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It had been a while since Unicron had been defeated. Though the Autobots were unable to use the Matrix on Unicron (in this timeline, anyway; the Multiverse is full of infinite possibilities), the Decepticons were not only able to utilize Unicron as a weapon of war, Unicron had fallen asleep somewhere in the Virgo Supercluster. As Decepticon forces hunted down Unicron throughout the known Supercluster, they discovered that the Galactic Council of the Milky Way, while battered and broken, were still managing to forge alliances with extragalactic entities that could potentially pose a threat to Decepticon rule if given time. To counteract this, Megatron saw it fit for them to hold a diplomatic summit inside Anaxus, an ancient Cybertronian with the ability to transform into a gargantuan spacecraft (which was bigger than a star) who swore fealty to Megatron because the Decepticon leader was the current ruler of the planet Cybertron and his empire, where Megatron would establish political and military ties with other, ideally similarly powerful or weaker nations. Perhaps then Megatron might be able to acquire some new territory.
Draped in regal attire, a red cape being held into place by two golden shoulder-pads – generally an attire befitting of that of an emperor who controlled countless galaxies with an iron fist - Megatron walked over to a window which bequeathed Megatron a glance at the space surrounding him. The spacecraft itself was more than enough to host a large array of Decepticon soldiers, scientists and even civilians. Perhaps, Megatron thought, it would be suitable for the Decepticons to commence with the construction of a fleet of Ecumenopoli guarded by an array of powerful warships capable of levelling entire worlds to fund their weapons program, to have soldiers be deploy to and from places. Nearby, a fleet of Decepticon Worldsweepers – known colloquially as ‘symbol ships’ because its design resembled the Decepticon insignia – surrounded Anaxus alongside a bunch of other warships. The Worldsweepers would normally cruise over the skies of annexed colonies in the Constellate to showcase the supremacy of the Decepticon Star Empire to their denizens below as well as the inhabitants of other planets. The Worldsweepers would signify the Decepticons’s complete dominance over this star system, and their supremacy over all other life in the known cosmos – or so the Decepticons mostly believed, anyway. However, the Worldsweepers, Worldscourers, Warworlds, Planetcrushers, and the rest were all but mere antroids in comparison to the incomprehensibly large titan Anaxus, whose stellar superlaser, capable of decimating entire star systems – his proudest accomplishment – was powered by a star located in the centre of him.
Megatron turned away from the window and towards a console. He placed a digit on a red button, linking him to a coms network. “Await the arrival of our guests. Direct them to the meeting room as necessary,” he ordered to the Decepticons inside Anaxus. “And don't worry - we can cleanse your alt-mode of traces of organic life after this meeting.”
After that, Megatron would walk back to the window and begin glaring at space once more, his crimson optics fixated on any arriving starships that pass by his windows. Many of them sought peace with the Empire, especially following the conclusion of the Unicronian Conflict with a draw (in this timeline, at least), but Megatron had far greater plans than just the retrieval of Unicron and the conquest of the known cosmos. Megatron chuckled coldly, secretly unnerving a royal guard nearby. His empire was indeed quite vast, and he believed that the organics he saw today would all bend the knee to him. He would gain immense territory, and all would kneel before him. However, he would have to play the long game and gain some allies in the short-term to achieve victory in the long-term.
