His manifesto spread like wildfire, and it wasn't long before Megatron was wrongly arrested, imprisoned, and beaten inside the Rodion Police Station jails. An intellectual and a poet, Megatron was sickened by the caste-ridden social apartheid of Cybertronian society, and wrote a treatise on pacifistic dissent and how to bring about peaceful change. Originally an idealistic mech from Tarn who desired to become a medic, Megatron was instead assigned to the grueling life of a low-caste miner.