Dreamwave timeline
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A timeline for the events of IDW Publishing's mainline Transformers series.
Timeline
Ancient era
- Primus and Unicron fight.
- The Fallen is created and imprisioned.
- Forgotten era of ancient Transformers.
Pre-war
- Quintessons Infiltrait the Council of Ancients
- Megatron explores the The Forbidden Zones and finds Golden Disk (ancient)
- Gathering supporters, Megatron starts his war.
War on Cybertron
- Grimlock switches from a Decepticon to an Autobot
- Prowl's home in Praxus is demolished.
- Sentinel Prime is killed by Megatron, searching for The Matrix.
The War Within
- Megatron attempts to have Cybertron re-imagined as a planet-sized vehicle.
- Starscream botches this.
- Optronix is appointed new Prime, becomes [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime}}
- Optimus starts a soon-abandoned plan to leave Cybertron to the Decepticons.
- Optimus lobotomizes Megatron
- Optimus tosses away the other Golden Disk (council)
- this may be when Megatron punishes Starscream for killing the Council Dreamwave G1 Ongoing, Issue Four
- Pre-Dark Ages: Some incident with a Cerebro shell involving Grimlock and Jetfire (alluded to in The Dark Ages, Part 6)
- Megatron, develops an early Space Bridge to explore new worlds. Optimus rushes in at the last moment, both are lost. The Dark Ages, Part 1
- Combiner groups are ruled non-allied by the Crisis Intervention Accord, with their combat status downgraded. Explained by Springer The Dark Ages, Part 3
- Two groups of Decepticons split off, becoming the Predacons and the Ultracons
- Likewise, two groups of Autobots split into the Wreckers and the Lightning Strike Coalition
- Shockwave begins experimenting on Triple Changer technology on Blitzwing, who the Autobots are able to capture.
- Jetfire switches from Decepticon to Autobot
The War Within: The Dark Ages
- The Fallen is freed from his prison as a side effect of the Space birdge incident
- The Fallen captures Blitzwing, Jetfire, Grimlock and Hotspot
- Deus Ex Machina defeats The Fallen
- Shockwave and Prowl coin the term "Until all are one."
- Pre-Age of Wrath: Megatron makes some deal with the Quintessons, having forgotten that their infiltration of the Council of Ancinets started this war.
- Ultra Magnus rises to power, takes charge, and unites most of Cybertron
The Age of Wrath
- Starscream attacks a peace ceremony, but Megatron returns
- Megatron enslaves the captured Autobots.
- this may be when Megatron punishes Starscream for killing the Council Dreamwave G1 Ongoing, Issue Four
- A number of Autobots and Decepticons leave Cybertron on their ships The Ark and the Nemesis
- The Dinobots chase the Insecticons to Earth. It's assumed the Insecticons are killed, but they start opperating underground. Extermination
- Pre-Micromasters
- Operation: Containment: Jetfire, Countdown, Groundshaker, and Omega Supreme leave Cybertron.
- Operation: Containment splits into two seperate groups
- Skystalker invades planet Paradron, killing most of it's inhabitants.
- Countdown chases Skystalker to Paradron's core and steals the third Golden Disc.
- Skystalker drains all energy from the world Kyron to send a signal to Shockwave
- Autobots and Decepticons collaborate to develop Micromasters in the Little Iacon establishment as a means to add more troops to each side.
- The project is terminated early, both factions take whatever troops they can.
Micromasters
- Countdown and Skystalker return to Cybertron
- Countdown and Big Daddy recruit Micromasters from both sides to stop Skystalkers plans to kill all the Guzzlers
- Fortress Maximus quits the Autobots
- Big Daddy decides to find the truth for himself.
- Pre-Ascention Omega Supreme is pushed from being a creature of impulse into a creature of pure technical computation. Original Sin
=Great Shut-down
- All Transformers deactivate as Cybertron undergoes a new stage in it's planetary evolution.
- Scourge awakens Shockwave.
- Scourge saves Shockwave from the Sharkticons
- Shockwave turns on Scourge
- Scourge makes his way to Earth and attacks Jetfire's ship.
- Jetfire imprisons Scourge in an Autobot escape pod.
- Jetfire and the pod are trapped in an avalanche.
- If the Beast Wars happened, they would be happening sometime around now
The Eighties
- The Decepticons recover/capture Jetfire and hold the scientist aboard the Nemesis
- Megatron captures the Dinobots and their ship and holds them in a cave. Only Megatron and Grimlock are award of this.
- May 4th, 1998 Operation: Liberation Autobot and human military action is taken against the Decepticons
everybody died
The Future
Hot Rod fights alongside Fortress Maximus The War Within
