Pax Cybertronia
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ThePax Cybertronia(lit."Peace on Cybertron" )[1]can be thought of as the ultimate goal ofTransformercivilization: permanently ensuring the stability ofCybertronand hercolonies,ending the myriad wars that have plagued the Transformer homeworld, and ushering in an era of harmony, enlightenment, and prosperity for all Cybertronians.
Across themultiverse,many Transformers have worked to bring about this utopian state, but their methods of doing so have varied wildly: most fail to secure the everlasting peace they so desired, while others have used decidedly underhanded means to ensure the dominance of Cybertron above all other planets.
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Fiction
Beast Warscartoon continuity
Beast Warscartoon
The Pax Cybertronia was the binding peace accord responsible for ending theGreat Warbetween theAutobotsandDecepticons.The precise terms of these accords are not known; their descendants, theMaximalsandPredacons,were responsible for upholding the terms of the Pax Cybertronia, with agents on both sides invoking the Pax Cybertronia to arrest war criminals.The Agenda (Part 1)TheMaximal Elderswere known to have suppressed historical information relating to the Great War and the planetEarth,which may have been a condition of the treaty so as to prevent further fighting.Possession
Although many Predacons felt that their leaders in theTripredacus Councilwere betraying their Decepticon heritage by adhering to the statutes imposed by the Pax Cybertronia and seemingly kowtowing to the Maximal government, the Tripredacus Council used the lull created by the Pax Cybertronia to quietly prepare for a future conflict.The Agenda (Part 1)
3H comics
The signing of the Pax Cybertronia some three hundred years after the battle againstUnicronmarked the first bilateral peace accord in the planet's history, ending the Cybertronian civil war and one of the events responsible for theMaximal Upgradethat led to the creation of the Maximals and Predacons.DepartureIn public, an armistice was imposed across Cybertron, with some veterans joining theImperial Peace Marshalsto maintain the hard-won peace;Betrayalin private, however, strike forces such as theWreckerswere charged with cracking down on those who would try to restart the war.Disclosure
Timelines
The Pax Cybertronia was preceded by a series of accords that punished the Decepticons and their descendants. Under these accords, thePredacon Alliancewas subject to strict economic sanctions. Production of Predaconprotoformsslowed to a bare trickle, and theTripredacus Councilfeared any overt confrontation with the Maximals could doom their entire race to extinction. During this period, the Council began aggressively undermining the actions of Predacon rebels, hoping to shield them from destruction by theMaximal Imperiumso they might live to fight another day. This, combined with the original surrender, permanently soured the Council's reputation among their fellow Predacons, leading many to consider them self-interested opportunists and traitors to the Predacon cause.
Powerful factions within the Predacon Alliance such as the Tripredacus Council continued to build up their resources under the restrictions placed on them by the Pax Cybertronia before a new campaign of conquest. The accords were in effect for 50stellar cyclesbefore they were succeeded by the Pax Cybertronia itself.
Any Autobots or Decepticons acting outside of this agreement were considered fair targets for military action.The Razor's Edge
2006 IDWBeast Warscontinuity
The Pax Cybertronia came into existence at some point after the year2035,following the rise of the Maximals and Predacons and the final battle of theGreat War.Dawn of the PredacusIn the era that followed, Cybertron began its transition back into a peacetime civilization; with the Maximals and Autobots triumphant, the Predacons duly surrendered in preparation for the signing of the Pax Cybertronia.Destron profileMany Decepticons chose to lay down arms,TimelinesMegatron biobut some rebellious warriors sought to continue the war and fought on,Destron profile including a group of Predacons led byMagmatron.Magmatron profileGreat War Profile
When the last of these holdouts had been quashed, a brief period of negotiation ensued, followed by the formal drafting and ratification of the Pax Cybertronia by both thePredacon Allianceand theMaximal Imperium,officially ending hostilities between the two factions and bringing peace to Cybertron. TheMaximal Command Security Forcewas subsequently instituted to uphold the terms of the Pax Cybertronia, and one of the duties of theCommittee for State Affairswas to maintain and uphold the agreement and its mandates.Transformers: Beast Wars Sourcebook
The agreement largely favored the Maximals and offered the Predacons only a handful of concessions;Transformers: Beast Wars Sourcebookthe Tripredacus Council's seeming willingness to comply with this unfair treaty caused friction between ambitious Predacons likeMegatronandGalvatron,who preferred immediate action and saw their leaders as cowardly and slothful.The Gathering #1Unbeknownst to most Predacons, the Tripredacus Council had begun its own rearmament campaign.Transformers: Beast Wars Sourcebook
The terms of the Pax Cybertronia were presumably rendered moot when Megatron invaded and conquered the planet with hordes ofVehiconssome time thereafter.The Ascending #4
2005 IDW continuity
"Pax Cybertronia", the perpetual dominance of the Cybertronian species across the cosmos, was an ideal that was first espoused some twelve million years ago during the reign of theThirteen Primes,by the Cybertronian calling himself "Onyx Prime".Unbeknownst to most members of the alliance," Onyx Prime "was in reality a time-travellingShockwave,who, armed with the knowledge of the future, sought to engineer history to his liking.The First Who Was Named
To both lay the seeds of theFirst Cybertronian Civil Warand further the progress of theRegenesisproject that Shockwave's younger self would one day spearhead, Shockwave encouragedPrimato share the "enlightenment" ofCybertronwith the rest of the galaxy, spreading the ideal of Pax Cybertronia to the stars. As a result, a flotilla ofOmega Sentinelswould invade the neighboring world ofAntilla,intending to conquer the planet for its resources. The nativeAntillansfought back but failed to match the power of the Cybertronians. In desperation, a scientist constructed adoomsday machinethat would end all life on the planet, essentially ending the war by doing just that.Our Finest
At some point afterwards, Cybertron would mount several more colonization missions aimed at fulfilling the Pax Cybertronia.Titansloyal to the Thirteen were seeded with life-givinghot spotsand settled on distant planets, includingCaminus,A 'Bot and Her CityVelocitron,Race Against the LightPrion,The Permanent RevolutionDevisiun,andEukaris.Windblade vol. 2 issue 6In some cases, the Transformer colonists encountered organic civilizations; feeling as though it was their duty to "help" the primitive creatures, they wound up crushing the native biospheres through aggressivecyberforming.Time Will RustAlthough it was held that each world would eventually become the domain of one member of the Thirteen, this plan fell through and the colonies were left isolated from their mother planet.First Contact
In the modern day,IronhideandJhiaxusboth experienced a vision in the wake of war-torn Cybertron's rebirth, one where the Autobots controlled the galaxy and brought peace to the cosmos.Pax CybertroniaJhiaxus referred to this vision as the "Pax Cybertronia," interpreting it as the realization of the all-encompassing Cybertronian empire thatNova Primehad once sought to create through hisExpansion.Syndromica (2)
Circa2016,Cybertron had reestablished ties with several Transformer colonies, and theMistress of Flamebrought up the Pax Cybertronia when discussingEarth's possible status as a colony world — and opined thatOptimus Primewas the mythical figure known as "The Arisen,"destined to rule Earth as his predecessors had sought to rule their colonies.The Medium and the MessageA year later,Soundwavewould gravely note that, in his eyes, Optimus was merely expanding the Pax Cybertronia while contending with the politics of Earth.Behind My Bleeding Back
When "Onyx Prime" and his army ofMaximalsreturned in the present day, the bestialPrimewas soon unmasked as Shockwave,The First Who Was Namedand revealed his ultimate goal: by manipulating Cybertronian history, he had stripped all meaning from the various religions and creeds that the Transformer race adhered to.UnforgivableBy awakeningUnicronand tricking him into fatally devouring the Talisman on Cybertron, Shockwave reasoned, then the Transformers could begin anew on Earth, turning the planet into the capital of Shockwave's new Cybertronian empire and, ultimately, fulfilling the Pax Cybertronia.Road's End
Regeneration One
ThePax Cybertronia Decommissioning Depotwas a building inKalis,possibly named for the agreement that ended the Great War and ushered in theUnified Cybertron Alliance.Loose Ends, Part 1
Wings Universe
The Pax Cybertronia was signed atAutobot Cityon Earth in2013C.E. between the Autobots, Decepticons, andJhiaxus'ssecond-generation Transformersandclonesfollowing the conclusion of theMachine Warsa week earlier. Theoriginal Predaconswere not invited to the signing ceremony but would have refused as they eschewed peace and were assembling a new army.A Common Foe
Beast Wars: Uprising
The Pax Cybertronia was drafted sometime after theBuilderscame to power. By the late 24th century, theTargetmaster Extirpationwas considered to have acted as precursor to the peace.Trigger WarningsIn the 134th century,a shoddy historianbelieved the document had prohibited the development ofTitanmastertechnology and that theSolstar Orderhad represented the people ofEarthin the negotiations.Lio Convoy: Unity Through Tyranny
2021 IDWBeast Warscomic
Among the terms of the Pax Cybertronia was a mandate that information was to be freely shared between the Maximals and Predacons.Savage Landing Part 4
See also
Notes
- The Pax Cybertronia appears to be based on thePax Romana.
- The "Pax Cybertronia" is sometimes used to refer the peacetime after theGreat War.[1]
- The reluctance of thePredaconsand their subservient role in the new world is also somewhat reminiscent of apost-WWI Germany,which was forced to pay excessive reparations and was restricted in its weapons development, or the modernNeo-Confederatemovement in response to the conclusion of theAmerican Civil War.
Foreign names
- Japanese:Pax Cybertronia(パックス・サイバートロニアPakkusu Saibātoronia)
References
- ↑1.01.1Page 100,Beast Wars: TransformersGlossary,Beast Wars UniverseISBN 978-4766938005
