Power Core Combination
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Power Core Combination is a technology that allows Transformers to combine with Mini-Cons or drone teams. Introduced into the modern day through a joint effort between Autobots and humankind and subsequently stolen by Decepticons, the increased spread of the technology's use has seen both factions upgrade many of their existing troops to be able to use the technology with great success.
Fiction
Live-action film series
Power Core Combination is an ancient technology lost in the early stages of the war on Cybertron. Transformers who had a potential for combination known as "Proto-Combiners" were doomed to two unsavory options: either live with a permanent sense of incompleteness or submit to the horrifying Gestalt Process. The Process was the Decepticons' substandard attempt at re-creating Power Core technology and they succeeded in their physical aim but destroyed the minds of the participants. The monstrous Devastator was a prime example. The Autobots made more careful attempts but still inflicted mental damage. Proto-Combiners who abstained and tried to live as individuals may have spared their own sanity but were still pitied in larger Cybertronian society.
All of this changed, however when the Matrix's database was recovered by the Autobots and with human assistance the Power Core process was at last rediscovered. It facilitated perfect symbiosis between a Commander and his Mini-Con, not only enhancing attributes of both but also creating a mysterious bond of shared perception. With training a Commander might graduate to having sets of drones to control. This bond was as perfect as with Mini-Cons but rather than two minds working together allowed the Commander to upload his own personality engrams into drones and effectively be in multiple places at once. The Decepticons were able to steal the technology for their own warriors<ref>Toy packaging blurb</ref> doling out the upgrades as a reward for displays of ruthlessness<ref>Bombshock's toy bio.</ref> or loyalty.<ref>Sledge's toy bio</ref> Decepticons who have undergone the upgrade tend to feel superior to other Transformers.
Because the technology was rediscovered only recently, gestaltics researchers have yet to reach the limits of their understanding and exploitation of it. HASBRO INTERVIEW!
United EX
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With the help of Professor Chase, Power Core Combination was developed on Earth in the 21st century during a time when the Autobot/Decepticon conflict had largely moved away from the planet. Participants in the program—beginning with several Autobot Micromasters from planet Zone—were upgraded into new forms and fitted with newly developed Energon Matrix power sources, becoming part of a new "Master Class" subgroup. The Mighty Bolt Before long, their successful tests of the Power Core Combination drones drew the attention of a team of Decepticons under the command of Scrash, who performed a similar upgrade on themselves (dubbing themselves "Master Chaos") that would enable them to interface with the Power Core drones and steal them. Prelude to the Siege
TransTech
Andromeda thinks "Power Core Combination is certainly a joy to behold". Andromeda - Axiom Nexus News, 2015/05/14
Continuity
When quizzed about continuity, Hasbro said "the concept of Power Core Combiners can also translate to other continuities similar to Mini-Cons".<ref name=continuityqa>October Hasbro Transformers Q&A Answers for Cybertron.ca</ref> So far Hasbro has only used the characters in Movie fiction while TakaraTomy opted to introduce them into the Japanese Generation 1 cartoon continuity in Transformers United EX.
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