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The Thirteen Original Transformers (sometimes referred to as the Thirteen Primes, the Dynasty of Primes or simply the Thirteen) are thirteen fictional characters in the Transformers toy and entertainment franchise created by Hasbro. They are usually portrayed as the first thirteen living beings created by Primus, the creator of the Transformers and their home planet of Cybertron. In the live-action Transformers film trilogy, their back-story is slightly modified, with there only being seven members who were created by the Allspark. The story concept of the Thirteen, as well as three of their members (Prima, Liege Maximo and The Fallen), were created by comic book writer Simon Furman. ==Concept history== It was originally revealed in the Botcon story "Covenant" that before going on to create the Transformer race, Primus experimented with a group of twelve robots known as the Covenant of Primus. Based on the zodiac, these twelve robots were: Leonicus (leader), Aries, Piscor, Libras, Scorpius, Aquator, Taurotron, Cancix, Geminator, Sagittarii, Virgol and Capricurn . They existed in secret, training for the Omega Point. The Omega Point was a potential event that Unicron would attack at a point that there was no Prime. After the Omega Point, time was reverted and the instance never happened. In 2004, it was revealed in ''The Ultimate Guide'' that Primus later created a group of thirteen Transformers, each with special powers, to fight against Unicron. This is the basic, communal origin for Cybertron and the Transformers across many continuities. Although the 2009 movie has The Fallen as the main villain, it does not seem to follow the Primus creation story. Like Primus and Unicron, each of the thirteen are multiversal singularities - one entity throughout reality. During their first big battle against Unicron, many of the 13 were killed and the Fallen was drawn into a black hole, where he remained trapped in a lower dimensional level. Alternately, in ''Revenge of the Fallen'', the original Transformers formed the Dynasty of Primes, scattering throughout the galaxy looking for planets where they could build Sun Harvesters. They debuted in IDW Publishings' comics when they published ''Transformers: Destiny'', a prequel comic to the film. In the ''Exodus'', ''Exiles'' and ''Retribution'' novel trilogy, the following of the Thirteen were mentioned - Prima, the Liege Maximo, Megatronus Prime, Solus Prime, Nexus Prime, and Amalgamous Prime. The book ''Transformers: The Covenant of Primus'' would shed further light on the concept of the Thirteen by introducing all thirteen members. It was later retconned that the ''Aligned'' continuity was separate from the rest of the ''Transformers'' multiverse when Optimus Prime was revealed to be the final member. Less than a year later, the ''Transformers: Generation 1'' based IDW Publishing comics' series story "The Crucible" established many of the ''Prime'' Thirteen character introduced in ''The Covenant of Primus'' had multiversal counterparts, and in this reality, the Thirteen existed as the third generation of Cybertronians rathering than the first. During the next year, ''The Complete AllSpark Almanac'' and the BotCon 2015 Facebook blog "Ask Vector Prime" revealed that there are both multiversal singularity and non-multiversal singularity versions of the Thirteen in the multiverse, and that the two iterations of the Thirteen are starting to blend together. Consequently, Vector Prime used the blog to officially introduce the members of the "Multiversal Thirteen" after a decade of being introduced as a concept. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Thirteen (Transformers)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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