Relinquishment Clinic

The Relinquishment Clinics are buildings from the Generation 1 continuity family.

Relinquishment Clinics are facilities present on Cybertron that allows customers to temporarily transfer their Spark into a new Body-type. Such a procedure only costs... 5,000 shanix?! What a rip off!

Fiction

IDW Generation 1 comics

Prior to the Great War, full scale re-engineering was a service only available to the elite Cybertronian classes. As such, the general masses were fixed in their alt-modes and unable to change them. At this time, these clinics were run by commercial enterprises and charged fees as high as 5,000 shanix to make use of a patented Sparkswap Technology to transfer a Spark into a vacant bodyshell. These bodyshells were from donors which allowed clients to experience life in a completely different alt-mode. Ratchet disliked the clinics as he felt that they were a nasty form of body tourism. Ad Hoc

One clinic was a cover for the Institute, a sinister government brainwashing facility. Poor robots from the Dead End went in to sell their bodies for money, and came out thinking new thoughts. Patternism

Four million years later, Chromedome related a story of his time in mechaforensics before the Great War. This led to some of the crew on the Lost Light asking about these clinics as they were no longer part of modern Cybertronian society. Ratchet hits that they led to something really nasty, likely meaning the Institute. Ad Hoc

Rewind and Chromedome met in a clinic. The full story is something Chromedome isn't going to tell you. Interiors