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 Unicron Trilogy and Aligned continuity family.
The Ancients were the Golden Age Transformers who sent colony ships out into space to the worlds of Earth, Velocitron, Jungle Planet and Gigantion. Warp
Fiction
Cybertron cartoon
They look a liiiiittle familiar. Balance
Exodus novel
The Ancients' secret to their expansion were the space bridges, a continuation of many successful building projects under Sentinel Zeta Prime. They were capable of moving Energon by transmitting it via the Geosynchronous Energon Bridge. Transformers: Exodus
Prime cartoon
The Ancients created the Energon harvesters to remove raw Energon from any source. According to Optimus Prime, the Ancients used the art of a given era to conceal hidden messages. For example, a fresco in Ancient Greece depicted a harvester, likely as a signpost to its location. Deus ex Machina
After the Decepticons recovered an empty Cybertronian data cylinder, Megatron became determined to find out the contents of the device. This is because he believed that the knowledge of the Ancients was power. When the knowledge of this data cylinder threatened to consume Bulkhead's mind, Ratchet initially struggled with finding a means of removing the data without the wisdom of the Ancients. T.M.I.
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".
