Cybertronian

The name or term "Cybertronian" refers to more than one character or idea. For a list of other meanings, see Cybertronian (disambiguation).

The Cybertronians are a faction in the Generation 2 portion of the Generation 1 continuity family. They're sometimes refered to as Second Generation Decepticons or some variation thereon.

For the fan-published toy recognition guide by Antartic Press, see: Cybertronian: The Unofficial Transformers Recognition Guide.

Sigil of the Cybertronian Empire

The Cybertronians were a result of Decepticon rediscovery of Bio-Morphic Reproduction ("budding") ~4 million years ago on Cybertron. The Decepticons were able to rapidly expand their population using this method.

These new Decepticons left Cybertron in the hands of petty warlords unfit for the future empire and took to the stars to conquer other worlds.

In the modern era, the Cybertronian Empire has conquered many worlds, enslaving or exterminating the native population and cyberforming the planets to create "little Cybertrons." This was apparently under the direction of the Decepticon progenitor known as the Liege Maximo, who rules them from the planet-spanning Hub as part of a gambit to ascend to the plane of the Dark Gods.

Biology

The new Transformers created by budding felt little or no emotional attachment to Cybertron. In fact, they felt little at all. Primus' plan had shut down reproduction via budding at the intended point and the more these new Decepticons reproduced after that the more thinly his life force was streatched between them, the more they "watered down the line" to use Megatron's phrasing, leading them to be "born" less and less emotional and more and more robotic in nature.

They have a tendency towards a uniform color scheme of light green and silver. Many of the smaller troops must combine in pairs to form one alternate mode (This may possibly be a symptom of their degenerating "genetic" line).

Decepticon or Cybertronian?

Many citizens of the Cybertronian Empire have long since forgotten the terms "Autobot" and "Decepticon" in the millennia since leaving their birthworld. However their forebears are remembered bitterly by individuals such as Liege Centuro Jhiaxus. By his reckoning the Empire are the "true" Decepticons, having achieved the inborn Decepticon imperative of galactic conquest. He judges the Decepticons and Autobots they left behind as "evolutionary throwbacks." However, given Jhiaxus' former barbarism, he might be projecting his own issues onto his forebears.

Trivia

• The Cybertronian faction-symbol was also adopted by Bludgeon's Decepticon forces during their period of exile from Cybertron while operating outside of the Milky Way. It's possible the symbol has a common cultural meaning that would cause two disconnected groups of Decepticons expatriates to gravitate towards it. (However, in a real world sense, it's likely that the Generation 2 faction symbols were mandated by Hasbro as no current toys used the original Decepticon symbol.)
  
  
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