Age of Expansion

The Age of Expansion is a historical period from the Animated continuity family.

The Age of Expansion was the era in which the Cybertronian race broke free of their galactic sector and began to explore and colonize the larger galaxy.

Fiction

Animated cartoon continuity

Following the First Cybertronian War and the start of the Golden Age, some six billion stellar cycles ago, the Cybertronians developed space travel and colonized their solar system but isolationism prevented any further expansion. Following the Third Cybertronian War, 750 million stellar cycles ago, the nascent Autobot faction rose to power and advocated leaving Cybertron's past behind them in a bold new era of expansion. With the Autobots as the brains and the Destrons as the brawn, the Cybertronian race colonized hundreds of worlds and laid the foundations for what would become the Autobot Commonwealth. This era came to end however following several borders skirmishes with the Quintesson Pan Galactic Co-Prosperity Sphere, some 300 million stellar cycles ago. With the colonization efforts over, the Destrons opined they had been doing all the work for too few benefits. These tensions eventually led to the rise of the Decepticons and the start of the Great War. The AllSpark Almanac II

2019 IDW continuity

During the Expansion, Sixshot was a solo assault team, wrecking an entire fortified asteroid and freeing hostages in the Dremden system. The Change In Your Nature Part One

Among the binding terms of the Nominus Edict was restriction on the development of new colony worlds which caused the Age of Expansion to be viewed in a negative light. Among other reasons, this caused the great visionary Termagax to abandon society and live in isolation. The Cracks Beneath Your Feet Part Two