Transformers Beyond: Legendarium [Currently Being Edited]

Chapter IX: The Age of Expansion (The Golden Age of Cybertron)

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TRANSFORMERS BEYOND

LEGENDARIUM

Chapter IX

The Age of Expansion (The Golden Age of Cybertron)

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The Age of Expansion, better known by galactic 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:

Nova Prime aims to further expand the reach of the Great Cybertronian Empire and, inspired by the folktales of the Knights of Cybertron, begins planning what he calls the "Expansion", a massive wave of interplanetary exploration and colonization across the known galaxy. To do so, the Cybertronians made use of the technological advances left behind by the Quintessons and created a new Space Bridge network in orbit around the planet. With its completion, the Space Bridge Network is then activated by Nova Prime himself, 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 brethren taken by the Quintessons during the previous Age of Wrath.

The Seekers are dispatched to scout out the star systems outside of Cybertronian space for other life and habitable planets.

The Primal Vanguard is formed to maintain peace between Cybertron, the colonies, and their alien allies.

Approx. 245 million stellar cycles ago:

In anticipation of the Expansion, Nova Prime requires a fresh generation of new Cybertronians, but, around this time, the life-giving, hot spot-igniting pulse waves from 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 wave of newborn Transformers are sent off-world for colonization, all of the additional sparks, which then stored in protoforms within stasis pods, are all placed in a gigantic facility known as the Matrix (named after the Creation Matrix), located in an isolated region of the Sea of Ages just outside of Iacon.

Nova Prime commissions the construction of the Proudstar, his personal starship to oversee the establishment of new colonies.

The Cybertronians begins the development and mass production of War Titans, Titans purposely designed to wage war, built with nigh-invulnerable armor and armed to the teeth with massive firepower. These new Titans are tasked to defend colonization fleets from possible hostile threats as they explore deep space. A few Titans such as Fortress Maximus, Citadel Secundus, Stormbreak, and Citadel are modified to become War Titans.

The first planet colonized by the Great Cybertronian Empire is Archon, the first of hundreds spreading out across the galaxy in all directions in the eons to follow. Using the Seeds created by the Quintessons from the reverse-engineered technology of the Omega Lock, the Cybertronians cyberform any uninhabited worlds they colonize, turning them into tiny copies of Cybertron, connected to the homeworld by the Space Bridge Network.