Pax Cybertronia

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

Your utopian vision of the future may vary.

The Pax Cybertronia (lit. "Peace on Cybertron") can be thought of as the ultimate goal of Transformer civilization: permanently ensuring the stability of Cybertron, ending the myriad wars that have plagued the Transformer homeworld, and ushering in an era of harmony, enlightenment, and prosperity for all Cybertronians,

Across the multiverse, many Transformers have worked to bring about this utopian state, but their methods of doing so have varied wildly: most fail to bring about everlasting peace they so desired, while others have used decidedly underhanded means to ensure the dominance of Cybertron above all other planets.

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," the perpetual dominance of the Cybertronian species across the cosmos, was an ideal that was first espoused some twelve million years ago during the reign of the Thirteen, by the Cybertronian calling himself "Onyx Prime." Unbeknownst to most members of the alliance, "Onyx Prime" was in reality a time-travelling Shockwave, who, armed with the knowledge of the future, sought to engineer history to his liking. The First Who Was Named

To both lay the seeds of the First Cybertronian Civil War and further the progress of the Regenesis project that Shockwave's younger self would one day spearhead, Shockwave encouraged Prima to share the "enlightenment" of Cybertron with the rest of the galaxy. As a result, a flotilla of Omega Sentinels would invade the neighboring world of Antilla, intending to conquer the planet for its resources. The native Antillans fought back but failed to match the power of the Cybertronians. In desperation, a scientist constructed a doomsday machine that would end all life on the planet, essentially ending the war by doing just that. Our Finest

At some point afterwards, Cybertron would mount several more colonization missions aimed at fulfilling the Pax Cybertronia. Titans loyal to the Thirteen were seeded with life-giving hot spots and settled on distant planets, including Caminus, A 'Bot and Her City Velocitron, Race Against the Light Prion, The Permanent Revolution Devisiun, and Eukaris. Windblade vol. 2 issue 6 In some cases, the Transformer colonists encountered organic civilizations; feeling as though it was their duty to "help" the primitive creatures, they wound up crushing the native biospheres through aggressive cyberforming. Time Will Rust Although it was held that each world would eventually become the domain of one member of the Thirteen, this plan fell through and the colonies were left isolated from their mother planet. First Contact

In the modern day, Ironhide and Jhiaxus both experienced a vision in the wake of war-torn Cybertron's rebirth, one where the Autobots controlled the galaxy and brought peace to the cosmos. Pax Cybertronia Jhiaxus referred to this vision as the "Pax Cybertronia," interpreting it as the realization of the all-encompassing Cybertronian empire that Nova Prime had once sought to create through his Expansion. Syndromica (2)

Circa 2016, Cybertron had reestablished ties with several Transformer colonies, and the Mistress of Flame brought up the Pax Cybertronia when discussing Earth's possible status as a colony world — and opined that Optimus Prime was the mythical figure known as "The Arisen," destined to rule Earth as his predecessors had sought to rule their colonies. The Medium and the Message A year later, Soundwave would gravely note that, in his eyes, Optimus was merely expanding the Pax Cybertronia while contending with the politics of Earth. Behind My Bleeding Back

When "Onyx Prime" and his army of Maximals returned in the present day, the bestial Prime was soon unmasked as Shockwave, The First Who Was Named and revealed his ultimate goal: by manipulating Cybertronian history, he had stripped all meaning from the various religions and creeds that the Transformer race adhered to. Unforgivable By awakening Unicron and tricking him into fatally devouring the Talisman on Cybertron, Shockwave reasoned, then the Transformers could begin anew on Earth, turning the planet into the capital of Shockwave's new Cybertronian empire and, ultimately, fulfilling the Pax Cybertronia. Road's End

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.