Nominus Prime
- Nominus Prime is an Autobot from the Generation 1 continuity family.
Nominus Prime is a little-known figure. Unfortunately, what we know includes that he was a douche.
Fiction
IDW Comics continuity
Nominus Prime assumed office sometime after the disappearance of Nova Prime into the Benzuli Expanse. Under his rule, Cybertron was a planet full of corruption, social apartheid, and general oppression: a Cybertronian citizen's role in life was determined by the body he was built in, and the handful of elites (particularly the military) would step down on that citizen's face... forever.
A young, idealistic Megatron wrote a political tract advocating non-violent resistance: After the Ark: Nominus Prime and the Illusion of Progress. Chaos Theory Part 1 A short time later, Nominus was attacked and seriously injured by a suicide bomber during the Primal Procession, leaving him in a critical condition. It was revealed afterward by a Senator friend of Orion Pax that the organization responsible for sending the bomber was actually affiliated with the Cybertronian Senate itself. The corrupt Senate's intent was to obtain a valid excuse to give themselves "unfettered" access to the life-giving Matrix and also to become even more controlling and implement the Clampdown. Chaos Theory Part 2 While they told the public that Nominus had gone into hiding, the Senate actually kept the comatose Prime around so that their head of security Sentinel could tap into the power of the Matrix in his chest. Post Hoc The Chaos of Warm Things His attempts exposed a well-kept secret: Nominus Prime's "Matrix" was merely a fake. With this revelation, the Senate saw no more use in keeping Nominus around and had him killed, releasing a cover story claiming he passed away from a rust infection in his spark casing. They would go on to manipulate events so that Sentinel would succeed him as the next Prime. Post Hoc
Notes
- The presence of another Prime this close to Megatron Origin indicates that Sentinel did not last long in his job.
- Just like poor Zeta Prime, Nominus wasn't included in the lineage of Primes depicted in "Spotlight: Optimus Prime". In real life, this is because he was created after "Spotlight: Optimus Prime" had been published. In that Spotlight, we hear that the Primes are ideals that embody the ages they reign in, which is probably an in-story reason for why Optimus doesn't want to visualize the bastard...
