You asked "recently" right? Beast Wars isn't "recently".
The Universe comics show them working with Cryotek and looking to recapture Cybertron post Beast Machines IIRC. I haven't read all those books yet but I recall a scene of them executing the Beast Wars Mutants because they were unmarketable product or something like that.
Haha, true. Though BW is more recent than G1. Not timeline wise, but production.
So what's their deal in general? They like to enslave races for... what purpose?
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