Transformers: The Covenant of Primus Now Shipping

Author: Justina Robson

Artists: Ken Christiansen, Emiliano Santalucia, Livio Ramondelli, Casey Coller

There is a switch on the underside to control volume of the sound: High, Low, and None.

I love the artwork of the 13 Primes, there's a couple full-page spreads but not as many as I would've liked to have seen. As far as I can tell, it's all new to this book; nothing reused from other sources. Some of it seems very IDW-inspired, but I suspect that's because some of the artists have worked on both projects.

Table of contents:
1.The Thirteen Primes
2.The Expulsion of Unicron
3.The War of the Primes
4.The Age of Evolution
5.The Age of Origins
6.The Age of Wrath
7.The Golden Age
8.The Age of Rust
9.The Great War
10.Exodus
11.Earthfall

Mindmaster wrote:

Sabrblade! JelZe! We need you!

Sabrblade wrote:Okay, after some repeated attempts to crack this code, I don't think it's Ancient Autobot, guys.

Mkall wrote:It's not "The Thirteenth Prime." His name is Thirteen (always italicized) and yes, we do have an image of him.

Va'al wrote:

Mkall wrote:It's not "The Thirteenth Prime." His name is Thirteen (always italicized) and yes, we do have an image of him.

Aha! Good good.

And about the Fallen?

Ω Sentinel ζ Prime wrote:A question for anyone who has it now.

Could anyone give a summary of the Primes?

Not the 13, but the ones right before Optimus.

So before Optimus we had Sentinel Zeta and before him who was it, and so on.

Thanks guys!

Ω Sentinel ζ Prime wrote:Also if anyone would do some summarizing for tfwiki and the rest of the net I'd be grateful. Not all of us can afford this thing !

Sabrblade wrote:Okay, after some repeated attempts to crack this code, I don't think it's Ancient Autobot, guys.

SlyTF1 wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:Okay, after some repeated attempts to crack this code, I don't think it's Ancient Autobot, guys.

I'm sure it translates to what Alpha Trion wrote in english, on that "Afterwards" page on Amazon.

Ω Sentinel ζ Prime wrote:Wait what? That's kinda crazy.

So in the whole history of Cybertron the Covenant only lists the 13 before skipping right to Optimus?

That's like having the Bible skip from Judah to Joseph.

I figured in Exodus it was just a Squint Glitch but you're telling me that's the real deal?

No Nova Prime? No Guardian Prime, not even a Nominous Prime?

Ω Sentinel ζ Prime wrote:Oh darp; yeah that's why I asked "for anyone who has it now"

I think there are... two people in this thread who have it, yes?

I wouldnt bother asking if I thought they were busy actually reading it, but the "Who is Online" ticker says he's online so i figured he'd be cool for it.

Sorry if I annoyed you.

CMBcheetor wrote:Does it have the passages from Beast Wars?

Ω Sentinel ζ Prime wrote:Well the Beast Era hasnt happened yet in the series timeline, so I dont see how that would work without major spoilers.

Asepticon wrote:No Beast Wars related stuff? Bumber. I do wish it were comparable to the COP in the show that it was first referenced.

Asepticon wrote:Well it would have the prophesy about the Beast Wars I guess is what I meant.

Ω Sentinel ζ Prime wrote:Well given Aligned's mandate is to be a kind of "All-Star" panoply of past continuity, it'd be amiss for a Beast Era analog NOT to occur.

Sabrblade wrote:

Ω Sentinel ζ Prime wrote:Well given Aligned's mandate is to be a kind of "All-Star" panoply of past continuity, it'd be amiss for a Beast Era analog NOT to occur.

Isn't the fact that they remade the Predacons to be as far and different from the Beast Wars iteration as possible sort of a clue that there might not be a Beast Era analog?

Asepticon wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

Ω Sentinel ζ Prime wrote:Well given Aligned's mandate is to be a kind of "All-Star" panoply of past continuity, it'd be amiss for a Beast Era analog NOT to occur.

Isn't the fact that they remade the Predacons to be as far and different from the Beast Wars iteration as possible sort of a clue that there might not be a Beast Era analog?

Not at all. That could have been the onset of the beast era.

Sabrblade wrote:

Asepticon wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

Ω Sentinel ζ Prime wrote:Well given Aligned's mandate is to be a kind of "All-Star" panoply of past continuity, it'd be amiss for a Beast Era analog NOT to occur.

Isn't the fact that they remade the Predacons to be as far and different from the Beast Wars iteration as possible sort of a clue that there might not be a Beast Era analog?

Not at all. That could have been the onset of the beast era.

But the Predacons of the Aligned Continuity were an ancient race of non-transforming Cybertronian dragons who all died and went extinct in the Great Cataclysm prior to the age of standard Cybertronians (who would become the Autobots and Decepticons).

The Predacons of the Beast Era, however, were the future descendants of the Decepticons who were normal, ordinary Cybertronians at human size. Only a select few actually turned into animals (because of their scanning them on other worlds), while the mass population had standard Cybertronian altmodes.

There's also a difference between insignia designs.

Sabrblade wrote:

Ω Sentinel ζ Prime wrote:Well given Aligned's mandate is to be a kind of "All-Star" panoply of past continuity, it'd be amiss for a Beast Era analog NOT to occur.

Isn't the fact that they remade the Predacons to be as far and different from the Beast Wars iteration as possible sort of a clue that there might not be a Beast Era analog?