Timeline of Cybertronian history

# Timeline of galactic history

## In the beginning

A single omnipotent being of unknown origin travels the galaxy, discovering life along the way. With no other creatures equaling its power, the being begins to converse with itself, and in time two unique personas form. The first is Primus, a reassuring presence that accepts the universe at is; the second is Unicron, who discovers and seeks to correct perceived flaws in the order of the universe. The two personas grow increasingly divergent from one another, and begin to argue. In time, the being splits physically, creating two separate bodies for each half of its warring psyche. Unicron grows increasingly rapacious and destructive, while Primus grows increasingly withdrawn. Eventually, Primus takes up arms to stop Unicron from devouring the galaxy. This struggle lasts for eons, with neither side able to gain an advantage over the other.

## The dawn of time

### 13.8 billion BCE

* The Big Bang creates the universe as we know it.

### 13.6 billion BCE

* + The galaxy is formed around a super-massive black hole at its center,

### 10 billion BCE

The planet Cybertron is formed around this time; later religions will hold that the creation of the planet was divinely ordained by the Transformer god Primus.Template:Storylink

## The Age of the Thirteen

To try and turn the tide, Primus creates the Thirteen, each given a unique role, nature, and artifact of power to aid the struggle. In order of their creation, they are Prima, Vector Prime, Trion Prime, Solus Prime, Micronus Prime, Alchemist Prime, Nexus Prime, Onyx Prime, Adaptus Prime, Liege Maximo, Megatronus, and the Thirteenth Prime.

### The Expulsion of Unicron

The newly created Primes begin training and strategizing for the upcoming conflict. Solus Prime, the artificer of the Thirteen, creates many weapons and icons of power for them to use. At the urging of Megatronus, she creates a great weapon to fight Unicron, although Solus herself worries that this power could corrupt them. The Thirteen vote seven to six to keep the Requiem Blaster and not destroy it. Ultimately, the Primes defeat Unicron, and the Chaos Bringer's inert form drifts off into space, where it later forms the core of Earth. His fossilized blood, spilled in this conflict, becomes known as Dark Energon. Following the defeat of Unicron, Primus becomes one with the Core of Cybertron, where he gives life to future Cybertronians through the AllSpark, within the Well of All Sparks. Although the Primes stand triumphant, Unicron's influences has tainted all of them with a touch of darkness.

### The War of the Primes

After a period of peaceful building and construction, tensions between the Primes slowly grow. Secretly manipulated by Liege Maximo, Megatronus kills Solus Prime, causing the first schism in the Primes. After Megatronus is defeated, the Liege Maximo makes his own play for power, but is defeated in the process. After this great battle, Nexus Prime fragments himself into five robots, each one carrying and guarding a fragment of the Cyber Caliber. His components are dubbed Clocker, Mainspring, Chaindrive, Cannonspring, and Pinion. The fight has lasting repercussions for the Thirteen—Megatronus, now "The Fallen", and the Liege have left the Primes for good, the once idealistic Vector Prime despairs and seals himself away in a pocket dimension, and Solus Prime is dead. Onyx Prime, Micronus Prime, and the Thirteenth Prime willingly enter the Well of All Sparks and sacrifice their lives in order to jump-start its creative processes, with the intent of creating a new race to inhabit the world.

Trion Prime and Alchemist Prime vow to remain on Cybertron and nurture this new civilization. Quintus Prime travels into deep space with his Emberstone, with the intention of creating new races that will ally with future Cybertronian civilizations. Meanwhile, far out in space, the forgotten Requiem Blaster gradually accrues a collection of space junk around it. As its gravitational pull increases, more and more drifting shipwrecks and space junk gather around it, eventually forming an artificial planetoid. This artificial planet will later become known as Junkion.

Sealed away in a parallel dimension, the Fallen swears revenge for his humiliation and exile.

## "7 billion BCE

* *The oldest artifacts made by servo are this old.*Template:Storylink
* *The oldest written language, Cyberglyphics, is this old.*Template:Storylink
* *One of the Transformers uses a huge lightning-powered hammer to forge a container for the AllSpark. This hammer then becomes a status symbol to be wielded by each Magnus of Cybertron.*Template:Storylink

### 4.5 billion BCE

The planet Earth forms.Template:Storylink

### 16 million BCE

The Stentarian civil war begins, pitting the heroic Terradores against the villainous Ammonites.Template:Storylink Their war precipitates the disastrous Shattering, necessitating the creation of the Galactic Council to stabilize the galaxy and govern the planets who join its ranks.Template:Storylink

## The Age of Evolution

The three Primes that entered the Well activate the AllSpark, which in turns emits a great burst of energy. From this beam of energy comes a wide variety of mechanical life, including precursors to modern Cybertronians. Among them is a robot named Orion Pax; in reality, he is the Thirteenth Prime reborn in a humbler shape, unaware of his origins or true heritage.
On the last stellar cycle, the Allspark's largest and most powerful creations of all, the Predacons emerge. Predaking, their leader, is the first of their kind, followed by Lazerback and Twinstrike. Many more follow, and some of them come into conflict with humanoid Cybertronians.

Cybertron's fledgling ecosystems continue to grow and prosper for many thousands of years. Eventually, however, a passing red giant star interferes with Cybertron's own sun, causing meteor strikes and solar flares. While many humanoid Transformers take shelter underground in stasis lock, the Predacons remain unshielded on the surface. They do not survive, though they leave behind a multitude of fossils containing extractable CNA.

## The Age of Origins

The surviving Cybertronians are quick to rebuild their wounded world. In the era that follows, many small settlements and villages form as protection from marauding warlords and barbarian armies. One such settlement, known as Iacon, becomes home to an influential group known as the Patterners. Composed of survivors from the Great Cataclysm, this group of rationalists and philosophers rallies under the leadership of Azimuth. Their quest for knowledge leads them to study the movements and patterns of the stars, and eventually carve great geometric symbols into the face of Cybertron. Their movement eventually spawns many splinter groups and counter-cults, such as the cult of Random led by Galvatron.

At some point during this time, the Dark Spark is discovered and studied by the Patterners and Disciples of the Thirteen, with some debate as to its origins. After witnessing its dark power, the Crystal Guardians decided that it was too powerful for study to be allowed to continue, and locked it away in vaults deep beneath Crystal City.

Eventually, the Quintessons - creations of Quintus Prime - discover the world of Cybertron. Remotely observing the world by a system of probes secretly inserted into Cybertronians, the aliens begin preparing to invade the world, secretly intending to turn Cybertronians into mindless workers and selling them into slavery.

## 6 million BC

### The Age of Wrath

A young Ratchet discovers a Quintesson probe inside the worker Coldwelder. Not long afterwards, the first Quintesson ships descend from the sky in a grand arrival, setting themselves up as benevolent emissaries sent to "uplift" Cybertron into the galactic community. They win the public support of Cybertronians by "teaching" them how to transform - in reality, they are simply activating the dormant transformation cogs in the bodies of all Transformers.

Buoyed by popular opinion, the Quintessons soon establish a globalized puppet government ruled by Regulus Prime and a High Council of thirteen Transformers. Under Quintesson guidance, Cybertronians rapidly develop both public and private infrastructure, and eventually master spaceflight and dimensional travel. Before long, however, cracks begin to show in their benign façade. The Quintessons establish a new Supreme Court in line with their twisted ideals of justice, while other Quintessons siphon off the fruit of Cybertron's labour for their own ends. Some Transformers are even modified to serve as transportation for their rulers, such as installing cockpits on the bodies of the Seekers. The Quintesson occupation has a negative effect on the Well itself; Cybertronians begin emerging from the Allspark without names or personalities. One such Transformer is the newly born D-16, who is assigned a position in Cybertron's mines.

When a resistance movement finally exposes the many lies of the Quintessons, they are overthrown and routed from the system in a war effort headed by Sentinel Prime himself, the Elite Guard, and the aforementioned resistance. D-16 is one of the many working-class Cybertronians called to arms. With new space bridges engineered from the Quintesson's half-completed projects, Cybertron enters its Golden Age.

## The Golden Age

The Golden Age brings sweeping changes to Cybertronian social structure and hierarchy. Sentinel Prime takes full control over the ex-Quintesson bureauccracy with the support of the High Council. The Well of All Sparks brings forth many new sparks, many of which are eventually harnessed as part of Cybertron's colonization efforts. Under Sentinel's rule, the new space bridge network allows trailblazing Cybertronians to colonize more than two hundred faraway planets, including Archon, Neutronia, Gigantion, Velocitron, Junkion, Aquatron, and the Hub. Concerted construction and cyberforming efforts turn many of these worlds into miniature Cybertrons. While these new colony worlds are initially supported by Cybertronian energon, many of them harness "torches" to create miniature Wells, rendering them completely independent from Cybertron.

The construction of the spaceport on the Hydrax Plateau begins, and Moonbases One and Two are constructed on the Mini-Con inhabited moons of Cybertron.

Trypticon Station is put into orbit as well, and a crew of Seekers are tasked with defending the Dark Energon stored within, remnants of Unicron's attack on the planet. The High Council encouraged the gathering and storage of Dark Energon aboard the vessel. The first Cybertronian data cylinders are created, which store and preserve the accumulated knowledge of Cybertronian civilization.

At some point during the Golden Age, a civilization known only as the Ancients arises. A civilization of explorers and astronomers, they travel the galaxy using Space Bridge technology, gather treasures from many worlds, and chart the known universe in their stellar cartography chamber. Among the planets visited by the Ancients is Earth.

After 8,000 years of prosperity and exploration, the Golden Age draws to a close. The Well of All Sparks begins slowing down its production of new life, and other cracks begin to show in Cybertronian civilization. Meanwhile, among the colonies, the dreaded Rust Plague sweeps from star system to star system via the space bridge network, devastating some worlds and completely sterilizing others. In desperation, Zeta orders the destruction of the space bridge network entirely to prevent the spread of the contagion. Cybertron is spared from destruction, at the cost of its many colony worlds. Millions of Transformers stranded across the galaxy continue adapting to their homeworlds, and many forget their origins entirely.

As time goes by, various crises on the ex-colony worlds lead to drastic changes among their inhabitants. Velocitron's inhabitants, plagued by resource shortages, slip deeper and deeper into their racing obsession as a form of cultural diversion. The Junkions begin building cities and structures entirely out of their planetoid's bountiful supplies of garbage and trash, forming a stable and productive society. The Neutronians discover Adaptus Prime's mythical transformation cog, changing the entire population into omnicombinational shifters known as Mutacons. Aquatron is re-colonized by Quintessons, who forcefully incorporate the planet into their Imperium while simultaneously tampering with the planet's inhabitants to create the Sharkticons.

### 5 million BC

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The experimental ship *Unitrex-1* is commissioned and constructed in the city of Unitrex, designed to house a prototype quantum generator. Before it can launch, time travelling Autobots from the future infiltrate the vessel, searching for a way to recharge their time machine. Hoping to use the ship's engine to provide the necessary jump-start, Rodimus uses Perceptor's knowledge of future quantum science to upgrade the *Unitrex-1*'s generator so that it can perform the task, and retroactively creates the very first quantum generator. A reaction between the case and generator causes the vessel to quantum jump away through time and space.Template:StorylinkTemplate:Storylink

Megatron is constructed cold in Tarn, intended to house a spark from the Matrix of Leadership. The same Autobots from the future interfere with his development, extinguishing the original spark.Template:Storylink

Orion Pax is brought online from a sparkfield in Iacon. With many options available to him thanks to his truck alternate mode, Orion joins the Iacon police force, but is disturbed by the violence and cynicism inherent in the system.Template:Storylink

### 4 million BCE

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By this time, Cybertronian society is growing increasingly secular, and as a result the role of the Functionist Council in society has greatly diminished. When the Senate catches wind of a new hand-shaped hot spot in Alyon that seemingly proves the existence of the supernatural Guiding Hand, they send the Elite Guard to secure the site, cover its existence from prying Functionist eyes, and use the newborn sparks within for experimentation. Orion Pax and his fugitives clash with the Senate for control of the hot spot, and with the help of some time-travelling Autobots they are successful in defending the location.Template:Storylink

With Messatine abandoned, Megatron is transferred to Mining Outpost C-12 on Croteus 12. Growing increasingly frustrated with his life, he works there for a period of time until Senator Decimus automates the mine, leaving the miners unemployed. When Decimus and his thuggish police force arrives to announce the closure of the facility, the reaction sparks a riot—and in the chaos, Megatron takes his first life.Template:Storylink Megatron and his fellow miners escape in a shuttle to join the illegal gladiatorial games beneath the city of Kaon. Megatron takes over the games and is approached by Soundwave, an emissary of Senator Ratbat, to cause terror throughout Cybertron. Thousands of new Decepticons join the cause, including the Constructicons, who help rebuild the motley collection of gladiators into full-on warriors.Template:Storylink

During this period, Shockwave is approached by Starscream, who brings him before Megatron. Realizing that Shockwave has a goal of his own, but with no interest in what it actually *is*, Megatron offers the former senator the freedom and resources that the Senate cannot provide. In exchange, Shockwave will use his scientific talents to study and improve on Jhiaxus's technology in the hopes of creating a functioning combiner for the Decepticons. Shockwave accepts the offer, though he notes that it will take a very long time.Template:Storylink

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Megatron unites his gladiators under the Decepticon banner and arranges their "capture" by Sentinel Prime's forces. Once captured, Starscream and Soundwave's forces massacre the Senate, and release the Decepticons from prison so they can overrun the security force's HQ.Template:Storylink News of the Decepticon uprising reaches Sentinel Prime, and the Prime dons his Apex Armor to make a final stand against the Decepticons in Kaon. He loses the ensuing duel with Megatron, and the Decepticon leader fashions his defeated enemy's armor into a throne. With Kaon now a Decepticon stronghold, the security forces withdraw to Iacon.Template:Storylink

Sentinel Prime's body is laid to rest within the Primal Basilica... but while "Sentinel Prime" has publicly perished, *Infinitus* lives on, and the tiny head-bot abandons his old body and goes into hiding underneath Kaon. Neither the Senate nor the Decepticons are able to explain the mysterious loss of the corpse's head.Template:Storylink

Zeta subsequently steps up as the next Prime.Template:Storylink His leadership—relying heavily on pageantry and theatrical displays of force—restores a semblance of order to Cybertron, forcing the Decepticons back underground for the time being. Orion Pax returns to the force, helping to keep the peace in these troubled times;Template:Storylink he asks Ironhide to teach him how to be a *soldier* and not just a cop.Template:Storylink

With the Decepticon movement now publicly recognized as a terrorist movement, Zeta takes numerous actions to root out illegal activity, which eventually leads to shutting down popular venues like racetracks. This temporarily puts star racer Blurr out of the spotlight.Template:Storylink Orion Pax later oversees a hostage exchange with the Decepticons. This is a trick to capture the wise Alpha Trion, so the Decepticons can use him to find a Titan and gain spacebridge technology. Pax prevents this.Template:Storylink

Megatron holds Declaration Day, officially announcing the commencement of the Great War.

Alarmed by the energon crisis and escalating hostilities, numerous Cybertronians began evacuating the planet in the Exodus, a mass diaspora of neutrals, conscientious objectors, and other non-participants in the war. Dai Atlas and Tyrest oversee the safe evacuation of approximately 10-20 million refugees.Template:Storylink Among the evacuees are the Circle of Light, who secretly depart Cybertron aboard Metrotitan and establish a hidden city on the planet of Theophany.Template:Storylink A group of Mortilus-worshiping neutrals discover the drifting *Unitrex-1* near Vela Pulsar.Template:Storylink They take custody of the abandoned ship for the duration of the war, keeping a mutated Sparkeater aboard docile by feeding it turbofoxes.Template:Storylink

With both sides searching for a way to bolster their numbers, Cybertronians discover reserves of cryogenically frozen Sparks created via Nova Prime's Matrix bleeding. These new sparks are used to create new Transformers which become known as "Made to Order" soldiers for specific campaigns in what is later termed the "Silver Harvest".Template:Storylink

The Decepticons move to conquer several nearby cities, and their string of major victories is remembered as the Fall of the First Five Citiesndashthe conquests of Vos, Tarn, Helex, Kaon, and Tesarus.Template:Storylink These cities become the inspiration for the Decepticon Justice Division, who name their five operatives after the cities.Template:Storylink

Optimus Prime and Megatron repeatedly clash over the course of the war; their very first showdown at the Battle of Sherma Bridge (2nd Cycle 087) becomes legendary.Template:Storylink Early into the war, Optimus Prime turns down Megatron's first and only invitation for an Autobot surrender.Template:Storylink

Ironhide is injured saving Optimus Prime from an assassin.Template:Storylink
Tyrest attempts to broker peace between the two sides. His efforts ultimately fail, but do result in the creation of the Tyrest Accord, limiting the spread of Transformer technology to other races.Template:Storylink

The Autobot-Decepticon war expands beyond Cybertron and encompasses many other worlds, and thousands of battles occur both on and off Cybertron over a period of time.

## 100+ years ago

Over time, the colony world of Caminus runs low on resources and energon, becoming increasingly isolated from the rest of the galaxy.Template:Storylink At an indeterminate point in time, while Caminus still has functioning interstellar ships, the inhabitants detect an emergency beacon from the planet Antilla; however, the explorers find the planet dead and rusted, and inhabited only by Onyx Prime and his army.Template:Storylink The surviving explorers flee back to Caminus, but after some years are followed back there by Onyx, who attacks the village Parvus Oppidum and claims the life of Praesidia Magna, leader of the Torchbearers and one of the explorers. Her subordinate Pyra steps up as leader,Template:Storylink while the Mistress of Flame covers up the attack.Template:Storylink

### 603 BCE

The Predators put down local resistance in the Skomiloch Territories. They remain while Scrash rules a mini-empire there.

### 27 BCE

Octavian establishes the Roman Empire as Emperor Augustus.

### 1309

*The earliest known Commander of Cobra is inspired by the writings of Cobra agent Dante Alighieri, whose* Divine Comedy *serves as an allegory for Cobra and its dealings, to expand the organization's pursuits into newly discovered lands and new areas of science and learning.*

### 1320

Dante completes and publishes the *Divine Comedy*. Cobra Commander sadly has his old friend poisoned for risking revealing Cobra to the world, concluding that the virtuous future Dante had envisioned for Cobra would never come to be.

### 1516

Runaway blacksmith turned adventurer-archeologist Anode and her conjunx endura Lug travel to Luna 2 at the behest of their employer, the mysterious "Grand Architect", in search of a rare piece of "widowed metal". They run afoul of a Decepticon Cybernought, but Censere, as the "Necrobot", intervenes. He spirits Anode away through time and space, but Lug is left behind and perishes.Template:Storylink

### 1550

Following the loss of Cybertron, the nature of the war changes, becoming a series of cloak-and-dagger operations on alien worlds. The Decepticon war machine reorganizes around the infiltration protocol, a step-by-step process by which Decepticons covertly infiltrate a planet's society and manipulate events to bring it down from within. As part of this process, three of the Warriors Elite are promoted to Phase Sixers, including Overlord—who promptly deserts from the Decepticon army.Template:Storylink

### 1586

England creates the original Action Man Programme.Template:Storylink

### 1610

Galileo charts the moons of Jupiter.Template:Storylink

### 1649

A North American island off the coast of Maine is founded by a group of settlers, led by Horace Burns, from the mainland. The island becomes the town of Griffin Rock, and a lighthouse with a bell is erected in the town's port. Though King Charles offers to make Burns the king of the island, he declines via placing the proclamation into a bottle and throwing it into the sea.

### 1800s

In 1812, Griffin Rock is raided and looted by the pirates of the *Oaken Crow*. The pirates set the town ablaze and make off with their booty, including the Settlers' Bell. Their ship gets caught in a storm and becomes trapped within a cave on an unknown island.

At some point, Thaddeus Morocco is born, who would go on to make a career in science by stealing the works of others, including a rejuvenation chamber that would extend his life artificially with each use.

### 1830s

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A Galactic Council ship destroys a Camien vessel in the Gray Area. One protoform survives, recovered by Rom K'atsema and taken to the Solstar Order, where the protoform matures into Stardrive. After some years the Cybertronian joins the Order's Space Knights as a cadet, though she is often excluded and made to feel unwanted thanks to anti-Cybertronian prejudice.

The energon synthesizer the Order have developed for Stardrive draws the attention of Starscream, whose Decepticons ally with the Dire Wraith Vekktral and attack the Orchid Crossing space station in order to claim it. The battle draws the attention of an Autobot ship commanded by Convoy's Ultra Magnus. The ensuing fight sees the Autobots team up with the Solstar Knights to counter the Decepticon/Dire Wraith alliance as both parties battle it out on the frozen world of Xetaxxis, Wraith leader Vekktral using his magic to create monstrous Wraith-Cybertronian hybrids. The battle ends with Starscream destroying the energon synthesizer and sterilizing half of the planet in the process, forcing the heroes to retreat and wiping out Vekktral and his Dire Wraiths. The experience leaves Stardrive unwilling to continue fighting in the Space Knights' war; abandoning her allies, she takes up residence on a distant planet... unaware that she has been infected by a fragment of Wraith biomatter.

Bumblebee returns with the Magnus Armor to the Autobot fleet, where Minimus Ambus—recovered from his injuries—takes up the mantle once more. The Galactic Council and the Solstar Order formally decide to keep to their own sectors of space rather than getting caught up in each other's wars, while Starscream determines that the Dire Wraiths are too dangerous to risk allying with—and the Wraiths themselves decide to rely on their magic rather than turning to technology in future.

## 1900s

Over the course of his travels, Sixshot is challenged by the alien Reapers. He refuses to join them.
Hot Rod leads a team to secure the Magnificence. Doubledealer, posing as an Autobot, sabotages the raid. Hot Rod hides the Magnificence. He later infiltrates the Decepticon penal colony Styx to rescue "Dealer", who befriends him.

Meanwhile, Kup and Outback crash-land on the planet Tsiehshi, one of Shockwave's Regenesis test planets. The barren, uncharted planet is covered with radioactive crystals of Ore-8. Outback is killed in the crash, and Kup is slowly driven insane by the radiation.

The massacre at Babu Yar takes place, which sees the deployment of the controversial bioweapon Gideon's Glue against Flame's Autobots.

### 1914–1919

The Maximal Autobots are, by this time, slowly dying off, though several beginning to shake off their reconditioning and realizing that they are not who they believed themselves to be. Several of the Maximals try to find the Talisman and perish in the attempt. World War I breaks out on Earth, and Domitius Major and Centurion stumble on a battleground. Seeing real conflict causes their artificial memories of the Great War to unravel; Domitius perishes, but Centurion, confused and enraged, dedicates the remainder of his life to hunting down and killing the remaining Maximals on Earth.Template:Storylink

### 1939

The World's Fair takes place, which features the artificial volcano Mount Magma. Afterward, the volcano is relocated to Griffin Rock.

The Griffin Rock Technology Expo also occurs, during which Griffin Rock scientists attempt to create a time machine, but are incapable of powering it up.

On August 17, the day after the Temporal Station's decommissioning, a group of time-displaced individuals consisting of four Rescue Bot Autobots, the human children Cody Burns and Frankie Greene, and the Helper Bot Dither, accidentally travels through the time machine from the future. They are discovered by Dr. Thaddeus Morocco, who takes interest in the robots and begins to study them. The two kids are sent away, but escape and, along with Dither, recover the Autobots in Morocco's captivity. A surprise intervention by Optimus Prime and Bumblebee, who subsequently followed the Rescue Bots through the time machine to help them, along with some assistance from Elma Hendrickson, gives all of the time-travelers the chance to escape back to the future. However, a damaged Dither is accidentally left behind, and comes into Morocco's possession.

It is from here that the timeline is split in two, as the time travel incident creates an alternate timeline (see below), but then erases it and has history put back on its corrected course.
Morocco starts to open up Dither to begin studying him, but the previous group of time travelers returns once again to retrieve their forgotten robot before returning to their own time, leaving Morocco unable to study the future technology.

### 1941

Robert Steven Savage joins the military; after going above and beyond the call of duty in Galibi, he receives a crack team of his own to command: the elite Screaming Eagles.

### 1943

With Garrison "Blitz" Kreiger now serving as an officer on the Screaming Eagles, the unit is deployed to fight in Kalistan. They are startled to find robot drones—in reality, creations of the Talisman—fighting for the Axis. Garrison Kreiger, recognizing them as the work of alien magic, becomes fascinated by them.

### 1949

Griffin Rock celebrates its tricentennial, which features holograms of some of its most prominent citizens, including its first female scientist Elma Hendrickson, on display in historical exhibits.

### 1950s

Griffin Rock scientists experiment with subspace technology as part of the Sanctuary Plan, in which the insect-like tracers would transport the island's entire populace to a safe haven during the condition of a crisis. The plan is abandoned due to instability of the shelter, with the tracers being locked away in storage.

### 1960s

The crash of the Ark is detected by both the United States and the Soviet Union, and a "space race" begins to be the first to reach the Moon and plunder this alien treasure.

Disabled amateur sleuth Mike Power accidentally stumbles on a ring of Brasnyan spies smuggling alien technology into the United States. Their plan is foiled by British super-spy Action Man, who offers Power some words of encouragement. Bolstered by this praise, he goes on to study some of the technology he surreptitiously recovers from their base and eventually builds himself a new set of prostheses.

The scientists of Griffin Rock install a magnetic pulse generator to disable all circuitry at Griffin Crest, setting it as a safe zone in case an experimental machine ever went haywire on the island.

In 1966, the *S.S. Isolde* transports experimental technology to Griffin Rock from the mainland. During one of its voyages to the island, however, a piece of its cargo, the Sub-Zero Expander, is accidentally damaged and activated. After contacting the island for advice, the ship's captain, Zachary Burns, and crew are ordered to abandon the vessel and all of its cargo, leaving it to be encased completely within an iceberg.

### 1982

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After serving with the Green Berets, Joseph B. "Joe" Colton is selected to join the Adventure Team, an crack team of American operatives.Template:Storylink He serves alongside elite military assets such as Lonzo "Stalker" Wilkinson and Miles "Mayhem" Manheim. They are eventually joined by superpowered operatives including Richard "Bulletman" Ruby and Mike Power, now calling himself the "Atomic Man". As "G.I. Joe", Colton and the Adventure Team enjoy numerous globetrotting escapades, on one occasion meeting Action Man.

### 1984

Kreiger, having spent decades scouring the Earth for alien artifacts, finally tracks the Talisman to its resting place in the Tomb of Amtoltec and goes to retrieve it, disposing of his guide along the way. A few days later, the Adventure Team is deployed to rescue him. The team battles IRON Troopers and runs afoul of Soundwave before before discovering Kreiger and the Talisman. The Talisman upgrades Mike Power's cybernetic limbs; thus empowered, the team is able to see the Decepticon off and recover the Talisman, entrusting it to British intelligence.

### 1985

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Soundwave, Ravage and Laserbeak are excavated by Skywatch. Interest is taken in the cassettes, found in "robot mode", but Soundwave, in cassette player mode, is apparently discarded.

### 1988

Scorponok lands on the backwater planet Nebulos. The latest in a series of flagrant violation of the Tyrest Accords, he develops a working relationship with Mo Zarak and the Z Consortium as part of his *modus operandi*. The duo develop a variation of the Headmaster process involving hybridizing Nebulans and Cybertronians. Ultra Magnus tracks Scorponok to Nebulos, but despite taking severe damage, the Decepticon escapes.

Tyrest constructs the supercomputer/judging machine Aequitas, based on Mesothulas' old designs. The Aequitas trials begin, a catalog of Autobot atrocities.Template:Storylink What nobody but Tyrest knows is that every Autobot on trial is "constructed cold", a process he'd help develop. The revelation is enough to gnaw at his conscience, and eventually Tyrest vanishes from the public eye.Template:Storylink

Skids eventually moves to Prowl's covert Special Operations, necessitating faking his own death.Template:Storylink Partnered with Getaway, he is sent to "assassinate" the rogue Tyrest by using a nudge gun to implant the impulse to resign in the Chief Justice's increasingly disturbed mind. The plan fails, and Skids barely manages to escape. Aboard his escape craft, he uses the gun to erase his own memory before setting the shuttle to hone in on the coordinates of his handlers, the Duobots.Template:Storylink

### 1990

Obsessed with defeating Squadron X, the Wreckers track them down to the planet Pova. After capturing them, Impactor is ordered to release them due to a technicality. Instead, he executes the prisoners, and as a consequence is himself imprisoned in Garrus-9. Springer subsequently takes over leadership of the Wreckers.

After a disastrous mission, a despairing Mike Power turns to Kreiger to further upgrade his limbs. Power disappears from the public eye as Kreiger, hoping to use Power for his own ends, experiments on him further. Though deprived of their most powerful member, Joe Colton reorganizes the team into the totally radical "Adventure Force".Template:Storylink

### 1994

After years of augmentation to his body by Garrison Kreiger, Mike Power reactivates the Talisman, causing a surge of energy and the reappearance of both the *Axalon* and a confused Sgt. Savage. Before explanations can be provided, the Adventure Team — now rechristened the "Adventure Force" — storm the facility to shut down Krieger's experiments; team member Stalker does not detect any signs of life from Mike Power's body, and the team is incorrectly left to believe that Power has died.Template:Storylink

Over the following decade, the time-displaced Sgt. Savage goes on to have many totally radical adventures, teaming up with the contemporary Action Man's Team Extreme and fighting ninja, mutants eco-terrorists, and skateboard gangs!Template:Storylink

### 1997

Alpha Trion and Metroplex return to Cybertron. Hoping to return the planet to habitability, Alpha Trion slowly begins cleaning Cybertron's polluted atmosphere.Template:Storylink

### 1999

*A genius psychologist serving in the United States military murders his family and deserts the army, taking with him a cache of explosives and ordnance. Over the seven years that follow, he goes on to build a fortune on pyramid schemes as a Wall Street broker. Template:Istorylink*

### 28 years ago

Professor Anna Baranova begins an investigation of the Griffin Rock Triangle with Project Midgard. Her mobile undersea laboratory, the *Midgard*, fails in its mission and is rendered permanently submerged.

### Present day

At some earlier point, Dr. Morocco, who had become Griffin Rock's lead scientist, is dismissed from his position due to his technology proving dangerous and inferior. He is replaced by Dr. Ezra Greene.

At some unspecified time, Optimus Prime sets up a team of Rescue Bots on Griffin Rock, in which they live with a local family to better understand humanity and serve as their protectors.

On the edge of the Triangulum Galaxy, the *Terrastar* bursts into existence again, breaking the Convoy Council's decree about departing the Milky Way. Not that the Maladroid crew care about that sort of thing. Just as the ship's captain, a 'droid named Lockjaw, starts talking about their new freedom, crewmech Ragtop detects they've been followed. Acting quickly, Lockjaw orders them to hide behind the nearby planet. None of them are going back home. As the ship moves, Ragtop expresses an opinion: They're all gonna die.

The Commandron colony ship *Hyperborea* emerges into realspace, in hot pursuit of the *Terrastar*. Ship captain Astral Knight is uneasy, what with that hold full of crystalline containment vessels filled with memory engrams, but his orders are clear. Going extra-galactic risks bringing the attention of things "beyond mortal ken", as Rhetoric Convoy put it. Science officer Deep Blue detects their target going over to the nearby planet, a gorgeous thing of blue and green, with two moons orbiting it. A quick glance from Astral Knight at his console suggests there's something... *off* about one of them. And more pertinently, he's detecting Angolmois capsules, which is alarming given how far out they are. He orders Blue to contact the *Terrastar*, but there's no response. As they 'round the moon, the ship comes under attack, and *not* from the Maladroids. Deep Blue complains as the ship's blasted. They're just a science vessel! As Astral Knight orders them to fight back, they're hailed by the locals, who call themselves the Skriix. They're not too happy about the visitors. Energoa and its sacred Mother Computer are *theirs*, and these intruders dare contaminate it with their impure technorganic bodies. So naturally the Skriix are going to kill them.

The Commandrons aren't taken with dying, and fight back, but they can't tell if they're even damaging the attacking ship. Another shot takes out the stasis hold, and sends them plummeting down to earth. Astral Knight orders all the crystals launched in orbit, where they'll be safer than they will on a crashing ship, with a Skriix closing fast. Then, they read the *Terrastar* attacking the other ship, their crew hailing to say they're helping out while the Commandrons set down for repairs.

The ship doesn't manage to set down gently. And as they crash, they notice another ship falling through the sky, the *Terrastar*. Astral Knight thinks to himself on how he's out of his depth. He's not qualified to deal with a new world, hostile aliens, a weird moon, a dangerous power source, some mysterious ruins and a band of criminals all at once. But he vows to try his best to get his crew home.

## Alternate timeline

The events of this timeline diverge from the main timeline at 1939 of the Modern Era, in which a great time travel incident both created and subsequently erased this new timeline. As the exact extent of all that was changed beyond the borders of Griffin Rock is not known, this section will only cover the known divergences.
### 1939

The Griffin Rock Technology Expo occurs, during which Griffin Rock scientists attempt to create a time machine, but are incapable of powering it up.

On August 17, the day after the Temporal Station's decommissioning, a group of time-displaced individuals consisting of four Rescue Bot Autobots, the human children Cody Burns and Frankie Greene, and the Helper Bot Dither, accidentally travels through the time machine from the future. They are discovered by Dr. Morocco, who takes interest in the robots and begins to study them. The two kids are sent away, but escape and, along with Dither, recover the Autobots in Morocco's captivity. A surprise intervention by Optimus Prime and Bumblebee, who subsequently followed the Rescue Bots through the time machine to help them, along with some assistance from Elma Hendrickson, gives all of the time-travelers the chance to escape back to the future. However, a damaged Dither is accidentally left behind, and comes into Morocco's possession.

Studying Dither's future technology, Morocco falsely takes credit as the robot's inventor, redubbing it the MorBot 1.1. From this robot, Morocco gains great fame and power with the promise of technological prosperity for Griffin Rock.

### Present day

Morocco, having come to gain power over Griffin Rock, rules the now-dystopian island of "Moropolis" with an army of transformable MorBot mechanoids. The Burns family are a family of mechanics, with Charlie Burns being a janitor at the Hall of Inspiration, while all secretly heading a resistance movement against Morocco. Huxley Prescott is a taxi driver, Mr. Luskey owns a restaurant, no Cody Burns exists in this timeline, and no "Doc Greene" lives on the island.

When the group of time-traveling Autobots and humans return from 1939 to the present, they find themselves in this timeline. The team splits up as Optimus and Bumblebee fend off the MorBots while the others seek answers. Learning of the altered history from the Hall of Inspiration, the group meets this timeline's Charlie Burns, who is suspicious of them at first, but eventually comes to aid them. The team accompanies Charlie back to his home, but Morocco has caught wind of their arrival. The Burns siblings are also initially skeptical of the newcomers, but agree to help once their home is attacked. As Morocco is about to destroy the fire house, the Burns family unveil its new secret weapon: The Mobile Headquarters. After a great battle, all six Autobots and the Burns family arrive at the Temporal Station. The departing time travelers are given the MHQ as a parting gift and vanish through the portal back to 1939, just as Morocco arrives and crashes his MorBot.

From here, the team retrieves Dither from 1939 and returns to the present in their corrected timeline, thus erasing this timeline from existence.
## Notes and references

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9 *The Covenant of Primus*
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 *Exiles*
3. ↑ *Revenge of the Fallen*
4. ↑  *Transformers: Prime* – "Prey"
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 *Exodus*
6. ↑  *Transformers: Prime* – "T.M.I."
7. ↑ 7.0 7.1  *Transformers: Rescue Bots* – "The Reign of Morocco"
8. ↑ 8.0 8.1  *Transformers: Rescue Bots* – "The Lost Bell"
9. ↑  *Transformers: Rescue Bots* – "King Burns"
10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 10.4 10.5  *Transformers: Rescue Bots* – "It's a Bot Time"
11. ↑ *Shining Armor* 1
12. ↑ *Shining Armor* 3
13. ↑ *Shining Armor* 5
14. ↑ *Spotlight: Sixshot*
15. ↑ *Spotlight: Hot Rod*
16. ↑ *Spotlight: Kup*
17. ↑ 17.0 17.1 *Bullets*
18. ↑  *Transformers: Rescue Bots* – "Under Pressure"
19. ↑ 19.0 19.1 19.2 19.3 19.4  *Transformers: Rescue Bots* – "Bot to the Future"
20. ↑ 20.0 20.1 20.2 *The Secret of the Mummy's Tomb*
21. ↑  *Transformers: Rescue Bots* – "The Haunting of Griffin Rock"
22. ↑  *Transformers: Rescue Bots* – "Countdown"
23. ↑ 23.0 23.1 23.2 *Power and Glory*
24. ↑  *Transformers: Rescue Bots* – "Rules and Regulations"
25. ↑  *Transformers: Rescue Bots* – "Tip of the Iceberg"
26. ↑ 26.0 26.1 *Secret Raiders*
27. ↑ *Spotlight: Soundwave*
28. ↑ 29 stellar cycles ago, or 18 years
29. ↑ *Spotlight: Ultra Magnus*
30. ↑ *Sins of the Wreckers* 1
31. ↑ *Last Stand of the Wreckers*
32. ↑ 12 meta-cycles ago, or 13 years
33. ↑  *Transformers: Rescue Bots* – "The Griffin Rock Triangle"
34. ↑  *Transformers: Rescue Bots* – "The Other Doctor"
35. ↑  *Transformers: Rescue Bots* – "Family of Heroes"