Transformers: Exodus
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| Author | Alexander C. Irvine |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre | science fiction |
| Published | June 22, 2010 Del Rey Books |
| Media type | Print (hardback & paperback) |
| Pages | 276 |
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| Followed by | Transformers: Exiles |
Transformers: Exodus – The Official History of the War for Cybertron is a science fiction adventure novel by Alexander C. Irvine. It revolves around the Transformers and the origin of the war and experiences prior to it. It was believed to be a possible prequel to Transformers: Prime as noted in the book Transformers Vault and verified as such in the Transformers: Prime episode "One Shall Rise part 3", which references the entire book as part of a flashback into the way the war between the Autobots and Decepticons began. Exodus explores the backgrounds of Optimus Prime and Megatron within the Prime universe, showing how they came to be the leaders of their respective factions. The book also delves more heavily into the mythology of other well-known aspects of the Transformers characters and locations, such as Alpha Trion and The Fallen, whose original name is revealed in this story for the first time as Megatronus.
The story is set on Cybertron, the home planet of the Transformers. It has been several centuries since Cybertron's golden age of space exploration and planetary colonisation, and its society has declined into stagnation. Almost every Space Bridge has gone offline due to years of neglect, so contact with the other planets the Transformers colonised during the golden age has been lost. When a new Transformer is born from the Well of All Sparks (which contains the AllSpark, the device that creates new Transformers), they are assigned to a caste and guild from which they may never deviate. Castes are separated into a hierarchy, with the highest castes relating to science and politics, while the lower castes are given to manual labourers in factories and mines. Those in the lowest castes are not given individual names.
In the industrial city of Kaon, gladiatorial combat grows in popularity among the lower castes. One of the gladiators - a labourer who completely opposes the caste system and calls himself "Megatronus" after one of the original thirteen Transformers - rises to power and becomes a local celebrity due to his skills in the gladiatorial pits. Megatronus' fans and followers shorten his name to "Megatron" in their chants, and the name sticks. In Iacon (Cybertron's capital city), a clerk named Orion Pax - who works in Cybertron's Hall of Records and also dislikes the caste system - begins watching Megatron's political speeches, finding his championing of a free Cybertron where each individual determining their own path in life highly appealing. Orion turns for guidance to his supervisor and mentor Alpha Trion, who encourages him to meet with Megatron, cryptically stating that a great destiny awaits them both.
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