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During the rebellion against the Quintesson empire, the Quintessons developed many scare tactics to use against the masses of Cybertron in order to reaffirm their position as a stronger and superior race. One of those scare tactics was trumpeting tripods.

These tripods would be used like a war cry, a bellowing warning that the Quintessons were coming. It sent civilians into panic and intimidated the soldiers. In some battles the tripods were also used as troop transport.

After the Quintessons were defeated, Cybertronians gathered the tripods that had been left behind and rebuilt them into a global alarm system. Every city state was given at least one tripod at their core, usually where the local government was housed. Only city state leaders and the Senate could turn on the alarms, but city state leaders were limited to their city’s alarms; The Senate could turn on every alarm, but only did so when there was world wide threats.

Cybertronians adapted the tripods to make various pitched bellows. Each bellow had a different meaning, a different warning of what was happening. Some bellows were localized and related to issues that only the city state could understand. Most bellows were global though and could be understood by every Cybertronian.

Anybody remember this head canon?

Well I found another strange siren sound to go with it. If you heard this siren coming out of the tripods, then it meant that the Senate activated them, that there was a global wide threat. It was heard a lot during the beginnings of the war, up until the Senate was destroyed and there was no one left to active the tripods.

This video popped up on my dash today and I was reminded of this head canon.

This is what the early Cybertronians dealt with when they were fighting against the Quintessons.