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TRANSFORMERS BEYOND
LEGENDARIUM
Chapter V
The Age of Origins
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The Age of Origins, also known as the Age of the Firstforged, the Age of Heroes, or the Cybertronian Dark Ages, is the earliest recorded epoch in Cybertron's history as following the Great Cataclysm, most of Cybertron's people, especially the second-generation Cybertronians, weren't properly organized and educated.
The leftover radiation from the extinction event has seep into the ground, causing many Cybertronians to suffer from memory loss. The fallout gives rise to the neurological condition known as "information creep." Stories about the Guiding Hand, the Covenant, and the Thirteen Primes were reduced to folktales, and very few bots believed if those events actually happened, leading to numerous alternate retellings and re-imaginings of the Cybertronian creation myth. Some stories say that Mortilus was the traitorous member of the Guiding Hand alongside Unicron instead of Adaptus, while others say that all eight gods were killed in the Theomachy and reunited in the afterlife to create the Afterspark and the Inferno, the Cybertronian equivalents of Heaven and Hell. A few tell the story that the Guiding Hand's original form as Daiakuron never existed, and that Primus created Cybertron and the other members of the pantheon before the Theomachy. One ridiculous notion says that the Guiding Hand weren't actually gods, but were in fact the very first lifeforms created from the AllSpark, predating the Covenant, the Thirteen Primes and the Knights of Cybertron.
As for the Maximals and the Predacons that once walked the ground of prehistoric Cybertron, there was very little information about them even before they became extinct. All that was left them were bones and stories passed down from one generation to another. Although several future Cybertronians would have beast-like appearances similar to the Maximals' and Predacons'.
The only things anyone was sure of was that the AllSpark was responsible of creating life, and that the Knights of Cybertron served the will of the Prime Lineage and were responsible of guarding the Creation Matrix until the next Prime was chosen. Despite Cybertron was no longer united in this era, all Cybertronians occasionally come together to the call of the Prime against imminent threats.
Approx. 750 million stellar cycles ago
With much of Cybertron's infrastructure left in ruins following the Great Cataclysm, the colonies are permanently cut off from the homeworld and each other. In their absence, the colonists begin to breed unique societal quirks within each world, producing various Cybertronian offshoots and different subcultures. The Junkions, Junkion's scrap-robot inhabitants who had the ability to repair themselves after critical injuries thanks to the planetoid's strange energies, begin building cities and structures entirely out of their planetoid's bountiful supplies of garbage and trash, and even create their own language "Talking TV" by listening to television and radio transmissions from across the galaxy, forming a stable and productive society. Caminus hosts a flourishing artistic and spiritual community, birthplace to the Way of the Flame, a religion that views the Thirteen Primes and their successors within the Prime Lineage as gods alongside the Guiding Hand. The Neutronians discover Amalgamous Prime's mythical Transformation Cog, changing the colony's entire population into omnicombinational shifters known as Mutacons. Titans and Minicons coexisted with a group of artificially-built, gigantic Cybertronians who called themselves Megamasters on the massive ecumenopolis colony world of Gigantion. On Lithone, the peaceful Lithonites create large mechanical cities drawing on the planet's geothermal power and turned their home into an intergalactic hub of science. The avian-like Ardurian Rocs have created their own communities aboard floating, self-sustaining space habitants across Arduria and its many moons. Situated in the most hostile region of the galaxy, Carcer is outfitted with extensive defensive systems as a planetary military outpost to defend themselves from alien threats, turning the colony into a citizen stratocracy. Prion becomes the biggest hub of Minicons outside of the Minicon settlements in the Hadean System, a world built by Minicons for Minicons. The inhabitants of Devisiun were all in pairs, twins who could Powerlinx with each other to create a larger, combined form.
The first survivors of the Great Cataclysm emerge from stasis lock within Cybertron's underground, discovering that their planet has been rendered virtually barren by the meteor showers and the solar storms that battered the surface. Freed from the depredations of the ancient Predacons and aided by the Knights of Cybertron, though, the Commandron tribes slowly but surely begin to rise to dominance. Among the first wave of reawakened Commandrons is Maximus Prime and Azimuth, the future founder of the Patterner Movement.
Several groups of Insecticons and Arachnicons that survived the Great Cataclysm colonize the great northwestern gulf of Cybertron. The gulf becomes known as the Web Lands and becomes a fearful place to the Commandrons during the ages of hostilities between them and the Insecticon Hives.
Feral Insecticon hives rise to dominate the southern Cybertronian hemisphere, most particularly around the Oxide Wastes, a wasteland of oxidized metal that will one day become known as the Sea of Rust.
Approx. 745 million stellar cycles ago
The thirteen major city-states of Cybertron are founded, consisting of Iacon, Nova Cronum, Polyhex, Uraya, Altihex, Ky-Alexia, Stanix, Kaon, Tarn, Styx (also known as "Blaster City"), Kalis, Simfur, and Praxus. Not only ancient cities like Crystal City and Tyger Pax are rebuilt and resettled, other Commandron cities and settlements begin to rise to power throughout the planet, many of which will become the hubs of the future metropolises of the Golden Age. The young civilization thrives, protected behind their cities' high defensive walls from the warlords, raiders, and feral creatures that rule the wilderness.
The city-states become hubs for the exchange of knowledge and ideas, giving the rise of many scientific and spiritual groups. The largest of these groups was the Patterner Movement founded by Azimuth, a cult of scientists and philosophers who logically studied the movement of the stars and believed that a truly ordered society was the only way to prevent another Great Cataclysm. In the far future, the benevolent ideals of the Patterners would be corrupted and twisted by religious fanatics and power-hungry zealots for their own purposes of gaining power over the people, setting up the foundation of the oppressive caste system of Functionism.
There were also many groups who each believe their own version of the Cybertronian creation story and how the universe worked. The major two of these groups were the Reversionists, who worshipped the Guiding Hand, the Covenant, the Primes, and the Titans as gods, and believed that each Cybertronian have a small piece of Primus within them and their sparks will reunite with their creator god after they die; and the Evolutionary Engineerists, who believed in the idea of "Atechnogenesis," a theory that Cybertron was once an organic planet that became mechanical through the naturally-occurring interaction of gears, levers, and pulleys. Other spiritual groups included the First Church of Primus, the Neo-Primalists, the Adaptologists, the Clavis Aurea, the Matrix Templars, the Spectralists, the Followers of the Guiding Hand, the Unicron Truthers, the Fateweavers, the Brothers of the Ultimate Warrior, the Covenant of the Theomachy, the Disciples of the Thirteen, just to name a few.
Approx. 710 million stellar cycles ago
A group of Insecticons and Arachnicons led by the Arachnicon warrior-queen Hunter (better known by her modernized name of Shokaract) colonize the northwestern reaches of the Sonic Canyons, forming their own settlement. They name their city Corumkan, which will become one of the few city-states on Cybertron that's entirely populated by Insecticons and Arachnicons.
Approx. 695 million stellar cycles ago
The Knights of Cybertron, former vanguard force of the original Thirteen Primes, remerge as a force to be reckoned with in Cybertron's populous northern hemisphere. Now as a military order with armies of warrior-priests and fleets of battlecruisers, the Knights unite many many fledging Commandron city-states into a benign theocratic order ruled from their capital of Axiom Nexus within their stronghold, the now mythical Halls of Order. They base the tenants of their society on the surviving scraps of teachings supposedly passed down to them by the Thirteen in the distant past and worship the AllSpark, the Creation Matrix of Leadership, and Vector Sigma as the combined lifeforce of Primus. Few outside the Knights' empire are aware that the mighty weapons of the Knight Grandmasters are the legendary Artifacts of the Primes, guarded by the Knights since the fall of the Primes many eons ago.
Approx. 686 million stellar cycles ago
After hundreds of thousands of ano-cycles of serving as Cybertron's ruler, Maximus Prime peacefully dies from old age in his home in Tyger Pax, surrounded by his many friends as his spark slowly burns out. In the wake of his death, the Creation Matrix is passed down to Grandmaster Sentius Nobilius of the Knights of Cybertron for him to bestow to the next Prime. Sentius Nobilius would go on a long pilgrimage across Cybertron in his search for a worthy Matrix-bearer, until one day, he meets a mech named Vegnis, a humble laborer from Iacon who just fought to protect his community of fellow energon farmers from bandits and volunteered around the clock. Admired by his determination and good will, the Knight Grandmaster chose him as the newest member of the Prime Lineage: Vegnis Prime.
Approx. 675 million stellar cycle ago
A Skyraider Air Commander named Ulchtar leads a faction of the Skyraiders known as the Seekers, an air exploration force and elite brotherhood of warriors. Under Ulchtar's leadership, the Seekers form their own city-state which they name Vos and quickly cement themselves as Cybertron's main air defense force as they defend the planet and the colonies from alien invaders. They also became stellar explorers, hunting down ancient relics and ruins for the betterment of Cybertron. The Seekers of Vos all rebuild their outer shells to resemble Ulchtar's, ostensibly to show strength through unity. After Ulchtar's death, his legendary rapier, the Crimson Tyrant, is passed down to future Air Commanders.
Approx. 662 million stellar cycles ago
The Patterner Movement begins to spread across Cybertron from their capital city of Nova Cronum, banishing the superstition and unreason of the past with rationalism, logic and mathematical certainties. As their influence grows and spreads, the surface of the planet is reshaped and sculpted into an intricate map of the heavens, marking the motions of the heavenly bodies, the passage of time, the natures of the elements and a whole array of other mathematical, physical and chemical processes. As the Patterners spread, they forge links between the disparate populations, bringing contact between all manner of intellectual and practical pursuits that begin to interact and share their theories and expertise.
Approx. 654 million stellar cycles ago
Near the theocratic city-state of K'th Kinsere, an offshoot of the Followers of the Guiding Hand retire to a life of asceticism in the heights of the Manganese Mountains, building a temple atop of the Vaulted Heights of K'th Kinsere. Over time, they become synonymous with their mountaintop sanctuary as the High Priests of K'th Kinsere.
Approx. 648 million stellar cycles ago
A-3 and Alchemist Prime emerge from the Cybertronian wilderness into the Patterner city-state of Iacon in the far north, hiding their identities as Primes, now going by the names "Alpha Trion" and "Maccadam" respectively. The two quickly become prominent members of the Patterner council of Iacon, continuing to assist in the development of Cybertronian civilization from behind the scenes. During this time, Alpha Trion would found the Iacon Hall of Records as a major center of knowledge and study.
Approx. 640 million stellar cycles ago
The Hate Plague Crisis: The mysterious Hate Plague emerges on Cybertron, having ravaged thousands of worlds and managed to arrive on the Transformers' homeworld through panspermia. The plague induced hatred and destructive urges into whoever they contaminate, creating a trail of chaos and destruction across Cybertron. In order to stop the plague, Vegnis Prime unleashes the full power of the Creation Matrix onto it, sacrificing himself in the process to eradicate the plague as his body is entirely vaporized. Though the Hate Plague was eradicated, a few plague spores managed to survive into deep space. Following Vegnis Prime's sacrifice, the Creation Matrix is passed down to Regulus Prime.
Approx. 634 million stellar cycles ago
A fearsome warrior sect known as the Dreads rise to prominence in the city-state Thetacon, becoming well-known assassins and infiltrators who work for the highest bidder.
Approx. 625 million stellar cycles ago
The charismatic yet malevolent Galvatron rises to become a prominent warlord in his city-state of Polyhex around this time. He ruled from his seat of power-Darkmount, a massive fortress built around the caldera of a great magma plume welling up from the center of Cybertron. Galvatron's ambitions of expanding his rule soon leads to him and his army to invade neighboring territories of Polyhex, forming the Polyhex Imperium. He then starts annexing city-states under the respective rules of the Patterners and the Knights of Cybertron into his Imperium.
During his campaign of conquest, Galvatron draws a divergent sect of Patterners to his side in the Polyhex Imperium, forming the cult only known as Random, who are extremely devoted into the study and reverence of Chaos and the rejection of Order. Over the following eons, the Random cult spreads throughout Cybertron at all levels of society and spawn the Ultracons: a paramilitary army that will pursue Galvatron's goals by military force.
Sometime after this, Galvatron's Ultracons invade the Patterner city-state of Stanix. During the annexation, Galvatron battles and slays Regulus Prime so he can have access to the Creation Matrix's vast power. However, a lone Patterner warrioress managed to run in and yank the Creation Matrix from Galvatron's grasp, in the process becoming Amazon Prime when she first touched the relic.
Amazon Prime begins fortifying the Patterners' remaining city-states against future Ultracon attacks, preparing for an inevitable war against the Polyhex Imperium.
Approx. 612 million stellar cycles ago
A young knight-in-training named Cyclonus is drawn into the Random by Galvatron's dark charisma, betraying his fellow Knights of Cybertron by revealing the existence of the Artifacts of the Primes to his new master. Galvatron becomes obsessed with gaining the Artifacts so that he might use their combined might to remake Cybertron in his own image.
The Ultracons attack the Halls of Order in Axiom Nexus in an attempt to steal the Artifacts of the Primes, slaughtering many Knights and Matrix Templars that stood in their way. Though the assault is repulsed by the Knights, Grandmaster Sentius Nobilius is killed by Galvatron and the artifact he was guarding-the Terminus Blade-is taken.
The legendary Chaos Wars soon begin with the selection of Grandmaster Sentius Nobilius's successor Sovereign Ultimis by the Knights of Cybertron who declares an all-out crusade against the Random to recover the Terminus Blade from Galvatron.
Approx. 611 million stellar cycles ago
Grandmaster Sovereign Ultimis strikes up a friendship with Amazon Prime while hunting down the Hydra-like Random, forming a beneficial alliance between the Knights of Cybertron and the Patterners. Despite their vastly different ideologies, many of the Patterners' best strategists proves themselves to be invaluable in the Knights' crusade. With the first step taken, the Knights and the Patterners will continue to work more closely during the remainder of the Chaos Wars, developing a mutual respect if not always agreement.
Approx. 609 million stellar cycles ago
Galvatron, having finally learned to tap into the reality-warping powers of the Terminus Blade, uses the power of the Primes to transform part of Cybertron's southern wilderness into the Rad Zone, raising within it a mighty fortress he names Zarak Maximus.
Approx. 603 million stellar cycles ago
Many of the Ultracons kill themselves in an insane attempt to incorporate radioactive elements into their bodies in an effort to make themselves more chaotic, taking many innocent civilians and Knights with them due to secondary exposure.
Approx. 600 million stellar cycles ago
Sovereign Ultimis and Amazon Prime finally confronts Galvatron as the Patterners create protective armor for the Knights of Cybertron to enable them to survive in the Rad Zone, allowing them to besiege Zarak Maximus. During the battle, it is revealed that Galvatron gave Zarak Maximus life by infusing it with a spark as the living Ultracon fortress transforms into a dark mirror of the legendary Titan Fortress Maximus from ancient times. Amazon Prime enters Zarak Maximus and destroying the Dark Titan's spark from within, with his body being scattered across the Rad Zone, while Sovereign Ultimis battles the insane tyrant and emerges victorious. With the Terminus Blade taken back by the Knights and their leader beaten, the Ultracons end up defeated and the remaining Random cultists fade away into the shadowy corners of Cybertron, ending the Chaos Wars.
Galvatron and his surviving lieutenants-Cyclonus and Scourge-are placed in stasis pods in the catacombs beneath ancient Iacon where the Patterners agree to keep them imprisoned for as long as they rule Iacon.
Approx. 599 million stellar cycles ago
Sovereign Ultimis becomes overall leader of the Knights of Cybertron and determines that their time, like the time of the Thirteen Primes who trained them, is coming to an end. Preparations are made to hand over power to the Patterner city-states and the Artifacts of the Primes are secretly turned over to Alpha Trion, who locks them away within the Iacon Hall of Records. The elder priests of the Matrix Templars are given the title of the Creation Matrix's guardians and they ignite the Matrix Flame via their ancient connection to the artifact.
Approx. 598 million stellar cycles ago
The Knights of Cybertron depart from Cybertron to spread their teachings to the stars and are lost from Cybertronian history to fade into legend, leaving the Patterner Movement to guide the development of Cybertronian civilization. In their absence, the relative order in the northern hemisphere fractures as warlords and cultists fill the power vacuum left by their departure, but the Patterners succeed in holding out against these threats and maintaining order within the developing city-states.
To commemorate the Knights of Cybertron for their many great deeds to Cybertron, the Patterners construct a capitol building called the Acropolex outside of the city-state of Nyon. Unbeknownst to them, the Acropolex was built over the dormant form of Metroplex, a legendary Titan from the Age of Primes whose been in hibernation since the Great Cataclysm.
Approx. 580 million stellar cycles ago
The Iaconian Nobility rises to power in Iacon, ruled by the Eminence Majestas and the Matriarch. Some of the well-known spark lineages within the Iaconian Nobility include House Pax, House Sentinel, House Maximus, House Winter, House Ambus, and House Armanos.
Approx. 576 million stellar cycles ago
The Celestial Spires of Vos are raised heavenward by the Seekers as mirrors of the ancient Sacred Spires, from which legend holds the Thirteen Primes were spawned from.
Approx. 568 million stellar cycles ago
An inter-city state competition held on Cybertron once every ten thousand stellar cycles known as the State Games is founded in an attempt to pacify the city-states in order to prevent a repeat of the Chaos Wars.
Approx. 555 million stellar cycles ago
A young and impressionable bot called Boltax arrives in Iacon and begins working at the Hall of Records where his clarity of intellect and dreams of bright futures for Cybertron attract the attention of Alpha Trion himself. Trion takes the young bot as his protégé.
Approx. 545 million stellar cycles ago
Amazon Prime dies from old age before passing the Creation Matrix to a worthy successor: the ruler of Iacon and a member of the ancient Iaconian Nobility, remaking him as Septimus Prime. Septimus' possession of the Creation Matrix and its ancient power and wisdom marks him apart from the other leaders of Cybertron's city-states. Iacon, already known across the planet as the greatest of its city-states and a seat of learning, reason, and civilization without equal, becomes the heart of Septimus Prime's new Cybertronian Commonwealth, taking Crystal City's former place as the capital of Cybertron. Led by the new Prime, the Cybertronian Commonwealth begins tackling the warlords and feral tribes in Cybertron's hinterlands and spreading the values of Iacon to the other city-states.
Approx. 540 million stellar cycles ago
Boltax meets Jhiaxus, Tallus, Decanus and Rokan in his travels as Alpha Trion's aide. The five become firm friends over the years, pooling their skills in their search for knowledge and wisdom.
Approx. 535 million stellar cycles ago
With help from Alpha Trion and Maccadam, the Cybertronian Commonwealth secures peace with the Insecticon/Arachnicon Hives in the Web Lands, allowing Commonwealth miners, scientists and technicians access to the rich energon deposits in the depths of the region and beginning the long transformation of the Web Lands into the Sea of Lights.
With the Cybertronian Commonwealth expanding enlightenment across Cybertron, the Transformers enters a new era of peace and prosperity, however, it wouldn't last because on the other side of the galaxy, strange creatures begin observe their development from afar...