Approx. 4.0 million stellar cycles ago
Start of the Remote Age: When contact with both the Ark and the Nemesis is lost, both sides of the Great War go into disarray. The Autobot Commonwealth attempts to determine the fate of the Ark and the fate of Optimus Prime and the rest of Team Prime, but their efforts are in vain. Eventually, Ultra Magnus is named acting Supreme Commander of the Commonwealth in Prime's absence and succeeds in maintaining the fragile alliance between the colony worlds with Elita-One and Sentinel Major as his advisors. By contrast, Megatron's apparent demise leaves Gelgastorm struggling to control the Decepticon Star Empire in his brother's stead as several Decepticon warlords, mercenary groups, and pirate crews turn on each other for their own respective dreams of conquest.
Shockwave reacts to Megatron's disappearance with trademark stoicism, taking the opportunity presented to further his own plans for Cybertron's future. He withdraws to his powerbase in the ruins of Crystal City and begins his work.
Approx. 3.7 million stellar cycles ago
With the Decepticon Star Empire fractured into squabbling warlords, Gelgastorm allies with the Triumvirate at New Kaon in order to bolster his forces. After millennia of wiping out of competing warlords, Gelgastorm secures a rule over a signification portion of the Empire sufficient enough to threaten the Autobot Commonwealth.
Ultra Magnus is forced to temporarily call off the search of the Ark to defend against the attacks of Gelgastorm's renewed Decepticon offensive. Their cold war wages inconclusively for almost 200,000 years with neither side able to achieve a decisive victory.
Approx. 3.5 million stellar cycles ago
After millennia of inconclusive battles and schemes against the Autobots with no clear outcome, former Combatron High General Gigatron challenges Gelgastorm for the title of Imperial Leader of the Decepticons. The Autobots turn this leadership contest to their favor, using the uncertainty in the Decepticon ranks to undermine their empire and cause many of the unconquered worlds to rise up against them. In the chaos that follows, the Decepticon Star Empire once again fragments into competing factions. Gelgastorm is forced to retreat into deep space in the hopes to one day return and unite the Decepticons under one banner again, but he disappears without a trace sometime after his departure from known space (In the present day, it would be revealed that Gelgastorm attempted to retrace his brother's footsteps in finding the AllSpark with the goal to use the artifact's great power to create an army that'll allow him to defeat his enemies, but as he enters Earth's atmosphere, his navigation systems malfunction, causing him to to crash in the Arctic, where he is frozen solid, trapped in stasis lock.)
The Mecannibal Incident: Velocitron is attacked by cannibalistic mechanoid aliens called the Mecannibals seeking to make a food source of the Velocitronian population. The Autobots respond and, together with the Velocitronians, they drive the aliens from the colony, causing sufficient losses to the invaders to ensure they learn not to repeat their mistake.
Approx. 3.2 million stellar cycles ago
The Autobots discover the former Cybertronian colony of Mons Prima, long believed by many religious groups to be the final resting place of Prima, the very first Cybertronian. The warrior tribes of Mons Prima side with the Autobots following a civil war with a rival tribe.
The Cybertronian colony of Skomiloch and its ruling body, the Ironforge Guild, joins the Decepticon Star Empire, offering the service of the Vehicon Navy as the Decepticon battlefleet's vanguard force.
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Transformers Beyond: Legendarium (old version)
ActionFrom The One to the Guiding Hand, to the Covenant, to the Thirteen Primes, to the Quintessons, to the Golden Age, to the Age of the Functionists, to the Autobots and the Decepticons, and into the future. This is the story of the Beyondverse. Quick D...
