by Dr. Caelus » Thu Oct 08, 2015 8:24 am
Okay, so...
Nexus Prime and Onyx Prime collaborate on Headmasters before the Primes disappear, as an experiment in combiner technology.
Galvatron blasts the Enigma of Combination into space because he considers their experiment to be an abomination.
Alpha Trion goes to Earth to find the Enigma of Combination.
Blackrock - with his little beard and glasses - appears on Earth, knowing a LOT about Cybertronian technology.
Alpha Trion is incapacitated.
Blackrock produces the Enigma of Combination, and claims his ancient family - descendents of one of Earth's first epic heroes - has been guarding it since it showed up.
Blackrock - exhibiting a surprising grasp of ancient Cybertronian - hacks the Enigma of Combination to get its source code.
Blackrock uses the source code from Nexus Prime's Enigma of Combination to create the Onyx Project.
Onyx allows Blackrock to connect to everything, and thereby see everything, and describes it using the word "Triptych" - recall that Onyx Prime's artifact is supposed to be the Triptych mask, which essentially allowed him to see everything, as well.
Blackrock reveals that, using this new found omniscience, he's determined that he does not have a soul, but does not know why.
So...
Maybe Blackrock is Alpha Trion's holomatter avatar that's gone rogue, but using Alpha Trion's latent knowledge of the Prime's, their relics, and their languages, has used one relic (the Enigma of Combination) to try and bootleg another relic (the Triptych Mask) in order to gain access to forbidden knowledge - possibly providing the basis for the Titan Master technology? And maybe he or Alpha Trion is the one that calls the Titans back to Cybertron?
But what role does Sentinel Prime play? I thought he was very, very dead. I guess Alpha Trion pulled Ironhide from the other side, so maybe he can do the same with Sentinel Prime.