Energon (power source)

Energon is the primary source of power for the Transformers. Using Energon, transformers live, power their machinery, and even craft weapons.

The exact nature of energon is unknown, however it can be made using any number of raw materials commonly used on earth, including fossil and nuclear fuels.

Energon in its raw form is extremely harmful to most Transformers, however. In the Beast Wars, Optimus Primal and his crew find out firsthand as they are pushed close to stasis lock because of energon overdose. Energon in this concentration exists in highly volitile crystalline deposits.

Energon must be processed into Energon Liquid, Energon Cubes or Energon Rods to be useful to the transformers as fuel. Specialized machines and certain transformers can handle raw Energon.

Energon crystals are also usable if processed correctly. Weapons and tools made from refined energon crystals and charged are more powerful and sharp than any metal known to the Transformers. A few transformers, such as Grimlock, wield energon weapons almost exclusively. An energon blade is also known to be able to affect the indestructable spark of Protoform X; it is unknown what result it would have if taken to Starscream's immortal spark.

Transformers later found other sources of power, including Zone Energy and Amogolois Energy, however neither completely supplanted the need for Energon.