Great Shutdown


 * The Great Shutdown (also known as The Big Shutdown) is an event from Cybertron history.



Taking place approximately 1205 vorns after the launch of the Ark, (4 million years before the Transformers awake on present-day Earth) the Great Shutdown marked the end of conflict on Cybertron for a staggering 46,592 vorns. During this time all known Cybertronians on the planet were in an enforced stasis lock, rendering them inoperative.

The exact reasons for the Great Shutdown remain a mystery but the basic belief is that despite attempts to conserve energy, Cybertron's energon completely dried up, and Transformers all across the planet simply began to shutdown as they entered a pre-programmed period of hibernation allowing Cybertron itself to heal from its grievous war wounds.

After about 36 vorns, or 3000 years ago, Shockwave was reactivated and began awakening others bringing the Great Shutdown to an end.