Later revised and annotated for The Transformers: Generation One
wada sez: This is a prequel to “The Rebirth”—for more information, you’ll just have to check out Villa’s annotations at the link above. Italian translation below, along with a preview for tomorrow’s strip!
Dear Vector Prime, is there anything at all you can tell us about the "NoneSpark War" you mentioned some time ago?
Dear Serendipitous Sari,
I must be very careful with what I am about to say here.
Perhaps you have heard of the "Precursor World", defended by the legendary Primus Vanguard. Well, there is also the "Successor World" (未来世界, or "future world")—but this is a horrifying place. You see, the Decepticon gods of this age—Devil Z, Violengiguar, and the mysterious Liege Infinito—grew weary of constantly losing to the side of good. Thus, they forced Primacron to create the Successor World in the distant future—a future with no Autobots to oppose them!
The Council of Primes was formed to withstand attacks from the Successor World. Brave Digitalis Prime single-handedly engaged Devil Z in battle as it returned to our world with its "NoneSparks"—you may think of them as sparkless Junkion-Vehicon hybrids. The NoneSpark War is/was/will be ongoing, but whispers are in the air about the turning tide. Take heart!
Unicron is the final abomination to end the universe, and the one created at its conception to be its executioner. This is what he believes, anyways. The World-Eater feels entitled to the universe as his to devour and destroy. Primacron's a little bitсh. The Transformers: The Movie is about the nonexistence of "fate" - Optimus Prime makes a mistake in naming his successor, Unicron thinks the galaxy is his and is promptly corrected, and Roddy gets stuck with a job he never in a million years wanted and is definitely not ready for, because the Matrix - composed of the wills and wisdom of previous Autobot leaders - chose him.
There's no point to any of it. Everyone's running around either caught up in their own high expectations of what is deserved for them or too busy running around in the present to even think about the future. There's never any big cosmic purpose for any of it.
It's Existentialism, baby! That's what I'm writing this next English video about (sure wish it could just be a paper though. I'm awful at talking)
Man that's not what got Roddy down but if he understood it there's a 50/50 chance of him either feeling freed by it and giving the Matrix to someone else or just going completely catatonic. Kid needs a careful hand (and for Ultra Magnus to get over his formality and step the fuсk up)
Primacron given the Extriverse treatment, read his info below!
Primacron may or may not be his real name, but it’s the one he goes by now, if he had another name he doesn’t seem to remember it.
None other of his kind has been found.
Not surprising as he claims his homeworld and people to have been destroyed long ago.
He is far older than any organic of his kind should even fathom.
Responsible for Unicron.
His cane was crudely fashioned to resemble a sword piercing Unicron’s head as a symbol of his hatred.
His intelligence knows no bounds, but age has worn on him enough to make him quite forgetful, usually of the simple things that don’t require much thought.
His planet IS indeed gone as are his people.
He IS responsible for Unicron. He was the one who created the host body that allowed the dark god to cross into the mortal realm.
His arrogance still stands to this day, defiant, despite the horror it has caused.
He wanted to rule his homeworld as it’s ‘true leader’, Unicron said he’d help.
Primacron watched as his ‘help’ did nothing more than scoop up great chunks of his homeworld and eat them.
He watched as the body he made struggled to contain the mass of Unicron’s hunger and ripped at the seams.
He watched as everything Unicron ate did not simply fall out but collect and cover Unicron’s body.
He watched helplessly until Unicron ate everything and everyone on his home until he was the only one left, stood on a small rock.
His presence was not lost on Unicron, who had cursed Primacron. Cursed him with immortality. He will not die until the god dies.
Gods don’t die, they slumber.
Unicron also sliced out one of Primacron’s eyes, leaving him with a large scar and a new eye.
This eye does nothing unless Unicron eats a planet, upon which it will force Primacron to watch, making sure he sees every moment of apocalyptic terror he unleashed unfold.
He is quite interested in Transformers, seemingly acting as if he always knew them, and now especially interested to hear there are ones who escaped Unicron’s control.
Maybe he can figure out his own freedom from them.
Shattered Memo of the Day So this is going back to the beginning days, in the Wheelie Spotlight. Here we get our only real teaser about the Quintessons. This is really the only concrete evidence of anyone who has been dubbed creators in other series within IDW's universe. Evidence? Unicron I have yet to see be mentioned even ONCE. Quintessa has also not been mentioned. I'm giving her a little flak since her character status as an official inside-an-actual-series character is new. We may still get her because she's a "Prime", and we have at least Alpha Trion surviving until this age. But so far, unlikely. Primus is the "god" of the universe, and is still open to possibly eventually appearing. Though it's a stretch. We have the hand of Primus hotspot, and visions, which have had proven credibility with the "stars shall scream" prophecy. Otherwise, it's sketchy. Then we have this one ancient ruins inside the Temple. This is the only time so far Quintessons have appeared, but the ruins make it clear that Quintessons at least existed in the past. It's not "questionable" like Primus is, there's proof. The questions are, though, do they still exist? And were they the creators of the Cybertronian race? There's a thin possibility. In MTMTE we discovered Necroworld is hollow, and Cybertron's mold. There's no clue on who it originally owned it. But it rules out Primus because that was his FREAKING MOLD... If they stick with the Cybertron = Primus formula. But the Quintessons making Cybertron could have owned the mold. Or we do have Primacron, who in G1 (the Primitives episode), created Unicron. I found a few references to him, but nothing serious. Anyway, only one with serious proof FOR NOW: Quintessons. Thank you.
wada sez: On deviantART, Nangle explained: “I've always thought (in the original G1 cartoon verse), how could Primacon create Unicron? Suppose if the idea was planted. He had an idea but what it someone or something gave him the designs and tools to make it happen?” This strip ties together “Call of the Primitives”, which explored Unicron’s creation at the hands of Primacron, and “The Dweller in the Depths”, which explored the origins of the Transformers and their Trans-Organic precursors at the hands of the Quintessons. See below for a preview of tomorrow’s strip...