Transformers Beyond: Legendarium (OLD)

Chapter II: The Age of the Primes

For the longest time since the fall of the Covenant, there was only silence.

Then, after many eons, life reappeared on Cybertron.

Approx. 10 billion stellar cycles ago:

Deep within the core of Cybertron, Primus not only used the AllSpark to create his new creations but also to construct relics that served as conduits to its power for his Children to reproduce more of their kind. The first relic was the Plasma Energy Chamber, a reservoir of energy to give the new Children of Primus their physical bodies, while Primon's reincarnated form of Vector Sigma provided each of them a thinking mind. Next was the Omega Lock, a massive device that could only be activated by the four Omega Keys to reawaken Primus's power if anything happened to the AllSpark.

The new Children of Primus would be spawned from great wells of cosmic energy called "hot spots" that were spread across the planet's surface, all of them interconnected to the core. Each of these new lifeforms would have "Sparks," tiny pieces of Primus's lifeforce, which made them truly alive. Primus's Children would be a sentient race of robots with the ability to transform into a wide variety of machinery that would call themselves the Cybertronians but forever known by their interstellar neighbors as the Transformers.

Primus designated the first thirteen Cybertronians created to unite and lead the Cybertronian people. With the AllSpark, he forges them by exuding thirteen towering spires of living metal from the surface of Cybertron on its north pole, with each of them glowing a unique polarity of energon. Not only they were constructed from the leftover remnants of the Covenant, they also possessed aspects from Primon and every member of the Guiding Hand (including Unicron and Adaptus) to better understand the universe. They were Cybertron's first warriors, tasked with the responsibility of guarding Unicron within the planet's core. They were the Children of Primus. They were the first leaders of Cybertron. They were the Thirteen Primes.

The first of the Thirteen is Prima "The First-Made", the very first Cybertronian and leader of the Primes. A pure and valiant warrior, he wielded the mighty Star Saber, a sword unlike any other as legend said that its blade was forged from a star.

The second is Vector Prime "The Interdimensional Traveler", Capable of opening and sustaining warp gates to the farthest corners of existence, he is equipped with the Blades of Time: a pair of mystical swords that can open the ways to all dimensions of the multiverse.

The third is A-3 "The Voice of Memory", the head recordskeeper of the Primes, who was responsible for the preservation of historical events with the Covenant of Primus and the Quill to record the past, present, and future history of Cybertron. He also served as the guardian of Vector Sigma, the only one to bypass its security systems and activate with the Key to Vector Sigma.

The fourth is Solus Prime "The Builder", the blacksmith of the Primes and the first female Cybertronian. When creating her, Primus bestowed her a brain module of unparalleled and unique capabilities, allowing her to utilize the Forge and the Creation Lathe to create many of the Primes's most powerful weapons and artifacts, along with a containment vessel for the AllSpark.

The fifth is Micronus Prime "The Catalyst", the first of the Minicons, smaller Transformers capable of powerlinxing with a larger Transformer to impart extra abilities or greatly increase their strength. His relic is the Chimera Stone, which allowed him to powerlinx with his siblings to boost their power and also to copy their abilities for a time.