Book of Logos

	"The Predacon Manifesto"
Publisher	Transformers Collectors' Club (online exclusive)
First published	December 27, 2016
By	Jim Sorenson and David Bishop
Continuity	Beast Wars: Uprising

It's the end of the world as Logos knows it.

Synopsis

This story was released within "Derailment", in Cybertronix sprinkled through the story at each page break.

If Chapter 9 is talking about Optimus (and sacrificing his life sure sounds like him), then it does explain how Optimus died after coming back as a Triple-Threat Master. And Deluge did mention that the Swarm had shown up during The Inexorable March. It just seems the major difference here is that the Swarm didn't (or couldn't) revive him. It also handily explains a long unanswered question as to just where the Matrix had gotten to, it having been entirely absent and unmentioned from the Uprising verse until now: the Swarm ate it.
Also, Optimus sacrificed his second life to save Earth from the Swarm, making mankind look like even bigger jerks than they already did. Talk about ungrateful.
Chapter 10, verse 3 is quoted during Derailment itself, and reproduced here.
Chapter 10 verse 4, with its talk of the "oceans of Andromeda" and "the white bands of stars like milk", sure sounds a lot like the Ammonite / Cybertron war mentioned in passing at the end of The Inexorable March.
Chapter 10 verse 6 and onward is talking about Thunderwing's messing about with the Underbase (the database of databases), with mention of the "head of evil" (the Grand Mal - Mal meaning "bad" in Latin) and the beasts "arising" from the aftermath. In Derailment, Overshoot and Stiletto noted that the mechanimals returned to Cybertron after Thunderwing's little rampage.

"Logos" is probably Logos Prime, who ran into the Beast Wars Megatron and Optimus in Beast Wars Reborn.
Logos sees seven Primes, much as Revenge of the Fallen had only seven original Primes instead of the more standard thirteen.
The book refers to the colonies of Chela, Navitas, Prion, Carcer, Vigilem, Tempo, and Caminus, all lost Titans who founded colonies in the IDW series.
Logos foresees seven Golden Disks. Translating the purple prose, one is the Sounds of Earth launched on Voyager and the great time-spanning war it foretells is the Great War that will reach Earth in 1984.
The dread figure he foresees is Beast Wars Megatron (who "took the name of the fallen devil of yore", meaning the original Megs but Logos mistakes this for Megatronus). Megatron as a prophesised terror was done in "Nemesis Part 2", where it turns out there's a mythical Megatron in the Covenant of Primus and that myth turns out to be himself.
Chapter 9 is one big reference to the events of the Generation 2 comic, with the Hub, and the Cybertronian Empire reproducing so much they diluted what little of Primus' essence was in them, and Optimus sacrificing his life to stop the Swarm eating Earth.
Logos states the Liege Maximo (or whoever was sitting at the center of the Hub) was waiting for the "Alignment".
Chapter 10, verse 11 says of the Oracle, that before Cybertron was it was, just as Vector Sigma did allll the way back in The Key to Vector Sigma, Part 1.

The Book of Logos uses a lot of text from the Bible's Book of Revelation, with some words altered: "the seven colonies which strewn through the stars", for example, is the Transformer equivalent of John writing to the "seven churches in the province of Asia"; the phrase "I am the Alpha and Omega" becomes "Alpha and Omega Trion", the alleged first and last of the species; the seven seals are seven Golden Disks; Megatron replaces Jesus Christ in a vision that strikes Logos dead; rather than the Throne of Heaven, he sees the Builders Assembly symbolically oppressing the proto-races.