Pax Cybertronia

This article is about the peace accord. For the final issue of IDW's The Transformers, see Pax Cybertronia (issue).

The Pax Cybertronia (lit. "Peace on Cybertron") was the unilateral peace accord signed after the Autobots defeated the Decepticons in the Great War. Little is known about how it came into existence.

Accords of surrender

When the Decepticons surrendered at the end of the Great War terms were drawn up to keep the peace until a formal treaty could be written. Any Autobots or Decepticons acting outside of this agreement are fair targets for military action.

Under the accords the Predacon Alliance was subject to strict economic sanctions and the production of Predacon protoforms slowed to a bare trickle and the Tripredacus Council feared any overt confrontation with the Maximals could doom their entire race to extinction. During this period the Council began aggressively undermining the actions of Predacon rebels, hoping to shield them from destruction by the Maximal Imperium so they might live to fight another day. This, combined with the original surrender permanently soured the Council's reputation among their fellow Predacons, leading many to consider them self-interested opportunists and traitors to the Predacon cause.

The accords were in effect for 50 stellar cycles before they were succeeded by the Pax Cybertronia itself. The Razor's Edge

Fiction

Beast Wars cartoon

According to the known terms, it places the Decepticons and their descendants the new Predacons at a great disadvantage with the Autobots and Maximals firmly in control. It kept the peace on Cybertron while keeping much information away from the Transformers about their ancestors.

Leading up to the Beast Era, powerful factions within the Predacon Alliance such as the Tripredacus Council continued to build up their resources under the restrictions placed on them by the Pax Cybertronia before a new campaign of conquest. This is a major point of contention between the leadership of the Alliance and numerous rogue sub-factions that would prefer action immediately.

When arresting Predacon rebels, Tripredacus agents invoke the Pax Cybertronia. The Agenda (Part 1)

IDW Generation 1 continuity

"Pax Cybertronia" was the general concept of Cybertronian hegemony. After masterminding the formation of the Thirteen, the time-travelling Shockwave encouraged Prima to spread Pax Cybertronia across the galaxy. The results of the off-world expedition resulted in Cybertron going to war with another planet, with the latter populace being rendered extinct, and eventually the First Cybertronian Civil War. The First Who Was Named As the war wound down, thirteen Titans departed their homeworld to colonize distant planets as a way of bringing about Pax Cybertronia. First Contact Aphelion White Heat

When Cybertron was reborn in the aftermath of the Chaos Event, Ironhide and Jhiaxus had a vision of a future in which the Autobots had brought peace to the universe. Pax Cybertronia Jhiaxus referred to this peace as Pax Cybertronia and saw it as the realization of the all-encompassing Cybertronian empire Nova Prime once sought to create. Syndromica (2)

Following the formation of the Council of Worlds, Soundwave noted that Optimus Prime sought to create new colonies and expand the Pax Cybertronia. Behind My Bleeding Back

Wings Universe

The Pax Cybertronia was signed at Autobot City on Earth in 2013 C.E. between the Autobots, Decepticons, and Jhiaxus's second-generation Transformers and clones following the conclusion of the Machine Wars a week earlier. The original Predacons were not invited to the signing ceremony but would have refused as they eschewed peace and were assembling a new army. A Common Foe

Beast Wars: Uprising

The Pax Cybertronia was drafted sometime after the Builders came to power. By the late 24th century, the Targetmaster Extirpation was considered to have acted as precursor to the peace. Trigger Warnings In the 134th century, a shoddy historian believed the document had prohibited the development of Titanmaster technology and that the Solstar Order had represented the people of Earth in the negotiations. Lio Convoy: Unity Through Tyranny

See also

• Tyrest Accord

Notes

• The Pax Cybertronia appears to be based on the Pax Romana.
• The "Pax Cybertronia" is sometimes used to refer the peacetime after the Great War.
• The reluctance of the Predacons and their subservient role in the new world is also somewhat reminiscent of a post-WWI Germany which was forced to pay excessive reparations and was restricted in its weapons development or the modern Neo-Confederate movement in response to the conclusion of the American Civil War.
• Megatron's comment on the Predacons merely "biding their time", that and the covert schemes of the Tripredacus Council, shows evidence of them treating the era as a secretive undeclared cold war.
• One could infer that the Pax Cybertronia (or something very much like it) was signed in the years leading up to Regeneration One; in "Loose Ends, Part 1" we learn that Optimus Prime ordered the Wreckers not to take hostile action against Neo-Decepticon insurgents during an incident at the Pax Cybertronia Decommissioning Depot for fear of damaging the Unified Cybertron Alliance.