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| - At the dawn of 1984, the Decepticon Empire was at the peak of its power. The Decepticons had near complete rule over Cybetron, and had extended their grasp to a number of nearby worlds. The Autobots were broken, scattered and powerless before them, with many seeing it as being only a matter of time before the last embers of their cause were snuffed out. And then at the peak of their power, a single disastrous event occurred that lead to the sudden and swift downfall of the Decepticon Empire. Megatron returned. Lost for over four million years, the onetime leader and founder of the Decepticon cause had become a living anachronism, a fossil frozen in place as his own creation had outgrown him. However, that did not deter him at all. After freeing himself from exile on Earth, Megatron reclaimed the throne that had sat dormant for millennia, and set about recreating the empire in his own image. It was an unmitigated disaster. Complicated structures and arrangements that had taken centuries to build were swept away overnight. Long term plans were replaced with grandiose shames, built around bizarre and almost incomprehensible logic and strange devices crafted by Megatron himself. Even Cybetron itself became a weapon, nearly destroyed as Megatron tried to utilize it in the conquest of a single, insignificant world that had been his prison for so long. And rather than being focused on conquest and expansion, the Empire's entire energies were instead focused towards the fulfilling of Megatron's ages old rivalry with Optimus Prime. Unable to defeat him on his own, Megatron saw a need to use every resource the empire had against the Autobot leader. And each and every effort would fail, costing the empire troops and resources that would have been best utilized elsewhere. When Megatron was killed in 2005, the Empire died with him. In the course of two decades, he had done more damage to it than the Autobts had in centuries. The fragmented and disorganized Deceptisons fled into space, taking refuge in the furthest corners of the galaxy. Behind them, the victorious Autobots reclaimed Cybetron and liberated other worlds the Decepticons had once claimed, erasing the last traces of the old empire. But the Decepticons were far from done for. Those who survived regrouped and reorganized, descending like a plague upon a hapless, remote world to claim it for their own. As they built their new Cybertron, a new order emerged based around those remaining leaders of the old Empire, one that aimed to avoid the mistakes of the past and instead build a new future that would be free form the same rot that poisoned the Decepticons from within. The inner cabal of Decepticon leaders chose one of their own, Dezarus, to be the leader of this new empire. Formerly a warlord of a remote Decepticon colony, Dezarus was seen as being 'untainted' by Megatron's ideology and flaws. Adopting the mantle of the new Emperor of Destruction, Dezarus publically announced the Edicts of Deception Purity, a sweeping list of laws that defined the new empire. For the last two decades, the New Decepticon Empire has continued to build and grow, slowly and gradually extending its power to colonize nearby worlds and reshape them in its image. At the same time, they have continued to reform themselves from within, ensuring that every citizen of the Empire remains ideologically pure and committed to the cause.
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