Transformers Beyond: Legendarium (OLD)

Chapter VIII: The Golden Age

The Age of Expansion, better known by historians as the First Golden Age of Cybertron, was considered to be the heyday of the Transformer race right after they exiled the Quintessons from their homeworld and its colonies, creating a vast galactic empire that promoted joy, peace, exploration, knowledge, prosperity, and most important of all, freedom...

Approx. 250 million stellar cycles ago:

At the end of the Second Quintesson Wars, the Quintessons were driven from Cybertronian territory by the Cybertronians led by their fierce Supreme Commander Nova Prime, ending their long tyrannical occupation of their world. With the support of the elders Alpha Trion and Maccadam, Nova Prime spent his first three thousand years as Cybertron's first Supreme Commander rebuilding proper civilization on Cybertron and uniting its off-world colonies, dissolving the Cybertronian Union and reforming it into the Great Cybertronian Empire. To rule the new Empire alongside him, Nova Prime establishes the Cybertronian Senate and a reconstituted Council of Ancients. The Senate, led by a First Senator and Supreme Commander Nova Prime as its moderator, had Senators from all over Cybertron who represented their own respective city-state, and each city-state would vote for their Senator. Alpha Trion and Maccadam were among the first members of this new Senate, becoming Senators of Iacon and Crystal City respectively. The Council of Ancients was smaller than the Senate, as it only consisted of thirteen members, but the Council would govern all of Cybertron and each Councilor would be voted in by the civilian population. Notable Councilors in office at this time included Steelheart, Obliteration, Nightwielder, and Firefight. Notable Senators in office at this time included the aforementioned former Primes, along with Xaaron, Termagax, Jhiaxus, Codexa, Halogen, and Ember. This was also the time when Cybertron's greatest cities were rebuilt from all the damage during the Quintesson Wars, including the planet's capital Iacon, the first city-state to be liberated from the Quintessons.

But Cybertron wasn't enough. Nova Prime looked to the stars, wanting to spread Cybertron's glory to other worlds and cement dominance across the Milky Way Galaxy. Free to govern themselves, the Cybertronians made use of the technological advances left behind by the Quintessons and created a network of Space Bridges in orbit around the planet. After its completion, the Space Bridge Network is activated, connecting Cybertron to the wider galaxy beyond on equal terms for the first time in recorded history. Contact begins to be made with other forms of life, and Cybertronian explorers and adventurers flood out into the galaxy in search of wonders and riches and their abducted brothers taken by the Quintessons during the Age of Wrath.

The Seekers are sent out of Cybertronian territory to scout the nearest star systems around the Great Cybertronian Empire's borders for other lifeforms to forge alliances with and alien worlds to colonize under their banner.

The Primal Vanguard is formed to maintain peace between Cybertron and its allies, and fight alongside the Cybertronian Elite Guard and Defense Forces to defend the planet and its colonies from any hostile alien threats.

Approx. 245 million stellar cycles ago:

Nova Prime leads the Great Cybertronian Empire in this new age of colonization and expansion with the help of the Titans and the technology of the Space Bridges, colonizing new worlds under Cybertron's dominion from aboard his flagship, the Proudstar. In anticipation of the Expansion, Nova Prime requires a fresh generation of new Cybertronians, but, around this time, the life-giving pulse waves from both Vector Sigma and the AllSpark slow down. Nova tasks a team of scientists to extract new sparks from the Creation Matrix of Leadership, exponentially boosting the Cybertronian population and further dividing Cybertronians along "forged" or "cold constructed" lines. After the first new generation of Transformers is created and sent off-world for colonization, all of the additional sparks, which are then stored in protoforms within stasis pods, are all placed in a gigantic facility known as the Matrix, located in an isolated area of the Sea of Ages just outside of Iacon.