Grand Imperium

"Won't you take me to... funky town!"

The Grand Imperium is a site on the planet Cybertron that served as the seat of the Cybertronian Senate. Within its chambers, the Senators debated planetary policy and a statue of Prima is situated here where an inscription reads "Freedom is the right of all civilized beings", which tells you everything.

Fiction

2005 IDW continuity

Following the assassination of Nominus Prime, the 113th Cybertronian Senate convened in a private session at the Grand Imperium in order to instigate a Clampdown to better protect the populace. Sentinel was at the scene where his position as Head of Security meant that he was charged with the mission of capturing the terrorists responsible for this vile deed. Security officer Orion Pax broke into the Grand Imperium with the captive Whirl in order to speak out against the corruption being faced by Cybertronian society. As a result, Sentinel Prime was ordered by the Senate to detain the intruder who was escorted out of the Grand Imperium. Chaos Theory Part 2

The Grand Imperium was destroyed by Megatron and his Decepticons after the war broke out. The towering ruins would remain until Cybertron was reset to a primordial state, which erased the ruins from existence. The Death of Optimus Prime

Cyberverse cartoon

Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away

Once the seat of the Senate, the Grand Imperium was ravaged by the Great War. After the AllSpark had been launched from Cybertron, the planet's condition began to deteriorate allowing Optimus Prime to realize his mistake in launching it. Following a battle with the Seekers, Bumblebee and Optimus found themselves in the ruined Grand Imperium which Optimus used as a backdrop for Bumblebee in explaining the damage the war had caused to their once beautiful world. Matrix of Leadership

In 2007, following the war's end, the Autobots based themselves in the Grand Imperium and began rebuilding it. Enemy Line

Notes

Foreign names

• Japanese: Grand Imperium (グランド・インぺリアム Gurando Inperiamu)

See also

• Citadel
• Spire