Quintus Prime

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Quintus Prime is one of the Thirteen. The scientist of the group, Quintus possesses a mind second to none. His idealism and perfectionist tendencies means that he frequently butts heads with the less imaginative members of the Thirteen. Something of a daydreamer, Quintus believes that life, in all its forms, is the most important thing in the universe, and that life should be encouraged to grow and thrive at all costs throughout the galaxy. Accordingly, he wields the Emberstone, an artifact which can accelerate biological processes in base elements.

Fiction

Aligned continuity family

The Covenant of Primus

Quintus was the tenth Prime created by Primus to fight against Unicron. His artifact was the Emberstone, and he became one of the Strategists of the Thirteen, alongside Alpha Trion, Micronus Prime and Liege Maximo. After Unicron's defeat, Quintus drifted freely between the cliques formed in the group alongside Alchemist Prime and Optimus Prime.

After Maximo revealed that Prima had been plotting how likely each member of the Thirteen was to be corrupted by Unicron's presence, it came to light that Quintus had worked alongside Maximo and Megatronus to create new robot beasts – Prima was suspicious of these beasts and ordered the three to shut down their "Farm". A conflict broke out between the Thirteen over whether or not Maximo had the right to create new life – a conflict that eventually came to a head when Optimus demanded a full vote on the matter.

The vote came to a tie until Solus Prime voted against allowing Maximo to create new beasts. After Megatronus accidentally killed Solus, Quintus was among the members of the Thirteen that demanded that Megatronus be found and made to pay for his crime, but the group was surprised when Solus's dead body began to glow and melted an opening to the deep core of Primus, creating the Well of All Sparks. When Maximo was confronted at the Farm, Quintus refused to accept any personal responsibility for the beasts' creation. The Thirteen then proceeded to fight, their battle spilling into the caverns with the beasts.

With the Age of Primes over, Quintus went into space to seed life, hoping to create new races that might one day form peaceful alliances with Cybertron. His first stop was a metal-rich planet he named Quintessa. There, he created the first Quintessons, a manipulative, deceitful race which would become less than friendly with Primus's new creations. Alpha Trion wondered what became of him, and speculated that Quintus's own creations may have disposed of him when they no longer required him. The Covenant of Primus

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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

IDW Generation 1 continuity

Quintus was one of the Thirteen Primes who led the Thirteen Tribes that arose on Cybertron following the departure of the Knights of Cybertron. Lagrange The death of his brother Nexus Prime at the hands of Galvatron prompted all the remaining Primes except Alpha Trion to flee Cybertron. Eons later, Shockwave would send one his Regenesis ores to where he thought Quintus had gone. The Crucible

In the modern day, Quintus Prime's name was remembered in the Way of Flame, the religion of Solus Prime's colony Caminus. Lagrange

Notes

• Quintus Prime's name derives from, naturally, the Quintessons, his creations in the Aligned continuity family.
• It is implied that Quintus Prime may have also invented space bridge technology; the Quintessons are said to have reverse-engineered its incredibly advanced principles from a mysterious source, but they themselves did not fully understand how the device worked.