After Cybertron died, you took refuge in random planets. your systems were rewired to eat a new form of energon—orange energon. After Unicron died along with Earth, dark energon transformed itself into orange energon. It was abundant and enough for sustaining yourself.

You came across a ship- and were surprised to find none other than Rodimus in the ship. Alongside some Transformers in stasis mode, he seemed to be offline.