War of the Threefold Spark
- The War of the Threefold Spark is a historical event from the 2019 IDW portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.
The War of the Threefold Spark was a war instigated by Exarchon, the Threefold Spark.
Fiction
2019 IDW continuity
 Plot details for Darkness, Once Gazed Upon: Part One follow. |
The war had its roots in Cybertron's Age of Expansion. Exarchon, a trusted and respected figure amongst the Cybertronian race, travelled into space beyond Cybertron, and was subsequently "corrupted" by someone or something, fracturing his psyche and leading the demented 'bot to declare war against the entirety of Cybertron. His army utilized exotic and arcane technologies, The Change In Your Nature Part Three and the ruthless science of Shockwave. Escape Part Two One such example was an attempt at cloning Skywarp's unique teleportation powers. It failed to replicate his abilities, but it did produce a massive clone-drone army which Exarchon used to to sweep across Cybertron. The Change In Your Nature Part Three Escape Part Three Nominus Prime responded to this by creating an army of Seekers to match them. Escape Part Three Unless he was certain that he'd won the battle, Exarchon rarely took to the battlefield himself. The Change In Your Nature Part Three
Four "Great Generals" coordinated the war against Exarchon's forces: Ultra Magnus, Strika, Dai Atlas, and Pyra Magna. Strika led a famous heavy artillery battalion that included Warpath, Flak, and Blitzwing. The Change In Your Nature Part Three Ultra Magnus led from the front and counted a young Megatron among his ranks. Storm Horizon Part 1 Other notable combatants in the war included Arcee (who assassinated one of Exarchon's iterations), Arcee/Greenlight: Run Quake, Cyclonus, Highfire, Gridlock, Grudge, Provoke, The World In Your Eyes Part Three Skytread, Refraktor, The Cracks Beneath Your Feet Part Two Kup, The Change In Your Nature Part Two Orion Pax, Orion Pax: Free Fall and Turmoil. War World: We Are Not Meant To Be Darkness The amount of dead bodies the war produced allowed the Insecticons to gorge themselves stupid. Constructicons Rising, Part 2
During the war, Exarchon attempted to "usurp" the Titans, only succeeding with Croaton, necessitating the latter's destruction at the hands of Citadel Wheeljack: Orbital Decay War World: Titans Turmoil, one of the few Cybertronians to serve Exarchon willingly, would do something unspeakable to the colony world of Neutronia. War World: We Are Not Meant To Be Darkness
During a battle at Yuss, the city was levelled, and Ultra Magnus's forces routed. Megatron, who had been a participant in the battle, was left behind, where he was found by Exarchon, who had plans for the former miner. Those plans were interrupted by the timely arrival of Strika's forces, who destroyed at least one of Exarchon's selves, though he was saved by the intervention of Skywarp. The Change In Your Nature Part Three
The final fight of the war took place on the edge of Iacon, ending with the creation of a very large crater, and Exarchon being "gone". Afterwards, the crater was made a dedicated memorial to the war, The Cracks Beneath Your Feet Part Two inscribed with the names of everyone who died in the battle. War World: Hunt By that point, the war had been going on for years and as a result not only Iacon but Cybertron as a whole was in ruin, to the point the engineer Wheeljack despaired about ever being able to rebuild. The noted thinker and engineer Termagax, however, saw the devastation as an opportunity to build something better in place of what had been lost. The newborn Constructicons would earn fame for their contribution to the reconstruction efforts. Constructicons Rising, Part 1 Towards the end of the war, the scientist Highbrow informed Nominus Prime that Exarchon's corruption had been deliberate, that some unknown party had altered and armed him with his strange weaponry in what some suspected was a bid to halt Cybertronian expansion. Darkness, Once Gazed Upon: Part One Sea of Rust I
In the aftermath, Nominus Prime issued an amnesty for the remaining members of the Threefold Spark, an amnesty Pyra Magna refused to accept, seeing those like Turmoil as beyond redemption. Hunt We Are Not Meant To Be Darkness Nominus would go on to draft the Nominus Edict, in an attempt to prevent any further loss befalling Cybertron again. The Cracks Beneath Your Feet Part One The war, and his encounter with Exarchon, would have a profound impact on Megatron and his worldview. The Change In Your Nature Part Three As well as on Dai Atlas, who went immersant to escape the horror he felt at what he had become. Escape Part Three
