"For fun" is the best reason to do anything. "The best" is the best way to do everything.
I normally announce new stories with a good old fashioned blog post, and I neglected to this time. No longer. We must maintain the traditions of old.
For all of those who missed the debut... Behold!
Yo guys, just wanted to update you on the situation on the new story. I'm still working on that opening. I'm not sure that it'll be out this year, but for sure you'll be able to read it sometime January.
Just wanted to let you know I made a mistake on the most recent chapter of ItAoTS. I erroneously described Dr. Twilight's lab as being on the ground floor of the Magic School, while its actual location is the second floor. This is kinda a big detail to just switch around. It's fixed
This is partially to make up for National Not Writing Month, which I participated in by not even writing a single thing last month. November is always waaaaay too busy for me to make much progress (I'm busy doing my part for wildlife conservation), and it turns out the current state of the world did not change a dippy-trippy thing.
But anyway! 
A.I. writing fanfic!
Yo, remember that Star Wars Podcast I'm part of? We've got 11 episodes now!
I wanted to bring special attention to episode 11 itself, where my friend and I discuss our top five favorite Star Wars Expanded Universe novels. Our main focus is on Star Wars before Disney bought it, that bygone time now known only as Legends.
Warning: This update contains potentially disturbing scenes of a robot corpse. This is PG-13. I repeat, this is PG-13.
It might even be TV-Y7. That's how disturbing it is.
I would apologize for how long this has taken to post, but you guys are pretty used to my life being a chaotic mess. 
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I'm 95% sure that this guy is full of it, but I do remember how Optimus was all for preventing Megatron from restoring Cybertron in the first place, since he couldn't allow Megatron to have a political victory.
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Well, you know, every good propaganda push has at least a little misinformation.
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Yeah, it was the politics, but it was also the fact that he was going to Cyberform Earth and kill every living thing on it. Both together meant that Optimus had to wreck shop.
Of course, the circumstances are different, here in Shards of Lithone...
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My memory is rusty, but I believe Optimus said Megatron had to be stopped before he found out Earth would be Cyberformed. Bit of a Disney-esque save where the villain moves from morally ambiguous plan to clearly evil plan that let's the hero off the hook for making hard choices.
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You are correct. The entire point of Optimus' operation was to prevent Megatron from becoming the savior of Cybertron. They were going to shut him down so that the Autobots could activate Cybertron. But, they failed.
Then, when Megatron began to cyberform Earth, Optimus knew the only way to stop him from annihilating all life on it was to destroy Vector Sigma. That's when he pulled out the star saber and blew up the cyberforming device. He was willing to sacrifice Cybertron, and its future generations, for Earth. That's what I was getting at.
It's less "villain was secretly evil all along," than "hero made an extremely drastic choice based on what he believed was right." And then it took another season and a TV movie before everything was set to right. Everyone always knew Megatron was evil, it's just that he happened to push Optimus just that little bit too far.
4978297 That's right. But I wish Megatron had never actually tried to Cyberform Earth. Because I love good heroes being forced to make hard choices, and I really want to know if Optimus would have destroyed Vector Sigma just to prevent Megatron from rebuilding Cybertron. Is a Cybertronian home ruled by Megatron so much worse than the rusty death-trap it is now? That would have been quite the conundrum.
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I guess it's partially his desire for power overriding his logic circuits, and partially that the writers for Transformers Prime didn't want to go just that little step farther.
Although, from what I remember, Optimus did make a choice. He had surrendered. He was watching quietly, sorrowfully, as Megatron enacted the final stage of his master plan. It was only after he started to cyberform Earth that Optimus had his moment where the action slowed down, and he grabbed the sword, and then sliced both their hopes and dreams apart.
Throughout the entire series, Optimus had seen Earth as their new home, and he'd seen Cybertron as a lost cause. It was his true self coming out, and he refused to lose his real home.
So I personally don't think he would have destroyed Vector Sigma without the cyberforming issue. I can see him starting a resistance, fighting back against Megatron's regime with guerrilla tactics, acting as the unlawful Robin Hood-Ornament.
4978306 I think you're right, he probably would have let Megatron transform Cybertron. Would he really leave earth to wage a new war on cybertron though? Like you said, he considers earth his home, and their really aren't any innocents on Cybertron to protect.