Sacred Ring

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Thousands of years ago, the warring planets Agorria and Zertonia orbited the same sun. When that sun collapsed into a black hole, the two races came together to save themselves. They connected their two planets around the black hole, each now forming one half of the Sacred Ring, or Ring of Zerta. Sadly, they fell back to war over control of their newly shared home. But maybe one day, revelations from the past will unite the two races once more.

Fiction

Energon Universe

Little is known about the origins of Agorria and Zertonia, only that it was somehow facilitated by the Cybertronian sage Zerta Trion, who created a single race of organic beings. Over time, this unified race fell to war, and over the millennia, the two planets forgot they were one and the same .

When Agorria and Zertonia's sun collapsed into a black hole, the two planets found it practical to lay down their arms and come together to survive. Together, they rebuilt their worlds into two halves, joined together around the black hole, with Agorrians and Zertonians living in harmony for thousands of years. Void Rivals #2 The Sacred Ring would serve a secondary purpose besides saving the Agorrians and Zertonians: acting as an engine that generated its own energon. Void Rivals #10 A wasteland came to exist between the edges of Agorria and Zertonia. Void Rivals #6

Unfortunately, the war began anew between the two peoples. Void Rivals #2 During this new war, the leaders of both factions were aware of the truth about their species and kept the war going anyway. Void Rivals #4 A hundred years before the present day, Springer landed on the Sacred Ring and constructed a hidden underground lab. Void Rivals #10 In the present day, Zertonian Premier Zalilak cited the fear of reawakening something known as Goliant to prevent reunification. Void Rivals #6

When both species sought to harvest an asteroid of ice, Void Rivals #2 Darak and Solila were each sent to harvest it only to shoot each other down. Deciding to work together to survive, the two discovered themselves to be members of the same species. Void Rivals #1 Managing to jury-rig a ramshackle ship, the two were abducted by the Skuxxoid, Void Rivals #2 but managed to bargain with him, trading their ship for a Nebulan craft. Knocking out Darak, Solila landed the ship on the Zertonian side of the Ring. Void Rivals #3

The Skuxxoid managed to barter Darak and Solila's craft to the Quintessons. Suspecting that there was a connection between Zertonia and Zerta Trion, the Quintessons began to search for the Sacred Ring. Void Rivals #5 Void Rivals #6 Void Rivals #9 Reuniting with Slizardo at a space station, Skuxxoid was also made to give up his information to Hot Rod. Void Rivals Energon Universe Special story

After reuniting, Darak and Solila made their way to the Wastelands and found Springer, Void Rivals #9 who revealed his findings about the Ring's connection to Cybertron. Void Rivals #10 While Darak sought to return to his people with the knowledge of energon, Solila opted to descend within the Ring and find Zerta Trion. Void Rivals #12

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Tracking the signature of the Nebulan craft, Hot Rod made his way to the Sacred Ring, unaware that he'd been followed by the Quintessons. Void Rivals #11 Void Rivals #14