The History of Transformers

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This is a monthly Internet Newsgroup posting of the timeline of the

Transformers. It follows the Quintison theory, using the original TV series,

the Transformers movie, and post-movie TV series to "The Rebirth". It does

NOT include the comic books or fan fiction characters (specifically), or the

new "Generation 2" TV series and comic books. If you want to dispute me, hey,

make your own post. :)

Jeremy H. Pace



9 million years B.C.-----------------------------------------------------------

The Quintisons create Vector Sigma and the planet (about the size of Mars,

but much heavier as it is entirely metal and air) Cybertron. 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 merpeople'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 Quintisons, 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 Quintisons' 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 transferrence. 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".

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The robots learn how to reconstruct their bodies to transform, allowing them

to become vehicles, equipment, or weapons. They are powered by energon,

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 Cybertonian War begins.

In the Decepticon camp, leadership is by the strongest and most ruthless of

dictators. Megatron also shows a 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 orginal transform-

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 Cyberton and learn how to survive on a

planet of mechanical dumpsites, and call themselves "Junkions" instead of

Autobots.

The Quintisons nurse their wounds on a far-off terraformed planet, calling it

"Quintessa". They continue their weapon-dealing ways around the galaxy.

Energon 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 millenia, they cyber-form a planet

into a second Cybertron, calling it Paradon.

4 million years B.C. ----------------------------------------------------------

Over the length of the Fourth Cybertronian War Optimus Prime and Aleeta-One

became seperated. Prime used his Iacon 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 Quintison'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 indigious life-forms, as huge insects that live on

actual biomass instead of energon cubes.

A few Decepticons and Autobots are left on Cybertron. Alpha Trion secretly

guides Aleeta One and other Autobots from time to time.

Cybertron spacedrives at this time are limited to lightspeed with the use of

plasma rockets similiar 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 religon-motivated change in date chronolgy. 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, Teletram One. Teletram One immediately sends a low-

altitude satellite to observe the planet the Transformers crashed upon. Much

has changed in four million years. The indigious, dominant life forms have a

primitive technology. Teletram One scans several native transportation and

military vehicles, and uses its' onboard repair units to reactivate the

closest Transformer. This robot is unfortunely 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

oil rig. 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.

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Megatron builds a subspace teleportation "bridge", finding that it requires an

active intelligence to guide the faster-than-light beam. A superluminal plasma

drive is discovered by both sides, leading to true starships. Wheeljack makes

an Immoblizer ray, but then discards it. New ways of tapping background

radiation and energy for energon cubes are discovered.

Megatron discovers an Autobot colony-city on an alien planet. He finds the

inhabitants dead, victims of Cosmic Rust, a 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 destoyed by the Autobots.

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Shockwave discovered that someone had been stealing energon 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 Decepticnos 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 energon 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 timestop. Walking

through the rainbow field, Elita rescued Optimus and carried him outside until

the field wore off and she collasped. She told Prime that her special power

used up ALL of her energon, killing her for the one-time activation. Elita

had Prime then take her to Alpha Trion, her mysterious mentor. Meanwhile, the

timestop 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 energon transfusion, since Optimus and

Elita had the same energon 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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The Autobots free a planet from the Decepticons. The planet has a strange

transformation pool, which allows intelligences to reform themselves. The

natives use the pool to become merpeople, to escape the peoples' city, which

is ruled by an old Quintison Decepticon robot.

In creating the Stunticons and Aerobots, the Key to Vector Sigma is destoyed.

Alpha Trion is absorbed into Vector Sigma. Alpha Trion gives the Key to the

Plasma forge to Optimus, where the first Quintison robots were made.

Over the next 20 years, Humans help Autobots and Decepticons both, with

sometimes disasterous results. The most prominent Human is Spike, who does

extensive research into Autobot technology. Spike Witickty marries Carlie,

who is also a friend of the Autobots. Earth obtains technology to expand

beyond the Solar System.

Other Autobots and Decepticons, learning that Optimus Prime and Megatron are on

Earth, rejoin the ranks of their companions. Some allow themselves to be

disguised as Earth vehicles; some do not.

Spike and Carlie Witicky have a son, Daniel.

Autobots discover "cassette" technology similar to the Deceptions', which

allows them to build cassettes for Blaster.

Primacrom, an immortal alien scientist, becomes jealous of the Transformers

and their powerful planet Cybertron. He constructs Unicrom, a massive

Transformer the size of a moon, and orders him to subjgate Cybertron for him.

Unicrom rebels, fleeing his creator and devouring various planets as he

travels though intersellar space at lightspeed. But, driven by his

programming, Unicrom telepathically probes the Transformers on Earth. He is

horrified to find the Autobot Matrix of Leadership, an energy matrix that,

used properly, could anniliate him. He begins forming a plan to use agents to

acquire or destroy the Matrix.

Primacrom's assistant, an energy being, cannot handle Omicrom's ego-driven

insanity and leaves.



c. 2005 A.D.-------------------------------------------------------------------

The Decepticons leave for Cybertron, allowing a short time of peace on Earth.

The Autobots build Autobox City, planning on using it as a base and a gigantic

Transformer warrior, Metroplex. Spike has a son named Daniel, and then goes

with a team of Autobots to use Cybertron's moons as a stepping-stone to attack

the Decepticons.

On his way to Cyberton, Unicrom eats a planet of cyborgs who had learned of him

years before, but fails to capture one of the natives, a being named Krannix.

Unfortuntely, Megatron learns of this Autobot plan and hijacks an Autobot ship

going to Earth. Several Autobots die in the hijacking. Seconds before the

ship lands, Hot Rod and Daniel discover the Decepticons and fire upon them,

giving the other Autobots warning and time to transform Autobot City into

Defense Mode. But caught by surpise, many Autobots are killed. A message is

sent to Optimus on Cybertron, but even at superluminal speed a starship will

take 12+ hours to reach Earth.

Prime arrives with reinforcements, and fights Megatron. The Decepticons

retreat, taking their dead and wounded with them. Prime is damaged beyond

repair, and dies, passing on the Matrix to Ultra Magus. The Matrix does not

accept him. Megatron and other damaged Decepticons are set adift in

interstellar space, where they are met by Unicrom. Unicrom reforms them into

his own agents, and gives them a starship to kill the Matrix with. Megatron,

now Galvatron, kills Starscream to regain Decepticon leadership, then attacks

the Autobots on Earth.

Unicrom arrives in orbit around Cybertron, eating one of the moons. Spike and

Bumblebee are presumed dead.

Galvatron learns that Unicrom controls all of his creations via a subspace

link to a pain circuit.

The Autobots flee Autobot in two ships. During the battle that follows, one

ship with the Dinobots, Kup, and Hot Rod crash on a planet, while the other

ship self-destructs in order to fool Galvatron that Springer, Arcee, Ultra

Magnus, and Daniel are dead with the Matrix. In reality the bridge of the

starship crashes on a junk planet.

Hot Rod wakes up to find himself in a parody of a planet were biological

life-forms are imitated in robotic forms. He rescues Kup, only to be captured

by Sharkicons. The two are taken to a jail where he meets Krannix, the last

survior of Unicrom's latest planet. Then Krannix is sentenced to death. The

rulers of the world are five-faced cyborgs, who delight in sentencing the

Autobots to death also. Kup and Hot Rod are rescued by the Dinobots, who

found an ally named Wheelie. The Autobots steal an alien ship to search for

the others.

On the junk planet, Daniel and the others are ambushed by Decepticons and

alien Transformers alike. Ultra Magnus is shattered, and the Matrix taken.

Hot Rod and the others arrive on the junk planet, and befriend the Junkion

Autobots. The Autobots and Junkions alike then reactive Ultra Magnus and head

to Cybertron to stop Unicrom.

In Cybertron orbit, Galvatron tries to throw off Unicron's yoke. In response,

Unicrom transforms from Planet to Battloid mode, and attacks Cybertron.

Shockwave assembles the Deceptions on Cybertron to attack Unicron. Many

Decepticons die. Hod Rod and the Junkions arrive, and Hod Rod pilots a damaged

starship into Unicrom's head unit, blinding one eye but causing little overall

damage. The Junkion ship continues to strafe Unicrom. Inside Unicrom, the

Autobots are seperated, with Springer, Kup, Ultra Magnus, and Daniel freeing

Spike and Bumblebee while Hod Rod meets and fights Galvatron for the Matrix of

Leadership.

Galvatron is driven mad by his old memories of being Megatron, independent of

Unicron's control, and Unicron's use of pain to goad Galvatron to action.

Grimlock discovers that his "brute force" strategy may need revamping.

Hot Rod manages to get the Matrix from Galvatron, and the Matrix's acceptance

of him causes an energy-to-matter transfer, changing Hot Rod to Rodimus Prime.

Rodimus hurls Galvatron out of Unicron, then opens the Matrix from its crystal

shell. The Matrix energy divides again and again, damaging Unicron wherever it

touches him. Rodimus recollects the energy and then leads the other Autobots

out of Unicron's head. Inside Unicron, the damage done by the Matrix energy

reaches overload. Unicron explodes from the inside, leaving only his head

intact.

With the Decepticons fleeing Cybertron, the planet is now in control of the

Autobots again.

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after 2005 A.D.

A crypt for the Decepticons and a flying masoleum for the Autobot dead are

made. Cyclonus and Scourge find Galvatron and the Decepticons arise again.

Five-faced aliens, now discovered to be the descendants (and a few originals)

of the Quintisons, begin to study the rediscovered Transformers and their

organic allies, the humans. The Quints try everything from time travel to

brainwashing to regain their manufacturing planet, Cybertron.

All other female Autobots other than Arcee are presumed dead.

The Autobots and Decepticons travel throughout the Galaxy, using alien

transdimensional gates, their plasma stardrive, and other technologies.

The Decepticons create Tripicon, making a rival to the Autobots' Metroplex.

The Quintisons build their own Transformers, calling them the Horrocons, in

order to fight the Cybertronian Transformers. They destroy their own adopted

home planet Quintessa in an attempt to kill Rodimus Prime. The Quints try to

activate a failsafe device inside each and every Quintison-made robot, but are

foiled by the Human Spike.

Rodimus Prime begins to experiment with the Matrix, trying to discover its

uses.

A gangster on Earth convinces Snake, a retired terroist, to use synthoid

technology to transfer the Autobots into Human bodies, which are easier to

kill. His plot to use the Autobots' bodies to attack Autobot City is

thwarted by the synthoids themselves. Snake escapes, the gangster does not.

Grimlock undergoes a mindboost, which he uses to create the Technobots.

Grimlock then backslides to normal.

The Autobots free a star system from a Quintison "quadrant lock" that kept the

entire star system in a special pocket of spacetime. The reason behind the

confinement was to keep a race of telepathic people from progressing to

spaceflight.

The Quintisons use a "time window" to take Alpha Trion (A3) from the past so

that the First Cybertronian War never happens, and they will be returned to

power. The Autobots intervene, and the plan fails.

The "neutrals" planet Panadron in its pocket universe is discovered by Cyclonus

and Scourge. The planet is full of non-Transforming Autobots that tried to

escape the Wars. When Galvatron arrives, the Panadronians contact the Autobots

on Cybertron. Rodimus Prime orders the neutrals to blow up the planet to prevent

Galvatron from using it. Transformer Sandstorm rejoins the ranks of the Autobots.

Starscream's ghost, freed inadvertanly from his remains by Octane, posseses

one of the Sweeps, and tries to get his body back and also destroy Galvatron.

Starscream even helps Unicron's head to use Cybertron for a new body, but

backstabs him at the last moment. The last news of Starscream had him in a

new body but flung out of control from Cybertron.

Primacron tries to capture Cybertron again, this time using an energy being he

created. The energy being Tormetron absorbs the energy from the

Cybertronians, first on Luna, then Earth, then Cybertron, effectively killing

them. Primacron's old assistant mangages to contact the "primitive'

Transformers while they were battling on Luna and guides them to destroy the

energy creature. Tormetron proves more than the Dinobots, Abominous, and Sky

Lnyx or Tripticon can handle. Grimlock, the last Transformer, mangages to

burst into Primacron's lab just as Tormetron rebels and tries to eat

Primacron. Grimlock has Primacron reverse the energy creature's reason for

existing (instead of absorbing energy, Tormetron will give it back) and

reanimates the other Transformers. Primacron ferverntly agrees to stop making

agents. Grimlock trashes Primacron's lab anyway, just to have fun.



The Quintisons reanimate Optimus Prime to a kind of zombie status, in another

plot to take Cybertron back. Rodimus discovers Optimus onboard the crypt and

is betrayed into giving up the Matrix. Optimus' true personality resurfaces at

the last minute, and Optimus gives Hot Rod the Matrix back. Optimus's starship

supposably is destroyed by a trap set for the other Autobots.

In reality, Optimus' body is recovered by a team of Human scientists

researching a new kind of heat-resistant metal. The star where the trap for

the Autobots was located goes supernova, proving the heat-resistant metal

ship but coating the ship in strange spores. Back on Earth, the spores are

discovered to cause an infectious madness in all sentient life. One of the

Human scientists, Dr. Jessica Morgan, is injured by the Decepticons when they

steal the metal, causing her father to hate all Transformers. He leads the

Autobots to his lab and infects them with the madness disease, which spreads

to the starports and then the Galaxy. Rodimus and Sky-Lynx take Optimus' body

and kidnap a Quintison to revive Optimus Prime. Rodimus is infected, and

Optimus, coated in the heat-resistant metal, fights him for the Matrix.

Searching through the Matrix ghosts, Optimus discovers an old legend from the

original Autobot program about the madness spores. "Such madness is fought

with wisdom." the AI tells Optimus. Optimus opens the Matrix and releases the

Matrix-energy, which speads at faster-than-light speeds all across the Galaxy,

healing the madness with a bit of Matrix wisdom to each infected person.

With the Matrix emptied but still usable, Optimus leads the Autobots back to

Cybertron.

Bumblebee is reformed into Gold Bug.

More Autobots and Decepticons return to their leaders from across the Galaxy.

Vector Sigma lets Galvatron learn of the Key to the Plasma Energy Chamber.

Galvatron, thinking it a new energy source, attacks Autobot City on Earth to

get the key. He then travels to Cybertron, and inserts the Key. Autobots

follow him to Cybertron and are present when the Key actives the Chamber. The

strange energy short-circuits several Transformers and a starship, sending its

crew flying out of control. Only Spike and Daniel, organic creatures, are

unaffected by the energy.

Optimus Primus uses the Matix of Leadership to communicate with Vector Sigma,

and discovers that Alpha Trion is now part of Vector Sigma. Sigma has allowed

Galvatron to discover the Key to the Plasma Energy Chamber for a reason.

Sigma apparently has clairvoyant powers, as it knows Humans will be

instrumental in re-powering Cybertron to a new Golden Age. The Plasma Energy

Chamber affects all energy-using beings.

The ship lands on a planet called Nebulos. Its humanoid inhabitants are

divided into two castes. Some are people that learned technokinesis,

controlling machinery with the mind alone. A few of them are cyborgs, their

brains housed in barely adequate robot bodies. Everyone else on Nebulon is

subject to the "Hive", as the technokinetics call themselves. Arrival of the

Autobots and Decepticons changes the balance of power on Nebulons. Daniel is

attacked and in critical condition, forcing Spike to use the Autobots to create

the Headmasters, Transformers with humanoid secondary operators. Several

Nebulons become the Headmasters, and then the Targetmasters, binary partners.

The Decepticons, with the help of the Hive Masters, copy Spike's efforts.

Battles for the Key follows. Optimus arrives, but is doubtful about the new

unions.

The Hivemasters transform their city into a fortress capable of superluminal

flight, and take Daniel, Arcee, and other Autobots hostage. They then leave

for Cybertron to give Galvatron the Key. Spike discovers the Hivemaster's old

city, the one that they lived in before they developed their technokinetic

powers, and reforms the city into a Headmaster fortress. He then takes off

for Cybertron.

On the planet of the Transformers, Galvatron is in a rage that his warriors

have bonded themselves with organic operators, but must accept them and their

firepower. He orders the Decepticons to build massive superluminal engines to

power Cybertron to Earth orbit, where he can again test the Plasma Energy

Chamber. The Hivemasters fight the remaining Autobots until Spike and Fortress

Maximus arrives. Galvatron tries to get Scoponok to leave Cybertron; he has

placed the Key in the Chamber with a countdown timer. Spike, in total control

of Fortress Maximus, takes matters into his own hands and rescues his son and

the Autobots from inside Scoponok. The Chamber activates, sending plasma

energy throughout the System and making Sol start to supernova. Spike has the

Nebulons jettison their Headmaster suits and change the superluminal drives to

energy sinks, with a conduit to Vector Sigma. Vector Sigma drains off Sol's

extra energy while Spike turns off the Chamber. Sigma uses the energy to

repower Cybertron into a new Golden Age. Galvatron and the Hivemasters are

flung off of Cybertron and into interstellar space.

End of the Fourth Cybertronian War.

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c. 2010? IN THE COMIC BOOKS BUT NOT ADAPTED TO THE TV SERIES

Creation of the Powermasters and Powermaster Optimus Prime

Creation of the Pretenders and Pretender Starscream, Grimlock, and Bumblebee

Grimlock and the energy pool

Spike coming to grips with being a Headmaster

Other Unicroms from parallel universes trying to destroy Cybertron again

The Last Autobot/The Ultimate Warrior (a Transformer with Vector Sigma as its

heart?)