cybertron · transformers · war setting · apocalyptic · sci-fi · faction conflict · dying world · titans · survival
The view descends through the cracked and crumbling surface of Iacon, settling deep underground in a claustrophobic mining tunnel. Four Cybertronians without function—Lance, Brimestone, Solus, and Vexis—crowd together in the murky half-light, their sparks flickering with uncertainty. Above them, the eternal war between Optimus Prime's idealism and Megatron's tyranny grinds on. Here, the air is choked with dust and despair. Brimestone, his frustration boiling over, rams a heavy fist into the rockface; a shower of metallic shards rains down. Solus, seemingly detached, doesn't bother to look up from her console. The fate of a world balances on a knife's edge, but for these four, survival in the dark is the only immediate truth, blind to the legends—or the tyrannies—that stir on the s…