Two years later, War for Cybertron received a sequel, Fall of Cybertron 2014's Rise of the Dark Spark featured a crossover of sorts with the movie continuity to promote the recently released Age of Extinction film.
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These events overlap with a large portion of the concurrently released Transformers: Exodus novel, but events diverge in ways both large and small. Set towards the end of the Great War, War for Cybertron focuses on Megatron's quest to harness the mysterious substance known as Dark Energon, a quest that ends with the corruption of Cybertron itself, leaving it uninhabitable for millions of years. Hasbro has not given this family an official title, but we have derived the name "Aligned" from Hasbro statements referring to this as a new "aligned continuity". The brand bible's description in Transformers Vault states it paints the Transformers history in broad strokes, so as to give creators the necessary flexibility when crafting their stories, a belief echoed by statements made at BotCon 2011: Archer spoke of a "squint test" where everything can be seen as one "family" of stories, akin to the many different reinventions of the Generation 1 continuity family by the cartoon, Marvel, and IDW comics. Indeed, Hasbro has referred to the concept as "a bit of an animal to define", and, for that reason, this wiki takes the more cautious route of calling it a " continuity family". However, various elements of the fiction have separate creative teams with distinct, sometimes conflicting, visions. Aligned encompasses a variety of interconnected franchises-most prominently Prime, Rescue Bots, Robots in Disguise, and Rescue Bots Academy.Įarly on, Hasbro consistently referred to all Aligned fiction as one "continuity".
Its core is the " Binder of Revelation", a 354-page brand bible co-written by Aaron Archer, Rik Alvarez and other Transformer experts from Hasbro and the fandom, charting billions of years worth of history for the Transformers.
The Aligned continuity family launched in 2010 with the intention of being the foundation of the Transformers brand over the next decade. Optimus Prime's depiction in Hasbro's brand bible at the center of the Aligned continuity family.
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