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[langodan]

Transformers x Helldivers! Here are my designs for the main Decepticons! (AU info in text, also AMA?)

Off the bat, I would like to mention that the Autobots will likely not be getting unique Helldivers-themed designs, due to story reasons. Civilian vehicles do exist in Helldivers anyway.

Hello! I'm Langodan. This is actually my first time drawing Transformers so I hope you enjoy these! This AU started as a literal dream of mine, I woke up thinking about it and the more I did the more I realised how well this worked.

The AU is tentatively called "Super Earth Sparks", which abbreviates nicely to SES. It has absolutely nothing to do with Earthspark.

Other than existing characters, there are a set of OC Transformers and OC Helldivers, designs still pending. The TF OCs are an Eagle, Pelican, FRV and Super Destroyer. Some of them will be using designs by The_Pug_Artist, maybe all of them if he does more.

This is a group effort with a couple friends of mine and might become a fanfic? We don't know yet, still working on it.

Anyway, a short summary premise thing below! Also feel free to AMA about the AU!

It is the year 2184.

200 years ago, the Autobots drove the Decepticons away from Earth. Fearing their continued presence would draw other threats, they left for a planet out in the galaxy rich with energon, where they went into stasis.

However, the Earth they fought so hard to protect the freedom of went to war with itself. From the ashes, a new regime was founded, becoming known as the great federation of Super Earth.

140 years ago, Super Earth declared war on the three factions that had sprung up around the galaxy. One of them, Cyborg defectors, took shelter on a planet they called Cyberstan. On it, they found strange dormant robotic-organic lifeforms, using them as inspiration for their cybernetics.

100 years ago, the war was won by Super Earth, thus beginning the Great Democratization. The Cyborgs were trapped on their planet, but they kept what they had found secret.

Two years ago, a Helldiver scouting party found a crashed alien ship on a distant planet. Super Earth’s scientists recovered what remained of the crew, turning their sparks and the ship itself into war machines. They were trained, conditioned, and sent out into service.

Now, at the onset of the Second Galactic War, a mysterious message from out in the galaxy is received by High Command, requesting an alliance with one known as Megatron.

A squad of Helldivers is assigned to a new Super Destroyer, equipped with experimental, highly advanced AI automated systems and support vehicles. They are assured, of course, that the AI are completely under their control and do not have emotions. But as they work with them, speak with them, they begin to think that they are more than meets the eye…

[wealmostaneckbeard]

Here's world building that, I hope, fills the gaps in what op has written above:

During the first galactic war, cybertronians and cyborgs were united under the banner of the Cyber Revolutionary Army. But both populations resented each other due to competing territorial claims and command structures. Eventually the Decepticons betrayed their comrades and helped the Helldivers seize control of Cyberstan. Without the strategic guidance and logistics of their homeworld, CRA units went into hiding, surrendered, or were crushed. With one adversary defeated, Super Earth Armed Forces were able to beat the Illuminate and then the Bugs into submission.

Super-Earth rewarded the Decepticons with high grade citizenships and some were put into positions of authority thanks to the electoral algorithms of Managed Democracy. Cyberstan was given it's old name, Cybertron, and added to the federation. It was turned into a prison world for cyborgs, seditious humans and unsanctioned cybertronians.

During the century of peace that followed, many different things happened. An all cyborg CRA unit would flee far from super-earth held space and become the Automatons. By working with the Ministry of Truth, Decepticons became celebrated by super-earth citizens, not just as the architects of the peace but as it's secret defenders too. CRA Cybertronian veterans, calling themselves Autobots, are infiltrating Super-Earth's frontier colonies and urban centers, discretely aiding human dissidents against the ministries of Truth and Unity.

Now it is the time of the Second Galactic War. Decepticons and Helldivers fight alongside each other to protect super-earth's interests. Meanwhile the Autobots are attempting to save as many innocents from battlefields in order to build The New Revolution. The Automatons have vowed vengeance against all inferior humans and treacherous 'Tronians.

As for Terminids and Illuminates, propaganda depicts Decepticons as immune to their insidious corruption, but there are contradictory rumors...

[langodan]

Woah, this is interesting!

I will say, mind if I take inspiration from some of it? It won't be all of it, since some of it does conflict with what we have established already, but don't be surprised if the story ends up borrowing some elements from this.

Thank you for sharing though!

[langodan]

Transformers x Helldivers! Here are my designs for the main Decepticons! (AU info in text, also AMA?)

Off the bat, I would like to mention that the Autobots will likely not be getting unique Helldivers-themed designs, due to story reasons. Civilian vehicles do exist in Helldivers anyway.

Hello! I'm Langodan. This is actually my first time drawing Transformers so I hope you enjoy these! This AU started as a literal dream of mine, I woke up thinking about it and the more I did the more I realised how well this worked.

The AU is tentatively called "Super Earth Sparks", which abbreviates nicely to SES. It has absolutely nothing to do with Earthspark.

Other than existing characters, there are a set of OC Transformers and OC Helldivers, designs still pending. The TF OCs are an Eagle, Pelican, FRV and Super Destroyer. Some of them will be using designs by The_Pug_Artist, maybe all of them if he does more.

This is a group effort with a couple friends of mine and might become a fanfic? We don't know yet, still working on it.

Anyway, a short summary premise thing below! Also feel free to AMA about the AU!

It is the year 2184.

200 years ago, the Autobots drove the Decepticons away from Earth. Fearing their continued presence would draw other threats, they left for a planet out in the galaxy rich with energon, where they went into stasis.

However, the Earth they fought so hard to protect the freedom of went to war with itself. From the ashes, a new regime was founded, becoming known as the great federation of Super Earth.

140 years ago, Super Earth declared war on the three factions that had sprung up around the galaxy. One of them, Cyborg defectors, took shelter on a planet they called Cyberstan. On it, they found strange dormant robotic-organic lifeforms, using them as inspiration for their cybernetics.

100 years ago, the war was won by Super Earth, thus beginning the Great Democratization. The Cyborgs were trapped on their planet, but they kept what they had found secret.

Two years ago, a Helldiver scouting party found a crashed alien ship on a distant planet. Super Earth’s scientists recovered what remained of the crew, turning their sparks and the ship itself into war machines. They were trained, conditioned, and sent out into service.

Now, at the onset of the Second Galactic War, a mysterious message from out in the galaxy is received by High Command, requesting an alliance with one known as Megatron.

A squad of Helldivers is assigned to a new Super Destroyer, equipped with experimental, highly advanced AI automated systems and support vehicles. They are assured, of course, that the AI are completely under their control and do not have emotions. But as they work with them, speak with them, they begin to think that they are more than meets the eye…

[langodan]

commission for @retro-memo