As the Quintessons' first attempts at creating a race of subservient cybernetic warriors, the transorganics were created as half beast, half machine beings. One such transorganic was created to be a living energy siphon. The transorganic process was too unstable, however, and the transorganics ended up with extremely limited brain functions. This led to the living energy siphon turning on its creator Quintesson and destroying one of his faces. The Quintessons found it best to scrap this project and set about destroying all of the transorganics. Those transorganics the Quintessons were unable to destroy were locked in a hibernation chamber deep within Cybertron, later to be revealed as the lowest level of Cybertron itself.
Millions of years later, after the end of the Third Cybertronian War when the Autobots returned to live on Cybertron, Perceptor created and installed a new power core for Cybertron which would power it for hundreds of years. Meanwhile, the Quintessons had long forgotten about the transorganics and their existence passed only in legends. One such Quintesson, a certain one with only two faces, the third destroyed, however, had not forgotten the truth and led other Quintessons to convince Galvatron and the Decepticons to unwittingly unleash the energy siphon transorganic, now known as the Dweller. The Dweller began siphoning off the power from Cybertron itself which led the Autobots to venture into Cybertron's depths to correct the problem. During their exploration, they began following tunnels that not even Kup knew traveled so deeply into Cybertron, though Ultra Magnus mysteriously seemed to know his way around. There, the Autobots found the chamber of the Dweller and the much larger hibernation chamber of the other transorganics. Both seemed to be made of rock which leads to the notion that the metallic world of Cybertron was built around some sort of asteroid. [Ed: Please note this is speculation, albeit a good one.] As the Dweller began siphoning away the energy from several Transformers, the victims in turn became zombies also capable of draining energy from Transformers. The Decepticons, angry at being deceived, and the Autobots both began fighting against it.
Realizing that the Dweller was perfectly capable of destroying all of the Transformers and transorganics if it absorbed enough energy, the Autobots ejected their newly installed power core, with the Dweller currently siphoning its energy, into deep space. In an ironic twist, the Dweller floated directly into the flight path of an oncoming ship, which it latched onto and began siphoning. The ship was none other than a Quintesson vessel bound to reclaim Cybertron.
Article submitted by Richard Brady.
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