Editing Titan Magazines movie timeline

[[File:Tf mag 01 2007.JPG|thumb|300px|This IS Your Son's Autobot.]]
Back in the 1980s, an [[The Transformers (Marvel comic)|American Transformers comic]] and a [[The Transformers (Marvel comic)#Marvel UK|UK one]] were able to simultaneously co-exist, the latter weaving around the continuity of the former to create a larger, richer tapestry that essentially remained one singular universe. In the 21st century, [[Titan Books|Titan]] sought to continue this dream with their [[live-action film series|movie-based]] ''[[Transformers (Titan Magazine)|Transformers]]'' comic, but after managing only a few issues that wove themselves around what [[IDW Publishing]] was doing with their own titles, lack of room to manoeuvre and a general absence of knowledge about what would be [[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (franchise)|coming next]] for the movie universe made it apparent that in the long-term, this was an unworkable goal.

To compensate for this hurdle, Titan took a surprising approach: for the remainder of its first volume, the comic would be set in an ''alternate universe'', one where [[Megatron (Movie)|Megatron]] had ''won'' the battle of [[Mission City]], claimed the [[AllSpark]], and dominated the [[Earth]]. This freed up the creators to do whatever they wished with the movie characters, and allowed them to incorporate other toy-only characters without fear of disrupting the continuity.

The alternate universe story was brought to a close so that the comic could be rebooted for a second volume, which would tie in with the imminent ''[[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (film)|Revenge of the Fallen]]''. Now realizing the impossibility of a successful interwoven story with IDW's material, Titan essentially said "Sod it," and produced their own prequel to the film, centering on [[Skids (ROTF)|Skids]] and [[Mudflap (ROTF)|Mudflap]]. The original material continued after this story, with new stories set after the second film that firmly established themselves as separate timeline from the "American" one.

The timelines of both these takes on the movie universe are featured in this article. The divergences only settle in 2007, following the events of the ''[[Transformers (film)|Transformers]]'' movie, so that is where each timeline begins; for a full coverage of the history of the movie universe prior to this point, see the "mainstream" [[movie timeline]].

==Main timeline==
===Pre-19th century===

[[Primus]] was the first Cybertronian and he begat the [[Dynasty of Primes]], who ruled Cybertron and protected the [[AllSpark]] thousands of years ago. (The later Primes, for their part, didn't believe Primus had spawned them) It was a time when warriors stood by a code of honour. But during the rule of seven Primes, one of their number, [[the Fallen|Megatronus]], betrayed the other six in his lust to harvest Earth's sun! He imprisoned them (except when he killed them), but they sacrificed themselves to keep the Creation Matrix from him and imprison ''him'' on one of [[Saturn]]'s moons. His acolytes, the [[Seeker (ROTF)|Seekers]], remained on Earth and searched for the lost [[Tomb of the Primes]] so they could help their master when he returned. [[Jetfire (ROTF)|Jetfire]] was the lone Autobot there, switching sides in horror at "the Fallen's" actions. The Seekers continued to search, dwindling in number over the years: [[Ransack (ROTF)|Ransack]] and Jetfire were the longest holdouts. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 3.1|Sentinel Prime profile}} {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2.8|Jetfire Profile}} {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2.3|The Fallen Profile}}

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A Prime on Cybertron, [[Sentinel Prime (ROTF)|Sentinel Prime]], ruled the Autobots after the Fallen's betrayal and would continue to do so throughout the pre-war period. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 3.1|Sentinel Prime Profile}} While he was leader, during the [[Golden Age]] it would be [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]] and [[Megatron (Movie)|Megatron]], working together as civilian leader and [[Lord High Protector]], who'd do most of the work of running things.{{storylink|Movie Prequel issue 1}}<ref>Titan's Sentinel profile says he didn't name Optimus Prime his successor until the Ark left and was shot down. Since Optimus was clearly running things long before then, we have to assume Optimus was a ''de facto'' leader before he became the nominal one.</ref> Civilian politics were strong and stable, with [[Ratchet (Movie)|Ratchet]] being a noted player who would become Optimus' chief liaison to the [[High Council of Ancients]] legislative body. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 3|Ratchet Profile}} 

But even back then Megatron was scheming to take power of Cybertron and worlds beyond. He believed the Transformers could gain ultimate power via the All Spark, power to reshape their alternate modes into anything they imagined. Breaking all Cybertronian laws, he made direct contact with the All Spark to test his theory and found himself with a mighty new alternate mode. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 4|Megatron V. Optimus Prime}}{{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2|Megatron Profile}}He'd then find and release the Fallen from his prison. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2.3|Fallen Profile}}<ref>Placing the Fallen's discovery here is conjuncture, but the profiles and Smackdown feature do state explicitly that Megatron was plotting all along so there's no real room for the Fallen to tempt him.</ref> War was declared and Megatron's army of Decepticons swept the planet. Optimus reluctantly studied the entire history of intergalactic warfare from any datatrack he could find, ensuring he could match Megatron with high strategic knowledge. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 4|Megatron V. Optimus Prime}} [[Frenzy (Movie)|Frenzy]] played a vital role in the early stages of the Decepticon campaign, amassing data behind enemy lines and hacking Autobot Command Hub transmissions. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 7|Frenzy Profile}} Ratchet tried to negotiate a peace and was almost murdered by Megatron in the process, and so he became a battlefield medic as a better way of frustrating the monster's murderous agenda. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 3|Ratchet Profile}} 

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Numerous battles raged across Cybertron. [[Arcee (Movie)|Arcee]], a freelance guerrilla, would be captured by Decepticon agents and was rescued by [[Kup (Movie)|Kup]]. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 21|Arcee Profile}} [[Starscream (Movie)|Starscream]] would rise to the top of the Decepticons by stepping on the rest of them, with a habit of doing a splashy attack at the ''end'' of a battle so he could steal the credit (as he did when ''[[Barricade (Movie)|Barricade]]'' had done all the hard work of breaking the defences at the Autobot stronghold [[Ky-Alexia]]). {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 6|Starscream Profile}} [[Scorponok (Movie)|Scorponok]] became a scourge of the battlefield, hiding after the other Decepticons had left so he could murder any Autobot stragglers. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 9|Scorponok Profile}} [[Bonecrusher (Movie)|Bonecrusher]] and [[Jazz (Movie)|Jazz]] did so well they were both promoted, to senior battlefield tactician and First Lieutenant respectively. This raised a few optics among the Autobots but in Bonecrusher's case, his new job bored him ''so much'' (rearguard commanders don't get to hit things!) that he'd go bugnuts in ''any'' fight he actually got to have.{{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 5|Jazz Profile}}{{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 8|Bonecrusher Profile}} [[Longview (Movie)|Longview]] did ''not'' do well and needed rescuing from a Decepticon camp. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 5|Lost in Space 3}} 

A new generation of robots, such as [[Sideswipe (Movie)|Sideswipe]], would grow up perfectly designed for warfare and knowing nothing ''but''. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2.2|Sideswipe profile}} Ironhide, among his other duties, would train up Autobot recruits with on-the-job experience: future heavyweights like [[Skyblast (Movie)|Skyblast]] and [[Strongarm (Movie)|Strongarm]] trained under him. By this point, the Decepticons had overstretched themselves and had automated many of their outposts, so they could be staffed by just one Decepticon. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 5|Lost in Space 3}} 

[[File:TitanMag-BumblebeeMegatronAllSpark.jpg|thumb|left|250px|''Waaaa waaaaa waaaaa...'']]

Resolving to keep the power of the captive AllSpark out of Megatron's hands, Optimus Prime decided to move it around the planet and, when this proved to be not enough, to launch it into deep space. While Arcee unwittingly provided a diversion, conning the 'Cons into thinking the AllSpark was at [[Tyger Pax]] (only [[Bumblebee (Movie)|Bumblebee]] knew the truth), Prime had it fired into space by [[Arctus]]... only too late having a vision that this would bring the war to other planets. While interrogating Bumblebee, Megatron observes the relic and realised he'd been tricked. Megatron immediately pursues it into space but is delayed by an Autobot tractor beam before he can stop it from plunging into the [[Alkaris Anomaly]]. In response, he has  the overzealous Devastator detonates a [[foldspace warhead]] that warps himself, [[Ironhide (Movie)|Ironhide]], [[Ratchet (Movie)|Ratchet]] and [[Jazz (Movie)|Jazz]] to the four corners of the universe. What goes around comes around though: Megatron tracked the AllSpark all the way to Earth and was so obsessed that he let all his power be drained entering atmosphere, leaving himself to collapse and freeze in the Arctic. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 1|Prequel: Optimus Prime}}{{storylink|Movie Prequel issue 1}}{{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2|Prequel: Megatron}}{{storylink|Movie Prequel issue 2}} 

While lost in space, Ratchet helps quell an alien civil war, {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 3|Lost in Space 1}} Devastator defeats psychic apparitions of his worst fears, {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 4|Lost in Space 2}} and Ironhide encounters digital "ghosts" on a derelict ship with some kind of ancient connection to the AllSpark {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 5|Lost in Space 3}}. Jazz found a planet of pure information and was strongly tempted to abandoning the war but the planet turned out to be a predatory organism; he was almost devoured until Ratchet and Ironhide came to save him. All of them returned to {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 6|Lost in Space 4}} where Ratchet found and repaired Bumblebee, all but his voicebox.{{storylink|Movie Prequel issue 1}}

With the war going badly, Sentinel Prime left Cybertron for deep space onboard the first ''[[Ark (DOTM)|Ark]]'', taking a secret weapon with him. He officially named Optimus his successor, but Decepticon fire blasted the ''Ark'' out of the skies and it was presumed destroyed. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 3.1|Sentinel Prime Profile}}

===1897 to 2007===

Back on [[Earth]], [[Archibald Witwicky|Captain Archibald Witwicky]] of the [[National Arctic Circle Expedition]] discovered Megatron's inert body and was driven blind and insane by the contact. His last three months of sight are spent drawing Cybertronian symbols and he was confined to a 'secure hospital' (cough) in Boston. A new agency called [[Sector 7]], who have already investigated some other paranormal activity from their Boston house<ref>It's strongly implied in the Movie Prequel comics that this is Sector 7 in 1898, meaning they pre-exist the discovery of Megatron. For Titan continuity, the "Story So Far" in [[Transformers Comic issue 7|Titan's #7]] says Witwicky's discovery "falls into the hands of a new ultra-secret agency"</ref>, covered it up and went to the Arctic to start digging up the "Mega-Man". In 1902, under cover of [[Theodore Roosevelt|Roosevelt's]] [[Newlands Reclamation Act]], they dig around the Colorado River and locate the lost AllSpark. {{storylink|Movie Prequel issue 2}} Sector 7 finally moved Megatron to the new [[Hoover Dam]] in 1935.{{storylink|Movie Prequel issue 3}}

When [[World War 1]] broke out, Ransack took the form of a [[Germany|German]] biplane.{{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2.2|Dogfight!}} (The [[USS Cyclops]] went missing in the same war, around the dreaded [[Bermuda Triangle]]...) {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2.15|Making Waves}} 

The Autobot-Decepticon war rages on but none are aware that the Ark had survived and drift through space. It finally crashed on Earth's moon in 1962<ref>In the films it was in 1961 but the comics point to 1962</ref>; a fragment landed in Fiesole, [[Italy]], and was buried in the local cathedral by an [[United Kingdom|English]] priest who feared the object was supernatural and could cause a religious backlash. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 3.1|Fight for Fiesole}} This helped fire up the space race {{storylink|Dark of the Moon}} which was won by America because they could nick technology from Megatron. {{storylink|Movie Prequel issue 3}}

In 1998, a weary Jetfire took advantage of the SR-71 spyplane being decommissioned to get into a museum and take a long sleep. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2.8|Jetfire Profile}} Ransack remained active but all other Seekers had gone dormant long ago (all without Sector 7 ever noticing them!). {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2.3|Learning Curve}}

Bumblebee, tracking the AllSpark in 2003, took a pitstop on [[Mars]] and was detected by Sector 7 (hijacking the [[Hubble Space Telescope]]). They tracked his planetfall in Virginia but, taking Chevy Camero form, he evaded them. [[Seymour Simmons|Agent Simmons]] planned to draw him into an ambush with an artificial AllSpark isotope but Sector 7 were so focused on the Autobot, they didn't notice a Decepticon team of Starscream, Barricade, and Blackout ''also'' entering the solar system! Starscream was after the AllSpark (conning the others to think they wanted Megatron too) and the 'Cons found the fake isotope first, slaughtering Sector agents before getting bored and deciding to let Bumblebee do the heavy lifting while Barricade monitored him. Meanwhile, a young [[Sam Witwicky]] inherited his grandfather's old junk and didn't care much, not knowing they had the path to the AllSpark engraved in the lenses. {{storylink|Movie Prequel issue 3}} {{storylink|Movie Prequel issue 4}} 

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In 2004, the [[United States of America]] elected/re-elected [[George W. Bush|a President]] with [[Theodore Allen]] as his Vice-President. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 14|Aftermath Parts 1}}

Warfare continued on the dying Cybertron up until 2007 at the latest. <ref>Dated "Five Years Earlier" than a scene set right after the third movie, which occurs at least three years after the second - see below.</ref>. During one battle, Decepticons [[Drift (ROTF)|Drift]] and his friend [[Knucklehead]] violently stopped [[Lockdown (ROTF)|Lockdown]] from killing prisoners. Lockdown vowed revenge, though with Megatron in charge he could never carry it out. (The Megatron who was frozen ''yes I know'') Soon after, Drift would defect to the Autobots. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 5.1|Adrift in Time and Space}}

On Earth, a rattled Sector 7 created a self-invigorating nano-virus designed to block all the AllSpark frequences in case the cube was used against them. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 13|Twilight's Last Gleaming Part 5}}

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===2007===
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Then a lot of stuff happens! {{storylink|Transformers (film)}}

In the minutes that follow Megatron's death at the conclusion of the battle of <s>Mission City</s> <s>[[Los Angeles]]</s> ''a city'',<ref>The issue said "Los Angeles", based on an earlier draft, but editorial material in the comic would later say "Mission City".</ref> Starscream immediately sets about cementing his position as new [[Decepticon]] leader by destroying the lingering [[AllSpark Mutation]]s and harvesting the animating AllSpark energies from their bodies. Using these energy fragments, Starscream reanimates the bodies of [[Barricade (Movie)|Barricade]], [[Blackout (Movie)|Blackout]] and [[Brawl (Movie)|Brawl]] as [[zombie]]s and sends them to attack the [[Autobot]]s. They initially prove unstoppable, but when [[Ratchet (Movie)|Ratchet]] deduces that they are being animated by AllSpark energy, the Autobots are able to target the cube's energy signature and take them out. Starscream escapes. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 7|Starscream's Milita}}

Later, continuing the Decepticon clean-up operation, [[Ironhide (Movie)|Ironhide]] is teamed with a squad of Army Rangers to hunt down [[Scorponok (Movie)|Scorponok]], still hiding in the Qatari desert. Ambushed by the arachnoid Decepticon, Ironhide's motor functions are overridden by Scorponok and he is forced to attack his allies until they can shoot Scorponok off him, allowing Ironhide to finish him off. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 8|Scorpion Sting}}<ref>Yep, Scorponok was explicitly blow to bits! Since he returns in ''Revenge of the Fallen'', we have to assume he either got rebuilt or he has a twin brother, like Devastator and Brawl.</ref>

Meanwhile, Cybertron has finally been abandoned. The Autobot [[The Twins|Twins]] Skids and Mudflap are the only Transformers to remain on the planet. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2.1|Training Day}}

===2007 to 2009===

Starscream comes under the command of [[The Fallen]], and returns to the dead Cybertron to assemble an army that will scour Earth for the [[Matrix of Leadership]]. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2.1|Training Day}} [[Soundwave (ROTF)|Soundwave]], meanwhile, establishes a staging base on [[Phobos (moon)|Phobos]], a moon of [[Mars (planet)|Mars]], from which the army shall carry out its attack on Earth. The pair apparently get the notion to take the power of the Matrix for themselves, cutting the Fallen out of the deal. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2.8|Back-to-Back}}
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In response to the message [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]] sent into space, [[Arcee (Movie)|Arcee]] and [[Sideswipe (Movie)|Sideswipe]] arrive on Earth and join up with the new joint Transformer-human organization being established on the planet, [[NEST]]. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2.4|New Tricks}}{{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2.5|Reversal of Fortune}} Skids and Mudflap also receive the message, but blow it off, electing to remain on the deserted Cybertron where they can have fun. Their minds are changed for them when they stumble across Starscream and his army and overhear talk of the [[Star Harvester]], and they decided to head for Earth to pass the information along. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2.1|Training Day}} Starscream's troops fail to prevent their escape to Earth, so The Fallen has Soundwave call upon one of his [[Seeker (ROTF)|Seekers]], [[Ransack (ROTF)|Ransack]], to intercept them and prevent them from making contact with the other Earthbound Autobots. [[Bumblebee (Movie)|Bumblebee]] saves the Twins from Ransack. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2.2|Dogfight!}} The Twins refuse to give their intel to anyone other than Optimus Prime, but he is away on an extended mission in [[Australia]] with Arcee, hunting the Decepticon [[Sideways (ROTF)|Sideways]].  [[File:Titan4 Ravagedescends.jpg|left|thumb]] {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2.5|Reversal of Fortune}} The other Autobots are not convinced by the Twins' claims, prompting the two young 'bots to defy orders and tag along on a NEST mission to [[Las Vegas]] in order to prove themselves. Unfortunately, their interference allows [[Grindor (ROTF)|Grindor]] to escape with the memory core of a deactivated Seeker. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2.3|Learning Curve}} [[Ravage (ROTF)|Ravage]] is dispatched by [[Soundwave (ROTF)|Soundwave]] to learn what the Twins have done with their information. The ferrous feline knocks out their training instructor Sideswipe to get to them, but the Twins are able to use a training simulator to take him down. Unfortunately, Ravage escapes, and Sideswipe believes that the Twins were responsible for everything, causing the Autobots to further distrust them. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2.4|New Tricks}}
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The Twins' reputation steadily worsens when Optimus and Arcee return with the captive Sideways. A resurrected (new?) Scorponok somehow bypasses all of NEST's security to break Sideways out, and the Twins' bumbling accidentally allows both Decepticons to escape. Believing this deliberate and that the bumblers had helped Scorponok through security, the Autobots take them into custody and prepare to exile them from the planet. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2.5|Reversal of Fortune}} Having observed the Twins' series of unfortunate events, Soundwave exploits it for his own ends by sending [[Wheelie (ROTF)|Wheelie]] in to "rescue" the pair from the Autobots. Now on the run from their own faction, the Twins are approached by Soundwave, who offers them a place in the Decepticon ranks. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2.6|Outlaw Blues}} They pretend to accept in hopes of gaining more concrete proof of the villains' plans, unaware that Soundwave intends to use them as bait to flush out Ransack, who knows the location of the Matrix but is refusing to answer to anyone other than The Fallen directly. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2.7|Turnabout}} They succeed in bringing Ransack to the Decepticon's Phobos base, but as Soundwave and Starscream attempt to force the information from him, the Twins make their play, allowing Ransack to escape, threatening to tell the Fallen of Soundwave and Starscream's conspiracy (he is quite likely murdered before he can talk). The Decepticon army from Cybertron arrives and Skids and Mudflap fear they are done for... until Optimus Prime and the Autobots arrive to save them, convinced of their good intentions at last. Welcomed into the ranks of NEST, the Twins decide to keep that "Fallen" stuff to themselves. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2.8|Back-to-Back}}

Thanks for that, guys. {{storylink|Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (film)|Revenge of the Fallen}}

===2009 to 2010===
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Following the defeat of The Fallen in Egypt, the Decepticon faction is once again left in disarray despite the resurrection of Megatron, with many warriors carrying out their own agendas. More and more Autobots continue to arrive on Earth, and although they are put through their paces by NEST and veteran combat officer [[Springer (ROTF)|Springer]], {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2.12|Rules of Engagement}} a lot of them remain reckless and impetuous: not least of all [[Jolt (Movie)|Jolt]], who blacks out all of [[Las Vegas]] apprehending [[Bludgeon (ROTF)|Bludgeon]]. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2.9|Culture Shock}} He, [[Rollbar (ROTF)|Rollbar]], and [[Dune Runner (ROTF)|Dune Runner]] are placed in a training unit and put through their paces to become a proper team.

Assorted Decepticons—including Lockdown, temporarily in a new form, and the dreaded [[Hoist (Movie)#Hoist (Movie)|Hoist]]—arrive on Earth but are ignored by Megatron and are swiftly rounded by the Autobots.  {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2.9|Culture Shock}}{{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2.11|Spare Parts!}}{{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2.12|Rules of Engagement}}{{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2.13|Inside Out!}} But the fractured Decepticons are not all the Autobots have to worry about: human enemies also spring up in the form of groups like the [[Free Men]] militia, {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2.10|Bring Me the Head of Optimus Prime}} and although Megatron himself remains behind the scenes, he begins experimenting on the protoforms from the ''[[Nemesis (ROTF)|Nemesis]]'', creating the monstrous [[Dead End (ROTF)|Dead End]]. It's Rollbar that shows true Autobot spirit when his team take Dead End down and instead of killing him, he has them take the Decepticon to Ratchet to be cured. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2.11|Spare Parts!}} 

Now aware the Transformers exist, the human race slowly gets used to the fact. [[Theodore Galloway]], on the other hand, continues to try and shut down NEST out of sheer pettiness, though this seems to fizzle out. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2.9|Culture Shock}} 
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===2010===
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Concurrently with the [[World Cup]] final in Bloenfontein, [[South Africa]], Bludgeon stages an escape from NEST's local holding facility with the aid of the smuggled-in [[Scalpel (ROTF)|Scalpel]]: he had, in fact, been deliberately arrested so he'd be able to stage a jail break. The numerous Decepticons that he frees fall into line behind him as a splinter faction of Decepticons under his command.  {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2.13|Inside Out!}} 

Bludgeon's Decepticons recover the remains of [[Devastator (ROTF)|Devastator]] and attempt to rebuild him in the mountains of British Columbia, but the plan is foiled when it is inadvertently discovered by the Autobot [[Stratosphere]]. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2.14|Head in the Clouds}} Decepticons like [[Reverb (ROTF)|Reverb]] prove dissatisfied with Bludgeon's leadership, prompting the attempted recruitment of those Autobots with more violent tendencies, such as [[Blazemaster]], to thankfully no success. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2.17|Turn and Burn}} The numerous acts of destruction Bludgeon's forces are able to carry out turns public opinion against the Autobots, prompting the formation of a new stealth unit headed by Bumblebee, operating below NEST's radar. [[File:Titan18 Bludgeoncallsit.jpg|left|thumb|225px]] This convinces Bludgeon to declare full-scale war. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2.18|Shadow War}}

As all of this goes on, Soundwave and Starscream are left to investigate Earth's mysteries on their own. Soundwave stumbles into the [[Bermuda Triangle]], {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2.15|Making Waves}} while Starscream tries looking for ''anything'' in the Amazon rainforest, and winds up being worshipped by a native tribe. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2.17|The Kingdom of Starscream}}

At [[Christmas]], Sam Witwicky allows Bumblebee to secretly observe the festivities at the family home. Dead End attacks during the night, but Bumblebee defeats him, leaving the Witwicky parents none the wiser. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2.19|The Nightmare Bee-4 Christmas}}
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===2011===
The Autobots deduce the location of Bludgeon's primary command hub in [[Russia]], but their stealthy approach is blown when Wheelie, angered that the Autobots have yet to fully accept him into their ranks, returns to his old Decepticon ways and reveals their position to Bludgeon. As the Autobots and Bludgeon clash, Wheelie then contacts Megatron himself, calling him down upon the battle so that he can put his house in order by defeating all those who would oppose him. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2.20|Divided Loyalties}} Wheelie's dreams are realized as Megatron lays Bludgeon low and reconsolidates the Decepticons under his command, but the scrap done doesn't live long enough to enjoy it, as the marauding Dead End rips him apart for spare parts. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2.21|A Short, Sharp Lesson!}}

An archaeologist in [[Italy]] discovers a fragment of some alien artifact and calls in NEST. The Autobots are unaware of what it is but the Decepticons know: it's a fragment of Sentinel Prime's Ark and could lead the Autobots to him, a prospect that seems to terrify Starscream and Soundwave.<ref>In the film, Soundwave is on Megatron's plan to bring Sentinel back but yet here he is, trying to undermine it. This ''is'' the same Soundwave who tried to cut the Fallen out of the loop so maybe he's playing his own angle.</ref> Starscream makes a single-handed attack on Fiesole Cathedral, almost dying in a (successful) attempt to steal the fragment. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 3.1|Fight for Fiesole}}

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[[Soundwave (ROTF)|Soundwave]] is responsible for some minor incidents, first attempting to crash the global economy with the discovery of El Dorado {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 3.2|Gold and Blood}} and then allowing NEST to track him so he could take wounded hostages and blackmail Optimus into a fight to the death. While Optimus survived, the incident caused Robert Epps to quit NEST. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 3.3|Dealing with the Devil}}

The lingering anti-Transformer sentiment would reach a head when [[Marcus Castor]] led a rally that was interrupted by a Decepticon attack. After seeing the Autobots try to save them, the protestors mobbed the Decepticons to stop them killing their enemies and Castor switched to being a ''pro''-Autobot agitator. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 3.4|Automatic for the People}}


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===2012<ref>No date for the events of ''Dark of the Moon'' is provided in the film but as Sam has recently graduated college, it's at least three years after ''Revenge of the Fallen''; the [[Transformers: Dark of the Moon (Xbox 360/PS3)|''Dark of the Moon'' video game]] and the novelization of the film puts the movies at three years/"several years" apart respectively. That puts us at 2012</ref>===

Something happened involved Sentinel Prime and some big explosions in [[Chicago]]! {{storylink|Transformers: Dark of the Moon (film)|Dark of the Moon}} Knucklehead was part of the mission but once Megatron was dead, Lockdown butchered him as he'd promised five years ago. Drift built him a grave on the moon. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 5.1|Adrift in Time and Space}} In the aftermath of Chicago, the humans became frightened of all Transformers, Autobot included; it became clear the Autobots may no longer be able to work with their former allies.  {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 5.2|Thousand Island Fight}}

The Autobots began hunting down the last of the Decepticon forces, tracking one cell to [[Indonesia]]. Thanks to quick thinking by new soldier [[Crosshairs (Movie)|Crosshairs]], an attempted Decepticon ambush became a victory when he subverted their plan. Unknown to the heroes, Lockdown was running the Decepticon resistance and had avoided being killed with the rest. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 5.2|Thousand Island Fight}}

==Alternate timeline==

Under the [[universal stream]] terminology, this timeline counts as '''Tyran 208.28 Gamma'''.<ref>"Tyran" meaning "the movie" and "Gamma" meaning a comic, and the first issue was 28/2/08</ref> 

===2007===
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The Battle of [[Mission City]] results in Decepticon victory; Sam Witwicky is killed, Megatron gains the AllSpark, and Optimus Prime is taken prisoner, kept in cryo-stasis in [[Sector Seven]]'s old base at [[Hoover Dam]]. North America is conquered, resulting in the death of the [[President of the United States]]. Megatron develops a control module that allows him to directly manipulate the AllSpark's energies without fear of harm, and sets about using those energies to transform Earth into a new Cybertron. Bumblebee, Ironhide, [[Ratchet (Movie)|Ratchet]], [[Mikaela Banes]] and [[Tom Banachek]] go underground as rebels. [[Russia]] works alongside [[NATO]], trying to prevent the Decepticons from expanding their borders. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 9|Twilight's Last Gleaming Parts 1-5}}

===2008<ref>Theodore Allen claims two years have passed since the Decepticon conquest began in [[Transformers Comic issue 23|#23]]; events are being assumed to take place in the year they were published, for ease of book-keeping.</ref>===
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By the start of the year, NATO's efforts to contain the Decepticons have met with failure, and Paris, [[France]] is bombed in retaliation. The Autobots finally stage a desperate rebel action to rescue Optimus and call in a handful of offworld reinforcements under [[Skyblast (Movie)|Skyblast]] and Arcee. While humanity's remaining powers go for the nuclear option, Bumblebee and Mikaela penetrate Hoover Dam to get Optimus and recover a nano-virus designed by Sector Seven to block the AllSpark's energy, while Ironhide and Ratchet simultaneously target the [[Savannah]], [[Georgia]] facility that houses the AllSpark. But both rebel teams are compromised, by Optimus being in an unexpected cryo-stasis and by Savannah's guards under [[Bonecrusher (Movie)|Bonecrusher]] creating an ambush, while NATO is routed and the French government & NATO command decapitated in ten minutes of humiliation. Megatron himself arrives to stop Bumblebee, who is outmatched once again. Luckily, Starscream sees a chance to nobble his leader and deliberately causes the Autobot reinforcements to leave the moon and join the fight: the Savannah team overcome the enemy and Ratchet destroys the AllSpark, leaving only scattered fragments, while the Autobots at Hoover Dam give Mikaela the time to free Prime from cryo-stasis and locate the virus. Prime takes over the fight, giving Bumblebee the chance to infect Megatron's system with the virus. His control over the AllSpark broken, Megatron's body is torn apart by its energies and he is apparently destroyed. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 9|Twilight's Last Gleaming, Parts 1-5}}

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Unbeknownst to any present, however, he actually uploads his consciousness into the AllSpark interface module, which Starscream unwittingly recovers and integrates into his own systems. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 22|The Decepticon Who Haunted Himself}} The victory is further tarnished by the sheer scale of the damage Decepticon rule has done: NATO troops have to temporarily occupy the continent for security reasons, millions are living in shelters and reliant on food aid, and the people are frightened and the new President [[Theodore Allen]] is distrusting of the Autobots. The Decepticons, now under Starscream's command, begin waging scorched earth tactics to prevent the liberated America from recovering, and use [[cerebro-strip]]s to covertly control key human begins... including Allen. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 14|Aftermath, Parts 1-2}} Worse, the All Spark is no longer 'cyberforming' Earth but its infection has gone to the planet's core nonetheless, causing our world to tear itself apart. In the midst of this chaos, Ratchet uses an AllSpark fragment to resurrect [[Jazz (Movie)|Jazz]], but the AllSpark's energies prove to have been corrupted through extended contact with Megatron, and Jazz returns to life as an amoral double-dealer who abandons the Autobots for a mercenary career. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 16|Dark Spark}}

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Increasing numbers of Autobots arrive on Earth and join the effort to suppress the worsening AllSpark-born devastation of the planet. Believing an untapped fuel from Cybertron known as [[Nucleon]] may hold the answer, Optimus Prime sends a team of Autobots back to their home planet, where they discover that a small rebel cell of Decepticons led by [[Stockade (Movie)|Stockade]] has already started using Nucleon as their own power source. Stockade's Decepticons have made contact with a mysterious entity from deep space, one that resembles the All Spark in enough ways that it could possibly restore the dying Cybertron to life... but when it arrives, it possesses the planet, revealing itself to be [[Unicron]] the Anti-Life. The planet-eater teleports the transformed Cybertron into the Solar System with the intent of consuming Earth, but Optimus Prime and Stockade's teams join forces, draining off the nucleon for use on Earth, and leaving Unicron with no power source, reducing him to a dead husk. Unfortunately, while the Autobots' attentions have been focused on Unicron, the Decepticons have exploited the opportunity to make Mikaela their latest mind-controlled pawn. Alerted that the Autobots are away and with Mikaela minding the Autobot base in Savannah, Starscream seizes control of it and uses it as the centre of a [[Decepticon Heartland]], restoring Decepticon dominion to a large chunk of the southern states. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 17|Return to Cybertron, Parts 1-4}}
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===2009===
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Almost immediately upon the Autobots' return to Earth, Optimus Prime is targeted for assassination by Jazz, hired for the job by Starscream. When a rival assassin named [[Kullt]] tries to steal the kill, Jazz takes him down instead, but refuses Prime's offer to rejoin the Autobots. The circumstances of Jazz's ambush makes it clear that President Allen is under Decepticon control. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 21|Hard Target}} Presumably, the nucleon is used to heal the AllSpark corruption soon after. That done, the Autobots stage a rescue mission, disabling the cerebro-strip controlling Mikaela with a jamming frequency and recovering her from the Decepticon Heartland. With this failure, Starscream realizes that his actions have all along been controlled by Megatron, whose consciousness has been dwelling within his own mind he absorbed the AllSpark interface module. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 22|The Decepticon Who Haunted Himself}}

Aware that they're living on borrowed time, Optimus covertly contacts Tom Banachek (now the head of [[Sector Seven]]) and has him start identifying who in the government is a Decepticon servant. He also makes contact with Stockade, striking up a deal (though he doesn't expect the Decepticon to live up to his end). As Prime expected, the Decepticons stage a series of lightning strikes around the United States in order to force the government to the bargaining table with the promise of peace in return for the Autobots being exile from the planet. Pressured into compliance, the Autobots depart, only for Starscream to have them shot out of the sky by a nuclear missile that he instructs President Allen to order the firing of; a full Decepticon onslaught across the Eastern Seaboard follows, with the cerebro-compromised government and military preventing the humans from fighting back. However, the Autobots have merely staged their demise and secretly returned to Cybertron. While Stockade's team heads to Earth and defend it against the Decepticons, who are utterly unprepared for them and are swiftly driven back to the Heartland, [[File:TitanUK25 back to cybertron.jpg|left|thumb|250px]] the Autobots get to work on the systems of the inert Unicron. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 23|Revolution, Parts 1-3}}

Starscream uses an AllSpark fragment and the interface module to restore Megatron to life in his own body so that he can put down Stockade's rebellion, but no sooner has he returned than Prime and the Autobots make their move, using Unicron's teleportation systems to send all the Decepticons to Cybertron, then teleport the planet itself to the far reaches of the galaxy, with no hope of return. The Decepticons are left exiles on an dead world, while the Autobots themselves are happily "stranded" on Earth, a clean-up ahead of them but still victorious at last. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 25|Revolution, Parts 3}}

(They didn't let on but they then sent a fellow ''Autobot'', [[Circuit (Movie)|Circuit]], to the dead Cybertron: Circuit's scheming had caused ''that much'' anger. {{storylink|#Timelines|''Timelines'' Circuit bio card}})

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==Other chronologies==

*[[Movie timeline]]—The chronology of the "mainstream" live-action movie universe, incorporating comics, novels and more. 
*[[Sector Seven ARG timeline]]—Detailing the history of the "alternate reality" that presents Transformers as real beings, and the fiction associated with them a cover story propagated by Sector Seven. Also includes material from Titan's letters pages, which take the same approach.

==References==
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