Been a little while, but here's some random facts from my Gilded Future Au.
The Torchbearers, due to their reverence of the Thirteen, view Novalis as the Thirteen's champion and have come to serve as his personal guard, becoming known as the Prime Guard by some, leading to Novalis rarely being seen without at least two of their number accompanying him.
During a Torchbearer mission to Cybertron to retrieve and secure Relics of the Primes, the Torchbearers would capture Shockwave after uncovering his lab within the Sea of Rust. Therapeutic would execute him when she learned of all the horrific experiments he'd done both before and during The War for Cybertron.
Expanding on the point above, Therapeutic is also the only person Shockwave came to fear.
During their adventures following the Fall of Gilded Earth, The Last Autobots adopted and retrofitted many of their systems with technology obtained from various allies in the war against the Decepticon Empire including tech from the Quintessons, Vok and Nebulons.
In an earlier post, I mentioned that Unicron would need to fully awaken and be free from the prison that Earth to control them. As of this post, I've retconned this so that he can't control them.
Each of the Junior Autobots fulfils a role aboard the Jasper's Legacy. For Twitch, that is serving as the protégé and next Prime after Novalis. Hashtag serves as Enigma's protégé, Nightshade works alongside the Technobots and serves as Scattershot's protégé but can often be found alongside Ratchet. Jawbreaker often serves under Teardown but can be found alongside the Predacons while Thrash was closest with the Wreckers and was often considered to be Wildshock's protégé. (Thrash did not share the same fate as the Wreckers and thus made it back into the past.)
Enigma and Teardown first formed their partnership during the Battle of the African Pass, when the two left the battle as the sole survivors of a Decepticon Intelligence outpost roughly 30 years after the Change.
The cyberforming of Earth was known as The Change and the early converted Humans known the Decepticons as the Oppressors or Invaders.
The first to join the Autobots were the Jasper Scavengers, followed by what remained of the United States Military.
The U.S.A, Russia, China, most of Europe and Australia were the only countries that managed to retain the majority of their population following The Change.
The Australians became most like the Insecticons, monstrous and bug like. They shared a mental space similar to that of a hive mind but were able to retain their individuality and no one single individual could hole mental dominion over them. (Yes, they would be Airachnid's worst nightmare).
Plasmawave was an inhabitant of France before it's fall and a criminal at the time of The Change. He would be among the first converted Humans to join the Decepticons, becoming an infiltrator and master of deception.
When the Quintessons eventually fell to the Decepticons, it was the first known instance of The Last Autobots going back on their word, though this was because a part of their negotiations with the Vok required them to break their alliance with the Quintessons. (Most of them weren't exactly found of the Quintessons anyway and didn't mourn the loss of the alliance).
The Fall of Nebulos was one of the most intense campaigns in The Final War, with Countless losses on both sides. It was the outcome of this campaign that resulted in the resurrection of Project Transwarp.
The Vok contributed to Project Transwarp with various resources and their knowledge of interdimensional and temporal energy, though even they doubted a time machine of the scale needed by Project Transwarp was capable of being created.
The war following The Change was known as The Final War and was considered the final chapter of The Great War which resulted in a Decepticon victory despite The Last Autobots traversing back in time.
The Battle for the Transwarp Drive was a desperate struggle and last stand between The Last Autobots and the Decepticons, a battle that only narrowly ended in an Autobot victory due to Novalis Prime's last-ditch effort to supercharge the transwarp drive.
Throughout The Final War, The Last Autobots managed to hold onto and maintain the last four entries of the Iacon Archives, with a backup of the coordinates of each Omega Key personally kept on Enigma's person.
