Simanzi Massacre

The Simanzi Massacre is a battle from the IDW portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.

The Simanzi Massacre was a watershed moment for the Cybertronian race - a titanic battle in the region known as Simanzi that raged for generations, annihilating half of the entire Cybertronian race and leaving the devastated planet Cybertron almost entirely under Decepticon control. Something called The Crucible was at the centre of it; an associated event was known as the Forced Flood. So great were the forces unleashed that the planet's southern hemisphere was superheated.

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Fiction

IDW Generation 1 continuity

The Simanzi Massacre occurred in the first cycle, 3178. As with many military campaigns, a number of Made To Order soldiers were created specifically to fight in it. Twenty Plus One

Many Autobots would gain fame for their actions. Rotorstorm's timely intervention saved Autobot 9th Battalion from annihilation, earning him the Novic Medal for Outstanding Valor. Rotorstorm's Profile Optimus Prime saved over a thousand Autobots (such as Pyro) and neutrals from falling into The Crucible. Pyro's Profile Fortress Maximus became famous for the amount of Decepticons he killed at Simanzi. Interiors

"When they told me Simanzi was a toilet, I thought it was a metaphor."

The contemporary Ultra Magnus was killed five miles from the Crucible in the first year of the conflict. He and Rotorstorm had waded through a muddy muck of some kind in an attempt evade a troop of Cybernoughts but were caught unawares. Magnus was gunned downThe Gloaming and his replacement rushed into action.

The Massacre was one of the many things the Wreckers ignored in favour of chasing Squadron X. Zero Point In response to it, the Endless Retaliation was performed.

The battle, or perhaps the Crucible, caused some kind of superheating of the planet's entire southern hemisphere, requiring some length of time to cool down. By that point, 99% of the planet was now under Decepticon control. The Becoming The Autobots responded with the Endless Retaliation Life After the Big Bang and the tide was turned, but Megatron would still consider it as the closest he'd ever come to winning. The Becoming

Long after the battle, some survivors, such as the Duobots Shock and Ore, simply noted it as one of their bigger events. The Chaos of Warm Things Others were left mentally scarred: Rotorstorm was so haunted by what he saw that he had to create a 'cover personality' to compensate and Pyro's road to primus apotheosis began at the Crucible. Rotorstorm's Profile Pyro's Profile

The Massacre was such an evil act on the behalf of the Decepticons that, years later, Rewind used it to show Tailgate the true nature of the Decepticons. Life After the Big Bang When a repentant Megatron admitted he'd seen Simanzi as a victory, Bumblebee was appalled. The Becoming