News Files - Transformers Origin of the Species

The precise origin of the Cybertronian species has been lost to the mists of time. Primus features heavily in some accounts, while the Quintessons at least occupied Cybertron for a time. Exceptionally cruel, the Quintessons treated the Cybertronians as a slave race, using and marketing them to other worlds as domestic servants, labourers, and military forces. Whatever the origin, Cybertronians identify as male or female to closely echo organic life.

Eventually, they waged a planet-wide rebellion, forcing the Quintessons to flee the planet, who have harboured an undying hatred of all Cybertronians ever since. The resulting Cybertronian Republic expanded to other worlds through a combination of colonisation and conquest, until a series of civil wars sent it into a protracted period of decline, culminating in the Third Cybertronian War, or Great War.