Talk:Matrix of Leadership
- wide eyed*
I thought the Matrix contained the accumulated wisdom of the ages?
In the cartoons, yes. In the comics, however, it contained the essence of Primus, and as such was what allowed Prime to give life to new Transformers/destroy Unicron with it.
The Matrix of Leadership accumulated the Wisdom of the Ages by being a portal to the Allspark. When a Transformer is alive, it grows in knowledge, and when it dies, its Spark returns to the Allspark and adds its experience to the whole. --ItsWalky
So... how exactly dids it 'use up' the wisdom of the ages in Return of Optimus Priem then? ...and for that matter, how the hell did they recharge it with a nuclear power plant? ;-)
The Matrix serves many different purposes. It's a Tchotke of Ultimate Power, or - literally - a Deus-Ex-Machina.
I think it's referred to as The PowerPack in the Japanese continuity, and at this is the simplest example of it's functionality - a large battery.
It is also the Prime Matrix. It essentially contains Primus's "blueprints" for the Transformer race, which are continually reinterpreted by Vector Sigma, in assosciation with the knowledge of those Transformers who have returned to the Allspark.
It is also these days, most likely home to the Creation Matrix, a program which was at one point resident in Optimus Prime (and Buster Witwicky's) head.
Finally, it is - or has evolved into, at least in some continuities, an entity in it's own right
