Total War 18

After learning that the Decepticons had invaded Earth—and that their invasion was likely connected to the Quintessons—

Optimus Prime overrode all objections and led a team of elite Autobots at full speed toward the Arctic Circle, tens of thousands of li away.

Traveling at top speed, they crossed the vast distance in less than six hours.

Even so, every Autobot was utterly exhausted.

But Optimus Prime knew that the human soldiers facing the Decepticons on the front lines must be having an even harder time.

As the leader of the Autobots—especially one who had witnessed the Autobots' decline and a series of upheavals after their defeat in the civil war, and had even been driven out by the Autobot Council—Optimus Prime might have been kind by nature, but he was no naïvely benevolent fool.

A few years ago, when he learned that the AllSpark was on Earth, he had led his forces there and taken the initiative to show goodwill toward the United States, the most powerful human nation on Earth. He had entered into a series of cooperative arrangements with them and even made considerable concessions in the process.

The reason was that Optimus Prime had seen through the Autobots' weakness at the time. It could even be said that they faced the danger of genocide.

This was not Optimus Prime overthinking things. The Autobots' actual situation was only more dangerous than he had imagined.

After their defeat in the Cybertronian Civil War, the Autobots fled their homeworld, Cybertron, and were forced to hide on a moon.

In name, the Autobots had never given up fighting the Decepticon Corps for their homeworld.

They still had a considerable number of guerrilla fighters on Cybertron, while the Autobots themselves were building up their strength and dispatching spacecraft to mine resources on