AUTOBOT DECEPTICONS UPGRADE

AUTOBOT DECEPTICONS UPGRADE

The Great Upgrade isn't just the process that turned the Autobots into the Maximals. They also, of course, have the ability to scan biological material and change their shape to match whatever creature they've scanned. Compared to the Autobots, the Maximals are much smaller, and they require less energy to function. The Great Upgrade created some serious changes to Transformer biology, if it can be called biology.

Like the Great War, and almost every other aspect of 'Transformers' continuity, the finer details of the Great Upgrade change from one story to another, but the broad strokes of the process remain the same. Either war, the age of the Maximals comes well after the Autobots and Decepticons have finished their fighting, but in most versions of the story, that still means the Maximals predate humanity by thousands of years. In the IDW comic 'Dawn of the Predacus,' the Maximals were actually present for the end of the Great War, but they didn't start getting involved in the regular conflicts of Cybertron until it was finished. In the 'Beast Wars' cartoon that originally set up the characters, the Maximals didn't come into existence until the war had ended, and their superior technology eventually led to them replacing the Autobots and Decepticons.

The Maximals themselves didn't fight in the Great War. Like any story that gets told in a comic book format, the history of the Maximals has changed over the years, but there are some details that remain generally the same across the various continuities. There have been a number of different series about the Maximals that all establish their own chronologies.

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