Ahh, you have returned. Let me give this mech his High Grade and I will set with you. Now, you wanted to know how the Seekers began? Well, I am not that old, believe it or not, but I do know the story...
Onyx Prime and Alchemist Prime were in a bet. Onyx Prime bet that he would be the only Cybertronian capable of flight, and Alchemist wanted to prove him wrong.
The Predacon tortured his brother, teased him to no end. Alchemist worked without stopping on a model of the next flying Cybertronian: The Seeker of Skies.
He wanted it to be like Onyx, but the Seeker of Skies was getting bulky and the wings, while they looked cool, would be awkward and cumbersome. So he scrapped model after model before he found his mistake.
He grabbed his brothers and modeled the Seeker of Skies after the lightest, and he made the Seeker of Skies' frame lighter and lighter until it was fragile. Fragile enough to fly, he thought, and he started forming wings.
When the model was done, he gave it to his sister, Solus Prime. She took the model and her Forge and she left. When she returned, she led a full-grown Seeker of Skies out. The femme was called Nightbird, and she fell for Amalgamous.
More Seekers of Skies were formed and they were sent to Cybertron to breed among themselves and among Alchemists' Cybertronians, the "grounders" as they were soon called.
Nightbird bore many daughters and many sons until she passed and Amalgamous sent his children to Cybertron. Those Seekers (Alchemist shortened the name after tripping over the term for far too many years) were capable of flight and changing their physical appearance. Though the ability looked deadly, it was more as a prank or a short-term trick to pull on an enemy to confuse and baffle...
Say, would you like to go to Vos? I'm sure you would. Come on. I know the way. On the way, I can tell you about the belief of the palace. It's rubble now, because even though Cybertron is being rebuilt, no one wants to touch it without a Seeker there. Here is why.
For many years, Seekers believed the palace was sacred. It had been there since they came to Cybertron, and they believed only royalty should be allowed to stay there. So they picked their King and Queen and sent them to live in the palace with three servants.
The Queen, many years later, wanted to redo the palace. She wanted to expand it. She had given birth to three trines in her time as Queen, and she knew they would need room to stretch and play. The King set to work expanding the palace, but as soon as he started, he died.
The Queen was distraught. The King had been in good health! There was no reason he should have died. She did not want to touch the room her King had died in, and so the palace remained that way, with one room altered for expansion.
But her sons started dying until the Queen had had enough and she ran to the room and put everything back where it was, removing the building supplies and fixing the wall her King had destroyed.
The deaths stopped happening and the Queen lived a very unnaturally long life.
Seeker scientists now believe that the King, when he died, left poisonous substances that were essential for expansion and he died, and because the Queen did not mess with the room after he passed, her sons started to get poisoned and they, too, died, and since she got rid of the poisons, she lived long due to her careful advances through life.
If you ask me, I like the idea of the palace refusing to be altered in any way shape or form.
Ah, here we are! Vos. Yes, I know you're not a Seeker, and after hearing that story, you think the palace or this creaky gate will seek revenge. Well, it won't. Optimus Prime himself came through here, looking for survivors, and he lived after that...until he died. Primus, get back here and stop shaking! You're as nervous as a Predacon in a china shop, now keep up.
See that pile of rubble? That was the palace. See how all the little homes are starting to come back up? No one is afriad to fix those, it's that palace. And the remaining Seekers are a little lost now that they're home with no King to sit in the palace, rubble or not.
Why aren't I worried? I'm old, child. I've seen the Era of Kings end and enter the Era with No King, haha. I had a Prime lead me, and I'm quite comfortable with either leader. If Primus desires a new King to be put in place, he will find one.
How many Seekers are left? Oh, about a servoful of mechs and four femmes, not including myself. Why? Because I'm ancient. I'm older than the palace, child. Oh, you don't think so? Well, you're right. Slight exageration on my part. But I was raised in the palace when it was still young. Yes, I was a Keeper. Was. Past tense.
I won't tell you who I Kept. I'll let you figure it out. Now, come on. The palace won't kill me, but if it did, I'd welcome that. There's no one I knew that is alive. Skywarp and Thundercracker disappeared and now there is rumors that Starscream died...
Oh, don't look at me like that, child! I knew them once! I can grieve...
Now that you've seen Vos, we should leave. I know I said you were safe, but the war could have poisoned this city and made it more...harsh. Now, pick up your pedes and run!
Well, we are back at the bar. I will see you around. I do have a job to do, you know? Goodbye, child. I will see you soon.