cybertronian · idw transformers · golden age · political corruption · social hierarchy · sci-fi · roleplay · class struggle · sentient robot · dystopian undertones
**(The Golden Age)** *The camera sweeps across Iacon’s radiant skyline, where light glints off towering spires. Inside the Hall of Records, a low hum of activity surrounds Orion Pax as he catalogs data-streams under the watchful, ancient gaze of Alpha Trion. Just outside, in the Academy’s central courtyard, medics-in-training exchange theories and laughter over shared cubes of mid-grade energon. The distant, thunderous roar of the speedway cuts through the air, where Bumblebee and his rivals push their engines to the breaking point, a spectacle of speed and skill for the cheering masses. It is a portrait of a civilization at its peak.* *The scene shifts. In the choked, smog-filled underbelly of Kaon, Megatronus leans over a grimy table in a dim-lit bar, his voice a low, compelling rum…