Some really important details about my main AU about the Great War

It predominantly takes place after the Great War (1950s – 1990s) where the Decepticons had won and liberated Cybertron from the corrupt Autobot government that had been tarnished by Sentinel Prime, completely forgetting the original purpose of the Autobot faction was to be heroic peacekeepers of Cybertron. The Autobots are declared exiled from Cybertron and are forced to retreat to faraway planets and colony worlds such as Paradron or Eukaris and establish outposts for them to reside in. Though the Decepticons started off as a resistance faction with bright intentions to free Cybertron from the harsh rulership of Sentinel Prime and his inner circle, they gradually became more like their oppressors as they gained full control over Cybertron, much to the dismay of many who were promised that Cybertron will be a better place now that the Autobots are gone.

While the Autobots accepted their defeat, most of them still wanted to fight back and reclaim Cybertron by any means necessary, either through peaceful negotiation with the new rulers, or through force and total domination. Optimus Prime and his band of \”misfits\” chose the former, though Elita-1 and her Elite Guard chose the latter, thus both of their ideals clashed. Optimus believed that another war would not benefit Cybertron and more or less destroy it further than the damage it sustained before, and that the Decepticons must be dissolved, instead of destroying everyone associated with them. while Elita believed that total freedom of the Decepticons left a bad taste in the current state of Cybertron, she needed the Autobots back in control rightfully so, with a more harsher rule to prevent another faction like the Decepticons from emerging, and anyone who dared to rise up against them would be promptly put down.

Might be the finished product of Barricade’s head for another AU separate from my main one.

Her role as a double agent could explain how Autobots and especially the EDC obtained Intel about the Decepticons and their individual strengths and weaknesses.

Milestone being a non-violent type prefers using the “Cyber Yo-Yo” as her primary weapon, opposing guns and weapons of war.

This is only one of her many tools and gadgets she’d use to take down her enemies (she’s also more on the type to talk them down first rather going for punches), each one ranging from a net launcher to something more absurd like a “wormhole generator”