Atechnogenesis
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Atechnogenesis[1] is the secular scientific explanation that life on Cybertron sprang up through the naturally-occurring interaction of gears, levers, and pulleys.[2]
The strict scientific rationalism of atechnogenesis rejects traditional religious claims that Primus is the source of all life on Cybertron, and much of the ancient doctrine surrounding the Matrix.
Notes
- The Quintessons are an example of a species that came about through the evolution of mechanical life.[3]
- Japan actually developed a much more detailed atechnogenesis origin for Cybertronic life in "A Birth of Planet Saybertron", one of Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers's pre-movie magazine supplements. It's probably the most serious rendering of the concept ever.
- In the 2005 IDW continuity, believers in atechnogenesis are referred to as "Evolutionary Engineerists".
- Atechnogenesis is likely named after abiogenesis, the process by which life evolved from non-living matter.
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References
- ↑ Term first appeared in Dreamwave's 2004 Generation 1 Transformers: More than Meets the Eye guidebook, p483
- ↑ This phrase dates from 1984's Marvel Transformers US #1, the first Transformers story ever published.
- ↑ "Mechanical life has long since evolved in segments of the cosmos--existing alongside organic life." "This [a Quintesson ship] is a spacecraft of one such mechanical race--" The Big Broadcast of 2006 (US)
