Pax Cybertronia

The Pax Cybertronia was the unilateral peace accord signed after the Autobots defeated the Decepticons in the Great War. Little is known about how it came into existence, but it is known that Optimus Prime played an incredibly significant role in making it happen.

Accords of surrender

When the Decepticons surrendered at the end of the Great War, terms were drawn up to keep the peace until a formal treaty could be written. Any Autobot or Decepticon criminals acting outside of this agreement was a fair target for military action.

Under the accords, the Predacon alliance was subject to such strict economic sanctions the production of new Predacon protoforms slowed to a bare trickle, and the Tripredacus Council feared that any overt confrontation with the Maximals could doom their entire race to extinction. During this period the Tripredacus Council began aggressively undermining the actions of Predacon rebels, hoping to shield them from destruction by the Maximal Imperium so that they might live to fight another day. This, combined with the original surrender, permanently soured the Council's reputation among their fellow Predacons, leading many to consider them self-interested opportunists and traitors to the Predacon cause.

The accords were in effect for 50 Stellar cycles before they were succeeded by the Pax Cybertronia. The Razor's Edge

Fiction

Beast Wars

According to the known terms, it places the Decepticons (and later their descendants the Predacons) at great disadvantage, with the Autobots (and later the Maximals) firmly in control. It kept the peace on Cybertron, while keeping much information away from the Transformers about their ancestors.

Leading up to the Beast Era, powerful factions within the Predacon Alliance such as the Tripredacus Council want to continue to build up their resources under the restrictions placed on them by the Pax Cybertronia before a new campaign of conquest. This is a major point of contention between the leadership of the Alliance and sub-factions that would prefer action today.

Trivia

• The Pax Cybertronia appears to be based on the Pax Romana.
• The reluctance of the Predacons and their subservient role in the new world is also somewhat reminiscent of a post-WWI Germany, which was forced to pay excessive reparations and was restricted in its weapons development.
• Megatron's comment on the Predacons merely "biding their time", that and the covert schemes of the Tripredacus Council, shows evidence of them treating this era as a secretive, undeclared cold war.