News Files - Transformers Decepticon Empire

Cybertronian civilisation was once stratified by a functionist society that equated one's worth as an individual with the usefulness and uniqueness of one's alternate mode. Among the impoverished lower classes was a young, idealist miner named Megatron, who sought to peacefully end functionism as an institution. His treatise gathered momentum among Cybertron's working class, but the Decepticon movement didn't come about until later, when an embittered and disillusioned Megatron began circulating more radical and violent samizdat writings. Indeed, the name Decepticon was taken from one of Megatron's favourite rallying cries: "You are being deceived".

The Decepticons soon began spreading across the planet, recruiting new people and carrying out terrorist strikes in advance of their main assaults. Eventually they overthrew the Senate, but by then it was clear they were going to install a brutal dictatorship of their own. The Autobots of Optimus Prime rose up against them and Third Cybertronian War, or Great War began.