Transformation Cog (Thirteen)

This article is about the artifact. For Transformation cogs in general, see Transformation cog (biology).

Get it? T-Cog?

Amalgamous Prime’s Transformation Cog is similar in many ways to the transformation cogs of every other Transformer; it allows the owner to transform convert. The key difference is that as the first – and to an almost unrecognisable level, most powerful – this relic often serves as the original pattern from which its commonplace variant is sourced.

Amalgamous Prime owes his infinite transformational abilities to his artifact, and exposure to it can also grant perfectly ordinary Cybertronians the same abilities... but at great cost.

Fiction

Aligned continuity family

The Covenant of Primus

The very first Transformation Cog belonged to Amalgamous Prime. The artifact allowed its holder to take any shape or form its wielder desired. It would eventually become the template for the simplified T-cogs incorporated into the physiologies of all Cybertronians.

After Cybertron's Golden Age, Mercury and her displaced fleet of Neutronian refugees discovered Amalgamous's original Transformation Cog orbiting a black hole. The refugees brought the artifact aboard the ship, but the mysterious energies the Transformation Cog emitted had the unexpected side effect of altering the crew, granting them advanced shapeshifting abilities and the power to combine with one another into an infinite amount of forms. Even so, Mercury and her new Mutacons set out to find Amalgamous Prime, hoping that he could undo the change before the Mutacons permanently merged into a single being. The Covenant of Primus

Generation 1 continuity family

2005 IDW continuity

The 2005 IDW continuity’s Guiding Hand story included its own origin for transformation unconnected to the Thirteen origin chronicled in the Covenant of Primus, the latter being published a year later, but with the Transformers Roleplaying Game’s explicit conflation of Amalgamous Prime and Adaptus, it seems pertinent to chronicle this here.

According to legend, transformation itself came about when Adaptus was “stripped bare” and reduced to the first Transformation Cog. Primus: You, Me, and Other Revelations This turned out not to be the case. The Unremembering

2019 IDW continuity

The original Transformation Cog was one of the fourteen Artifacts of the Primes. Sea of Rust I

Toys

Age of the Primes

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Does this mean Shockwave also keeps his T-Cog on his face?

• The Thirteen Amalgamous Prime (Voyager Class, 2026)

• Known designers: Mark Maher (Hasbro), Hisashi Yuki (TakaraTomy)

Released as part of the first 2026 wave of Age of the Primes, Amalgamous Prime features his signature Transformation Cog. It is capable of storing in his head to function as an eyeball. Gnarly.

See Also

• Mul-T-Cog