Builder of Cybertron

The Builders of Cybertron are a group from the Beast Wars: Uprising portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.

The Builders of Cybertron are venerated as the founders and honored elders of Cybertronian society. Too bad they completely don't deserve any of that.

Fiction

Beast Wars: Uprising

At the end of the Great War, the Autobots and Decepticons, isolated on their homeworld by the more powerful Human Confederacy, were too decrepit to continue fighting yet too embroiled in old grudges to simply let it go. When Cerebros bargained with the humans for the energon matrix, hoping to give his dying race a future, he created the Maximals and the Predacons as their successors in the hope it would lead to peace. Instead, the Autobots and Decepticons saw this as a way to continue the war! Very soon though, this changed from warfare into ritualized gladiatorial Games that their successors were forced to fight in. Broken Windshields Head Games

Renaming themselves the Builders of Cybertron, they created the Builder Assembly as a new legislature to rule Cybertron. They secretly rigged the Games so that they could have endless amusement. When the Builders had enough sparks for gladiators, they hid the matrix inside a Maximal, Lio Convoy, and they employed him as a match-fixer, the "Guardian of Order". Cybertronian society would live forever with the Builders at the top. Broken Windshields In their old cities like Tarn, the Builders could be seen as part of the architecture, wired into place like gargoyle. Head Games

Cerebros decided this was a fine outcome as it ensured that the Transformers could never leave their world and would no more spread themselves and their conflicts on alien worlds, as happened on Nebulos. Head Games

This system would have continued indefinitely if not for Lio Convoy encountering the dissident Blackarachnia, who opened his eyes to the injustice of the caste-based society of Cybertron, where any Maximal or Predacon could be summoned to die in a Game or have rations cut for minor infractions of ridiculous laws. Thus, Lio Convoy sneaked a team of rebels into the 1924th Games at the Dodecahex Arena. While Blackarachnia's team seized control of Override's broadcasting equipment, Lio Convoy assassinated Supersonic, securing the attention of Cybertron. He publicly exposed the Builders' moral corruption, deeming them unworthy of ruling Cybertron and calling for a war for freedom. Thus, the Fourth Cybertronian War, the Grand Uprising, began. Broken Windshields The Builders called for all loyal Transformers to fight against the 'terrorists' led by Lio Convoy. Head Games