Renegade

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A terrorist organization on the then-organic world of Gobotron, the Renegades thwarted the peacekeeping efforts of the Guardians, the primary law enforcement on the planet. Under the machinations of the Master Renegade, these insurgent cells eventually committed the act of sabotage that resulted in a meteor rendering Gobotron uninhabitable to organic life.

Long after the population had been converted into cyborg chassis called GoBots to protect their organic brains, and after the original conflict and organic origins of Gobotron had passed into myth, the Guardian Cy-Kill would seek to rule Gobotron. Defecting from the Guardians to lead a reconstituted force of Renegades, war swept over the world once again.

Fiction

Renegade Rhetoric

Cy-Kill claims in propaganda that the Master Renegade wanted to overthrow the nasty Guardians and it was them that made the planet uninhabitable. This is a fib. What is the case is that the Master Renegade fled into hiding and the remaining, mechanical Renegades were constantly pushed back (and some like Gunnyr went literally underground, to the sub-levels of the planet!) However, after almost being killed mopping up Renegade strays, the Guardian Cy-Kill decided he wanted to run the planet and formed a whole new Renegade army to ensure it would happen!

Though hear him tell it and, while he uses violence, he's trying to overthrow a cloyingly moralistic oppressive regime. C.S. Lewis would agree with him! Renegade Rhetoric (1)

Zero tried to create his own Renegade faction, recruiting from people dissenting with Cy-Kill, but his schemes were thwarted. Renegade Rhetoric, 2015/10/15

After multiple clashes, Cy-Kill was lost in Axiom Nexus and the Guardians pressed the advantage. As the Renegades fell on all fronts, Renegade Rhetoric (2) Cy-Kill began to form a whole new Renegade squad out of disgruntled Cybertronians and spread propaganda to the masses when Axiom Nexus News failed to do background checks. He finally escaped back to his universe Renegade Rhetoric (1) and the Renegades fought back once more, until the Combiner Wars on Quartex shattered them. Renegade Rhetoric (2)

Cy-Kill claims he'll rename the Renegades "GoBot Liberation Army" once they've won and says that Renegades is a fine rebel name, not like Decepticons, what the hell's up with that? Renegade Rhetoric (1)

Timelines

Years later in a divergent timeline, much to Cy-Kill's ire, the Renegades had to team up with the Guardians and humans to stop a great Cataclysm from the universe. A cross-factional team was sent into dimensional space to investigate Withered Hope and later a second, even as Cy-Kill championed interdimensional evacuation or even outright invasion. Sunrise

Unknown to anyone else, Zero and BuggyMan had their own plan in mind High Noon and unknown to most, many the Monster Renegades had already evacuated to another reality. Ask Vector Prime, 2015/05/14

Ask Vector Prime

Gong and Sideways once mucked around with a Gargent reality and a Primax reality, tuning the latter into a reality where the Renegades were first existing in place of the Decepticons in 2005, and then had always been allied to the Decepticons. It got weird. Echoes and Fragments

Notes

• The Axiom Nexus crew are all GoBots toys that never made it to the show. The "Mini-Cons" (who Cy-Kill says come from "Aurex something something I think") are small Wendy's exclusives, the "Decepticons" are large Super GoBots toys, and the Predacons who form Monsterous are a combiner pack.