An ecological disaster on Cybertron spills across many worlds...
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Stormbringer is a companion limited series to IDW's main series of G1-reboot story arcs. Set roughly during the same period of time as the Infiltration arc, it establishes the situation of Cybertron and the rest of the Autobots and Decepticons not on Earth.
The reader learns almost immediately that the rebooted G1 universe features some radical differences from original continuity, the first being that in our time Cybertron is a dead, wasted world, victim of some distant cataclysm that elder Transformers, including Optimus Prime and Megatron, were present at. Prime's musings establish that the long war between the Autobots and Decepticons was directly responsible for the cataclysm, and in flashback we discover that a single demonic figure was somehow the focus for or avatar of the event; this being was so powerful that only the combined might of the Autobots and Decepticons could stop it.
We also discover that both Autobots and Decepticons appear to have large, star-spanning empires. Similar Decepticon infiltration cells to the one portrayed in Infiltration are seen on the planets Nebulos and Varas Centralus. The Autobots' main base is a space station orbiting a planet at least nineteen megacycles away from Cybertron via foldspace travel, and they possess at least one space battelcruiser, the Xantium.