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	"Chaos Theory Part 1"
Publisher	IDW Publishing
First published	July 20, 2011
Cover date	July 2011
Written by	James Roberts
Art by	Alex Milne
Colors by	Joana Lafuente
Letters by	Shawn Lee
Editor	Andy Schmidt
Assistant editor	Carlos Guzman
Continuity	IDW continuity
Chronology	Current era (2011)

Revision as of 16:20, 20 July 2011

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(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)

Autobots	Decepticons
Impactor (1) Rung (3) Perceptor (4) Ratchet (5) Ironhide (6) Xaaron (7) Optimus Prime (8) Jazz (9) Brawn (10) Trailbreaker (11) Cosmos (12) Springarm (13) Whirl (14) Drift (15) Sunstreaker (16) Rodimus (17) Wheeljack (18) Huffer (19) Cliffjumper (20) Hound (21) Broadside (22) Prowl (25) Bumblebee (26) Ultra Magnus (27) Omega Supreme (28)	Megatron (2) Starscream (23) Skywarp (24)

"Do you even feel the slightest remorse?"
"No."

—Optimus and Megatron

JAMES ROBERTS!
The flashbacks takes place before Megatron Origin and fill in a lot of details that the miniseries left out: namely, why Megatron is already so angry and willing to turn to violence.
Ratchet and Perceptor are discussing a superpower that Megatron was given in his original bio... and which almost every single G1 story since has ignored. Probably because, as Perceptor notes, throwing a black hole around is a little too silly.
Some graffiti in Megatron's cell reads "peace through tyranny", the motto from original bio.
The free lab on Kimia that Xaaron mentions is Ironfist's old one.
That's right, another IDW-created interim Prime! Nominus Prime comes before Sentinel Prime.
The Transformers are established as a pariah race, shunned by the intergalactic community and Galactic Council.
The montage of war scenes include: Stormbringer, Infiltration, Spotlight: Arcee, The Transformers: Drift, Escalation, Spotlight: Kup, Spotlight: Shockwave, The Transformers: Ironhide, Devastation, ...For All Mankind, and Heart of Darkness.
Sherma Bridge is a nod to the infamous Sherman Dam punchup.
The variable voltage harness comes from the original Marvel comics. Also mentioned are Pathblasters, communicubes and Shanix from the Marvel UK comics.
The Tremorcons mentioned are from Roberts' "Bullets", while Rung is from the "Last Stand of the Wreckers" Autopedia profiles.

Megatron Origin and Spotlight: Drift had an unnamed Orion Pax, with the unspoken but clear implication that this is a pre-Prime Prime. Here, before either story, Optimus is already in his usual Cybertronian Optimus form.

Cover A: Megatron's head; art by Marcelo Matere and colours by Josh Perez.
Cover B: Megatron's head from Megatron Origin; art by Milne and colors by Perez.
Cover RI: Both heads combined into one time-spanning super head; art by Milne.

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 * '''JAMES ROBERTS!'''
 * The flashbacks takes place before [[Megatron Origin]] and fill in a lot of details that the miniseries left out: namely, ''why'' Megatron is already so angry and willing to turn to violence.
-* Some graffiti in Megatron's cell reads "peace through tyranny", the motto from original [[bio]].
+* Ratchet and Perceptor are discussing a superpower that Megatron was given in his original [[bio]]... and which almost every single G1 story since has ignored. Probably because, as Perceptor notes, throwing a black hole around is a little too silly.
+* Some graffiti in Megatron's cell reads "peace through tyranny", the motto from original bio.
 * The free lab on [[Kimia]] that Xaaron mentions is [[Ironfist (G1)|Ironfist's]] old one.
 * That's right, [[Zeta Prime|''another'']] IDW-created interim Prime! [[Nominus Prime]] comes before [[Sentinel Prime (G1)|Sentinel Prime]].