#orangucons

Was Devil Gigatron present in the Uniend cluster?

Dear Gigatron Guesser,

Decades after Bumblebee and his team liberated Cybertron from Cyclonus and his neo-Decepticon movement, peace had seemingly come to Cybertron at long last—but not all the Decepticons responsible for the soft coup had been brought to justice. ‘Bots like Bulkhead and Wheeljack scoured backwater systems for any Decepticon stragglers. Upon learning that the original Grimlock had gone missing, they tracked his last known location to the spinward rim of the galaxy, far away from Cybertron, where they made a shocking discovery: for years, various civilizations in the sector had been tracking a number of large, unidentified starships: shockingly, these mystery vessels were based on ancient Cybertronian schematics, massively upscaled copies of the Ark that had carried the Autobots off Cybertron so long ago.

These ships were orders of magnitude larger, jumbled hodgepodge designs that combined reliable Cybertronian technology with exotic alien weaponry and mysterious energy sources. These self-sustaining "war worlds" carried the foundries, armories, and shipyards required to support an army’s worth of Cybertronians, and were also capable of creating that same army: vast shipboard cloning facilities could mass-produce new protoforms and hybridize their CNA with the genetic data of many different alien creatures. Planets like Darhos and Ijurn had been scoured of their natural resources, strip-mined to support the construction of these terrible vessels.

Dear Horror Connoisseur, 

In some realities, in the final days before the Great War, a young Shockwave correctly predicted that war was all but inevitable, and sought to take advantage of the coming chaos. Although the Senate had long since outlawed genetic experimentation and strictly policed approved modifications, Shockwave had already established a small off-grid laboratory, where he had already conducted a number of flagrantly illegal experiments on creatures like Scraplets and other small Cybertronian life-forms—augmenting them, hybridizing them with other life-forms, or even imbuing them with rudimentary intelligence.

A few days before Megatron’s infamous Senate Declaration, Shockwave recruited a pair of twin brothers from the gladiator pits underneath Slaughter City for the first true test of his revolutionary cybergenetic morphing process—using Orangucon CNA obtained from fellow gladiator Groundpounder, he gave one of them the ability to transform into a simian beast, while the other became a Dinobot.