Cybertronian civil wars
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Just as Star Wars wouldn't be the same without its titular wars, Transformers wouldn't be Transformers if it didn't have a Cybertronian civil war or two. While the brand began by introducing the Great War on Cybertron, over the years new types of civil wars have been introduced outside of the Autobot-Decepticon conflict.
Types of civil wars
[edit]Great Wars
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The most well-known type of Cybertronian Civil War, the "Great War" is always almost always the conflict between the Autobots and Decepticons. Its exact beginnings vary from continuity to continuity: sometimes it's because of Energon supply shortages, sometimes it's started by the Decepticons wanting to establish a new Decepticon Empire across the universe, sometimes it's a war for powerful relics, and in many universes, the war begins after a long period of oppression or stagnancy on Cybertron. Optimus Prime and Megatron are usually the leaders of the Autobots and Decepticons, although occasionally other leaders step up to lead.
While the war always starts on Cybertron, the Great War tends to expand across the galaxy, and eventually finds its way to Earth, getting humans involved. While most children tend to become important allies to the Autobots, a few humans have allied themselves with the Decepticons. In a few universes, the Great War ends after the Autobots and Decepticons team up to defeat Unicron in the Unicron War, and in one universe, the Great War takes place before Optimus Prime and Megatron's teams battle each other on Earth.
Beast Wars
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The conflict continues as two opposing factions renew their struggle for control of the universe.
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In an era long after the Great War, the "Beast Wars" is the conflict between the Maximals and Predacons, descendants of the Autobots and Decepticons. While the Beast Wars initially tends to play out similarly to the Great War, with both sides vying for Energon, it's usually started by Megatron's desire to alter history so that the Decepticons become the victors of the Great War. Notable aspects of the Beast Wars include its setting on prehistoric Earth, the use of beast modes, and the occasional presence of a non-Cybertronian third party: a mysterious race of energy-based aliens known as the Vok.
Optimus Primal and Megatron are usually the leaders of the Maximal and Predacon teams on prehistoric Earth. However, in one universe, the Beast Wars involves the Decepticons on Animatron during the Great War.
Other civil wars
[edit]- God War
The first civil war in the 2005 IDW continuity, the "God War" is the defining event that introduced information creep to the Transformers. It was a conflict between the members of the Guiding Hand, who were the first five Cybertronians: Primus, Mortilus, Solomus, Epistemus, and Adaptus.
- Thirteen Primes' Civil War
- See also: War of the Primes and First Cybertronian Civil War
Toward the beginning of the timeline is the Thirteen Primes' Civil War. Known as the "War of the Primes" in the Aligned continuity family and the "First Cybertronian Civil War" in the 2005 IDW continuity, it is the tragic conflict that brings the Age of Primes to a close. Depictions of this civil war have drastically varied between universes, but the deceptions of certain members of the Thirteen, and the The Fallen's murder of Solus Prime, tend to be defining aspects of the war.
- Grand Uprising
Also known as "Fourth Cybertronian War" or the "War of Unification", the Grand Uprising is a civil war between the Builders of Cybertron and the Resistance. Its origins stem from the Great War, with the Autobots and Decepticons creating the next generation of Cybertronians to fight in Games. The enslavement of the Maximals and Predacons would lead to Lio Convoy calling for freedom, starting a generational war on Cybertron.
- Other Animated civil wars
- See also: Second Cybertronian War and Third Cybertronian War
In one universe, there were two other civil wars before the Great War.
- Combiner Wars
In many universes, the "Combiner Wars" were a series of conflicts, usually taking place in the post Great War-era, linked to the development and implementation of combiner technology. It tends to involve the Enigma of Combination, an artifact of Nexus Prime. The Council of Worlds is usually involved in picking up after the combiners' mess.
- Mini-Con Civil War
In one universe, the "Mini-Con Civil War" pitted the Mini-Con Council of Sages against a group of insurgents led by the malicious Thrust and his Sky Terror Team.
- Decepticon Civil War
Among the Decepticons, there is one guiding principle: [[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}Kratocracy|{{#if:rule of the strong|rule of the strong|Kratocracy}}]]. Of course, when Megatron isn't in charge, this tends to lead to conflict among entire groups of Decepticons, each led by a potential Decepticon leader.
Fiction
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The demigod Primus created the Transformers with the intention that they would all be righteous and obedient. However, his creations quickly became divided, eventually forming into the warring Autobots and Decepticons. Grimlock once theorized that this was some kind of natural yin-yang balance. According to the Liege Maximo, "When the first named Prime was created, so was the Liege Maximo. And from the Liege Maximo came the Decepticons and all their subsequent generations. Evil...is infinite!" According to Optimus Prime, as the original Transformers reproduced through a process similar to cell division, Primus's goodness became more and more diffuse in succeeding generations, and Transformers were arising who had none of "the essential purity of our creator's vision." A genetic fail-safe eventually kicked in, causing them to forget how to reproduce without the aid of the Creation Matrix, but the moral dilution had already gone too far.
Whatever the reason, a long period of tension between city-states and energy shortage led to a series of gladiatorial contests: the Overlord hoped this would give the tensions a release. Instead, it ramped them up. The peak came when the city of Vos tried to bomb Tarn and blame Iacon, only to be caught. A devastating war took place and led to both cities being destroyed, while Iacon deliberately left its rivals to burn. Tarn's champion gladiator Megatron, who let Overlord die in the ruins, formed the Decepticons from the disgruntled Vos/Tarn survivors State Games and began talking about transforming the planet into a mobile "cosmic dreadnought" to conquer the galaxy. The Decepticons were ignored as cranks Legion of the Lost! and after eons of planning, plotting, and building up strength, the Decepticons tore through an unprepared Cybertron. The Transformers
Decepticon tactics were well-orchestrated, and Autobot casualties continued to mount until Optimus Prime arose from the Autobot ranks to become a warrior of great firepower and leader of great skill. With his help, Autobots were able to hold their own against the Decepticons The Transformers and he was given full command of the Autobot forces after the successful defence of Iacon: halting the Decepticon's then-unstoppable advance. And There Shall Come...a Leader!
The cataclysmic forces that the war unleashed pushed Cybertron out of its orbit around Alpha Centauri. As the planet careened through space, it was pulled toward Sol and a turning point in the war. The Main Asteroid Belt between Jupiter and Mars was in Cybertron's path, so Optimus Prime and an Autobot team abandoned the war briefly to launch the Ark and clear a path for their homeworld. They succeeded, but Megatron took advantage and attacked them immediately afterward. (Ironically, this was just after Optimus talked about the need to make peace with the Decepticons) That battle ended with the combatants crashing on prehistoric Earth and lying catatonic for four million years. The Transformers
But even with their great leaders gone, the Transformers on Cybertron continued their war. Decepticon leader Trannis gradually conquered the Prime-less planet, wiping out Iacon, but failed to crush the Autobot resistance. They eventually assassinated him, only for a worse tyrant, Straxus, to take over. Cybertron: The Middle Years! In the absence of the Creation Matrix (which was in Prime's chest), the Decepticons eventually rediscovered the lost method of "budding" reproduction. The resulting new Transformers were very powerful and completely devoid of morality. (With each new Transformer created, there also appeared a strange byproduct: a dark, cloudy mass that coalesced with other such masses and floated off into space, apparently harmless for the moment.) They grew dissatisfied with the wasteland that Cybertron had become, so they left in search of new challenges and left Straxus and his forces as a "token" representative. The Power and the Glory War Without End!
On Earth, the damaged Ark lay untouched beneath a volcano for four million years, but in 1984, a volcanic eruption jogged its systems and caused its computer to reactivate. The ship repaired its passengers, Autobot and Decepticon alike, and thus the war spread on Earth. Megatron established contact with Cybertron, and Lord Straxus, governor of the province of Polyhex, organized the construction of the first space bridge. Megatron planned to use it to ship energy from the resource-laden Earth to the barren Cybertron, but his plans never fully succeeded.
At this time, the Cybertronian Autobots were mainly fighting in underground resistance movements. Their command centers were secret Autobases hidden in Decepticon territory. Optimus Prime and his companions were regarded as heroes (perhaps legends) by the freedom fighters, and news of their survival was welcomed joyously. However, global communication must have been inefficient, for that encouraging news never reached some 'Bots, such as Fortress Maximus and his small army. If Maximus had heard about it, perhaps he never would have reached the despair that led him to leave Cybertron. Perhaps he and his companions never would have journeyed to the peaceful planet Nebulos, where they hoped to avoid the Transformers' war. Then Scorponok and his minions wouldn't have followed them, and the disease of war would have passed over that world.
But that's not what happened. The Cybertronian Civil War did spread to Nebulos, and some of the humanoid residents joined the conflict by binary bonding to Transformer hosts, becoming the Headmasters and Targetmasters. The Transformers would eventually leave the planet (and its inhabitants poisoned their own fuel supply to keep them away), but the technology of binary bonding would stay with the Transformers and become a new facet in the ongoing wars.
Throughout this time, the war's two main battlegrounds remained Cybertron and Earth. Leadership squabbles were common, especially since neither side seemed to have a central command governing the armies on both planets. Developments on one front sometimes came as a surprise to the other. For instance, Prime seemed taken aback when he met the first two Autobot Micromaster patrols on Earth, and they had to explain the new Cybertronian trend of downsizing to conserve energy.
But the next major development in the war would do away with much disunity. The accidental waking of Primus alerted Unicron to Cybertron's location. Prime knew that the chaos-bringer could be defeated by the Matrix, so he sent teams looking for his own old corpse, which still bore it. But they were beaten to the punch by the Decepticon Lord Thunderwing, who merged with the Matrix as the Primes had. Thunderwing turned it to evil and attacked the Autobots on board the spaceborne Ark. He was defeated and sent tumbling through space, but Prime made no effort to recover the Matrix again.
Rather, he sought to prepare for Unicron's coming by trying to unite all Cybertronians. He surrendered to Scorponok on Earth in an effort to begin peace talks. One minor Decepticon civil war later, the combatants were all ready to lay down their arms. Then, suddenly, almost every Earthbound Transformer was transported by Primus to Cybertron. There they fought Unicron in a battle that destroyed Primus himself (along with Scorponok and many others). Thunderwing and the tainted Matrix reappeared, but even it couldn't defeat Unicron. However, when Optimus touched the Matrix, its evil was purged, and the full force of Primus's life essence was unleashed. The result was the destruction of both Unicron and the Matrix (and Optimus, in the explosion).
For a short time, all Cybertronians were united, but Cybertron began to show signs of massive global deterioration. In the absence of Primus, it was theorized, the planet was falling apart. Their true natures showing through, the Decepticons sabotaged the Autobots' spacecraft and, under Bludgeon's command, sought out other worlds to conquer. Grimlock found replacement ships and led the Autobots in pursuit. Meanwhile, on Cybertron, Hi-Q (Optimus's Powermaster partner) and the Neo-Knights found the Last Autobot, a guardian whom Primus had created to control the changes that Cybertron would undergo in his absence. Not only did the Last Autobot successfully guide Cybertron's re-creation, but he also re-made Hi-Q into a new version of Optimus Prime. Then they all went to the planet Klo, where Bludgeon's forces were slaughtering Grimlock's troops. The Last Autobot began resurrecting the dead Autobots, and the renewed armada was able to defeat the Decepticons. Bludgeon swore to exile his army in shame.
The Autobots returned to the re-created Cybertron (although it's not known how the planet was changed), and peace existed for few years. However, Bludgeon was bolstering his forces by attacking far-off civilizations and stealing their technology. He also constructed an army of new Decepticons, but he needed the Matrix to bring them to life. For some reason, Prime still had the Matrix, so Bludgeon used his giant starship, the Warworld, to decimate Earth. He knew that Prime would return and defend the planet, so all he had to do was wait. During that waiting period, though, Megatron returned and destroyed Bludgeon, reassuming command.
Prime, meanwhile, was occupied with other concerns. The second-generation Decepticons had returned from deep space, where they had been re-making planets in Cybertron's image. They considered the older Cybertronians inferior and small-minded, insects who could either join them or suffer the same fate as any other life forms. Jhiaxus, their Liege Centuro (sort of a field commander), became obsessed with hunting Prime down. Thus, when Prime learned about Bludgeon's attacks on Earth, he saw it as an opportunity to warn the Decepticons about the threat Jhiaxus posed to all Cybertronians.
However, Megatron rebuffed him and tried to take on Jhiaxus himself. The attempt failed, and Megatron returned to Prime, accepting the truce. Jhiaxus also came to Earth and attacked them. In the midst of the battle, suddenly there appeared the Swarm, that nebulous by-product of the second-generation Decepticons' creation. It had been wandering the galaxy, searching for the Transformers and destroying metal as it went along. When it got to Earth, it began feasting on all Transformers, new and old, and the entire race nearly fell. Even Jhiaxus was destroyed. However, Prime was able to reclaim the Matrix, and when the Swarm devoured him, the power of the Matrix flowed through it. It was transformed into a force of life, with a new purpose, although it's not known what that purpose was. Prime was re-created, and he remained the leader of the Autobot-Decepticon alliance. Meanwhile, in a sector of space known as the "outer fringes," in a strange complex called the Hub, the Liege Maximo, supreme leader of the Decepticons, showed little grief over Jhiaxus's defeat. He also expressed his confidence in his forces, claiming that the day of reckoning would yet come for Prime and his "ridiculous" alliance.
Generation 1 cartoon continuity
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It is unknown if there were any planetary civil wars among the Quintessons while they controlled Cybertron (although there was certainly crime and punishment). The first known war was the robot slave revolt around 11 million years BCE. The Quintessons had built Cybertron as a factory to produce two types of slave robots: military hardware and consumer goods. For a million years, the Quintessons maintained control, but when the robots began to develop emotions, they turned on their cruel Quintesson masters.
Interestingly enough, the first revolt was carried out by a band of non-warrior robots (workers, scientists, and technicians). They were led by a slave called A-3, who somehow possessed a secret weapon called a Coder Remote. However, Quintessons from the year 2006 used a time machine to kidnap A-3 the night before the final assault. Just as that occurred, though, the future Quintessons were attacked by a team of Autobots. The Autobots found themselves outnumbered and outclassed, so, in desperation, they jumped through the "Time Window" and into the past. They were rescued from the attacks of a Quintesson Dark Guardian robot by Beta, the acting leader of the revolutionaries, and were accepted into the fold because they too wore the "slave brand" (the Autobot symbol). Beta decided to lead the attack on Hive City (which the Quintessons had built with slave labor) with or without A-3, and the Autobots simply followed along. The attack went well at first, but the motley band of freedom fighters soon proved to be no match for the Quintessons' many Dark Guardians. Suddenly, however, A-3 returned from the future and used his Coder Remote, which was activated when he removed his slave brand and turned its reverse side to the Dark Guardians. It emitted a wide beam of light that caused the giant robots to stop in their tracks and fall down. A-3 urged the Autobots to return to the future, which they did, and the Quintesson time machine was destroyed upon their arrival.
After the slaves drove the Quintessons away from Cybertron, peace reigned. However, the division between consumer goods and military hardware was becoming acute, as the two groups had even named themselves differently: The consumer goods robots called themselves Autobots, and the military hardware robots were known as Decepticons. While the Autobots preferred a peaceful existence, the Decepticons wanted conquest. For a time, the Decepticons succeeded.
The Matrix was already in existence at this point, apparently being passed from one Autobot leader to the next, as is the practice today.
The Autobots couldn't match the brute strength of the Decepticons, so they turned to stealth, learning the art of transformation. Using this new technology, they defeated the Decepticons and ruled for many centuries in a "Golden Age." Peace was kept with the use of Guardian robots (presumably based upon the Quintessons' Dark Guardians), sentinels that protected cities, quelled uprisings, and generally did the dirty work of war. However, the Decepticons eventually learned to transform and also developed some form of anti-gravity that allowed them to fly without the use of jets. They also built a powerful leader for themselves: Megatron.
Thus, circa 9 million years BCE, the war began anew. Megatron led his army from victory to victory, targeting mainly power centers to fuel his troops and build his forces. While the Guardian robots were powerful enough to strike fear in the Decepticons, even those giants were suffering at Megatron's hands. Even the safety of the Matrix was in question, so Alpha Trion (formerly known as A-3) kept it in hiding for many years. It was to this time of violent flux that the newly created Aerialbots were accidentally sent from the year 1986.
They soon met a young, energetic worker at an energy-shipment facility. This robot, Orion Pax, was in awe of the Decepticons, but his feelings changed when Megatron attacked his workplace and gravely wounded him, his girlfriend Ariel, and his friend Dion. The Aerialbots took Orion to Alpha Trion, who was devising new ways to combat the Decepticons. Alpha Trion rebuilt Orion into Optimus Prime, the first of a "new breed" capable of fighting Megatron. He also rebuilt Ariel into Elita One, but it is unknown if Dion got similar treatment.
At some point, Prime was named leader of the Autobots, and Alpha Trion gave him the Matrix. (This may have been when he was first created; the timeline is uncertain. There's even confusion about when Alpha Trion acquired the Matrix in the first place; when he is seen taking it, he looks older than he did when he built Prime.) For the next five million years, the war raged on, draining Cybertron of its resources. Even the buildings and landscapes, which used to glow with radiant energy, became dull and barren. In search of new energy sources, Optimus Prime led a team of Autobots on an interplanetary expedition that ended when Megatron attacked and boarded their ship. As the Autobots and Decepticons fought, the ship strayed too close to the nearby planet Earth, and the resulting crash and rendered them all catatonic.
For the next four million years, Shockwave commanded the Decepticons on Cybertron, who maintained the upper hand. When the Earth-bound Transformers were revived in 1984, Megatron schemed to harness Earth's resources and send the energy to Cybertron. With the invention of the space bridge, interplanetary travel became very easy, and Megatron's plans came closer to fruition. He may have succeeded, at least in part, for by the year 2005, the Decepticons had driven the Autobots off of Cybertron and were poised to attack Autobot City on Earth. When they did attack, the Autobots were able to fend them off, but not without losing Optimus Prime. Megatron had also been mortally wounded, but he was revived by Unicron, who re-created him into the ultra-powerful Galvatron. Under Galvatron's command, the Decepticons hunted down the Earth-based Autobots while Unicron devoured the two Autobot-controlled Cybertronian moons. Unicron then began to attack Cybertron and the Decepticons, doing severe damage, until the young Autobot Hot Rod activated the Matrix of Leadership and, turning into Rodimus Prime, destroyed Unicron.
Having been decimated at Unicron's hands, the Decepticons retreated to the burned-out world called Chaar. Rodimus Prime announced this to be the end of the Cybertronian wars, but he was clearly overconfident. When Galvatron returned and reunited the tattered Decepticon army, the war began raging again. This time, a new wrinkle was added in the form of the Quintessons, who formed tenuous alliances with the Decepticons in an attempt to reclaim Cybertron. Also, two groups of 'Bots and 'Cons stumbled upon Nebulos, where they allied with the humanoid inhabitants by binary-bonding. Itself a milestone in the war, this also led to another turning point: the institution of a new Golden Age. The Autobot-allied Nebulans helped reverse one of Galvatron's schemes, and the result was sucking energy out of the sun and into the material of Cybertron itself. Thus, the planet once again glowed with golden energy, still under exclusively Autobot rule, while the Decepticons remained elsewhere.
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Wings Universe
[edit]As in the Sunbow cartoon, a successful slave revolt against the Quintessons occurred in ancient times. The Great War/Third Cybertronian War also dawned 9 million years ago when the loose criminal association called the Decepticons coalesced into an organized movement. Wings of Honor
The Machine Wars, a new conflict, dawned in 2013 C.E. when Jhiaxus tried to bring peace to Cybertron by eliminating all first generation Transformers. Termination After he inadvertently achieved his goal by getting Autobots and Decepticons to fight for rather than against each other, the Autobots, Decepticons, and Jhiaxus's clones ended the Great War by signing the Pax Cybertronia. However, the Predacons refused to accept peace and secretly began assembling a new army. A Common Foe
During the Great War, the elite Autobot commando unit the Wreckers clashed with the elite Decepticon unit Squadron X. Squadron X leader Macabre set up a trap on Torax Prime, hoping to lure the Wreckers, but they never came because they got word that the war had ended. Ferak and Tornado were left as the Squadron's sole survivors after Earthquake blew himself and Macabre up because Macabre refused to abandon the trap.
However, Transformer civil conflict continued to happen. During "the last Decepticon uprising" (which may or may not have been the Great War/Third Cybertronian War), Axor was the sole member of a Decepticon team to escape capture by Autobot bounty hunter Devcon. Tornado - Decepticon Saboteur
At an unspecified point in time, the Maximal Apelinq saved the Cybertron Science Academy from a Decepticon raid by using his invention: the Transfer Interlink.
By 2984 C.E., the Autobot Ginrai was a renowned veteran of the Great Wars. Apelinq knew that Ginrai had endured the "Transtector Incident", single-handedly saved the Bomber Project from the Swarm, and was rumored to have battled a Decepticon superweapon on the surface of Earth's moon. Apelinq's personal logs
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Autobots and Decepticons once lived in peace but the Decepticons were building up for war. The peace was shattered by the Treacherous Attack of the Decepticons, which then erupted into a full-scale Cybertron civil war.
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[edit]At the end of the Third Cybertronian War, the Decepticons ceased to be a viable threat to the Autobots. Razorclaw and his new Predacon army then emerged as a formidabble force on the verge of taking Cybertron for themselves. Unfortunately, Razorclaw was assassinated by the Tripredacus Council so that they could seize power. Razorclaw's Timelines profile card
Some time before setting out on his fateful voyage aboard the Axalon (and thus presumably before the signing of the Pax Cybertronia) Optimus Primal was a veteran of the last Great War, one fought between the Maximals and Predacons. Timelines Optimus Primal's profile
Many stellar cycles after the Great Transformation, Razorclaw returned at the head of the Predacons once more and vowed to retake Cybertron from the Maximals. Dawn of Future's Past Razorclaw's Timelines profile card
Beast Wars cartoon
[edit]In the Beast era, there are few direct sources for Cybertronian history. No occurrences of time-travel to ancient Cybertron are known, and there seem to be no incidents of access to knowledge bases like the Matrix of Leadership. In fact, the Maximal Elders show evidence of having kept a tight lid on historical information. Possession So what we do know is in scraps:
Cybertron was once gripped by a war between the Autobots and the Decepticons known as the Great War. One key event was the launch of the Ark, bearing the Autobot's greatest heroes The Agenda (Part III), which was shot down over prehistoric Earth by the Nemesis warship. Optimus Prime, Megatron, and many of their classic followers were left in stasis lock in the Ark. Nemesis Part 2 They awoke in 1984, with the eruption of a volcano, and would initially fight a "secret war" on Earth. Shortly after the war began, Megatron would encode a message to Cybertron on the [[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}Voyager Golden Record|{{#if:||Voyager Golden Record}}]] (also known as the Golden Disk) just in case he lost. The Agenda (Part 2) The Agenda (Part III) Humanity played a key role in the conflict, to the extent that without their involvement the Decepticons would have won. Code of Hero
It's also known that Galvatron became leader of the Decepticons and that he killed Starscream, who became a ghost. Possession The monstrous Unicron also had some presence during the war: the Vok assumed Unicron's form based on a mind-scan of Optimus Primal for an "authority figure" Other Voices, Part 2, and Starscream's ghost claimed to have been destroyed by Unicron, a statement made to cover for how he was actually killed for treachery. Possession
The war concluded with a peace agreement of some sort called the Pax Cybertronia. This appears to have marked the end of Autobot/Decepticon dominance over the planet in favor of their descendants, the Maximals and Predacons. Despite this nominally peaceful cessation of hostilities, the Autobots/Maximals were the ones who won the war. Several Decepticons (such as Ravage) had been granted amnesty The Agenda (Part 1), which seems to imply that the others were criminals. Peace reigned for three hundred years under the Pax Cybertronia, or so the Maximals see it: many Predacons (including the Tripredacus Council) view it as either a time to rearm and prepare for another go Beast Wars (Part 1), and the radical Megatron viewed his race as "slaves" to the Maximals. The Agenda (Part III)
It was that same Megatron who finally decided to do something about the Predacons' situation. He stole the Golden Disk and obeyed his namesake's orders contained therein, time-traveling back to prehistoric Earth. Ostensibly, he was simply going to harvest the planet's energon, but he eventually decided to follow though with the original Megatron's orders: He broke into the Ark and tried to destroy Optimus Prime. This created a timestorm that nearly changed the history of the war, but the Maximals were able to undo his damage.
Megatron and fellow Predacon Blackarachnia have said that the Great War was started when the Ark crew awoke in 1984, which may be how the Predacons, as descendants of the guys who lost, see their history (or it could just be an error/shorthand by Bob Forward!). The Agenda (Part III)
Beast Machines cartoon
[edit]While the Maximals were taking Megatron back to their future Cybertron, Megatron escaped and slipped out of the timestream early. This gave him time to reach Cybertron and release a virus that paralyzed all the Transformers before the Maximals arrived. He extracted his victims' sparks and rebuilt their bodies into an army of Vehicons that swept over the planet. When the Maximals did arrive, they found themselves running for their lives on a nearly dead world.
Their battles eventually resulted in the destruction of both Megatron and Primal, plus the transformation of Cybertron into a technorganic planet. Megatron's victims all returned in new bodies, and it's unclear how much of the old Maximal/Predacon division remained.
Universe comic
[edit]Trailbreaker, Sideswipe, Sunstreaker, Roulette, and Shadow Striker were five veterans of the Great War who returned to Cybertron approximately one year after the Great Transformation, only to be abducted into the Universe War Abduction. The ensuing multiversal conflict between the Children of Primus and the Minions of Unicron later raged at a magnitude comparable to the Great War. Beast Wars 10th Anniversary Optimus Primal's profile
2006 IDW Beast Wars continuity
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Megatron, a gladiator, discovered that the sport distracted the public from the fact that Council of Ancients was forbidding access to certain parts of Cybertron, and was doing that to more and more areas. Megatron ventured into one such area, discovering remnants of a long-lost era of Cybertron, and eventually discovering a artifact that revealed to him that the Council was infiltrated by the Quintessons. Word of the Council's treachery began to spread, allowing Megatron to recruit Starscream, Thundercracker, Skywarp, and Soundwave, before expanding expanding recruitment efforts, and igniting the war. The Route of All Evil After numerous intense years of conflict, Sentinel Prime was killed in battle with Megatron, who suspected to find the Matrix of Leadership inside Sentinel's chest, but was disappointed to discover that it wasn't there. Shortly after Sentinel's death, a data clerk named Optronix was appointed the new prime, becoming Optimus Prime. Optimus's first order as new prime was to evacuate Cybertron, which would leave the planet to the Decepticons, basically ending the war. The War Within issue 1 Shortly after the Autobots began packing up, the Forum of Enlightenment was destroyed in an inferno of plasma. Optimus, Red Alert, Prowl, and Ratchet investigated, leading Optimus to journey underground. The War Within issue 2 and was confronted by the Insecticons, Ravage, and Soundwave before facing off against Megatron. However, the two's showdown was interrupted by Starscream, who destroyed the bridge they were standing on. Meanwhile, Shockwave lead an assault on Iacon. The War Within issue 3
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In this continuity, the First Cybertronian Civil War erupted between the Thirteen Tribes when Megatronus along with Liege Maximo plotted and betrayed Solus Prime. However, when Megatronus's former follower Galvatron killed Nexus Prime, revealing the belief that only a Prime could kill a Prime to be false, the Thirteen Primes fled the planet, leaving their tribes leaderless. Nova Major was left as the sole soldier of Prima's tribe defending the Citadel of Light until Galvatron emerged from the wilderness. Together, they vanquished Onyx Prime's beast hordes, turning the siege into a byword for courage. It later transpired that Alpha Trion, last of the Thirteen on Cybertron, had arranged Nova and Galvatron's meeting in order to end the war and forge a better future for the Cybertronian race. With Trion's blessing, Nova took on the title of "Prime" and subsequently unified the planet. The Crucible
The opening skirmishes of the more well-known Great War broke out during economic and civil unrest due to greed from senators such as Decimus and Ratbat. A former asteroid miner rose to glory in the gladiatorial pit known as the Forge and made a name as Megatron. With financial and material aid from Ratbat via Soundwave, he gathered an army of malcontents and began a series of daring raids upon the establishment. With the death of Sentinel Prime, Megatron secured his reputation as a warlord to be feared. Megatron Origin
As the war spread across Cybertron, Decepticon scientist Thunderwing saw the devastation it was visiting upon the planet and warned his peers that the Cybertronian race would need to adapt. Roundly dismissed by them and even by his commander Megatron, he became desperate. Testing his newly invented Pretender process on himself, he accomplished what he had set out to do, but at the cost of his sanity. Spurred on by forces he could not comprehend, he became the avatar of the planet's destruction, wreaking havoc upon Autobot and Decepticon alike. Though he was eventually defeated, Cybertron had to be abandoned, its environment unlivable. The mad genius was given a dubious honor as Thunderhead Pass was named for him. Stormbringer
As the war spread beyond their home planet, the Cybertronians at some point reached an agreement in the Code of Interplanetary Conflict. This accord limited the ability to wage war openly upon non-aligned planets and had strict provisions against Cybertronian technology being sold on the open market. Spotlight: Ultra Magnus
Around or prior to 2006, the discovery of the Energon derivative known as Ore-13, seeded on an insignificant backwater world by the AWOL Decepticon genius Shockwave, threatened the status quo of the conflict. Realizing its potential, even Megatron felt tempted to discard the careful planning which had allowed the Decepticons to take many worlds. With this prize within his grasp, the warlord called in the Decepticon weapon of mass destruction Sixshot. Devastation
Later, in 2008 or so, Optimus Prime returned to Earth to battle Megatron once more. Unfortunately, this battle would see Prime lose the Matrix of Leadership to Megatron and subsequently come close to dying. At some point, the Decepticons won the entire war due to an Autobot traitor. As a result, many Autobots were killed on a galaxy-wide scale. Optimus Prime's men, or what was left of them, had to hole up back on Cybertron. All Hail Megatron
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[edit]Very little is known about how this war began. We know Ultra Magnus and Optimus Prime both fought in it, with Magnus distinguishing himself. Who the enemy was is unconfirmed, though it would presumably be the Predacons. It appears the conflict had ended on Cybertron by the time Vector Sigma was choosing a new Autobot Commander-in-Chief. (Ultra Magnus and Optimus both refer to the civil wars being in the past tense at this time.)
However, the Predacon Council were still plotting conquest, and Megatron's forces began a campaign of attacking and destroying alien worlds for their energy. Optimus Prime was chosen to lead an army against them. This would eventually reach Earth, when the Council sent Megatron there to find Fortress Maximus and the tyrant kidnapped a prominent scientist Doctor Onishi. Prime and his Autobots were already in wait, having established a base, Earth disguises, and a Global Spacebridge network.
Unicron Trilogy
[edit]Armada, Energon and Cybertron cartoon continuity
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Around 17000 B.C.E., a Star Harvester had been built to convert Earth's Sun into Energon, but the Primes disagreed with using it, believing that life (in this case, human life) was sacred. The one dissenter, whose name would later become The Fallen, waged war against his brothers, intent on activating the device. The Primes stole the Matrix of Leadership from The Fallen and sealed it away in a tomb made of their bodies. Revenge of the Fallen
Thousands of years later, the last Prime, Optimus, led the Autobots in "the war" against the Decepticons, led by The Fallen's disciple, Megatron. Megatron sought control of the AllSpark until it became lost to the stars and Cybertron was ruined. The Cube landed in the Colorado river around 10,000 B.C.E., while Megatron himself crashed and became entombed in the Arctic before he reached it. Both factions reached Earth in 2007, with humanity becoming involved in the war by forming an alliance with the Autobots called NEST.
After the destruction of the AllSpark and the Fallen's death, Transformers Revenge of the Fallen Megatron orchestrated the revival of long-lost ally and Autobot traitor Sentinel Prime, leading to the invasion of Chicago. A particularly devastating event, the invasion would end after the destruction of the space bridge pillars and the deaths of Megatron and Sentinel Prime. Dark of the Moon After the Invasion of Chicago, tensions between humans and Cybertronians led to the creation of Cemetery Wind, an elite CIA unit that began killing all Transformers, regardless of faction. They would ally themselves with the neutral bounty hunter Lockdown. At the same time KSI would use the abundance of Transformium to create Galvatron, the new body of a resurrected Megatron. Age of Extinction Cemetery Wind would be replaced by the Transformers Reaction Force as more Cybertronians came to Earth, while Megatron would ally himself with Quintessa in a new plot involving the Staff of Merlin and Unicron, but the Autobots would also stop this plot. The Last Knight
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Cybertron experienced not one... not two... but three civil wars. The first civil war, known as the Second Cybertronian War, was fought four billion years ago by the Malignus and Guardians. Unlike most continuities, this non-Autobot/Decepticon-involved war ended Cybertron's Golden Age. Three billion years later, the Third Cybertronian War was fought between the Protectobots and the Destrons. These factions were ancient predecessors to the Autobots and Decepticons, who emerged as sub-factions before taking prominence during an Age of Expansion.
Ten million years before Earth's 22nd Century, the Great War for the AllSpark began as tensions between the new leaders, Megatron and Ultra Magnus, reached a breaking point. Lasting eight million stellar cycles; it ended with the Decepticons being driven from Cybertron by the Autobots, although they were granted amnesty. The AllSpark Almanac II Dispatches The Autobot's victory was attributed to three vital strategies: control over the space bridges, the creation of the Omega Sentinels, and throwing the AllSpark through a space bridge. Transform and Roll Out TransWarped A Bridge Too Close, Part II
This Great War featured several "mini-wars" taking place across various worlds in the Autobot Commonwealth. These wars include:
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There were two civil wars on Cybertron: the War of the Primes, which ended the Age of Primes, and the Great War, which began at the end of the Age of Rust.
The War of the Primes was a series of skirmishes among the Thirteen, with The Fallen, Liege Maximo, Prima, and Solus Prime playing key roles in the conflict. Caused by tension concerning Liege Maximo's farm and Prima's suspicions of The Fallen, the War of the Primes led to Solus Prime's and Liege Maximo's deaths. The Covenant of Primus However, a different account claimed that Liege Maximo survived the War of the Primes and fled Cybertron, and was pursued by Alchemist Prime. Exiles The Thirteen's civil war had immense consequences for the Cybertronian race, with Solus Prime's body creating the Well of All Sparks, and Onyx Prime's Triptych Mask being used to make Cybertronians more unique than the initial Primes. Another consequence of the War of the Primes was Quintus Prime leaving Cybertron, eventually creating the Quintessons, who would enslave Cybertron during the Age of Wrath. The Covenant of Primus
The Great War was a far deadlier civil war, spanning across the universe. After cycles of social stratification caused by the caste system, the bloated bureaucracy established during the Age of Wrath, and the trauma of the Rust Plague, The Covenant of Primus a gladiator named Megatron from Kaon gathered a following, which would eventually be known as the Decepticons. Megatron desired to become a Prime, but at a hearing in the High Council Tower, the High Council was inspired by the words of Megatron's Iaconian ally, Orion Pax. A humble archivist from the Hall of Records, Orion Pax became Optimus Prime, which led to the war between Decepticons and Autobots starting. Exodus War For Cybertron One Shall Rise, Part 3
Significant moments from the Great War include: Megatron destroying Bumblebee's voice box at Tyger Pax after the AllSpark is fired into deep space, Transformers: Exodus Bumblebee at Tyger Pax Operation Bumblebee, Part 1 Megatron poisoning Cybertron's core with Dark Energon, Optimus Prime receiving the Matrix of Leadership from the Core, Exodus War For Cybertron One Shall Rise, Part 3 the population's Great Exodus from the planet, Exodus War For Cybertron Fall of Cybertron and the war eventually making its way to Earth, whose core is eventually revealed to be the sleeping body of Unicron. Transformers: Prime The Covenant of Primus
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The Great War in Cyberverse was a civil war between the Autobots and Decepticons. Lasting over 66 million years, it began as a political response to corruption, but Megatron's lust for power plunged the planet into war. Megatron Is My Hero
Significant moments from the Great War include: Megatron murdering the High Council, Matrix of Leadership the AllSpark being launched from Cybertron after Megatron's plans for it were discovered, Megatron Is My Hero Allspark the war entering a "Cold War" period, Fractured Sabotage and the war's arrival on Earth. Sea of Tranquility
The Allspark's return to the Well of the Allspark was the de-facto end of the war, Battle For Cybertron IV with the signing of the Treaty of the Wall formally ending the conflict The Immobilizers.
In another reality, Megatron killed Optimus Prime in the early stages of the Great War and claimed the Matrix of Leadership. Without Prime leading the Autobots, the Decepticons quickly won the war with Megatron using the Allspark to create his Decepticon supersoldiers. The Other One
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The Great War in EarthSpark, also known as the "Transformers' War", began as a fight for equality on Cybertron that dissolved into civil war. Warzone Megatron initially led the "dastardly Decepticons" against the "heroic Autobots", with the war eventually spilling over to Earth on September 17, 1984 via spacebridge. Secret Legacy, Part 1 Unique to this universe, Megatron began to realize the error of his ways, and would defect to the Autobots. Shockwave would become the Decepticon leader, and the war would be declared over after the Allspark was sent through a spacebridge back to Cybertron, its final fate left unknown. Warzone Secret Legacy, Part 1