Empurata is an old tradition on pre-war Cybertron. A tradition of removing the heads and hands of criminals and installing new faceless, fingerless replacements so everyone knows to shun them.
Notes
- "Empurata" is an anagram of the Latin word "amputare", meaning "to cut away". Rather than be used in a surgical context, as the descended word "amputation" is today, "amputare" was a punishment inflicted upon criminals to mark them as such, as it is in the world of More than Meets the Eye.
- Theoretically, a victim of empurata could be given new hands (and possibly a new head). For example, Megatron offered Shockwave a pair of hands shortly before launching the initial Decepticon uprising, but when Shockwave realised a war was beginning, he opted to keep one hand and replace the other with a blaster. It should be observed that Shockwave had his hands replaced by an underground organisation and so it can be surmised that victims of empurata were unable to legally replace their lost body parts. Damus appears to have had his body completely overhauled upon joining the Decepticons.
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