Great War (Movie)
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- The war is a historical event from the live-action film series continuity family.
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The war was a conflict between the heroic Autobots and the tyrannical Decepticons. Mainly centered around the powerful and life giving cube artifact, the AllSpark, it was a bloody conflict that claimed countless generations of Cybertronians and ultimately resulted in the Autobots' defeat and Cybertron becoming a lifeless husk.
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Before time began, there was the Cube. We know not where it comes from, only that it holds the power to create worlds and fill them with life. That is how our race was born. For a time, we lived in harmony, but like all great power, some wanted it for good, others for evil. And so began the war, a war that ravaged our planet until it was consumed by death, and the Cube was lost to the far reaches of space.
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Fiction
Live-action film series
The war started a considerable time after 17000 BC Revenge of the Fallen and before 484 AD. The Last Knight Optimus Prime narrated that the war was fought over the possession of the AllSpark. While Autobots wanted it for benevolent reasons, Decepticons wanted it for evil purposes. He further stated that the war first started when the Decepticon commander Megatron betrayed the Cybertronian empire and that he, together with his army, killed everyone who stood in his way. Transformers At some point in time during the war, Sentinel Prime, who was the Autobot commander before Optimus,
made a secret deal with Megatron in order to save their planet that saw the two converging on Earth. However, during The war's final days, Sentinel's ship, the Ark, seemingly under wrong orders, was shot by a Decepticon carrier, which resulted in the ship disappearing into outer space. As the ship was carrying a secret cargo that would have turned the tide of war and greatly help the losing Autobot cause, who were overmatched and outnumbered, the Decepticons eventually won. Dark of the Moon At some point, AllSpark was lost in space. The Autobots and the Decepticons eventually left their dead planet and scattered around the galaxy. At least some of them were searching for the lost Cube, Autobots with the intent of bringing it back to Cybertron and breath life back into their dead planet, while the Decepticons wanting to harness its power to conquer other worlds and presumably repair their world. Transformers Optimus told Sam Witwicky of the many generations lost in the war on Cybertron in an effort to make Sam grasp the potential fate of Earth now that the Autobot and Decepticons war on Earth. Revenge of the Fallen When Sentinel was revived on Earth, he shortly after asked Optimus of the war, with Optimus informing him of the Autobots having had lost the war and Cybertron being a then-currently dead planet. Dark of the Moon While holding Optimus captive, Quintessa held his war as the cause of Cybertron's destruction. Optimus protested that it was Megatron who started the war, but Quintessa responded that Optimus himself was the one responsible for the destruction of their homeworld. The Last Knight
IDW movie comics
Before the war, Optimus and Megatron were the two governors of Cybertron, with Optimus heading the Science Division, while Megatron was in charge of the Defense Force. During an Autobot archeological excavation led by Optimus, they stumbled upon the sarcophagus of The Fallen, of whom the then current generation had virtually no knowledge about. Immediatly upon seeing the artifact, Megatron ordered Optimus to bring it to his quarters without giving a reason. Around the time he gave this order, Ejoornians from the Eshems Nebula, wanting to claim the AllSpark for their own, launched an attack on Cybertron. During the battle, Megatron got heavily injured. As The Fallen subconsciously called for him from the sarcophagus inside Megatron's home, he barely made it home. Defiance issue 1 As Megatron lay near dead, The Fallen healed his wound. Defiance issue 2 Megatron became loyal to The Fallen as the latter promised Megatron more power. Defiance issue 3 Under Fallen's influence, Megatron ordered Optimus to gather his team and declared that they were to go to war with the Ejoornians. Optimus, believing that this went against their society's moral code, advised his team not to join Megatron. During the time Megatron was away battling the Ejoornians, Optimus and some of his team broke in to Megatron's quarters and examined the sarcophagus, though they left sometime after as they learned that Megatron was coming back home victorious. Further examination of the remaining fragments at the site the sarcophagus was found led Optimus' team to come to the conclusion that Optimus was a Prime. Meanwhile, coming home victorious, Megatron was informed by the Fallen of the uninvited guests to his home. The Fallen manipulatively told Megatron that others like Sentinel and Optimus wanted the AllSpark for their own ends. Megatron decided that they had to be dealt with permanently. As Megatron sent an assasination team to assasinate Optimus and Sentinel, he renamed the Defense Force to become the next generation of Decepticons, which was an ancient almost-if-not-completely forgotten cause once led by the Fallen. Foundation issue 3Defiance issue 2 Defiance issue 3 The Fallen ordered Megatron to build Nemesis in order to search for the Matrix of Leadership and the Star Harvester. As the majority of the Decepticons left with the ship, Autobots exploited the chance and started recruiting citizens wishing to be free from Megatron's control. Autobots first started fighting back by raiding Decepticon munitions and storage facilities. As the scale of the war grew, its effects on Cybertron started becoming more noticeable. Defiance issue 4 At some point, Sentinel made a deal with Megatron in order to save their planet. Dark of the Moon (film) Dark of the Moon issue 3 As the two sides were in a stalemate with no end in sight to the battle, Optimus made the hard choice of secretly ordering the AllSpark to be launched into deep space, away from Megatron and the Decepticons' hands. As he was planning to launch the AllSpark, he falsely told his followers that he was going to take the Cube with them in the ship they were going to use to leave the planet. The reason for him to launch the AllSpark seperately was to leave more room for more survivors of the war. Defiance issue 4 Around this time, Sentinel Prime invented the Space Bridge technology, which he claimed would guarantee a decisive Autobot victory. In order for the technology to be activated, a torch had to make contact with the AllSpark, the temple of which it was inside was in a heavily guarded Decepticon stronghold. Elita-One went to the temple to do the deed, while Optimus and his team provided distraction. Elita-One succesfully powered the torch and brought it back to Sentinel but she failed to shake Starscream off while getting there. Sentinel got into his ship, which was also intended to later carry Autobots off-planet after launching the AllSpark, to take it to the temple for Optimus and his team in there. As the ship was on its way, unaware of Megatron's secret deal, Starscream seemingly destroyed the ship. Foundation issue 4 Unbeknownst to the witnesses to the destruction, the triggered Space Bridge technology inside the ship teleported the Ark away through time and space and kept doing it over and over. Convergence chapter 1 AllSpark was succesfully launched and most Autobots and Decepticons left the planet in search of it. Movie Prequel issue 1 The Reign of Starscream issue 1 Defiance issue 4
Notes
- This is chronologically the second known Cybertronian war. The first one was the war between the Seven Primes, which saw the formation of the Decepticon cause by The Fallen.
