Editing Setting:Transformers (section)

==Transformers Timeline==
===M30:===
*'''950-996.M30 The Great Loss''': Unexpectedly and horrendously, the Great Crusade sweeps through most of the major Transformer colonies and territories. The path of fire the Emperor's Astartes leave behind razes the surprised Cybertronian worlds to the ground, archives and artifacts dating back to the Great War now lost forever. Whatever precious few items and information not collected by fleeing Transformers are either destroyed or collected by the Adeptus Mechanicus for study. The Thousand Sons Legion, however, is rumoured to have collected and preserved many of the archives in secret on the orders of Primarch Magnus the Red himself. How many of these Cybertronian artifacts that survived the Burning of Prospero is uncertain. The Emperor himself is unusually keen on seeing the extermination of the Transformers through, and it seems he at least had some beforehand knowledge of their technology and tactics.

*'''997.M30 The Fall of Cybertron''': With the mighty God Emperor himself at the helm, they and a strike force of Iron Warriors, Dark Angels, Iron Hands, their respective Primarchs, and a Titan Legion make planetfall on the Transformers' ancient home world of Cybertron. A call is made out to the rest of the galaxy by the panicking defenders for help of any kind. Within eight hours of the call, a whole armada suddenly arrives in orbit via Transwarp travel. But what surprises most is that the Decepticon and Autobot insignias of old are standing side-by-side, their eternal rivalry at least momentarily forgotten for the sake of their home world. Soon the legendary Optimus Prime of the Autobots and the infamous Megatron of the Decepticons join their brothers on the ground in the fight against the Astartes. 

:What follows is utter carnage that will only be dwarfed by the Ullanor Crusade a few years later. The battle goes over the course of a few months, the tide of war switching back and forth constantly between Imperial and Cybertronian, reinforcements arriving for both sides on several occasions. All the while Optimus and Megatron are in the fray, leading their fellow Transformers. At one point Megatron even engages in close combat with Ferrus Manus, who was forced to retreat as even he could not withstand the blows of his Dark Energon Mace without suffering irrevocable damage. 

:The battle reaches its climax at the ancient area floors of the former Decepticon capital of Kaon. The Emperor of Mankind strategically isolates Megatron and Optimus from their respective forces and engages them in single combat. What happens next is debated by multiple sources. Ancient Imperial scriptures say that the Emperor smoke both Xenos singlehandedly and the Transformer forces crumbled soon after. The Autobots remember the battle going in the favour of Megatron and Optimus, but Megatron abandoned Prime to the mercy of the Emperor. The Decepticons, however, say the opposite, that Optimus bailed out on his former brother and the fight was lost from there. Whatever the outcome, the Transformers were soon routed from Kaon and the bulk of their armies were forced to evacuate from their home world. With heavy Sparks, the second-in-commands of the Transformers forces, Ultra Magnus and Starscream, ordered the troops on the ground to overtax the Kaon space bridge, causing a chain reaction of other bridges all over the planet activating and beginning to swallow Cybertron in a Transwarp portal. Miraculously, the majority of the Astartes forces were able to escape the vanishing planet before it was sucked into the wormhole. From this point on, both the Autobots and Decepticons lost any singular leadership they had and their rivalry reached its highest peak since the Great War. Many of the Cybertronian forces are too scattered and weak to participate in the Horus Heresy. Amongst the Autobots who fought at Kaon, only one survivor is known; Hot Rod, who returns traumatized and bearing the Matrix of Leadership. It is unknown if Optimus Prime or Megatron survived the Fall of Cybertron, as their bodies were never recovered and sightings of them persist into the 41st millennium.

===M31:===
*'''003.M31 Darkness Rises''': A daemon world, a world of ashes and fire in the realm of Khorne, disappears. All that's left in its place is rubble and spiralling Warp energy. It becomes the first in the next several millennia to disappear in and around the Eye of Terror.
*'''016.M31 Fall of the House of Constantine''': The planet Pyroran, once a prosperous feudal world home to the Imperial Knight House Constantine, fell in 7 days and 7 nights during the Horus Heresy to a constant onslaught of the Decepticon war machine. During the last week of the battle, the noble houses and the remaining Knights were pushed back to a walled citadel where they held a valiant line against continuous energon and ion bombardment. On the 7th day, the wall finally fell and the combiner Bruticus led a frenzied charge into the citadel. While most of the Knights and nobles fell back to the centre, one Knight Gallant by the name of Palaeologus decided to stay and fend off the charge long enough for the remaining nobles to set up a defensive position. Palaeologus engaged Bruticus in single combat, but was widdled down and eventually struck down. House Constantine fell later that night, and Pryoran was soon cyberformed into New Kaon, with the citadel now a gladiatorial arena.

===M32===
*'''842.M32 The Shattering of the Forge of Contempt''': An Iron Warriors-held space fortress is assaulted by Autobot warriors under the command of Ultra Magnus and Rodimus Prime, who painstakingly slaughter the Chaos Marines whilst trying to spare their slaves. Though they offer these survivors the freedom to return to the Imperium, most choose instead to swear themselves to the Autobots, perhaps driven by their awe of the Autobots, perhaps grimly aware that the Imperium would have no welcome for them.

===M33===
*'''950.M33 The Massacre of Metabelus III''': An Imperial Shrine World is wiped out to the last by a Transformer invasion. In reality, they had disturbed an ancient Cybertronian weapon and unleashed the deadly Hate Plague, a pseudo-psionic contamination that drove the colony to self-destruct; the Transformers who attacked did so to keep the surviving "rage zombies" from potentially infecting the rest of the system with their madness.

===M34===
* '''347.M34. A Successor Rises:''' A Decepticon referring to himself as "Megatron" rallies a group of Predacons to his cause. Employing the mighty Predaking, this pretender masterminds a series of devasting attacks on Imperial and Ork territory in the Rynx warzone, at one point manipulating Ork and Imperial forces into a battle that drains both of their forces and allowing his own to maneuver into a position which allows him to seize control of several planets. What ensues is the enslavement of several Hive cities and agri-worlds, along with a mass genocide of Ork populations. Catachan Jungle Fighters and the Death Korps of Krieg mount a last stand at the most heavily populated of these worlds, however, with even the surviving Ork Warbosses of WAAAGH! Headcruch forming an uneasy alliance with the humans. The allied forces fully expected to be defeated, however, one of Megatron's own troops, a Predacon rumoured to be related to Grimlock himself, defected, feeling there was no honour in his former commander's actions. Under his guidance, a mass evacuation ensued, resulting in many civilians escaping Megatron's ambitions. However, the defenders, Ork and human, are slaughtered to a man, their Cybertronian ally disappearing from the aftermath, his location unknown.

===M35===
*'''397.M35 The Defense of Powrie''': A Dark Eldar raid on a presumably defenceless Imperial world goes horrifically astray for the fear-eating marauders when it turns out that a small tribe of Cybertronian deserters has come to call the world home. With their advanced technology and skills, they launch their own counterattack, tearing apart the Dark Eldar and stopping their invasion cold. Though the Archon in charge escapes back to Commorragh with his life, his status is lost and he quickly becomes food for his rivals in the wake of so humiliating a defeat.

===M36===
* '''705.M35 The Crimson Wars:''' The insane Quintesson psyker Mara-Al-Utha, known as the Crimson Wizard, defects to Chaos and launches a crusade aimed directly at destroying the Covenant of Primes. Autobot forces from across the galaxy are summoned to aid in the battle. Unexpectedly, however, Chapter Master Dante of the Blood Angels calls for the formation of an armada to drive back the Crimson Wizard's forces and prevent them from rampaging in Imperial world territory. On the advice of Inquisitor Amberly Veil, this call was heeded by the Flesh Eaters, Black Templars, and Imperial Fists, alongside several Imperial Guard regiments. Dante's call proved prophetic, as Mara-Al-Utha's forces proved far stronger than initially thought by both Autobot and Imperial troops, containing several armies enslaved by Quintesson technology, from an Ork WAAAGH! to an entire Tyranid fleet that Mara-Al-Utha acquired. Hard-pressed, both Autobot and Imperial forces call for reinforcements. The ensuing conflict becomes one of the bloodiest in the history of both Autobots and the Imperium, Mara-Al-Utha's deviousness revealing many unexpected surprises. Eventually, the arrival of the Eldar, led by Farseer Eldrad, tips the balance enough for allied forces to gain the advantage. In response, however, Mara-Al-Utha has his top scientist, Primacron, release his most deadly creation: Tornedon, a creature forged from Chaos energy and Cybertronian technology that began consuming the allied forces in its path. With seemingly no way to stop this monster, Mara-Al-Utha's victory seemed certain until the arrival of a Nekron Dynasty, led by the Silent King, who offers his aid to the beleaguered allies. Though unsure at first, they are forced to accept, and the unusual alliance proves just enough to destroy Tornedon and finally break Mara-Al-Utha's forces in the Battle of the Sundered. In the aftermath, Mara-Al-Utha is destroyed by Rodimus Prime and Dante, while Primacron is captured by the Silent King, who has use of his talents...

===M37===
*'''632.M37 The Cargis VII Siege''': Imperial Fists and Aurora Chapter Space Marines arrive along with the 34th Betic Centaurs and 55th Alphic Hydras to aid in the siege of the planet Cargis VII whose heretical Planetary Governor declared independence from the Imperium. The situation becomes dire due to the fact that the governor not only was found aided by the Iron Warriors but also used an uncovered Cybertronian artefact that generated a forcefield around the capital. The shield proved indestructible and none of the Imperials could penetrate it. However, a group of Autobots led by the ferocious Grimlock arrived at Cargis VII when they found out Iron Warriors were on the surface. Despite being powerful, with their numbers, the Cybertronians would be overpowered by the defences. An uneasy alliance is made between Grimlock and the Imperials and the Dinobot orders some of his band to assume the forms of the Land Raiders of the Space Marines. Although disgusted to ride inside the Transformers, the Imperials pass easily through the forcefield. Both factions massacre the governor and the Iron Warriors, the Imperials reclaim the planet, while Grimlock disappears with his Autobots along with the forcefield artefact before anyone notices.

===M38===
*'''335.M38 The Tainting of the Righteous Indignation''': Transformer raiders assault an Imperial battle cruiser, the Righteous Indignation, broadcasting some alien signal. To the horror of the survivors, the Righteous Indignation goes renegade, killing its crew and attacking its former allies before fleeing with the raiders into deep space. When the vessel later returned, it demonstrated the same shapeshifting ability as the other Abominable Intelligences; the Mechanicus officially states that the vessel was enslaved and mutilated into one of the twisted entities, but the Inquisition has its suspicions that it may have been a transformer in stasis the whole time.

===M39===
*'''700.M39 The Shattering of Paradron''': An attempt by the Imperium to reclaim the lost world of Paradron for humanity runs into conflict when one band of heathens refuse to accept the Emperor's Light. Sworn to the defence of the City of Light, they wield foul techno-sorceries to try and stymie the Imperial assault. When defeat is inevitable, all of the surviving heathens flee to their "holy city-god"... which transforms into a massive starship of alien nature and departs from the planet, fighting its way through the unprepared defence fleet in orbit and warping away. Paradron promptly explodes, annihilating the loyalists still on the surface and crippling the fleet.

===M40===
*'''450.M40 WAAAGH! Oilguzzla''': An ambitious Big Mek leads a Waaagh! against a transformer colony-world, seeking to harvest the natives as the raw materials to build Morkanauts and Gargants. The colony survives only by unleashing ancient archeo-tech weapons from the Great War.
*'''781.M40 The Cyber-Plague of Toxus II''': The Adeptus Mechanicus retrieve objects from an ancient Cybertronian tomb and, fighting past their guardians, brings them to the Forge World of Toxus II for study. One item turns out to be a bio-weapons canister containing a sample of the hyper-corrosive ferrovirus known as Cosmic Rust; it leaks and rapidly infects the entire Forge World, destroying it utterly.

===M41===
*'''700,M41 Madness Unbound''': The Forgeworld of Hephaestia is suddenly assaulted by the deranged Galvatron and his Unicronist cult, as they obliterate factory after factory they discover a hidden vault buried in the main bastion of the world. Coming under fire from the fortress' macro cannons Galvatron descends into a mindless rage, obliterating a massive section of the stronghold including a vital generator causing an immense chain reaction that vaporizes the bastion, leaving the vault exposed. Tearing through the door the Unicronites made a spectacular discovery; the vault was in fact a fortified prison lab containing the Constructicons, Stunticons and the original Terrorcons, these three combiner teams had been missing ever since the fragmenting of the Decepticons. After releasing them Galvatron extends the offer for them to join his forces, and the three combiner teams agree. As he revels in this most recent victory three Unicronites known as Hook, Line and Sinker who the Adeptus Mechanicus believe to be something akin to attendants to Galvatron as well as reporting to Unicron on his deranged herald's actions, come forward and claim that his master will be pleased with these results. These words apparently caused the chaotic Cybertronian to snap, roaring in outage he was heard howling '''"I BELONG TO NOBODY!"'''. After mutilating the three, Galvatron orders the leaders of his new forces: Hun-grr, Motormaster and Scrapper to slaughter half of his cultists. The survivors of this rampage swear their loyalty to Galvatron over their former lord Unicron.
*'''740.M41 The Metal that Eats''': Driven mad by the omnicidal whispers of their dark master, a cannibalistic warband of Unicron-worshippers sweeps out of the stars and lays waste to multiple worlds as part of a rampage of destruction for destruction's sake. Their path of bloodlust only comes to a halt when they encounter a tendril of Hive Fleet Behemoth. Cybertronian fought Tyranid as the two sides tore each other asunder, causing metal and flesh to fly through the air and rain down like hail. Eventually, the Unicronites were devoured by the Swarm, thrashing and screaming in rage the entire time.
*'''890.M41 The Tornetron Heresy''': The Imperial World of Tornetron is wracked by heresy when a new subversive group, the Spark of Divinity, rises from amongst the underhive and spreads through the foundries. Ordo Hereticus agents and Callidus Assassins learn all-too-late that the heresy is being promoted and led by Decepticon Pretenders allied to Starscream; their effort to subvert the world into providing resources to Starscream's forces thwarted, they instead lead the surviving heretics to flee their homeworld, being absorbed into Starscream's forces as Targetmasters, Powermasters and even Headmasters.
*'''900.M41 The Fallen Rises''': The ancient figure of Cybertronian religious lore, the Fallen is spotted in the midst of a battle between the Nurglite warband known as the Purge and Eldar of Craftworld Ulthwe, summoned by a Unicron cult seeking to bring about the end times.  The Fallen and his armies of entropy slaughter the Eldar and crush the Daemons of Nurgle, with the mighty and ancient Great Unclean One Thraxus being personally ripped apart by Megatronus with ease, his ancient and evil might that once laid waste to an entire sector being like a fireplace's flame next to a volcano. The Daemon screams with terror as he realizes that the chaos-flames of the knight of entropy are causing him to experience a true death; feeling his Daemonic spirit being shorn apart with each blow of his enemy before the Fallen plunges his hand into his chest and burns his daemonic essence out of existence.  The Purge swiftly swears fealty to the Fallen and to Unicron, renouncing Nurgle and kneeling to Unicron's archangel, Abaddon is left unaware of this betrayal of the Chaos Gods as they soon work to spread carnage in Unicron's name.  
*'''905.M41 Sixshot's deadly dance''':  Hired to purge an ork world for Autobot settlement, Sixshot lands on the world well ahead of any other Autobot forces and the legendary sextuple changer stands alone against the green tide.  Despite the aspirations of every warboss on the planet Sixshot is undefeated throughout his rampage on the battlefield, destroying everything in his path with his customary mass application of firepower.  By the time the main Autobot force arrives via space bridge after marshalling their troops Sixshot has wiped out over a third of the planet's greenskins in his one-man war on the orks, having even killed the Warlord Zogkikka in single combat after wrecking the Warlord's personal Stompa and being challenged to a duel.   Sixshot's payment is steep, but it is a price that Ultra Magnus is willing to pay to grow Autobot civilization.  
*'''910.M41 Annexation of the Akhera Dynasty''': After a skirmish that left his forces badly mangled, Soundwave and his retinue of Decepticons fell back to a seemingly uninhabited world as a warband of Word Bearers gave chase. When the Word Bearers made planetfall and seemingly cornered the Decepticons, Scarabs scurried from the earth below and began to maul at the Chaos Space Marines and their vehicles, and it came as a surprise to both sides that they had reawakened a Necron Tomb World. Even stranger, however, was that the Scarabs only focused on the Word Bearers and none of the Decepticons. Soon enough, Necron Warriors rose from the ground and began laying down a barrage of gauss, not paying mind to and even aiding the Decepticons in their plight. After the Chaos Space Marines made their hasty retreat, a fabulously adorned Necron surrounded by a pack of Lychguard and a few Cypteks approached Soundwave. He introduced himself as Erikahn; Phaeron of the minuscule but powerful Akhera Dynasty. As the Phaeron spoke Soundwave quickly decerned that the Necron was delusional and insane, mistaking him and his Decepticons as their Necron brethren. Seeing a unique opportunity, Soundwave annexed Erikahn and his nine Tomb Worlds under him into his ranks. Now those worlds serve as Soundwave's main base of operations and serve as a Decepticon colony.
*'''993.M41 The Tidal Conquest''': With the Imperium embroiled in the second Tyrannic wars, the Tau third sphere of expansion, and the lead up to the third war for Armageddon, the thirteenth black crusade and the lead elements of hive fleet Leviathan and an ever-increasing number of awakening Necron dynasties and resurgent or newborn Xenos empires and chaotic raids and rebellions, Shockwave and Soundwave decide that now is the time to strike and expand.  A wave of sudden conquests begins as the Cybertronians pour out of their borders and seize large numbers of poorly defended worlds.  At the same time, the Quintesson Co-Prosperity sphere and the Cyberformer Domain also begin their own rapid expansions.  Support is also sent to the conquest-hungry Necron Sautekh dynasty and the biocidal Maynarkh dynasty as well as the mysterious Anrakyr the Traveller with the hopes of building a lasting alliance.  Many attempted Imperial counterattacks are forced to be diverted elsewhere as the last decade of the forty-first millennium is rife with one catastrophe after another, and by the Millenium's end, the campaign seems undeniably victorious as the Imperium is besieged on all sides by all manner of enemies new and old.
*'''999.M41 The Foul Flame of Tulzscha''': The fringe world of Tulzscha, already the sight of attention from the Imperium due to whispers of growing independence movements, comes under attack by Hive Fleet Eviscerix, a Tyrannic Splinter Fleet. As the Imperial defenders are pushed to the brink of extermination, Starscream's Brigade makes a daring strike in unprecedented numbers. Monstrous gestalts like Piranhacon and Predaking tear apart bio-titans, and the Powermaster Combiner known as Dreadwind leads Seeker squadrons to the death of the hive-ships, but it is the dreaded Sunstorm who truly turns the tide in favour of the Decepticons. Manipulated by his "father's" silver tongue into directing his attention to the dying world and coaxed into the depths of narcissistic fury, the hypercharged Cybertronian mutate ploughs heedlessly into the thickest frays. Like a corrupt and incandescent angel of destruction, his electromagnetic fusion aura incinerates the lesser bio-soldiers where they stand, burning gaunt-strains to ashes before they can hope to close within arm's reach of him, their bio-bullets disintegrated almost as soon as they leave their weapon-morphs. Singing to himself with slaughter-lust, Sunstorm whips himself ever deeper into his rapturous fury, blazing so brightly that even his fellow Decepticons cannot come within a mile of him before their own armoured chassis start to melt like wax, the very bedrock boiling to magma beneath his feet. Unable to adapt fast enough to destroy the insatiable Decepticon warrior, the Tyranids are obliterated, the surviving humans bowing in homage to these mechanical gods. Thus another world is drawn to serve Starscream.
*'''999.M41 The Madness Silenced''': The notorious Daemon World of Zarathrax at the outer reaches of the galaxy's northern fringe is visited by a strike force of Grey Knights, only to be found to be gone entirely, along with every planet in the system; even its sun having found to have vanished.   Radiation-ghosts of a vicious battle in orbit can be found, consistent with the Chaos Fleets of the Daemon Prince Agrazantha, but the only survivors are the crew of a badly damaged cruiser so stricken with fear that even the daemons bound to the ship have become insane with terror as once vicious chaos Astartes shake and shudder like children; ranting and raving as the Ordo Malleus takes them in for questioning; the barely coherent madmen babbling about a living planet that came into their system and forced through their fleet with impunity.  Though the Daemons of the planet raged at the monstrous being that sunk its mandibles into the planet and the traitors fought with all their dark bravery against the tide of monsters spat forth by the gas giant-sized mechanical construct as their world died, they could not stand against such power, and the daemonic essence of every daemon on the planet was said to have been snuffed out like candles in a hurricane, destroyed utterly without even their faintest whispers being left in the warp.  Executing the traitors once the interrogation was finished and examining the footage gathered by the cruiser's sensors, the Ordo Malleus comes to a terrible conclusion; the legendary figure of Cybertronian myth known as Unicron has entered the galaxy.