Editing Mechamorphosis (section)

==History==
Because FFG couldn't get the rights from Hasbro, they had to make up their own backstory and names for their Giant Transforming Robots, whom they called "mechamorphs". On a planet known only as "Mech Terra", a race of sapient autonomous cybernetic organisms came to exist. Organizing themselves into a massive array of guilds, whose rulers made up the collective political body of their people, the Cynet, they lived a peaceful existence... until, one day, the Great Generator that produced the nexus energy needed to fuel their people suddenly stopped functioning. Chaos ensued, and a new guild arose, claiming authority over all mechamorphs with the promise of ending the starvation plaguing their people, with the mechamorphs willingly bowing to them when they seemed able to live up to their promises.

Of course, as this new guild called itself "The Tyrants", you can bet your last dollar that it went horribly wrong. It turned out that the Tyrants were playing the mechamorphs for fools, secretly murdering "politically expendable" mechamorphs and leeching nexus energy from their remains to give to the living - ending famine by institutionalizing cannibalism, in other words. Oh, they were also being true to their words to locate other worlds and harvest energy reserves from them, but the bulk of their nexus energy was being taken from their own people.

This secret was ultimately found by Pride, a Cynet representative who led the Animechs, a guild responsible for animating and rebuilding mechamorphs who had undergone total shutdown or destruction. When he confronted Obelisk, the first High Tyrant, he was bluntly informed that he could take his guild and leave Mech Terra, or they would all be "recycled". Unwilling to risk a civil war, and feeling ashamed of his own role in bringing the Tyrants to power in the first place, Pride agreed - but as the Animechs left in the First Great Exodus, High Tyrant Obelisk attacked, seeking to silence them forever. Both parties were presumed lost when they were swallowed by a white hole, and with Obelisk went the nexus-draining technologies he had invented.

Thousands of years passed, with Tyrant rule growing more shaky and brutal as they tried to desperately make up for their energy deficit by ravaging other worlds and strip-mining them of all the energy they could. Finally, a former guild leader named Aegis gathered eight of his fellows, and together they set upon a desperate plan to escape; converting old cargo-haulers into shuttles, they fled their world and sought refuge in whatever part of the galaxy could be reached through the white hole into which the First Great Exodus had vanished all those centuries ago. Only Aegis' ship is known to have successfully made it - and the Second Great Exodus did not go unknown. An ambitious ranking Tyrant named Vorpal has pursued Aegis, in pursuit of the possible remnants of High Tyrant Obelisk's nexus-draining technology. And thus a war between alien machines has fallen upon Earth...