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History of the Transformers

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History of the Transformers

In the Beginning

A single omnipotent being of unknown origin travels the galaxy, discovering life along the way. With no other creatures equaling its power, the being begins to converse with itself, and in time two unique personas form. The first is Primus, a reassuring presence that accepts the universe at is; the second is Unicron, who discovers and seeks to correct perceived flaws in the order of the universe. The two personas grow increasingly divergent from one another, and begin to argue. In time, the being splits physically, creating two separate bodies for each half of its warring psyche. Unicron grows increasingly rapacious and destructive, while Primus grows increasingly withdrawn. Eventually, Primus takes up arms to stop Unicron from devouring the galaxy. This struggle lasts for eons, with neither side able to gain an advantage over the other.

Age of the Thirteen

To try and turn the tide, Primus creates the Thirteen, each given a unique role, nature, and artifact of power to aid the struggle. In order of their creation, they are Prima, Vector Prime, Alpha Trion, Solus Prime, Micronus Prime, Alchemist Prime, Nexus Prime, Onyx Prime, Amalgamous Prime, Liege Maximo, Megatronus, and the Thirteenth Prime

The Expulsion of Unicron

The newly created Primes begin training and strategizing for the upcoming conflict. Solus Prime, the artificer of the Thirteen, creates many weapons and icons of power for them to use. At the urging of Megatronus, she creates a great weapon to fight Unicron, although Solus herself worries that this power could corrupt them. The Thirteen vote seven to six to keep the Requiem Blaster and not destroy it. Ultimately, the Primes defeat Unicron, and the Chaos Bringer's inert form drifts off into space, where it later forms the core of Earth. His fossilized blood, spilled in this conflict, becomes known as Dark Energon. Following the defeat of Unicron, Primus becomes one with the Core of Cybertron, where he gives life to future Transformers through the AllSpark, within the Well of All Sparks.  Although the Primes stand triumphant, Unicron's influences has tainted all of them with a touch of darkness.

The War of the Primes

After a period of peaceful building and construction, tensions between the Primes slowly grow. Secretly manipulated by Liege Maximo, Megatronus kills Solus Prime, causing the first schism in the Primes. After Megatronus is defeated, the Liege Maximo makes his own play for power, but is defeated in the process. After this great battle, Nexus Prime fragments himself into five robots, each one carrying and guarding a fragment of the Cyber Caliber.

His components are dubbed Clocker, Mainspring, Chaindrive, Cannonspring, and Pinion. The fight has lasting repercussions for the Thirteen—Megatronus, now "The Fallen", and the Liege have left the Primes for good, the once idealistic Vector Prime despairs and seals himself away in a pocket dimension, and Solus Prime is dead. Onyx Prime, Micronus Prime, and the Thirteenth Prime willingly enter the Well of All Sparks and sacrifice their lives in order to jump-start its creative processes, with the intent of creating a new race to inhabit the world.

Alpha Trion and Alchemist Prime vow to remain on Cybertron and nurture this new civilization. Quintus Prime  ravels into deep space with his Emberstone, with the intention of creating new races that will ally with future Cybertronian civilizations. Meanwhile, far out in space, the forgotten Requiem Blaster gradually accrues a collection of space junk around it. As its gravitational pull increases, more and more drifting shipwrecks and space junk gather around it, eventually forming an artificial planetoid. This artificial planet will later become known as Junkion.

Sealed away in a parallel dimension, the Fallen swears revenge for his humiliation and exile.

The Age of Evolution

The three Primes that entered the Well activate the AllSpark, which in turns emits a great burst of energy. From this beam of energy comes a wide variety of mechanical life, including precursors to modern Cybertronians. On the last stellar cycle, the Allspark's largest and most powerful creations of all, the Predacons emerge. Predaking, their leader, is the first of their kind, followed by Lazerback and Twinstrike. Many more follow, and some of them come into conflict with humanoid Cybertronians.

Cybertron's fledgling ecosystems continue to grow and prosper for tens of thousands of years. Eventually, however, a passing red giant star interferes with Cybertron's own sun, causing meteor strikes and solar flares. While many humanoid Transformers take shelter underground in stasis lock, the Predacons remain unshielded on the surface. They do not survive, though they leave behind a multitude of fossils containing extractable CNA.

The Age of Origins

The surviving Cybertronians are quick to rebuild their wounded world. In the era that follows, many small settlements and villages form as protection from marauding warlords and barbarian armies. One such settlement, known as Iacon, becomes home to an influential group known as the Patterners. Composed of survivors from the Great Cataclysm, this group of rationalists and philosophers rallies under the leadership of Azimuth. Their quest for knowledge leads them to study the movements and patterns of the stars, and eventually carve great geometric symbols into the face of Cybertron. Their movement eventually spawns many splinter groups and counter-cults, such as the cult of Random led by Galvatron.

At some point during this time, the Dark Spark is discovered and studied by the Patterners and Disciples of the Thirteen, with some debate as to its origins. After witnessing its dark power, the Crystal Guardians decided that it was too powerful for study to be allowed to continue, and locked it away in vaults deep beneath their city.

Eventually, the Quintessons - creations of Quintus Prime - discover the world of Cybertron. Remotely observing the world by a system of probes secretly inserted into Cybertronians, the aliens begin preparing to invade the world, secretly intending to turn Cybertronians into mindless workers and selling them into slavery.

The Age of Wrath

A young Ratchet discovers a Quintesson probe inside the worker Coldwelder. Not long afterwards, the first Quintesson ships descend from the sky in a grand arrival, setting themselves up as benevolent emissaries sent to "uplift" Cybertron into the galactic community. They win the public support of Cybertronians by "teaching" them how to transform - in reality, they are simply activating the dormant transformation cogs in the bodies of all Transformers.

Buoyed by popular opinion, the Quintessons soon establish a globalized puppet government ruled by Sentinel Zeta Prime and a High Council of thirteen Transformers. Under Quintesson guidance, Cybertronians rapidly develop both public and private infrastructure, and eventually master spaceflight and dimensional travel. Before long, however, cracks begin to show in their benign façade. The Quintessons establish a new Supreme Court in line with their twisted ideals of justice, while other Quintessons siphon off the fruit of Cybertron's labour for their own ends. Some Transformers are even modified to serve as transportation for their rulers, such as installing cockpits on the bodies of the Seekers. The Quintesson occupation has a negative effect on the Well itself; Cybertronians begin emerging from the Allspark without names or personalities. One such Transformer is the newly born D-16, who is assigned a position in Cybertron's mines.

When a resistance movement finally exposes the many lies of the Quintessons, they are overthrown and routed from the system in a war effort headed by Sentinel Prime himself, the Elite Guard, and the aforementioned resistance. D-16 is one of the many working-class Cybertronians called to arms. With new space bridges engineered from the Quintesson's half-completed projects, Cybertron enters its Golden Age.

The Golden Age

The Golden Age brings sweeping changes to Cybertronian social structure and hierarchy. Sentinel Prime takes full control over the ex-Quintesson bureauccracy with the support of the High Council. The Well of All Sparks brings forth many new sparks, many of which are eventually harnessed as part of Cybertron's colonization efforts. Under Sentinel's rule, the new space bridge network allows trailblazing Cybertronians to colonize more than two hundred faraway planets, including Archon, Neutronia, Gigantion, Velocitron, Junkion, Aquatron, and the Hub. Concerted construction and cyberforming efforts turn many of these worlds into miniature Cybertrons. While these new colony worlds are initially supported by Cybertronian energon, many of them harness "torches" to create miniature Wells, rendering them completely independent from Cybertron.

The construction of the spaceport on the Hydrax Plateau begins, and Moonbases One and Two are constructed on the Mini-Con inhabited moons of Cybertron.

Trypticon Station is put into orbit as well, and a crew of Seekers are tasked with defending the Dark Energon stored within, remnants of Unicron's attack on the planet. The High Council encouraged the gathering and storage of Dark Energon aboard the vessel. The first Cybertronian data cylinders are created, which store and preserve the accumulated knowledge of Cybertronian civilization.

At some point during the Golden Age, a civilization known only as the Ancients arises. A civilization of explorers and astronomers, they travel the galaxy using Space Bridge technology, gather treasures from many worlds, and chart the known universe in their stellar cartography chamber. Among the planets visited by the Ancients is Earth. The Ancients are undone by a mysterious cataclysm that also devastates the nearby region, creating the lifeless, inhospitable region known as the Rust Sea. Many of their structures survive intact- albeit forgotten- including the large tomb that also houses their maps.

After 80,000 years of prosperity and exploration, the Golden Age draws to a close. The Well of All Sparks begins slowing down its production of new life, and other cracks begin to show in Cybertronian civilization. Meanwhile, among the colonies, the dreaded Rust Plague sweeps from star system to star system via the space bridge network, devastating some worlds and completely sterilizing others. In desperation, Sentinel orders the destruction of the space bridge network entirely to prevent the spread of the contagion. Cybertron is spared from destruction, at the cost of its many colony worlds. Millions of Transformers stranded across the galaxy continue adapting to their homeworlds, and many forget their origins entirely.

As time goes by, various crises on the ex-colony worlds lead to drastic changes among their inhabitants. Velocitron's inhabitants, plagued by resource shortages, slip deeper and deeper into their racing obsession as a form of cultural diversion. The Junkions begin building cities and structures entirely out of their planetoid's bountiful supplies of garbage and trash, forming a stable and productive society. The Neutronians discover Amalgamous Prime's mythical transformation cog, changing the entire population into omnicombinational shifters known as Mutacons. Aquatron is re-colonized by Quintessons, who forcefully incorporate the planet into their Imperium while simultaneously tampering with the planet's inhabitants to create the Sharkticons

The Age of Rust

In the waning years of the Golden Age, the caste system is implemented, where civilian guilds oversee and assign newly created Transformers to jobs, and it eventually becomes a major social institution under the urging of Sentinel. Alpha Trion grows troubled with the increasingly oppressive social system, and consults the supercomputer Vector Sigma for guidance, hoping to use the Matrix to revitalize Cybertron's culture. Vector Sigma declines his request, but reassures him that the time will soon be right for the Matrix's reactivation. Instead, Vector Sigma gives him the Badge of Vector Prime, a gift for Sentinel Prime. While Alpha Trion waits for the Matrix, he retreats further and further into the Hall of Records, eventually becoming a recluse.

Cybertron abandons many ancient traditions, such as travelling through the Underworld. These controversial reorganizations do not go unnoticed, though, and many newly born Transformers become dissatisfied with their lot in life, some seeking change. Cybertron's culture and society stagnates greatly as a result; the dynamic architecture and artwork that characterize older eras of society are replaced by dull, drab buildings.

The city-states of Kaon and Slaughter City, populated mostly by low-caste miners and workers, soon turn to gladiatorial combat as a way to escape from the drudgery of their lives. The High Council, aware of why the games began, does nothing to stop them. D-16 begins a prosperous career of pit fighting, and eventually takes on the name Megatronus in honor of the Prime of the same name. He later shortens it to Megatron. Megatron uses his newfound publicity to denounce the stifling caste system. His rhetoric inspires a group of followers that includes fellow gladiator and spymaster Soundwave and the sadistic scientist Shockwave. Realizing the threat that this upstart poses, Sentinel Prime sends his agents Bumper and Fastback to infiltrate his organization. Megatron soon discovers the duo and has them executed.

At the same time, a young data clerk named Orion Pax, monitoring transmissions from across Cybertron, befriends Megatron, and the two of them begin a secret correspondence. Alpha Trion encourages his protégé, in the hopes that Orion's ideals will temper Megatronus's extremism. They have intense but friendly debates over the nature of free will and the dangerousness of their ideals, and soon Orion begins training with Jazz, learning to fire an ion-cannon and to fashion his arms into an axe and a sword.
An energon thief named Drift comes to Megatron's attention who rebrands him "Deadlock". Deadlock trains under Shadow Raker.

Before long, Orion visits Megatron in person in Kaon. Terrorists, calling themselves "Decepticons", begin bombings in Megatron's name, attacking such popular spots as Six Lasers Over Cybertron. Megatron himself makes his first public announcement on the Grid, stating he is not responsible for the attacks and will bring the perpetrators to justice. In reality, however, Megatron had heard rumors about the bombings and terrorist attacks but did nothing to prevent them. Megatron and Orion are eventually granted a meeting with the High Council.

In his speech, Megatron demands that he be named the next Prime, and threatens to violently overthrow the Council if they do not comply. Orion, does not believe in violence, and follows him up with a speech of his own. He argues that the members of Cybertron should be autonomous robots, or "Autobots", and that everyone should be able to make their own choices in life. Orion's speech moves the Council and inspires them to appoint Orion a Prime. They give him the new name of "Optimus". Megatron is incensed by the fact that his speech went unnoticed. In a fit of anger, he kills the Council member Halogen and spitefully severs all ties with his former friend. At Optimus's urging, the two sides retreat for now to avoid further bloodshed in the Council halls. However, the Council itself has fragmented; Contrail, Ratbat, and Drivetrain now support the Decepticon cause. Megatron officially declares war on Optimus Prime and his followers, sparking the Great War.

The Great War

The war quickly spreads beyond the High Council, and before long battle lines are drawn as various city-states declare their allegiances. Autobots and their allies control the most important locations on Cybertron, including Iacon and Kalis. Shortly after the declaration of war, the Allspark stops producing new Cybertronians; some interpret this as an act of divine rebellion. Undeterred, the Decepticons launch their first strike by seizing Fort Scyk. Ultra Magnus and his Council Guardians manage to hold the line long enough for the Autobots to send reinforcements. The Decepticons then attack and occupy the Hydrax Plateau. With this crucial region under Decepticon control, Megatron quickly takes over the majority of Cybertron's eastern hemisphere, which remains in Decepticon hands for the majority of the war. Decepticons then capture the Satellite Command Center at Polyhex. The battle of Crystal City sees the Constructicons deploy their combined Devastator against the Autobots, razing the city. Many of its scientific treasures survive the destruction. Many dangerous weapons, such as the Cybonic plague, are developed by the Decepticon Biological Warfare Program.

The Autobots win their first major victory at Kalis, where Optimus Prime, Sideswipe, and Jazz topple the Decepticon combiner Bruticus. Kalis remains in Autobot hands and the Autobots begin using long-range combat against Decepticons. Shockwave's armies occupy the cities of Tarn and Vos. Shockwave manipulates the two cities and turns them against one another, destroying them both. The Decepticon campaign reaches Praxus, where they encounter stiff Autobot resistance. The city-state is ultimately leveled by the fighting, and to this day the outcome is unclear. Prowl and Ironhide, citizens of Praxus, join the Autobot cause and become part of Optimus Prime's inner circle of confidants.

Megatron, still stinging from the loss of Praxus, orders Bruticus Maximus to spearhead a massacre at Nova Cronum. In the meantime, Minicon saboteurs manage to steal and reverse-engineer Shockwave's secrets, and before long the Autobots create their own combiners. Optimus Prime assigns Ultra Magnus to lead the unruly squadron known as the Wreckers in the hopes of instilling discipline into their ranks, and with the aid of the newly created Defensor the team defends the Tagan Heights against the Constructicons, although the fighting between Defensor and Devastator demolishes the area.

At some point during the war, Optimus Prime survives an assassination attempt by Skyquake at the Battle of Technahar.

After centuries of stasis, the AllSpark creates a final generation of Transformers, most of whom side with the Autobots. Among them is the Autobot Bumblebee, who distinguishes himself on the battlefield and becomes one of Optimus Prime's closest compatriots. Another young Autobot named Smokescreen enters the boot camp of the Elite Guard with hopes of becoming a full-fledged soldier.

Arcee and her combat partner Tailgate serve in Delta Team for most of the war. After a raid on a Decepticon munitions depot, both of them are captured and interrogated by the Decepticon Airachnid. Although Arcee is rescued by Bumblebee and Cliffjumper, they are too late to save Tailgate. At least some battles take place off Cybertron with the Wreckers having an adventure on Sandokan.

As the war continues, the Autobots are gradually outnumbered and outgunned. Optimus Prime makes the painful decision to eject the AllSpark from Cybertron, so that Megatron cannot create more Transformers. In the ensuing battle, the Allspark is fired into deep space from Tyger Pax. The Autobots also decide to eject the data cylinders from Cybertron to prevent Decepticons from using the vital knowledge within. With the Allspark gone, the Decepticons focus their attention on Iacon, one of the last regions still under Autobot control.
At some unspecified time, Primus warned Windblade of a rising evil, and sent her to Earth after modifying her body and enhancing her sensors.

Seeking a new edge in the war, Megatron storms Trypticon Station and wrests control of it from Starscream, empowering himself and other Decepticons with the Dark Energon stored there. As part of their next strike, the Decepticon-allied Seekers travel deep underneath Cybertron in search of the long-abandoned Geosynchronous Energon Bridge beneath the ruins of Crystal City, which will allow the manufacture of new Dark Energon for the Decepticons' use.

Megatron leads a group of Decepticons into Iacon, to find a means of travelling to the very core of Cybertron to spread the Dark Energon. Though Sentinel Prime attempts to stand in his way, he is soon defeated by the vengeful Decepticon—but unbeknownst to Megatron, Omega Supreme is reactivated due to these events, and is intent on stopping the Decepticons. The Decepticon forces manage to cripple the Guardian's alternate mode, and Megatron and his troops soon defeat him on ground level. Because of this, the Decepticon leader manages to reach Cybertron's core and corrupt it with Dark Energon—a critical blow against the Autobots.

The Autobots, however, are not yet defeated, and muster a counter-attack to rout the remaining Decepticons from Iacon. Sentinel, now imprisoned in Kaon, is able to send a transmission, and a small group of Autobots, lead by Optimus, soon launch an incursion into the prison to recover him. However, the former Prime perishes just as he has been rescued. The Autobots return the body to Iacon, and Optimus officially comes to accept that he is a Prime and must take up his role as leader. From then on, he fully becomes known as Optimus Prime, the last of the Primes. Optimus's first task as true Prime is to cleanse the infected core. Heading down through Cybertron's inner layers, Optimus finds much of the planet is thoroughly infected by Dark Energon. The core tells Prime that Cybertron is so greatly corrupted that it will take millions of years of shutdown in order to undo the grievous damage done by Megatron's Dark Energon. Optimus is given the Matrix of Leadership by the Core, a fragment of Prima's powerful sword that contains a portion of Cybertron's spark.
With the core's shutdown, Windblade is left in stasis on Earth.

Great Exodus

As soon as Prime reaches the surface, he orders that an exodus from Cybertron will take place immediately. Preparations are made to flee the planet, but many of the escaping galactic transports are shot down by Trypticon Station before they can leave Cybertron's orbit. Trypticon itself comes to life, thanks to multiple sparks implanted by Shockwave, and Optimus Prime leads his forces in a battle to knock it out of orbit. The ensuing battle results in Trypticon hurtling towards Cybertron's surface. However, Trypticon is not killed, and it transforms into its robot form. After another battle with it, Optimus and his forces regroup at the site of the Ark, a deep-space interceptor and the flagship of the makeshift Autobot fleet.

With the Decepticons in control of most of Cybertron, the remaining Autobots begin fuelling the ship with scavenged Energon. Both factions develop an interest in the ancient, powerful artifact known as the Dark Spark, and the Decepticons manage to locate and open the vault below Crystal City that contains it. Shockwave makes contact with the Insecticons, subterranean creatures that have been driven to the surface after Cybertron's core shut down. The Decepticon scientist manages to form an alliance with these creatures, and their sentient representatives- Kickback, Hardshell, and Sharpshot- join the Decepticons, pledging the support of their numerous feral brethren.

However, the Decepticons and Insecticons are tailed by the Autobots, and a running battle ensues, with both groups trying to return the artifact to their respective strongholds. Eventually, the Decepticons succeed in bringing the Dark Spark to Megatron at Kolkular, where he places the artifact in his chest in imitation of the Matrix of Leadership. Optimus Prime arrives to confront the Decepticon leader, but is set upon by a horde of undead Autobots reanimated by the Dark Spark's power. The Autobot leader overcomes these corrupted foes and engages Megatron, and the two combatants unleash the powers of the artifacts in their chests. The power of the Matrix of Leadership wins out, violently ejecting the Dark Spark from the Decepticon leader and into space. With the artifact no longer a threat, Optimus orders the Autobots to fall back to Iacon and the Ark.

While most of the Autobots ready the Ark for liftoff, the Lightning Strike Coalition warrior Swoop discovers a massive reserve of untainted Energon in the Sea of Rust. He tries to contact Grimlock and the other Autobots, but is captured by Shockwave before he can reveal the nature of his discovery. Grimlock and the rest of his squadron disobey Prime's orders and hijack an Autobot dropship to rescue him. Grimlock, Snarl, Slug, and Sludge reach the outskirts of Shockwave's tower, but are overwhelmed by Shockwave's Insecticons and taken captive by Shockwave, who has plans for the quintet of warriors. Inspired by alien lifeforms he has viewed with ancient Space Bridge technology, he begins experimenting on them.

Shockwave uses the critically injured Sludge as a test run, successfully rebuilding his alternate mode into a sauropod dinosaur, before ordering Kickback to dump his body in the tunnels underneath the Rust Sea. Shockwave rebuilds the rest into powerful berserkers with saurian alternate modes and imprisons them in his tower, intending to use them as his own personal warriors.

With Grimlock missing in action, Optimus leads his warriors to buy time for the Autobots to shut down Iacon and launch the Ark. Optimus discovers the existence of Metroplex, an enormous Autobot incorporated into Iacon's structure who has lain dormant for millions of years. Optimus and Metroplex team up to help fight the Decepticons, and despite suffering numerous injuries Metroplex manages to deal a lethal blow to Megatron, grievously injuring him. However, the attack depletes all of the Autobot's remaining supplies of energon. With Megatron out of commission, Starscream takes advantage of the situation and declares himself the new leader of the Decepticons.

Jazz and Cliffjumper go searching for Grimlock and his forces in the Sea of Rust, where they find Shockwave's tower, Sludge's body in stasis lock and the uncorrupted Energon Swoop had discovered earlier. However, on Starscream's orders, the Combaticons attack the Autobot convoy, then combine into Bruticus and crash the transport, recovering half of the Energon. Starscream is unimpressed with their performance and orders their imprisonment.

Meanwhile, Soundwave has recovered Megatron's remains and rebuilds his body, using an infusion of Dark Energon to revive him. Megatron confronts Starscream and resumes control of the Decepticons. Seeking use of Trypticon, Megatron heads for his location in Iacon and successfully scavenges many of his components.

In Shockwave's lab, a disgraced Starscream discovers Grimlock, who he attempts to recruit to his cause. Grimlock throws Starscream into the wall and escapes. As he fights his way through Shockwave's cadre of Decepticons and Insecticons, Grimlock reunites with the surviving members of the Lightning Strike Coalition, although he believes Sludge is dead. Now operating as the "Dinobots", Grimlock confronts Shockwave and destroys his space bridge. Both are caught in the ensuing explosion.

Metroplex sacrifices his life to ensure that the Ark can launch. Optimus and many of the Autobots escape aboard the Ark. They are pursued, however, by Megatron aboard Trypticon, now a spacecraft dubbed the Nemesis. The two vehicles and their respective crews battle as they race for the space bridge above the planet, which explodes, scattering the two vessels across the galaxy

After the Great Exodus

Grimlock, having fallen to the ground from the collapsing space bridge tower, is found by his Dinobot comrades. Four cycles after the launch of the Ark, an Autobot cleanup crew discovers Sludge's abandoned body and manage to bring him back online.

Sludge, Grimlock, and the other Dinobots all join up with Ultra Magnus's Wreckers, and together they continue to fight against Shockwave's forces for control of Cybertron, even as the planet commences its shutdown sequence.

The Space Bridge detonation takes the Ark and Nemesis to the outskirts of the Milky Way galaxy, where Optimus detects a faint signal left behind by the Allspark's passage. Prime and his crew are guided by the Matrix to nearby Velocitron, teetering on the brink of civil war. However, Makeshift, having infiltrated the crew, manages to provoke enough civil unrest among the Velocitronians that Ransack and his group of political malcontents attack Override, sparking a civil war. The Autobots manage to escape through a space bridge, Optimus having recovered two pieces of the Blades of Time on Velocitron's surface, though he mistakenly believes they are pieces of the Star Saber. The Autobots next travel to Junkion, where they befriend the native Junkions and begin repairs on the Ark. However, Makeshift once again sabotages the repair effort, but is caught.

Meanwhile, Alpha Trion is put under house arrest by Shockwave, but manages to send the Autobot Chaindrive to Optimus with another piece of the Blades of Time. Armed with a hazy knowledge of the future from the Covenant of Primus that Optimus Prime would eventually end up on Earth, Alpha Trion launches Cybertronian relics located within the Iacon Hall of Records to Earth, not to keep them from the Decepticons, but to ensure that Optimus would eventually find them. Smokescreen, having ended up on security detail for Alpha Trion, is taken by Decepticon forces during their attacking the Hall of Records, but not before Alpha Trion secretly manages to hide one of the relics within the young Autobot.

The Nemesis, following the trail of the Ark, lands on Velocitron and later Junkion. Axer, an ex-Decepticon, recovers the Requiem Blaster from the core of Junkion, causing the demi-planet to tear apart. Prime, meanwhile, manages to contact Vector Prime in his pocket dimension, who also helps to reunite five bots the Autobots have met (Chaindrive among them) into Nexus Prime. A climatic battle takes place on Junkion, with the Autobots triumphant and the Blaster destroyed. However, the Junkions themselves are enslaved by space-pirate expatriate Transformers called the Star Seekers and taken to places unknown.
With Autobot control over the planet steadily weakening, Shockwave and the remaining Decepticons take control of Iacon, forcing the Wreckers to retreat to Cybertron's comparatively barren polar regions to launch hit-and-run attacks on Decepticon convoys.

Shockwave builds his newest tower in the center of Iacon and continues his experiments, studying the effects of Dark Energon on the city's beleaguered inhabitants. He eventually kidnaps Alpha Trion and tries to use him to access Vector Sigma to forge a Decepticon Matrix that will further enhance his control over Cybertron. The Wreckers team up with Omega Supreme to launch a rescue mission.

Simultaneously, out in space, Optimus Prime and company discover the seemingly utopic world of Aquatron, inhabited by friendly amphibious robots. In reality, the Aquatronians are subjugated servants of the Quintessons, and their leader Inquirata manipulates both Optimus Prime and Shockwave to further his own ends. The Nemesis arrives not long afterwards, following a skirmish with Thundertron, but the two sides are forced into a temporary truce by the Quintessons. When the Quintessons reveal their true colours, Optimus Prime and Megatron are forced to work together to escape from the Quintesson's twisted courtrooms Thanks to Shockwave's experiments with Dark Energon on Vector Sigma, the Quintessons are able to launch a second invasion of Cybertron using their Sharkticon shock troops. Although the Wreckers manage to save Alpha Trion, they are too late to stop the invasion. General Tyrannicon storms Iacon, takes down both Omega Supreme and Devastator, and allies with Senator Ratbat to gain access to the Hall of Records. The invasion is only stopped when Megatron, still on Aquatron, discovers the Sharkticon Matrix of Leadership and uses it to override Tyrannicon's command over his troops. The Wreckers manage to keep the Hall of Records in Cybertronian hands while Rack n' Ruin splits off from the group and rigs Shockwave's tower to explode. In the ensuing fight underneath Aquatron, Tyrannicon and Inquirata are killed, while Optimus and Megatron barely manage to escape the detonation of the Space Bridge. The two factions depart the now-freed Aquatron while Optimus continues his search for the Allspark.

Cybertron's conditions continue to deteriorate, and eventually Ultra Magnus puts out the call for the final Autobot evacuation of the planet. A convoy of ships escapes, but Magnus's personal craft is shot down, and the Wrecker leader is captured by the Forged, a faction of ex-Decepticons serving under Shockwave. The Dinobots mount a rescue mission to a Forged prison in the Sea of Rust, where they find not only Magnus, but scores of other Autobot prisoners. They stage a prison break, but are confronted by the leader of the group, Ser-Ket, who has been altered with Predacon CNA in much the same way that they were altered with dinosaur DNA. Grimlock is able to defeat her in battle, but Shockwave arrives soon afterwards, and Magnus and the Dinobots are recaptured.

The Decepticon scientist attempts to complete his work on Grimlock and erase the Dinobot's free will, but his teammates and Ultra Magnus are able to escape their cell in time to intervene, violently decapitating Shockwave. However, a hologram message reveals that Shockwave is in fact alive and well, and what the Dinobots just killed was merely a remote avatar. With the immediate threat passed, Magnus sets off to join the leaving fleet, whilst the Dinobots resolve to remain on Cybertron, seeking to hunt down their nemesis Shockwave and help the few Autobots that remain.

Eventually, energon shortages force Cybertron's remaining population into the tunnels under the surface, where they scavenge fuel from underground deposits and by hunting the planet's subterranean fauna. Survivors group together to establish underground cities, one of which is led by "king" Grimlock, and the surface is left desolate and ruined.

Across the galaxy, the Great War continues on other planets. A battle sees the Decepticon Deadlock nearly destroyed before he is taken in by the Circle of Light and taught the ways of the warrior and blade. Retaking his original name, Drift abandons the Decepticon cause and defects.

Another alien world to see combat is the planet Earth, which is seeded with energon by Cybertronians. During Earth's Stone Age, a group of Autobots rescues a tribe of primitive humans from a meteor shower. Among the Decepticon combatants are a group of genetically engineered Predacons created by Shockwave. Their presence inspires the human legends of dragons, although they eventually die, leaving behind remains. Other Decepticons include Skyquake, dispatched to Earth to guard its energon resources. At some point, a group of Autobots visits ancient Greece, where they leave behind an Energon Harvester. The Cybertronians on Earth eventually leave, die, or enter stasis lock, leaving Earth abandoned... for the time being.
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History of the Transformers

1980s Till Now

In the early 1980s, a small group of Cybertronians return to Earth, unaware of its true nature. Bumblebee is the first Autobot to land on Earth, sent ahead of the others to scout out the planet. He is later joined by Optimus Prime, Bulkhead, and Ratchet, who set up a base inside the dormant volcano Mount St. Hilary.

The Decepticons begin mining the energon deposits left on earth with the intention of using it to restore Cybertron. Starscream is tasked by Megatron with recreating space bridge technology, so that the energon can be quickly transferred between planets. After scouring the galaxy on this mission, the Air Commander returns to their home planet with a number of troops to construct a space bridge.

The earthbound Autobots obtain terrestrial alternate modes and secretly ally themselves with the United States government. They are assigned William Fowler as a government liaison, and provided with an abandoned missile silo to use as a base in exchange for keeping the Decepticon threat contained. A great deal of Cybertronian technology is installed there, including a Ground Bridge of Ratchet's design.

Optimus Prime sends a message into space, calling all Autobots to the new battleground. Arcee and Cliffjumper are both investigating the Decepticon activity on the desolate Cybertron when they receive the message. They hijack a Decepticon space bridge to travel to Earth. The Air Commander follows them through, but, after a brief confrontation, the two Autobots are able to join up with Team Prime and scan new terrestrial alternate modes.

Subsequently, Megatron leaves Earth with the intention of gathering a new army. The Decepticons under Starscream avoid conflict with the Autobots, and continue to secretly mine the planet's energon, along with constructing a new space bridge in orbit. During his three-year journey, meanwhile, Megatron finds a far greater prize than new troops: solidified crystals of Dark Energon.

On Earth, hostilities between the Autobots and Decepticons resurface when Cliffjumper is executed by Starscream; later, he is reanimated by Megatron with the power of Dark Energon.

A series of accidents draws three humans—Jack Darby, Raf Esquivel, and Miko Nakadai—into the mayhem. Megatron's plan is to reanimate the thousands of dead Transformers on Cybertron and transport them to Earth via the orbital space bridge, but this is ultimately foiled by the Autobots. Megatron himself is caught in the explosion of the bridge as it is destroyed, but survives thanks to the Dark Energon in his body. Megatron's wounded form is discovered by Starscream after a failed attempt to bring Skyquake under his control. Starscream attempts to kill him, but Soundwave's presence compels him to put the Decepticon leader in stasis in the Nemesis's sick bay instead. Wheeljack, now an interstellar nomad, briefly arrives on Earth, but after a run-in with Makeshift, he leaves.

An encounter with the mysterious human terrorist organization MECH introduces a second antagonistic party for the Autobots. Knock Out and his partner Breakdown arrive on Earth to aid with Megatron's repairs. Airachnid, too, lands on Earth to rekindle her standing grudge against Arcee and collect some "specimens", but she is stranded on Earth when her ship is destroyed by Jack and Arcee.

Events come to a head when Optimus Prime and Ratchet detect an ancient Autobot distress signal, and come across an abandoned Autobot ship infected with cybonic plague. Optimus is contaminated, and so to find a cure for the sickness Bumblebee and Arcee are forced to infiltrate the Nemesis and enter Megatron's mind. However, Megatron manages to download himself into Bumblebee's consciousness, and by taking control of the Autobot's body he restores his original body with Dark Energon and uploads his mind into it, restoring himself to life. Megatron grievously wounds Starscream sometime after this as punishment, but Starscream makes another play for power by reanimating Skyquake's corpse, which ends in failure.

MECH enters the picture again, first capturing and mutilating Breakdown and later teaming up with Airachnid to lure Arcee into a trap. Both of these ostensibly end in failure for MECH, but they are unperturbed as they gather valuable information for their forthcoming agenda.

After Megatron and Starscream are trapped in the energon mine due to the actions of the Autobots, Starscream renounces Megatron's command and tries to join the Autobots, but this ends in failure when Starscream lets slip that he killed Cliffjumper. Starscream becomes an independent faction in the war. Ratchet manages to devise a formula for synthetic energon from a retrieved data cylinder, but it proves to be incomplete and unsafe.

Megatron seeks more power from the Dark Energon, and refers to an ancient prophecy in the Covenant of Primus that a "rising darkness" will come when the planets in the Solar System align. In reality, the "rising darkness" is Unicron's slumbering form, and the alignment of the planets will create the correct gravitational pull sufficient to awaken him. As Unicron gradually awakens, the Dark Energon rising from his body causes several natural disasters to occur across the world. Optimus Prime confronts an avatar of Unicron head on, but diplomacy ends in failure when the chaos bringer decides to wipe out the many "parasites" on his surface. After another battle with Unicron, Megatron and the Autobots make a truce, as the Dark Energon in Megatron's system allows him to locate Unicron's spark core and provide the Autobots with a way to destroy him. After the five Transformers bridge their way into Unicron, Megatron and Prime attempt to destroy Unicron's spark core with the Matrix of Leadership. The plan works- but Optimus loses many of his memories, believing that he is Orion Pax once again and that Megatron is his friend. Megatron takes him on board the Nemesis.

Megatron decides to use the fact that Orion Pax lost his memory to the Decepticon's advantage, and lies to Orion Pax about certain facts. He tells Orion that he was taken captive by the Autobots and kept in stasis long enough for the war to have moved to another planet. He then shows Orion a picture of a lifeless Cybertron, and informs him that Ratchet is responsible for the damage. Orion Pax vows to do his part to help the Decepticons, by completing Project Iacon. Soon however, Orion Pax starts to see through Megatron's lies.

Eventually, with the help of Starscream, Orion Pax rebels against Megatron before completing Project Iacon. Using Vector Sigma, Jack Darby is able to restore Prime's memory
Soon, Team Prime is back to business. When Bumblebee is investigating an ancient Autobot signal, MECH stuns him into temporary stasis, and removes his T-cog. They use it to try to craft their own transformer, and seem to be making progress with help. Bumblebee starts to question his usefulness, as he has lost his speed, which is his primary attribute.

Megatron, still working with the information from Project Iacon, manages to find the Forge of Solus Prime. He sends Knock Out to recover it, and with a fight, manages to accomplish his mission. However, Ratchet is able to restore Bumblebee's T-cog.

Wheeljack returns to Earth, in pursuit of Skyquake's twin, Dreadwing. After an intense fight between Bulkhead, Optimus Prime, Wheeljack, and Dreadwing, Wheeljack finally gets an Earth mode, and Dreadwing pledges his allegiance to Megatron.

Airachnid's earlier remarks about leaving Megatron finally catch up to her, and Megatron decides to have Dreadwing execute her, something that Megatron would normally do himself, but will be his interview for replacing her as second-in-command. Dreadwing meets up with Airachnid and Breakdown to investigate a suspected energon deposit. Airachnid succeeds in making Breakdown very angry, and the two go at it. Airachnid cuts up Breakdown, and leaves his remains for MECH.

Airachnid finally goes for Megatron, and issues him a challenge. He accepts, and forbids Dreadwing to follow him. However, Dreadwing disobeys, and gets caught in the middle of the fight, and suddenly the Autobots appear. Prime, as always, does the honorable thing and lets Dreadwing go in return for his word that he would not kill any of the Autobots. Megatron, however, disagrees, and fires at the Autobots. Later, Megatron remarks that Dreadwing will make a fine first lieutenant.

After Optimus Prime seemingly tries to run Agent Fowler off the road and attacks a military base, the U.S. military gives orders to fire at any bot on sight. However, Team Prime finds out that MECH has succeeded with Project Chimera, and that the bot that attacked the base was actually designed and built by MECH. Miko dubs this drone "Nemesis Prime". Optimus Prime and Nemesis Prime have a climatic battle on top of MECH's base of operations, and Nemesis falls on top of Silas, seemingly killing him. However, in an undisclosed location, Silas lays on an operating table, with Breakdown's corpse seemingly ready to transplant.

Agent Fowler is called into General Bryce's office to explain recent events. Bryce tells Fowler that people higher up on the chain of command are questioning Team Prime's loyalty. Some are suggesting Team Prime's termination and a military tribunal for Fowler, who assures General Bryce that Prime, and the rest of the Autobots, are completely and totally loyal to the United States, and to humanity.

Dual plots against Megatron's life, one orchestrated by Airachnid and her Insecticons and the other by Starscream and an army of clones, are hatched while Bulkhead found himself aboard the Nemesis. The clones are destroyed, Arachnid is apprehended by the Autobots, the surviving Insecticons are integrated into Megatron's forces, and Bulkhead busts the ship's power core on his way out. After Megatron infuses the Nemesis with Dark Energon in an attempt to repair it, the ship becomes sentient and puts all the Decepticons on board into stasis. The ship starts to head toward the first set of new Iacon coordinates that it has decoded. Jack, Miko, Raf, and Fowler bridge aboard the ship and download the coordinates. In the process, Jack undoes the dark energon infusion, returning the ship to its normal state.

Team Prime splits up, and Arcee, Bumblebee, Jack, and Miko travel to New York City to search for the first of the new Iacon relics. The new relic turns out to be a phase shifter. The Autobots are successful in recovering the device. Meanwhile, in the Antarctic, Optimus Prime goes hunting for the second relic. It turns out to be the Apex Armor built by Solus Prime.

 After Starscream takes the relic for his own, Optimus and Dreadwing form a brief alliance, and force Starscream below the ice. Wheeljack and Ratchet travel to search for the third relic, which turns out to be a resonance blaster. Soundwave manages to recover the relic, Ratchet returns to base, and Wheeljack sets about repairing the Jackhammer. Bulkhead sets out to locate and retrieve the final relic. It turns out to be Tox-En, a toxic form of energon. Bulkhead fights with the Insecticon named Hardshell. Though Bulkhead is initially victorious, Hardshell shoots him in the back just as he heads through the Ground Bridge.

As Ratchet tries to stabilize Bulkhead, Wheeljack arrives to base, having been alerted by Arcee to what had transpired. In the Jackhammer, he goes looking for whoever injured Bulkhead. As normal, Miko secretly tags along. After reaching an understanding, Miko and Wheeljack go looking for Hardshell, destroying an energon mine in the process. After an intense fight with Hardshell, Wheeljack emerges victorious. However, the rest of the Insecticon hive pursues him and Miko as they take off in the Jackhammer. Wheeljack uses a portion of his stash of grenades to dispatch them. However, the happiness doesn't last, as Ratchet reports that Bulkhead will survive, but will not likely be fully functional again.

Wheeljack leaves again, stating that he is unable to see Bulkhead like this. Arcee comforts Miko by telling her the story of how she and Cliffjumper became partners and joined Team Prime.

A Decepticon escape pod is discovered on Earth at the same time as Red Energon, a rare and volatile type of energon that gives the user hyperspeed. The escape pod turns out to belong to Smokescreen, a former member of the Elite Guard. Although he appears to be another hotshot, he proves himself by retrieving the Apex Armor from Starscream, who manages to make off with the Red Energon.

MECH reawakens their leader, Silas, by integrating his body into Breakdown's corpse. Renaming himself "Cylas", he dispatches the MECH technical team and goes to Megatron with a new weapon: the Project Damocles satellite. Megatron tries to utilize the Damocles satellite, but is foiled by the hacking efforts of Raf. Angered with the satellite's failure, Megatron allows Knock Out to dissect Cylas

The Autobots and Decepticons both find the location of the Star Saber. Smokescreen is forced to try and retrieve it for the Autobots, while Megatron has an entire army of workers trying to get at it. However it takes the power of a Prime for the sword to finally come free from the rock that encases it. After almost crashing the Nemesis with the sword, Optimus and the Autobots emerge victorious.

Optimus Prime receives a prerecorded message from Alpha Trion telling him to locate the four Omega Keys. Megatron uses a space bridge to travel to Cybertron to retrieve the arm of a Prime. He attaches it to his body and uses his new limb to craft the Dark Star Saber from the Forge of Solus Prime. The Dark Star Saber breaks the Star Saber in half, but the Autobots come away with the first Omega Key.

Optimus dispatches Arcee and Bumblebee to go after the second relic, and Smokescreen and Bulkhead to go after the third. Knock Out wins over the second relic for the Decepticons, while Starscream beats out Bulkhead, Smokescreen, and Dreadwing to get the third. Smokescreen is captured by the Decepticons when he is revealed to be the fourth and final key.

Knock Out uses Smokescreen's phase shifter to remove the final Omega Key from within his body. However, Smokescreen manages to escape with the two Omega Keys that were in Megatron's possession, leaving the fourth one with Starscream. Starscream manages to invade the Autobot base and steal all three of theirs, acquiring all four. He then goes to Megatron on the Nemesis with the Omega Keys as bargaining chips.

Megatron uses a cortical psychic patch on Starscream in order to find out his true motives for coming back to Megatron. However, he decides that Starscream is of more value fighting with Megatron, not against him, and welcomes him back to the Decepticons. While viewing the results of the patch, Dreadwing learns of his  twin's fate in the Shadowzone.

Knock Out operates on Starscream and repairs him, giving him a new T-cog. Infuriated by Starscream's treatment of Skyquake and Megatron's nonchalance, Dreadwing presents the Forge of Solus Prime to the Autobots so that they can avenge his twin's death. After traveling back to the Nemesis, he attempts to kill Starscream, but Megatron strikes him down before he gets the chance. Megatron and Starscream travel to Cybertron with a detachment of Vehicons to reactivate the planet. Using the Forge, Optimus modifies the Ground Bridge into a Space Bridge, and the Autobots launch an attack on the Vehicons using the gathered Iacon relics. They manage to retrieve the Omega Keys and reach the Omega Lock. However, Megatron reveals that the three kids have been captured by the Decepticons.

The Autobots are forced to turn over the Omega Keys in exchange for the kids, and Megatron reveals his master plan includes cyberforming Earth as well. Optimus uses the Star Saber to destroy the Omega Lock, and the Autobots return to Earth, only for the Decepticons to attack their base. The Autobots abandon base, scattering across country, except for Optimus who is still in the base when the Decepticons destroy it.

Smokescreen spirits the badly damaged Optimus Prime away from the wreckage of Autobot Outpost Omega One using the phase shifter. Megatron sends Knock Out to Cybertron to search for the rest of the relics. He returns with the Apex Armor, and something even better, Shockwave and his latest creation, a Predacon cloned from recovered CNA
Concurrently, Ultra Magnus lands on Earth and begins to reunite the disparate Autobot forces, who have gone into hiding. Among them are Raf and Bumblebee, who have turned the Harbinger into a new temporary base of operations with Ratchet's aid . Smokescreen, still in hiding, breaks into the Nemesis and recovers the Forge of Solus Prime. The Autobots launch a final assault on the Decepticon fortress. With the help of Optimus Prime, given a new lease on life thanks to the Forge, their combined efforts bring down Darkmount for good, forcing the Decepticons into a retreat.

Agent Fowler brings Optimus a new, beefed up truck to scan for his alternate mode, courtesy of M.A.S.K. He also brings news of Decepticon activity in Texas and Scotland. He sends the Wreckers to Scotland, and brings Bumblebee and Smokescreen to Texas with him. Both parties discover the Decepticons transporting ancient Predacon fossils. Although the Autobots try to recover the fossils, both missions fail. Wheeljack drives off alone alone, fed up with Ultra Magnus and worried Bulkhead has gone soft.

Wheeljack bridges back to base without Ultra Magnus and Bulkhead. He and Arcee track down Decepticon activity in New Mexico, but end up having to rescue Fowler and June after the latter two get themselves kidnapped by Knock Out. After returning to base, Wheeljack and Bulkhead make up.

Wanting Megatron's favor back, Starscream orders Knock Out to inject the imprisoned Cylas with a mix of Dark and Synthetic Energon, turning him into a vampiric Terrorcon who brings his plague upon the Nemesis. Cylas ends up freeing Airachnid before being killed by her, and she retakes control of the Insecticons, but their attempt at a coup is halted when Soundwave bridges them to a desolate moon of Cybertron. Starscream ends up facing Megatron's wrath for losing them the Insecticons and more than half of the Vehicons while Shockwave speeds up progress on Project Predacon to make up for the extensive loss of manpower.

On the verge of the project's completion, the Predacon reveals his newfound ability to transform as well as his sentience, and though he pledges loyalty to Megatron, his ambition does not go unnoticed, and the Decepticons decide to let the Autobots wipe out the Predacons for them. Ultra Magnus and Wheeljack end up facing off against Predaking, putting aside their past grievances with each other and forging a mutual respect, but are ultimately bested by the Predacon, who also destroys the Forge of Solus Prime and Magnus's hand.

Optimus is able to save his men in the nick of time, while Shockwave finds the destruction of his lab and the presence of Synthetic Energon has produced cyber-matter. Megatron decides to use this newfound discovery to rebuild the Omega Lock to cyberform Earth and restore Cybertron, believing the two planets to be two halves of one. While Starscream procures Earth technology for the project, the recently captured Soundwave brings Ratchet to Megatron to perfect the synthetic Energon formula. Raf and Wheeljack build a probe using Laserbeak's transponder that was broken off while capturing Ratchet, which will lead them to the Nemesis. Megatron is able to persuade Ratchet to help produce the formula, having played to Ratchet's love for his home planet to override his justified reservations. While the probe is destroyed by Starscream, it does not take long for Ratchet, Knock Out, and Shockwave to produce the formula, but Ratchet tries to make a run for it, only to be stopped by Megatron and tossed to Predaking for execution. Having caught Knock Out's slip of the tongue, Ratchet reveals Megatron's plot to exterminate the Predacons to Predaking, who goes on a rampage.

 Ratchet disables the Nemesis' cloaking field, allowing the Autobots to storm the ship, just as Megatron is able to scrape a victory against Predaking by knocking him out of an airlock.
As Megatron is able to replecate Ratchets formula, the Depecticons travel back to cyberton ensuring that only Decepticons will be able to have the new synthetic energon. Having lost their base and believing that Megatron will bleed the rest of Cybertron dry to futher his conquest, the Autobots with the help of Ultra Magnus ship leave earth to travel back to Cybertron to fight for the rest of the the free cybertronians. Arcee and Bulkhead stay back on Earth to continue monitoring any Decepticon events and to gather as much Energon as possible that is still on Earth.

Upon returning home to Cybertron, both Megatron and Optimus Prime are surprised by the current landscape. In addition to the holds that both Autobots and Decepticons have, the empire of Jhiaxus as well as a few strongholds of non aligned Cybertronians.

Megatron uses his new synthetic formula to gain support from many of the non aligned cybertronians that join the Decepticons, but soon Jhiaxus learns of the formula and begins using it for his citizens. The Autobots receive regular shipments of energon from Earth and soon Ratchet is able to create the formula back on Cybertron. As all things are equal now, the war continues as Megatron continues his peace through tyrany model of government and Jhiaxus trys to prove that unlike Megatron he can make a better home following the true Decepticon way, of course leading to much oppression and the Autobots fighting for the freedom of all living beings.

The Fall of Prime

Organizing an assault on Cybertron to push the Decepticons back, Optimus Prime forged a lasting alliance with the Mini-Cons. Giving the Autobots access to their resources on Moon Base 1 and 2 the Autobots were going to make an assault of Kaon. Their goals were to target Megatron, Shockwave and Starscream.

Decepticon spies uncovered the plan and infiltrated one of the Autobot cargo vessels going to Moonbase 2. The resulting assault was a devastating blow to the Autobots and cost them many lives.

Just as the Decepticons were able to have a complete victory over Moonbase 2, Optimus Prime, the Dinobots and a select group of Autobots showed up at the last moment to turn the tide. Optimus and Megatron squared off in what was recorded as an Epic Final Battle. Optimus Prime and Megatron served many lethal blows to one another. Eventually an Autobot by the name of Hot Rod attempted to save Optimus during the battle and Megatron used him as a shield giving one last final attack to Optimus. However with his last bit of energon Optimus fatally wounded Megatron causing a retreat command from the great leader.

In the aftermath of the battle, Megatron was last seen entering his palace a Kaon, never to be seen again. Optimus was triaged as much as possible but his wounds were too fatal for a recovery. With is last command he handed the Matrix of Leadership to Ultra Magnus. Magnus humility caused him to be at odds with the Matrix, stating he was unworthy. It was later noted that events revealed that a younger Autobot by the name of Hot Rod would take the Matrix and was deemed worthy. Rodimus Prime was the name he took as he leads the Autobots now on their battle to regain freedom for Cybertron.

The Decepticons had a short conflict over leadership. Starscream was the final winner of the leadership of he Decepticons until an old Decepticon from the Age of Origins came to Kaon and killed Starscream during his coronation. Galvatron took the leadership of the Decepticons without a fight and now leads them.
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