Transformers Beyond: Legendarium [Currently Being Edited]

Chapter XII: The Age of Havoc (Beginning of the Fall of Cybertron)

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TRANSFORMERS BEYOND

LEGENDARIUM

Chapter XII

The Age of Havoc (Beginning of the Fall of Cybertron)

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The Age of Havoc, sometimes referred to as the Great Invasion, was a war-ridden era that mostly saw the Combatron Wars, an interstellar civil war that consumed the worlds of the Republic of Cybertron for the next several million years. It marked the end of the Neo-Colonial Period as following the conflict, Cybertron was forced into isolationism after a retaliatory strike by the Galactic Council. The Age of Havoc is, in many ways, considered by many historians to be the founding event of the Fall of Cybertron.

Approx. 19 million stellar cycles ago:

Cybertron Security Operations begin receiving reports of several remote Cybertronian colonies being attacked and destroyed by a mysterious group of organic space pirates, leaving no trace of mechanical life on the planets. The Elite Guard and the Primal Vanguard are mobilized to the Republic's borders to investigate but no further attacks occur. Security Operations are assigned to the decimated colonies in hopes of finding some clue of who the attackers are.

Ten years later, reports reach Cybertron of more colonies destroyed on the outer reaches of Cybertronian territory, apparently victims of the same force as a decade prior. The Cybertronian Security Operations head for the new sites and discover that the alien attackers are members of the Black Block Consortia, a rogue protector fleet that had seceded from the Galactic Council centuries ago but kept the same philosophy of acting as a peacekeeping force for lightly-defended civilizations against the galaxy's warring mechanical races like the Stentarians in exchange for resources. The Consortia claimed that they were taking a more "proactive approach" than their parent organization by launching pre-emptive strikes on worlds that they deem a "threat" to the overall tranquility and stability of the Milky Way Galaxy. While the Council vehemently denies endorsing this group's activities, it's commonly believed by the Cybertronians and other races that the Galactic Council has come in conflict with that the Black Block Consortia is actually a false flag organization secretly financed by corrupt Council officials to act as a black ops unit dedicated in weakening the infrastructures of rival civilizations without the Council themselves becoming directly involved.

Start of the Six-Gigacycle War: Hijacking the Communication Grid, the Black Block Consortia declare war on the Republic of Cybertron, viewing it as the onset of a holy crusade to terminate all mechanical races in the galaxy. As the invaders attack the most vulnerable colonies in the Republic's outer territories, the Cybertronian Armed Forces are deployed to defend the colony worlds from the aliens. The subsequent conflict would continue for the next 6 thousand years.

The Defense of Lithone: A detachment of Wreckers led by Captain Rotorstorm aid the colony's local militia forces in defending Lithone from a Black Block Consortia fleet, though not without many losses on both sides.

The Devastation of Pyritron: A Primal Vanguard taskforce led by a former Destron named Stormdriver and his Titan partner Bastion engages the Black Block Consortia in orbit of the colony of Pyritron and are quickly overwhelmed by the Consortia's heavy troopers and warships. Even Bastion's transformation into his gigantic robot mode isn't enough to the turn of the tide of the battle as more Consortia heavy units enter the battle and the entire taskforce is crushed. Pyritron is then destroyed as the Black Block Consortia bomb the planet until it was nothing more than a large chunk of molten slag floating in space. Both Stormdriver and Bastion are among the many casualties.