Matter Transmutation

The Quintessons were absolutely an everlasting thorn in the hearts of all Cybertronians, and especially so for Megatron.

As an interstellar civilization born within the Milky Way, the Quintessons were an exceedingly rare form of silicon-based life.

Their nature was fundamentally different from carbon-based lifeforms, and they were ruled by a group of extremely cruel overlords—the Five-Faced Ones.

The Quintessons had achieved interstellar civilization early on by recklessly exhausting every last resource on their homeworld.

Then, they ruthlessly abandoned their homeworld and began expanding relentlessly throughout the universe.

The Quintessons established colonies on every valuable planet. Whenever they set their sights on a world, they would not hesitate to wage war against other interstellar civilizations.

It was precisely because of this savage and tyrannical approach that, at the height of their civilization, the Quintessons were fighting at least dozens of interstellar civilizations at once.

Although the Quintessons possessed absolutely first-rate technology under the rule of the Five-Faced Ones, even they could not withstand having simply too many enemies.

In order to win the war and monopolize the entire universe—

When the Quintessons colonized Cybertron and discovered the miraculous abilities possessed by the planet's indigenous inhabitants—the Cybertronians—their rulers, the Five-Faced Ones, began building laboratories and research facilities across Cybertron on a massive scale, capturing Cybertronians for experiments.

Megatron and the earliest Decepticons had been born in the laboratories and research facilities of the Five-Faced Ones.

They were war machines mass-produced by the Five-Faced Ones, intended to use the Cybertronians' special abilities to help the Quintessa Civilization defeat other interstellar civilizations.

Unfortunately, not long after Megatron and the others had been created, the Quintessons suffered defeat in their wars against other interstellar civilizations. Combined with the arrival of Cosmic Rust, their control over colonial planets scattered throughout the Milky Way weakened to