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[askvectorprime]

Dear, Vector Prime.

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.

Alien civilizations fortunate enough to survive a direct encounter with these mysterious ships speak of armies of bestial warriors, who raze planets and burn whatever remains to cinders. Some talk of a poetically inclined Sharkticon, who turns devastation into chilling poetry; others of a brutal crimson Amphiboid, while still others told tales of a cunning Skunkticon warrior who spread chaos wherever he went. The most dreaded Cybertronian of all would be their leader Gigatron: seemingly a clone of the original Megatron, this “new” Megatron is a chimeric six-changer, twisted and deformed, equal parts Cybertronian, Chiropticon, Dinobot, Predacon, Insecticon, and Orangucon. His origins remain an enduring mystery, as are his long-term goals: is the brutal empire he’s constructing a prelude to a full-scale invasion of Cybertron, or is he attempting to construct a bulwark against some threat unseen? Does Gigatron operate alone, or is he but a servant of some unseen master? Alas, there are some answers that even I am not privy to…

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