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Slight alteration because this has been a sore spot for me and one of the reasons I don’t like Furman’s takes on Transformers: The Creation Matrix started out as simply a computer program that gave Transformers life, implanted in the Autobot leader at the time, the last of which being Optimus Prime. Before the Spark was invented in fiction the Transformers were living machines thanks to what’s essentially a computer code that programmed them with emotions and personalities the Transformer itself would form over time. Furman retconned it into a physical object because for him the Movie adaptation was canon to the comic universe, for a bunch of reasons, and the Creation Matrix was the same as the Autobot Matrix Of Leadership seen in the movie. So that’s a different pre-Spark explanation for Cybertronian life, just one that was retconned out of continuity.
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