The Timeline

## The beginning of time

* Primus and Unicron are born and start fighting each other
* The two brothers are trapped inside asteroids and begin converting them into their planet modes
* Primus creates the original 13 primes and call their new home Cybertron
* The Primes create the first version of Vector Sigma.

## Age of the 13

* The Titans are created as star ships for the 13
* Rung is created as the Omega Lock. A device used to activate Cybertron's transformation.
* Primus rediscovers Unicron and the Primes starts preparing for his arrival.
* Through Leige Maximo's manipulations, Megatronus kills Solus Prime and joins Unicron's side
* The thirteenth prime gives his life to stop Leige Maximo and Primus puts his purified spark in the Star Saber creating the matrix of leadership
* Unicron Arrives to Cybertron and the Primes fend him off.
* Through the combined efforts of the matrix and Vector Prime's space manipulation Unicron and Megatronus are sealed in a pocket dimension. Megatronus's name is stricken from history.
* Leige Maximo's deceit is discovered and is imprisoned in his own titan.
* After the Unicron Battles, all the surviving primes except for Prima and Alpha Trion leave cybertron to establish their own colony worlds
* Alpha Trion's titan is sent to Antilla establising the first cybertronian colony.
* Prima ignites the Well of Allsparks, creating transformer life.
* Onyx Prime arrives on Eukaris and creates the first Predacons.

## The Quintesson Occuption

* Many years pass and Zeta Prime now wields the matrix of leadership
* The Quintessons arrive on cybertron and easily conquer it.
* The Quintessons introduce space bridges, allowing the colony worlds to be linked
* The cybertronians are forced to make weapons and other goods for the Quintessons but they quickly learn how to use them
* The transformers fight back against their oppressors and drive them off of cybertron
* The omega sentinals are created to combat the Quintessons including Omega Supreme
* The golden age of cybertron begins
* Cyclonus and his partner Scourge on a mission to find new worlds ends up penetrating Unicrons spacial prison where they end up trapped.
* An outbreak of cosmic rust overtakes Antilla sped up by Alpha Trion's titan and quickly spreads throughout the other colonies, the autobots are forced to quarantine the planet by destroying the space bridges.
* A space pirate finds himself stranded on the planet of junk when the space bridges close leaving him to recycle and salvage to survive, eventually becoming Wreck-Gar.

## The war within

* Sentinel Prime is the new leader of the transformers
* Hound charts a map of Cybertron but becomes bored with the planet.
* Ratchet and Pharma work together as doctors.
* Law enforcer Ultra Magnus meets Orion Pax
* Soundwave tames two minicons and names them Laserbeak and Ravage.
* Senator Ratbat enlists Soundwave as an agent.
* A mining worker named Megatron starts fighting in gladiatorial combat, protesting against Cybertron's corrupt system
* Gladiator Overlord is defeated by Megatron and swears vengeance against him
* Investigating Megatron, Soundwave meets mining workers Rumble and Frenzy who join him.
* Starscream and Jetfire visit prehistoric earth but Jetfire falls into earths atmosphere freezing for centuries
* Megatron starts amassing followers for a secret terrorist group including Starscream
* Seeker Thundercracker joins the Decepticons
* Soundwave joins the Decepticons and removes Ratbat's spark, putting it in a minicon body.
* Drift starts following Megatron and becomes Deadlock
* Data clerk Orion Pax befriends Megatron
* Megatron arrogantly demands the matrix while Orion Pax proves himself as a Prime
* In anger Megatron kills Sentinal Prime and mortally wound Orion Pax. He establishes the Decepticons.
* Elita 1 takes Orions body to Alpha Trion who had been safeguarding the matrix. He uses the supercomputer Vector Sigma to reformat Orions body and gives him the Matrix. Orion becomes Optimus Prime
* The Great war begins

## War for Cybertron

* Security Chief Ironhide joins the autobots
* Medical Chief Ratchet joins the autobots
* Soundwave removes Ratbat's spark and put it in a minicon body
* Senator Shockwave joins the Decepticons
* Young engeron scout Bumblebee joins the autobots.
* Mirage of the high class reluctantly joins the autobots.
* The group who would become the Constructicons attacks Crystal City and destroy it, Omega Supreme fights them but they end up putting him in stasis mode. This prompts Megatron to consider making them a combiner team
* Police officer Arcee joins the autobots where she meets Cliffjumper.
* Street punk Hot Rod gets caught by Kup and they form a friendship.
* The transformer who would become known as Tarn becomes a devoted follower of Megatron and founds the Decepticon Justice Division
* Lockdown fights Ratchet and steals his EMP Generator
* Deadlock is marked for execution and flees Cybertron
* A group of renegade Decepticons gain the attention of Megatron. A run in with the DJD leaves them all comatose
* The Allspark is taken from the well and hidden to prevent it from falling into Decepticon hands. New transformers stop being born.
* The war drains Cybertron of it's energon which prompts both sides to start looking for other planets
* Excited with the prospect of exploring new planets Hound joins the autobots with the construction of the ark.
* The Ark and Nemesis is built to transport the autobots and decpeticons off of the planet
* Shockwave is tasked with keeping watch over Cybertron while the Decepticons find new worlds.
* The Autobots and Decepticons find earth but after a brief dogfight both their ships are damaged and they crash land on earth, putting both their crews in stasis mode for millennia
* Decepticons Shrapnel Bombshell and Kickback use an escape pod to crash land on earth. They start calling themselves the insecticons

## Beast Wars

* The Maximals and Predacons exit the transwarp portal and crash land on prehistoric earth. The Beast Wars begin.
* Dinobot defects and joins the Maximals
* The Beast Wars catches the attention of the Vok who, angry that their project has been contaminated tries to destroy earth.
* Rampage escapes from the Axlon and Depth Charge arrives from the future to hunt him down
* Dinobot dies defending a tribe of primitive humans
* Megatron tries to kill Optimus Prime while in stasis mode but Primal stops him
* Blackarachnia joins the Maximals after finding out Megatron's true plan
* The Vok seeing that the timestream is at stake choose Tigatron as their ambassador
* Megatron creates an evil clone of Dinobot
* Airrazor is mortally wounded in battle. Tigatron fuses himself with her to save her life, becoming Tigerhawk.
* Depth Charge and Rampage have their final battle which ends in the both of them being destroyed
* The predacons attempt to destroy the ark using the Nemesis but are stopped by the Maximals thanks to the Dinobot clone. They return to their own time using a spare autobot ship
* The insecticons salvage the wreckages of the maximal and predacon ships to start creating their drones
* Deadlock meets the Circle of Light and is trained by Star Saber, becoming Drift again
* Kup and Hot Rod evacuate Cybertron and move to Velocitron where he meets Blurr.
* Straxus gains control of Cybertron in Megatron's absence

## Earthrise

* The wreckers are founded to take back control of Cybertron
* Wreck-Gar becomes leader of the Junkions through a game show.
* An earthquake reactivates Telletran 1 and awakens the autobots and decepticons to continue their war on earth
* Spike Witwicky and his father discover Bumblebee and become friends.
* Megatron contacts Shockwave who has grown cold and emotionless from the eons of protecting Cybertron.
* Hound equips the autobots with his hologram technology which allows them to create holographic drivers
* Jetfire is recovered and initially joins the Decepticons side but defects to the autobots after finding out that Starscream sabotaged his mission to earth
* The insecticons re-emerge after the war resumes on earth
* A splinter faction of autobots named the Dynabots get captured by Shockwave who experiments on their intelligence, they crash land on earth and after scanning dinosaur fossils rename themselves the Dinobots. They are recovered by Wheeljack and re-join the autobots
* The dinobots are tricked by Starscream to turn on Optimus but in the end are convinced the Decepticons are their enemy.
* The Autobots succesfully transmit a message via space bridge that they are still active on earth, unfortunately the decepticons hear this message as well
* Windblade is assigned to repair the damaged titan Metroplex.

## Combiner Wars

* Cosmos is one of the first new arrivals on earth and is put in charge of watching over the earths orbit.
* A raid on the planet Devisiun ends with the cybertronian relic the enigma of combination in the decepticons hands. Megatron revives his combiner project
* Lockdown is hired by Megatron to capture Drift.
* Drift follows Lockdown to earth and joins the Autobots where he and Ratchet team up to stop him.
* The constructicons are made into the combiner Devastator
* Desperate for something to fight back with, the Autobots find a deactivated Omega Supreme on cybertron. They reactivate him and he joins the autobots.
* Starscream steals the enigma of combination from Megatron and revives the comatose Decepticon criminals to become the Combaticons. They become Bruticus.
* The autobots get their hands on the engima in the middle of Starscreams coup and they use it to create the Arielbots and Protectobots
* Ratchet mentors Protectobot First Aid
* Straxus is defeated by the wreckers and killed in a space bridge accident
* Starscream is banished from the Decepticons for his betrayal

## Titans Return

* During an excavation the Decepticons find Trypticon and plan to use him to win the war
* Hearing wind of the Decepticons plan, the autobots head to Canimus to recruit their titan. When they refuse they go with Windblade to find Metroplex
* Starscream creates his own team to take leadership of the Decepticons including a conflicted Thundercracker and numerous seekers
* Trypticon destroys the Ark and Teletran 1
* They awaken Metroplex and uses his designs to build earth's autobot city. They upload teletrans matrix to the city to become Teletran 2#
* Ultra Magnus is brought to earth to become Autobot City's commander.
* Kup and Hot Rod relocate to Autobot city.
* Impactor dies and Springer replaces him
* The titans fight and metroplex wins, but it turns out the fight was a cover for the decepticons to raid autobot city
* Thundercracker saves a number of Autobots including Wheeljack during the raid and goes into hiding after being injured by Skywarp
* Ironhide is fatally injured in the raid on Autobot city
* Shrapnel, Bombshell and Kickback die in the raid on autobot city and Airachnid takes control of their drone army.
* Cliffjumper is killed by Airachnid during the Raid on Autobot city causing Arcee to change her alt mode out of grief.
* Megatron and Optimus Prime fight each other and are both fatally wounded
* Optimus Prime undergoes repairs while giving the matrix to Ultra Magnus temporarily.
* Megatron's body is recovered by Sideways who replaces him with Galvatron.
* Cyclonus and Scourge are released to aid Galvatron

## Ultra Magnus vs Galvatron

* Galvatron kills Starscream and makes Cyclonus his second in command
* Galvatron reveals himself to the autobots and has his first battle with Ultra Magnus.
* Arcee is prevented from going alone to fight Airachnid by Springer and he helps her move on.
* Cosmos is accompanied by Sky Lynx when he arrives on earth,
* The Quintessons conquer Aquatron and make the Sharkticons their army, as well as the Seacons.
* A group of minicons become headmasters thanks to technology created by Brainstorm
* Decepticons lead by Skorponok steal the technology and become headmasters as well
* A group of outcast mercenaries called the Monsterbots are summoned by the Dinobots to fight Skorponok
* The Deceptions recruit the Predacons lead by Razorclaw.
* Optimus Prime seems to recover and asks for the matrix back. After finding out the real optimus is still bedridden Ultra Magnus fights the clone revealing himself as Nemesis Prime.
* The Autobots rediscover the Junkions while on a mission in space and convince them to ally them.
* Grimlock becomes leader of the Autobots for a short time but command is switched back to Ultra Magnus when Grimlock becomes too power hungry
* The Wreckers attempt to liberate the Autobot prison Garras 9 from rogue deception Overlord
* Galvatron is deemed insane and taken to Torkulon for therapy. He escapes after he is almost wiped of his mind.
* Ratbat becomes leader in Galvatron's place
* With Galvatron's help Unicron unleashes a hate plague on the universe causing every transformer to fight each other, Optimus recovers long enough to use the matrix to wipe out the plague

## Darkest Hour

* The conflict caused by the hate plague gives Unicron enough strength to break free of his prison, heading towards Cybertron
* Seeing that Optimus has returned Unicron gives Megatron a new upgraded body and sends him to fight Prime.
* Cybertron is evacuated as Unicron approaches
* Bumblebee uses the Omega lock on Vector Sigma causing Cybertron to transform into Primus's robot form. He and Unicron battle.
* Ultra Magnus has his final battle with Galvatron.
* Optimus and Megatron have their final battle.
* Hot Rod opens the matrix inside Unicron which destroys him.
* The great war ends as Hot Rod and the other Autobots retake Cybertron. Hot Rod becomes Rodimus Prime.
* After the war Megatron turns himself in.
* Work begins to build space bridges reconnecting the colonies lead by Bulkhead.
* After the war Hound becomes leader of Transformers colony on earth
* Wreck-Gar and the Junkions move to earth after the planet Junkion is destroyed.
* Ratchet considers stepping down after his hands start to fail him.
* Thundercracker becomes a screenwriter.

## Lost Light

* Rodimus Prime finds a map to the Knights of Cybertron and goes with a crew on the star ship Lost Light to find them.
* Drift joins the Lost Light crew along with Ratchet.
* Ultra Magnus joins the lost light crew.
* Brainstorm joins the lost light crew.
* Cyclonus joins the Lost Light crew and meets Tailgate.
* While Rodimus goes into space Bumblebee stays on Cybertron to help lead the rebuilding effort.
* While on an infected medical outpost Ratchet comfronts his former friend Pharma and takes his hands.

## Kingdom

* Protoform X is created on colony Omicron to replicate Starscream's spark. He takes the name Rampage and decimates the colony leaving Depth Charge the only survivor.
* Depth Charge captures Rampage and brings him to the Maximal Elders. They decided to imprison him on the Axlon to dispose of him.