Adaptus

This article is about the G1 deity who may or may not be a member of the Thirteen. For the Aligned Prime who definitely is one of the Thirteen, see Amalgamous Prime.

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Adaptus is a deity from the IDW portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.

Adaptus is a Transformer deity, believed to have "forged" the Cybertronians and given them the ability to transform. As such, the transformation cog is associated with him.

Worshippers of Adaptus specifically are called Adaptusians.

Fiction

IDW Generation 1 continuity

After the creation of Cybertron, Primus split his essence into five beings that became a pantheon of deities called the Guiding Hand. Adaptus was blessed with an infinity of shapes and he stood alongside Mortilus, Solomus, Epistemus, as well as Primus himself. Together, they brought about the first Golden Age and guided early Cybertronian civilization. Their reign ended when disharmony broke out as Mortilus desired to strike out against the universe. His dissension caused Cybertron to shudder and ripped asunder the first moon where he managed to bring about the end of the Guiding Hand. Adaptus was stripped bare and turned into a transformation cog before Mortilus was destroyed. Though defeated, Adaptus passed the legacy of transformation to future generations of Cybertronians as his gift to them. Primus: You, Me, and Other Revelations

Forged Transformers, formed naturally from sparks which emerged from the surface of Cybertron and its moons The Fecund Moon are associated with Adaptus. According to Ratchet, forged medics (as opposed to those whose bodies were "constructed cold", then given life by spliced spark energy) have natural fluidity of movement in their hands that make them the best medics, and this is seen by some (though not Ratchet) as proof of Adaptus's existence. Life After the Big Bang

The Militant Monoform Movement symbolically rejected Adaptus by surgically removing their transformation cogs. Life After the Big Bang While explaining to Springarm that he was skeptical of religion, Orion Pax admitted that he didn't believe in the gods Primus, Mortilus, and Adaptus. Chaos Theory Part 2

In the post-war era, Swerve was a practicising Adaptusian. Twenty Plus One

Ask Vector Prime

Adaptus was one of Vector Prime's siblings among the Thirteen. Some time after the splintering of the Thirteen, Adaptus and four of his siblings ended up in the Realm of the Primes. When Vector Prime (who had self-induced amnesia in order to protect the location of Nexus Prime's components) ended up in the Realm of the Primes during his campaign against Mogahn the Mass, Vector's siblings unlocked his memories as Primus's appointed guardian of space and time. Vector Prime then returned to normal space and wrested away Mogahn's Cyber Caliber. Using Adaptus's gift, Vector reformatted the blade into Rhisling and vanquished Mogahn, sending the Mass back in time and thus causing the Big Bang.

At some point later, Adaptus went by the name Amalgamous. However due to his competing memories from the Uniend cluster, Vector Prime was unsure if Adaptus/Amalgamous truly was one of his siblings among the Thirteen outside of Uniend. Ask Vector Prime