HISTORY
(WARNING: MUCH SCROLLING LIES AHEAD)

Over the length of the Fourth Cybertronian War Optimus Prime and Aleeta-One became separated. Prime used his IOcon fortress to conduct his battles, while Aleeta began using guerrilla tactics. Cybertron was almost completely drained of energy, as the Wars have either depleted or destroyed various energy sources. Cybertron drifts aimlessly through the Orion Arm of the Galaxy, eventually passing near a G-type sun with several planets. One, the third planet from the star, is within the zone for organic life, and has an atmosphere like Cybertron (which was like the Quintisson's home planet). Autobot leader Optimus Prime learns of this planet, and prepares to take his Autobots to the planet to recover from the past War and bring back energy to power Cybertron. However, Megatron learns of Prime's plans and ambushes the starship on its way to the third planet. (Megatron left Shockwave in charge of the Decepticon territories on Cybertron.) During a battle in a gigantic meteor storm (the Asteroid Belt?), both ships crash on the third planet, with most of the Transformers still locked in death struggles aboard the Autobot ship. Megatron's last power source, the Heart of Cybertron, is still aboard the other ship, which crashes in South America. The Insecticons jettison from the Decepticon ship and crash upon the planet in the Central Americas. Their on-board computer eventually gains enough power to reform them into indigenous life forms, as huge insects that live on actual biomass instead of energyon cubes. A few Decepticons and Autobots are left on Cybertron. Alpha Trion secretly guides Aleeta One and other Autobots from time to time. Cybertron space-drives at this time are limited to light speed with the use of plasma rockets similar to fusion drives but much more powerful. Subspace radio is in its infancy. Many of the Transformers have "talent" technology that has been lost, making each Transformer unique. 0 A.D.
The dominant life form on the third planet, which the "Humans" call "Earth", undergoes a religion-motivated change in date chronology. The star is called "Sol". Cybertron continues to drift without power through the Orion Arm. 1985 A.D. The volcano that the Autobot ship crashed into, Mt. St. Hillary in the state of Oregon in the nation of the United States of America, erupts, giving off enough heat to power energy sinks onboard the ship, which in turn activates the ship's computer, Tele-Tran One. Tele-Tran One immediately sends a low- altitude satellite to observe the planet the Transformers crashed upon. Much has changed in four million years. The indigenous, dominant life forms have a primitive technology. Tele-Tran One scans several native transportation and military vehicles, and uses its' onboard repair units to reactivate the closest Transformer. This robot is unfortunately a Decepticon, who manages to keep the repair bots focused on reviving the Decepticons and not the Autobots. Megatron takes his Decepticons and begins building another starship. He learns of the people of the planet, but as they are organic they pose no threat. Meanwhile, the repair robots manage to reach Optimus Prime and rebuild him, and then the other Autobots. Optimus goes out to stop Megatron, and meets Humans in the process, rescuing "Spike" and "Sparkplug" from an oilrig. These Humans are instrumental in teaching the Autobots about Earth. Megatron's starship is shot down into the Pacific Ocean, where Megatron uses it for a base for the next several years. He manages to use subspace radio to contact Shockwave on Cybertron, and the two compare technological advances made on Cybertron while the other Transformers were on Earth.
Megatron builds a subspace teleportation "bridge", finding that it requires an active intelligence to guide the faster-than-light beam. A super-luminal plasma drive is discovered by both sides, leading to true starships. Wheeljack makes an Immobilizer ray, but then discards it. New ways of tapping background radiation and energy for energyon cubes are discovered. Megatron discovers an Autobot colony-city on an alien planet. He finds the inhabitants dead, victims of Cosmic Rust, bacteria that eats Cybertronian metals. He attempts to use an Autobot heat ray he discovered in the city to destroy the Autobots, but is forced to discard it to stop the Rust. The Decepticon starship is discovered by a Human archeological dig. Megatron takes the Heart of Cybertron to power himself with exceptional powers, but the Heart is stolen and destroyed by the Autobots.
Shockwave discovered that someone had been stealing energyon cubes from his supplies at regular intervals. He set up a trap, and was amazed to discover it was female Autobots! Shockwave sent a subspace message to Megatron on Earth, and Megatron sent a message to Prime, gloating over the fact that he was about to terminate Optimus Prime's mate. Prime remembered that he had tried to get Aleeta-One (or Elita One) to come with him on the Ark, but she had refused, and the space ship had taken off without her. Prime drove to the Decepticon spacebridge and overcame the guards, teleporting to Cybertron. Powerglide, Ironhide, and Inferno, came later to assist Prime. Meanwhile, the female Autobots were shown to be Firestar, Moonracer, and Chromia, with Elita-One as their leader (and two unnamed). Firestar transformed into a small Cybertronian-style truck, the other females into small cars. They had a poorly hidden underground base, where Elita One was planning guerrilla tactics to fight the Decepticons. She had a mentor, Alpha Trion, who continually reminded her never to use her "special power." Elita One went topside to go look for a new base site. Megatron sent Starscream and other Decepticons to Cybertron to assist Shockwave in hunting down Optimus and the female Autobots. Starscream discovered the entrance and had Rumble make quakes to collapse the underground rooms. Moonracer was forced to use the energyon cubes to explode a blocked tunnel. Then Elita and Optimus Prime met, only to be captured by Starscream. Starscream had Optimus tied up and was about to drop him into a vat of acid, when Elita One used her "special power": a time stop. Walking through the rainbow field, Elita rescued Optimus and carried him outside until the field wore off and she collapsed. She told Prime that her special power used up ALL of her energyon, killing her for the one-time activation. Elita had Prime then take her to Alpha Trion, her mysterious mentor. Meanwhile, the time stop wore off in the building, and Starscream thought Prime was dead and Elita escaped. At Alpha Trion's secret rooms, Alpha had Optimus take his power converter out to do a special energyon transfusion, since Optimus and Elita had the same energyon signature. Prime said "But only my creator would know that!" Alpha Trion agreed, still healing Elita. The other female Autobots and male Autobots met on the surface of Cybertron, and talked of old times, Powerglide to Moonracer, Ironhide to Chromia, Inferno to Firestar. Then Starscream and Shockwave showed up with other Decepticons, and a battle started. Prime and Elita drove up and were able to beat the 'Cons off. Elita One was able to make a new, higher-tech base elsewhere on Cybertron. Optimus offered to take the female Autobots to Earth, but Elita refused, saying that she would continue the fight on Cybertron. Elita and her guerrillas were never heard from again.

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