After the Ark: Nominus Prime and the Illusion of Progress
After the Ark: Nominus Prime and the Illusion of Progress is a treatise written by a young miner from Tarn. Among other things, it states the writer's belief that nonviolent action and the exchange of ideas between Cybertronians could bring about change in the Cybertronian society.
Fiction
[edit]2005 IDW continuity
[edit]Megatron was sitting in a bar with a good friend, showing him his works. As they discussed Megatron's work, they were interrupted when a small bot was thrown across the room, landing on their table. Impactor forgot all about Megatron's treatise in favor of teaching the Cadets who had been abusing the bot now lying on their table a lesson. Both Impactor and Megatron were arrested for what Impactor did to the cadets, though Megatron was freed when the police captain recovered Megatron's writings and concluded that a bot who wrote a book detailing how nonviolence was the way for people to go about making change would not have attacked two cadets in cold blood (then there was the fact that spectators of the brawl had confirmed Megatron had stayed out of it). He returned Megatron's book to him, and let him leave. After leaving the police station, Megatron took a long hard look at his work, then tossed it over his shoulder. It smashed through a sign, and Megatron looked with interest at the hole left in it, in the shape of a symbol. Chaos Theory Part 1
