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Earth present time
When a new Television Series was broadcast on tv with robots. Everyone was excited by the trailers that appeared on television. They featured a caste system on an alien metallic world with scenes from out of this world as a backdrop of a rich alien culture. S13, a robot that worked in a mine as a slave, fought against his masters in a mine uprising, then he was sold to the fighting Areas where he earned his name by becoming a Gladiator, who campaigned for the lower caste to have equal rights and a say in the senate, he was given the status of High Lord Protector; the military leader of the planet, until such time as the Senate betrayed him and he defied them by taking their army away from them and started a planet wide war. Orion, a robot that worked in a library of some sort, his meeting of the gladiator who stole his spark, his courtship and bonding, and the end of the golden era that brought about the war which the Senate initiated. The thing that really got everyone going was that it was broadcast all over the world without consent of the media networks which meant someone was hacking the broadcast signals and sending it internationally. While the previews of the series aired a lot of media people were investigating how their time slots were overridden twice a week for two hours. The advertised hours occurred and anyone with a television turned on received the episodes of the television series called The Cyber Files.
Cybertron many millions of years ago
The opening scene is rows of various suspended robots clamped into a manufacturing production row which were then funneled into an activation room which was bathed in energy from a gigantic square cube called the 'All Spark'. One metallic robot is focus of this story, a large silver coloured mech who when he activated has scarlet eyes and is given the designation of S13. Hanging from the ceiling while cables penetrate his helm to reach his processor and upload information about his function; he knows he is a slave which from his burning optics one would see an ember of the mech he would be in the millions of years in the future. He was then shipped off to a energon mine owned by the government of Cybertron also known to the populace as 'Autobots' who supposedly uphold the laws that govern the planet. S13 never saw the topside of the planet when he was moved from the activation room along with a cadre of other workers bound for the mine; they were herded aboard a transport without views of the outside while still scrambling to make sense of being alive and the fact they were slaves since they were not given pacification codes to ease them into their function. On arriving at the mine they had got their pedes under themselves only to run into the force-whip wielding foreman and overseers at the mine. Forced down into the mine to start what the information uploaded into their processors as a guide; to what to do in the mine they worked until they were allowed to refuel. At such time they were absolutely starving and they learned that the overseers could cut fuel given or the consumption of fuel all together. S13 was living and working in perpetual dusk underneath the metallic planet the view changed showing the time scale used on the planet of million of years and showed the passing of time on the slave's plating. It had started out brand new off the factory line and now was filty, dented, pitted and worned showing the millions gone by.