Ivory Towers

See? Ivory!

TheIvory Towers( ngà voi の thápZōge no Tō) were the once the headquarters of thePrimus Vanguard.Now, those twin towers serve as little more than a decaying gravestone to the destroyed corps.^[1]

Fiction

Precursor World

WHO COVERED MY ROOM WITH CHEESE?

Oh father who art in heavenplease un-cheese my room.

Yellow Splendid Convoypersonally delivered the news ofBlue Brightes Convoy'spassing toPrimusin his office.

Primus and the various Order leaders convened in a conference chamber to discuss how to combat the Vok threat. When the power of theWhite Matrixrevealed that the Vok hailed from the future, Primus resolved to scry into the future to discern their motives with theBlack Matrixover the objections ofBlack Go Prime.

Yellow Splendid Convoy,White Gallant Convoy,andPurple Wicked Convoyloitered in the hallways of the Ivory Towers gossiping about Primus holing himself up in his chambers in the wake of the vision he received.

Within his quarters, Primus underwent something of a breakdown over the revelation that the Vok were in fact the Vanguard's old enemies theSpectersreturned fromthe next universeuntil his pet apePrimacronrevealed hisownplan to conquer the next universe, attacked him and escaped.

Running out after the creature, Primus accosted his commanders in the hallways demanding their Matrices so that he might destroy the universe withhis ownbefore their enemies.

Understandably rebuffed by his soldiers, Primus wept in the now empty conference room before being assailed by a taunting vision by the Vok enemy.

Now truly at the end of his rope, Primus wept before the statue of his mentor, the creator godG One,for guidance in the Ivory Towers' holiest of holies before concocting a convoluted plan to "save" the universe.Finale Prelude

In the aftermath of Primus' mischief and the subsequent destruction of theBlue Orderby theStraxuses,Magna Convoyconverted the ruins of the proud corps' headquarters to a memorial site for its fallen members. He reflected on his place in the universe while kneeling before the gravestones of the dead in the very cathedral where Primus had plotted their destruction and then metSoundwaveat the entrance.Cybertron Magna Convoy prequel comic

Notes

Not so ivory these days...

• While we can't say for certain, things like Primus and Primacron's presence there shortly after the events documented here make it pretty likely that the Ivory Towers are located somewhere on theBlue Planet.
• "Ivory Towers" is probably a pun on the tusks ofBlue Big Convoy's mammoth alternate mode; it's more obvious in Japanese, as its word for ivory ( ngà voizōge) literally means "elephant tusk".
• The memorial holograms in the Ivory Towers cathedral seen in the prequel to "Cybertron Magna Convoy" have the shapes ofGeneration 1 Skids,PrimeHot Shot,Generation 1 Frenzy,LegendsBrainstorm,and a virtual redeco ofTitans ReturnBlack ShadowintoDai Atlas.All those characters would go on to appear prior to their demise in theGenerations Selectsspecial comic,confirming their membership in the Primus Vanguard.
• Thestatuein the center, meanwhile, is "Giant Robo G-1",an unreleased 1979Micromantoy.^[2]In the finale of the Generations Selects comic it would be revealed to representThe Oneitself.
• Additional holograms revealed in the finale would include aReverse Convoy,representingBrightes,as well asTimelinesHeatwave,UnitedThunderwing,andThe Last KnightDragonicus,presumably representing other deceased Vanguard leaders.

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