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/settles her nerd glasses on the bridge of her nose.
So, because my wife is awesome- she actually owns a copy of the Covenant (signed by Peter Cullen, no less. I wish I had a copy of towards peace that I could have had Welker sign, but alas.) I had the opportunity to actually read it.
Disclaimer:
So, anything after this- is a big ol' fat opinion, and in no way is any sort of actual lore or lore premise that is canon.
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Thirteen was LITERALLY created as a deus ex machina. Which is horrifying when you think about it. The thirteenth Prime had no real reason to even be created except as fodder to fling at Unicron in order to push him back. The original intent was to chuck him at the Unmaker, then hopefully use the magical doodad of their matrices to hopefully yank his ass back.
Note, this didn't work for a While™ (read: Optimus Prime.)
We also have to note that Primes were possibly polyamorous, with the lot of them being the first creations. Because of this, their relationships were going to be odd by organic standards- and hardly monogamous. So you would have had couples, thruples, quads, hell- a full primal orgy if you wanted.
The Primes were children in the bodies of adults. They knew how to fight, but little else. They didn't have the emotional maturity that their creations would later have, nor would they have the life experience on how to deal with these emotions.
I don't think Megatron actually meant to kill Solus. I think the thing was a set up from the getgo. I also think Prima straight up sabotaged any relationship he could find that he didn't approve of. He kind of came across as the stick-in-the-mud-hardline-asshole in the book itself.
Megatronus is the Greek Hero in a tragedy. He does not lose, but neither does he win. For all his gains, they are in small detail compared to his losses. A Pyrrhic victory, if you will.
The Quintessons were the ones that started the caste system, but the transformers they created to manage them were the ones that opted to continue that caste system and profit off of it. Megatron (Megatronus 2.0) was a product of this system. It means that no matter what, Megatron never had a chance to be anything but an eventual villain. When you're pushed to the brink of madness by slavery, and if you react violently- you're labeled as a threat to the order.
The Covenant is heavily flawed. Now, given everything I just said about the book itself. It's flawed. Since all of these stories were told from Trion's point of view, and as he would have had no insight to his siblings inklings.... then we are left with a biased retelling.
Two words: Unreliable. Narrator.
