Mission of Cybertronian Expansion
- The Mission of Cybertronian Expansion was a project from the Generation 1 continuity family.
The Mission of Cybertronian Expansion was a voyage undertaken by the crew of the ship Proudstar. Its purpose was to spread Cybertron's reach beyond its planetary boundaries and ensure its people would thrive for years to come.
Games
Transformers: Devastation
During Cybertron's Golden Age, a group of Autobots and Decepticons alike were recruited to serve aboard the Proudstar, an advanced Cybertronian vessel. These included Nova Prime, the ship's captain and leader of the expedition, scientist Jhiaxus, and crewmember Kranix, among others. Their objective was twofold: the first was to preserve a record of Cybertronian history and culture, with the entirety of the Colonnade of Cybertron being stored on the ship's supercomputer, the Ferrotaxis. The second was to use a swarm of Insecticons, controlled by the Ferrotaxis and powered by plasma energy from the ship's Plasma Core, to cyberform any uninhabited planets they might find on their journey, making them hospitable for technologically-based life forms and allowing them to become new Cybertronian colonies. The crew of the Proudstar was eager for the opportunity, thanks in no small part to the pride and enthusiasm of Nova Prime, who truly believed in the mission and in sharing what Cybertron had to offer with the rest of the universe.
For several millennia, their journey continued unabated, seeding many worlds such as Lithone to become new homes for Cybertron's people. Eventually, they stopped for supplies on a strange uninhabited planet they found to be much like Cybertron, already capable of supporting Cybertronian life. While gathering their supplies, they felt as though some unknown entity were watching them the whole time. Only two cycles after they had left the planet, the crew started to become more aggressive and exhibit darker urges. Nova Prime become more egotistical, driven less by righteousness and more by a need to prove himself right. Jhiaxus developed paranoia, convinced something was forcing its will onto all their sparks, and began forcing other members of the crew to be test subjects for his experiments.
The millennia of searching for planets both uninhabited and with enough base material for cyberforming wore on everyone, and they began to turn on one another. In time, they became so maddened in their quest to spread Cybertron to the rest of the galaxy that they began to cyberform inhabited worlds, wiping out the native life forms to make way for their own. The guilt weighed heavily on Kranix, their noble mission having been corrupted into a twisted shell of its former self. Disgusted by what the crew had become, he decided to stop them before they could destroy any more inhabited worlds, sabotaging the Proudstar's navigation to drive the ship into the nearest planet's surface the next time the Ferrotaxis's cyberforming protocols were initiated. Kranix finished setting his trap just as the ship approached another populated world, one he considered ill-suited to cyberforming due to the presence of many materials difficult to convert, such as rock and water. As disgusted as he was by the native life, he believed it nonetheless didn't deserve extinction. As the crew began to initiate the cyberforming controls, Kranix prepared to escape, planning to return to a now-developed Lithone, the last place he remembered them all feeling happy and proud in their purpose.
As Kranix had planned, the ship crashed into Earth's surface, forcing its crew and the onboard Insecticons into stasis. Lying dormant beneath the surface, it would not be found again until millions of years later when the ship's systems were involuntarily reactivated, leading to its rediscovery by the Autobots and Decepticons of the present day. Devastation
