News Files - Transformers Cold Construction

Cold Construction was an artificial method for creating Cybertronians. Fearful that the pulsewaves from Vector Sigma would eventually halt entirely, Cybertronian scientists tapped into the Matrix of Leadership to generate thousands of sparks per day, which were then housed in pre-constructed bodies. These sparks were produced at such a rapid rate that they had to be stockpiled until new bodies could be constructed. Their energies were frozen in photonic crystals, which would be placed inside the new bodies in order to thaw out, hence the term "constructed cold".

Although the method is no longer practiced, some cold construction spark storage facilities remain undiscovered. Matrix-derived sparks contain the same genetic instructions as forged ones, but were unable to reshape their pre-constructed bodies in accordance, leaving cold constructed Cybertronians with different bodies from what their sparks intended. Recognising the potential for outcry against what they were doing, a cover story was put in place to explain the creation of these new Cybertronians: the public were told that they were created via spark-splicing, using the energy of a Forged spark to ignite a new one.