This is why I so like the cartoon history. None of this insanity about which gods created whom.
Okay to answer questions...
Before the dawn of time, order and chaod perfectly existed in an extradimensional entity known as the One (I, embarrisingly, do not know what the One is with this explanation. Clarification?). He was curious at the sigt of the new multiverse, and so created twin heralds to rule: Primus and Unicron. From the Astral Plane (what is this?), Primus led his brother inside 2 hollow metal asteroids. (metal? WTF?). In time, they shaped their prisons into metal planets, able to transform back into resemblances from their forms in the 'astral plane'. They each created bodies (planets) for themselves in each universe. Primus created duplicated of his spark, and placed them in each body across the universe. Unicron did not. He kept his own spark, but if he was destroyed, his spark would be flung to another body he created in another universe.'
(I, embarrisingly, do not know what the One is with this explanation. Clarification?)The one in short is basically where life and the universe spun from, at least regarding Primus and Unicron. Think of, well God. It's an omnipotent being with powers we know nothing about, neither do the transformers. As of this time it's never been fully examined by Any known writer.
From the Astral Plane (what is this?)The Astral plane is in a sense limbo. A place where the soul or spark can reside in. It's a realm that only the spirits of a being can go to. An Astral being is usually one made like a ghost. I'm sure you've seen X-men comics. I think a few can do that trick.
inside 2 hollow metal asteroids. (metal? WTF?).Metal astroids are astroids with metal compounds. Basically it' not totally metal, just a majority of it is the metalic compound.
Of course the book ignores the whole thing of Primacron and his assistant. Which really sucks...
My own theory goes like this.
Long ago there was a group of beings that had become a bit too intellegent for their own sake. They decided to try to capture their god, a being called the One. However their actions split the One into two halves, creating the one's two children or hearlds: Unicron -the essence of Chaos and darkness, and Primus -the essence of Light and order. These were kept housed in different temples until the beings decided to capture the gods. So they had Primacron, one of their beings, create a shell to house the god of darkness. This they offically called Unicron, the one in Time. Unicron rebeled and attacked the people, destoying them, but before he could kill Primacron...his robotic assistant, who had over time though expouser to the powers of Unicron and Primus gained sentience, sacraficed his life to save Primacron.
In doing so the robot's spark came apart. Part of the spark became the matrix, orginally held by Primacron inside a small chamber. The other part became the Oracle (No realtion to Beast Machines) who helped fill the matrix with wisdom. Unicron took off into the universe to gordge himself on planets. Primacron felt that he had to stop this creature, so he created a new body, with droids helping him, and placed Primus spark in there. But unlike Unicron who saw the world as his own play thing, Primus sought to find order.
Finding his brother the two duked it out causing mass destruction. Which fed Unicron. It was only when Primus realized that he would have to keep his brother in a dorment state that he placed some of his spark in the Matrix, and then took his brother to the astral plane. In here he was able to place Unicron to sleep and then he too took rest converting his body, like Unicrons, into a planet. From here he created the first transformers whom he used to keep himself maintained.
In time the beings Unicron destroyed became a speicies known as the Vok, since they migrated to a dimension that existed between space. Time was different here, and it was from here that they continued to experiment, with no fear of their twin gods. These beings created their own creatures called the Quintessons. However these creatures did not live up to what the Vok wanted, and they abandoned the Quints to space. In doing so the Quints went around and harvested planets for their own use. Eventually they discoverd Cybertron, and found a world run by Drones.
Here they easily subjected the drones to slavery, having them build factories and plugging a computer known as Vector Sigma into the core of the planet. This core was the heart of Primus, and linked VS to the Allspark (or rather Primus own spark as it was) allowing the computer to gain its own sentience. The drones had been rebuilt as two different factions by the Quintessons. Consumer goods (later Autobots) and War Machines (Later Decepticons) which were sold to other species. Sigma feeling for it's creations broke the lock it had placed on the drones minds giving them the ablity to once more have free will. To try to gain power over the drones the Quintes built the dark guardian robots.
In time to come the guardian robots came under the commands of the drones who eventually beat their masters, and thus laided the ground work for the two factions. Years later the Vok would rediscover the Transformers and find Earth through them....but that's a story for far later.
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