AUTHOR COMMENTS:
For your personal information and further reading pleasure, I have included the following-a "brief", summarised history of the female Decepticon known as Virago and her involvement in the afore-mentioned "Orion Rebellion." Hope it clears up a few things.

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Though born/built on Cybertron during the Quintesson occupation, Virago was raised on the harsh, icy world of Volsung, where the Quints had established an elite training colony for female gladiators. Here she was taught the ways of a Decepticon warrior by the ancient priesthood, and brought into the worship of her enslaved people's divine text-The Deceptica.

When the Transformer Rebellion exploded on Cybertron, the Quintesson High Council, hearing rumors that the deadly gladiators of Volsung were ready to join the fight against them, sent a detachment of guardian robots to annihilate the colony...And annihilate it they did. However, a few warriors did manage to survive, including young Virago-and soon after the battle, she was discovered by a rebel Transformer search and rescue party. They brought her to Cybertron, where the combined Autobot and Decepticon forces had already managed to drive most of the Quints and Guardians off the planet. Virago promptly enlisted in the fledgling rebel armada and joined the war, bent on revenge.

In the course of her military service, she met a powerful seeker named Vector, and was drawn to him magnetically-though she strove, for a time, to keep their friendship merely platonic. Their aero-platoon, under Vector's command, was instrumental in winning several legendary battles, and as a result they were all promoted and given the Army's highest awards and commendations. In fact, several of them, including Vector and Virago were knighted at the Decepticon citadel of Vilnacron. (Becoming Lord Vector and Lady Virago, respectively)

At about this time, Virago found out that she actually had a surviving sister-Spyder-for whom a body had never been built, but whose neuroprocessor was still in storage. She of course, took the "brain" out of stasis and had a body shell constructed.

Thus, life was fairly uneventful for a time, (Except of course, for for the often sordid goings-on of Vilnacron court intrigue) and Virago, now semi-retired, set about trying to raise and train Spyder as she herself had been. Eventually though, she and many of her war-time friends became angry and disillusioned at the way things were developing socially and politically on Cybertron. Unable to stand it any longer, She, Vector and a troop of other warriors (including a couple of Autobots) came together to take action. They salvaged a huge, abandoned battleship out of deep space-"The Orion"-and a new, short-lived rebellion was born. Hijacking shipments of energon and medical supplies, they defiantly redistributed their ill-gotten lute to the poor, damaged, and undercharged veterans of the war effort.

Eventually though, the group's fanatical chieftain, Admiral Lordraxx, bent on actually destroying the planetary government, programmed the semi-autonomous Orion battle ship on a attack course for Cybertron's heavily defended Capital City, Polyhex. Virago and the other's discovered his mad plan and mutinied, killing Lordraxx, but were unable to halt their ship's course or even abandon it. Knowing they would all soon be dead, and preparing for the worst, the rebels vowed to make it a battle that would be remembered for all time and inspire Cybertron's oppressed masses to unite and rise up as one.

In the tremendous fight that ensued above Polyhex, most of them were indeed killed, and the Orion itself was destroyed. But yet again Virago survived the hellish fray-though she had no idea that Vector and several of their friends had escaped as well.

Wisely, Virago decided to lie low for a while; but when she heard that young Spyder was being harassed by high-ranking officers at the Military Academy where she was training, she rushed back to Cybertron and took her little sister away with her, fearing for the adolescent's safety. And this of course brings us to the point where the above story (Runaway) began.

The End