Under the command of Sevax, the Trawler Project was running smoothly at first: the Quintesson fleet spread throughout the galaxy and their agents beamed back information about metal planets suitable for colonisation. This information was collected at a communications satellite that encoded it onto a computer disc inside a message canister and fired it towards Quintesson. Unfortunately the canister flew off course and landed on the planet Junkion, where it fell into the hands of Wreck-Gar. With the canister lost and time running short, Lord Kledji ordered that the Trawler Project be shelved in favour of their back-up plan —- the conquest of Cybertron and Earth! Space Pirates!