#spark war

Dear Contagion Concerned,

In the same way that your own immune systems seek out and eliminate pathogens before they can infect your body, so too are our own internal workings protected by intricate, interconnected mechanisms that you might call an “immune system”. Our brain modules are heavily encrypted and secured behind what you would call a “firewall”, while our physical bodies are protected by a complicated system of ultra-thin, electrostatically charged plates that attract and filter out environmental hazards like sand, dust, and rust flakes.

However, these systems are not perfect, and in an ever-changing world Cybertronians must constantly update their software—and, in extreme cases, the hardware itself. When Cybertronians arrive on new worlds, their internal systems analyze the atmospheric conditions and geology of the local terrain and adapt their system accordingly. However, these kinds of ad-hoc reconfigurations are not enough to withstand the very worst diseases known to our species, and in these cases more drastic measures must be taken. In times of postwar prosperity, these campaigns take the form of “Quantum Cycle Upgrades”, where both Maximals and Predacons receive mandatory hardware and software packages that would bring them up to a consistent standard. By the time of the Spark War, the Maximal Imperium and the Predacon Alliance had, over the course of multiple upgrade cycles, worked together to stamp out 73% of all Transformer diseases, including Cosmic Rust, cybercrosis, and Corrodia Gravis.

Dear Species Selector,

Dear Equestrian Enquirer,

The leader of Tarn, a Calidum named Dent, took notice and sent an envoy to talk to Beta, but she stood firm by her decision that the Frigus needed more rations and she would only let the Calidum return when Iacon agreed to give extra rations for Frigus. Iacon of course refused and Tarn was swamped by Praxian Calidum who had been displaced by the rebellion. Tarn quickly retaliated, informing Beta that if she didn’t back down a fight would ensue. She stood her ground and Tarn marched on Praxus, who had fortified their walls. The siege was unsuccessful, as the Tarn army was mainly Calidum and not suited for siege warfare. Angered Dent, who had renamed himself Violen Jiger, banished all the Frigus of Tarn. Meanwhile the other city states had taken notice and similar rebellions sprung up, Calidum and Frigus turning against each other all across the planet. One by one the city states sided with either until only a third of the planet remained unaligned. Not wanting to wait to see which side each city state would choose Praxus (now the Frigus capital) and Tarn (now the Calidum capital) decided they would take the city states. It is unclear which city attacked the neutrals first, but both did it independently of one another, not in retaliation to the other.   The war quickly took more than half the neutral zones and bitterly fought with one another for the remaining zones, which included Kaon and Iacon. During the fighting the Neutram, Vagus, Procul were forced into the war torn neutral zones, being accepted on neither side. A stalemate was reached near the half a million year mark of the war, both sides losing and gaining, but neither coming out on top of the other. It remained like that for two million years until something happened in the slums of Koan, a prime emerged. During the Quintesson War the entire dynasty of primes had been slaughtered and the matrix of leadership stolen and hidden in an unknown location. Somehow the matrix had found its way back to the true prime, who had been a Neutram named Custos, who became Guardian Prime.