Post by Spinister on Nov 22, 2007 23:32:48 GMT -5
Text only, because Spinister has a spooky mystique to maintain
People argue about where we came from. Some of the older Transformers think we were made by some god called Primus to fight Unicron, this transforming planet that eats planets. Amechanogenesis, the idea that we developed from naturally occurring gears and pulleys, is also pretty popular. Bludgeon will swear up and down that we're something to do with the Ultimate Warrior, some demi-god who will kick the skidplates of the unworthy.
Before the war, the city states, like Kalis, Iacon, Vos, Tyrest, Tarn, Stanix, Polyhex, and others, answered to generations of Overlords. Vos and Tarn, run by Starscream and Shockwave, mutually annihilated, and the last Overlord was old and weak. He had it coming. Megatron rallied the desperate and dispossessed, gave them hope and a vision of a better future. So we Decepticons were born.
We took on Iacon, run by a bunch of old busy bodies known as the Council of Elders. Emirate Xaaron was one of them. Iacon gave hand-outs to the weak, weakening itself, and they would have fell if not for the appointment of Optimus Prime to leader of the Autobot army. When Megatron got a good chance to take out Optimus Prime, he took it. In doing so, both factions lost their military leaders and a good chunk of their forces about a thousand years into the war. We fell in under Trannis. The good thing I can say about him is that he took Iacon and killed the Council. Problem is, he didn't whack Emirate Xaaron, whose troops hounded Trannis ever after and were the end of him. If the Autobots didn't get Trannis, we would have. Straxus took over after Trannis's demise. He took the rebel scum down a notch, just never could boot them all the way off the ladder and into the smelting pool.
We finally got word back from Megatron's group in 1984 as the Terrans reckon it, four million years after they vanished. They were alive but so were blasted Optimus Prime and his gang. About then was when we developed the space bridge, a bridge that lets us travel space1. A whole heck of a lot happened then, and just like I didn't go over every little skirmish prior, I'm not going to hit everything. Needlenose, if I leave anything major out, just add it.
Shockwave developed combination technology when he built the Constructicons, cut off Optimus Prime's head, and forced Optimus Prime to animate them. Time travellers from an alternate future would pop in every now and then and royally mess up everything. Megatron got to lead the Autobots for a while because of this. Optimus Prime committed suicide over a video game, which had to be one of the high points of the war. Scorponok hunted that coward Fortress Maximus down to Nebulos, where Fortress Maximus was trying to ignore that there was a war on. The Autobots had the bright idea of tearing off their own heads and replacing them with Nebulans. For some reason, we also did this. We also made Targetmaster and Powermasters a bit after. Unfortunately, Optimus Prime came back to life as a Powermaster, because some human kid kept a copy of him on a 5 in floppy disc.
Then the future Transformers showed up again. Cyclonus, one of them, boasted about killing Shockwave, so Shockwave had Megatron kill Cyclonus. This seemed to speed up reality's decay. The Mayhems - my team, although I was on trainer duty at the time - got sent out to deal with another one of the future Transformers, and he trashed us. Eventually, the future Transformers went back or got pulled into a time rift, ending the problem. Oh, Starscream killed a whole bunch of people on both sides in the middle of all of this.
We nicked Micromaster technology off the Autobots and gained the ability to make really tiny Transformers, for all those times when cassettes and Insecticons just aren't good enough.
The Autobots, geniuses that they are, forgot to take the Matrix out when they launched his dead body into space after he committed suicide over a video game. Pretty bad, since we need to deal with Unicron, who is coming head of schedule. Needlenose tells me that we ended up working for Lord Thunderwing, a bright young officer who could detect the Matrix and wanted it pretty badly. We actually managed to find it, but it drove Thunderwing a bit batty.
That's all I got.
1 Duh.
People argue about where we came from. Some of the older Transformers think we were made by some god called Primus to fight Unicron, this transforming planet that eats planets. Amechanogenesis, the idea that we developed from naturally occurring gears and pulleys, is also pretty popular. Bludgeon will swear up and down that we're something to do with the Ultimate Warrior, some demi-god who will kick the skidplates of the unworthy.
Before the war, the city states, like Kalis, Iacon, Vos, Tyrest, Tarn, Stanix, Polyhex, and others, answered to generations of Overlords. Vos and Tarn, run by Starscream and Shockwave, mutually annihilated, and the last Overlord was old and weak. He had it coming. Megatron rallied the desperate and dispossessed, gave them hope and a vision of a better future. So we Decepticons were born.
We took on Iacon, run by a bunch of old busy bodies known as the Council of Elders. Emirate Xaaron was one of them. Iacon gave hand-outs to the weak, weakening itself, and they would have fell if not for the appointment of Optimus Prime to leader of the Autobot army. When Megatron got a good chance to take out Optimus Prime, he took it. In doing so, both factions lost their military leaders and a good chunk of their forces about a thousand years into the war. We fell in under Trannis. The good thing I can say about him is that he took Iacon and killed the Council. Problem is, he didn't whack Emirate Xaaron, whose troops hounded Trannis ever after and were the end of him. If the Autobots didn't get Trannis, we would have. Straxus took over after Trannis's demise. He took the rebel scum down a notch, just never could boot them all the way off the ladder and into the smelting pool.
We finally got word back from Megatron's group in 1984 as the Terrans reckon it, four million years after they vanished. They were alive but so were blasted Optimus Prime and his gang. About then was when we developed the space bridge, a bridge that lets us travel space1. A whole heck of a lot happened then, and just like I didn't go over every little skirmish prior, I'm not going to hit everything. Needlenose, if I leave anything major out, just add it.
Shockwave developed combination technology when he built the Constructicons, cut off Optimus Prime's head, and forced Optimus Prime to animate them. Time travellers from an alternate future would pop in every now and then and royally mess up everything. Megatron got to lead the Autobots for a while because of this. Optimus Prime committed suicide over a video game, which had to be one of the high points of the war. Scorponok hunted that coward Fortress Maximus down to Nebulos, where Fortress Maximus was trying to ignore that there was a war on. The Autobots had the bright idea of tearing off their own heads and replacing them with Nebulans. For some reason, we also did this. We also made Targetmaster and Powermasters a bit after. Unfortunately, Optimus Prime came back to life as a Powermaster, because some human kid kept a copy of him on a 5 in floppy disc.
Then the future Transformers showed up again. Cyclonus, one of them, boasted about killing Shockwave, so Shockwave had Megatron kill Cyclonus. This seemed to speed up reality's decay. The Mayhems - my team, although I was on trainer duty at the time - got sent out to deal with another one of the future Transformers, and he trashed us. Eventually, the future Transformers went back or got pulled into a time rift, ending the problem. Oh, Starscream killed a whole bunch of people on both sides in the middle of all of this.
We nicked Micromaster technology off the Autobots and gained the ability to make really tiny Transformers, for all those times when cassettes and Insecticons just aren't good enough.
The Autobots, geniuses that they are, forgot to take the Matrix out when they launched his dead body into space after he committed suicide over a video game. Pretty bad, since we need to deal with Unicron, who is coming head of schedule. Needlenose tells me that we ended up working for Lord Thunderwing, a bright young officer who could detect the Matrix and wanted it pretty badly. We actually managed to find it, but it drove Thunderwing a bit batty.
That's all I got.
1 Duh.