Whats empurata? I've seen It referenced in a few fan fictions, but it was never explained
Oh, it's an IDWG1 comics thing!!
More specifically, it's a surgical punishment in More Than Meets The Eye and Lost Light, in where before the war the corrupt government would sentence bots to have their faces & hands removed and replaced with simple heads with only one eye & claws/pincers (see the main examples: Shockwave and Whirl)
It was considered a punishment for the worst of the worst criminals, but of course we only ever see it being used when it comes to bots who go against Functionism so it's pretty clear it was used mostly to uphold a corrupt system and weaponize the public against the victims.
It's named for the latin verb / punishment of amputare, which was the historical practice of cutting people's hands off to show they had broken the law (I've usually heard it in connection to thievery but it probably applied to more things)
I think it's mentioned that during the war most victims ended up getting full reversals (like Tarn) or elected for partial repairs (like Shockwave here), but a few bots like Whirl didn't for personal reasons.
