The TVC Universe Timeline
The Age of Creation
Umpteen Million Years Ago
- The One creates Unicron and Primus.
- Unicron begins to destroy Creation itself.
- Primus creates Cybertron and the 13.
- Prima vanquishes Unicron with The Matrix.
- Primus populates Cybertron.
For further details on this period, see: The Lost Tetralogy
The Age of Servitude
13 Million Years BU
- The Quintessons enslave the population of Cybertron.
- They introduce the process of transformation to the robotic slaves.
- The population is divided into Workers and Soldiers.
- The Workers begin a rebellion against their 5-faced Masters.
For further details on this period, see: Dark Designs
The Golden Age
10 Million Years BU
- Cybertron prospers after throwing off the shackles of oppression.
The Age of War
- The Decepticons rise and begin the Great War.
- Sentinel Prime is killed and the Matrix is passed to Orion Pax, transforming him into Optimus Prime.
- Optimus Prime and his crew on board the Ark, as well as Megatron and his Decepticons on board the Nemesis, are lost.
- Cybertron falls under the control of subsequent tyrants and warlords.
- Jhiaxus and his followers flee Cybertron.
The Age of Transformation
- The Autobots and Decepticons awaken on Earth.
- Optimus Prime is killed in the Battle of Autobot City.
- Megatron is reformatted into Galvatron by Unicron.
- Unicron is vanquished by Rodimus Prime.
- Optimus Prime returns from the dead.
- Prime defeats Galvatron on Earth.
- Galvatron's body is stolen by COBRA.
- Megatron returns.
- Jhiaxus returns with his Cybertronian Empire but is consumed by The Swarm.
- Optimus Prime cleanses The Swarm with the power of The Matrix.
- An alliance is formed between Autobots and Deceptcons against the threat of the Liege Maximo.
- A small rebel group, calling themselves Maximals, battle dissident Predacon forces led by Razorclaw.
- The Predacons announce their split from the Decepticons by destroying the Earth.
- The Hub Assault.
- The Liege Maximo is killed, as is Megatron.
- The Decepticon faction folds, but the Predacons carry on the fight.
- The development of TransWarp Technology brings an end to the war.
For further details on this period, see:
Transformers: Rise of the Maximals,
The TransWarp Saga,
The Darkness Trilogy
- The signing of the Pax Cybertronia.
- The Great Reformatting.
- The Autobot name and brand is retired, leaving Maximals and Predacons as the major factions on Cybertron.
For further details on this period, see:
The Warning After,
Transformers: X,
Transformers: Honour
- The Time-Lost conflict on prehistoric Earth foretold in the Covenant of Primus.
For further details on this period, watch:
BEAST WARS!
- The Rise of the Xal
- The Transcension of Primus and Unicron.
The Age of TransTech
0 Years AT
- Cybertron and its population undergo the TransTech Revolution.
BU – Before Unicron
AU – After Unicron
AT – After Transcension