Quintus Prime

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The scientist of the Thirteen, Quintus Prime 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. To defeat Unicron, Optimus Prime exposed his spark, its frequency almost identical to Primus's own, to Unicron's own Anti-Spark knocking both into stasis lock. Quintus subsequently used his Emberstone to awaken Optimus. 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. When the Quintessons arrived on Cybertron, Alpha Trion wondered what became of his brother, idly speculating that Quintus's own creations may have disposed of him when they no longer required him. The Covenant of Primus

Prime cartoon

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

Generation 1 continuity family

2005 IDW continuity

First Appearance: Transformers vol. 2 #47 (mentioned); Transformers: Till All Are One #9 (obscured image)

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 Like four others he was attracted to the alliance at Crystal City, forming the Thirteen Primes. Unbeknownst to the Primes, one of their number, the bestial Onyx Prime, was in fact a time-travelling Shockwave from twelve million years in the future, who was manipulating history to ensure the rise, and subsequent fall, of the Primes' society. Goaded on by Shockwave's machinations, Megatronus and Liege Maximo turned on the group, killing Solus Prime and starting the First Cybertronian Civil War. Though Megatronus managed to flee Cybertron, Quintus and Nexus were able to restrain Maximo, eventually banishing him aboard Vigilem. The First Who Was Named

As the war wound down, Nexus Prime met his end at the hands of Galvatron, prompting all the remaining Primes, except Alpha Trion, to flee Cybertron. Eons later, the younger Shockwave would send one his Regenesis ores, Ore-2, to Gorlam Prime, The Crucible The First Who Was Named the resting place of Quintessa, a Titan somehow affiliated with Quintus. Ceremony

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

Power of the Primes toy bios

Quintus Prime's Spark passed into the possession of one of the twelve Prime Masters; hidden within a suit of decoy armor, they safeguarded the abilities of the Primes until the present day. By uniting with a larger Transformer, the Prime Master could channel the powers of Quintus's Spark and grant them unique abilities that varied with each new partner. Quintus Prime toy bio

For a list of every permutation of Quintus Prime's abilities, see this link.

2019 IDW continuity

Quintus Prime was one of the Thirteen. Sea of Rust I

Cyberverse cartoon

Quintus Prime was one of the Thirteen. Dweller In The Depths Silent Strike The Other One

Toys

Power of the Primes

Quintus Prime (Prime Master, 2018)
- Japanese ID number: PP-20
- Japanese release date: August 25, 2018
- Accessories: Decepticon Bludgeon decoy armor, kanabō

Power of the Primes Quintus Prime is a retool of Vector Prime that transforms into a Prime Core that can store inside decoy armor modeled after Bludgeon's Pretender shell, or plug into any decoy armor's weapon form, or replace the Matrix core of a Power of the Primes Leader Class figure. Quintus can also ride Legends Class figures, or attach to Deluxe Class figures' chest armor, Voyager Class figures' bucklers, or Voyager Class figures' combined modes. Similar to all of the decoy armor, the weapon piece for weapon mode can detach and be held by the decoy armor.

Notes

Quintus Prime's name derives from, naturally, the Quintessons, his creations in the Aligned continuity family.
The Covenant implies 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.