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Re: Transformers Armada
So, what happened with Cybertron was that in Japan, the two series that preceded it, Micron Densetsu and Superlink (what we call Armada and Energon) were indeed intended as a duology, with Superlink picking up after Micron Densetsu. But the show that followed Superlink, Galaxy Force, was intended to be a completely separate continuity from the first two. This was the result of some crossed wires between Hasbro (who wanted a trilogy) and Takara.
So when it came time to dub Galaxy Force into Cybertron, a few half-hearted attempts were made to tie it into the same continuity as Armada and Energon, mostly at the insistence of (or to please) Aaron Archer, who was in charge of Hasbro's Transformers at the time. Aside from slapping names of Armada/Energon characters onto some of the Galaxy Force cast to pass them off as returning characters, (which mostly work) the other references are rare and can pretty easily be ignored. The biggest thing it amounts to is the human kids (now all growed up) from Armada and Kicker (the aforesaid Energon guy, now sporting a sweet-ass mullet) show up during an ending montage in the final episode. Cybertron tells a pretty self-contained story, although the Transformers Club got a lot of mileage out of the "Unicron Singularity" (the black hole that's causing all of the trouble in the series) to muck about with the Transformers multiverse (none of which makes it into the series proper).
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