energy absorber is a vital component of Transformer anatomy that allows them the capacity to refuel, presumably with energon.
Dude keeping it away from them may give yoy 5 slaves but thats 5 big herry angery heavely armed and armoured slaves who can turn into aneven bigger more heavaly armedand armoured giant hyper destructive slave who is pretty pissed at you.
Yes, with a limited supply of power, as for them individually, they seem the type to fire their weapons recklessly, which would eventually drain their energon making them less accurate and slow moving in their armored bodies.
