Rumors
Optimus left Alpha Trion's office. His mentor gave him the data he needed, and he was going to meet with his senior staff. They needed to plan a course for the Ark before it launched. But his beginning conversation with the old bot still turned over in his head. It was difficult to make sense of much of the ancient lore, but there were certainly some anchor points, things that everyone would agree upon when discussing the stories. Primus the creator. Unicron the destroyer. Thirteen primes. The names of some of them: Prima, Solus Prime, Liege Maximo, Micronus Prime, Amalgamous Prime, Quintus Prime, Onyx Prime, Vector Prime, Nexus Prime. These all disappeared as the Age of Primes ended and the Well of All Sparks was ignited. Some of them went into the well to ignite it. Some of them were killed. Some went into a kind of exile, and simply were never heard from again. There was no consensus on which ones had which fate. Even if the ones who went into exile were still alive was debated....