This is part 18 of a series.
When we last left off with the Transformers, Optimus Prime was dead, Megatron had given up his quest for domination (because yes, we’re keeping that from Transformers: Prime), and the war between the Autobots and Decepticons had sort of ended. We can have a Transformers series taking place sometime after these events, with either Bumblebee or Ultra Magnus in charge and the Autobots and Decepticons trying to get along with each other. Maybe they’re five-minute shorts taking place at the end of episodes of other series. Maybe it’s a full series of its own. We don’t really need a series showing this, but it might be nice. We’re more revisiting the Transformers in this blog to set up the next few series. As I’ve said a few times in this blog series, at some point during the chronology of the Hasbroverse, Cybertron goes silent. And we ended the write up of Robotech with Optimus Prime calling Earth after years of silence asking for help. What has happened on Cybertron?
Cybertron has been invaded by the Drule Empire, the bad guys from Voltron. Cybertron has been enslaved, the Transformers are being forced to help create robeasts that the Drule Empire uses to attack planets and expand their intergalactic empire. There is a small resistance group on Cybertron led by Megatron, but they’re not making much progress. Pretender technology is in use as that is the only way for Transformers to get off the planet. Autobot Pretenders disguise themselves as Zentradi and leave on Zentradi ships, while Decepticon Pretenders disguise themselves as monsters and take part in the gladiatorial games from which robeasts are chosen. The Zentradi attend the games as spectators, allowed to come and go freely by the Drule as they’re not yet ready to enter into open conflict with the Zentradi and the Robotech Masters.
At some point during this whole process Optimus Prime is reborn at the bottom of the Well of All Sparks. While merged with the Well he was trained by the Primes much like in Transformers: Robots in Disguise the sequel series to Transformers: Prime. He has been informed that to defeat the Drule Empire Voltron must be found. Upon returning from the Well of All Sparks Optimus reaches out to Earth asking them to search uncharted regions of space for Voltron: Defender of the Universe.
Why is Optimus Prime sending this message asking for humanity to find Voltron? Well, Peter Cullen, the voice of Optimus Prime, did the narration for the opening sequence of the 1984 Voltron cartoon.
And as a result of the alliances formed between humanity, the Zentradi, the Robotech Masters, and perhaps other alien species, as well as Earth setting up colonies across the Milky Way, we now have a Galaxy Alliance headed up by Galaxy Garrison. Yes, I’ve been building to this reveal since the first post. But there’s more to come. The next series we’re going to discuss is Visionaries.
A New Hasbroverse 