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Freakertron is a Tfwiki.Net editor from the Real-World continuity family.

Basically the G1/BW timeline is the original timeline, the Unicron Trilogy/RID01 timeline is a "Flashpoint" timeline, and the "revised timeline" is akin to DC's NEW 52.

My headcannon

• The Quintessons are not aliens or the creators of the Transformer race, but rather a divergent race of Cybertroniand themselves. The were once lead by the benevolent Quintus Prime, but when he died, Liege Maximo took his place and lead the Quintesson Empire to colonize and terraform countless worlds to build an empire. Thus, the Cybertronian Empire is actually the Quintesson Empire and Cybertron itself is a colony world of Quintessa. Gobotron is also a colony world elsewhere in the universe.
• The pre-brainwashed Constructicons were the lab assistants of Alpha Trion. When the gladiator/energon miner, D-16 was fatally damaged, they together rebuilt him into Megatron, hoping he would lead the Decepticons down a better path than their previous leader, the genocidial Megazarak, who was exiled to Nebulous. Unfortunately, that didn't really work out as planned, so when Megatron fatally wounded Orion Pax and his friends (who ironically used to be friends with D-16, but didn't know he had become Megatron), Trion felt obligated to rebuild them. Pax was brought to Trion by the Constructicons in the original timeline, when the Aerialbots time traveled, they were the ones who initially brought Pax, but unknowingly they were being guided by Vector Sigma to preserve history before they were returned to their own time period. Scavenger in particular served as a mentor to Optimus is his early days as a warrior. At some point after this, Sentinel Prime fell and while in Trion's care on his death bed, passed the Matrix to Optimus. Not long after this, Megatron would unfortunately use the Robo-Smasher/Recalibrator to brainwash the Alpha Trion's old colleagues into Decepticons. Optimus and Omega Supreme also mourned for the Constructicons, hoping their original Autobot selves would be restored one day.
• The dangerous variant of energon seen in Beast wars and the Energon Cartoon, are the Korlonium Crystals from the episode "A Prime Problem" of the original series. It explains why being around it could be lethal to Transformers, but also that even being far away from it can mess with ur mind, hence why the Autobots were making foolish decisions in that episode regarding the Prime clone. The Maximals and Predacons during the Beast Wars series take on new names based on their Beast modes and such, because the Korlonium Crystals have made them forget who they really are. A majority of the Beast Wars is being watched by the Vok for their amusement and Artemis and Moon are agents of the Vok.
  • One would need to remain in a vehicle mode with rubber tires, or have a beast mode or pretender shell to be properly insulated from it's effects.
  • Only bots like the Omnicons have adapted by building an immunity to being around them and have the skills needed to refine it properly.
• Sideways in the Unicron Trilogy is actually Liege Maximo from the G2 marvel comic (paint his Cybertron toy green or repurpose G1 Predator Skyquake to represent his "true form"). That explains all his vague, conflicting made-up origins and why he is such a master of Deception, even his own brother, Vector Prime, can't always see thru his lies. He is actually the "first Decepticon" and Megatronus was merely framed or brainwashed by him. It doesn't help that Sideways has taken on various alternate identities over the eons, either by fabricating them or killing and stealing the identities of real bots. He is a crazy bot who would rather "rule from the shadows" and "hide in plain sight", leaving puppet leaders to rule in his place so the target is on their backs and not his. Thus he is content to allow someone like Megatron, Jhaxius or Shockwave, etc. to rule in his syead as an unwitting pawn.
  • His spark is indestructible due to being exposed to the Underbase/Vector Sigma in ancient times. Even if he is destroyed, his spark can merely hop into another body.
  • The Thirteen Primes destroyed Unicron is ancient times, but Maximo secretly betrayed them by keeping fragments of Unicron's essence to create new bodies for him and keep copies of him living. Unicron can only control him so much because he is technically still a Prime.
  • Similar to Japanese continuity, every Prime has his own Energon Matrix. Sideways went on a quest to destroy or corrupt his brothers in order to absorb the powers of their various Matrices. The Matrix of Leadership is the most powerful one, but has eluded his grasp thanks to Alpha Trion.
  • Sideways/Liege Maximo is also Taruntulas, and both the Tripredacus/Predacon Council and Maximal Elders work for him. The experiments done to Protoform X/Rampage were done under his supervision. Starscream also absorbed the Underbase's power and gained an indestructible spark and Maximo wished to create an army of super soldiers with similar powers, but after Rampage became a loose cannon, quickly gave up that idea until he could find a better way to control them.
  • Primacron and Scrash were also identities fabricated and used by Maximo. When the Decepticon Commander Skyquake died during the Great War, Maximo/Sideways scanned his memories and took his place for a time. Primacron in particular was a Pretender shell. Ultimately, it is Maximo who was tricked all the Autobots and Decepticons to upgrade themselves into Maximals and Predacons, respectively. The latter two factions are not descendants of the former two, but rather separate older factions (similar to the Prime Predacons and IDW Maximals), the Autobots and Decepticons were merely "absorbed" into those preexisting factions. The Autobots and Decepticons will have to relearn their true identities and fight back against Maximo's control. They will firm the Destron alliance and go to war against the Cybertronian/Quintesson Empire.
  • As an evil Prime, he is the only one who can control Unicron to a degree. Alpha Q is also a minion of Sideways/Maximo. Maximo/Primacron did not create Unicron, he merely revived him.
  • Vector Prime/Oracle/Boltax was the Primacron's assistant and was trapped inside Vector Sigma for many eons when Maximo destroyed his original body.
  • Maximo and the Tripredacus Council/Cybertronian Empire/Functionists are allies of the Quintessons.
  • Cobra-LA are Quintesson experiments who escaped to Earth in the distant past. Thus, technically the Quintessons has indirect control over the forces of Cobra.
• The Vok are the Remnants of a race who's planet was destroyed either by Unicron or a Cybertronian war in the past, thus they want revenge on the Cybertronian Empire,and by extension, all Transformers. That is why Taruntulas views them as bitter enemies.
• Beast Wars Megatron is actually Straxus/Archforce. The Tripredacus Council already conquered Cybertron when he returned in Beast Maxhines, but used Megatron as unwitting pawn and puppet leader, content to allow him believe he had conquered Cybertron. When Primal sacrificed himself to defeat Megatron and reformat Cybertron, it merely allowed them to continue with their plans without interference from either of the two leaders.
  • Taruntulas survives his appearent death in Beast Wars by possessing Waspinator and repairing Ravage's ship to return to Cybertron. Unbeknownst to him, the Vok also follow him back home. When Taruntulas returns to Cybertron, he's able to transfer his spark into a new body, leaving a poor, confused Waspinator behind to be reformatted into the Vehicon general, Thrust.

Continuity

• Robots in Disguise (2001) is a sequel to Cybertron (2005) and thus part of the Unicron Trilogy universe. Megatron is revived by Sideways and his Predacon Council allies and brainwashed to serve them. He is given a powerful 6 changer body and sent to Jungle Planet to defeat Scourge and take leadership of the Predacons of Beast Planet. This is because post-Cybertron, the Decepticons are nearly non-existent and Megatron (and Sideways above him) needed a new army. Under his command, the Predacons would attack the colony worlds and destroy them. This would especially embitter Hotshot, the new leader of Velocitron, feeling that he failed his new home as well as Override, which is why Hotshot is so serious in RID, compared to the Unicron Trilogy serious, he has suffered much loss. Megatron would later be sent to Earth by his new masters to retrieve Fortress Maximus. While on earth, Megatron finds a ship with 6 Autobot Wreckers aboard and reformats them into the Decepticon Commandos. The Commando leader is named Scourge in mocking memory of the fallen Beast Planet leader, and because he scanned Optimus Prime and became an "evil clone" of him, Scourge also possesses an "evil" copy of his Matrix, which Sideways will want to steal later.
  • Energon would depict the Autobots and humans openly working together, while in Cybertron, it seemed that the Autobots had never been to Earth before. My solution to this discrepancy is to split the difference and say since we only saw secret bases like Ocean city, it could be argued only a few groups of humans knew of their existence, and to the rest of humanity, they were still a secret. Also the Build Team was sent to Earth to build the Global Space Bridge so Cybertron could be evacuated during the Unicron Singularity Crisis during the Cybertron cartoon. After that crisis was dealt with, the evacuated Transformers would return to Cybertron, but when Megatron and his new gang of Predacons arrive on earth in RID01, the Autobots continue to use the global space bridge as a ground bridge, rather than have it dismantled. All throughout Cybertron and RID01, the Autobots other human allies and the Build Team were working together with the refugees offscreen at Ocean City and other similar bases.
• The Predacons (and Maximals) are ancient races like in Prime, who served the Quintessons. They did not go extinct, but rather were exiled to Beast Planet. Many of them got stuck in Beast mode and became Battle beasts.
  • Sharkticons, Allicons, and the Seacon hordes from Masterforce were cloned from Jungle Planet Transformers by the Quintessons to use as soldiers. Terrorcons (Energon anime), and the 5-bot team that forms Abominus (G1) are actually undead warriors (much like the zombiecons in Prime), they run on Dark Energon and are effective drones who follow orders without question, though many of them can be bumbling idiots at times. The 5 Predacons led by Razorclaw worked for the Quintessons and were given the ability to combine by them, before eventually defecting to the Decepticons. The Vehicon drones in Beast Machines are also creations of the Quintessons, similar to Overcharge drones (Blitzwing used to be one of them, but gained sentience). Vehicon and Seacon drones, etc run on Energon and are technically alive. Terrorcons are undead and run on Dark Energon. It can be hard to tell the difference so the Autobots must wear protective armor in case they battle any Terrorcons, lest they get infected with Dark Energon.
• Velocitronians have a "racing culture" because they were forced to race eachother when the Quintessons occupied and enslaved their Planet, experimenting on them with Red Energon. Even when the Quintessons were expelled from their world, they kept the racing as part of their culture.
  • Motormaster and his Stunticons will try to conquer that world at some point. Perhaps thet were in charger after the Quintessons were defeated, and Overide lead a rebellion against them.
• GI Joe wasn't active in the G1 cartoon universe until the 90s (during a time the Transformers battles had largely moved away from earth), hence a lack of crossovers. GI Joe: RAH begins a loose Trilogy, with the DIC series no longer being Canon. After the movie, the mutated snake Cobra Commander is cured and imprisoned by the Joes, leading into the events of Sigma 6, where he escapes imprisonment. At the end of that series, Cobra Commander escapes and with his organization dismantled, he elects to "lay low" and build a new criminal empire as the crime boss, Old Snake. Iron Klaw, distant relative of Destro, and his Skar forces are a group of traitors from Cobra and Overkill from Sigma 6 is actually Garrisson Krieger (the Cobra mechs being the Iron Army), who eventually joins them. A broad strokes version of GI Joe Extreme concludes the Trilogy with Lt. Stone forming his own team of Joes to take down Iron Klaw and Skar once and for all. Old Snake evades justice for many decades continuing to be a crime boss without having to constantly look over his shoulder, with GI Joe eventually being disbanded after Cobra and Skar are seemingly gone for good. All of going good for the old Commander, until the Autobots return... he may very well have a new enemy to deal with.
• The difference between Minicons and Micromasters, is that the Minicons/Cyberdroids (including Headmasters, Targetmasters, Powermasters and Gobots) were all once organic Nebulons who have been enslaved reformatted by Unicron into robotic forms (before Vector Prime used the power of his Matrix to sever their connection to Unicron), hence why they can powerlinx with "Bulk" Transformers and give them power boosts. Meanwhile, Micromasters/Infiltrators (Including Mini-Casettes like Rumble) are "regular" Cybertronians who downsized into energy efficient forms and as such, cannot powerlinx with Bulks.
• The Unicron Trilogy/RID 01 universe is a "divergent timeline" created by a time-travelling Ravage (and his 4 minions: the dinobot, Cruellock, insecticon Chromhorn, sharkticon Hammerstrike and bird-bot Shadowhawk). who seeking to retroactively win the war, when back in time to the day the Ark and Nemesis were to launch and sabotaged both ships so they couldn't leave Cybertron, before attempting to assassinate Optimus Prime, steal the Matrix and destroy Unicron himself. He failed to kill Optimus (tho he would remain in critical condition for some time) and was tricked into taking a fake, dud Matrix with him. Unicron absorbed Ravage and his team into his systems (learning of future events) and created hordes of Terrorcon clones to pillage and destroy countless worlds. Eventually, Unicron would consume Nebulos and reformat the surviving inhabitants into Minicons and send them to Cybertron where the Great War continued despite an energy crisis (and with a lack of resources to downsize everyone into Micromasters). In this timeline, Optimus and Megatron never disappeared or remained in stasis lock for 4 million years, instead continuing their war on Cybertron for all those years and only arriving on Earth in the year 2010 when Rad White Witwicky would activate the first Minicon. The Autobots and Decepticons were nearly enslaved by the use of Minicons as new weapons/power sources in the past (before Vector Prime severed their connection to Unicron) and instead sent them away from Cybertron when a new source of Energon was finally found.
• Transformers Energon takes place merely 5 years after Armada, while Cybertron takes place only 1 year after Energon (and the Unicron Singularity is caused by Alpha Q's pocket dimension collapsing, tho Cybertron is able to be pushed back into the main universe in time to escape destruction). RID01 takes place about 2 years after Cybertron, narrowing down the timeline from 30+ years down to about 8 years.
• The ninja-mercenary Sixshot is actually Lockdown, who got enough upgrades to eventually take on about 6 to 7 forms.
• Energon Shockblast and Sixshot are failed clones of Shockwave. Soundwave died fighting Unicron during Armada and was reformatted by Sideways into a loyal minion. Megatron and Starscream's own minds also being messed with while within Unicron meant they couldn't recognize their old colleague, while Soundwave had no memories of his previous life as Decepticon communications officer. Galvatron is a split personality of Megatron the keep trying to take control of Megatron's body throughout the Unicron Trilogy (hence why he keeps going back and forth). The Galvatron personality will eventually get his own body, some of Megatron's worst actions throughout Energon and Cybertron can be chalked up to the Galvatron personality trying to take control. Shockwave will eventually restore the memories of Megatron, Starscream and Soundwave and free them from Sideways's control. Shockwave will have a personal history with Sideway/Maximo as it will be revealed he was the one who removed Shockwave's face and replaced it with the eye. Protoform X/Shockaract/Rampage was a clone of Shockwave with his face restored, tho with an attempt to replicate Starscream's indestructible Underbase-empowered spark.
• The Nebulan Zarak is actually the former genocidal Decepticon warlord Megazarak ironically trapped in a Pretender shell hiding on Nebulos. He founded the Hive and enslaved the planet before Unicron consumed the planet (in both timelines). Zarak/Megazarak is NOT Scorponok, but rather a separate individual.
• If i had a show, Thunderclash would be the main character, he would be a rebuilt Dion, and be a composite character of Ginrai/Powermaster Prime, Victory Leo, Leo Prime and Big Convoy, taking their various roles in an continuity similar to Japanese g1. He would fight Skyquake, not knowing until later on that he's actually been fighting Liege Maximo all along. Star Saber would be renamed Wing Saber because of the sword (Vector Prime's Rhisling sword is the real Star Saber, the minicon Star Saber was Unicron's attempt to replicate a relic of the Primes and woukd actually be the Dark Saber).
• Deathsauras would be a rebuilt and brainwashed version of Wing Saber's old friend, Padlock. Magmatron would be a composite character with Overlord (having gained a third component before adopting a beast form, Overlord is merely a title for Magmatron) and BW2 Galvatron would be a composite character with the crime boss Cryotek.
• Rid01 Ultra Magnus used to be more like his G1 counterpart, but Sideways corrupted him with Dark Energon before he arrived on earth, amplifying a hidden anger with Optimus. Eventually Optimus uses the Matrix to purge the Dark Energon from his system.
• The BW2 Seacons were mercenaries who took jobs in exchange for upgrades and would work for whoever paid them most. The Quintessons hired them for a job ahd gave them their Beast modes based the legions of Seacon drones, as well as the ability to combine (which meant they eventually fell under the Quints' control).
• The Detective Autobot Nightbeat would be a composite character with Punch and would go undercover as the Decepticon Counterpunch. Minerva is his sister, she became a Headmaster with Zarak's adoptive daughter, Lylra, when the latter found out about her "father's" deceptions.
• Energon Scorponok is an upgraded version of BW Scorponok, he and Terrorsaur were plucked by Unicron from "prehistoric earth" at the moment of their deaths.
• The prehistoric earth seen in Beast wars is actually a Vok game planet and the Ark and Nemesis found there are fake. The Maximals and Predacons never actually time traveled, the Vok were messing with their heads (which is why they all also renamed themselves upon adopting new beast modes).
• The Oracle/Primacron's assistant that aided the Dinobots and other "primitive" bots to defeat Primacron/Maximo in the original cartoon, as well as the Oracle in Beast Machines that allied with the Maximals, was actually Vector Prime. Eventually he's creates a new body for himself and frees himself from the computer. When Primal defeated beast Megatron, he unknowingly unleashed a technoorganic virus that threatened to destroy Cybertron. Vector Prime tells the Maximals/Autobots they need to find the Cyber Planet Keys in order to restore Cybertron and eliminate the technorganic virus. Starscream uses the Cyber Keys gain a new body, as does Thrust once he is freed from his prison within Unicron.
• Eventually the two timelines are merged by Vector Prime. With a new version of the Unicron Trilogy and RID01 "overwriting" the Rebirth 3-parter. In the revised timeline, the Autobots kept their existence a secret during the G1 cartoon by posing as human built robots created by Chip Chase. Megatron, willing to entertain this idea to misdirect the Autobots, had Frenzy and the Reflector trio, as well as a few drones, use Pretender shells and pose as a human terrorist organization, Cemetary Wind, who "built" the Decepticons to take over the world. Thus the humans don't really know of the Transformers existence, but handwaving many instances in the G1 cartoon where the humans did know, into them just believing they were human built robots like in Rescue Bots.

Restored/Merged Timeline

• G1 Scorponok is the genocidial Megazarak/Zarak, a Pretender exiled to Nebulous, who initiatally had his memories wiped, but over time came to regain them and conquered the planet forming the Hive organization using Cybertronian technology. BW/Energon Scorponok is the only bot to actually be called Scorponok.
• When Vector Prime merges "corrects" the timelines, in addition to the Cybertronians existence being largely a secret, the events of the Rebirth are erased and instead replaced by a new version of the Armada cartoon. In the revised timeline, Vector Prime goes back to when the Minicons, Cyber Keys and Fortress Maximus were launched off Cybertron during a brief ceasefire (revealed to have all happened on the same day).
• In the new timeline where Optimus and Megatron continued the war for 4 million years: the Combaticons were revived and brainwashed much earlier, Scavenger has defected back to the Autobots (with the remains 5 Constructicons becoming Constructicon Maximus until they can find a new 6th member) and the Aerialbots, Stunticons, Technobots, and Dinobots (tho they don't have dino modes yet) have been created much earlier by Vector Sigma. All 4 teams start out as Decepticons until the Technobots (sans Scattorshot) combine into Computron convince his "brother" Superion to change sides and upon battling Devastator/Constructicon Maximus and Bruticus, all 4 combiners go into stasis lock, frozen in battle when the 2 Autobot sacrifice themselves to prevent the Decepticons from finding out the location of the Super Energon (Ore 14), until Megatron reawakens them in the Energon anime. However, Vector Prime is able to go back and prevent the 4 of them from going into stasis, as well as prevent the deaths of the future Dinobots, meaning Grimlock never joins the Build Team, and the 5 Autobots join the Ark crew. Fortress Maximus has also been created much earlier and under different circumstances, with Cerebros himself being the smallest bot, forming the head of Emissary, causing Fort Max to be much larger in this reality. The pacifistic Cerebros requested he "have his personality turned off" so he wouldn't be forced to endure fighting, rendering him monotone drone. (His true personality can still be restored later.) When Vector goes back to "restore history", he makes sure Optimus and Megatron repair the Ark and Nemesis, so they can crash on earth and go into stasis until the volcanic eruption in 1984, ensuring the "timeline will be restored to 90% accuracy" (as Vector says).
• Tho the Armada cartoon showed Wheeljack was seemingly rescued by Megatron and that's why he joined the Decepticons. This show can flesh that out more and show he was imprisoned at Tyger Pax with Bumblebee, implying he didn't join the Decepticons willingly, but only after being brainwashed and tortured for many years. It's also implied Bumblebee died at Tyger Pax in the Armada timeline. A time traveling Vector Prime (in disguise) "seeking to set history back on track" by making sure as many Ark and Nemesis crew members make it onto their ship as possible (using collected information gleaned from databases in the original timeline to know where and when certain bots would be at specific times), rescues Wheeljack and Bumblebee from Tyger Pax, along with many other prisoners. Wheeljack thus never becomes a Decepticon, tho he gains a gruff, bitter, loner personality like his Prime counterpart. G1 Ironhide and Grimlock are also Wreckers. The Autobot, ex-Constructicon, later Wrecker, known as RoadHauler is actually the G1 version Bulkhead and friends with Hotshot and Wheeljack. Bulkhead was imprisoned at Tyger Pax in the Armada/Energon timeline, where he would be starved of energon and become the "crazy old man" bot, eventually escaping instead of dying or becoming a Decepticon, putting up a fight even after being tortured so long, but now that Vector Prime comes back to free the prisoners at Tyger Pax, Roadhauler/Bulkhead is able to escape before he becomes like his Energon counterpart. Prowl and Landmine don't travel with Rodimus to Paradron/Omnitron like in the Energon Cartoon.
• In this "third" merged timeline, Shockwave is left in command on Cybertron while Megatron's goes on the repaired Nemesis, intending to betray the brief ceasefire. His clones Shockblast and Sixshot are destoryed in a battle with the Autobots, erasing the events of Energon anime in the future. Vector Prime doesn't reveal his true identity or motives to the past Autobots to prevent paradoxes, instead disguising himself as a lowly Autobot commander for the time being. The 6 Wreckers/future Commandos are aboard the Atlantis ship with Evac and Metalhawk, but go in an escape pod when the ship crashed on earth. Hotshot, Smokescreen and Wheeljack were also Wreckers, under the harsh commander who turned out to be a doubke agent. Optimus goes on the Ark to ensure the Minicons and Fort Max have a safe passage thru the Space Bridge, but when Megatron shows up in the Nemesis, they attack the Ark, leading to them all fighting and ensuring they crash into Mt. St. Hillary on earth as they did in the original timeline. Alpha Trion is kept prisoner by Shockwave (he didn't need to die to activate Vector Sigma and create the Aerialbots, since they, the future Dinobots, and Technobots start out as Decepticon creations in this timeline before defecting, thus Trion (later freed by Elita 1's resistance cell) lives into present day. Hotshot remains behind on Cybertron while his friend Wheeljack goes on the Ark. After Wheeljack's presumed death, Hotshot goes on to form the Spychangers much earlier in this third timeline.
• Hotshot's other friend, Smokescreen, compulsive gambler, like in the previous timeline, loses a bet and gets forced to take on a bulky, "slower" crane body. He's eventually nearly killed and rebuilt into an even bulkier excavator body (never called Hoist, who's a separate character), before having the chance to regain a sleeker form and go undercover as a Decepticon jet. By present day, he's restored to his original sports-car body but retains a jetpack in robot mode.
• Because the Transformers existence is a secret and the Autobots never share their technology with the humans in the revised timeline (tho the events of the 1986 movie largely happen the same, with Autobot City being a secret base like Ocean City), the year 2005 is much less technologically advanced than it was in season 3 of the original show (despite this, most events happen the same). Fast forward to after the Hate Plague crisis is resolved when Optimus is revived, he goes on to have the Matrix recharged by Vector Sigma. Rad, Daniel's younger brother, finds a minicon and draws the Decepticons back to Earth. During the year of Decepticon absence, Megazarak had rebuilt Galvatron back into Megatron (in a body resembling Megazarak's original form) and attempts to take over Megatron's body, but fails and is seemingly destroyed. Zarak's trastector is used as a ship by Megatron. Starscream is revived by Alpha Q much earlier in this timeline into a body resembling his Armada body, but Megatron is able to brainwash Starscream into being loyal to him. Cyclonus scans a helicopter earth mode, while Scourge and his sweeps become bomber planes. Demolisher also joins Megatron's team. Optimus goes to Earth with Hotshot and Red Alert to investigate the minicons and encounter Rad and Carlos, only to be met with the arrival of Megatron's forces, who they proceed to battle, leading into the events of Armada. Elsewhere, Unicron's head begins to disintegrate and absorb into one of Cybertron's moons, slowly transforming it into a new body for himself. Later on in this version of Armada, Starscream doesn't die trying to prove Unicron's existence, Megatron/Galvatron doesn't need proof, he just simply refuses to believe he could still be active, but soon finds out that Sideways is working for him, proving Unicron has returned.
• Cybertron Mensaor was a permanently fused version of the Stunticon combiner, when he got repair after he was damaged, landing on Gigantian, after going thru a worm hole to a distant corner of the universe. However, thanks to Vector Prime, the Stunticons are defeated before they can leave Cybertron and the team ends up going to (and attempting to conquer) Velocitron instead. Motormaster vows to become ruler of that planet's roads.
• Optimus gets visons of the Cyber Planet Keys and Omega Lock from the Matrix of Leadership and tells that they Autobots they need to go to the colony worlds and collect them to awaken Primus, so he can defeat Unicron once and for all (and hopefully prevent the Unicron Singularity).
• During a battle against the Decepticons on Cybertron, a wounded Landmine is teleported to Earth by Vector Prime so he can be found by Cody, Bud and Lori. Together with the Autobots, they help find the Omega Lock and Earth Cyber Key much earlier in this timeline.
• Optimus never gets killed by the Hydra Cannon because it's deactivated before it can ever power up. The Autobots and Decepticons visit the various colony worlds (and make allies) while on the journey back to Cybertron aboard the Axalon/repaired Ark, to collect the other 3 Cyber keys. Predacon leader, Scourge/Cerebrus and his lackey, Sky-Byte, join the Decepticons, tho the two are eventually convinced to defect to the Autobots by Lori.
• Starscream eventually joins the Autobots for good (tho he insists he's still a Decepticon). Thrust, after betraying Megatron, takes Starscream's place in this timeline, along with Dirge and Ramjet, as the ones who gains larger bodies from absorbing the power of the Omega Lock. The trio also take the place that the brainwashed Soundwave would've played as Sideways's right-hand minions since Soundwave never dies fighting Unicron in this timeline.
• Metroplex and Trypticon are from Gigantian and left eons ago. Trypticon was nearly killed and needed a new body in the original G1 timeline, while Metroplex never left the planet in the Unicron Trilogy timeline.
• After Primus is awoken by the Cyber Keys and defeats Unicron, the Singularity never happens because the timeline has been "restored", and thus Cybertron never needs to be evacuated and the Global Space Bridge is never built on earth. Since a space bridge of such magnitude never needed to be constructed, there's a much smaller ground bridge/space bridge terminal (akin to the one seen in Prime) at the Autobot base on earth that's taken it's place.
• Energon Ironhide is a clone of the original G1 Ironhide. When the original Ironihide turns up alive once again and joins the Spychangers, energon Ironhide is renamed Motormouth (in homage to the G2 Gobot character).
• Steamhammer replaces Scavenger as 6th member of the Constructicon, restoring Devastator, while Scavenger joins the Build Team (taking Grimlock's place in this timeline), allowing them to combine into Landfill to battle Devastator.
• Grimlock and his team were on the Atlantis (with Metalhawk, Evac and Crosswise) and became the Dinobots while fighting Blood's Decepticon Pretender forces in ancient times. They fell into stasis, but were eventually awoken by Optimus's team in 1984.
• The corrupt Autobot High Council/Maximal Elders/Functionists consists of Jhaxius and his two lieutenants/generals Strika and Obsidian. They are loyal to Liege Maximo/Sideways and the Cybertronian/Quintesson Empire. They are personal enemies of Megatron, Shockwave and Soundwave. Megazarak was a agent of the Tripredacus Council before he went rogue and went into exile, and he is responsible for the genocidial rampage in Cybertron's ancient days, specifically against the female Transformers and why they were nearly wiped out. Megatron loyalists like Slipstream and Flamewar instead Megatron is a hero and has led the Decepticons in a better direction after Megazarak's defeat. The Decepticons were not a faction founded by Megatron, but rather a group of bots collectively blacklisted by the pre-war Council. Many leaders have tried to organize this loose group of "enemies to the state" into a militaristic force, but none were quite as successful before Megatron rose to power.
• Nucleon is part of the gas that freezes bots when they go into stasis for an extended period, not enough to make one lose the ability to transform all together, but just enough to "reset" someone's T-cog, which is why most bots have to scan a new alternate mode upon energing from stasis. Scanning an alternate mode, whether vehicle or beast mode, can also cause bots to take on the personality and attributes of whoever they scan, if they scan a vehicle with a driver, it's likely their personality will become like the driver. That is why many bots, not only speak english and other human languages, but also have "accents" and speak with certain mannerisms.
• Most bots try to avoid scanning altmodes directly and instead use sky-spies, so they don't risk changing their own personalities too much. The Autobot Skid-Z is a perfect example of this: after arriving on Earth, he scanned an F-1 race car once belonging to the dead racecar driver, Auggie Cahnay, for his vehicle mode. While alive, Cahnay had joked that he was in the car so much that it had taken on his personality and this statement rang bizarrely true when Skid-Z was possessed by Cahnay's residual psychotropic energy as a result of him forgetting to purge the vehicle with a high-frequency wave pulse before scanning it. Thereafter, he began behaving increasingly erratically, much like the late Cahnay.
• All the Seekers are (ironically, unlike Animated) not clones of Starscream, but rather instead, they, including Starscream, are Quintesson clones who developed personalities (unlike most other of their drone classes) of the ancient Decepticon warrior, Ulchtar.
• Vector Sigma is housed within the Underbase. Boltax is the same individual as Vector Prime (his pre-Prime name, and was Primacron's assistant and the Oracle seen in BM, and Vector Sigma seen in BW2 and BWN (which similar to the IDW BW comics, similar events of those seen in those animes happened way earlier in this timeline).
• Ironically, unlike Animated, Elita One willing takes on a spider beast mode and remains a heroic Maximal/Autobot. (Her Transmetal spider-body is repurposed from Botcon 2001 Arcee.)
• Arcee is from Paradron and was once a medic. She eventually scans a blue motorcycle mode and becomes like her brooding Prime counterpart, after all the Omincons (who hail from the colony world or Paradron) are wiped out during the war. In the revised timeline, Paradron was destroyed much earlier than in the original series. Unicron would recieve a giant power boost upon consuming the planet.
• Cybertron Scourge is actually called Cerebrus, in the RID01 timeline he would've been lobotomized by Megatron to be the Predacon Bruticus seen in that toyline. His "sweeps" are the BW locust Scourges, (actually Quintesson Insecticon clones, alone with BW stag beetle Insection and Energon rhino beetle Insecticon clones/drones), left over from the age of the Quintesson's occupation. Regular G1 Sweeps are also Terrorcon/Terrabots and Quintesson drones, like the triple-changing Overchrarges. As was seen in the G1 cartoon, the Omega Sentinels are also Quintesson drones used to enslave Cybertron and the other colony worlds, with the Guardian robots and Omega Supreme himself being defectors that developed their own personalities. Cybertron Snarl is actually called Snarl.
• In the 2006 of the revised timeline, the EDC was never created (because the Cybertronians are simply believed to be human made robots and their existense remained a secret, and thus never shared their tech on a mass scale) and thus, Marrisa Faireborm is simply a government liason for the Autobots, much like Agent Fowler from Prime, with Col. Mike Franklin being her superior.

More Timeline Changes

• BW2 Galvatron is actually the crime boss Cryotek (who was called a minion of Unicron on his packaging), and a composite character with Megatronus/The Fallen, being the overseer/puppet master of all his "successors", including the former slave, Energon miner and gladiator (forced to fight for the Quintessons amusement), D-16, aka G1 Megatron, as well as Straxus/BW Megatron, Archforce, Megaplex/BW2 Thrustor and his "brother", BW2 Megastorm/Gigastorm. Cryotek is both the "original Megatron and Galvatron", BW Scourge is under his command and gets cloned into an army of sweeps, Gigastorm is upgraded a second time into Cybertron Scourge, and inaddition to Starscream/Hellscream, BB, Thrust/Thrustor and Dirge/Dirgegun under his commander, he also has Botcon Cyclonus, MW Thundercracker and Armada Minion of Unicron Ramjet (all repurposed as separate individuals from their G1 namesakes). In this version, Cryotek/BW2 Galvatron's forces were victorious in defeating Lio Convoy's AND Big Convoy/Thunderclash's Maximals and successfully pillaged Gaia, a Nebulan mining colony world, for Dark Energon. It will later turn out that Sideways/Liege Maximo has access to Unicron's essence and can "create" endless copies of Unicron using replicated Omega Locks (which can also be used to cyberform/colonize worlds). Quintessons are forged Cybertronians, many of them experimenting on themselves, the 5-faced Judges are failed combiners, most Autobots and Decepticons were "built" by tge Quintessons because they had their sparks harvested and implanted into constructed cold bodies. Jack Darby, Miko and Raf were human allies of the Autobots during the 90s when Cryotek tried to invade Earth with an army of Terrorcons and the three teens grow up to become the founders of the EDC (tho in the revised timeline where the Transformers' existence remain secret, GI Joe never disbands, EDC is never created to replace it and Darby leads GI Joe instead).
• It will be left purposely ambiguous whether the BW Maximals and Predacons actually went to prehistoric earth or some kinda Vok game reserve planet. In fact, Starscream's Underbase-empowered immortal spark may be the only thing that actually time traveled since this version of the Beast Wars, BW2, BWN, Pax Cybertronia, etc happened during the 4 million years Optimus and Megatron were presumed dead. The fact none of the BW cast remember their previous lives on Cybertron or even their real names (only bits and pieces of information as if their minds were tampered with) will lend credence to the idea that it all may have been a fake environment for the Vok to learn about the Cybertronian War. Most of the BW characters were actually protoforms activated on earth and thus had no previous life on Cybertron. This retcon would "justify" many stories where BW characters like Cheetor show up in "present day" as Autobots and Decepticons. The Vok's Planet Buster (was a prototype, there's many more) is among many weapons the Vok intend to use to destroy both Unicron and Cybertron (and any colony worlds), as revenge for having their own homeworld destroyed. BW Megatron/Straxus conquer Cybertron and unleashed a Vehicon virus to transform everyone on Cybertron into Vehicons (any who were immune were rounded up and forcibly desparked as seen in the BM cartoon). The BM cartoon actually happened in the 90s in-universe. The Oracle/Vector Sigma was infected by a Vok shell program and when Primal sacrificed himself to defeat BW Megatron, he unleashed a technoorganic virus. Vector Prime awakens from Vector Sigma to gather the 4 Cyber Keys and activate the Omega Lock in order to purge Cybertron from the technoorganic virus, tho this leaves Cybertron to be conquered by G1 Megatron's Decepticons by 2005. Basically, the premise of this series is that "alot happened in the 4 million years Optimus and Megatron went missing". The one thing set in stone is the Beast Machines took place in the 90s in-universe, before the Movie (set in 2005).
• Straxus/BW Megatron former governor of Darkmount, was recruited by the crime boss, Cryotek/BW2 Galvatron/Megatronus after Darkmount was destroyed by the Autobots during the Great War. The "Heart of Cybertron" Megatron used to power his Nemesis warship and then tried to upgrade himself with is actually the Allspark, the "literal Heart of Cybertron", Vector Prime will find a way to reconstruct it. The Matrix of Leadership (and other Matrixes) are fragments of the Allspark/Heart of Cybertron. Miniature Omega Locks are used by Maximo's Cybertronian Empire like the Seeds were in the Aoe Movie, but only the real Omega Lock can reactivate Primus. Primus and Unicron's true origins, like the Vok, will purposely be left vague.
• Agent Fowler and Mike Franklin are also members of GI Joe. Franklin being rescued by Evac happens "in all 3 timelines", as does Primacron/Liege Maximo unleashing Tornedron. In the Armada timeline, Optimus's Matrix was drained from defeating Tornedrone instead of the Hate Plague as in the original and revised timelines, thus explaining why he didn't use the Matrix to defeat Unicron and why it still needed to be recharged regardless of timeline changes. Optimus uses Vector Sigma to recharge the Matrix post-Armada in both the Armada and revised timelines. Jetfire rescues Optimus and his discarded Matrix after Unicron's defeated in both the Armada and revised timelines. In the revised timeline, Starscream's minicon Swindle/Grid pushes Starscream out of the way so the he is vaporized by Unicron instead of Starscream. Starscream is eventually possessed by his original timeline self, nearly undoing Starscream's redemption arc in Armada, but Optimus is able to use the Matrix to restore Starscream's memories of the revised timeline causing him to go into exile for a brief period.
• Cryotek/BW2 Galvatron creates a clone of Autojetter and had the Autorollers create a combined form of themselves (resembling RID Landfill but with blue jet arms) in the hopes that having their own combiner would help their odds against Lio Convoy's various combiners. It is this combined form of the Autorollers that helped turn the tide of in Cryotek's favor and utterly decimate Lio Convoy's forces. When Cryotek returns to Cybertron after Straxus/BW Megatron's defeat, he recruits Waspinator, tho reluctant at first because the wasp joined BW Megatron's rogue crew and stole the Golden Disk from him (my main idea of having Cryotek be the same character as BW2 Galvatron is because BW2 Dirge was depicted as one of Cryotek's underlings in a Botcon short and that made me realize that BW2 Galvatron would lead a gang of Predacons who named themselves after "famous wartime Decepticons long believed to be dead"). But Waspinator is able to bargain for his life, claiming he learned much useful information when Straxus enslaved Cybertron during the BM cartoon, and BW2 Galvatron/Cryotek removes his spark from his small pathetic technorginic wasp body (with Thrust's head), kills Dirgegun and implants Waspinator's spark in Dirgegun's body, restoring Waspinator to a form resembling the body he had on "prehistoric earth". Once a new source of energon is found, the Maximals and Predacons ditch the Micromaster upgrade and return to normal sized Cybertronians. Many also ditch their Beast modes, while others keep them. The Anti-gravity technology used by G1 Megatron's Decepticon forces is disabled by Optimus using an emp-like device and the Decepticons are forced to rely solely on jet modes for fly (thus Megatron and Soundwave scan jet modes, while Shockwave takes on a tank mode and but uses a built in jetpack in robot mode).
• Megazarak/Zarak, the genocidial maniac who was imprisoned on Nebulos in a Pretender shell, before regaining his memories and forming the Hive organization to conquer Nebulos, creates a technoorganic virus from Dark Energon (the same one the Vok trick Primal into using later), to transform the Nebulans into Minicons/Cyberdroids. Megazarak's depiction as a Genocidial maniac comics from RID01, while his role as "a previous Decepticon leader before Megatron", comes from Animated. All the headmaster Cybertronians merge with their Nebulan partners minds (tho the Cybertronian mind overwrites that of their Nebulan partner, effectively killing them in the process) and their original bodies are destroyed, both sides must build new lifeless Transtector bodies for the Cyberdroids to control. This allows for the various depictions of the Headmasters in the Japanese and American cartoons/comics to be somewhat reconciled. Nebulans have different skin colors like humans and not all are green like the cartoon. Most of the cyberformed Nebulan/Minicons/Cyberdroids also lose the ability to speak, but Issac Sumdac, a Nebulan scientist and one of the few Nebulons to not get turned into a minicon, is able to restore his daughter Sari's ability to speak and proceeds to try to do so for others. This also explains why the Targetmasters spoke in beeps in the Headmasters anime just like the Minicons did in Armada.
• Tornedron's defeat is what lead to Unicron's post-movie head being reactivated and gaining a power boost in order to merge itself with one of Cybertron's moon's. Tho in the armada timeline, it was ironically Sideways who implanted the fragment the turned the moon into Unicron's new body. This explains why Unicron's new body in the Armada cartoon and the revised timeline has a weird technorganic interior. In the revised timeline, when Unicron consumes Planet Q, he's able to do so before Alpha Quintesson can unleash a weapon that will deactivate him. In the revised timeline, Rodimus didn't go with the Omincons to Paradron (so he could fulfill the role he played in the 1986 movie which itself is still Canon, regardless of many outside elements being changed via time travel). In the organal timeline, rodimus was damaged in battle and went into stasis for a long time, hence why he's still "young" in 2005 of the original timeline, but is more old and grumpy in the Armada timeline where he never went into stasis. Rodimus would get damaged and still go into stasis, despite the timeline changes, in tge revised timeline, restoring his role in history. It's ironic that Rodimus was apathetic to Paradron's destruction, when he helped founding that colony world in the Armada timeline (which again is treated akin to DC Comics' Flashpoint timeline). Because of this, Rodimus, Prowl and Landmine are not allies of Alpha Quintesson in the revised timeline version of the Energon Cartoon. Energon Scorponok and Armada Terrorsaur are abducted from the moments of their deaths in the BW cartoon and thus turn out to actually be their BW counterparts. In the Armada timeline, Terrorsaur was killed (again) offscreen before the major events of the energon cartoon but in revised timeline, he survives and goes on to play a more prominent role as one of Alpha Q's servants. BW/Energon Scorponok is the only bot named Scorponok, G1 Scorponok is retroactively only called Megazarak like he was in Japan.
• The 6 Commandos, including Scourge/Nemesis Prime, brainwashed by Megatron in RID01 and the revised timeline, are actually a lost team of Wreckers, led by Impactor who accompanied Metalhawk's team (which included Evac and Crosswise) to Earth to fight Blood/Bomb-Burst's team of Decepticon Pretenders (which includes Lugnutz and Thunderblast). The Aligned team of Wreckers seen to combine into Ruination are repurposed as the "previous Autobot identifies" of the Commandos, eventually their brainwashing is undone by Ultra Magnus. Mega-Octane used to be Impactor, Armorhide used to be Twin-Twist, Rollbar used to be Roadbuster, Rotor used to be Whirl, Movor used to be Topspin, and Scourge/Nemesis Prime used to be Ironfist/Fisitron.
• Antilla, much like IDW2005, is the planet Sideways/Primacron goes to shortly before 2005 to recreate Unicron and destroy Lithone, in both the original and revised timelines, but in the Armada timeline, Sideways planted a fragment of Unicron to revive him within one of Cybertron's moons instead. Ironically in the revised timeline, Unicron's head would recieve a power boost from Tornedrone's defeat and merge with Cybertron's moon, Ironically allowing many events of the Armada timeline, post-2010, to come to pass (replacing the events of the Rebirth, which now happen earlier before Optimus Prime is revived to stop the Hate Plague). Thunderwing, Bludgeon and the Abominus team of Terrorcons are loyal servants of Unicron (and double agents to the Decepticons and Quintessons) infused with Dark Energon who will show up occasionally to keep Sideways in check. Because he has been infused with Dark Matrix energy, Sideways is able to survive his defeat in the Armada cartoon (in the 2nd and 3rd timelines), and eventually regenerate his body into what we see in the Cybertron cartoon, tho he begins to lose his sanity and many who encounter him simply think he's a nutjob pretending to be Sideways (which is why no one seemed to remember him in the Cybertron cartoon, in addition to the more current pressing concerns of Megatron using the Cyber Keys for evil and the Unicron Singularity distracting them).
• In the revised timeline, Alpha Trion leaves a message in Matrix using the Quill, for reasons mysterious even to Vector Prime, telling Optimus to make sure the existence of the Cybertronians remain a secret to humanity for the time being, aside from a few human allies and liasons, so they will be spared from a certain vague danger in the future. Chip Chase and Doctor Alcazar take the fall for the Autobots, claiming to be scientists who built the Autobots, and at first they don't know how to deal with the Decepticons. Chase and Alcazar create a emp-like device that will short circuit the Decepticons built-in anti-gravity devices, robbing them of their ability to fly unless they have aerial alt-modes or jetpacks. The Decepticons suffer a humiliating defeat because of this, where they can't retreat, forcing Megatron to scan Thundercracker's jet mode and Soundwave to scan Skywarp's (which had the side-effect of granting Soundwave the ability to teleport like his Prime cartoon counterpart). Tho some Decepticons are able to restore their anti-gravity devices, Megatron is reluctant to allow the Autobots to know of this lest they be defeated in such a manner again and forcing him and the Decepticons to create their own "cover story" for the Decepticons, claiming to be the creations of an evil terrorist organization, called the Machination, led by Frenzy in a Pretender shell, under the alias Dr. Theodore Braxis, aka the "Robot Master", and a remote control drone body of Megatron he could use as a puppet to beat up Frenzy, should he get too cocky as the de-facto puppet leader of the Decepticons/Machination in the public eye. Many of the mooks of this shell organization were small robot drones disguised as ominous masked soliders. Frenzy and Rumble can actually switch into eachothers color schemes to mess with ppl, nevertheless Rumble is often deployed in battle more often regardless, leading Frenzy to take on the role of Braxis so he could "finally get to do something".
• The eventual rise of GI Joe and Cobra in the 90s, would cause many in the public to believe the Transformers were all created by Cobra the whole time, especially since Cobra would employ similar technology to create mech-mooks of their own, the B.A.T.s (Battle Android Troopers). GI Joe and the Autobots will team up against the Decepticons and Cobra for a yet to be determined adventure, set in the 90s.
• The reason why most Transformers have "rediculous names" is because like Megatron/D-16, most of them didn't real have names to begin with, only having designations similar to D-16, C-81 and B-127. Jazz's original name before coming to Earth was Meister, (his Japanese name in real life). Alpha Quintesson is working with Sideways/Liege Maximo to use Unicron's powers to restore the planet's he once consumed, while Sideways hoping to build a new empire. Vector Prime exists to ensure the timeline is never changed so drastically, the creation of the Armada timeline was the first time he was caught off guard and forced to take drastic measures to ensure the timeline would be restored and not messed with on such a scale again, creating numerous copies of himself (time remnants) throughout time to safeguard various important time periods specifically, unfortunately this has caused Vector Prime's mind to begin "fracture" in some way. Vector tells Thunderclash about how "the more someone time travels, the less it's rules will apply to u physically, but it will still inevitably mess with ur mind regardless".
• Despite their vague origins, it will be mentioned the Vok were exposed to the powers of the Underbase and thus became beings of pure energy, surviving the destruction of their homeworld eons ago and being enemies of the Quintessons/Cybertronian Empire as well as the Transformers (Autobots, Predacons and Decepticons). They will build an army of Tigerhawk drones (in Razorclaw colors), and be set up as a bigger threat against the Quintessons and Unicron (the Vok vs Quintesson war will be depicted akin to Marvel's Kree vs Skrull war, where both sides are "evil"). The Vok will ally with Krunix and the very Laser pod drones (based on the Armada Dead End toy), and it will be revealed that the Lithones and various races Unicron wiped out were reformatted into those laser pod drones or Terrorcons as seen in Energon (Krunix will be mentioned as having survived both the destruction of his home planet and being fed to the Sharkticons). Kranix and the Lithone drones and various reformatted survivors of other races enslaved within Unicron's systems, along with the Vok, will blame all the Cybertronians and Quintessons for the creation of Unicron (thinking him to be a superweapon of their's) and creating a fleet of Planet Busters to destroy both the various copies of Unicron Sideways has created throughout the Universe to terrorize it, as well as the various colony worlds of the Hub - the cyberformed world's of the Cybertronian/Quintesson Empire.