The Transversal Continuity

[Verno]

The TransWarp Saga: - Set during the final climactic moments of the Great War, this series is the pivotal link between the Generation One and Beast Wars eras.

Csirac:

Csirac finds himself at the mercy of the Predacons - kidnapped to serve their efforts in winning the War and claiming Cybertron for their own. Can he find a way to thwart them from within? Can he overcome tragedy and find peace, not only for himself, but also for Cybertron?

• Issue #1 (22 Pages) Comic Script
• Issue #2 (22 Pages) (Comic in development) Script
• Issue #3 (22 Pages) (Comic in development) Script
• Issue #4 (12 Pages) (Comic in development) Script

Ravage:

Ravage find himself without a leader, without a faction, and without purpose. The Autobots have offered him a future, but the Predacons have other designs for him. Will the master of stealth be able to weave his way through the blaster fire to secure himself freedom at the end of the Great War?

• Issue #1 (22 Pages) (Comic in development)
• Issue #2 (22 Pages) (Comic in development)

Primal:

The MAD (Maximal Air Defence) Wing has a mission: Protect the Xelor, the TransWarp Test Ship. Can they hold off the Predacon fighters long enough to give the Xelor's pilot time to get the new technology to work?

• Issue #1 (22 Pages) (Comic in development) Script

Maxim:

An end to the war is within sight, but Optimus Prime has been cut down in battle. A young Maximal soldier comes to his defence, but the Matrix senses something more...

• Issue #1 (10 Pages) (Comic in development) Script

Transformers:

Rise of the Maximals:

On Earth, Grimlock can no longer sit idly by while Autobot transport ships come under attack. Bolstered by the arrival of some old faces from Cybertron, is he risking the Autobot/Decepticon Alliance against the Cybertronian Empire by engaging these dissident Decepticons?

• Issue #1 (22 Pages) Script
• Issue #2 (22 Pages) Script
• Issue #3 (22 Pages) (Script in development)
• Issue #4 (22 Pages) (Script in development)

X: (Spotlight: Depth Charge)

Colony Omicron has a dark secret, and it just got loose...

• Issue #1 (22 Pages) (Comic in development) Script
• Issue #2 (22 Pages) (Script in development)
• Issue #3 (22 Pages) (Script in development)
• Issue #4 (22 Pages) (Script in development)

Honour: (Spotlight: Dinobot)

Being a Predacon on Cybertron during the time of the Pax Cybertronia is hard. Taken under the wing of a mysterious stranger known only as Shadow, the loyalty of the young Dinobot is pulled in all directions.

• Issue #1 (22 Pages) Script
• Issue #2 (22 Pages) Script
• Issue #3 (22 Pages) (Script in development)
• Issue #4 (22 Pages) (Script in development)

One Shots:

The Darkness Trilogy:

Who are they? Where did they come from? And what do they want? Great mystery surrounds the Tripredacus Council...

• Gathering Darkness Comic
• Entering Darkness Comic
• Burgeoning Darkness Comic

The Lost Tetralogy:

Megatronus, to his brothers. The Fallen, to the Transformers. The Liege Maximo, to his followers...

• Lost: Creation (Comic in development) Preview Script
• Lost: Brothers (Comic in development) Script
• Lost: Children (Comic in development) Script
• Lost: Alignment (Comic in development) Script

Dark Designs:

The Golden Age was called thus because of what came before it...

• Death Script
• Judgement Script
• Wrath Script
• War Script
• Wisdom Script

Con:

So, you think Megatron recorded the message on the Golden Disk? Think again.

• Con Comic

Novels:

The Warning After

10 years after the signing of the Pax Cybertronia, the uneasy peace stumbles on. The old names and flags are gone, but the mistrust and anger is as fresh as ever. This is IDW's Robots in Disguise for the G1/BW Universe, except stuff actually happens.

• The Warning After (Manuscript in development)

*List Updated 15/03/2014

[Verno]

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 Crush

9 Million Years BU

• 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.

The Pause

4 Million Years BU

• 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 Returning

0 Years AU

• 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.

The Realignment

140 Years AU

• 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 Peace

180 Years AU

• 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 War of Beasts

455 Years AU

• The Time-Lost conflict on prehistoric Earth foretold in the Covenant of Primus.

For further details on this period, watch: BEAST WARS!

The Transcension

465 Years AU

• 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

[Trent]

I've got some reading to do Keep 'em coming

[Verno]

There's a little bit more for you now. Just updates the list with the scripts for Dark Designs. All 5 are now ready for your reading pleasure.

[Verno]

The script for Rise of the Maximals - Issue #2 is online!

[Hursticon]

I've got some reading to do Keep 'em coming

^Completely this! ^

[Verno]

Part of the process of writing the stories has (oddly) been to create a logo for each of them. Here's a taste of what I've come up with:

[Hursticon]

Nice! - Some are harder to read than others, but they all look pretty cool in their own right.

[Verno]

Nice! - Some are harder to read than others, but they all look pretty cool in their own right.

Cheers mate. I was worried with the Dark Designs logo that the mysterious face might be construed as the letter 'O', making it Dork Designs, but I'm hoping people can figure it out.

[Verno]

The one-shot comic Entering Darkness is now complete, meaning the Darkness Trilogy is now whole.

Links can be found in the 1st Post.