News Files - Transformers

Very little is known about the First Cybertronian War. We know that it involved the enslavement, and subsequent rebellion, of the entire Cybertronian species. Their eventual victory ushered in the First Golden Age of Cybertron. Through a combination of colonisation and conquest, the Cybertron Republic's influence spread across the galaxy.

The Second Cybertronian War began on Gobotron, a comet that was cyberformed by mining Hadean's sixth planet, Galleon. Ariax, leader of the Malignus, attempted to overthrow the local Guardian Council. Although the Malignus lost, and by the end of the war were firmly subordinate to the Guardians, their conflict would first spread to the farthest reaches of the Republic.

The seeds for the Third Cybertronian, or Great War, were planted through many years of social stratification by an increasingly entitled upper class, who exploited everyone below them with the aid of a rigid and corrupt police system. The spark to the powder keg was provided when factions within the Senate, the corrupted government of Cybertron, arranged for an attack upon the leading Prime. By doing this, in a failed attempt to gain access to the Matrix of Leadership, which had been secreted away centuries before, they also gained an excuse to introduce the "Clampdown", a planet-wide security regime which let them crack down on anyone who opposed them.

During the Clampdown, the Autobots enforced the Senate's draconian rules. This caused frictions to rise even more, and politically-minded Cybertronians spoke out loudly against it, only to be silenced brutally. Some within the Senate itself - specifically Ratbat - exploited the extreme social unrest for personal gain. An energon miner, turned fugitive from justice, turned underground gladiator, named Megatron, rallied a force of gladiators, escaped convicts, and other bots dissatisfied with the current leadership, to rebellion based out of the city-state of Kaon.

The war has continued for over four million years, ravaging Cybertron's once splendid beauty. In 1809, the Ark, a Vanguard-class Starship under the command of Optimus Prime, came under attack by the Nemesis, a Worldburner-class Starship under the command of Megatron, while searching for resources. Crashing on an uncharted world called Earth, both vessels were lost with all hands... or so they thought. Characters from this source are currently appable as SFCs.

Note: As an adapted source, the world and events of Transformers may not have transpired here. It has been modified to fit the world of United Heroes MUSH, not the other way around.

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