Cyber-virus


 * ''The cyber-virus is a evil... thing in the Dreamwave portion of the Generation 1 continuity family

Megatron's cyber-virus fuses human DNA with Tansformer central circuitry. The resulting virus spreads organically, then solidifies into metal, transforming Earth's landscape into a sembelance of the planet Cybertron.

Once it begins spreading, the virus is self-sustaining.

Fiction
Megatron created the cyber-virus by merging the essences of Lazarus's captured soldiers with the captured Autobots. The process left the Autobots near death, and the humans... not-so-near.

Wheeljack invented an anti-viral weapon, directly channeling the Autobots life-energy to halt the virus's progress, and reverse the changes it has wrought.

''Though the cyber-virus's transformation was reversed, the humans transformed by it seem not to have survived the reversion.

Trivia

 * The cyber-virus was not named in the course of Prime Directive proper, the term comes from advertising copy hyping upcoming issues.