Covenant of Primus - Overview

Overview

The Covenant of Primus is best known as the name of the "holy text" of Transformers, their equivalent of the Bible, written in a manner similar to the Book of Revelation. Like that Earth text, it serves as something of a prophecy of what is to come in Cybertronian future—after perusing what he would later call "the good parts," a renegade Predacon gave himself the name "Megatron," taking it from a great destroyer that the book foretold the coming of. Although it resembles a book, the brief view of its "pages" that we are offered suggests that it is a recording device that holds the information electronically, rather than being made of paper. In an ironic twist, the events foretold in the Covenant were the same ones that were played out in the Beast Wars, with Megatron being that same great destroyer he took his name from.

The Covenant of Primus also exists in the Transformers: Prime universe, where like the one in "Beast Wars", it foretells of future events that will occur in that universe, one such prophecy foretelling the rising threat of Unicron.

A second Covenant of Primus exists, but rather than being a record it is an organization. According to the Botcon comics, the Covenant were the first 13 Transformers created by Primus. They were created in preparation for Point Omega, the foretold final battle against the evil Unicron. The Covenant were also created as a test by Primus, to assure that he would be able to manipulate the planetoid he was to become imprisoned in, and also as prototypes of the first Transformer race.