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Primus is a character introduced in the Beast Wars television series.

History
In addition to its occasional invocation in prayer or in righteous anger by the Beast Warriors, Primus' name was also lent to a set of prophetical datatrax, known as the Covenant of Primus. From this document, the Megatron of this era took his name (as did, presumably, the original Megatron), and the scriptures foretold the events which completed the Beast Wars.

After the Beast Wars, Megatron intended to incorporate Primus' essence, the Allspark, into his own being and become godlike by stealing every Spark of every Transformer on Cybertron. Ultimately, this was merely one step of the Oracle's plan to reformat Cybertron into a technorganic paradise. After Megatron and Optimus Primal were plunged into the planet's core, the planet was reborn and the abducted Sparks were returned to new technorganic bodies.



Following the recreation of Cybertron as a technorganic world, Unicron began gathering Transformers from across the multiverse, forcing them to fight and harvesting the Sparks of the losers to restore his power. With each spark devoured, Primus was weakened, and so, communing with Autobot elder Alpha Trion, called back from the Allspark the now-legendary Maximal commander and Cybertron's savior, Optimus Primal, to rescue the possessed, battling captives from the Pit of Unicron -- and to lead a team of multiverse warriors to put a stop to his soul-stealing scheme before it could cause the Allspark to collapse.

Primus allowed Optimus Primal to choose any Transformer who ever existed -- living or dead -- for his army. This required considerable amounts of Primus' power, so Primal was told to choose sparingly. Primal chose his departed former troops Rhinox and Depth Charge. Ultimately, however, Unicron's defeat came not as a result of their efforts, but as a consequence of another battle, happening in another corner of the Transformers multiverse.