The Dead Universe is a mysterious and malevolent realm, a universe that lurks on the far side of all living worlds. This lifeless plane is home only to the vast, undead intelligence known only as the D-Void, which preys upon those of the living universe, intent on using them as pawns to expand the borders of the Dead Universe, giving it new life to feed upon. Various points of access to the Dead Universe exist, with regions of notable death and decay apparently serving as prime loci for the creation of portals between the worlds. Those who cross over from the living universe to the dead are said to become dead themselves, in both body and mind, left unable to survive outside the Dead Universe for more than short periods of time. A characteristic shared by these victims is the presence of an interdimensional link within their bodies that straddles the living and dead universes. Sometimes, the Dead Universe is not a realm of pure evil, but rather an infinite space of nothingness, being more akin to transwarp space.



History
In Transformers universe, Had nature taken its course, the Dead Universe would likely have been just another one of the many realities that exist within the multiverse. Its fate, however, was forever altered when the Decepticon scientist Shockwave, based in the year 2014, used a time machine to reach back through history to the moment time began in the Dead Universe, whereupon he siphoned off its life energy from the very instant of its creation in order to fuel a grand scheme he was in the process of carrying out. The result was a stillborn universe, birthed into a state of perpetual unlife. The Dead Universe would soon receive visitors: zombies created by an infestation from yet another universe and led by Britt. To prevent the infestation from reaching a living Cybertron in his relative past, Kup in 2011 hijacked Britt's transportation gate to teleport all of the undead nearby—Kup himself included—to the beginning of the Dead Universe, where they would find naught to feed on. The only known native entity to reside within the Dead Universe was the D-Void, which was one with the Dead Universe, and sought to expand its borders to consume the living universe. Using an aspect of itself known as the Heart of Darkness, the D-Void sought out catspaws within the living universe; Nova Prime felt its pull through his Matrix of Leadership, and so embarked with the crew of the original Ark to follow the sensation back to its source. When the Ark traced it to a cosmic anomaly within the Benzuli Expanse, crewmember Galvatron steered the vessel into the anomaly, transporting them to the mysterious dimension. The crew were rendered undead upon entry, and Nova Prime came into possession of the Heart of Darkness, renaming himself "Nemesis Prime". The Ark crew remained trapped in the Dead Universe for millions of years until a permanent gateway was opened between the universes on the planet Gorlam Prime, when the second of Shockwave's Regenesis ores struck the world and decayed an underground chamber, enabling a portal to form there. In time, they also learned to use the Benzuli Expanse anomaly to travel back and forth between the worlds, and with access back to their universe of origin now at their fingertips, Nemesis Prime initiated a plan to cause the "Expansion", merging the living and dead universes into one ordered whole that he would rule. Though not explicitly stated, this merge was almost certainly the bidding of the D-Void, which Prime was unaware he was following. Prime's chief scientist Jhiaxus oversaw the facets of the Expansion from a staging base on Gorlam Prime. Devices known as "Nega-Cores" were installed on Corata-Vaz, Rotan, and the fourth moon of Bhul, which would accelerate the steady growth of the Benzuli Expanse anomaly, causing the living universe to be subsumed into the dead. Fortunately, the Autobots were able to occupy the guardians assigned to protect the Nega-Cores long enough for the cores to be removed and dumped into the Dead Universe itself by a team protected from its death-inducing effects by Pretender shells. With the cores' detonation, the Benzuli Expanse anomaly collapsed, sealing off the Dead Universe. Simultaneously, Galvatron betrayed Nemesis Prime, slaying him and stealing the Heart of Darkness but was then cast into an energy reservoir by Optimus Prime. Saved from destruction by the power of the Heart of Darkness, Galvatron emerged from the reservoir years later and travelled to Gorlam Prime, where he discovered that the portal there had been reactivated. Learning that the entire population of the planet had recently been lured through the portal by a mysterious force, Galvatron entered it himself, returning to the Dead Universe, where he watched as the Gorlamians were consumed by the D-Void, the existence of which was revealed to him at last. Escaping its clutches, Galvatron returned to the living universe, destroyed the portal, and set about forming an army in preparation to defend against the D-Void's coming, believing that the Heart of Darkness had chosen him to stop it. Told by the Heart that the D-Void would be able to emerge through Cybertron since it was a dead world, Galvatron attempted to stop it by feeding the Heart to Vector Sigma, the mega-computer at the planet's core. What he did not realize, however, was that he was enacting the D-Void's will, and that feeding the Heart to Vector Sigma would transform the planet into the portal that would allow it to fuse the living and death universes, consuming all life. Fortunately, Optimus Prime was able to open the Matrix and close the portal, sealing off the last known opening to the Dead Universe. Galvatron and Nova Prime were reborn within the Dead Universe following their deaths in the living universe. After using Ore-14 and Ore-2 to create an undead Necrotitan, Shockwave and Jhiaxus used the space bridge at its heart to make contact with Galvatron and Nova Prime within the Dead Universe and plan their return to Cybertron. Though establishing the link burned out the titan's space bridge, Shockwave simply captured Megatron and used the space bridge within his body to open a portal for the pair to emerge from. At the same time, the destruction of Gorlam Prime at the hands of Jhiaxus created a one-way portal into the Dead Universe. Orion Pax led a team inside to investigate, only to find that the Universe was shrinking. After Ironhide pushed Nova Prime back through the portal in Megatron's body, Nova confronted Orion Pax's team and demonstrated that the collapsing universe was giving him increasing control over its reality, before revealing that he had captured Kup and was trying to use his connection to the living universe to create a space bridge from the ancient Transformer's body. Orion Pax destroyed Nova Prime, and as he and his team escaped with the aid of the Autobot scientist Brainstorm, the Dead Universe finally collapsed and destroyed itself. The Bio Ranger Iga of Primax 1086.0 Kappa pulled Galvatronus from a Dead Universe to serve as the leader of the Thirteen Great Demon Generals. When asked if the Dead Universe had its own universal stream designation, Vector Prime explained that iterations of the Dead Universe were "pocket universes" of other realities, and as such did not warrant their own stream designations. Long ago, Alpha Trion used the Staff of Solus to banish Sky Lynx into the Dead Universe as punishment for trying to steal the Matrix of Leadership. Eventually, its infinite nothingness gave Sky Lynx enough time to reflect upon his mistakes and become more humble, now having the purpose of redeeming himself for his past behavior and escaping from his exile. Besides the bot, statues of Megatronus, Alchemist Prime, and Solus Prime were all that remained in the Dead Universe. The Ark and its crew accidentally entered the Dead Universe after their battle with the Decepticons that resulted in the Nebulon Station's space bridge exploding. Confused as to what their current location was, the Autobots soon realized where they were upon seeing Sky Lynx. He then proceeded to teleport Optimus Prime to an empty area, where he taught Prime to let go of his self-blame and concentrate the power of the Matrix to escape the Dead Universe. Eventually, Prime managed to do so and opened a rift out of the realm. Megatron noticed the rift, and decided to take the Nemesis through it. Upon his arrival, Megatron encountered a mysterious guide who took him on a journey through his past and told him what he needed to do in order to kill Prime. During the Autobots' attempt at going through the rift, Megatron tried to strike the Ark down by concentrating his rage and sending a powerful red beam towards it, but Sky Lynx put himself between the beam and the Ark, allowing the Autobots to escape before being disintegrated. Shortly after, the Nemesis followed them out of the Dead Universe. Upon exiting, the ships were rendered immobile due to processing a massive data upload received in the Dead Universe. Shortly after, the Fool's Fortune exited the Dead Universe, as it was covertly following the Ark. On prehistoric Earth, Wheeljack and Rhinox were having trouble repairing the Ark at first, until Ratchet mentioned that he didn't expect the Ark to survive another trip through the Dead Universe. Rhinox was quite familiar with the Dead Universe, and now that he knew what was causing the Ark's problems, he was easily able to repair the damage by purging the data upload from its systems, although it retained one item: the schematics for a transformation into an immense robot mode, which it was already in the process of integrating and using to upgrade itself. When Optimus Prime found the Allspark, it was suffering from the same kind of data overload as the Ark, including possessing information from the future which caused it to recognize Optimus as Nemesis at first. Its projection of Elita One described having somehow passed through the Dead Universe on its way from Cybertron to Earth, even mentioning a "Dead Multiverse". Optimus Prime was able to use Rhinox's repair program on the Allspark to purge the data overload from its system. On their way back to Cybertron, the Autobots, Maximals, Decepticons and Predacons aboard the Ark found themselves in the Dead Universe once again, but they were pulled back to present-day Cybertron by the efforts of Galvatron and Nemesis Prime. After Unicron's defeat, he brought Nemesis Prime and Galvatron back to him, telling them that their use of the Dead Universe to travel through time had given him ideas, and that he would "begin again". Long ago, Vector Prime banished Megatronus into the Dead Universe because the god slayer killed Solus Prime using the Requiem Blaster. Alpha Trion used the Staff of Solus to banish Sky Lynx into the Dead Universe as punishment for trying to steal the Matrix of Leadership. Eventually, its infinite nothingness gave Sky Lynx enough time to reflect upon his mistakes and become more humble, now having the purpose of redeeming himself for his past behavior and escaping from his exile. The crew of the Ark II accidentally entered the Dead Universe after their battle with the Decepticons in the Azazel asteroid belt that resulted in space bridge RA-678 exploding. Confused as to what their current location was, the Autobots soon realized where they were upon seeing Sky Lynx. He then proceeded to teleport Optimus Prime to an empty area, where he taught Prime to let go of his self-blame and concentrate the power of the Matrix to escape the Dead Universe. Eventually, Prime managed to do so and opened a rift out of the realm. Megatron noticed the rift, and decided to take the Nemesis through it. Upon his arrival, Megatron encountered Megatronus, who took him on a journey through his past and told him what he needed to do in order to kill Prime. Through a strange warp in time caused by the Mini-Con High Wire using the Dead Universe, three human children—Rad White, Carlos Lopez and Alexis Thi Dang—were sent to the past where they are in the Mini-Cons' birthing chamber at the center of Cybertron just seconds before the small robots emerged from their pods. As the Mini-Cons had been designed to form mental bonds with other life forms, when Rad touched the newborn High Wire a connection was formed which Unicron didn't anticipate, and through the Mini-Cons' shared "soul dimension", the Linkage, sentience and free will spread throughout the Mini-Cons from Unicron's control, forming "souls". The Autobots and the Decepticons exited the Dead Universe. Upon exiting, the ships were rendered immobile due to processing a massive data upload received in the Dead Universe. Shortly after, the Fool's Fortune exited the Dead Universe, as it was covertly following the Ark.



In Reeseverse universe and Multiverse Adventure Crossover episode "The Dead Universe", The Government Forces and the Multiverse Heroes arrived on the first visited and mysterious in the void, death, fear, screaming, and horror. After the G.S.S. Alpha's arrival, when the discovered and the ancient times in the prior to the events of StarGalaxia: The Big Beginning and The Adventures of Reese Anderson: Runaway Adventurous. But, the Toppat forces to begin for faces. The crew of the G.S.S. Afterlife entering the dead universe, during the battle in the asteroid field that resulted in space bridge exploded, yet confused as their location was, the heroes soon realized where they were upon seeing the God of Death. He then to teleport Gavin Luckwood, and other troops to a empty area, where he taught Gavin to let go of his self-blame and concentrate the power of the Matrix to escape the Dead Universe. Eventually, Gavin managed to do so and opened a rift out of the realm. Toppat Leader noticed the rift, and decided to take the T.C.S. Tophat Clanness through it. Upon his arrival, Toppat Leader encountered Toppat lost leader, who took him on a journey through his past and told him what he needed to do in order to kill Gavin and other Government forces. Through a strange warp in time caused by the Infintium High Wire using the Dead Universe, three humans—Amy Mag Willoughby, Yarry Bentley, and Fujimori Wakayo—were sent to the past where they are in the Mini-Cons' birthing chamber at the center of core just seconds before the small robots emerged from their pods. As the Mini-Cons had been designed to form mental bonds with other life forms, when Rad touched the newborn High Wire a connection was formed which God of Birth didn't anticipate, and through the Mini-Cons' shared "soul dimension", the Linkage, sentience and free will spread throughout the Mini-Cons from Unicron's control, forming "souls". The Multiverse Heroes, The Governments and the Toppat Clan exited the Dead Universe. Upon exiting, the ships were rendered immobile due to processing a massive data upload received in the Dead Universe. Shortly after, the Fool's Fortune exited the Dead Universe, as it was covertly following the G.S.S. Afterlife and its fleet.

Trivia
A monstrous other universe of darkness that wanted to kill the real universe? Also the enemy in NecroWar, a cut-short comic Simon Furman wrote for Dreamwave Productions.

Remade with Photopea



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