But a combined Decepticon/Predacon attack force ambushed them just as they got out of their pods. They all managed to land together in the same area, about 250 miles outside of Iacon. Upon entering Cybertronian airspace, their ship was attacked by AA guns, forcing the Spartans to use the escape pods to get to the surface in one piece. But their return was not as pleasant as they had hoped. It had been millions of years since any of the Spartans had looked upon their homeworld, and it had not changed at all since they left. The Autobot Spartans were among the first to lift off from Earth. So Optimus Prime ordered all Autobots to return to Cybertron and report to Iacon City. The Maximals had scrounged up what fighting forces they could, but it wasn’t enough to qualm both the Decepticons and Predacons. To make matters worse, the Predacons had also begun to mobilize their military and were already causing trouble. But soon disturbing news reached them: the Decepticons were starting to abandon their operations on Earth and returning to Cybertron to finish the fight on the home front. The Autobot Titans soon became experienced veterans of the Heavy Metal War on Earth, enjoying many victories and suffering many loses. The Autobot Titans are members of the Autobot War Council, and they are the lead unit of Sidewinder Squadron. They don't have many ties within the faction, but have made close allies in the form of Team Teraelectronvolt and Team Plenary. The Autobot Spartans are one of the more overlooked units in the Autobot Army, being still relatively new and inexperienced.

The Autobot Spartans soon resumed their duties on Earth, establishing their base of operations in College Station, Texas, among the students and teachers of Texas A&M University. After Maximus turned the Matrix back over to Optimus, the unit was officially incorporated into the Autobot Army and was named the first Sentinel Unit in the Army. Since then the unit has transformed into a single, cohesive team.Īfter fighting the Decepticons in the Heavy Metal War on Earth for a few more years, Maximus was shocked to learn that his old commander, Optimus Prime, was alive and functional, brought back to life by Quintesson sepratists. But when he saw the Matrix with his own eyes, he consented to let Maximus lead. When Maximus told his story to the group, Blazer was still against a stranger taking charge of his crew. When he found the ship, Maximus re-activated the surviving crew members, among them the commanding officer of the ship, Blazer Prime. Then with his last breath, Optimus revealed to Maximus the location of the Elysian Gynru, an Autobot crusier that apparently had been sent out in search of the Ark and crash-landed in the Colorado Rockies about a million years after the Ark. So the dying Optimus Prime turned over the Matrix of Leadership to him, creating Maximus Prime. After the final battle with Megatron's Decepticons, Overdrive was the only remaining Autobot. Their leader, Maximus Prime, was originally called Overdrive, operations officer aboard the Ark when it first crash-landed on Earth 4 million years ago. The Autobot Titans started out as an unofficial group of Autobots that had crash-landed on Earth millions of years ago.

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