#SENTINEL PRIME G1 SERIES#

#SENTINEL PRIME G1 SERIES#

The third season's two-part series finale even introduced a sacred prophetic tome called the Covenant of Primus. But when the later-made Beast Wars cartoon began airing its second season, Primus received a few namedrops as the Maximals' equivalent of saying 'God help us' or the like. Since all three of these versions of the Primus/Unicron backstory were first given after the concurrent The Transformers cartoon had ended in 1987, Primus missed out on appearing in said cartoon (which had already made its own creation backstory for the Transformers). The third iteration in Marvel US #74 explained that Unicron had destroyed the ' old realms' that had existed before the present-day universe, and that the 'sentient core' of the universe created Primus to defend the universe from Unicron, with the Light and Dark Gods no longer referenced. Around here, too, Primus is now a god worshipped by the Transformers. The role of the Light and Dark Gods diminished with each subsequent retelling of the story: When the Keeper told the story in Marvel US #61, he noted that Primus and Unicron were the last members of their respective pantheons, holdovers from a prior age of gods. In this original story, Primus serves less as a character and more a conceptual idea: As merely a counterpart to Unicron, he exists as a way to explain where Transformers came from and what the Matrix actually does, and gives Unicron a motivation that ties him to the Transformers. Primus then reshaped his own body into Cybertron, before creating the Transformer species and imbuing them with a portion of his divine essence through the Matrix of Leadership. Primus had defeated Unicron at the dawn of time by trapping them both within asteroids on the physical plane.

Per Unicron's telling of events, he was a primal force of evil at the dawn of the universe who led an army of Dark Gods against his mortal foe, Primus, Lord of the Light Gods. The first take on the myth was recounted by Unicron himself in the 1988 UK story ' The Legacy of Unicron!'. Before reaching its present form, the mythos went through several distinct versions over the course of the series' original run. The Primus/Unicron backstory first originated in the Marvel Comics The Transformers series under the pen of author Simon Furman. 11.1 Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers.10.1 Transformers Cybertron: Primus Unleashed.2.11.1 Prime Wars Trilogy marketing material.2.6 Japanese Generation 1 cartoon continuity.2.5 Dreamwave Generation One continuity.Still, in most realities he has managed to hold the line against Unicron and other threats, either directly or through his innumerable children. Indeed, even the intended agents of his grand plan, the Transformers, have all too frequently become mired in endless civil war. At times he has been deceived by mere mortals, has made miscalculations which jeopardized all of existence, and has been betrayed by one of his earliest creations. Though wise and powerful beyond measure, Primus is neither infallible nor without weakness. The spark of each Transformer is a small piece of Primus's essence, and together they form his lifeforce, the Allspark. Prophecies of a war to come were written down in his holy covenant as well. A portion of his lifeforce resides within the Matrix, which often determines the leader of the Autobots. Within the depths of Cybertron, the mega-computer Vector Sigma serves as his internal mainframe, and a gateway for select Transformers to access his power.

Primus eventually transformed himself into the planet Cybertron from its surface, his creations have risen to defend and patrol the galaxy. In each one, he is the final defense against his fallen sibling, Unicron the Chaos-Bringer. An ancient and ethereal being whose origins date back to the beginnings of the universe itself, Primus is a multiversal force for good, his life force existing across multiple realities and infinite alternate universes. Primus is the creator-god of the Transformers.

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