Transformium, is the name the high technology conglomerate Kinetic Solutions Incorporated gave to the metal from which the Transformers are made. The alternative name of the metal as given by the Cybertronians themselves is elemental metals, in the first Transformers film, the property of the metal is described as "self-regenerating molecular armor".

History

65 million years ago a mysterious race known as The Creators arrived on Earth and began deploying terraforming seeds across the landscape; causing the mass extinction of the dinosaurs and turned them to metal and began harvesting the metal to create the Cybertronian species.

Description

Transformium was used by The Creators and later KSI. as a groundbreaking technology that allowed for the construction of transformation-capable robots. The way the substance is depicted, it appears the Transformium is a kind of programmable matter, it also functions as an analogue of genetic material, complete with a genome. When the KSI drones transform, unlike the normal alternative mode of the Cybertronians, they explode into fragments and rebuild themselves into the mode they’re turning into, as animal/vehicle-to-robot transformation.

With Earth's limited supplies of Transformium dwindling in the face of their escalating production, KSI head Joshua Joyce wound up conspiring with CIA agent and anti-Transformer fanatic Harold Attinger, who provided Joyce with an additional Transformium supply in the form of the dead bodies of Decepticons that his Cemetery Wind task force rounded up though unbeknownst to KSI, many of those corpses were in fact Autobots). Even this was not enough, however, but Attinger's secret ally Lockdown promised salvation in the form of a cyberforming seed that could provide them a vast quantity of Transformium for decades in exchange for assistance in capturing Optimus Prime for his own ends. They intended to safely detonate the seed in the Mongolian desert, creating enough Transformium to last for decades, but Galvatron (in actuality Megatron reborn) through silent manipulation of the KSI and its Transformium sought to obtain it for himself, and had no such compunctions about protecting humanity from its effects. He took control of KSI's small army of Transformium prototypes, but his plan was foiled by Optimus Prime's Autobots and their human allies.

Capabilities

• Programable Matter
  • Programmable Sentient Matter
  • Organic Nanotechnology
    • Living Metal Weaponry
    • Bio-Mechatronics

Trivia

• The moniker "living metal" is the original name for Transformium in the Transformers franchise.
• The Metal was named in the First Movie "self-regenerating molecular armor" by Lennox. Which later explain that the Cybertronian race has some kind of regenerate abilities.
• The Third Name of the Metal is "Elemental metals".
• Living Metal is the key to Cybertronians having unique abilities:
  • Megatron become one of the characters who has many examples of these events and abilities.
    • In Revenge of the Fallen movie, Megatron in his second form has an alt mode as a Cybertronian Tank, after his living metal is fused with the transformium metal subtances of Scrapmetal during surgery process by Scalpel and Constructicons.
    • In IDW movie comic adaptations of Revenge of the Fallen. Megatron briefly re-accesses his alt mode form as the Cybertronian Jet, when he ambush Sam Witwicky in the forest.
    • In Dark of the Moon videogame, Megatron is able to access the Fusion Cannon despite having a new replacement right arm created by Soundwave and Lensmeter Drones.
    • In Dark of the Moon movie novelizations, Megatron re-accesses his alt form as the Cybertronian Tank shortly after forming a truce with Optimus Prime, and orders the Decepticons to leave the Earth peacefully.
    • In Age of Extinction, due to being reborn without the spark in his chest. Galvatron can transform into transformium particles, thus making him almost immortal.
    • In The Last Knight, due to Galvatron still has the transformium metal substances and spark located on his head. Quintessa easily convert him back into his old self as Megatron. Where he has somewhat parallel body to his original body.
    • In Shadows Rising timeline, Megatron reassumes his second form after his spark was accidently analyzed and brought back to life by KSI scientiest.
  • Starscream can fix his hand simply by attaching it back.
  • Bumblebee has a similar appearance to Stinger in Age of Extinction. It is heavily implied that Bumblebee uses the Transformium metal process.
    • He furthermore demonstrate these Transformium process in The Last Knight", where his body can reassemble like a magnet.
  • The KSI workers presumably creates KSI Drones and Decepticon Clones, after they're discover and learning of the Transformium.

Extended Links

• Living Metal from TFWiki.net
• Substances from Transformers Wikia
• Living Metal from Transformers Universal Wikia