17000 BC

The Dynasty of Primes find Earth but, due to the presence of life, will not harvest it. They are betrayed and slaughtered by one of their own, but the survivor steals the Matrix of Leadership needed to activate the Star harvester. The Fallen dispatches the Seekers to locate the Matrix, and returns to Cybertron to wipe out the rest of the Dynasty. All are slaughtered save an orphan hidden from the Fallen, who is imprisoned in his sarcophagus. The Transformers inherit Cybertron, forming a civilization known as the Autobots, while the Harvester left on Earth is hidden by the native sentients.