Operation: Distant Thunder

Operation: distant thunder was an operation settled in the Dinobot's island to restore the timeline, which had been altered by Ravage, by sending a drone to the space with instruction's data to alert the Autobots. Tough successful, it would have destroyed the sender's dimension if not for the intervention of a strange visitor coming from a mysterious time warp. he therefore established the Binaltech universe as a distinct dimension.

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