Cybertronian
| The name or term "Cybertronian" refers to more than one character or idea. For a list of other meanings, see Cybertronian (disambiguation). |
- The Cybertronians are a faction in the Generation 2 portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.
- For the fan-published toy recognition guide by Antartic Press, see: Cybertronian: The Unofficial Transformers Recognition Guide.
The Cybertronians were a result of Decepticon experiments in Bio-Morphic Reproduction ("budding") ~4 million years ago on Cybertron. The Decepticons were able to rapidly expand their population using this method, but the newly created Transformers felt no attachment to Cybertron as a homeworld and (apparently en-masse) left to conquer other worlds.
In the modern era, the Cybertronian Empire has conquered many worlds, enslaving or exterminating the native population and cyberforming the planets to create "little Cybertrons." This was apparently under the direction of the Decepticon progenitor known as the Liege Maximo, as part of a gambit to ascend to the plane of the Dark Gods.
Many citizens of the Cybertronian Empire have long since forgotten the terms "Autobot" and "Decepticon" in the millennia since leaving their birthworld. However their forebears are remembered bitterly by individuals such as Liege Centuro Jhiaxus. By his reckoning the Empire are the "true" Decepticons, having achieved the inborn Decepticon imperative of galactic conquest. He judges the Decepticons and Autobots they left behind as "evolutionary throwbacks." However, given Jhiaxus' former barbarism, he might be projecting his own issues onto his forebears.
Trivia
- The Cybertronian faction-symbol was also adopted by Bludgeon's Decepticon forces during their period of exile from Cybertron while operating outside of the Milky Way. It's possible the symbol has a common cultural meaning that would cause two disconnected groups of Decepticons expatriates to gravitate towards it. However it's far more likely that the Generation 2 faction symbols were mandated by Hasbro as no current toys used the original Decepticon symbol.
