Aligned timeline

As is to be expected when multiple authors and writers are working on a continuity, the Aligned timeline bears more than a few discrepancies and continuity hiccups. Nevertheless, we here at the TFwiki have tried to rectify this as best we can.

Before the beginning

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• Primus and Unicron battle for eons. To try and turn the tide, Primus creates the Thirteen Primes. One Shall Rise, Part 1 Over the course of the fight, Solus Prime, at the urging of Megatronus Prime, creates a great weapon to fight Unicron, although Solus herself worries that this power could corrupt them. The Thirteen vote seven to six to keep the Requiem Blaster and not destroy it. Transformers: Exiles Ultimatley, the Primes temporarily defeat Unicron, and the Chaos Bringer disappears, for the time being. One Shall Rise, Part 1 Unicron disappears for a time. Following the defeat of Unicron, Primus becomes one with the Core of Cybertron, and he gives life to future Transformers through the Well of All Sparks. One Shall Rise, Part 1. Early generations of Transformers must brave the Underworld to reach the surface. Transformers: Exodus

Near the beginning of time

• Solus Prime is murdered by Megatronus, causing the first schism in the Primes. Megatronus and the Liege Maximo soon seperate from the other Primes, and in the course of this great battle Nexus Prime is forced to fragment himself into five robots, each one carrying and guarding a fragment of the Cyber Caliber. His components were dubbed Clocker, Mainspring, Chaindrive, Cannonspring, and Pinion. The fight has lasting repercusions for the Thirteen- Megatronus and the Liege leave the Primes for good, and the other eleven go their seperate ways, with only Alpha Trion remaining on Cybertron. Transformers: Exodus. Gradually, though, the Thirteen Primes are forgotten, and

The Age of Wrath

• The Quintessons invade Cybertron and interfere with the development of the planet's occupants. The aliens modify the bodies of their new servants to serve their own ends, such as installing cockpits on the bodies of the Seekers. This period becomes known as The Age of Wrath. Transformers: Exodus

• The Age of Wrath comes to an end when the Quintessons are overthrown by Sentinel Zeta Prime, part of the Elite Guard. Under Sentinel's rule, Cybertron entered its Golden Age.