Design for shothole
the offspring of kickback, these are the largest insecticons around, disturbingly they're also the most mobile and opportunistic, they act aloof and harmless if your guard is up but the moment you try to rest thats when they attack,
The nature of cybertron's rot wasn't just scarcity or vague societal decay, a very real mutagen started being spread throughout the planet after the Allspark's removal, on another planet this would've brought about a mass extinction only comparable to earth's great dying, but this event came far too late. Cybertron's environment was already collapsed, leaving only one coddled species to finally suffer the consequences of their actions, the transformers themselves
But from death comes life, abundant life, cybertron's ability to grant life to inanimate objects was known for bilions of years and many neighboring alien civilizations would transport machines and relics to cybertron in order to animate them, and this practice didn't end when it died. It simply changed. Cybertron became a dumping ground for galactic trash, making it unreconizable by the time the insecticons were unearthed.
But even before that. Barely functional robots and organic remains harboring bacteria were among the trash that would find itself on cybertron's surface. In time, they would evolve into the junkions, and life would come to cybertron once more. Though unaware of the planet's history, they would encounter the stasis pods holding the mutated cybertronians and unleash them to spread ruin once more.
Today, cybertron is forgotten to all, but the cybertronians who've mythologized their homeworld to a level only the devout would find palpable, where it once stood, is now the inhospitable, insectcon infested hellhole called the planet of junk,
