edit number one on brainstorming thing about the sg autobots and decepticons
because the normalverse destrons were implied to have caused something called âthe purgeâ which wiped out a LOT of cybertronian records and i want to make their thing more focused on knowledge and itâs availability to the masses, AND im going to keep them active if severely crippled in effectiveness during the time after  the autobots rose to power.Â
....also, im gonna make the destrons pacifists. the decepticons are not pacifists, though, haha, duh. And their thing is waaaaaay more broad then the Destrons thing about...essentially education?, because while they started out a political faction, it sort of grew in scope when they became militarized, and had the power to change EVERYTHING (at least thatâs what it would have felt like to them).Â
What would have happened (i think) was it started out as WHAT THE HeLL WEâRE NOT GONNA SIT HERE AND LET YOU ABUSE THE ALLSPARK LIKE THAt (because in this universe the autobots were the one to have the brilliant idea to use it to âupgradeâ cybertron itself) and the majority of the âbots who believed that were the lower classes (castes?), for a few reasons. I mean there were the military âbots (not anyone in a position of leadership for the most part but the âcannon fodderâ) who didnât want to get involved in even MORE war but would be forced to because thatâs what they were created to do and the more peace-time oriented laborors (hELL NO NOT OUR PLANET) were both very against the idea.
also the lower classes tended to believe more in the âdivinityâ of the allspark versus the upper classes more...idk, willingness to exploit it? not the right word....but IDEAS so.Â
ANYWAYS so the movement started out like that, just a bunch of angry âbots objecting to the abuse of the allspark, but as the autobots (starting with the decepticon registration act and moving downhill from there) cracked down HARD, and megazark (the movements founder) was assassinated, megatron took the reigns and turned the decepticons into an actual threat. he didnât exactly WANT a war, but believed 100% that it was the only way to a)Â ârescueâ the allspark and put it back in the hands of the people instead of the âfoolsâ who currently had it and b) create ACTUAL CHANGE in a stagnated cybertron, freeing it from Autobot Tyranny.
IDK ALSO JUST BRAINSTORMY IDEAS
........i need to flesh this out so much more omg. and also piece together the modern decepticon movement post getting-exiled-from-cybertron space, because while megatron would keep the the movement/government on track mostly, it needs LOTS OF FLAWS so it can properly mirror the positive autobots. maybe itâs centered on megatron too much to get it to do anything done without him present (despite the fact that he def. set up some kind of democratic government system)? like it SHOULD function without him but it doesnât because everyone in charge is so used to following his lead. this probably frustrates megatron a lot though ahaha.Â













