What is the origin of the Transformers?
According to #61, written by Simon Furman [who had previously used the same origin in UK #150] Unicron, a Chaos God, and Primus, a Light God, had battled at the dawn of the universe, and Unicron had nearly won before Primus tricked them into materialising inside space junk. Both were able to psionically alter their prisons – Unicron made his a giant transforming planet, with Primus becoming Cybertron, creating Transformers from the ‘skin’ of the planet, and storing his essence in the Creation Matrix, which is handed down the Autobot leaders.
