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TRANSFORMERS BEYOND
LEGENDARIUM
Chapter VIII
The Golden Age
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The Age of Expansion, better known by historians as the First Golden Age of Cybertron, was considered to be the heyday of the Transformer race right after they exiled the Quintessons from their homeworld and its colonies, creating a vast galactic empire that promoted joy, peace, exploration, knowledge, prosperity, and most important of all, freedom...
Approx. 250 million stellar cycles ago
At the end of the Second Quintesson Wars, the Quintessons were driven from Cybertronian territory by the Cybertronians led by their fierce Supreme Commander Nova Prime, ending their long tyrannical occupation of their world. With the support of the elders Alpha Trion and Maccadam, Nova Prime spend his first three thousand years as Cybertron's first Supreme Commander rebuilding proper civilization on Cybertron and uniting its off-world colonies, reorganizing the Cybertronian Commonwealth into the Great Cybertronian Empire. To rule the new Empire alongside him, Nova Prime establishes the Cybertronian Senate and a reconstituted Council of Ancients. The Senate, led by a First Senator and with Supreme Commander Nova Prime as its moderator, had Senators from all over Cybertron who represented their own respective city-state, and each city-state would vote for their Senator. Alpha Trion and Maccadam were among the first members of this new Senate, becoming Senators of Iacon and Crystal City respectively. The Council of Ancients was smaller than the Senate, as it only consisted of thirteen members, but the Council would govern all of Cybertron and each Councilor would be voted in by the civilian population. Notable Councilors in office at this time included Steelheart, Obliteration, Nightwielder, and Firefight. Notable Senators in office at this time included the aforementioned former Primes, along with Xaaron, Termagax, Jhiaxus, Codexa, Halogen, and Ember. This was also the time when Cybertron's greatest cities were rebuilt from all the damage during the Quintesson Wars, including the planet's capital Iacon, the first city-state to be liberated from the Quintessons.
But Cybertron wasn't enough. Nova Prime looked to the stars, wanting to spread Cybertron's glory to other worlds and cement dominance across the Milky Way Galaxy. Free to govern themselves, the Cybertronians made use of the technological advances left behind by the Quintessons and created a network of Space Bridges in orbit around the planet. After its completion, the Space Bridge Network is activated, connecting Cybertron to the wider galaxy beyond on equal terms for the first time in recorded history. Contact begins to be made with other forms of life, and Cybertronian explorers and adventurers flood out into the galaxy in search of wonders and riches and their abducted brethren taken by the Quintessons during the Age of Wrath.
The Seekers are sent out of Cybertronian territory to scout the nearest star systems around the Great Cybertronian Empire's borders for other lifeforms to forge alliances with and alien worlds to colonize under their banner.
The Primal Vanguard is formed to maintain peace between Cybertron and its allies, and fight alongside the Elite Guard and Defense Forces to defend the planet and its colonies from any hostile alien threats.
Approx. 245 million stellar cycles ago
Nova Prime leads the Great Cybertronian Empire in this new age of colonization and expansion with the help of the Titans and the technology of the Space Bridges, colonizing new worlds under Cybertron's dominion from aboard his flagship, the Proudstar. In anticipation of the Expansion, Nova Prime requires a fresh generation of new Cybertronians, but, around this time, the life-giving pulse waves from both Vector Sigma and the AllSpark slow down. Nova tasks a team of scientists to extract new sparks from the Creation Matrix of Leadership, exponentially boosting the Cybertronian population and further dividing Cybertronians along "forged" or "cold constructed" lines. After the first new generation of Transformers is created and sent off-world for colonization, all of the additional sparks, which then stored in protoforms within stasis pods, are all placed in a gigantic facility known as the Matrix, located in an isolated region of the Sea of Ages just outside of Iacon.
Fleets of Titans and other colonization vessels, guarded by detachments of Seekers and War Titans-Titans specialized in transporting armies to combat-are sent out into deep space to settle on possible colony worlds. Using the Seeds created by the Quintessons from the reverse-engineered technology of the Omega Lock, the Cybertronians cyberform any uninhabited worlds they colonize, turning them into tiny copies of Cybertron, connected to the homeworld by the Space Bridge Network.
The first planet colonized by the Great Cybertronian Empire is Archon, the first of hundreds spreading out across the galaxy in all directions in the eons to follow. During this time, Nova Prime and his team of scientists led by Jhiaxus conceived a way in which the Well of All Sparks could be duplicated on the colonies in the form of the Cyber Planet Keys, devices that can keep the colonies powered for seemingly forever. In a ceremonial running of the torch, a spark of life from the Well was acquired and carried from the Well to the Space Bridge of Iacon, across interplanetary distances to Archon, where the first Cyber Planet Key is constructed. With the torch, they successfully ignite the Archon Cyber Key, resulting in spark-wells and hot spots to spread across the planet, ensuring that new Cybertronians could be born of the colony worlds as well. This same tactic is then repeated on the old colonies of Caminus, Devisiun, Prion, Arduria, Carcer, Junkion, Lithone, Gigantion, Mons Prima, Velocitron, Eukaris, Paradron, Neutronia, and Omnitron.
Following the lessons, successes, and failures on Archon, the Senate inaugurates the Colonization Guild to oversee future colonization efforts. The Guild institutes expansion via a series of hubworlds linking back to Cybertron by Space Bridge and on each of which is constructed a Cyber Planet Key like Archon's. From these hubworlds, subsidiary colonies begin to radiate out under the central control of their hubworld.
Approx. 230 million stellar cycles ago
Maccadam decides to retire from politics, content with fading into the background as he decided to settle down at Iacon and make his own bar called Maccadam's Old Oil House, the biggest single source of good fuel and beverages, not just on Cybertron, but the entire Great Cybertronian Empire.
Approx. 222 million stellar cycles ago
The Regulon Conflicts: A series of newly-founded colonies are discovered scoured of mechanical life after suddenly falling silent. Investigations by the Primal Vanguard eventually track the source of the attacks to the biomechanical world of Regulon IV, where they too are destroyed by its natives, only known by the Cybertronians as "the Regulon Metal-Mongers." After a series of humiliating defeats in which each Metal-Monger is equal to hundreds of Cybertronian troops, the Regulon forces attack the hubworld of Mekatron, devastating the civilian population. The Cybertronian Elite Guard responds in force and, with horrific casualties, secures a victory against their enemy (Kup is among the survivors of this apocalyptic battle). After this initial Cybertronian victory, the conflict wears on with neither side able to claim victory until the Elite Guard launches a final desperate assault on Regulon IV and succeed in delivering their enemy a crippling blow that ends the war, though the leader of the Elite Guard forces-General Stormbreaker, a veteran of the Second Quintesson Wars-is killed in the fighting.
Having witnessed the the horrors of the Quintesson occupation of Cybertron eons past, Nova Prime feared the possibility of a counterattack and invasion of the homeworld by the Regulon Metal-Mongers. With the support of both the Senate and the Council of Ancients, he orders the sterilization and later colonization of Regulon IV, bringing the Metal-Mongers into extinction and wiping out any trace of their existence on the planet as it is then settled by colonists. While they wanted to eliminate the threat of the Regulon Metal-Mongers before any further destruction was done, a silent majority within the Senate, including Alpha Trion, questioned Nova Prime's unsavory methods at the end of the war.
A statue commemorating the Regulon Conflicts-consisting of General Stormbreaker and other heroes, including Kup-is erected in Iacon Central Plaza. (During the Third Cybertronian Civil War, Kup will express one moment of gratitude to the Decepticons when their assault on the capital during the Second Battle of Iacon destroys "that damnable statue" of Kup's likeness.)
The Cybertronian Security Operations is formed to provide espionage and intelligence on future threats to Cybertron and its colonies so that they can never be taken unawares by another threat like the Regulon Metal-Mongers.
Approx. 220 million stellar cycles ago
The Great Cybertronian Empire becomes renowned across civilized space as a center of knowledge, culture and wisdom. Hundreds of alien species-organic and mechanical-trade with the Cybertronians and explore the depths of their archives for possible solutions to the issues facing the pan-galactic civilization.
Approx. 217 million stellar cycles ago
Jhiaxus, a senior member of the Science Guild by this point, notices a young but brilliant scientist from the city-state of Protihex named Shockwave working on one of the teams he is responsible for overseeing. Jhiaxus takes Shockwave under his tutelage, helping to unleash the full brilliance of that young mind by assigning him to projects that stimulate the young bot's intellect. He becomes Jhiaxus's protégé and begins aiding the elder scientist in his many research projects.
Approx. 215 million stellar cycles ago
The Third Quintesson Wars: The Quintessons attempt to reconquer Cybertron as a large fleet of the Quintesson Expeditionary Forces just suddenly enter Cybertronian territory and unleash a catastrophic attack, destroying several of the outer colonies. After a hard-fought war, the Quintessons eventually relented under the Cybertronians' superior military forces and retreated back to their native space. Despite the valiant efforts of the Cybertronian Armed Forces, numerous casualties were across the Cybertronian people.
In order to maintain supremacy and security within the Empire following the Third Quintesson Wars, Nova Prime orders the creation of the peacekeeping Omega Sentinels, powerful giants that stationed at Crystal City who were based off of the Dark Guardians utilized by the Quintessons during the Age of Wrath. Led by the mighty Omega Supreme, the Omega Sentinels quelled any and all hostile alien invasions.
Approx. 206 million stellar cycles ago
The Omacronian Encounter: A group of Cybertronian colonists are slaughtered by the Omacronians on Cestus IV when the process of cyberforming the planet into a new spokeworld for the Empire. When the Primal Vanguard responds to this, they are immediately attacked by the Omacronian forces and almost overwhelmed before the charismatic Delta Magnus, commander of the famed Magnus Corps, rallies his troops and routs their opponents from Cybertronian space.
Approx. 195 million stellar cycles ago
The Edgespace Wars: A far-off interstellar empire known as the Galran Khanganete are able to successfully breach the outer rim of the Great Cybertronian Empire, with the goal to eventually invade Cybertron for the AllSpark, so they can use its incredible power to expand their dominion across the galaxy. Nova Prime rallies the entirety of the Cybertronian Armed Forces, assuming full control of the Imperial military. The Cybertronians are able to push the Galra forces from their territory, however, not without many casualties on both sides. Aboard the Proudstar, Nova ordered the entire Primal Vanguard starfleet to accompany him to the territory of the Galran Khanganete, where they unleashed an orbital bombardment on the Galra's homeworld of Daibazaal, killing all surface life to ensure that the Galra royalty and head of military don't escape. Nova then orders Galvatron, who was commander-in-chief of the Elite Guard at the time, to conduct an invasion of the remaining Galra worlds aimed at assuring the complete destruction of the Galran Khanganete and any vestigial threat it posed to the safety of the Great Cybertronian Empire. The event known as "The Galran Holocaust" reduced the Galran Khanganete from a vast galactic superpower into a small collective of warlords and marauders struggling to survive after their homeworld's destruction.
In the wake of the Edgespace Wars, many Cybertronians cheered for Nova Prime's actions against the Galran Khanganete and thought that he was just taking precautions to assure Cybertron's safety. However, Nova did have his fair share of critics, though they were a few in number around this time. Chief among them was Alpha Trion and a young Elite Guard lieutenant named Guardian Major.
Approx. 182 million stellar cycles ago
After facing hardship and turmoil from the previous conflicts with the Quintessons, the Regulon Metal-Mongers, the Omacronians, and now the Galra, Nova Prime begins the extreme militarization of the Great Cybertronian Empire in preparation of any possible threats, making the democratic federation resemble more of a military dictatorship.
He also begins to find his interactions with non-Cybertronian lifeforms to be disappointing and cut off all contact with Cybertron's alien allies, slowly to the conclusion that these "lesser races" couldn't teach Cybertron anything beneficial. Nova slowly but surely becomes a fascist who dreams of his version of the galaxy-a galaxy where all other races could only watch in awe as Cybertron's beauty expanded, a galaxy where the Cybertronians came first.
At this point in time, Nova Prime begins targeting inhabited planets for colonization, annihilating several civilizations in the process and claimed that it was all to deter these aliens from a chance of invading Cybertron and its colonies. While Nova Prime still had his many supporters, among them Galvatron, Cyclonus, Scourge, Jhiaxus, Ember, and Steelheart, there was now a growing number of people who claimed that the Matrix-bearer's plans were not spreading enlightenment, but instead the conquest of everything not born of Cybertron. Many of these "malcontents" would be quietly arrested by Nova Prime's secret police over the eons and sent to off-world detention facilities to be imprisoned.
Approx. 170 million stellar cycles ago
Nova Prime became inspired by the legends of Nexus Prime and sought to use combiner technology as a tool of conquest. He instructed Jhiaxus to use the powers of the Enigma of Combination to create an army of combiners for the Expansion. Jhiaxus tests the Enigma on a group of six volunteers-Birdbrain, Bristleback, Icepick, Scowl, Slog, and Wildfly-who all successfully merge to form the combiner Monstructor. However, the experiment quickly becomes a failure as Monstructor's components lacked any unity or common goal, leading to their combined form becoming an uncontrollable savage, who then proceeded to run amok across Cybertron. Monstructor would be eventually defeated by the combined efforts of Omega Supreme and the Elite Guard.
After the so-called "Monstructor Incident," Omega Supreme was able to separate Monstructor back to his six components and place them in protective stasis before sealing them away in Crystal City's underground vaults. Nova Prime, disappointed by the experiment's disastrous results, leaves the Enigma of Combination in the safekeeping of Alpha Trion within the Iacon Hall of Records, and orders all research and development of combiner technology to be forever shelved. However, some scientists, including Jhiaxus' protégé Shockwave, continued to try to unlock the secrets of combiner technology without use of the Enigma but to no avail.
Approx. 160 million stellar cycles ago
The Fourth Quintesson Wars: After millions of years of peace, the Quintessons returned to Cybertron once again. Galvanized, they fought a bloody offensive against the Great Cybertronian Empire, tearing their way throughout the Cybertronian colonies, but they were no match for the combined might of the Titans, the Omega Sentinels, the Cybertronian Armed Forces, and the resources of the colony worlds. The Quintessons were forced to retreat once again.
Approx. 150 million stellar cycles ago
Scientists in the city-state of Arcanex uncover the remains of several ancient Maximals and Predacons within the Great Abyss. Studying their CNA, they begin to unlock the secrets of the ancient beastformers. The leader of the research team, Dragotron, takes his research a step further when he and his fellow scientists decide to inject themselves with Maximal/Predacon CNA, transforming themselves and several followers into the Arcanexian beastformers.
The Senate and the Council of Ancients orders the experiments ended and the research destroyed, but Dragotron rebels and, along with a band of followers from Arcanex, takes a starship called the Hyperborea and leaves Cybertron to continue their experiments elsewhere. The Hyperborea crashes on a distant jungle planet they name Animatros, where they are all eventually reformatted into beastformers. While their colony is within Cybertronian space, the Animatronians declare themselves independent from the rule of the Great Cybertronian Empire, making Animatros the rough equivalent of the beastformer colony world of Eukaris.
Approx. 144 million stellar cycles ago
The Teletraan series of supercomputers is first commissioned around this time, with the first computer of the series-Teletraan Alpha-being installed aboard Nova Prime's flagship, the Proudstar. Teletraan I, who would become the most notable computer of the Teletraan series, is assembled within the Iacon Hall of Records to serve as Alpha Trion's personal assistant AI.
Approx. 139 million stellar cycles ago
The Cybertronian Security Operations detects a strange extradimensional anomaly within the Benzuli Expanse. Nova Prime decides to leave Cybertron aboard the Proudstar to closely investigate the anomaly to see if the anomaly was either beneficial or harmful to Cybertron's security, but before doing so he left the Creation Matrix in the care of the Matrix Templars, in the event he did not return. Notable members who joined Nova Prime in this expedition included Galvatron, Cyclonus, Scourge and his Sweep clones, Tempest, Ember, Jhiaxus, Hyperflight, Grindcore, Cyberwarp, Skyjack, Treadshock, and Riotgear, calling themselves the Crusadercons. As the Proudstar begins to make contact with the anomaly, Cybertron suddenly loses contact with the ship. The Primal Vanguard is sent to the Benzuli Expanse to investigate the Proudstar's disappearance, however, they don't find any trace of it, Nova Prime and the Crusadercons, nor the anomaly that they were sent to investigate. With the disappearance of the Proudstar, the Cybertronians are forced to abruptly end their investigations in the Benzuli Expanse and the ship's crew, including Nova Prime himself, are presumed deceased, possibly destroyed by hostile aliens or the Expanse's dangerous properties.
In reality, the extradimensional anomaly that the Crusadercons were investigating was a rift that allowed them to enter a mysterious and malevolent realm between realspace and unspace only known as the Dead Universe. After entering the Dead Universe, they were lost within the dark realm, unable to escape and were corrupted under the influence of an undead intelligence called the D-Void.
With Nova Prime gone, Cybertron is left without a Prime. The Matrix Templar priests safeguards the Creation Matrix until a new Matrix-bearer can be found. Soon, the Matrix Templars bestow the Creation Matrix unto Guardian Major, deeming him worthy of a Prime as he's turned into Cybertron's newest Supreme Commander: Guardian Prime.
During his early Primacy, Guardian Prime casts aside many of Nova Prime's fascist policies, focusing attention on the colonization of uninhabited planets, planetoids, and asteroids, and reestablishing peaceful contact with other alien civilizations.
Approx. 125 million stellar cycles ago
Start of the Ejoornian Crusades: The remote Cybertronian colony of Exillion is attacked by unknown alien raiders. Though the ships are repulsed by the colony's militia, the attack is followed within the next day by a fleet of warships that attacks Exillion, devastating the hubworld and capturing the planetary Space Bridges and Cyber Planet Key, though not before a technician encrypts the coordinates for the other hubworlds and Cybertron itself, though Exillion's spokeworlds soon report invasion forces. The Cybertronian Security Operations's investigations discover that the invaders are the Ejoornians, a nomadic species of cybernetic aliens that have been harrying worlds beyond Cybertronian space for ngs: raiding, conquering and exacting tributes from weaker species. The Primal Vanguard, supported by a fleet of Omega Sentinels and Titans, are mobilized and attack the Ejoornian starfleet at Exillion, but they are unable to break through and retake the hubworld. For the next 4 million years, the crusades wage on along the borders of the Great Cybertronian Empire with both sides claiming individual victories but neither is able to strike a decisive blow.
Approx. 124 million stellar cycles ago
The Battle of Ettacron: Cybertronian Elite Guard units successfully defend the colony world of Ettacron from an Ejoornian strikeforce. Among the Cybertronian defenders were Kup-now promoted to a field commander-and a lieutenant from the city-state Thetacon named Ironhide.
Approx. 123 million stellar cycles ago
The Siege of Halcyon: The hubworld of Halcyon comes under attack from the Ejoornians. The Elite Guard detachment on the planet-including a young Thunderclash-successfully hold the planet against the aliens for four meta-cycles until reinforcements manage to break through the siege lines around the planet and drive off the Ejoornian fleet.
Approx. 122 million stellar cycles ago
A member of the Science Guild named Pistonhead hopes to create a method by which Cybertronians could survive and thrive on any world, in order to gain the upper hand against the Ejoornians. On a Cybertronian frontier outpost in G Nebula 89, he develops what would be known as Powermaster Armor, experimental all-terrain battle armor inspired by the legendary Apex Armor from the Age of the Primes. After many tests, Pistonhead distributes several Powermaster Armors to many great warriors within the Cybertronian Armed Forces, including Guardian Prime himself, finally giving the Cybertronians the edge over the invaders.
Approx. 121 million stellar cycles ago
End of the Ejoornian Crusades: The Cybertronian Security Operations traces the Ejoornians back to their home base within the Eshems Nebula. While the Defense Forces distracts the Ejoornians with attacks on several of their sector fleets, the Powermaster-equipped forces of the Primal Vanguard under Delta Magnus and the Elite Guard under Guardian Prime launch an assault on the nebula, destroying the Ejoornian mothership. The Ejoornians surrender to the Great Cybertronian Empire, ending the Ejoornian Crusades once and for all.
Several Ejoornian captives under interrogation by Security Operations reveal that they became galactic nomads after their homeworld Ejoornus was captured by a far more advanced species called the Quintessons, the same technorganic aliens who enslaved the Cybertronians many eons ago and also attempted to reconquer Cybertron several times by this point. When word of the Quintessons' involvement of this reaches Guardian Prime, the Senate, and the Council of Ancients, they order all colonization efforts in the region of the Ejoornian Crusades to be ended and classifies the reasoning, granting the Ejoornians favorable terms in the peace treaty to end the conflict, using them as a buffer between Cybertronian space and suspected Quintesson territory.
Approx. 110 million stellar cycles ago
Rust worms are first brought to Cybertron by stowaway on ships that arrive at the Hydrax Plateau spaceport, which is in the middle of the region known as the Oxide Wastes. The rust worms feast on the metallic innards of the Oxide Wastes, secreting liquid rust as they consumed. As the eons pass, the Oxide Wastes is soon transformed into the lifeless, inhospitable region known as the Sea of Rust.
Approx. 100 million stellar cycles ago
The Probat Crisis: The Cybertronians attempt to colonize the terrestrial planet Probat, however, they discover that the planet is inhabited by a sentient race of bat-like humanoids called the Probats. It was initially unknown what would happen to the Probats if the Cybertronians colonized the planet. Some said they should leave them be, some suggested they should be relocated outside of Cybertronian territory, and some radicals even suggested sterilization of the planet. This debate over Probat raged on for some time until scout drones discovered that the planet held material that could converted into a form of synthetic energon, something that the Great Cybertronian Empire was in dire need of for the Expansion. As such, after some time, the Primal Vanguard landed on Probat, and Guardian Prime strode to the planet's capital to start negotiations with the Probats, promising to raise them to the wider galactic community, asking only to set up energon processing facilities on their homeworld. Excited to meet other lifeforms and see the wider universe, the Probats graciously accept Guardian Prime's offer, allowing the Cybertronians to build their facilities and even building statues of the Cybertronians who first arrived on their planet, establishing Probat as a protectorate within the Great Cybertronian Empire.
Approx. 96 million stellar cycles ago
The Fifth Quintesson Wars: After several ano-cycles of maintaining peace within the Great Cybertronian Empire, Guardian Prime is put to the test when the Quintessons attacked again. Despite the valiant efforts of the united Cybertronian Armed Forces, the Empire still suffered great losses, with several colonies destroyed by the Quintesson Expeditionary Forces. With the support of their Ejoornian allies and Cybertronian Elite Guardsmen equipped with Powermaster Armor, the Cybertronians are able to drive the Quintessons from Cybertronian territory.
While the Great Cybertronian Empire won the Fifth Quintesson Wars, it brought many tragedies and losses. The war also forged great heroes. Grand General Zeta of the Cybertronian Defense Forces, Guardian Prime's conjunx endura who defended her home alongside her lover for meta-cycles without rest. Commander Nominus of Rescue Force Alpha-84, who saved the lives of thousands in his relentless search & rescue efforts.
Approx. 85 million stellar cycles ago
Cybertron's Energy Guild reports that energon reserves are dwindling faster than the core can replenish them. At the same time, the Well of All Sparks begins producing fewer and fewer new Cybertronians with each passing giga-cycle. The Cyber Planet Keys planted on the colony worlds are likewise reducing output of sparks and energon. The Senate and the Council of Ancients orders new exploratory craft built to seek out worlds and survey them for other sources of energon.
Approx. 83 million stellar cycles ago
The Stentarian Incursion: The Cybertronians encounter another mechanoid race with transformation abilities similar to their own who originated from the Andromeda Galaxy called the Stentarians. These Stentarians are dominated by the hostile and aggressive Ammonite Imperium that threatens the Great Cybertronian Empire as they begin to expand into the Milky Way Galaxy, harrying several colonies along the border between the powers. When the Ammonites attack the hubworld of Chaldron, the Primal Vanguard delivers them a crushing blow that ends their dreams of expansion.
After the defeat of the Ammonites at Chaldron, the Cybertronian Security Operations infiltrates Stentarian space to prevent further attacks by undermining their Imperium. They make contact with an underground rebel movement of intellectuals and political dissidents calling themselves the Terradores. The agents of Security Operations supply these dissidents with intelligence and tactical support that enables them to trigger an uprising that splits the Stentarian civilization in two. With Cybertronian support, the Terradores drive the Ammonites from their homeworld of Stentara and several major colonies, but their war effort is halted when a mysterious plague strikes the Cybertronians in the near future and their allies become unable to maintain their support. The Stentarian Civil War degrades into a morass in which neither side is able to gain the advantage, dragging on for millions upon millions of years with no end in sight.
As the Stentarian Civil War spills into the Milky Way Galaxy, several worlds inhabited by less-developed alien races are caught in the crossfire and heavily devastated, resulting in the deaths of billions. This event would be known as the Shattering. In response to this, the Galactic Council is formed as a diplomatic coalition of thousands of sapient organic races who attempt to prevent civilizations from being caught in the Stentarian Civil War and other horrific conflicts. With many of the Galactic Council's founding worlds having already been attacked by the Stentarians, much of the Council's leadership and population largely becomes anti-mechanoid.
Approx. 70 million stellar cycles ago
For millions of years, the Cybertronians saw nothing but peace and prosperity in the twilight hours of the Golden Age as they continued to expand the Great Cybertronian Empire by colonizing new planets and making alliances with other species. They all thought this was to be the new status quo, but it was not.
One day, the Cybertronian Security Operations began receiving reports from the outer colonies being ravaged by an outbreak of a deadly and untreatable plague of rust...