
The ship crashes to Earth and 4 million years pass. The Mini-Cons, all locked in pentagonal stasis panels, are scattered across the globe. One portion of the ship stays embedded on the Moon, while the other plummets to the planet below. The ship materializes in the Solar System and impacts with the Moon, breaking in two. Seeking to flee the conflict that surrounds them, the Mini-Cons escape Cybertron with the aid of the Autobots, but an attack by the Decepticons cripples the ship as it flees through a spacebridge. On the planet of Cybertron, war rages between the two factions known as the Autobots and the Decepticons over the race of smaller, power-enhancing Transformers called Mini-Cons. See also: List of Transformers: Armada episodes Transformers: Armada and both of its following series are all part of a saga known as the "Unicron Trilogy". Hasbro themselves handled North American rights, with Entertainment Rights securing international rights, while Takara handled the distribution of the Japanese license.


Hasbro handled the production of the English dub of the series, which was outsourced over to SD Entertainment. It inspired two sequels, Transformers: Energon and Transformers: Cybertron. As the first series co-produced between the American toy company Hasbro and their Japanese counterpart Takara, Armada begins a new continuity/universe for Transformers, with no ties to any of the previous series, including its direct predecessor Transformers: Robots in Disguise in 2001. Transformers: Armada, known in Japan as Super Robot Life-Form Transformers: Legends of the Microns ( 超ロボット生命体トランスフォーマー マイクロン伝説, Chō Robotto Seimeitai Toransufōmā Maikuron Densetsu), is an anime series which debuted on August 23, 2002.
