Power Core Combination

Power Core Combination is a technology from Power Core Combiners.

Power Core Combination is an ancient technology that allows Transformers to combine with either Mini-Cons or drone teams. Thought lost for eons, it was recently rediscovered on Earth by the Autobots and subsequently stolen by the Decepticons.<ref>Toy packaging blurb</ref> Since then, both Autobots and Decepticons have been chosen to undergo the upgrade process, to great success. Decepticons sometimes use Power Core Combination upgrades as a reward for displays of ruthlessness<ref>Bombshock's toy bio.</ref> or for loyalty.<ref>Sledge's toy bio</ref> Decepticons who have undergone the upgrade have a tendency to feel superior to other Transformers.

Fiction

Collectors' Club Magazine

With the loss of Power Core techology early in the war, Transformers who had a potential for combination (known as "Proto-Combiners") were doomed to two unsavory options: either live with a permanent sense of incompleteness, or submit to the horrifying Gestalt Process. The Process was the Decepticons' substandard attempt at re-creating Power Core technology, and they succeeded in their physical aim but destroyed the minds of the participants. The monstrous Devastator was a prime example. The Autobots made more careful attempts, but they still inflicted mental damage. Proto-Combiners who abstained and tried to live as individuals may have spared their own sanity, but they were still pitied in larger Cybertronian society.

All of this changed, however, when the Matrix's database was recovered, and (with some human assistance) the Power Core process was at last rediscovered. It facilitated perfect symbiosis between a Commander and his Mini-Con, not only enhancing the attributes of both, but also creating a mysterious bond of shared perception. With training, a Commander might graduate to having a set of drones to control. This bond was as perfect as with the Mini-Cons, but rather than two minds working together, this allowed the single Commander to upload his own personality engrams into the drones and effectively be in multiple places at once.

Because the technology was rediscovered only recently, Gestaltics researchers have yet to reach the limits of their understanding and exploitation of it. Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 32

=Continuity

When quizzed about continuity, Hasbro said "the concept of Power Core Combiners can also translate to other continuities similar to Mini-Cons". <ref name=continuityqa>October Hasbro Transformers Q&A Answers for Cybertron.ca</ref> So far, they've only appeared in Movie fiction.

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