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Ch. 2

Log 15 |cybertron|

•Cybertron;

"Cybertron, my- our home world was a world created by a device known as the AllSpark. With its power, it created a race of dimensional travelers, the Thirteen Primes, and made Cybertron suitable for their habitation. Then... Then there came the rest..."

•Iacon;

"-Iacon is the name of the largest city on Cybertron, best known as the hometown of Optimus Prime and the Council of Autobot Elders. The city was protected by a great dome, and was the last city-state to fall to the Decepticons, after which the Autobot resistance moved into the tunnels and bases beneath its surface. Iacon, sometimes called Iacon City, is controlled at the north pole of Cybertron. Iacon often is the planet's capital.

-Iacon functioned as the heart of Autobot territory on Cybertron, and appears to have been the base prior to the departure of and his comrades from the planet. It was termed "greatest of the city-states" for the Autobots on Cybertron.

When the planet suffered from global fuel shortages, Iacon was one of the big cities who monopolized what resources there were. Unlike its rivals, and, Iacon's council gave out rationed fuel to its smaller neighbors. When the Vos-Tarn war broke out, Iacon accepted refugees but decided to let the two cities wipe themselves out: a mistake, as Megatron would use them as a scapegoat to fire up the survivors."

Turns out, information sticks...

"Alpha Trion, Optimus Prime, and Jazz worked at the Hall of Records. The latter two would drink at Maccadam's. The High Council would meet in a tower built over Teletraan-1, which contained the Plasma Energy Chamber and the dormant Omega Supreme. Vector Sigma was also located beneath the city, and Six Lasers Over Cybertron and the Manganese Mountains were nearby. Iacon remained unmolested until the end of the war, as the Autobots also held Kalis, which produced enough fusion energy for the city, and because of the city's formidable anti-aircraft turrets. Art, music, and maintenance of the DataNet continued. The Decepticons infiltrated Teletraan-1 to steal the Chamber so they could poison Cybertron's core with Dark Energon, causing Omega Supreme to crash into the city. When the Autobots left Cybertron on the Ark, Decepticons flooded into the city.

-Shockwave and his Insecticon minions would eventually take up residence in the Autobot's former capital and used conscripted slave labor to build his newest tower. From here, he carried out his brutal regime. Shockwave came to view the entire city and its subjugated citizens as his personal laboratory and saw Autobot guerillas as welcome variables to cull the weak and enhance the strength. Although the Wreckers and other scattered pockets of Autobot resistance attacked Decepticon convoys moving in and out of Iacon, they could not retake the city. They were fed information by Maccadam, who had turned his bar into the hub of the Autobot resistance's spy network.

-Iacon was eventually invaded by Quintessons, who managed to get as far as the Hall of Records before the invasion was foiled. In the heat of battle, the Wrecker Rack n' Ruin destroyed Shockwave's tower with some stolen demolition charges, although Shockwave himself had already escaped Iacon's borders."

Like tape to paper, as humans may put it...

•Hall Of Records;

"The Hall of Records, located in the city of Iacon is not open to the public. The information contained within is vast, (stretching from the mythology of a billion years past to the important DataNet transmissions of today), and it all is methodically cataloged, and filled away by monitors such as Orion Pax. The robot in charge of the Hall of Records is the Archivist of Iacon, Alpha Trion who, some suspect, maybe more than meets the eye. During the Great War, the Hall of Records was maintained by a skeleton crew, and a reading room became the informal headquarters of the Autobots.