Megatron

Name	Megatron
Faction	Decepticon
Function	Savior
Class	Unknown
Alt Mode	Tank
Species	EFC

Profile

Originally an idealistic mech from Tarn who desired to become a medic, Megatron was instead assigned to the grueling life of a low-caste miner. An intellectual and a poet, Megatron was sickened by the caste-ridden social apartheid of Cybertronian society, and wrote a treatise on pacifistic dissent and how to bring about peaceful change. His manifesto spread like wildfire, and it wasn't long before Megatron was wrongly arrested, imprisoned, and beaten inside the Rodion Police Station jails. Embittered he decided force was the only way to bring about change, and went on to found the Decepticon movement. After being exiled to a mining outpost on Messatine, he became the center of a riot as the mines were closed, which resulted in the deaths of several Senatorial guards. Sentenced to imprisonment, he escaped with the help of those sympathetic to his cause, and became one of the gladiators fighting in the pits of Kaon. Using the arena as a place to recruit warriors, Megatron is poised to turn his insurrectionist movement into a full-scale war for control of Cybertron.

History

Megatron's long, flowing, uh, fins?

Long ago, before the war and under the reign of Nominus Prime, Megatron of Tarn was an idealistic 'bot who desired to be a medic. Alas, he lived in a time of functionism, where one's alternate mode denoted one's role in society, and one's role determined ones rights, so he was assigned the occupation of energon miner, a member of the lower class, in a mine under Nova Point. An intellectual and a poet, Megatron was sickened by the caste-ridden social apartheid of Cybertronian society, and so he wrote a treatise on how pacifist dissent and the exchange of ideas could change things. It was while he was sharing this work with his miner friend Impactor over a drink in Maccadam's New Oil House that the event occurred which would change the course of his life, as Impactor wound up being drawn into a bar brawl with some of the city's upper classes and Megatron was among those arrested after the fracas. Megatron's writings had been growing in popularity and inspiring some dissent against the current regime, so in order to silence him, the Senate arranged for a police officer on their payroll, Whirl , to kill him. Before Whirl could finish the job, however, police captain Orion Pax , having discovered Megatron's innocence, arranged for his release. Despite Pax expressing support for the message of his writings, Megatron now found himself filled with rage and hate, disillusioned with his former ideology and realizing the power of applied violence. Angrily hurling the datapad on which he had written his treatise through a public info-screen, Megatron observed the jagged shape of the shattered glass, and later turned it into a symbol for his cause.

Megatron's samizdat writings began to circulate in Cybertron's underground, spawning the "Decepticon" movement, its name derived from its own slogan, "You are being deceived", warning the common 'bot of the Senate's true nature. Knowing that, at this stage, assassinating Megatron would merely make him a martyr, the Senate instead elected to relocate him off-planet, reassigning him to a mining facility on the world of Messatine while they tried their own schemes to defuse the growing Decepticon movement. It was there that Megatron met Terminus, an elderly fellow miner who encouraged him to keep writing, and who, in addition to proofreading his works for him, smuggled each new tract back to Cybertron, helping to continue the spread of the Decepticon movement. When Terminus was maimed in a mining accident and had his fuel rations cut off, Megatron kept him alive by sharing his own energon with the old 'bot. Eventually, Senate agents Froid and Trepan were dispatched to Messatine to perform mind-altering Shadowplay upon Megatron, in order to cut his writings off at the source. Tased into submission and strapped to Trepan's operating table, Megatron was helpless to stop the mnemosurgeon from beginning his vile work. Though the arrival of Froid's rival psychopathologist Rung fortunately forced Trepan to stop before Megatron's personality was altered, the experience left the miner with a life-long fear of mnemosurgery. Subsequently, a mysterious surge of energy deep within the mine forced an evacuation of the facility; Megatron raced back to his quarters to carry Terminus to safety, but found his friend was not there. With time running out and no sign of Terminus anywhere, Megatron instead chose to save the stack of datapads containing his unpublished works—a decision that would haunt him.

Origin of the Decepticon Symbol.

Megatron was relocated to Mining Outpost C-12, and continued to seethe with hate and frustration in his new workplace. His discontent reached a peak when, some time later, Senator Decimus arrived to announce that the mine was being automated and the workers would be relocated. When one of the Senator's guards killed a worker for insubordination and claims of Senate corruption, Megatron's fury boiled over and he hurled his pickaxe at Decimus. In turn, he was attacked by the Senator's guard, whom he killed by smashing his head to fragments. A riot erupted around him, but Megatron himself could only sit amongst the chaos, staring at his fuel-stained hands in abject horror, which allowed him to be easily pacified and rounded up with the other miners as the mayhem was quickly suppressed. En route to imprisonment back on Cybertron, however, Rumble and Frenzy broke free and started a riot aboard their ship. Megatron joined in their effort, and together, they overpowered their guards, took control of the ship, and disappeared into the Kaon underground.

After evading law enforcement, Megatron joined a team of underworld gladiators under the tutelage of Clench. The opportunistic Senator Ratbat , after seeing how much money there was in the underworld matches, covertly sent his agent Soundwave to offer Megatron weaponry and technology to upgrade himself and his comrades. Their meeting was spied upon by Bumper and Fastback, agents from the Senate's forces, who Megatron slew. Subsequently, impressed by how he treated his animal-form cassette partners as equals (in contradiction to the teachings of his Senate masters), Megatron invited Soundwave back to the gladiator pits and gave him permission to use his mind-reading abilities on him. Within Megatron's mind, Soundwave saw his honest desire for all Cybertronians to be true equals, and was so moved by it that he joined Megatron's cause. Gradually, Megatron used the gladiatorial games to drum up an army of violent malcontents, sending Soundwave to recruit more and more warriors to his cause. - (TFwiki article:Megatron, IDW/G1 Generation )

Skills

Mining, Gladiator Combat, Politics, Leadership, Strategy, Tactics, Writing, Poetry, Unending Willpower

Logs

September 2014 Logs

• Anger and Temptation: Megatron attempts to goad Grimlock into battle.

November 2014 Logs

• At the Crossroads of Future and Past: At a crossroads in his life, Blast Off decides to enter the pit fights- finally meeting Megatron... and a few surprises.

NC Institute

• Escape from the Institute Part II: The Decepticons hit the Institute from the tunnels.
• Elita's Request: Elita One calls Orion Pax and Megatron for a secrete meeting concerning the infamous Institute.

May 2015 Logs

• Past Deeds: Quickswitch is haunted by deeds ordered by Zeta Prime.
• Parting Ways: Once acquaintances from the Forge, Torque says her goodbyes to Megatron for good.

March 2015 Logs

• A Visitation: Feint tries to give Megatron hope only to have hers completely crushed.
• Jailbirds: A few jailbirds in their cells.
• Office Space (Plus Pre-Debate Debate on Radio): Megatron calls Blast Off into his office to inform him he's going to represent the Decepticons in a public debate- against Whirl. Followed by Global radio debates.
• The Meek and the Mighty: The mechs are mighty; Silence is not.
• Clash in Perihex: The Combaticons come to Perihex looking to steal a nanolathe- the Autobots come to stop them.
• Opinions Duly Ignored: Rumble is pleased with himself. Megatron shuts down Swift Blade.
• A Conversation: Ruiner is dead and Megatron has vowed revenge.

Kaon Uprising

• Kaon Uprising: Decepticon Smackdown: The Bots arrest the Cons! Uprising over. Right?
• Debating the Manifesto: Sky Lynx stirs up a debate with Megatron over Megatron's Manifesto. Whirl interrupts as only Whirl can and suffers dire consequences.
• Stirring the Hornet's Nest: In the fighting pits of the Forge, Clench attempts to keep control- but he may just be stirring the hornet's nest.

January 2015 Logs

• If You Could: Megatron and Ruiner discuss past, present and future.
• Foreshadows: Swift Blade airs a few concerns about the Decepticons.
• Don't Knock the Insecticon: Swivel gets mad at a vendor and Thundercracker intervenes while Zephyr watches.
• A Dragon In The Forge: A pit fight in the forge turns into something more as the Terrorcon leader Hun-Grr makes his debut.
• Accepting Her Fate: Swift Blade finally makes the decision about whose side she is on.
• A Certain Understanding: Megatron speaks to his loyal- and not so loyal- followers. Starscream and Soundwave come to a certain understanding.
• Making a Name: The Decepticons are ready to make a name for themselves, for the time of words is over and the time of actions has come. The Autobots are waiting for them, most for good-intentioned reasons- and one there for possibly less than ideal reasons.
• Between Wisdom and Foolishness: Swift Blade meets Megatron and later spars with Blast Off.
• Forge Scramble: Megatron receives a delivery and an unwanted guest.
• Some Important News: Barricade and Soundwave have some important news for Megatron.

February 2015 Logs

• The Fragile: Blast Off gets repaired and Swivel tries convince Ruiner he's actually good, deep down. PROTIP: It doesn't matter.
• Finale 2 - Prisoner Exchange: The Autobot Security Forces and the Decepticons agree to a prisoner exchange. Tensions mount and shots are fired.
• FINALE 1 - First Blood: Bumper, Fastback and Shiftlock are sent to find the location of the Forge. Two of them are going home in body bags.
• Dinobot Negotiations: After Starchamber finds a way to lure Slag out of the ruins of Blaster City, she leads him to her leader to discuss.. future ventures.
• Relinquishment Clinic Raid: The Decepticons strike against a Relinquishment Clinic....
• Calm Before the Storm: As the Forge is dismantled and moved, Megatron and Soundwave have a discussion on the past, present, and future.

December 2014 Logs

• Unclenched: Megatron promotes himself to Leader. Clench is downsized. Deadlock is born.
• No Place For Kindness: Why does a kindhearted medic want to fight in the Pits? Megatron wants to know.

Autocracy

• Registering Torque: Torque tries to pass through an Autobot registration checkpoint, it goes poorly.
• A Small Confession: Overclock seeks out Megatron to make a confession and get some guidance. He takes it better than she expected.
• Freedom, Truth, Justice: Megatron is the new hero of Cybertron!!
• Megatron Rises: The Decepticons and Team Pax make their big push on Iacon. Three mechs enter, one mech leaves.

April 2015 Logs

• Faith, Trust, and Loyalty: Megatron has a word with Soundwave. Plans are made.
• Into The Lion's Den: The meeting that had to happen: Megatron has a talk with Whirl, as Blast Off watches. Things will never be quite the same.
• Invitation to the Lion's Den: Blast Off meets Whirl at what's left of Nyon with an invitation- from Megatron.
• Swearing Fealty: Chimera meets Megatron after capture and challenges him for dominance.
• Caught with her Thorax Down: Megatron and Soundwave seek out the naked truth of Overclock's loyalty to their cause. Megatron gets an answer and Soundwave gets an optic full.
• 042815 - Towards Peace, Towards Freedom: Megatron blows off some steam by doing some grunt work. Orion joins him. They at last have an honest conversation on where their paths have taken them.
• Promotion Opportunity: Megatron presents Thundercracker with an opportunity. Zephyr is given an unpleasant task. Protocol manages it all.
• Nyon Falls: Hot Rod invites a small group of Autobots to discover the truth about Zeta Prime. Nyon pays the iron price for the discovery.
• An Honest Conversation: Rung has an audience with Megatron.
• Radio Debate: Megatron gloats to Pax over his recent slaughter of the Senate. Orion Pax refuses to give in. Spectrum decides to ask her own questions of the two.
• TP Scene - Prison Break: Let the slaughter begin.

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