>>7446380e>God was real thoughEh, depends a lot on what you meant by ‘real’.
All of the Cyberteonian god we heard of in this continuity turned out to be ‘real’ in the sense that they literally existed, but none of them were actually at all divine in nature, they were literally all just dudes.
Primus/Rung’s notables features are:
>He’s the first/oldest guy>He can make a few matrixes (which it’s still kind of unclear what exactly those really are/were and can do)>Spark fields seem to activate in relation to him>He has a really good healing-factor None of those really qualifies him as a God or even necessarily particularly divine.
It’s kind of like how most people in the world believe in Jesus, in the sense that most people think there probably genuinely was a historical figure, presumably called Jesus, during that time period, who went around establishing the proto-Christian religious movement before eventually being killed, probably by the Roman government. But it’s still only Christans who actually believe that Jesus guy was really God.
Personally my biggest complaint about how IDW ended up handling Cybertronian religion and mysticism, is that they didn’t have a single actually described form of those which they still left ambiguous as to whether they were actually true.
I mean, if you’re trying to write in a way that reflects your worldview that the supernatural and mystic doesn’t actually exist in our world (Which honestly I mostly agree with), then you don’t need to write it like magic and gods are totally real in the transformers universe. But you still don’t need to explicitly rule them out and show them to be demonstratively false in their world, after all its not like we literally have video tapes showing conclusively that Moses, Jesus, Muhammad, Buddha, and all the other religious figures who have ever existed were just normal dudes with smoke, mirrors, and inflated legends surrounding them, it will always be ambiguous.
