TIMELINE
Vol. I - Rise of Cobra
Vol. II - World War III
Vol. III - Return of Terror
Vol. IV - Black Thursday
Vol. V - Assemble the Heroes
Vol. VI - To Save the Day
Vol. VII - The Serpent's Coils
Vol. VIII - Cobra Civil War
Vol. IX - Darkening Night
Vol. X - Blood and Shadows
Vol. XI - Wrath of the Gods
Vol. XII - Reign of Terror
Vol. XIII - Rebellion
Vol. XIV - Liberation
Vol. XV - Beheading the Snake
Vol. I - Death of a World
Vol. II - Exodus
Vol. III - Exile
Vol. IV - Awakening
Vol. V - In Plain Sight
Vol. VI - History Repeats
Vol. VII - Extermination
Vol. VIII - Chaos
Vol. IX - Redemption
Vol. X - Secret Alliance
Vol. XI - Ghosts of the Past
Vol. XII - Revenge of the Fallen
Vol. XIII - Dark of the Moon
Vol. XIV - Light and Shadows
Vol. XV - A New Home
147,384 years BCE/76381 SC CSC
- The Decepticon Revolution begins
- The Death of Sentinal Prime
- Optimus Prime chosen by the Matrix
65,516 years BCE/ 119410 SC CSC
- The Decepticons inact The Final Solution
61,648 years BCE/121444 SC CSC
- Cybertron evacuated by Project ARC
- ARC I lost in combat with Decepticon Battlecruiser Nemesis
- Matrix lost
- Ultra Magnus assumes command of remaining Autobot forces
58,273 years BCE/123218 SC CSC
- Shockwave elected leader of "New Cybertron" colonies
- Ultra Magnus imprisoned for war crimes
- Autobot forces disbanded
- Autobot resistance reformed under Kup as "The Wreckers" who continue to fight for freedom against the Decepticon overlords
864 years BCE/153392 SC CSC
- A volcanic erruption awakens survivors of the crashed Decepticon Battlecruiser Nemesis and ARC I
- Neither Autobots or Decepticons are able to gather enough energon on the primative world to remain active
201 years CE/153952 SC CSC
- Cyclonus and the Sweeps discover the resting place of the Nemesis and retrieve Megatron and his crew
- The stranded crew are unable to repower for a return to cybertron and establish a hidden base elsewhere on the primative world they have discovered
1899 years CE/154844 SC CSC
- A strom bringd down a powerline atop an isolated mountain, reactivating Teletran I, the artificial intelligence of ARC I
- The first Autobots are reactivated by exploting this current
1984 years CE/154889 SC CSC
- Human technology on earth has finally reached an efficency where multiple Autobots are able to remain active at the same time
- Optimus Prime orders a search be conducted for the missing Decepticons
- The Witwickey family befriends several of the autobots
2010 years CE/154903 SC CSC
- Young human genious Anthony Braco begins to dream of world domination building ARBCO and The Coil
2024 years CE/154910 SC CSC
- Braco discovers the existance of the Decepticons stranded on Earth and reveals their presence to the government of North Korea
2026 years CE/154911 SC CSC
- North Korea and her Axis begin World War III
- Colonol Spike Witwickey reveals the existance of Autobots and Decepticons to the US government
- Behind the human war between the Axis and Allies, a specialized fighting force is created to work with the Autobots to prevent an even more devastating war
2029 years CE/154912 SC CSC
- After defeating the Decepticons, Optimus Prime and the Autobots depart Earth to return to the Cybertronian colonies to free their people
- World War III concludes with the Allies Victorious
2031 years CE/154914 SC CSC
- Braco has consolidated his power and forces under the guise of Cobra Commander and is ready to begin his campaign for world domination with the one force that could stand in his way now removed from the world, and the nations' militaries exhausted from war
- A brutal multi-pronged terrorist attack is launched in every major city of the world to instill terror in an already restless population
2034 years CE/154915 SC CSC
- Cobra launches a direct assualt on New York City to take control of the World's governments but is met with unexpected resistance from the elite military group G.I. Joe
2050 years CE/154924 SC CSC
- Cobra assums a dictatorial rule over the citizens of Earth with a burtal suppression of any descent before G.I. Joe is able to wrest power from their grasp
- Cobra retreats to their last holdouts and G.I. Joe must risk it all to finish the war, without any help
2146 years CE/154974 SC CSC
- Optimus Prime and the crew of ARC I arrive on Paradron, the seat of Autobot resistance and the war begins anew against Shockwave and the remaining Decepticons
2459 years CE/155138 SC CSC
- Megatron is retrieved by his loyal enforcer Scourage and in the restorative Nucleon of Hydrous Four reactivated as Galvatron to renew his war against the Autobots
16345 years CE/162437 SC CSC
- Megatron and his Decepticons are defeated and the Autobots are finally able to reclaim their homeworld of Cybertron with the help of the rapidly expanding Human Coalition based on the nine planets of the Sol sytem
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*BCE - Before Common Era (Earth)
*CE - Common Era (Earth)
*CSC - Cybertronian Synchronized Calendar
*SC - Stellar Cycles
Cybertronian Bream = 1 Earth Minute
Cybertronian Megabream = 100 Breams
Cybertronian Day = 25 Megabreams
Cybertronian Year = 400 Days (1.90259 Earth Years)