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HISTORY
(WARNING: MUCH SCROLLING LIES AHEAD)
G1
9 million years B.C.
The Quintissons create Vector Sigma and the planet Cybertron (about
the size of Mars, but much heavier as it is entirely metal and air).
They start selling military and personal robots to the dominant
life forms in the Milky Way Galaxy. The biggest buyers happen to
be humanoid in shape, so the robots are made in bilateral humanoid
form, with male and female characteristics for variety. [the Decepticon
on the planet with the mer-people's transformation pool is obviously
an early Quintisson model.] Vector Sigma, the ultimate computer,
is the only way to control the Plasma Energy Chamber and other parts
of Cybertron. The Quintissons, mistrustful of even their own creations,
make the Plasma Energy Chamber give off too much energy, so that
all robots trying to use it will overload. The Quints, being organic,
have no such problem with the Plasma. The robots develop true sentient
'souls' and rebel against their Quint masters, who have gotten fat
and lazy off selling robots and acting like kings. Thus begins the
First Cybertronian War. A scientist robot named A3 is one of the
leaders, with a female scientist called Beta as his second-in-command.
A3 manages to make a controller device to override the Quintissons'
Guardian enforcer robots. The Quints are forced to flee Cybertron.
Thus begins "the Golden Age of Cybertron", a time of pure
science and self-discovery for the Cybertronian self-willed robots.
A depository for the greatest scientists' and leaders minds' is
made, and called the Autobot Matrix of Leadership. As time progresses,
this Matrix is found to have strange powers of remote energy-matter
transference. Only certain Autobots who have both the proper mind
and body shape can use the Matrix. A tradition of calling the Autobot
leader "Prime" is started. Vector Sigma is the only computer
that can program new robot bodies. As asked by the Cybertronians,
each robot is given a personality at "birth". The military
robots name themselves Decepticons and try to rule Cybertron as
their own planetary kingdom. This is the Second Cybertronian War.
Some try to remain neutral, but they are soon forced to choose between
the Decepticon "camp" or Autobot "camp".
The robots learn
how to reconstruct their bodies to transform, allowing them to become
vehicles, equipment, or weapons. They are powered by energyon (pronounced
en-er-jon), a condensing energy-matrix that is used to convert matter
to energy and then tapped for power. Thus any matter can be used
for life, but the best results come from electricity. Over the next
5 million years different Decepticon and Autobots will rule Cybertron,
their home, with the losers fleeing the planet or "jailed"
(their AIs held in stasis), or outright killed. A3, now known as
Alpha Trion, is a still a scientist Autobot at the end of the Third
Cybertronian War. He inherited the Autobot Matrix when the last
Autobot leader fell, but did not accept the mantle of leadership.
When the current Decepticon leader Megatron damages warehouse-worker
Orion Pax and two others, Alpha Trion recreates them into Optimus
Prime, Aleeta One, and Ironhide. He gives Optimus Prime the Autobot
Matrix of Leadership, giving new life to the Autobot cause against
the Decepticons. Thus the Fourth Cybertronian War begins. In the
Decepticon camp, leadership is by the strongest and most ruthless
of dictators. Megatron also shows cunning for battle strategy. Decepticon
science now includes size-changing, allowing Soundwave and his "cassettes"
to transform from 50 feet tall to half a foot. (Megatron's original
transformation - mode is unknown, perhaps a giant gun similar to
Shockwave.) Jetfire is lost during a recon mission. Starscream joins
the Decepticon camp. Megatron corrupts the Constructicons, who in
turn sabotage Crystal City and almost destroy its city Guardian
robot turned Autobot Transformer, Omega Supreme. Omega Supreme chases
the Constructions off of Cybertron, following them for revenge.
Some Autobots leave Cybertron and learn how to survive on a planet
of mechanical dumpsites, and call themselves "Junkions"
instead of Autobots. The Quintissons nurse their wounds on a far-off
terra-formed planet, calling it "Quintessa". They continue
their weapon-dealing ways around the galaxy. Energyon becomes an
acceptable form of money in many star systems. A group of super-pacifist
"neutrals" and Autobots leave Cybertron, finding a wormhole
to a pocket universe. Over the millennia, they cyber-form a planet
into a second Cybertron, calling it Paradon. 4 million years B.C.
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