#eyr writes

Cybertronians crave war.

It's an idea scholars and philosophers debated for centuries, the theory that the Cybertronian race was born specifically for war –– the Thirteen and their battle against Unicron, the barbaric battles between various war bands in Cybertron's fledgling years, the Quintesson Invasion, and subsequently, the thousands of bots constructed cold for one purpose: war. And what do you do with a planet full of soldiers with no war to fight?

But nothing proved that theory right more than the Great War, the culmination of hundreds of years of oppression, silenced outcries, and corruption. Never before had the Cybertronian race seen such devastation as the civil war that razed their home, shattered their people, decimated their spirits, and devolved into not a revolution, but a squabble between two sides who would rather win than make things right.

And in their pride, both sides neglected the true origins of the Great War, the miserable realization that it was no one bot's fault. Everyone had their own part to play in the race towards Cybertron's most crushing conflict to date.