Worlds Without End Backstory ( Transformers : Ask Vector Prime )
Q : Dear Vector Prime
Do the G.I.Joe episodes Worlds Without End take place in a negative polarity stream ? Is it a part of the Transformers multiverse ?
A : Dear Splinter-Timeline Student
Primax 1185.04 Alpha is not a negative polarity universe but a closely-divergent tangent to Primax 984.17 Alpha
When Mount Saint Hillary erupted in late 1984, Autobots and Decepticons woke to a world under the yoke of a tyrant, Cobra Commander. Megatron saw a planet rich with Energon, ripe for plunder ; he was wrong. The Cobra-dominated Earth proved too resourceful for him ; the M.A.S.S Device, the weapon that had conquered the globe, enabled instantaneous transmat of Cobra forces to the site of any Decepticon incursion. Their newest weapon, a Weather Dominator, enabled the humans to harness the entire troposphere against Megatron’s aggression
Initially, Optimus Prime sought to help the humans repulse the Decepticons but he soon discovered the noxious character of the human governing institutions. Some Autobots wished to help the underground resistance forces overthrow their oppressors but Optimus insisted that interference in another race’s affairs was anathema to the Autobot way. They went into hiding and slowly, patiently, gathered enough Energon to fuel a ship and depart into the void
Megatron was more stubborn, more foolish. He eked out a few victories here and there but lost more than he won. He scoured the planet for allies and found a few ; the Insecticons, Skyfire. The Constructicons entered the war
Cobra Commander’s response was swift. He deployed a new weapon, low-altitude Pyramids of Darkness capable of offlining all electronic devices in a region. Cobra scientists like Dr.Arkeville and Dr.Lucifer, given enormous budgets and no ethical guidelines, churned out weapon system after weapon system
Desperate, Megatron fashioned a Space Bridge to allow Shockwave to send what few reinforcements were available to this brave new world. Even still, he found himself outmatched. His forces were few, the humans were legion. In a last-ditch effort, he sought allies amongst the organics and found some, the undersea realm of Sub-Atlantica. At last, Megatron had an army. Together the Decepticons and the sea-folk waged open war on the Cobra Empire. Incredibly, Cobra had prepared even for this eventuality, with a series of genetically-modified troopers with fully-functional gills. Sub-Atlantica found itself invaded. Rather than risk destruction, they turned on their allies, paralyzing Megatron with a magnetic dysfunction ray and turning him over to Cobra Commander, stasis-locked in his pistol configuration
Starscream wasted no time in seizing command. Realizing that he was outmatched, he used the Space Bridge to withdraw his forces to Cybertron, taking with him what little Energon Megatron’s scheming had produced and destroying the Bridge behind him
Thus was it that, when a handful of humans from Primax 984.17 Alpha made their way to this realm, they discovered a world apparently bereft of Cybertronian life. The Alternity kept their optics on this stream, largely because of the presence of Megatron in inquisitive human hands. However, with multiple fruitful lines of inquiry left to them, Megatron remained little more than a trophy for Cobra Commander to brandish about. It’s been quite a few decades, perhaps one of these stellar cycles I should pop in and see how this reality is faring