TRANSFORMERS
Robots in disguise!

Ages ago, circling the star Alpha Centauri, there was a planet that was completely unique from any other planet. This planet was known as Cybertron. As its geography had no rock or soil or sand , it’s content became entirely mechanical. Cybertron existed, from metallic surface to its core, as a vast machine world, whose origins were lost in the dead past.

Yet life had evolved here. It had grown and adapted and thrived in its environment remarkably well. And cities rose across a broad mechanical expanse - cities that were the products of Cybertron's dominant life-form which were called the Autobots.

Life elsewhere in the cosmos usually evolved through carbon-bonding, however on Cybertron was the interaction of naturally occurring gears, levers, and pulleys that miraculously brought forth sentient beings. They created a mechanical paradise... a machine-filled landscape where each Autobot went about his pursuits in peace and prosperity.

But then came Megatron, commander of those who called themselves -- the Decepticons. They started a war for Cybertron, which spread until it was a global conflict; the forces unleashed were staggering, inconceivable.

Though taken by surprise, and destroyed by the billions in the initial assaults, the surviving Autobots were not defenceless. Each was gifted with the ability to alter his configuration into strange, unearthly vehicles of great offensive potential. In time, the magnificent armies on each side of the struggle became known as -- the Transformers.

It was this battle that kept children and adults alike glued to their televisions every Saturday morning.