power over the time-bending abilities of LV-117's soil. Syndromica (2) After that, they travelled to Gorlam Prime, where Ore-2 had remained inert. However, Jhiaxus used Waspinator to manipulate Orion Pax into awakening a Metrotitan that had slumbered beneath the planet. This is turn hastened Ore-2's effects, apparently destroying the planet. Homecoming
The titan, infused with Ore-2, travelled by Waspinator's command to Cybertron, where it and the ore inside reacted to the Ore-14 found in the Crystal City, becoming an undead monstrosity. Dark Dawn
