Megatron (Cybertron-76)

Megatron waged a battle to destroy the evil forces of the Senate. Then he continued to wage a war against the evil forces of freedom, organic life, and the very idea of an Autobot living.

Early Life
Megatronus of Tarn was built during one of the many Transformers constructed cold during the Silver Harvest. The spark intended for this body was one generated from the Matrix of Leadership by Tyrest... but this spark was destroyed while his body was still in the process of being built, by time-travelling Autobots from the future attempting to prevent the destruction they knew Megatron would come to wreak upon the universe. But the non-existence of Megatron meant that the Functionist Council would eventually plunge Cybertron into a dystopian hell, and the Autobot Whirl, who loathed the Functionists, refused to permit this to happen. Whirl replaced the deceased body's spark with a forged Point One Percenter spark that had been harvested by Brainstorm from Luna 1 millions of years in the future—and so Megatronus was truly born: the first "hybrid" Transformer, a powerful forged superspark in a constructed cold body.

Megatronus desired to be a medic, but alas, he lived in a time of functionism, where one's vehicle mode denoted one's role in society, and one's role determined one's rights. As such, the true nature of his exceptionally rare spark apparently unknown, Megatronus was assigned the task for which he had been built: that of energon miner, a member of the lower class, toiling in a mine underneath Nova Point.

A Brave Poet
An idealist, intellectual and poet, Megatronus was sickened by the caste-ridden social apartheid of Nominus Prime's Cybertron, 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.

Megatronus'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, Orion Pax, having discovered Megatronus's innocence, arranged for his release. Despite Pax expressing support for the message of his writings, Megatronus 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, Megatronus observed the jagged shape of the shattered glass, and later turned it into a symbol for his cause.