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“	Cybertron, our home. For generations, it has been a peaceful world. Until pride and a lust for power divided us. Now we fight - enemies who were once our brothers.	”
{{#if:Optimus Prime| —Optimus Prime{{#if:Transformers: War for Cybertron|, Transformers: War for Cybertron}} }} }}

In the beginning

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Primus and Unicron battle for eons. To try and turn the tide, Primus creates the Thirteen. One Shall Rise, Part 1 Over the course of the fight, Solus Prime creates many weapons and icons of power for them to use. At the urging of Megatronus Prime, she creates a great weapon to fight Unicron, although Solus herself worries that this power could corrupt them. The Thirteen vote seven to six to keep the Requiem Blaster and not destroy it. Exiles Ultimately, the Primes defeat Unicron, and the Chaos Bringer's inert form drifts off into space, where it later forms the core of Earth. One Shall Rise, Part 1 His fossilized blood, spilled in this conflict, becomes known as Dark Energon. Following the defeat of Unicron, Primus becomes one with the Core of Cybertron, and he gives life to future Transformers through the AllSpark, located within the Well of All Sparks. One Shall Rise, Part 1

Near the beginning of time

Solus Prime is murdered by Megatronus, causing the first schism in the Primes. (Whether this is before or after the battle with Unicron is unknown.) After Megatronus Prime is defeated, the Liege Maximo makes his own play for power. He is defeated and flees to another galaxy. After this great battle, Nexus Prime fragments himself into five robots, each one carrying and guarding a fragment of the Cyber Caliber. His components are dubbed Clocker, Mainspring, Chaindrive, Cannonspring, and Pinion. The fight has lasting repercussions for the Thirteen—Megatronus and the Liege have left the Primes for good, the once idealistic Vector Prime despairs and leaves the dimension, and Solus Prime is dead. The other nine go their separate ways. Alpha Trion and Alchemist Prime remain on Cybertron and start Transformer civilization. Exiles When it has a good start, Alchemist leaves to hunt down the Liege Maximo. Gradually, the Thirteen Primes are forgotten and pass into the realm of legend. Early generations of newborn Transformers must brave the terrors of the Underworld to reach the surface, which, over the years, becomes a deeply ingrained custom. Exodus

Meanwhile, far out in space, the forgotten Requiem Blaster gradually accrues a collection of space junk around it. As its gravitational pull increases, more and more drifting shipwrecks and space junk gather around it, eventually forming an artificial planetoid. This artificial planet will later become known as Junkion. Exiles

Age of Wrath

The Quintessons invade Cybertron and interfere with the development of the planet's occupants. The aliens modify the bodies of their new servants to serve their own ends, such as installing cockpits on the bodies of the Seekers. This period becomes known as the Age of Wrath. The Age of Wrath comes to an end when the Quintessons are overthrown by Sentinel Zeta Prime, part of the Elite Guard. Under Sentinel's rule, Cybertron enters its Golden Age. Exodus

Golden Age

The Golden Age brings sweeping changes to Cybertronian social structure and hierarchy. As only two Primes now remain on Cybertron, Sentinel Prime takes control of government and ushers in a new era for Cybertronian civilization, by instating the High Council. Under his rule, the space bridge project allows trailblazing Cybertronians to colonize faraway worlds, including Gigantion, Velocitron, Junkion, and the Hub. The construction of the spaceport on the Hydrax Plateau begins, and Moonbases One and Two are constructed on the Mini-Con inhabited moons of Cybertron.

Trypticon Station is put into orbit as well, and a crew of Seekers are tasked with defending the Dark Energon stored within, remnants of Unicron's attack on the planet. Exodus The High Council encouraged the gathering and storage of Dark Energon aboard the vessel.

The first Cybertronian data cylinders are created, which store the accumulated knowledge of Cybertronian society. T.M.I. However, the Golden Age draws to a close as the space bridges begin to fail and other cracks begin to show in Cybertronian civilization. Before long, the space bridge project is abandoned. The Transformers now stranded across the galaxy begin to develop along their own lines, gradually evolving into entirely new breeds of Cybertronian that are well-adapted for life on their new homeworlds. Exiles

Some time afterwards, Velocitron's civilization begins to slowly collapse. This is due to a variety of factors; partially because of a slowly dying sun and partially because of resource shortages. As a form of cultural diversion, Velocitron's citizens pay more and more attention to their races, using them as a way to escape from the harsh realities of their life. Velocitronians gradually forget their origins. Exiles

Era of the caste system

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In the waning years of the Golden Age, the caste system is implemented, where civilian guilds oversee and assign newly created Transformers to jobs, and it eventually becomes a major social institution under the urging of Sentinel. Alpha Trion, however, disagrees with many of these changes, and retreats further and further into the Hall of Records, eventually becoming a recluse. Many ancient traditions, such as travelling through the Underworld, are abandoned. These controversial reorganizations do not go unnoticed, though, and many newly born Transformers become dissatisfied with their lot in life, some seeking change. Cybertron's culture and society stagnates greatly as a result; the dynamic architecture and artwork that characterize older eras of society are replaced by dull, drab buildings. Exodus

The city-states of Kaon and Slaughter City, populated mostly by low-caste miners and workers, soon turn to gladiatorial combat as a way to escape from the drudgery of their lives. The High Council, aware of why the games began, does nothing to stop them. One particularly powerful warrior, an energon miner formerly known as D-16, takes on the name Megatronus in honor of the Prime of the same name, but later shortens it to Megatron. Megatron seeks to topple the stifling caste system, and makes his points known, gathering a group of followers that includes fellow gladiator and spymaster Soundwave and sadistic scientist Shockwave. Exodus

At the same time, a young data clerk named Orion Pax, monitoring transmissions from across Cybertron, befriends Megatron, and the two of them begin a secret correspondence, encouraged by Alpha Trion. They have intense but friendly debates over the nature of free will and the dangerousness of their ideals, and soon Orion begins training with Jazz, learning to fire an ion-cannon and to fashion his arms into an axe and a sword. Exodus

And so the fangirls leapt to their computers, and produced horrible things.

Before long, Orion visits Megatron in person in Kaon. Terrorists, calling themselves "Decepticons", begin bombings in Megatron's name, attacking such popular spots as Six Lasers Over Cybertron. Megatron himself makes his first public announcement on the Grid, stating he is not responsible for the attacks and will bring the perpetrators to justice. Orion follows him up with a speech of his own, and points out that the members of Cybertronian should be free; autonomous robots, or "Autobots". In reality, however, Megatron had heard rumors about the bombings and terrorist attacks but did nothing to prevent them. The High Council makes Orion a Prime, and bestows upon him the new name of "Optimus", but Megatron is incensed by the fact that his speech went unnoticed, and kills Halogen, a High Council member in the Chamber Hall itself. At Optimus's urging, the two sides retreat for now as to avoid further bloodshed in the Council halls. However, the Council itself begins to fragment; Contrail, Ratbat and Drivetrain now support the Decepticons's cause. The only option is to wage war—the Great War has begun. Exodus

Great War

Yeah, why don't ya come over and say that to my face, tough guy? Bonk!

The war takes Cybertron by storm, and before long battle lines are drawn as various city-states declare their allegiances or declare neutrality. The Autobots maintain control of the most important locations on Cybertron, including Iacon and Kalis. Exodus Special operations forces assemble on both sides, such as the Wreckers, whose members include Ultra Magnus, Bulkhead, and Wheeljack. Optimus Prime survives an assassination attempt by Skyquake at the Battle of Technahar. Masters & Students At some point, Arcee and her combat partner Tailgate are captured by the Decepticon Airachnid. Although Arcee is rescued by Bumblebee and Cliffjumper but they are too late to save Tailgate. Predatory Many cities are destroyed utterly in the carnage—Crystal City is destroyed in the fourth offensive of the war, and Praxus, locked in a stalemate is razed not long afterwards. Exodus Many dangerous weapons, such as the Cybonic plague, are developed by the Decepticon Biological Warfare Program. Sick Mind The young Autobot Smokescreen enters the boot camp of the Elite Guard with hopes of becoming a full-fledged soldier.New Recruit

As the war continues, the Autobots are gradually outnumbered and outgunned, and in an act of desperation they are forced to launch the AllSpark, denying the Decepticons of a method to generate more Transformers. Exodus The data cylinders are ejected from Cybertron to prevent Decepticons from using the vital knowledge within. T.M.I. Armed with a hazy knowledge of the future from the Covenant of Primus that Optimus Prime would eventually end up on Earth, Alpha Trion launches Cybertronian relics located with in the Iacon Hall of Records to Earth, not to keep them from Megatron, but to ensure that Optimus would eventually find them. Alpha/Omega

Seeking a new edge in the war, Megatron storms Trypticon Station and wrests control of it from Starscream, empowering himself and other Decepticons with the Dark Energon stored there. As part of their next strike, the Decepticon-allied Seekers travel deep underneath Cybertron in search of the long-abandoned Geosynchronous Energon Bridge beneath the ruins of Crystal City, which will allow the manufacture of new Dark Energon for the Decepticons' use.

Megatron leads a group of Decepticons into Iacon, to find a means of travelling to the very core of Cybertron to spread the Dark Energon. Though Sentinel Prime attempts to stand in his way, he is soon defeated by the vengeful Decepticon—but unbeknownst to Megatron, Omega Supreme is reactivated due to these events, and is intent on stopping the Decepticons. The Decepticon forces manage to cripple the Guardian's alternate mode, and Megatron and his troops soon defeat him on ground level. Because of this, the Decepticon leader manages to reach Cybertron's core and corrupt it with Dark Energon—a critical blow against the Autobots. Exodus War For Cybertron

The Autobots, however, are not yet defeated, and muster a counter-attack to rout the remaining Decepticons from Iacon. Sentinel, now imprisoned in Kaon, is able to send a transmission, and a small group of Autobots, lead by Optimus, soon launch an incursion into the prison to recover him. However, the former Prime perishes just as he's been rescued. The Autobots return the body to Iacon, and Optimus officially comes to accept that he is a Prime and must take up his role as leader. From then on, he fully becomes known as Optimus Prime, the last of the Primes. Optimus' first task as true Prime is to cleanse the infected core. Heading down through Cybertron's inner layers, Optimus finds much of the planet to have been thoroughly infected. The core tells Prime that Cybertron is so greatly corrupted that it will take millions of years of shutdown in order to undo the grievous damage done by Megatron's Dark Energon. Optimus is given the Matrix of Leadership by the Core, a fragment of Prima's powerful sword that contains a portion of Cybertron's spark. Exodus War For Cybertron

Great Exodus

As soon as Prime reaches the surface, he orders that an exodus from Cybertron will take place immediately. Preparations are made to flee the planet, but many ships are shot down by the Trypticon Station before they can make good their escape. Trypticon itself comes to life, thanks to multiple sparks implanted by Shockwave, and Optimus Prime leads his forces in a battle to knock it out of orbit. The ensuing battle results in Trypticon hurtling towards Cybertron's surface. However, Trypticon is not killed, and it transforms into its robot form. After another battle with it, Optimus and his forces regroup at the site of the Ark, the Autobots' last hope. Exodus War For Cybertron

The civil war on Cybertron is won by the Decepticons, but remaining Autobots work to scavenge materials and Energon for the Ark to make their escape.

The powerful warrior Grimlock and his crack squadron of warriors disobey Prime's orders and hijack an Autobot dropship to find fellow Coalition member Swoop, who has been taken captive by Shockwave in the Sea of Rust. However, all five Autobots are overwhelmed by Shockwave's Insecticons and taken captive. Inspired by alien lifeforms he has viewed with ancient Space Bridge technology, he rebuilds them into powerful berserkers with saurian beast modes, creating the Dinobots. Transformers Hall of Fame Fall of Cybertron Fall of Cybertron

With Grimlock missing in action, Optimus leads his warriors to buy time for the Autobots to shut down Iacon and launch the Ark. Optimus discovers the existence of Metroplex, an enormous Autobot incorporated into Iacon's structure who has lain dormant for millions of years. Optimus and Metroplex team up to help fight the Decepticons, and despite suffering numerous injuries Metroplex manages to deal a lethal blow to Megatron, greviously injuring him. However, the attack depletes all of the Autobot's remaining supplies of energon. Starscream takes advantage of the situation and pronounces himself leader of the Decepticons.

Jazz and Cliffjumper go searching for Grimlock and his forces in the Sea of Rust, where they discover Sludge's body in stasis lock and a massive pool of uncorrupted Energon. However, on Starscream's orders, the Combaticons intercept the ship and manage to destroy half of the Energon aboard.

Meanwhile, Soundwave has recovered Megatron's remains, and rebuilds his body, using an infusion of Dark Energon to revive him. Megatron confronts Starscream and reassumes control of the Decepticons. Megatron then seeks out Trypticon's remains so that he can recover its power core from the Autobots. In Shockwave's lab, Starscream discovers Grimlock, who he attempts to recruit to his cause. Grimlock throws Starscream into the wall and escapes. Grimlock travels underneath Cybertron as he searches for the rest of the Dinobots. Grimlock eventually confronts Shockwave and destroys his space bridge, sending them both to places unknown.

Metroplex sacrifies his life to ensure that the Ark can launch, and the Autobots escape aboard the Ark. They are pursued, however, by Megatron aboard Trypticon, which has become a spacecraft. The two vehicles skirmish as they race for Cybertron's final working space bridge, which explodes, scattering the two vessels across the universe. Exodus Fall of Cybertron

After the Great Exodus

As Cybertron begins to shut down, the Wreckers continue to fight against forces commanded by Shockwave for control of the dying planet. Far out in space, Prime and his crew are guided by the Matrix to Velocitron, which is now teetering on the brink of civil war. However, Makeshift, having infiltrated the crew, manages to provoke enough civil unrest among the Velocitronians that Ransack and his group of political malcontents attack Override, sparking civil war. The Autobots manage to escape through a space bridge, Optimus having recovered two pieces of the Blades of Time on Velocitron's surface, though he mistakenly believes they are pieces of the Star Saber. The Autobots next travel to Junkion, where they befriend the native Junkions and begin repairs on the Ark. However, Makeshift once again sabotages the repair effort, but is caught. Exiles

Meanwhile, Alpha Trion is put under house arrest by Shockwave, but manages to send the Autobot Chaindrive to Optimus with another piece of the Blades of Time.Exiles Smokescreen, having ended up on security detail for Alpha Trion, is taken by Decepticon forces during their attacking the Hall of Records. New Recruit

The Nemesis, following the trail of the Ark, lands on Velocitron and later Junkion. Axer, an ex-Decepticon, recovers the Requiem Blaster from the core of Junkion, causing the demi-planet to tear apart. Prime, meanwhile, manages to contact Vector Prime in his pocket dimension, who also helps to reunite five bots the Autobots have met (Chaindrive among them) into Nexus Prime. A climatic battle takes place on Junkion, with the Autobots triumphant and the Blaster destroyed. However, the Junkions themselves are enslaved by space-pirate expatriate Transformers called the Star Seekers and taken to places unknown. Exiles

As Cybertron's conditions steadily deteriorate, it is abandoned by the remaining Autobots, Decepticons and neutral Cybertronians. The war spreads to other worlds, including Earth, which is seeded with energon and becomes the site of multiple large battles. During this period, Skyquake is dispatched to Earth to guard its energon resources. However, most of the Cybertronians there eventually leave or enter stasis lock, leaving Earth abandoned... for the time being.

Modern Era

1649

A North American island off the coast of Maine is founded by a group of settlers, led by Horace Burns, from the mainland. The island becomes the town of Griffin Rock, and a lighthouse with a bell is erected in the town's port.The Reign of MoroccoThe Lost Bell

1800s

In 1812, Griffin Rock is raided and looted by the pirates of the Oaken Crow. The pirates set the town ablaze and make off with their booty, including the Settlers' Bell. Their ship gets caught in a storm and becomes trapped within a cave on an unknown island.The Lost Bell

At some point, Thaddeus Morocco is born, who would go on to make a career in science by stealing the works of others, including a rejuvenation chamber that would extend his life artificially with each use. It's a Bot Time

1939

The World's Fair takes place, which features the artificial volcano Mount Magma. Afterward, the volcano is relocated to Griffin Rock.Under Pressure

The Griffin Rock Technology Expo also occurs, during which Griffin Rock scientists attempt to create a time machine, but are incapable of powering it up.It's a Bot Time

On August 17, the day after the Temporal Station's decommissioning, a group of time-displaced individuals consisting of four Rescue Bot Autobots, the human children Cody Burns and Frankie Greene, and the Helper Bot Dither, accidentally travels through the time machine from the future. They are discovered by Dr. Thaddeus Morocco, who takes interest in the robots and begins to study them. The two kids are sent away, but escape and, along with Dither, recover the Autobots in Morocco's captivity. A surprise intervention by Optimus Prime and Bumblebee, who subsequently followed the Rescue Bots through the time machine to help them, along with some assistance from Elma Hendrickson, gives all of the time-travelers the chance to escape back to the future. However, a damaged Dither is accidentally left behind, and comes into Morocco's possession. It's a Bot Time

It is from here that the timeline is split in two, as the time travel incident creates an alternate timeline (see below), but then erases it and has history put back on its corrected course.

Morocco starts to open up Dither to begin studying him, but the previous group of time travelers returns once again to retrieve their forgotten robot before returning back to their own time, leaving Morocco unable to study the future technology. Bot to the Future

1940s

Around the late 1940s, the Cold War likely begins, in which a missile silo is constructed inside a mountain in Jasper, Nevada, and a bunker is built under Griffin Rock. Both locations would eventually become occupied by the Autobots in the present day.Darkness Rising Family of Heroes

In 1949, Griffin Rock celebrates its tricentennial, which features holograms of some of its most prominent citizens, including its first female scientist Elma Hendrickson, on display in historical exhibits. The Haunting of Griffin Rock

1950s

Griffin Rock scientists experiment with subspace technology as part of the Sanctuary Plan, in which the insect-like tracers would transport the island's entire populace to a safe haven during the condition of a crisis. The plan is abandoned due to instability of the shelter, with the tracers being locked away in storage.Countdown

1960s

The scientists of Griffin Rock install a magnetic pulse generator to disable all circuitry at Griffin Crest, setting it as a safe zone in case an experimental machine ever went haywire on the island.Rules and Regulations

28 years ago

Professor Anna Baranova begins an investigation of the Griffin Rock Triangle with Project Midgard. Her mobile undersea laboratory, the Midgard, fails in its mission and is rendered permanently submerged.The Griffin Rock Triangle

Present day

At some earlier point, Dr. Morocco, who had become Griffin Rock's lead scientist, is dismissed from his position due to his technology proving dangerous and inferior. He is replaced by Doc Greene.The Other DoctorThe Reign of Morocco

A small group of Autobots and Decepticons return to Earth, unaware of its true nature. The Decepticons begin mining the energon deposits left there with the intention of using it to restore Cybertron. Starscream is tasked by Megatron with recreating space bridge technology, so that the energon can be quickly transferred between planets. After scouring the galaxy on this mission, the Air Commander returns to their home planet with a number of troops to construct a space bridge. Prime Optimus Prime's small team of Autobots—Bulkhead, Ratchet, and Bumblebee—secretly ally themselves with the United States government. They are assigned William Fowler as their liaison, and provided with an abandoned missile silo as a base in exchange for keeping the Decepticon threat contained. A great deal of Cybertronian technology is installed there, including a GroundBridge of Ratchet's design. Darkness Rising, Part 1

Optimus Prime sends a message into space, calling all Autobots to the new battleground. Arcee and Cliffjumper are both investigating the Decepticon activity on the desolate Cybertron when they receive the message. They hijack a Decepticon space bridge to travel to Earth. Out of the Past Prime comic The Air Commander follows them through, but, after a brief confrontation, the two Autobots are able to join up with Team Prime and scan new terrestrial alternate modes. Prime comic Subsequently, Megatron leaves Earth with the intention of gathering a new army. The Decepticons under Starscream avoid conflict with the Autobots, and continue to secretly mine the planet's energon, along with constructing a new space bridge in orbit. Darkness Rising, Part 1 During his three year journey, meanwhile, Megatron finds a far greater prize than new troops: solidified crystals of Dark Energon. Darkness Rising, Part 2

At some unspecified time, Optimus Prime sets up a team of Rescue Bots on Griffin Rock, in which they live with a local family to better understand humanity and serve as their protectors. Family of Heroes

On Earth, hostilities between the Autobots and Decepticons resurface when Cliffjumper is executed by Starscream; later, he is reanimated by Megatron with the power of Dark Energon. Darkness Rising, Part 1 Darkness Rising, Part 2 A series of accidents draws three humans—Jack Darby, Raf Esquivel, and Miko Nakadai—into the mayhem. Megatron's plan is to reanimate the thousands of dead Transformers on Cybertron and transport them to Earth via the orbital space bridge, but this is ultimately foiled by the Autobots. Darkness Rising, Part 5 Megatron himself is caught in the explosion of the bridge as it is destroyed, but survives thanks to the Dark Energon in his body. Masters & Students Megatron's wounded form is discovered by Starscream after a failed attempt to bring Skyquake under his control. Starscream attempts to kill him, but Soundwave's presence compels him to put the Decepticon leader in stasis in the Nemesis's sick bay instead. Masters & Students Wheeljack, now an interstellar nomad, briefly arrives on Earth, but after a run-in with Makeshift, he leaves. Con Job

An encounter with the mysterious human terrorist organization MECH introduces a second antagonistic party for the Autobots. Convoy Knock Out and his partner Breakdown arrive on Earth to aid with Megatron's repairs. Deus ex Machina Airachnid, too, lands on Earth to rekindle her standing grudge against Arcee and collect some "specimens", but she is stranded on Earth when her ship is destroyed by Jack and Arcee. Predatory

Events come to a head when Optimus Prime and Ratchet detect an ancient Autobot distress signal, and come across an abandoned Autobot ship infected with cybonic plague. Optimus is contaminated, and so to find a cure for the sickness Bumblebee and Arcee are forced to infiltrate the Nemesis and enter Megatron's mind. Sick Mind However, Megatron manages to download himself into Bumblebee's consciousness, and by taking control of the Autobot's body he restores his original body with Dark Energon and uploads his mind into it, restoring himself to life. Out of His Head Megatron grievously wounds Starscream sometime after this as punishment, but Starscream makes another play for power by reanimating Skyquake's corpse, which ends in failure. Shadowzone

MECH enters the picture again, first capturing and mutilating Breakdown Operation: Breakdown and later teaming up with Airachnid to lure Arcee into a trap. Crisscross Both of these end in failure for MECH.

After Megatron and Starscream are trapped in the energon mine due to the actions of the Autobots Rock Bottom, Starscream renounces Megatron's command and tries to join the Autobots, but this ends in failure when Starscream lets slip that he killed Cliffjumper. Partners. Starscream becomes an independent faction in the war. Ratchet manages to devise a formula for synthetic energon from a retrieved data cylinder, but it ends in failure T.M.I. Stronger, Faster.

Megatron seeks more power from the Dark Energon, and refers to an ancient prophecy in the Covenant of Primus that a "rising darkness" will come when the planets in the Solar System align. In reality, the "rising darkness" is Unicron's slumbering form, and the alignment of the planets will create the correct gravitational pull sufficient to awaken him. One Shall Fall. As Unicron gradually awakens, the Dark Energon rising from his body causes several natural disasters to occur across the world. Optimus Prime confronts an avatar of Unicron head on, but diplomacy ends in failure when the chaos bringer decides to wipe out the many "parasites" on his surface. One Shall Rise, Part 1 After another battle with Unicron, Megatron and the Autobots make a truce, as the Dark Energon in Megatron's system allows him to locate Unicron's spark core and provide the Autobots with a way to destroy him. One Shall Rise, Part 2 After the five Transformers bridge their way into Unicron, Megatron and Prime attempt to destroy Unicron's spark core with the Matrix of Leadership. The plan works- but Optimus loses many of his memories, believing that he is Orion Pax once again and that Megatron is his friend. Megatron takes him on board the Nemesis. One Shall Rise, Part 3

Megatron decides to use the fact that Orion Pax lost his memory to the Decepticon's advantage, and lies to Orion Pax about certain facts. He tells Orion that he was taken captive by the Autobots and kept in stasis long enough for the war to have moved to another planet. He then shows Orion a picture of a lifeless Cybertron, and informs him that Ratchet is responsible for the damage. Orion Pax vows to do his part to help the Decepticons, by completing Project Iacon. Orion Pax, Part 1 Soon however, Orion Pax starts to see through Megatron's lies. Orion Pax, Part 2

Eventually, with the help of Starscream, Orion Pax rebels against Megatron before completing Project Iacon. Using Vector Sigma, Jack Darby is able to restore Prime's memory. Orion Pax, Part 3

Soon, Team Prime is back to business. When Bumblebee is investigating an ancient Autobot signal, MECH stuns him into temporary stasis, and removes his T-cog. They use it to try to craft their own transformer, and seem to be making progress with help. Bumblebee starts to question his usefulness, as he has lost his speed, which is his primary attribute. Operation Bumblebee, Part 1

Megatron, still working with the information from Project Iacon, manages to find the Forge of Solus Prime. He sends Knockout to recover it, and with a fight, manages to accomplish his mission. However, Ratchet is able to restore Bumblebee's T-cog. Operation Bumblebee, Part 2

Wheeljack returns to Earth, in pursuit of Skyquake's twin, Dreadwing. After an intense fight between Bulkhead, Optimus Prime, Wheeljack, and Dreadwing, Wheeljack finally gets an Earth mode, and Dreadwing pledges his allegiance to Megatron. Loose Cannons

Airachnid's earlier remarks about leaving Megatron finally catch up to her, and she goes rogue. Megatron sends Dreadwing to exterminate her, something that Megatron would normally do himself. Dreadwing meets up with Airachnid and Breakdown to investigate a suspected energon deposit. Airachnid succeeds in making Breakdown very angry, and the two go at it. Airachnid cuts up Breakdown, and leaves his remains for MECH.

Airachnid finally goes for Megatron, and issues him a challenge. He accepts, and forbids Dreadwing to follow him. However, Dreadwing disobeys, and gets caught in the middle of the fight, and suddenly the Autobots appear. Prime, as always, does the honorable thing and lets Dreadwing go in return for his word that he would not kill any of the Autobots. Megatron, however, disagreed, and fires at the Autobots. Later, Megatron remarks that Dreadwing will make a fine first lieutenant. Crossfire

Punk ass Decepticon! Oh, wait...

After Optimus Prime seemingly tries to run Agent Fowler off the road and attacks a military base, the US military gives orders to fire at any bot on sight. However, Team Prime finds out that MECH has succeeded with Project Chimera, and that the bot that attacked the base was actually designed and built by MECH. Miko names this bot Nemesis Prime. Optimus Prime and Nemesis Prime have a climatic battle on top of MECH's base of operations, and Nemesis falls on top of Silas, seemingly killing him. However, in an undisclosed location, Silas lays on an operating table, with Breakdown's corpse seemingly ready to transplant. Nemesis Prime

Agent Fowler is called into General Bryce's office to explain recent events. Bryce tells Fowler that people higher up on the chain of command are questioning Team Prime's loyalty. Some are suggesting Team Prime's termination and a military tribunal for Fowler, who assures General Bryce that Prime, and the rest of the Autobots, are completely and totally loyal to the United States, and to humanity. Grill

Dual plots against Megatron's life, one orchestrated by Airachnid and her Insecticons and the other by Starscream and an army of clones, are hatched while Bulkhead found himself aboard the Nemesis. The clones are destroyed, Arachnid is apprehended by the Autobots, the surviving Insecticons are integrated into Megatron's forces, and Bulkhead busts the ship's power core on his way out. Armada After Megatron infused the Nemesis with dark energon in an attempt to repair it, the ship became sentient and put all the Decepticons on board into stasis. The ship started to head toward the first set of new Iacon coordinates that it had decoded. Jack, Miko, Raf, and Fowler bridge aboard the ship and download the coordinates. In the process, Jack undoes the dark energon infusion, returning the ship to it's normal state. Flying Mind

Team Prime splits up, and Arcee, Bumblebee, Jack, and Miko travel to New York City to search for the first of the new Iacon relics. The new relic turns out to be a phase shifter. The Autobots are successful in recovering the device. Tunnel Vision Meanwhile, in the Antarctic, Optimus Prime goes hunting for the second relic. It turns out to be the Apex Armor built by Solus Prime. After Starscream takes the relic for his own, Optimus and Dreadwing form a brief alliance, and force Starscream below the ice. Triangulation Wheeljack and Ratchet travel to search for the third relic, which turns out to be a resonance blaster. Soundwave manages to recover the relic, Ratchet returns to base, and Wheeljack sets about repairing the Jackhammer. Triage Bulkhead sets out to locate and retrieve the final relic. It turns out to be Tox-En, a toxic form of energon. Bulkhead fights with the Insecticon named Hardshell. Though Bulkhead is initially victorious, Hardshell shoots him in the back just as he heads through the GroundBridge. Toxicity

As Ratchet tries to stabilize Bulkhead, Wheeljack arrives to base, having been alerted by Arcee to what had transpired. In the Jackhammer, he goes looking for whoever injured Bulkhead. As normal, Miko secretly tags along. After reaching an understanding, Miko and Wheeljack go looking for Hardshell, destroying an energon mine in the process. After an intense fight with Hardshell, Wheeljack emerges victorious. However, the rest of the Insecticon hive pursues him and Miko as they take off in the Jackhammer. Wheeljack uses a portion of his stash of grenades to dispatch them. However, the happiness doesn't last, as Ratchet reports that Bulkhead will survive, but will not likely be fully functional again. Wheeljack leaves again, stating that he is unable to see Bulkhead like this. Hurt Arcee comforts Miko by telling her the story of how she and Cliffjumper became partners and joined Team Prime. Out of the Past

A Decepticon escape pod is discovered on Earth at the same time as Red Energon, a rare and volatile type of energon that gives the user hyperspeed. The escape pod turns out to belong to Smokescreen, a former member of the Cybertron Elite Guard. Although he appears to be another hotshot, he proves himself by retrieving the Apex Armor from Starscream, who manages to make off with the Red Energon. New Recruit

MECH reawakens their leader, Silas, by integrating his body into Breakdown's corpse. Calling himself Cylas, he dispatches the MECH technical team and goes to Megatron with a new weapon: the Project Damocles satellite. Megatron tries to utilize the Damocles satellite, but is foiled by the hacking efforts of Raf. Angered with the satellite's failure, Megatron allows Knock Out to dissect Cylas. The Human Factor

Voldemort is evil, Prime. Stop trying to be him. Unless...

The Autobots and Decepticons both find the location of the Star Saber. Smokescreen is forced to try and retrieve it for the Autobots, while Megatron has an entire army of workers trying to get at it. However it takes the power of a Prime for the sword to finally come free from the rock that encases it. After almost crashing the Nemesis with the sword, Optimus and the Autobots emerge victorious. Legacy

Optimus Prime receives a prerecorded message from Alpha Trion telling him to locate the four Omega Keys. Megatron uses a space bridge to travel to Cybertron to retrieve the arm of a Prime. He attaches it to his body and uses his new limb to craft the Dark Star Saber from the Forge of Solus Prime. The Dark Star Saber breaks the Star Saber in half, but the Autobots come away with the first Omega Key. Alpha/Omega

Optimus dispatches Arcee and Bumblebee to go after the second relic, and Smokescreen and Bulkhead to go after the third. Knock Out wins over the second relic for the Decepticons, while Starscream beats out Bulkhead, Smokescreen, and Dreadwing to get the third. Smokescreen is captured by the Decepticons when he is revealed to be the fourth and final key. Hard Knocks

Ok, so I'm not the only one who thinks this sounds like a lightsaber, right? Hello? Hm, guess I am...

Knock Out uses Smokescreen's phase shifter to remove the final Omega Key from within his body. However, Smokescreen manages to escape with the two Omega Keys that were in Megatron's possession, leaving the fourth one with Starscream. But, the latter manages to invade the Autobot base and steal all three of theirs, acquiring all four. He then goes to Megatron on the Nemesis with the Omega Keys as bargaining chips. Inside Job

Megatron uses a cortical psychic patch on Starscream in order to find out his true motives for coming back to Megatron. However, he decides that Starscream is of more value fighting with Megatron, not against him, and welcomes him back to the Decepticons. While viewing the results of the patch, Dreadwing learns of his twin's fate in the Shadowzone. Patch

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Infuriated at the Decepticons treatment over Skyquake, Dreadwing presents the Forge of Solus Prime to the Autobots. After traveling back to the Nemesis, he attempts to kill Starscream, but Megatron strikes him down before he gets the chance. The Autobots take all the relics they have gathered to Cybertron, and retrieve the Omega Keys, and reach the Omega Lock. However, Megatron reveals that the humans have been captured by the Decepticons. Regeneration

Alternate timeline

The events of this timeline diverge from the main timeline at 1939 of the Modern Era, in which a great time travel incident both created and subsequently erased this new timeline. As the exact extent of all that was changed beyond the borders of Griffin Rock is not known, this section will only cover the known divergences.

1939

The Griffin Rock Technology Expo occurs, during which Griffin Rock scientists attempt to create a time machine, but are incapable of powering it up.It's a Bot Time

On August 17, the day after the Temporal Station's decommissioning, a group of time-displaced individuals consisting of four Rescue Bot Autobots, the human children Cody Burns and Frankie Greene, and the Helper Bot Dither, accidentally travels through the time machine from the future. They are discovered by Dr. Morocco, who takes interest in the robots and begins to study them. The two kids are sent away, but escape and, along with Dither, recover the Autobots in Morocco's captivity. A surprise intervention by Optimus Prime and Bumblebee, who subsequently followed the Rescue Bots through the time machine to help them, along with some assistance from Elma Hendrickson, gives all of the time-travelers the chance to escape back to the future. However, a damaged Dither is accidentally left behind, and comes into Morocco's possession. It's a Bot Time

Studying Dither's future technology, Morocco falsely takes credit as the robot's inventor, redubbing it the MorBot 1.1. From this robot, Morocco gains great fame and power with the promise of technological prosperity for Griffin Rock. Bot to the Future

Present day

Morocco, having come to gain power over Griffin Rock, rules the now-dystopian island of "Moropolis" with an army of transformable MorBot mechanoids.It's a Bot Time Bot to the Future The Burns family are a family of mechanics, with Charlie Burns being a janitor at the Hall of Inspiration, while all secretly heading a resistance movement against Morocco. Huxley Prescott is a taxi driver, Mr. Luskey owns a restaurant, no Cody Burns exists in this timeline, and no "Doc Greene" lives on the island. Bot to the Future

When the group of time-traveling Autobots and humans return from 1939 to the present, they find themselves in this timeline. The team splits up as Optimus and Bumblebee fend off the MorBots while the others seek answers. Learning of the altered history from the Hall of Inspiration, the group meets this timeline's Charlie Burns, who is suspicious of them at first, but eventually comes to aid them. The team accompanies Charlie back to his home, but Morocco has caught wind of their arrival. The Burns siblings are also initially skeptical of the newcomers, but agree to help once their home is attacked. As Morocco is about to destroy the fire house, the Burns family unveil its new secret weapon: The Mobile Headquarters. After a great battle, all six Autobots and the Burns family arrive at the Temporal Station. The departing time travelers are given the MHQ as a parting gift and vanish through the portal back to 1939, just as Morocco arrives and crashes his MorBot.Bot to the Future

From here, the team retrieves Dither from 1939 and returns to the present in their corrected timeline, thus erasing this timeline from existence.