Transformers Elite Armada

Transformers Elite Armada, known in Japan as Super Robot Life-Form Transformers Elite: Legend of the Microns (スーパーロボットのライフフォームトランスフォーマーエリート：ミクロンの伝説 Chō Robotto Seimeitai Toransufōmā Ēlītē Maikuron Densetsu), is a Female Transformers animated series, comic series, and toy line which ran from 2012-2014. It was orginally scheduled for 2011, however was delayed until mid-2012. As the first 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 the immediately prior Transformers Elite: Robots in Disguise in 2011. It would go on to birth a sequel in the form of Transformers Elite Energon. Hasbro handled the distribution of the English license, while Takara Tomy handled the distribution of the Japanese license.

Plot
See also: List of Transformers Elite Armada characters and List of Transformers Elite Armada episodes

On the planet of Cybertron, war rages between the two factions known as the Female Autobots and the Female Decepticons over the race of smaller, power-enhancing Transformers called Mini-Cons. Seeking to flee the conflict that surrounds them, the Mini-Cons escape Cybertron with the aid of the Female Autobots, but an attack by the Female Decepticons cripples the ship as it flees through a spacebridge. The ship materializes in the Solar system and impacts with the moon of Earth, breaking in two. One portion of the ship stays embedded on the Moon, while the other plummets to the planet below. The Mini-Cons, all locked in pentagonal stasis panels, are scattered across the globe. The ship crashes to Earth and 4 million years pass.