Cybertron/Babylon 5: Chapter 6
Galvatron to Ancients: "Oh great ones, let me know your secrets. I live to serve and to make our kind better, stronger. I live to protect our kind from any adverse forces which may be in the universe. I know you are one of many ancient civilizations. I wish to know the secrets. I wish to serve and make us powerful, to be able to ally against any wars."
Ancients: "You come to us without your chosen one, Optimus Prime. Yet you have good intentions. You already know your life force, Energon. However, there was a greater force created called Dark Energon. Left from the reminants which created this galaxy this energon is a sort of super life force. It affects all living beings. We ourselves do not understand how it works, only the Creator knows the true powers and uses. Another ancient race, which we estimate to be just as old as our race, if not a bit older. They are a dark race, we do not choose to associate with them. They have absorbed great deals of the Dark Energon, and to power their ships, they absorb whatever lifeform they can find, causing it to accept them as their master or be killed. We believe this has something to do with the dark energon, and it also causes the group to decieve and control, to begin pointless wars to establish dominance and take power."
Galvatron thinking to himself as he's leaving the presence of the ancients: "I must get to know these dark ones. I will learn their secrets and overthrow them, becoming the greatest power in the universe. What Optimus doesn't know is that I have forces backing me, and soon Cybertron will fall, those who do not follow me will be killed."
What Galvatron did not know however that there were many other races out in the universe which would prove quite burdensome to his cause, maybe even fatal. He had heard from Optimus the mention of these other races: Vorlon, Nimbari, Centauri, "Shadows", Humans (although he would learn of these first hand), and many more. From his understanding these races save for the humans were some of the oldest around, the Vorlons dating back to even further than his own Ancients. He did not know how many there were, or even how powerful, but he did not care. All on quest for power, quest to rule, and he knew he would rule them all.
Shortly after the Ancients divulged their secrets to Galvatron, an uprising began. This was the great war on Cybertron, and the year everything fell. In another time, 2259 a space station was transported through time, into the past. They were trying to follow what they called, Shadows. To prevent the rise to power, to prevent the wars, and to find a way to live in peaceful harmony.
As Galvatron begin to rise to power, the Shadows began to take interest. They implanted some tainted dark energy into followers of Galvatron, causing the Deceptacons to be born. These Transformers were able to know things beyond anything they had known, and see things beyond anything they had ever seen, with one catch, they could only serve Galvatron. If they chose to break free, they risked being saught out and killed, or the Shadows moving upon them with a swiftness.
The Shadows wanted the war on Cybertron, but only to move Optimus out of the way, or rather to gather Optimus. They saw great potential, and wanted him as one of their own. Quickly they learned the Transformers were destroying themselves, and their world was soon going to be destroyed as well. Leaving the planet, with all the Dark Energon inside, useless.
Furious they could not claim Optimus as their own, and knowing they had failed, the Shadows disappeared, searching and waiting for new power to claim. This power came 1000 years later when the humans began moving into space. Knowing they needed time for the humans to rise, and fall they put scouts on what is known as Earth, calling upon their Dark Energy Deceptacons once again.
Optimus and his Transformers had landed on Earth, humans were growing in progress, and the Deceptacons like the Transformers came in many forms. The Ancients were respected and followed by Optimus. Shadows were feared and lothed, by Galvatron, but he followed in hopes of one day overthrowing them.