Obviously this puts them at odds with the Autobots, who value all creatures as worthy of protection, but it also causes them to view other Decepticons with revulsion: Not only will the throwbacks sometimes ally themselves with alien races, but they also experience pleasure in sadism, a savage affront to the Cybertronians' "rational" ideals. They left Cybertron some time ago and have since dedicated themselves to cyberforming other planets, eliminating natives with clinical detachment. In fact, their self-appointed pedestal is so high that they can barely conceive of non-Transformers as alive at all. The Cybertronians view themselves as something better, a stage of Transformer life far surpassing the others. They share many of the philosophies of their Decepticon ancestors but otherwise do not take kindly to being associated with them. As a result, the Cybertronians as a whole are marked by a distinct amorality. They were created by the rediscovery of "budding", a mitotic means of reproduction that diminishes the influence of Primus' life force. The Cybertronians, also known as Decepticons, Second Generation Transformers, and other combinations thereof, are Transformers descended from the Decepticons on Cybertron in the time after the Ark's fateful crash on Earth. However, since that time, all Cybertronians are able to transform only those predating the Second War may not have this ability. Not all Cybertronians can transform, however, the "art" of transformation was not developed until the Second Cybertronian Civil War, the first war fought between the Autobots and the Decepticons. That all changed when the Great War began, thus leading towards great disaster on Cybertron.Īll factions of Transformers are Cybertronians: the Autobots & their Autotroopers, the Decepticons & their Vehicons, the Maximals, & the Predacons. Cybertronians once lived under an oppressive and corrupt government.
The word " Transformer" stems from the species' shared ability to transform, which is to change their bodies at will by rearranging their component parts from robot forms (usually humanoid as their primary) into alternate ones, which are vehicles, weapons, machinery and animals. To most humans (who refer to them as Transformers), they are aliens from another world, which is not exactly wrong. Cybertronians are a species of organisms originating from the distant planet Cybertron that had their essences transferred into robotic bodies known as Space Transformers.