Finally posting art here! Also finally finished sketching out my reinterpretation of The Thirteen Primes (14 really). Important to note that in my version Megatronus is not The Fallen, Quintus is, and was wiped from recorded history, making 13.
Feedback/questions/constructive criticism is all welcome and appreciated!
Design for autonomous maximus The great dome of iacon , vector sigma , and auntie vector sigma's avatar to the future
beneath the montain, vector sigma guided the transformers as their maternal god, and as society emerged around her resting place, the mountain came to life to protect it's mother computer by joining the autobots,
Remaining on the planet after vector Sigma's deactivation, it's said that autonomous maximus is still on cybertron to this day as its last autobot while his body became the basis for arks that Shepherd his fellow autobots off world
Deep bellow cybertron lay the allspark powered mother computer vector sigma, responsible for running the great machine that was cybertron, she sees the transformers as her children so she showered them with great love but infantilized them in her head as unable to do evil, so she did not act as their society corroded, secluded away in her chamber where she could gaze milions of years into the future, she guided cybertron's ecosystem into becoming a mechanical version of earth with robot animals and of course robot humans in the transformers, as she knew even back then that the unremarkable earth would play a great role in her children's history,
With her knowlege of the future she created messages put into the right places to allow her to comunicate wifh future generations she sees herself as a god but her nature is entirely mechanical, she doesn't even have a spark, and her ability to see the future is based on algorithms and what she already knows via the "sensory organs" of cybertron, so sometimes her messages spiral off into tangents and nonsense after having predicted the wrong response from her intended listener
In messages for earth, Vector Sigma uses an avatar called auntie as she sees earth as a sister to cybertron. Though its residents aren't fully on board with the idea, it's like that aunt or uncle you barely know that acts way too chumy with you in a way that's off-putting rather than charming,
Above her chamber stood the city of iacon, greatly respected, but over the years, it became the house of all corruption on cybertron as the functionist council excavated it's great dome to act as their captital. The building itself shackled as iacon grew into a massive metropolis, and all the spilled energon that naturally came from its massive population threatened to bring the building to life,
when the revolution tore down the government, the restrains were destroyed, and the building began reformating itself with a robot mode just as megatronus and liege maximo revealed their aliance with bruticus maximus. But before they could end the autobots with their opening assault autonomous maximus awakened, and in a split second decision, protected the autobots from harm with a single mighty punch
With the newly christened decepticons retreating, the autobots named themselves after the giant that saved them and over the course of the next milenia civil war between the autobots and decepticons raged until the two sides had captured so much terrain and became so diferent from each other they were separate nations, nations whose war plundered cybertron and the world off of it's resources until the planet was spent.
The autobots omit this part of the story, but it was the autobots who took the allspark and tossed it into space to keep it away from the hands of the decepticons, quickly regretting that action as the planet died around them, the part they do tell is that the surviving transformers hid away inside titans like autonomous maximus, overcome with the weight of sins on their back, they began to construct arks to search for the allspark, all based on autonomous maximus' design, each housing three great titans
While maximus himself opted to stay behind on cybertron. Loyal to it's mother above all even as her lifeless husk hung from the celling of her chamber, to give the arks power to lift off prima used the star saber to gather celestial power into the arks, dissipating her body entirely, while maximus fought off the decepticons wishing to attack the arks,
or at least thats what they tell you. Even a most basic analysis of the story would tell you the decepticons obviously also wanted to escape the planet, meaning the ancient autobots were willing to let their enemies die from their own atrocity. What could have happened to turn a culture like any other with its complexities and grey morality into heroes?
Guilt. With the fall of cybertron, the autobots became suicidal, and their leaders had to turn that self-destructive impulse into the service of others, ideas that permiated autobot ranks to this day, as new generations were born aboard the ships, that initial melancholy faded away as the new faces never stepped foot on cybertron,
but from the moment they came online, the autobots were taught to live for the well-being of others as their number one priority, till all are one, drilling that message into their heads is their society's one goal, as with anything their sucess rate varies (see barricade). While their search for the allspark became myth, then legend,
It was in that world that our autobots, natives of ark primax came from, and that leads us to today, with them telling the story to the earth's own population of transformers, most are skeptical of certain aspects of the tale, but the mistress of flame is enchanted by their story, dispite their claims otherwise, easily becoming part of her view of cybertronians as gods
Did any other prime also have the ability to transform or just Amalgamous?
Dear Transformation Tracker,
Certainly. Amalgamous was just the best at it.
Just because each of the Firstforged had specialities, didn't mean the others were inept at it. I may be the Guardian of Time and Space, but Onyx and Alchemist had their own abilities to see into other times and places. Solus was the paramount creator, but we are able to make our own tools when she is unavailable; Alpha Secundus boasted his ability to make computer systems outweighed her own, while Nexus always liked making his own blades. Autonomous Maximus was the ultimate warrior, but no one could deny that the Fallen or Beta were among the greatest masters of battle.
Likewise, while Amalgamous was a master of transformation, each of the Thirteen had one or more alternate modes we can use, depending on our bodies at the time. You are well aware of my preferred Solar Sailor mode, and Primon was incredibly fond of his Laputan Machine form.
Dear Vector Prime, Since the most consistent members of the Thirteen have titles/epithets (Vector Prime, Guardian of Space & Time; Alpha Trion, Memory of the Primes; etc), what titles/epithets do Logos Prime and Autonomous Maximus have when they are counted among the Thirteen?
Dear Sobriquet Superhero,
Before he was forever changed by his encounter with the Hytherion, my brother Logos Prime was known to some as the "Voyager of Truth"; he was a bright and curious soul, ever driven to understand the deeper meanings of the universe—a quest which tragically ended with his fall into madness, after he perceived a layer of existence that even one of Primus's first children could not process. When he re-emerged so many eons later, he was referred to in hushed tones as the "Prophet of Discord"—or, in more poetic language, "the End of the Maze".
My other sibling, meanwhile, is known by many an epithet ever since he gave up his name—be it Autonomous Maximus, Omega Prime, Ultimus Alpha, or any other—to stand sentinel over the sleeping Primus; "the Thirteenth", "the Arisen", "the Soul of Cybertron", "the Ultimate Guardian". You might be most familiar with him as "the Last Autobot", though this is a mistranslation of his role as the last of the Primes.
