RACE: Newforged

Currently unplayable.

Newforged are the creation of Tarantulas, made in the image of Shockwave's original program. Tarantulas mastered the Forging process at some point during the timeline of the war for Earth, imbuing his new generation with the ability for their bodies to perform a refined version of pink alchemy, allowing them to produce energon from ingesting organic materials. This was mostly turned against organic life on worlds without proper energon reserves, and was done in response to his warship's depleting reserves and starving population.

Newforged come in all size classes and all have bestial alternate modes, but they come in just about any animalistic form. What distinguishes the Newforged from the Beastfromers, Forged, Dinobots, or Predacons is their origins and their bodies' ability to perform pink alchemy.

Many Newforged are also hosts to other experimental procedures, and enjoy technically undead status thanks to Tarantulas' "Power Core Combiner" technology, in which he replaces an expired spark with a sapient life form that acts as a new one. The process creates a mild melding of minds, but generally the host Cybertronian's brain creates and controls the vast majority of cognition. It's debatable whether or not the result is really the same Cybertronian anymore, some would argue they're no longer a Cybertronian at all. The link between spark chamber and brain has clearly had its effect on the resulting Power Core Combiners, as even if their core dies and is replaced, traces of its personality and mind linger on in the Cybertronian brain.