Ancient

This article is about the old-timey Transformers from the Cybertron franchise. For the old-timey Transformers referred to as "Ancients" in various Revenge of the Fallen media, see thirteen original Transformers.

The Ancients are Transformers from the Cybertron portion of the Unicron Trilogy continuity family.

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The Ancients were the Transformers who sent colony ships out into space to the worlds of Velocitron, Jungle Planet and Gigantion. Warp

Notes

• In Galaxy Force, the Japanese version of the Cybertron cartoon, Vector Prime is identified as an Ancient. However, in western fiction, as a member of the thirteen original Transformers, he pre-dates the Transformers who masterminded the colonization program by several million, if not billion, years. Consequently, the waters are a little muddied when it comes to Logos Prime, who is identified by the Japanese Beast Wars Reborn prose story as being an "Ancient", but is further identified as "one of [Vector Prime's] own" and presented as having incredible powers on an equal level with Vector Prime's, strongly suggesting that he is supposed to be one of the thirteen, rather than simply a colonist. By what would appear to be only sheer coincidence, various Revenge of the Fallen storybooks would also refer to the original thirteen Transformers as "Ancients".