Six-of-Twelve
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- Six-of-Twelve is a Transformer from the IDW portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.
The members of the Functionist Council are all driven by the tenets of their religious doctrine, but none of them take their zealous crusade quite as far as Six-of-Twelve, the "Enactor". Perhaps as a result of his title, Six-of-Twelve is far and away the most active member of the Council, enmeshed in numerous long-term schemes all aimed at spreading the word of Functionism writ large across the galaxy in the name of Primus.
It's unclear if these desires stem from Six-of-Twelve's naturally ambitious nature or the false copy of the Matrix of Leadership he has integrated into his superstructure. Through this artifact, Six-of-Twelve claims to be a conduit of Primus's will, acting on cryptic visions and apocalyptic dreams of a coming war. Yes, everything must be done in the name of the greater good, in the name of Cybertronian sovereignty. And if a few million organic species perish in the name of that vision... then their deaths were clearly preordained by God himself.
Fiction
2005 IDW continuity
The Functionist Universe
In an alternate timeline, the Functionist Council had publicly clashed with and overthrown the Senate after debating the blasphemy of Nova Prime's spark stockpile. In the uprising, Twelve-of-Twelve executed Nominus Prime and took the Matrix from him, handing it over to Six A World Misplaced though both councillors were unaware that it was a fake. The Divided Self Modes of Production
Six-of-Twelve held the 'Matrix' for the next five million years. After studying the talisman and its mysteries, he eventually came to believe that Primus could speak to him through the artifact—and that "Primus" foresaw a new era of war on Cybertron. Forewarned with this knowledge, Six of Twelve began preparing for the conflict. In an act of religious blasphemy, Six-of-Twelve began taking pre-existing Cybertronians and transplanting their Sparks into combat-ready construction and military bodies. A World Misplaced
The second part of Six-of-Twelve's plan involved Luna 2, last remaining moon of Cybertron and a constant battleground between the Primal Vanguard and the Black Box Consortia. Concerned with the idea that Cybertron's moon served no function on a planet without tides, he plotted to rebuild it into a massive harvester unit that would strip planets of minerals and send them back to Cybertron to fortify the planet. After half a million years of fighting, Six-of-Twelve had claimed to have abandoned his plans, and the rest of the Council agreed to sell the moon to the Consortia. The Custom-Made Now Unbeknownst to the other Councilors, Six-of-Twelve managed to capture the moon and rebuild it into his prophesied harvester unit. Bad Moon Rising
Drowning in all this regret?
During a meeting of the Council at The Cog, Six-of-Twelve reported that he had consulted with their theoconomists over the next mass recall from the Grand Cybertronian Taxonomy, that of the data slugs. A strict reading suggested that they still had functional value, but their ability to store large amounts of data threatened the Council's ability to rule and so One-of-Twelve ordered their obsolescence chips to be detonated. The Custom-Made Now
Though Nine-of-Twelve eventually abandoned the Council after he discovered Six's heretical plans, the remaining members of the Council made a momentous discovery after a janitorial class worker happened to figure out Rung's "purpose:" the production of photonic crystals, which could be used to store sparks in "cold constructed" bodies. Though One-of-Twelve initially wanted to kill Rung, Six-of-Twelve convinced the others that this was a sign that Primus approved of cold construction after all. Predestination: An Expert's Guide Modes of Production
The Council, still unaware that their Matrix was a fake, were unable to tap the Matrix for Sparks as they had hoped. Instead, they decided to break into Vector Sigma, supposedly sealed behind impenetrable ununtrium, and in the process quash anti-Functionist sentiment once and for all by roping Rung into it. Under threat of blackmail, Rung produced thousands of crystals to house future Sparks in war-ready bodies. Modes of Production
At some point after this, Six-of-Twelve rebuilt the false Matrix to emit an agony beam that could suspend a Cybertronian in mid-air, Modes of Production and had it integrated into his head. Anomie
His plans nearing fruition, Six-of-Twelve's endgame began when the Council announced the "Day of Revelation", where he addressed the citizens of Cybertron in a planet-wide broadcast. At midday, he promised, the Council would show all of Cybertron what the fabled "Useless One's" true purpose was. Anomie When the time finally came, Six-of-Twelve revealed Rung's falsified alternate mode: supposedly a giant drill capable of penetrating the ununtrium wall. In truth, Rung was little more than a prop—as the Councillors would simply use a normal ununtrium drill to reach the chamber— but Six-of-Twelve assured the crowd that Rung had been created by Primus for this exact purpose. At that moment, Six-of-Twelve's lunar harvesting unit returned to Cybertron, fully operational. A World Misplaced
start looking forward and stop looking back
Knowing that the rogue Nine-of-Twelve had turned the city of Adaptica into a haven for the "obsolete" and other rabble-rousers like the Anti-Vocationist League, and armed with the new knowledge that the runaway Councillor wasn't required to activate Vector Sigma, Six's weaponized moon began tearing that city apart with tractor beams, sucking up and "processing" the city and its helpless inhabitants alike. While his project laid waste to the city above, the remaining eleven members of the Council arrived in the Vector Sigma chamber, where they were confronted by a dimensionally-displaced Rodimus and crew. Six's villainous monologues were little match for Rodimus' flippancy, and the Autobot simply tackled the Councillor, sending them both flying into the Vector Sigma chamber itself. Bad Moon Rising Six-of-Twelve subsequently trapped Rodimus in his agony beam before Rung, returned to normal, intervened. Rung outlined Six's plan to the assembled Autobots before turning his old captor's words back against them: their combined alternate mode, the Key to Vector Sigma, was little more than a piece of religious paraphernalia extraneous to the functioning of the mega-computer. All this time, they were just as useless as they had thought Rung to be; their old captive bid them farewell as they teleported away, sarcastically declaring the Council the true "Useless Ones". Modes of Production
Six's weaponized moon was eventually teleported away; the incident was blamed on the Black Box Consortia and Six returned to his normal position on the Council, with the majority of Cybertron none the wiser about what had truly transpired. This Machine Kills Fascists
Undeterred by the moon's loss, the Council ordered the construction of planetary engines so that Cybertron itself could become their instrument of destruction. Though Six-of-Twelve held the Matrix, Twelve-of-Twelve's rank as "castigator" granted him operational control of the Council as they undertook their purge on alien life. Despite using the Warren for travel, the Council faced the dual issue of Cybertron's lack of manoeuvrability and Megatron's AVL warning alien populations of their genocidal intentions. To counteract the former issue, the Council engineered Cybertron with a robot mode cast in the likeness of Primus, whose actions the six remaining councillors controlled from Vector Sigma. After the Grand Architect's God Gun opened a tear between universes, the Functionist army entered. After destroying Mederi, Twelve-of-Twelve noticed the duplicate Cybertrons necessary for the God Gun and ordered the destruction of the "graven images", before they would attack the alien filth of the new universe they'd found themselves in. The Return of the King The Unremembering After the duplicates had been destroyed, the Council attempted to destroy the Lost Light only for Luna 1 to suddenly crash into "Primus's" neural cluster, forcing the avatar back to planet mode. In a panic, the Council began the arduous process of realigning the giant's transformation cog, while the Functionary armies were sent to the various hot spots to prevent the Lost Light crew from overloading Vector Sigma with twelve Matrices. Against all odds, the Lost Lighters managed to complete their mission, the resulting energy surge vaporizing the Council, finally freeing Cybertron from their tyranny. A Spark Among Embers
