Post by shadowstrike on Aug 26, 2016 14:42:38 GMT
Transformers Rebirth Timeline
As a general notice transformers Rebirth does not possess a precise time scale, if your character was part of the Civil War simply add between 40 to 50 years to their character app.
The Age of Rebirth
Thousands of years after the Great Exodus of Cybertron a number of Autobot and Decepticon forces arrived on a small planet called Earth. This planet became the focal point of the war as both factions fought across Earth. During their battles the two factions went on to learn Earth was the corpse of Unicron, the chaosbringer. Eventually he would begin to rise again, although he was sealed shortly afterwards by Optimus Prime and Megatron.
In an attempt to regain the advantage the Decepticon scientist Shockwave created the Predacons based off DNA from an extinct cybertron race that died during an event called the Cataclysm. His experiment was successful, although many of the experiments where killed off in fear of their power. The only surviving subject was Predaking although the tools to create more existed.
The Decepticons and the Predacons then went on to attempt cyberforming Earth and reviving Cybertron. Their attempt to Cyberform Earth was ultimately stopped by the Autobots, though they succeeded in reviving Cybertron. Afterwards which many of the Earths forces moved to the newly restored Cybertron. Megatron was also killed during the Decepticons attempt to cyberform Earth.
His death was only temporary however as after Cybertron was revived the immense energy signal broke the seal on Unicron, allowing him to resurrect and possess Megatron. This Unicron controlled Megatron then went on to awaken a terrorcon army from the corpses of Cybertron's dead including a number of Predacons. Due to this the members of both the Autobot and Decepticon armies along with a few newly created Predacons lead by Predaking where forced to unite to defend against the threat.
After a long battle the factions where capable of finally sealing Unicron and breaking his possession on Megatron. His experience under possession led to Megatron officially disbanding the Decepticons and willingly entering exile. Later on the well of allsparks was reactivated allowing Cybertron to create life.
The Age of Unity
Megatron's attempt to disband the Decepticons though was not met with complete co-operation across the galaxy. Infact many of the Decepticon forces where unwilling to disband despite calls to do so from Megatron and some of his most loyal soldiers. This led to the Decepticon faction splintering into two separate factions, one for those willing to continue the fight, since many believed the newly revived Megatron was Autobot propaganda, and one for those who either wanted to stop fighting or where simply loyal to Megatron.
The new sides didn't end the war, rather it intensified as friends and former allies began fighting between themselves. For the next four centuries the Autobots alongside Megatron's Decepticons and a rapidly rising Predacon race fought against the smaller but more bloodthirsty 'True Decepticons'. A faction lead by the Decepticon Justice Division who kept control of their forces through intimidation or by continuing to support the idea the newly revived Megatron was not their true leader and instead an Autobot insult to their deceased commander. Their lack of willingness for a peaceful end led to thousands of unnecessary deaths in suicide bombings and last stands across the galaxy.
Ironically the numerous losses caused by the Civil War since Cybertron's revival led to the four factions becoming viable targets for assimilation and Cybertron's invasion, two events which would lead to the unification of the four factions with the arrival of the Quintessons. The scientist race, first act of war was an attack on the Cybertronian settlement of Velocitron as hundreds of Velocitronians where abducted and turned into slaves functioning as modified transports for their overseers. By the time news had spread of the event the entire planet had been captured by the Quintesson Empire and was being repurposed and reprogrammed as a vassal army.
The complete lack of resistance on Velocitron filled the Quintessons with fatal confidence as they then went on to invade Gigatron and attempt to take control of the Well of Allspark on Cybertron. On both occasions they failed as the massive titans of Gigatron provided enough resistance that they where able to send off a warning message, in an attempt to gain the support of the Titans of Giga all four forces went on to assault the Quintesson Empire, although the other factions involvement was unknown to them at the time. At the same time the Sharkticon Commando team that infiltrated Cybertron (which had during the new war became a neutral zone) met with the recently grown Predacon tribes, they where mercilessly ripped to shreds.
During a peace conference between the three factions (the Autobots and both Decepticon factions), Predaking arrived and went on to deliver the heads of the Sharkticon group informing them that these mechs where found attempting to infiltrate the well of allsparks. This led to the realisation that they where under attack from a fifth group. A belief that was solidified shortly after when a group of Sharkticon's and Reprogrammed Velocitron's attacked the conference killing hundreds, although they where unsuccessful in killing any of the leaders.
The attack forced a temporary truce as all four factions unified to locate and destroy the enemy. Within three months the factions had narrowed down their clues to the planet of Velocitron. The use of planetary shields, anti-space placements and an indoctrinated army led to ten years of skirmishes and attempts to break their defences before finally Megatron punched through their shields with the use of the Nemesis. By the time they had arrived though many of the Quintessons had been smuggled offworld along with any useful information relating to them.
For now though the four factions acknowledged the enemy had been defeated, though still lying in wait to strike again and so the uneasy truce stuck.
The Age of Transition
Now that the four factions where unified rather than stuck in a seemingly endless war they had to resolve what to do with the factions, the consequences of their actions, as well as their home planet. It was in fear of another war kicking out then that the four factions where willingly to negate the war crimes of millions of soldiers. Out of the billions of Cybertronians around the galaxy just over six hundred where considered war criminals including the infamous Decepticon Justice Division.
Now that the war was also over Megatron's attempt to disband the Decepticons was validated, on the condition that Optimus Prime also disbanded his own faction. As a result both the Autobot and Decepticon factions where disbanded. In their place the Cybertron Planetary Defence Force became their main military force which was quickly filled by millions of former warriors. Alongside this faction the Cybertron Security Force was created to form a police organisation for the Cybertronian race. While the political side was dealt with by the senate. Together these three groups formed to create the Unified Cybertronian Alliance.
In agreement the four factions decided the creation or resurrection of either an Autobot or Decepticon faction would be considered illegal in an attempt to reduce chances of a Second Civil War. Furthermore to reduce tensions between the four factions all leaders where exiled or imprisoned, with Megatron and Optimus Prime going on to travel with each other across the galaxy. While Predaking took the role as defender of the core.
In their place the well of allspark began producing Cybertronians with an affinity for science and politics. This was due to Primus recognising the necessity of these roles. By the next century more than half of the settlements across Cybertron where represented by 'new sparks'. Although a number of the older generation of Civil War survivors joined the political scene helping reform the City-States system, of which Iacon, Kaon and Praxus where recreated having been the headquarters of each faction, alongside the new City-states Theyar, Virmire and Median.
It would appear despite bumps that by the end of the millennium Cybertron was entering a new golden age.
The Second Golden Age
The Golden Ages beginning was signified with the Matrix, purged of Unicron's taint, rising from the well of allsparks. It was shortly followed by an surge of new sparks who helped repopulate the planet. Bringing with them a social change that celebrated the new technological and social advancements that had been created since the foundation of the Unified Cybertronian Alliance.
It was during this time that the headquarters of the UCA was moved from Caedes Inferius to the centre of the Median City-State, which was known as the most neutral of the city-states. To some it was a celebration of Median's neutrality while to others it was a subtle nod to the exclusion of the Predacons. Either way the change occurred with no physical reactions.
Meanwhile in Theyar the headquarters of the Cybertron Security Force finally released more than a hundred Cybertronians convicted of war crimes, it was one of three mass releases as the former Civil War veterans where released into the public. Unknown to them each and everyone had a killswitch inserted into their processor to be activated if they broke the law. Only twenty two of these kill-switches activated.
The true success of the Golden Age though was its dramatically low poverty and unemployment rates, with only 4% of the entire population being considered in poverty along with a 3.5% unemployment rate the majority of civlians lived fulfilling lives. A statistic that the entertainment City-State Virmire agreed with as its tourist revenue skyrocketed.
For many the war was entirely forgotten, whether it was erased from their processors or simply didn't exist in the first place. Still the social freedoms applied to minimise revolt from the early days of the Alliance effected many allowing the mass majority to live freely and within sectors they enjoyed.
Such was the case of the 'New Spark', Zion Azure a femme from Midian who quickly joined the political scene first as the representative of her sparking settlement of Ultrix and then later as the City-State representative. It would be a position she held for the next 4,000 years until an unusual meeting with the Matrix of Leadership. The event in question signified her rise as Zion Azure was chosen by the Matrix, upon which she became Zenith Prime. Overseer of the council.
And so the golden age continued for more than a million years.
The Age of Change
Eventually though all things must come to an end.
By now most of those who fought in the Civil War are long gone. In their place the 'new sparks' have simply became 'sparks' just like those before the first Civil War, and just like before Cybertron is slowly straining under the pressure of billions of life forms. Even if it has millions of years to go.
The signs of its growing burden are increasing as tensions rise, and old grudges are resparked... It only takes one spark to set off an explosion.