What can you tell us about Medix's relatives Apax, Torquesteer, and Wrench?
In that particular reality, the term does not always translate so literallyâjust as Ratchet was not Medixâs literal uncle, so too are Ratchetâs own âfamilyâ members not directly related to him; they are teachers, mentors, and caretakers who helped shape the young Ratchet into the wise, resourceful âbot he became.
Apax was the wise leader of Ratchetâs village during the Age of Origins. An early scholar and an early convert to Azimuthâs Patterner movement, she placed great importance on the value of knowledge and developed a system of cuneiform pictographs to better retain information, and archeologists believe that this might have been one of the earliest examples of written Cybertronian language.
Torquesteer was a professor at Cybertronâs first university in Iaconâthe first neuroscientist in Cybertronian history, he was an accomplished scholar, thinker, and philosopher. His most notable contribution to the sciences was the creation of the Torquesteer Sparktype Tree, an attempt to map the different electrochemical compositions of each spark to variations in physical form and personality.
Finally, Medixâs own cousin Wrench emerged from the Well of All Sparks at almost the same time as Medix himselfâhowever, Wrench wound up in a different batch of new protoforms. They remained quite close, however, and that is why the young Rescue Bot regards him as a âsecond cousinâ. Like Medix, Wrench is an accomplished engineer, but is more interested in fixing machines than other âbots, and has put his race car alternate mode to good use on the refurbished Hydrax Speedway.