Plundering Fleet

In the Orion Arm, amid a stretch of starry space.

Hundreds of warships of varying sizes were locked in fierce battle.

Inside the command deck of a colossal warship over two thousand meters long, a huge, one-eyed mechanical giant stood coldly by the window, watching the battle outside.

He was Shockwave, military commander of the Decepticon Corps.

At that moment, thousands of small combat craft and drones were engaged in intense firefights and dogfights around Shockwave's massive warship.

Small combat craft and drones were destroyed from time to time, their explosions lighting up the space around the warship.

"...Commander, the 17th and 51st flight squadrons have suffered heavy losses. They request permission to withdraw and regroup!"

"Tell them to choose whether they want to be buried on the battlefield or in the laboratory!"

"...Yes!"

Several Decepticon Corps commanders stood in the command deck as well. In this kind of battle in outer space, even elite Cybertronian warriors could not contribute much.

Unless, of course, they possessed flight forms.

"I never thought the Quintessons still existed. It seems their strength has mostly recovered too!"

The speaker was the Decepticon Skywarp, an old-school Decepticon.

Back in the era of Cybertron's Elder Council, Skywarp had served as a senior researcher at Cybertron's renowned spacecraft research center. Because his friend Thundercracker had pledged allegiance to Megatron, Skywarp had caught Megatron's attention as well.

After the Elder Council rejected his proposal for body modifications, Skywarp ultimately sided with Megatron. With Megatron's strong support, he completed body modifications for many members of the Cybertronian air force—the Guerrilla Army—whose main force had already largely pledged allegiance to Megatron.

However, although many of the Decepticon Corps' air force mainstays had undergone their first modifications at Skywarp's hands, he did not secure a place among the Corps' upper ranks