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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Peregrinus: [QB] My preferred TF origin story is a melding of the two. Primus and Unicron are two ancient entities that came from the previous universe/an alternate universe. They are opposing archetypes, chaos and order, creation and destruction, etc. Primus sees their fight won't end through main force, and dives into a metallic planetoid, imprisoning himself. Unicron thinks he's up to something and follows suit. Thus Primus succeeds in trapping the Chaos-Bringer. Over the millennia, both learn to exert their wills/auras/whatever to manipulate their prisons. Primus is content to stimulate the origin of mechanical life that will one day lead to the TFs we know, and that will be more potent against Unicron that Primus himself, and then puts himself to sleep so Unicron won't find him. Unicron, meanwhile, is reshaping his prison into a new body for himself. Then, millions of years later, now that Primus' prison has evolved into a thriving ecosystem and civilization -- the Quintessons come along and f*** everything up. They conquer the planet, enslave the inhabitants, and re-educate them over the following centuries to come to believe the Quints created them, and that their lot is to be servants. The genders are segregated, so they won't learn they don't need the Quints to reproduce. The females are marketed as domestics (being more aesthetically pleasing), while the males are good manual labourers. Many non- or semi-sentient drone vehicles are made during this time, too, to ferry potential customers, goods, and so on, and much of the wildlife becomes uncommon, if not extinct. There is of course unrest, but nothing ever comes of it. But then, at some point under Quintesson rule, one of the labourers tries to get away, and hides from the Quints' enforcers down one of the tunnels the Quints cut to explore the subterranean (or whatever term is appropriate) environment. This cutting is the eighteenth approach they made to the core, and so they designated it "Vector Sigma". At the planet's core, the Quints found a glittering sphere that contained great power, but they weren't able to activate it, so they stationed guardian drones to make sure no one else found it. Well, our wayward slave manages to evade the guards, and finds himself in the presence of "Vector Sigma" -- who wakes from his slumber long enough to say somethign along the lines of "I am Primus. I created Cybertron, and all life on it. You are the first of my creations to find me. To you I impart this portion of myself, a matrix of my very essence. Use it to lead your people. Use it to create new life, as I did. And guard it well, for one day one will rise from your ranks and use the power of the matrix to light your darkest hour." So the slaves rebel. They drive the Quints off Cybertron. Their brand becomes a badge of remembrance. The Brotherhood of Decepticons forms of like-minded individuals who believe Cybertronians should expand and conquer -- a perfectly understandable reaction for a recently-liberated people. Thus ends the Golden Age, and thus begins the Civil War. At some point, Autobot scientists crete the secret weapon of transforming, allowing them to slip about without being noticed by the Decepticons. The Decepticons eventually catch on and adapt themselves similarly, and later one-up the Autobots by creating Triplechangers, and eventually the first Gestalt, Devastator. About this time, Cybertron's energy reserves are dwindling. The Decepticons send out probes to find more sources of energy. These home in on likely planets, scan the dominant life-forms, create five or six new Decepticons from the nascent personality chips included with the probe. These 'Cons set up an energon-collection station, harvest energy, and await retrieval. And if anything threatens the station, they can combine into a big nasty to defend it. This is how [b]I[/b] explain the Predacons, Seacons, Terrorcons, and even Insecticons (the probe was damaged in the landing and could only activate three). The Autobots' answer was to form an expedition to find a new source of energy, but the Decepticons intercepted the ship and they all crashed on Earth four million years ago. Etc. That about cover all the bases? --Jonah [/QB][/QUOTE]
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