Sacred Ring
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According to legend, the warring planets Agorria and Zertonia orbited the same sun thousands of years ago. When that sun collapsed into a black hole, the two races came together to save themselves. They connected their two planets around the black hole, each now forming one half of the Sacred Ring, or Ring of Zerta. Sadly, they fell back to war over control of their newly shared home. But maybe one day, revelations from the past will unite the two races once more.
Fiction
Energon Universe
The exact origins of Agorria and Zertonia are shrouded in mystery. The Agorrians believe that the two halves of the Sacred Ring were once two separate warring planets. Per this account, when Agorria and Zertonia's sun collapsed into a black hole, the two planets found it practical to lay down their arms and come together to survive. Together, they rebuilt their worlds into two halves, joined together around the black hole, with Agorrians and Zertonians living in harmony for thousands of years. Void Rivals #2
However, the Sacred Ring is also said to be the creation of the Cybertronian sage Zerta Trion, or the deity Zerta, as the Zertonians would come to know her. This would be corroborated by both Springer Void Rivals #10 and the Quintessons. Void Rivals #15 Whether Zerta Trion created the Sacred Ring and its inhabitants wholesale or merely aided them in building their new homeworld is unknown. The Ring would serve a secondary purpose besides saving the Agorrians and Zertonians: acting as an engine that generated its own energon. Void Rivals #10 A wasteland came to exist between the edges of Agorria and Zertonia. Void Rivals #6
Unfortunately, the war began anew between the two peoples. Void Rivals #2 During this new war, the leaders of both factions were aware of the truth about their species and kept the war going anyway. Void Rivals #4 A hundred years before the present day, Springer landed on the Sacred Ring and constructed a hidden underground lab. Void Rivals #10 In the present day, Zertonian Premier Zalilak cited the fear of reawakening something known as Goliant to prevent reunification. Void Rivals #6
When both species sought to harvest an asteroid of ice, Void Rivals #2 Darak and Solila were each sent to harvest it only to shoot each other down. Deciding to work together to survive, the two discovered themselves to be members of the same species. Void Rivals #1 Managing to jury-rig a ramshackle ship, the two were abducted by the Skuxxoid, Void Rivals #2 but managed to bargain with him, trading their ship for a Nebulan craft. Knocking out Darak, Solila landed the ship on the Zertonian side of the Ring. Void Rivals #3
The Skuxxoid managed to barter Darak and Solila's craft to the Quintessons. Suspecting that there was a connection between Zertonia and Zerta Trion, the Quintessons began to search for the Sacred Ring. Void Rivals #5 Void Rivals #6 Void Rivals #9 Reuniting with Slizardo at a space station, Skuxxoid was also made to give up his information to Hot Rod. Void Rivals Energon Universe Special story
After reuniting, Darak and Solila made their way to the Wastelands and found Springer, Void Rivals #9 who revealed his findings about the Ring's connection to Cybertron. Void Rivals #10 While Darak sought to return to his people with the knowledge of energon, Solila opted to descend within the Ring and find Zerta Trion. Void Rivals #12
Tracking the signature of the Nebulan craft, Hot Rod made his way to the Sacred Ring, unaware that he'd been followed by the Quintessons. Void Rivals #11 Void Rivals #14
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The Quintessons abruptly left back to Quintessa before they could be detected in order to report their findings.
Springer recounted to Hot Rod how Zerta Trion’s influence was all over the Sacred Ring, though he had not managed to locate Zerta herself. Meanwhile, Solila managed to locate the supercomputer Vector Theta in the depths of the planet. Void Rivals #15
