Matrix (facility)

The Matrix is a gigantic facility used to produce and bring life to Maximal protoforms. Both the Matrix and the Pit are located in an isolated area on Cybertron. The Matrix and Pit are capable of self-defense, making themselves veritable fortresses. Nobody knows when the facilities first appeared on the planet. The Matrix periodically rolls out Maximal protoforms.^[1]

Fiction

Timelines

The Matrix was a facility that granted Transformers life, and the only thing along with the Pit facility that could do so. The Razor's Edge

2006 IDW Beast Wars continuity

The Matrix facility was responsible for uniting Maximal sparks with the protoforms created there. Beast Wars Sourcebook

Notes

The Matrix facility, like its twin Pit, originated in pseudocanonical sources and the vast majority of what we know about it remains pseudocanon. The statements in the fiction section — derived from exactly two sentences of The Razor's Edge constitute the whole of canonical information on these facilities.

The idea of the Matrix and Pit facilities was introduced to the fandom through Bob Forward and Larry DiTillio's posts to the newsgroup alt.toys.transformers during the years that Beast Wars was airing on North American television. Bob'n'Larry had seemingly not fully formed the idea behind the facilities at the time that they mentioned them on ATT. Years later, DiTillio provided some background information for the Japanese guidebook Beast Wars Universe including some additional information about the facilities. Here DiTillio states that the Allspark dimension (aka the Matrix dimension) is the same thing as the Vok Nebula, the "cloud" that the Vok are shown inhabiting (also sometimes referred to as Nexus Zero). Again according to this interview, the Vok created protoforms and they presumably are the ones responsible for mysteriously plopping the Matrix and Pit down on Cybertron.

See also

• Pit

References

1. ↑ Beast Wars Universe