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. With Cybertron's Energon dwindling, the combatants realized that their massive guzzler bodies had become far too fuel-consumptive to allow for prolonged activity. Over the centuries, surviving Cybertronians adapted to a sedentary lifestyle. Some could move via exo-walker, but the vast majority chose to hard-wire themselves into the planet's infrastructure to conserve fuel. Broken Windshields Head Games In their old cities like Tarn, they became part of the the architecture, wired into place like gargoyles. Head Games
The smallest Autobots and Decepticons, most prominently the Micromasters and Mini-Cassettes, remained efficient enough to move around under their own power. Some Autobots and Decepticons chose to downsize into these smaller bodies, most prominently Hot Rod. Micro-Aggressions
Hoping to give his dying race a future, Cerebros bargained with the humans for the energon matrix. He first created the Maximals as successors to the Autobots, named after Fortress Maximus. Realizing that the Decepticons also deserved a future, he soon created Predacons as their successors. He hoped that these new races would lead to peace, but 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
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 Not all the Builders were happy with this outcome, however; Grimlock turned against his fellow Builders by illegally transferring his Spark into a Maximal protoform and attempting to bomb the Assembly. Micro-Aggressions
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
