Editing Age of Expansion

:''The Age of Expansion is a historical period from the [[Transformers Animated (cartoon)|Animated]] [[continuity family]].''

The '''Age of Expansion''' was the era in which the Cybertronian race broke free of their galactic sector and began to explore and [[Cybertronian colonies|colonize]] the larger galaxy.

==Fiction==
===''Animated'' cartoon continuity===
Following the [[First Cybertronian War]] and the start of the [[Golden Age]], some six billion stellar cycles ago, the Cybertronians developed space travel and colonized [[Hadean System|their solar system]] but isolationism prevented any further expansion. Following the [[Third Cybertronian War]], 750 million stellar cycles ago, the nascent [[Autobot]] faction rose to power and advocated leaving Cybertron's past behind them in a bold new era of expansion. With the Autobots as the brains and the [[Destron (Animated)|Destrons]] as the brawn, the Cybertronian race colonized hundreds of worlds and laid the foundations for what would become the [[Autobot Commonwealth]]. This era came to end however following several borders skirmishes with the [[Quintesson Pan Galactic Co-Prosperity Sphere]], some 300 million stellar cycles ago. With the colonization efforts over, the Destrons opined they had been doing all the work for too few benefits. These tensions eventually led to the rise of the [[Decepticon]]s and the start of the [[Great War (Animated)|Great War]]. {{storylink|Transformers Animated: The AllSpark Almanac II|The AllSpark Almanac II}}

[[Category:Animated history]]