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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