Great War (Movie)
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- The Great War is a historical event from the live-action film series continuity family.
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The Great War was a conflict between the heroic Autobots and the tyrannical Decepticons. Mainly centered around the powerful and life giving cube artifact, the AllSpark, it was a bloody conflict that claimed countless generations of Cybertronians and ultimately resulted in the Autobots' defeat and Cybertron becoming a lifeless husk.
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Before time began, there was the Cube. We know not where it comes from, only that it holds the power to create worlds and fill them with life. That is how our race was born. For a time, we lived in harmony, but like all great power, some wanted it for good, others for evil. And so began the war, a war that ravaged our planet until it was consumed by death, and the Cube was lost to the far reaches of space.
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The war started a considerable time after 17000 BC Revenge of the Fallen but before 484 AD. The Last Knight
As recounted by Optimus Prime, the Great War was fought over the possession of the AllSpark. While the Autobots sought the artifact for benevolent reasons, the Decepticons sought it for evil, the war beginning when Decepticon commander Megatron and his Decepticon army betrayed the Cybertronian empire and killed anyone who stood in their way. Transformers
Overmatched and outnumbered, Autobot defeat seemed inevitable. Seeing the writing on the wall, and to gather the resources needed to repair the damaged Cybertron, Autobot commander Sentinel Prime made a secret deal with Megatron. Agreeing to meet on Earth, the two planned to strip mine the organic planet and use Sentinel's space bridge technology to transport its resources to Cybertron. Leaving Optimus Prime in command of the Autobots, Sentinel set out for Earth in the war's final days, aboard the Ark spacecraft. Evidentially unaware of Megatron's plans, a squadron of Decepticon Orbital Assault Carriers intercepted the Ark. A final missile barrage struck the Ark and activated its space bridge, sending it hurtling off into space. Dark of the Moon
During the conflict, the AllSpark was lost in space, sending the Autobots and Decepticons after it. While the Autobots sought to bring the AllSpark back to Cybertron and restore the planet, the Decepticons hoped to use the AllSpark to animate the technology of an alien planet into a new army. When the AllSpark was found on Earth, the war reignited on the planet in the year 2007. Transformers
In 2009, Optimus told Sam Witwicky that "whole generations" had lost in the war on Cybertron in an effort to make Sam grasp the potential fate of Earth after the war had emigrated to the planet. Revenge of the Fallen When Sentinel was revived on Earth, he shortly after asked Optimus of the war, with Optimus informing him of the Autobots having had lost the war and Cybertron being a then-currently dead planet. Dark of the Moon
When Optimus was held captive by Quintessa, the alleged Prime of Life blamed Optimus for Cybertron's ruination. Optimus defended that Megatron was the instigator of the war, but Quintessa made clear that she held only Optimus responsible. The Last Knight
IDW movie comics
Before the war, Optimus and Megatron were the two governors of Cybertron, with Optimus heading the Science Division, while Megatron was in charge of the Defense Force. During an Autobot archeological excavation led by Optimus, they stumbled upon the sarcophagus of the Fallen, of whom the then-current generation had virtually no knowledge about. Immediately upon seeing the artifact, Megatron ordered Optimus to bring it to his quarters without giving a reason. Around the time he gave this order, Ejoornians from the Eshems Nebula, wanting to claim the AllSpark for their own, launched an attack on Cybertron. During the battle, Megatron was heavily injured. As the Fallen subconsciously called for him from the sarcophagus inside Megatron's home, the Defense minister limping back home. Defiance #1 As Megatron lay near dead, the Fallen healed his wounds, giving him enough power to slay the invaders. Defiance #2 Megatron became loyal to the Fallen as the latter promised Megatron more power. Defiance #3
Under Fallen's influence, Megatron ordered Optimus to gather his team and declared that they were to go to war with the Ejoornians. Optimus, believing that this went against their society's moral code, advised his team not to join Megatron. During the time Megatron was away battling the Ejoornians, Optimus' forces broke into Megatron's quarters and examined the sarcophagus. Though they quickly left before Megatron could arrive, they had gleamed enough from the artifact to discover that Optimus was a Prime. When Megatron returned to the sarcophagus, the Fallen informed him of the intruders and manipulated the his protégé into thinking the other Primes sought the AllSpark for their own ends. As Megatron sent an assassination team to dispose of Optimus and Sentinel, he renamed the Defense Force to become the next generation of Decepticons, which was an ancient cause once led by the Fallen. Foundation #3 Defiance #2 Defiance #3
The Fallen ordered Megatron to build a spacecraft, that was dubbed the Nemesis, in order to search for the Matrix of Leadership and the Star Harvester. As the majority of the Decepticons left with the ship, the Autobots exploited the chance and started recruiting citizens wishing to be free from Megatron's control. The Autobots first started fighting back by raiding Decepticon munitions and storage facilities. As the scale of the war grew, its effects on Cybertron started becoming more noticeable. Defiance #4 At some point, Sentinel made a deal with Megatron in order to save their planet. Dark of the Moon (film) Dark of the Moon #3
As the two sides were in a stalemate with no end in sight to the battle, Optimus made the hard choice of secretly ordering the AllSpark to be launched into deep space, away from Megatron and the Decepticons' hands. As he was planning to launch the AllSpark, he falsely told his followers that he was going to take the Cube with them in the ship they were going to use to leave the planet. The reason for him to launch the AllSpark separately was to leave more room for more survivors of the war. Defiance #4
Around this time, Sentinel Prime invented the Space Bridge technology, which he claimed would guarantee a decisive Autobot victory. In order for the technology to be activated, a torch had to make contact with the AllSpark, the temple of which it was inside was in a heavily guarded Decepticon stronghold. Elita-One went to the temple to do the deed, while Optimus and his team provided a distraction.
Elita-One successfully powered the torch and brought it back to Sentinel but she failed to shake Starscream off while getting there. Sentinel got into his ship, which was also intended to later carry Autobots off-planet after launching the AllSpark, to take it to the temple for Optimus and his team in there. As the ship was on its way, unaware of Megatron's secret deal, Starscream seemingly destroyed the ship. Foundation #4 Unbeknownst to the witnesses to the destruction, the triggered Space Bridge technology inside the ship teleported the Ark away through time and space and kept doing it over and over. Convergence chapter 1
The Autobots managed to launch the AllSpark into space, Megatron immediately taking off in pursuit after it. Movie Prequel #1 Cosmically drawn to the location of the star harvester left behind by the Fallen, Defiance #4 the AllSpark crash-landed on Earth, in what would become Colorado. Movie Prequel #2
Following Megatron's example, the rest of the Cybertronian race left their planet to search for the AllSpark. The Reign of Starscream #1
Dark of the Moon novel
Sentinel's ship getting shot by Decepticons was a ruse, part of a scheme to make Sentinel appear dead to any onlooking Autobots present, to demoralize the Autobots as a whole and to lay the groundwork for the Decepticon victory.
According to Dylan Gould, the war destabilized Cybertron's galaxy, destroying the planet and half its stars. Dark of the Moon novel
Mission to Cybertron comic
According to Optimus, the war (seemingly referring to the Great War) destroyed Paradron, leaving it barren. Mission to Cybertron
Notes
- This is chronologically the second known Cybertronian war. The first one was the war between the Dynasty of Primes, which saw the formation of the Decepticon cause by The Fallen.
- The war was officially named the Great War in Transformers: The Movie Guide.
