Ice Age
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The Ice Age was a period in Earth's prehistory marked by intense glaciation. Various extinct creatures such as mammoths lived during this time.
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Fiction
2005 IDW continuity
Some 10,000 years ago, Shockwave came to Earth to stabilize his supplies of Ore-13 as part of his Regenesis program. Spotlight: Shockwave While he was in orbit, he intercepted and shot down the Maximal starship Axalon; investigating further, he discovered a Talisman and a crew of amnesiac beast mode Transformers. As a cruel experiment, he successfully uploaded new memories into their minds, convincing them that they were notable Autobots and Decepticons, and pitting them against one another in a series of tactical simulations while he examined the Talisman. Strange Visitors
By the time Shockwave had finished stabilizing the Ore-13, the Ice Age had ended and creatures like mammoths were dying off, incapable of surviving the changing climate. Spotlight: Shockwave
Hearts of Steel
The Autobots and Decepticons fought the "Ice Age Wars," fighting in the increasingly hostile environment until both sides decided to hibernate until the planet's glaciation had ended. By the time it had, humans had taken over the Earth's now-temperate surface. Hearts of Steel #1
War for Cybertron Trilogy marketing material
While pursuing the AllSpark across time and space, the Autobots and Decepticons crash-landed on Earth before the Ice Age, where they encountered time-travelling Maximals and Predacons. Kingdom webpage[1]
Games
Transformers: Beast Wars Transmetals (N64)
Having defeated the other Maximals and Predacons, Terrorsaur successfully seized control of the Predacon forces. His elation at his victory left him unprepared for the Ice Age, and he and his forces were subsequently entombed in a glacier for a hundred thousand years. Transformers: Beast Wars Transmetals (N64)
Notes
- While online War for Cybertron Trilogy marketing material describes the cast of characters as having arrived on "pre-Ice Age Earth", which would supposedly place the setting sometime around 2.6 million years ago before the start of the most recent glaciation, the tie-in art book reveals that the Kingdom series takes place a whopping 170 million years in the past, a hundred million years before the extinction of the dinosaurs and the long period of global cooling that would eventually culminate in the Ice Age. The statement is technically correct, in that it is pre-Ice Age Earth, but...
External links
- Last glacial period at Wikipedia
