Transformers Beyond: Legendarium - Prologue

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Author's Notes: Hi, everybody! Dakaueze here, and this is my first entry in my own Transformers series--Transformers Beyond: Legendarium. Legendarium is basically a summary of the background lore/information for my own Transformers series, Transformers Beyond. I will be writing it like J.R.R. Tolkien's The Silmarillion where its written in a pseudo-historical text/myth sort of way. Actual character dialogue will be minimal.

The source of information in this series comes from all across the Transformers franchise, mostly from the Marvel Comics Generation 1 continuity that started it all, the Japanese G1 cartoon continuity, the original IDW Generation 1 continuity that ran from 2005 to 2018, the Unicron Trilogy (consisting of Armada, Energon, and Cybertron), the live-action "Bayformers" movie franchise (particularly the first five movies), Transformers Animated, and the Aligned continuity.

Also, expect a LOT of name drops and references in this series moving forward.

Legendarium has been largely inspired by DeviantArt User Nagillim's Cybertronian Timeline: https://www.deviantart.com/nagillim/art/Cybertronian-Timeline-478931721

Update 9/17/25 - This new, revised version of Legendarium is made to celebrate 41 years since the premiere of "More Than Meets The Eye, Part 1", the very first episode of the original Transformers cartoon that helped lay down the foundation of the franchise we know and love today (I drastically changed a lot of stuff this time. for example I omitted my adaptation of the Generations Select manga's story about the Primus Vanguard and the Precursor World, along with any mentioning of Primacron, and giving the Celestials the name of their original inspiration, the Dolems).

minor update 10/15/25 - small additions and expansions in the chapter's formatting to fit my current standards.

Update 6/7/25 - Hey, guys! It's been a while! Legendarium and the Beyondverse as a whole have been in a hiatus due to my personal life and writer's block, but now I've taken up my summer time to get back into it, especially since this year is the 40th anniversary of Transformers: The Movie. For this recent update, I once again rewrote the chapter's format to fit current standards and expanded on previous information, especially the Vok and the Celestials. I originally wanted to add more stuff on the Servants of Unicron, but given all the lore dump in this chapter, there wasn't anywhere to fit it in and I've decided to bring it up for future chapters.

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TRANSFORMERS BEYOND

LEGENDARIUM

Prologue

The Theomachy (The Dawn of Time)

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"In the Beginning, they say it all started with a bang...where there was once nothing...came everything. In a single instance, every atom that build up the very foundation of reality as we now know it appeared. That's what we've been told. And that's certainly a way of looking at things. To the casual observer, our devoid universe was filled to a brim of energy within a nanosecond. But the truth is much more complicated than that. Before time began, before there was something, there was only One: The Source and All...an extradimensional entity that acted as the sentient core and lifeforce to the primordial multiverse. A being of unfathomable power and reach. To put it simply, The One is what we may refer to as "God". We do not know how The One came to be, but it's believed that it resides within a higher plane of existence that's far beyond our understanding known only as the Omniversal Matrix, a mysterious godly realm abundant with tremendous power, where in Order and Chaos existed in perfect harmony. The One has always existed and will continue to exist long pass the end of time. Trillions upon trillions of years, lengths of time near unfathomable to a mortal being, is nothing more than a mere drop of time for The One. For an untold time, it existed in isolation, pure and inviolate, but it was sentient and therefore it questioned its existence, its place, and its purpose. And so, to better understand those things, The One decided to briefly peer outside of the Omniversal Matrix. From there, it witnessed the simultaneous creation, destruction, and rebirth of a vast myriad of multiverses such as Primax, Viron, Aurex, Tyran, Malgus, Uniend, Sayber, Retra, Unum, Fornax, Iocus, Nexus, Quadwal, Yayayarst, Cymond, Gargent, Lukas, Rovio, Xobitor, and many more--on each of these worlds the spark of life had, has, or will have brought forth beings of infinite varieties and forms of life that were capable of dwelling in all the many corners of these universes. Inspired by these events, The One sought to forge its own multiverse where it can fragment itself across its many worlds to experience their myriad struggles and evolutions in order to understand itself and the nature of its very being when these vessels returned to their source after their mission is complete. And so, it created. This is the chronicle of the events of but one universe...this is the story of the Beyondverse...

"Approximately 15 billion years ago, the prime universe of The One's newly-formed multiverse that we now know as Praeter at first existed as an ultra-hot fog of hydrogen energy that was smaller than an atom. Then, it expanded and inflated into existence in an event that we know as the Big Bang. After a billion years of stellar expansion, galaxies of stars with orbiting planets were created. On several of these new worlds, life gradually evolved thanks to the Zodiac, mysterious life-giving energies leftover from the Big Bang that were scattered into a supermineral spread across the cosmos, eventually and miraculously bringing forth sentient beings in many shapes and sizes...

"First among these new lifeforms were energy beings without physical form who existed outside of normal space-time, born in the void between nowhere and nothing. The energy beings quickly developed to become highly-advanced creatures with tremendous power and intellect. Prominent among these god-like entities were the Vok of the Nexus Zero Nebula, located deep within the center of what we now know as the Milky Way Galaxy. Afterwards, organic life began to evolve through carbon-bonding, while mechanical life evolved through the naturally-occurring interaction of gears, levers, and pulleys, dubbed "Atechnogenesis" by scientists. Advanced forms of atechnogenesis sees technology overrun nature as organic lifeforms modify their own bodies with machinery in their attempts to stave off mortality, bringing forth technorganics--lifeforms made up of flesh and metal merged together at the cellular level...

"As physical life began to grow in abundance throughout the universe, the Vok acted through the will of The One, whom they knew as the "Source" or the "Core", conducting strange experiments on primitive worlds across the stars where they influenced the evolution of other races to create perfect, advanced societies like themselves. These projects were also a means for the Vok to atone for the tragedy and destruction that they had wrought upon the universe in their previous life as the Swarm, actions that were committed in the Vok's past, in a future yet to come...

"But sadly, not all of the Vok's experiments would contribute to their overall goal--as the first true intergalactic civilizations began to emerge, the Vok would encounter a fledging race at the very edge of the galaxy known as the Celestials, a matriarchal hive culture of silicon-based organisms who possessed the rare ability to manipulate the Zodiac, the very energy of life in the universe as we know it, at their whims. The Vok became the Celestials' benefactors, teaching them to how to perfectly master their Zodiac powers in accordance to The One's Grand Design, allowing to develop advanced technology that was a mixture of science and mysticism. However, they were horrified to realize too late that the Celestials were a race of egomaniacal conquerors who only knew to use their powers to crush those they've perceived as weak. And now that they've tamed the fabric of life itself, the Celestials believed that they've reached a level of divinity that others can merely dream of. Ignoring the Vok's teachings of balance between order and chaos, the Celestials would use their new cosmic powers to forge their own empire in their region of the universe and then expanding their reach to the outer galaxies, allowing them to be worshipped as gods by many alien cultures that are forcibly assimilated under their rule. Those who swore their undying loyalty to their new 'gods' were gifted great power, while those who attempted to challenge the Celestials' rule would meet a fate worse than death...

"While powerful, the Celestials were extremely arrogant, with them being so foolish enough to attack their former masters, the Vok, at their homeworlds in Nexus Zero. A massive war erupted between the Vok and the Celestials, ending with the near collapse of the Celestials' glorious empire and forcing them to retreat to their home cluster in the Milky Way. Though victorious, much of Vok Territory was decimated in the struggle and many Vok were flayed by the Celestials' army of Zodiac-enhanced followers, which in turn forced the Vok into isolationism and become passive observers who continued their mission to aid other races through proxies. Defeated but not destroyed, the surviving Celestials divided themselves into clans with each of them ruled by a queen, who solely answered to their race's High Matriarchs Jubileus, Sheba, and Qoun. The Celestials continued to clandestinely expand their sphere of influence by sending these clans to alien worlds in disguise, where they would integrate themselves among the "lesser races" and slowly influencing them into revering them as their rightful rulers...

"In order to better observe the young multiverse and understand its many struggles dispassionately, The One created from a portion of its lifeforce an immortal child, tasked with the goal of exploring the young universe and maintain balance within it. A child that was born without the prejudice or bias of their parent's memories, so they'll be better able to judge its parent without preconception and favoritism, but only with a burgeoning curiosity. This child of The One was given the name of Daiakuron, an unique digital entity that wore the eight faces of Order, Chaos, Space, Wisdom, Nature, Transformation, Knowledge, and Death, and whose body was forged from Angolmois Energy, derived from the incredible, raw cosmic energies of the Omniversal Matrix. And so, Daiakuron began their eternal exploration, passing freely across the cosmos, experiencing what would arise...

"For many eons, Daiakuron traveled across the universe, making contact with numerous worlds and their inhabitants. They were amazed by their observations, but they lived in isolation. Without any of the creatures they've encountered equaling their power, Daiakuron questioned their existence, beginning to converse with themselves. Why did it exist, and What was its purpose, and if there was such a thing Who had set it all in motion and Where were they and How? However, Daiakuron was alone in the universe, with no equal to answer these questions but themselves. In time, eight unique personas begin to form within Daiakuron's mind, with each of them based on their eight faces of Order, Chaos, Space, Wisdom, Nature, Transformation, Knowledge, and Death. While the personas were one being in the form of Daiakuron, the act of division separated them into eight viewpoints whose opinions, insights and feelings began to grow ever more divisive and irreconcilable, until they all became entrenched in their views and unable--even unwilling--to see any of the others' side. And the more they argued, the more Daiakuron began to feel divided in both mind and spirit, until they divided in form as well...

"After Daiakuron's fragmentation, the eight personas then gained their own physical forms as powerful cosmic entities, which each of them representing an aspect of reality. The first was Primus the Lifegiver, and after him came Unicron the Chaos-Bringer, then Atlas the Transmutator, Solomus the Wise, Gaea the Seeder, Adaptus the Shaper, Epistemus the Thinker, and lastly Mortilus the Deathbringer. Together, they were known by many names, including the Guiding Hand, the Lords of Light and Darkness, and the Old Ones...

"For a short time, the Guiding Hand continued Daiakuron's original mission of charting the universe and overseeing all events within it. But soon they began to argue over what they should do in the seemingly infinite expanse. Unicron wanted to eliminate anything and everything he deemed as imperfections, seeing the many celestial bodies that dotted the vastness of space as nothing more than obscurations to its beauty, and sought to devour it all until there was nothing but an infinite void at the end of all things. Adaptus believed that the ideals of utopianism and total pacifism will only bring stagnation to the mortal races and prevent them from evolving to a higher state of being, and so, sought to promote conflicts and wars among them in order to put them through a constant state of technological and spiritual development through warfare and bloodshed. The other six were just content to let things to work at their own pace and that they should only step in if absolutely necessary. It didn't take long for their battles to take on physical form and thus, the Theomachy began...

"The battles between the members of the Guiding Hand waged across the universe for countless ages. In the Theomachy's early days, Epistemus was struck down in the midst of the conflict's first shots in a vain attempt to calm things down between her siblings, her body utterly obliterated and casted out throughout the void never to be reunited. However, Epistemus's consciousness survived, drifting helplessly in the depths of space until it finally sat at a distant corner of the Milky Way Galaxy. There, the knowledge goddess's lifeforce gradually accrues a collection of space junk around it. As its gravitational pull increases, more and more drifting shipwrecks and space junk gather around it, eventually forming an artificial planetoid that would known in the far future as Junkion...

"During the Theomachy's middle stages, Adaptus mainly fought against Gaea, who opposed the former's stance on evolution through conflict, as the nature goddess believed that it would eventually lead to the destruction of all life. The two goddesses fought long and hard against one another until Gaea eventually managed to get the upper hand on Adaptus by locking her away in the form of a mechanical planet. Unable to transform back into her regular form, Adaptus' planet mode drifts across space, becoming the rogue planet that would be only known by its future inhabitants as Planet X...

"In spite of Adaptus out of the way, Unicron remained a threat to the universe's stability, and battled Primus, Atlas, Solomus, Gaea, and Mortilus for eons. Despite the Chaos-Bringer being the mightiest of all of the Guiding Hand, he couldn't match the united five in combat. Inspired by how Gaea managed to lock away Adaptus within the form of a planet, Unicron sought to this tactic to reduce the number of his enemies. Through clever tricks and traps, Unicron was able to lock away Atlas, Solomus, Gaea, and Mortilus within the forms of planets that would be known in the distant future as Gigantion, Velocitron, Eukaris, and Combatron respectively. The only one left standing between Unicron and his quest for universal destruction was Primus himself...

"As the only two remaining members of the Guiding Hand left, Primus and Unicron battled throughout the universe for centuries, though being in every way equals, neither brother could gain the upper hand for long: for every galaxy Primus saved, another was lost to Unicron's hunger, until literally hundreds of millions of galaxies had been lost. During their duel, Primus's and Unicron's Angolmois blood was spilled on several occasions. It was spread across the universe, being seeded on many worlds, especially on those that supported life. Their blood would be known as the rare elements of Energon and Dark Energon respectively...

"The Theomachy continued for hundreds of millions of years until after eons of fighting, Primus eventually came to the realization that neither he nor Unicron would ever prevail, and that if they continued fighting...they would destroy everything...

"And so, Primus channeled the raw power of the Angolmois running through his being, creating from his own lifeforce a vessel of unfathomable power known as the AllSpark. With the AllSpark, Primus brought forth an army of Heralds to travel on ahead of him to distant worlds to prepare the mortals of the universe for the coming of Unicron: each a being of light in the image of their creator and representing an aspect of Primus himself. The first Herald of Primus to be birthed from the AllSpark was Primon the Alpha Prime, a brave and valiant leader who wielded the legendary Sword of Primus and was an unrelenting force of good who sought to bring peace and justice across the universe. Following him were the Twelve Primal Lords, a council of twelve who each represented aspects of their creator's divine mind and his thoughts on the universe, who could serve as Primon's greatest generals and advisors in times of war. Among their ranks were Ariex, Taurotron, Geminator, Cancix, Leonicus, Virgol, Libras, Scorpius, Sagittarii, Capricun, Aquator, and Piscor. Behind them, the armies of light were assembled. The First Children of Primus would be forever known throughout history as the Covenant. The Covenant's function was to bring relief to the victims of Unicron when all chance of victory seemed lost, forcing the Chaos-Bringer to fight a war on multiple fronts that'll greatly deplete his strength in time, thus eventually giving Primus the chance to defeat him for good. Yet Unicron countered his brother, seeing through his plan. Using the dark powers of his own Angolmois, Unicron created his own Heralds from his Anti-Spark who would come to be known as the Servants of Unicron, who waged war against the Covenant on behalf of their master, and once again their battles dragged on across the never-ending sea of stars...

"And thus Primus determined it would be better if they withdrew from battle. He tricked his brother by abandoning the physical universe and fleeing to the astral plane, drawing Unicron with him. And just as his brother resumed their conflict mind against mind, Primus immediately retreated back to the physical world, boasting to Unicron how he'll soon have the upper hand. Unicron, thinking that his brother was onto something, arrogantly followed Primus back to the real world, only to have both of their essences manifest within a barren asteroid, where Primus hoped they might be forever bound and thus their devastating conflict would be contained...

"However, unknown to Primus, this would fundamentally alter the nature of his future battles against Unicron and will forever change the course of history..."