The First Battle

Pioneer personally took command on the island!

As the invaders drew closer and closer to Trindade Island, the images captured by the densely deployed radar and detection equipment around the island became increasingly clear.

The central master control AI at the island's sub-base had made the correct judgment earlier.

As the images captured beneath the sea were transmitted back and processed by the various detection devices, the identities of the seventeen invaders were quickly confirmed. They were Decepticons.

"Electromagnetic spectra for fifteen targets have been decoded. Twelve Decepticons have been identified as ordinary Replica Soldiers, while three are Dreads... The identities of the two leading Decepticons are unknown and are not in the database..."

During the middle stages of Cybertron's first civil war, the Decepticon Corps, whose combat style was exceptionally savage and fearless, faced a severe manpower crisis.

When Megatron had first chosen to overthrow the rule of King Sentinel Prime and led the Decepticon Corps in rebellion, they had caught Sentinel Prime's Autobots off guard despite being the rebel side, even though it was a military uprising.

However elite an army might be, it would still suffer severe losses while capturing one military fortress, base, and city after another from the Autobots.

To make up for the shortage of troops, Megatron ordered the great scientists under the Decepticon Corps to conduct research. Replica Soldiers were born under those circumstances.

It was said that Replica Soldiers had been created single-handedly by Shockwave after studying a great deal of Quintesson experimental data, before Starscream later carried the work forward.

Though it was somewhat tragic, the Decepticon Corps' Replica Soldiers were still modeled after the earliest batch of fanatical Decepticons who had voluntarily sacrificed themselves for the corps.

As a result, the Replica Soldiers cultivated from those templates not only emitted