Cybertron (planet)
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Cybertron is the home planet of the Transformers and (usually) the body of their creator, Primus. Cybertron is (almost always) a shining metal, technological world; a planet of towering future cities without end and vast metallic plains, spiraling metal mountains and bottomless neon-lit chasms. Battling over control of Cybertron and its resources is frequently the motivation for, or origin of, the Transformers' epic wars. Beyond these facts much about Cybertron can differ between continuities, see individual entries below.
| “ | This world is older than you can imagine. It has sailed the starscape... tending budding galaxies... forever a buffer to the approaching darkness. And now its fate... is in your hands. | ” |
| —A voice to Optimus Prime, The War Within #6 | ||
Generation 1 continuity family
Marvel Comics continuity
Marvel The Transformers comics
Cybertron was the adopted form of the lord of the Light Gods Primus, who trapped himself and Unicron in barren asteroids which they then shaped into their physical forms. While Unicron turned his prison into a transformable, humanoid body, Primus reformed himself into a vast Saturn-sized machine-world, home for a robotic race he created to fight Unicron with similar transformation abilities. The Primal Scream
It has been suggested that the Demons in the darkness were the world's original inhabitants, locked away beneath the world by Primus, though this remains unconfirmed.
Aside from the Transformers, the world seems to possess the mechanical equivalent of plant and animal life, though the exact nature and origin of this lower "life" has never been examined in detail. This version of Cybertron has rough hewn mountain ranges and great seas. (Though of note these seas are not made of water. Liquid water is so rare on Cybertron as to be thought a mythical substance. Alternative substances these bodies are filled with are mercury The Smelting Pool! and liquid helium The Primal Scream[1]) The atmosphere and temperature on most of the surface is such that human life can survive unaided.
In its earliest recorded era Cybertron orbited Alpha Centauri, and the Transformers were at peace. The Transformers From an unknown point of time, Cybertron was ruled by the Overlords, a governing council of absolute rulers. Over time, their power and number dwindled, until Cybertron was composed of multiple city-states who were constantly clashing with each other; the key three powers were Vos, Tarn and Iacon. While all the major cities were using their might to pork energy at the expense of others, Iacon did ration theirs out to neighbouring smaller cities. Tarn and Vos, by comparison, built up vast armies. In an attempt to lessen growing hostilities caused by the splintering governments and the dwindling resources on Cybertron, the last Overlord started the Games: an inter-city gladiatorial tournament. This allowed the population to exorcise their hostilities, and soon the vicious athlete Megatron had a cult of personality based around him and his feats. He built this up, quietly planning to unite Cybertron under his own rule and turn it into a mighty cosmic dreadnought! One of his great rivals was Optimus Prime, the champion of Iacon.
Vos — ruled by a Starscream-headed criminal syndicate — sent its athletic team to bomb Tarn (ruled by Shockwave) and finger Iacon as the culprit. As with all plans by Starscream, this cocked up — Tarn realised Vos had attacked it, and war broke out that devastated both cities. Iacon happily let its rivals beat on each other. During the conflict, Optimus Prime tried to get the Overlord to safety but Megatron secretly ensured the leader starved to death; once the war ended, Megatron used his fame and charisma to convince the war's survivors that Iacon was at fault for not stepping in to prevent the war, and that Iacon was the enemy. This angry mass became the first Decepticons. State Games
Megatron rallied his army to march on the Autobot cities, conquering large swaths of Cybertron until Optimus Prime arose from the Autobots ranks to match his old foe. Megatron's ultimate aim was to turn Cybertron into a "cosmic dreadnought", intending to use his homeworld as a galaxy conquering warship. The Transformers To achieve this, Megatron constructed a prototype set of planetary engines in Kalis. Meltdown!
Before Megatron could achieve his dream, the sheer firepower unleashed by the Great War tore Cybertron from its orbit and sent it hurtling aimlessly throughout the cosmos. When it passed through the Sol system, the asteroid belt threatened to destroy Cybertron forcing the Autobots to use the Ark to clear a path for their world. Though they were successful, they were ambushed by Decepticons led by Megatron, and their battle ended with a crash-landing on Earth that left all the combatants deactivated. Their compatriots on Cybertron mourned their loss but continued the wars. The Transformers
The young warlord Trannis seized on his opportunity and assumed command of the Decepticon forces, reorganizing the army and conquering all but Iacon. After a long stalemate, Trannis decided "screw it" and razed Iacon, finally putting Cybertron under Decepticon rule. As the centuries passed, Trannis grew complacent in his rule allowing the Wreckers to assassinate him which only served to allow for the more brutal Straxus to take command. Cybertron: The Middle Years!
By 1985, the Autobots had been forced into guerrilla warfare against their foes. When the Earth-bound Transformers contacted their homeworld, the Decepticons made plans to connect the two planets via space bridge. The Smelting Pool! Though Perceptor's resistance cell managed to destroy the bridge and kill Straxus, they were left stranded on Earth. The Bridge to Nowhere!
After Optimus Prime's physical demise, Megatron went properly off his rocker and blew up the space bridge he was standing on, Gone but Not Forgotten! which transported him to the Dead End on Cybertron, spending the next few years as a mindless Empty. The Resurrection Gambit!
Circa 1990, members of the Ark crew fought with the Mayhem Attack Squad in a chamber containing the giant head of Primus. A stray shot hit the god's face, and he awoke with a scream that alerted Unicron to his location. The Primal Scream
When the Chaos Bringer arrived, the Autobots and Decepticons united against him, but the battle still wreaked havoc on the planet. Unicron was defeated by the opening of the Creation Matrix, but only after he'd already destroyed Primus. On the Edge of Extinction! In the aftermath, Cybertron suffered storms and earthquakes that many believed would tear the world apart. Exodus! The remaining Transformers evacuated, but Cybertron was ultimately saved by the united efforts of Optimus Prime and the Neo-Knights who awakened the Last Autobot. The Last Autobot? The ancient steward revealed that upon the Matrix's opening, the planet had been bathed in its energy and was in fact healing itself. After he guided the process in a steady manner, he and Prime recalled the Autobots before returning the humans to Earth and finally bringing peace to the metallic planet. End of the Road!
Significant locations
- Cybertron has two moons. The Bridge to Nowhere!
- Cybertron was historically organized into city-states, the largest and most important being Iacon. Others have included Kalis, Tarn, and Vos. Within the province of Polyhex was the Decepticon stronghold called Darkmount.
- Beneath the Mutant filled sewers, the Demons in the Darkness were locked away.
- At the center of this Cybertron there was a room with a huge head of Primus on the wall where he slept and was watched over by the Keeper. Somewhere within the depths of Cybertron could also be found a chamber containing the Last Autobot.
Regeneration One
Before creating the Cybertronians, Primus created the Demons as a first run. The creatures' free will however caused them to turn each other and Primus attempted to wipe the slate clean. Though most perished, a few survived beneath Cybertron's surface, unnoticed by the Cybertronians who took their place. Natural Selection, Part Four
Prior to the Great War, Cybertron had trade relations with other mechanical planets. The War to End All Wars, Part 1
As Cybertron reconstructed itself following Unicron's defeat, the Dark Matrix entity merged itself with the planet infecting every crack and becoming one with it as Primus had done before. The War to End All Wars, Part 5 After the end of the Great War, the Pax Cybertronia was signed which brought peace to the planet. Loose Ends, Part 1
After 21 years of relative peace, however, the planet was again thrown into the fire by the machinations of the Dark Matrix entity, The War to End All Wars, Part 5 marked by the destruction of the Last Autobot. Counterpoint After learning that Megatron still lived and was wreaking havoc on Earth, Optimus left the planet under Hot Rod's leadership. Loose Ends, Part 3 Scorponok planned to use a Gene Key to turn all on the planet into Decepticons. Natural Selection, Part One Though the Decepticon was halted, his scheme had caused great damage to Cybertron, Natural Selection, Part Five with many turning themselves in or asking to be prosecuted for war crimes. Destiny, Part One Cybertron however was soon invaded by Bludgeon's Warworld, Destiny, Part Three which soon turned into all out war before the Wreckers destroyed the ship. Destiny, Part Five
As Cybertron began (another) cleanup, rogue senator Jhiaxus arrived, The War to End All Wars, Part 1 and offered to integrate Cybertron into the Hub Network. The War to End All Wars, Part 2 The Autobots soon went to war with the Hub and while they were offworld, the Dark Matrix struck out on Cybertron, turning everyone on the planet into shadow-leeches. Hot Rod, now Rodimus Prime, eventually realized the Dark Matrix creature had been posing as Primus and confronted it in Zero Space. There, Optimus Prime revealed the entity's plan to Rodimus and that the only way to prevent it was to sever their own reality from the multiverse which Rodimus reluctantly did. Cut off from Primus, Cybertron and its people became mortal, with the latter abandoning the planet in the aftermath. When Rodimus Prime returned to Cybertron after untold eons to finally die, the last vestiges of his Spark energy flowed to one of the stasis pods inhabited by the Demons and a new breed of Cybertronian emerged to tame the planet. The War to End All Wars, Part 5
Transformers '84
After Cybertron had been ripped from its orbit, Shockwave test fired a planetary turbine that directed the planet towards the dangerous Stellae Cimeterium to try and have Megatron refocus on Project Dreadnought to no avail. Secrets & Lies #1
Despite this, Optimus Prime felt that Megatron represented the greatest threat to Cybertron, not least because Cybertron's errant course could be halted by a series of controlled explosions, and launched the Ark in an attempt to lure Decepticon High Command off Cybertron forever, entrusting Punch to ensure that Megatron never saw their home planet again, so that the Autobot army could have a fighting chance. Transformers '84 #0
After clearing away the asteroid belt that threatened Cybertron, Optimus crashed the Ark on Earth once it had been boarded by the Decepticons. Secrets & Lies #2 Despite this, the situation on Cybertron deteriorated for the Autobot army, Straxus emerging as the de facto Decepticon leader and leading a brutal campaign against the remaining Autobots. Once he was secure in his power, he gave Counterpunch the clearance to reactivate Project Dreadnought. Punch brought the information back to the Autobots who formed the Wreckers to end Dreadnought. Secrets & Lies #3
Despite coming up against Abominus, the Wreckers succeeded in destroying Project Dreadnought, leaving Cybertron to continue its errant course throughout the cosmos. With the Decepticons firmly in control of the planet, the Autobots opted for a decentralized approach to warfare under a shared high command. Secrets & Lies #4
Generation 1 cartoon continuity
The Transformers cartoon
Cybertron appeared considerably smaller than the planet Earth. Entirely metallic on the surface, some of the lowest levels of Cybertron consisted of rock and dirt, suggesting an organic beginning to the planet. Its gravity was light enough that humans were able to traverse the surface without any trouble, and it possessed a breathable atmosphere. Desertion of the Dinobots, Part 2 Water, or at least a substance resembling it, was in evidence on the planet—lakes and rivers have been shown to exist, albeit sparingly. Grimlock's New Brain War Dawn Many levels below the surface was the energy-furnace, the Plasma Energy Chamber, The Rebirth and at the heart of the planet was the spherical mega-computer, Vector Sigma. The Key to Vector Sigma, Part 1
Cybertron was orbited by at least three unnamed moons, but its own place in the cosmos appears unfixed—in 1984, it was clearly shown to exist outside of the Milky Way; on the cusp of an entirely different galaxy, in fact. Roll for It Nine million years prior, however, Starscream and Skyfire had been able to fly from their home planet to Earth under their own power, Fire in the Sky suggesting that it may drift freely through space, and had been passing through the Sol System at that point, going on to drift out of the galaxy over the ensuing millennia.
If the assorted colourful exclamations made by numerous Transformers are anything to go by, Cybertron also played host to a vast array of fauna, including but not limited to: antroids, bolt-bats, cyber-ducks, dynametal ducks, electro-toads, glitch-mice, guinea pigatrons, helio-hamsters, hydroweasels, photovoltaic pussycats, pigeonoids, retrorats, robo-rats, sheepacrons, titanium moose-bots, turbofoxes, zap-mice and roboto-possums.
Though Cybertron's precise origins are unknown, twelve million years prior to 2006, the planet was used by the Quintessons as a mega-factory. Five Faces of Darkness, Part 4 Their first creations were the Trans-Organics, monstrous fusions of organic flesh and Cybertronian metal. Deeming them as failures, the Quintessons destroyed what creatures they could and sealed away the seven they could not in the Hibernation Chamber. The Dweller in the Depths Dispensing with the organic, the Quintessons manufactured two lines of purely mechanical creations, "consumer goods" and "military hardware". Having done too good a job however, the robots evolved into fully sentient creatures that understood cruelty and began a revolt against the Quintessons. Five Faces of Darkness, Part 4 In the Autobot Rebellion that followed, the Quintessons sent their Dark Guardians out to do the actual fighting while they remained safe in their stronghold of Hive City. When the rebel leader A-3 turned his Coder Remote against the Dark Guardians, Forever Is a Long Time Coming the Quintesson rule collapsed and they were forced off Cybertron.
With the Quintessons gone, the Autobots built a peaceful society but this new peace was short-lived. The military hardware line had evolved into the Decepticons and began a war of conquest under the rule of Trannis. Better suited for warfare, the Decepticons destroyed two Autobot leaders until Sentinel Prime developed transformation technology. With this advantage, the Autobots thought themselves victorious and brought about the Golden Age.
Eventually, however, the Decepticons adopted transformation as well, along with robot mode flight, and around nine million years ago, the creation of the Decepticon Megatron re-ignited the war on Cybertron. Five Faces of Darkness, Part 4 Megatron rallied like-minded individuals to his cause, and brainwashed others into his service, The Secret of Omega Supreme quickly killing the current Autobot leader in a strike on one of Iacon's outer cities. With this act kept out of the public knowledge, rumors circulated as Autobot machinesmith Alpha Trion worked diligently on a new process to reconstruct Autobots into battle-hardy configurations for the war he knew was coming. That war finally erupted in full when Megatron fatally injured a naive young dock worker, Orion Pax, and Alpha Trion made him the first subject of his new process, reconstructing him into Optimus Prime, who would lead the Autobots in the Third Cybertronian War. War Dawn
After a further five million years of war, during which many Autobots fled the planet, Desertion of the Dinobots, Part 2 the Decepticons had acquired a large hold on the planet, with the majority of it under their control. The main Autobot force continued to operate from the capital city-state of Iacon, but Cybertron's energy levels were depleted to a dangerous low, necessitating a space mission to locate a new planet with new sources of energy that the Transformers could harness. Optimus Prime led his best and brightest on the Ark, but they were pursued by Megatron's elite troops, and all were stranded in stasis on Earth for four million years. More than Meets the Eye, Part 1
In the ensuing four million years, Shockwave, who Megatron had left in charge as guardian of the planet, maintained the Decepticon hold on the planet, though he was unaware of the continued guerrilla efforts of Elita One's Female Autobots to undermine him as they raided his energy supplies. The Search for Alpha Trion Eventually, Cybertron's energy level dipped so low as to put the planet in immediate, mortal danger. Reestablishing contact with Megatron, who had awoken with the other Transformers on Earth in the year 1984, Shockwave co-designed the space bridge, an intergalactic transport system that could transport energon cubes from Earth to Cybertron, abating the planet's impending doom. Transport to Oblivion
When Optimus Prime's cosmitron was destroyed, the Autobots dispatched a party to Cybertron to claim a replacement that was still in Wheeljack's workshop. Divide and Conquer
Cybertron's place in the universe was forcibly altered in 1984 when the Decepticons constructed a colossal space bridge that actually transported the entire planet into the Sol system, into Earth's orbit, The Ultimate Doom, Part 1 where its gravity wreaked havoc with the planet's natural balance, unleashing an unending torrent of energy created by natural disasters. The Ultimate Doom, Part 2 The energy acquired re-energized Cybertron enough to put it out of the danger zone, but the planet was soon knocked out of orbit by a massive energon explosion, and set drifting off through the solar system. The Ultimate Doom, Part 3 At this closer range, Cybertron remained easily accessed throughout 1985 at least, with the Autobots now able to reach it by conventional transportation (Omega Supreme), rather than having to constantly hijack use of the spacebridge. The Key to Vector Sigma, Part 1
After Megatron had duped the human race into thinking the Autobots were the invading faction of Cybertronians, the exiled Autobots intended to return to Cybertron only for Megatron to sabotage their flight plan. Megatron's Master Plan, Part 1
Not long after that didn't work out, the Cybertronians on Earth, save those who had been built on the planet, began malfunctioning due to depleting stores of cybertonium. At Megatron's order, Shockwave mined and sent a large batch of the substance to Earth for the Decepticons to be healed. Intercepting the communication, Spike and Carly went off to intercept the shipment. Though they initially asked the Dinobots to help, Grimlock saw a chance to abandon Optimus Prime's group and led his team through the space bridge, Desertion of the Dinobots, Part 1 whereupon they were captured and enslaved by Shockwave, save Swoop who retreated into Cybertron's underground. Desertion of the Dinobots, Part 2 Undeterred, Carly and Spike space bridged to the metallic planet themselves, Desertion of the Dinobots, Part 1 using their small size to dodge Shockwave's blaster fire and sabotage delicate parts of his equipment. Escaping underground, the humans met Swoop who helped them free the other Dinobots and return to Earth with the cybertronium shipment. Desertion of the Dinobots, Part 2
When Shockwave discovered that Elita One's band of Autobots still lived, the Decepticons took her as a hostage to try and have Optimus Prime surrender himself. Despite knowing the danger, Optimus rushed to Cybertron where he was taken prisoner. Though Starscream intended to melt Optimus in acid, Elita One used her ability to stop time to save him, requiring the Prime to bring her to Alpha Trion for repairs. The remainder of Elita's squad met up with Ironhide, Powerglide and Inferno, who had followed Optimus through the space bridge, and engaged the Decepticons, succeeding when Optimus and Elita returned. The Search for Alpha Trion
Tiring of his forces constantly being defeated on the ground, Megatron built the Stunticons in response but needed Vector Sigma to truly bring them to life. Returning to Cybertron, the Decepticons claimed the Key to Vector Sigma from Alpha Trion, using its power to turn the centurion droids against the Autobots who pursued him. With their new warriors, the Decepticons left Cybertron. The Key to Vector Sigma, Part 1 Taking inspiration from their foes, the Autobots built the Aerialbots with Alpha Trion sacrificing his life to activate Vector Sigma and bring them online. The Key to Vector Sigma, Part 2
When Shockwave's Kronosphere came online, the Autobots made for Cybertron to investigate its energy signature. Though intending to use the device to plunder Cybertron's pre-war energon reserves, Megatron instead used it to shunt the Aerialbots into the past. Though he intended to send them to the beginning of time, Autobot damage to the device sent them nine million years into the past, where they ensured Orion Pax would become Optimus Prime, before they returned to the present. War Dawn
In one of Starscream's attempts at becoming Decepticon leader, he returned to Cybertron to steal the personality components of the Combaticons, implanting them into new bodies. When this ended in them all being banished to an asteroid, Starscream's Brigade Starscream abandoned his new warriors and made for Cybertron. Beating him home, the Combaticons used their combined form of Bruticus to overthrow Shockwave and conquer the planet, using the space bridge to send Earth towards its sun as revenge against Megatron. Making another alliance, Optimus Prime and Megatron led their forces to Cybertron, the combined armies defeating Bruticus and ending the Combaticons' reign. The Revenge of Bruticus
By the Earth year 2005, Cybertron had exited the Sol system, but, remaining within the Milky Way, was still relatively easily accessible by shuttlecraft from Earth. By this time, the Decepticon forces had succeeded in conquering the entire planet, forcing all the Autobots off it, leading them to relocate to Autobot City on Earth, and to two staging ground bases on two of Cybertron's moons. It was at this time that Cybertron came under attack from the world eater, Unicron, who consumed the two moonbases and assaulted Cybertron itself, only to be destroyed by the power of the Autobot Matrix of Leadership. His deactivated, decapitated head fell into orbit around Cybertron, a grisly new satellite to replace those he had destroyed. The Transformers: The Movie With the Decepticon forces in disarray after Unicron's attack, Rodimus Prime and his troops succeeded in driving their foes off Cybertron, reclaiming the planet for the Autobots, and restoring and re-energizing much of the planet by 2006. Five Faces of Darkness, Part 1
Seeing an opportunity, the Quintessons made an alliance with the fractured Decepticon Empire to attack Cybertron. Five Faces of Darkness, Part 4 While the Decepticons attacked Cybertron, the Quintessons sent a Sharkticon commando team to flip the large switch that would deactivate every Transformer across the galaxy. After Galvatron flipped it and the Quintessons rejoiced at having Cybertron back, though they had not planned for Spike Witwicky who destroyed the switch. Restored, Galvatron shot at the Quintessons before ordering his forces to retreat. Five Faces of Darkness, Part 5
When a later Quintesson plot reanimated Optimus Prime, he stranded Rodimus Prime's group in the Autobot Mausoleum and returned to Cybertron, leading the Autobot fleet into a trap. Having been given the Matrix of Leadership once again, its energies purified Prime's mind of the Quintesson programming whereupon he ordered the Autobots to return to Cybertron. Dark Awakening
Being pursued by Galvatron's elite, the renegade Decepticon Octane hid on Cybertron's abandoned Decepticon areas where he was found by Starscream's ghost. Starscream's Ghost During an attempt by Daniel Witwicky and Wheelie to discover Ultra Magnus's date of creation, Cyclonus sent the Lost Cybertronian Storage Asteroid on a collision course with Cybertron to disrupt the First Inter Galactic Peace Conference but the Autobots managed to destroy the rogue planetoid. Surprise Party Cybertron later played host to various alien diplomats. Madman's Paradise
Undeterred in his desire to live again, Starscream possessed Scourge and ventured to Unicron's head, bargaining with the Chaos Bringer for a new body. Agreeing, Unicron sent Starscream and Scourge on three labors to repair the Dark God, the last of which was to connect Unicron's head to Cybertron itself so it could become the Chaos Bringer's new body. Warned by Scourge, the Autobots planted energon cubes that sent Unicron's head flying away. Ghost in the Machine
Cybertron was later used as a neutral meeting site in the war between Xetaxxis and Lanarq, becoming the point where a peace treaty was signed following the revelation of how the Quintessons had exploited both sides of the conflict. The Quintesson Journal Following the discovery and destruction of the colony world Paradron, the survivors emigrated to Cybertron. Fight or Flee The Quintessons later manipulated the Decepticons once again, this time into unleashing the Trans-Organics. The energy siphoning Dweller wreaked havoc on Cybertron before the Autobots managed to launch it into space. The Dweller in the Depths Galvatron later sent a Skuxxoid and Slizardo to plant anti-electrons inside a new power generator to destroy the Autobots but this didn't work out. Grimlock's New Brain When Tornedron was unleashed on the galaxy, Cybertron was drained of energy before Grimlock undid the creature's rampage. Call of the Primitives
In the year 2007, Cybertron was once again wrenched from its place in space when Galvatron and the Decepticons invaded the planet and constructed a massive planetary engine that propelled Cybertron back into Earth orbit once more. Once there, Galvatron opened the Plasma Energy Chamber, intending for the energy release to drive the Sun supernova, consuming Earth, Cybertron and everything else in one final destructive blow. Spike Witwicky and the Autobots' Nebulan allies were able to stop this plan by reversing the rocket engine, which drained off the excess solar energy and channeled it straight into Vector Sigma, which used it to fully re-energize Cybertron. Its rich golden hue restored, Cybertron entered a new Golden Age. The Rebirth, Part 3
Japanese cartoon continuity
Kiss Players
12 billion years ago, the ancient genius Primacron and his assistant, the Oracle were attacked by Primacron's renegade creation Unicron. The Oracle's body was destroyed, but his essence, encased within a protective shell, fled to a dead planet at the center of the universe, which he proceeded to transform into a verdant, living world.
In time, the Quintessons discovered the Oracle's world and invaded, taking control of the Oracle and his powers. The Oracle was transformed by the Quintessons into the mega-computer Vector Sigma and also obtained the shell that had held his essence, which went on to become the Matrix of Leadership. Using the power of the Key to Vector Sigma, the Quintessons transformed the Oracle's green planet into the metallic Cybertron. 2007 TakaraTomy Transformers timeline
Generations Selects Special Comic
At the dawn of time, what would become Cybertron was a barren rocky planet at the centre of the galaxy. Shortly after the birth of Unicron, Primus retreated to the planet, intending to turn it into a paradise. He was discovered by the early Quintessons who cyberformed the planet and gave it its name. Shackling Primus into a supercomputer, the Quintessons turned Cybertron into a mega-factory only for the Cybertronians to eventually rebel and drive them off the planet.
Following the end of the Angolmois Energy crisis in 2050, the Cybertronians retreated to their homeworld, swearing to remove all mentions of Earth from their archives to ensure no one would seek out Earth's Angolmois supplies. Finale
The Headmasters cartoon
In 2011, it was discovered that the release of the energy of the Matrix by Optimus Prime to cure the Hate Plague had much more far-reaching consequences that anyone suspected. With the Matrix's energy depleted, Vector Sigma's balance—permanently tilted in favor of the Autobots by the existence of the Matrix—was reset to neutrality, allowing the Decepticons, bolstered by their new Headmaster troops, to freely invade Cybertron. Eventually, this forced Optimus Prime to sacrifice his life by merging with Vector Sigma in order to stabilize the computer before it destroyed Cybertron from within. Four Warriors Come out of the Sky The Mystery of Planet Master Birth of the Fantastic Double Prime
Not long thereafter, Vector Sigma developed a new metal alloy dubbed Cybertonuron, which enticed Galvatron into another raid on the planet. However, the Decepticon Headmaster leader Zarak, in a bid to prevent the Autobots from obtaining it, arranged for his Headmasters to plant bombs at the core of the planet, within Vector Sigma's chamber. The Autobots were unable to stop the countdown and the bombs detonated, tearing Cybertron apart and leaving it a charred uninhabitable ruin drifting in space. Cybertron Is in Grave Danger, Part 1 Cybertron Is in Grave Danger, Part 2
Unite Warriors
Having survived the devastation of Cybertron, Vector Sigma granted the Autobot Disaster Relief Team new bodies and powers so that they could rebuild the planet. By 2021, Cybertron had been made inhabitable once more. Sky Reign Chapter That same year, Unicron's head returned and attempted to turn the planet into his new body, but was repelled. Ruination Chapter, Part Two
Nucleon Quest Super Convoy bio
Some time beyond the year 2036, Cybertron began to suffer from a major energy shortage. In order to re-energize the struggling planet, Optimus Prime upgraded into a Powermaster and ventured into a black hole to obtain the super-energy nucleon, which was used to restore Cybertron to its former glory. Nucleon Quest Super Convoy bio
Beast Wars cartoon
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Beast Wars Returns cartoon
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Legends comic
Following the conversion of Cybertron into a technorganic planet, Vector Sigma also underwent an upgrade and effectively turned into the "soul" of the planet, becoming the ultimate authority of the planet who issued its will through the newly created Great Convoys. Tens of thousands of years later, when Vector Sigma discovered that the Blentrons were trying to resurrect Unicron with Angolmois Energy, the supercomputer converted Cybertron back to a wholly mechanical planet in preparation for war. Bonus Edition Vol. EX
Beast Wars Neo cartoon
Tens of thousands of years into the future, in the era of the Maximals and Predacons, the mechanical Cybertron was reigned over by Vector Sigma, who handed down orders through the ruling body known as the Great Convoys. Big Convoy, Move Out By this point, the planet had come to reside in the center of the Milky Way galaxy. Fight! Maximals
When Unicron was resurrected as an energy being, he sought to use Cybertron as a new physical body, as his original body at the Triple Z Point was too ravaged to serve as a suitable vessel. Fight! Maximals Unicron was able to get through all of Cybertron's defenses and merged with Vector Sigma itself, granting him absolute control over Cybertron and the planet began converting into an imitation of Unicron's original planet mode. End of the Maximals!? However, thanks to the efforts of Big Convoy's unit, Magmatron, and Lio Convoy, Unicron was able to be drawn out of Vector Sigma The Final Battle and defeated in his weaker form. In the aftermath, Predacons and Maximals united to rebuild the planet. Graduation Ceremony!!
Wings Universe
The second Golden Age of Cybertron came to an end in 2013 when Jhiaxus initiated the Machine Wars. However, the Machine Wars ended in a matter of weeks and inadvertently brought about the signing of the Pax Cybertronia. Termination A Common Foe
In 2984, the Star Seekers arrived from a temporal journey through transwarp to enact Captain Cannonball's newest scheme: plunder Cybertron of all its energon using Unicron's head when Cybertron would be at peace and have high levels of energy. The pirates attracted the attention of Cybertron's elite defenders, the Cybertronian Knights, but during the clash aboard Unicron's head, Alpha Trizer gave Cannonball a crushing revelation: his scheme was doomed to fail from the start because the Cybertron he was attacking was technorganic and no longer ran on energon (as a result of the Great Transformation). Hoist the Flag
A Birth of Planet Saybertron
Cybertron was originally a mere satellite, built to ensure peace between a coalition of planets. But the powerful computer within the satellite proved too advanced for it to remain in its initial form; using electromagnetic forces to draw in other satellites, it used their materials to build itself up. This ultimately led to a malfunction of the computer, and the civilizations that had built it found themselves no longer able to access it. Though the united civilizations tried to stop the satellite, it kept on growing and becoming more sophisticated, eventually plundering all nearby resources and leaving its galactic neighborhood bare of resources. Ages passed and Cybertron became a planet proper, with metallic mountains and oceans of oil. From it sprung primitive machines, which evolved into Transformers over the millennia. A Birth of Planet Saybertron
Beast Wars cartoon continuity
Eons ago, Cybertron was a verdant, Earthlike world, populated by a wide variety of organic creatures. Survivor This idyllic period came to an end when the first Transformers arrived on the planet, an event foreseen by the mystical Oracle that surrounded Vector Sigma; The Reformatting their arrival evidently coincided with the extinction of Cybertron's natural biosphere, Survivor and over the eons Cybertronian civilizations would build over the rock and soil with metal upon metal, giving rise to the illusion that Cybertron was, and always had been, a world of technology alone. The Reformatting Remnants of the past persisted in the lowermost levels of the planet, including stray plant life, Forbidden Fruit fossilized remains of the animals that had once roamed the surface, Survivor and an "organic core" composed of concentrated biological matter. The Key Successive generations of Cybertronians built atop old cities, layer after layer, only to be gradually forgotten. The Reformatting
During the Great War, four million years before the present day, the Autobots left Cybertron aboard the Ark, The Agenda (Part III) but were intercepted by the Decepticon starship Nemesis, Nemesis Part 1 eventually coming to crash-land on prehistoric Earth. The Agenda (Part III)
Three hundred years after the end of this conflict and the signing of the Pax Cybertronia, The Agenda (Part 1) Cybertron would come to be populated by the Maximals and Predacons, descendants of the Autobots and Decepticons. This great metamorphosis was precipitated by the "Great Upgrade," described as the period of time when Cybertron's Autobot population transitioned to Maximals; old cities like Iacon were once again abandoned and paved over to make way for new cities, like Cybertropolis. The Search Three hundred years after the end of the conflict, Cybertron was once more a peaceful, prosperous planet, governed by the High Council of Maximal Elders, Possession Deep Metal Master of the House while the Tripredacus Council controlled the affairs of the Predacon Alliance. The Agenda (Part 1)
Peacetime diversions included the Six Lasers Over Cybertron amusement park; "mature" entertainment included joints where the servers went around without their torso plates on. The Agenda (Part 1)
Beast Wars cartoon
When Optimus Primal and his starship went missing, temporal probes were dispatched from Cybertron in the hopes of finding where he and his crew had vanished to. The Probe Not long afterwards, the transwarp wavefront generated by the destruction of the Planet Buster superweapon was due to hit the planet only for the Tripredacus Council to disrupt it before it reached Cybertron, allowing them to covertly dispatch Ravage to bring in Megatron. The Agenda (Part 1)
Beast Machines cartoon
The tranquility of this age would come to a rapid end when Megatron returned from the Beast Wars and set a virus loose on the world that incapacitated the population and paved the way for Vehicon rule. Under Megatron's reign, the villain sought to reorganize the entirety of Cybertronian civilization into one vast machine controlled by a single, overriding intellect—his own. Master of the House Megatron would be opposed, however, by Optimus Primal and his band of Maximals, who, after discovering the Oracle, befriending a survivor of Megatron's attack, and learning the truth behind Cybertron's organic nature, Survivor believed that they needed to restore the organic to Cybertron and destroy all technology—a conflict that came to a head when Primal and Megatron pitted the Plasma Energy Chamber against the Key to Vector Sigma, unleashing a doomsday energy storm. End of the Line
In the aftermath, Primal realized he had been wrong in his mission; rather, the Oracle wanted him to create a balance, a peaceful equilibrium of the organic and the technological. In the end, Primal would see his dream accomplished when he applied the power of the Oracle to the exposed organic core of Cybertron, his sacrifice converting the entire planet into a lush paradise where technorganic plants and animals coexisted with Transformers. Seeds of the Future
3H comics
According to Al-badur, the Quintessons had once served Unicron, and in doing so, they'd found the "dimensional landing" of Primus: Cybertron. Rather than alert their master, however, they decided to capitalize on their discovery for their own purposes. They attempted to subvert Primus's creations via the Plasma Energy Chamber, but the results were disastrous. Success came when they placed a shell program over Vector Sigma and channeled the divine power into creating a subservient race. That race would one day rebel and become the Transformers, but the Quintessons' influence remained in the form of the Vector Sigma shell program—otherwise known as the Oracle. Primus could nonetheless sometimes send messages from Vector Sigma through the Oracle, but it is difficult to tell the difference. Disclosure
Almost a week after the Great Transformation, the Quintessons invaded Cybertron, hoping the sudden transition to technorganic would leave the Transformers disoriented. Instead, the population of Cybertron successfully repelled the invaders—and the Quintessons learned that they themselves had been pawns of Primus, who had deliberately manipulated the aliens so that Cybertron and his creations could make this great evolutionary leap. The Wreckers: Finale Part 1 Wreckers: Finale Part II
One year later, this reality's Cybertron later became became the home base of the Children of Primus in the multiverse-spanning Universe War against Unicron. Abduction Escape Homecoming Unfortunately during the war, Cybertron fell victim to the "Culling", where Unicron's Minions cut a swath across the planet to feed the sparks of the victims to the Chaos-Bringer, though the invaders were ultimately repelled. Beast Wars 10th Anniversary Optimus Primal's bio The Children continued the war, and eventually emerged victorious. Revelations Part 2
Dreamwave Generation One continuity
The planet Cybertron and its two moons orbited Alpha Centauri; a Saturn-sized mechanical world, the planet possessed an oxygen-based atmosphere capable of supporting carbon-based life. Complex tunnel networks and advanced machinery existed in the deepest levels of the planet; some Decepticons, like Megatron, believed that Cybertron could become a mobile fortress equipped with planetary engines, and sought to make this dream a reality. Transformers: More than Meets the Eye
The earliest Cybertronians supposedly arose from the Well of All Sparks, Conflagration but after creating the Transformers, Primus went dormant so as to avoid the attention of his ancient nemesis Unicron. The Sonic Canyons that spanned the planet's southern equator gathered data from across the universe so as to be analyzed by Vector Sigma, Transformers: The Ultimate Guide while Primus sealed the well to prevent Unicron from locating his physical form. Conflagration Prior to the Great War, Megatron claimed to have discovered an artifact which suggested the truth behind the origins of the Cybertronian species, which would, over time, lead to the formation of the Decepticons. The Route of All Evil
The war between the Autobots and Decepticons would eventually lead to Optimus Prime and Megatron disappearing in a space bridge explosion; in their absence, however, the conflict continued, with the Autobots and Decepticons being joined by various splinter factions. Fragmentation. The arrival of The Fallen briefly forced these competing factions to work together, Conflagration and dwindling fuel supplies eventually led to the construction of energy-efficient Micromasters—though these warriors were eventually forced to take up arms as well.
3.5 million years ago, continued energon shortages finally culminated in the event known as the "Great Shutdown," where all Transformers on the planet simply ground to a halt after Cybertron's natural supplies of energon completely dried up. This state of affairs lasted for many millions of years; it would not be until some three thousand years ago that Shockwave reactivated and worked to bring other Transformers back online. Cold War
Initially, after Cybertron's reawakening, Autobots were reluctant to trust Shockwave until key Autobots agreed to share leadership of Cybertron with him. An underground resistance movement was formed and a young Hot Rod rose to leadership of one such faction. It wasn't until Optimus Prime's return to Cybertron that the majority of Autobots rededicated themselves to eliminating the Decepticons. War and Peace
G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers
The Quintessons created both transorganics and the gladiator and slave races that would evolve into the Decepticons and Autobots. The Art of War #1
Following Optimus Prime and Megatron's crash on Earth, Cybertron was conquered by Shockwave. The planet was also the location of Teletran 3, which accidentally transported members of G.I. Joe and Cobra to the alien world. G.I. Joe vs the Transformers #1
Shockwave was eventually defeated and the Decepticons were driven back to the Gladiator Zone, allowing Cybertron to be at peace for the first time in millennia. A warp gate was set up between Cybertron and Area 52 on Earth. The Art of War #1 The peace was interrupted when Serpent O.R. warped to Cybertron and took control of the Decepticons, but he was eventually defeated. The Art of War #5 Notable locations on Cybertron included Capitol City and the large junkyards where the cannibalizers would reside. The Art of War #3
After the death of Serpent O.R., Cybertron was peaceful yet again, and seemingly stayed that way. Black Horizon, Part 1 of 2
2005 IDW continuity
Cybertron and its two moons orbited a yellow dwarf.[2] A Sunrise Dark The precise origins of the planet are not known; various religious sects held that the planet had a relation to Primus, who either arose from the surface of Cybertron Primus: You, Me, and Other Revelations or had himself created the mechanical world, Timeline in Revolutionaries #1 perhaps after vanquishing the mythological Unicron at the dawn of time. Last Stand
Another theory postulates that Cybertron may have once been an organic world, one whose biological inhabitants made an evolutionary leap to a cybernetic existence before eventually discarding their organic heritage to become fully-mechanical lifeforms. Spotlight: Nightbeat Evidence for this theory is corroborated by the planet Gorlam Prime, whose inhabitants underwent such a transition; after emerging from this "chrysalis state," they renamed their world "Cybertron," which raises some interesting questions about the origins of the Transformers. Spotlight: Sideswipe
The first known Cybertronian to come into existence was Primus himself; though later Transformers would deify him as a warrior-god, Primus: You, Me, and Other Revelations Primus's only unique trait was the ability to manufacture photonic crystals. He would be joined by four other Transformers—Epistemus, Mortilus, Solomus, and Adaptus—and together this first generation of Transformers would become known as the Guiding Hand. The Unremembering Together, they would go on to ignite the twelve hot spots across the planet, allowing Vector Sigma to begin sending the life-giving pulses of energy that ignited new sparks and gave rise to the first true "generation" of Transformers: the Knights of Cybertron, who turned the prehistoric planet into a paradise for both body and sprit. The Death of Optimus Prime The predecessors of Functionist doctrine believed that, if tilted at just the right angle, Cybertron could refract the light of a sun, turning the planet itself into a weapon to be used against asteroids and other spaceborne threats. Farsickness
Some twelve million years ago, the ambitious Adaptus would turn on his comrades; seeking to introduce the notion of war to the species so as to avoid the stagnation he feared would soon grip the planet, he battled the other four members of the Guiding Hand in what would come to be called the "God War". Although the other members of the Hand fought back, they were unable to vanquish their enemy, who fled to the planet's first moon, readying an electromagnetic pulse that would leave the inhabitants of Cybertron disoriented while he retrofitted the moon into a primitive spaceship and fled. The Unremembering Though this information creep would distort reality into garbled legends, the Knights of Cybertron remained known, and eventually opted to leave Cybertron aboard a fleet of Titans. Deprived of their benevolent oversight, Cybertronian society regressed back to an era of barbarism, splintering into numerous smaller city-states and tribes. The Crucible This sequence of events would be noted as atypical compared to the development of most other civilizations, who established permanent world governments before mastering faster-than-light space travel. Shining Armor #3
It was in this primitive landscape that the Decepticon Shockwave found himself after the destruction of his chronal drive in 2013. Unable to return to his own time, Shockwave slew the shepherd Onyx and manipulated events to bring the Thirteen together. The First Who Was Named In his new role, "Onyx" encouraged expansion and the colonization of distant worlds. Titans colonized distant worlds to expand the aegis of the Pax Cybertronia, including Caminus, Eukaris, Velocitron, and Devisiun, all in service to Shockwave's infinitely longer game. First Contact Eventually, Shockwave would also mastermind the First Cybertronian Civil War, Heavy The Crucible which ended in the ascension of Nova Prime and a grand reordering of the planet's society under Functionist doctrine. The Crucible It quickly became clear, however, that Cybertron's rapidly urbanizing population was not infinitely sustainable, prompting the younger version of Shockwave to begin a plan to ensure that Cybertron could meet its energy needs; Shockwaves while Nova Prime planned a grand Expansion that would see Cybertron the capital of a grand interstellar empire, this plan fell through when he and his innermost retinue vanished aboard the Ark-1 in the Benzuli Expanse. Spotlight: Galvatron
The reign of Nominus Prime saw the widespread automation of Cybertron's old energon mines, leading to an employment crisis as labourers lost their livelihoods. Megatron Origin #1 The Functionist regime stagnated Cybertron's cultural and technological development, and alien civilizations of the time came to view the planet as a stultified backwater. Chaos Theory Part 2
The subsequent Great War began four million years ago, and ravaged Cybertron until Thunderwing's experiments with Pretender technology led to a mad rampage that left the planet completely uninhabitable. With no atmosphere, Cybertron's surface was unprotected from cosmic radiation and was wracked by plasma storms. Transformers had to divert energy to their personal shielding in order to remain on the surface for short periods; the surface was presumably immediately lethal for humans. Gravity was also weaker than normal and Transformers needed magno-treads to walk on the surface. The Transformer race abandoned the planet (save for occasional scientific surveys from orbit) and began conducting their conflict across the galaxy. According to Autobot command directives, landing on Cybertron was forbidden. Stormbringer #1 However, with the resurrection (and subsequent defeat) of Thunderwing, this directive was lifted due to the unusual circumstances. Spotlight: Galvatron
Around the year 1997, the wise Alpha Trion and Metroplex returned to Cybertron, with a plan to revive the planet. Over the next few years, Trion worked to repair Cybertron's atmosphere and rid it of radiation, though the planet remained dead and resourceless. Any Old Iron
A decade later, the Decepticons created the three Insecticons on Cybertron from a naturally-occurring subterannean species, Historia, and left the thousands of failed clones to their own devices. When the Decepticons defeated the Autobots on Earth during the Surge, they sent their battered enemies through a portal to Cybertron, where the swarm would finish them off. All Hail Megatron #7 By this time, Alpha Trion's hard work had eliminated much of the radiation and electromagnetic storms, so the Autobots survived their stay on the planet with only minor pains. Any Old Iron Later, the Autobot starship Trion was shot down over Cybertron, and its crew joined the rest of the survivors on its surface. All Hail Megatron #5 They were eventually rescued by Omega Supreme, leaving Alpha Trion and Metroplex to continue their work uninterrupted. All Hail Megatron #10
In order to make Cybertron habitable again, Trion revived Ironhide, who had been recently slain on Earth, to help take out the swarm. Ironing Out the Details Trion then left again, with only Ironhide, Sunstreaker and a few hundred swarm members remaining on the planet, Any Old Iron which were eventually quashed by the time that Galvatron returned to Cybertron, intent on turning the metal world into his first line of defense against D-Void, a malevolent entity set on devouring all Transformers. Heart of Darkness #4 By the time his army arrived on the planet, the swarm had seemingly been exterminated. The arrival of Galvatron caused Ironhide and Sunstreaker to flee on Rodimus's newly arrived ship, after which they traveled to Earth to alert the rest of the Autobots to Galvatron's occupation. Out of the Silent Planet
Led by Optimus Prime, the Autobots on Earth returned to Cybertron and confronted Galvatron. Lamentations During the battle, Galvatron inserted his Heart of Darkness into the remains of Vector Sigma, in the belief that this would stop D-Void from entering the universe. In reality, the Heart of Darkness was an aspect of D-Void, and doing so would allow the entity to turn the dead planet of Cybertron into a giant portal to the Dead Universe. To stop this from happening, Optimus Prime opened the Matrix of Leadership into Vector Sigma. Genesis Somehow, the Matrix of Leadership was able to restart Vector Sigma, and its energies worked to "reset" the entire planet into a primordial state. Almost every structure and geographic landmark on the planet was wiped out, and the only Transformer-made structure remaining was the crashed remains of Kimia Facility. Simultaneously, Cybertron itself sent out a signal to all Cybertronians out in space, telling them to come home. The Death of Optimus Prime The only known structures that were spared this reformatting were Crystal City, resurrected by Ore-14, Shockwaves and Kaon which had been buried beneath the new layer of metal. The Last Autobot
With Cybertron restored, most Decepticons captured and thousands of neutrals returning to repopulate their planet, the war was considered over. When the planet came alive again, it began transmitting energy to its two moons, reviving Luna 2 as well. Since Luna 1 was missing, its share of the energy ended up in the atmosphere instead, supercharging it and causing "ball lighting" effects to strike the planet's surface until Wheeljack got a temporary satellite in orbit. Stick Together After a brief revival of the Autobot/Decepticon war, the neutrals kicked the two factions out of Iacon and briefly assumed control of the planet under the leadership of Starscream, Heavy Is the Head who established the Republic of Cybertron. The Sound of Breaking Glass
Soon afterwards, Shockwave attempted to bring his Regenesis plan to fruition, collapsing all of space-time into a singularity to fuel Cybertron for eternity which would have made the planet the sole thing that existed, had ever existed or would exist before he was defeated by Optimus Prime and Megatron. Dark Cybertron The destruction of his chronal drive caused the formation of a black hole that sent him back to the planet's prehistoric past, free to take up the mantle of "Onyx Prime" and shape the history of Cybertron in a great ontological paradox. The First Who Was Named
In the aftermath of the cataclysm, Metroplex was able to locate five of Cybertron's colonies, The Transformers: Windblade leading to the formation of the Council of Worlds, All That Remains which eventually came to encompass Earth after Optimus chose to annex the organic world into the Cybertronian Council for its own protection. Perihelion When Sentinel Prime abruptly returned to life, he viewed modern Cybertron as a world built on compromise; The Last Autobot disgusted, he planned to wipe the slate clean with an army of zombie Titans. Ten to Midnight Though he perished, Last Light the Titans arrived at Cybertron and began destroying all in sight Ping before they were stopped by Windblade and Vigilem. Rubicon
Earth would soon come to join the Council of Worlds as an official member state, not a mere protectorate, and various human dignitaries were shuttled from Earth to Cybertron via space bridge to prepare for the ceremony in Iacon. Unfortunately, repeated Cybertronian incursions had also convinced Joe Colton that one day Cybertron would destroy Earth, First Strike #1 and so he assembled an cabal of supervillains who would poison Cybertron's energon from within by harnessing the power of the alien Talisman, launching an all-out assault on Iacon while he and his inner team of supervillains travelled into the core of the planet to enact the plan. First Strike #2 Though Optimus Prime and his allies raced to stop the villains as they travelled to the core of Cybertron, it was soon revealed that the entire scheme had been masterminded by Colton's second-in-command; revealed as the Prysmosian wizard Merklynn, he used the Talisman to transform a small fragment of the planet into New Prysmos, a copy of his lost homeworld.
The process drained nearly half of Cybertron's energon supply which caused the planet to "scream", the missing energon sent into space as a communication signal that translated to "Welcome. Death". The signal struck the slumbering form of Unicron, and roused the ancient monster into action. First Strike #6 As Cybertron rebuilt from the invasion, "Onyx Prime" arrived alongside Liege Maximo and his Maximal hordes to put the final stages of his plan into action: Surfeit of Primes now convinced that Cybertron itself was not worth saving, "Onyx" revealed his true identity to Cybertron, engineering a series of crises designed to break the collective faith of Cybertron in everything that they believed in. Unforgivable Everything Shockwave had worked towards for the last twelve million years was in anticipation of Unicron's arrival: the very Talisman itself was poisoned bait; when Unicron consumed the planet, its corrosive energies would kill him from the inside out. Stranger Eons
In the meantime, however, the Talisman was still in service to the Darkling Lords of Prysmos, who had recently come to inhabit the caverns beneath the planet, burrowing its way to Vector Sigma to complete its mission of transforming the entire planet into a copy of Prysmos. Schismatic To save the planet, Wheeljack constructed an anti-Talisman bomb that would counteract its magic, and when the bomb detonated, the exotic energies had the combined effect of transforming a patch of Cybertron into a copy of Prysmos' old biosphere, while also beaming a second message out into space: one that simply said "Unicron." Transformers vs. Visionaries Unstopped and Unstoppable
Indeed, Unicron awoke and began his assault on the galaxy not long afterwards, and after destroying eleven of the worlds affiliated with the Transformers, Unicron attacked Cybertron directly. Stranger Eons Though the populace initially attempted to fight back, Our Finest Windblade was forced to call on the Visionaries, who used a combination of their magic and the Talisman to teleport the population of Iacon to Earth. Contrary to Shockwave's predictions, the destruction of Cybertron did not spell the destruction of Unicron; the planet-eater, intelligent enough to realize the threat that the tainted planet posed to his own body, simply destroyed the planet by tearing it apart, unleashing a burst of energy that ripped the planet in half. Road's End
The Functionist Universe
In a world where Megatron had never been created, the Functionist Council grew ever more powerful, to the point where they eventually usurped the Senate and functionally conquered the planet. The Custom-Made Now When the Council concluded that alien life had no purpose in Primus's grand design, they isolated their homeworld from the rest of the galaxy to stoke the fires of fear and xenophobia, while they worked to create an army powerful enough to wage war on the galaxy. Modes of Production
After the intervention of Team Rodimus cost the Council Luna 2, This Machine Kills Fascists the Council turned Cybertron itself into their instrument of destruction, outfitting it with a set of planetary engines and using the Warren to travel from world to world. The planet's lack of mobility proved a hindrance, prompting the Council to reengineer the planet so that it possessed a robot mode, cast in the likeness of the mythological Primus. With this new avatar, the Functionists were able to breach realities, and crossed over from their home reality to make war against the primary timeline—an event briefly glimpsed by Adaptus, who had himself used the Warren to flee across time and space so as to prepare for the threat. Rationalizing that five Cybertrons, untouched by war, could command exponentially more power, he commissioned a planet-sized mold and created the "God Gun". Farsickness
Pursued by the dimensionally displaced Megatron and the Anti-Vocationist League back into Megatron's home reality, the Magnificence offered the suggestion to blow up Cybertron, though Megatron overruled it on account of the trillions of innocents still trapped on the planet. The Return of the King The crew soon deduced a way to overload Vector Sigma, preserving Cybertron while killing the Functionists. The Unremembering After forcing "Primus" back into planet mode, the crew allied with the Architect's forces to stage an invasion of Cybertron, battling Functionaries until they opened twelve duplicate Matrices at each of Cybertron's hot spots, the surge of energy overloading Vector Sigma and vaporizing the Functionists. A Spark Among Embers
With the native Cybertron recently annihilated by Unicron, this world—now stranded in a parallel reality—was eventually christened "New Cybertron" by those who chose to live there. Prowl made the decision to remove the Lost Light's quantum engines to double the universally displaced planet's energon reserves. With most of the Cybertronian population now based on Earth, New Cybertron was largely left to its own devices; in the years to come, the crew of the Lost Light took up residence there, while other inhabitants would include millions of Lunarians spawned from Luna 1's hot spot. How To Say Goodbye And Mean It: Part 2
Transformers vs. G.I. Joe
Cybertron was the alternate mode of Primus, one of the many living worlds created by Daiakuron at the dawn of time. Earth: R.I.P. Though none of the inhabitants of either world were aware of it, Cybertron had a deep connection with the planet Earth, for the organic world was also a creation of Daiakuron, and Cybertronian artifacts from ancient times could be found across the planet. Everybody Hates Metroplex
Originally located in a distant galaxy, the planet had been ruled by Decepticons ever since the abrupt departure of Optimus Prime, leaving Megatron and his forces free reign of the planet, with the Autobots in disarray under Grimlock's unruly leadership. Form Follows Function When Starscream brought Bumblebee's head to Megatron, Megatron pronounced that the Decepticons had won the Great War, The Golden Boys and, binding the stolen Matrix of Leadership to his Spark, Pax Megatronus he subjugated Primus to his will via Vector Sigma. Cybertron then slowly began to transform into a massive spaceship in the shape of Megatron's face that would cyberform the galaxy. Expelled from the Garden Psych Out described Cybertron as "the ultimate Transformer" owing to its constantly shifting geography though whether this was a natural phenomenon or a side-effect of Megatron's plan is unclear. Form Follows Function
Cybertron then moved into Earth's solar system, I Saw Three Ships before it was invaded by G.I. Joe, using a combination of a "green bomb" fusillade and a strategically deployed Weather Dominator to terraform portions of Iacon into an environment capable of sustaining human life. Targetmasters Soon after, Cybertron grew a pair of mega mountains that reached high into its atmosphere. Form Follows Function Megatron then used the horns to gouge into the Earth, seemingly destroying it Pax Megatronus so as to clear a path to the Sun, intending to have Primus consume the star and supercharge his creation powers. Escape from Primus Believing Earth to be destroyed, various surviving groups, such as the Oktober Guard, attempted to claim Cybertron as their new homeworld. Earth: R.I.P.
Starved of energy, Primus needed little incentive to consume the star, creating a dyson sphere from his own body to speed up its consumption before Primus was stopped by Atlas—Earth's own robotic form. Though many Cybertronians chose to emigrate from Cybertron to various planets and moons in Earth's solar system, Rodimus guided the impaired but functional Primus back to his original orbit. With Optimus on a mission to the find the Makers, Rodimus took charge of the planet. The War Never Ends
Beast Wars: Uprising
Cybertron orbits the star Hadean. Broken Windshields Eleven million years prior to 2384, Cybertron was consumed by the Great War, its third planetary level conflict. Micro-Aggressions As the conflict escalated, groups of Cybertronians fled to establish new colony worlds where they could live in peace. A Brush With Infamy–Prologue
Four million years prior to 2384, the Ark and Nemesis left Cybertron only to crash on the primitive world of Earth. A Change to the Agenda When the two crews reawoke in 1984, the Decepticons reestablished contact with Cybertron. Cultural Appropriation
Following the Scouring of Nebulos in 2031, the technologically advanced Human Confederacy confined the Cybertronian race to the Allowed Zone, a small region of space consisting of Cybertron and nine of its colonies. Recognizing the burgeoning human empire as an obstacle, Decepticon leader Galvatron conquered the Allowed Zone for the resources needed to rebuild the Decepticon fleet. With his reborn army, Galvatron launched the Great Push in 2033 but was ultimately defeated by the Confederated Terran Colonial Fleet Micro-Aggressions in a narrow victory. A Brush With Infamy–Prologue The humans responded to the attack by halving the Allowed Zone, the inhabitants of the soon to be sterilized worlds emigrating to Cybertron. Micro-Aggressions
At some point during the early to mid 21st century, Unicron attacked Cybertron only to be destroyed by the sacrificial efforts of the Point One Percenters. The Inexorable March
After millions of years of war, Cybertron's energon supplies were left drained. The Decepticon scientist Thunderwing developed the Micromasters as a fuel-efficient successor race, both sides eventually fielding them as the primary warriors in the Great War. Cultural Appropriation Identity Politics Thunderwing eventually became the new Decepticon leader and led an expedition to find the mythical Underbase. Successful, Thunderwing's power was boosted to obscene levels and making him a threat to all of Cybertron. The Autobots allied with the non-insane Decepticons to save their world, trapping Thunderwing's mutated spark and the Underbase's energies in Cybertron's core. Not All Megatrons While Thunderwing died, the energies of the Underbase allowed the core to begin slowly healing Cybertron's ravaged biosphere. Derailment
With the restoration of the biosphere centuries off, Cybertron was left a dying planet following Thunderwing's defeat. Micro-Aggressions Now settled into an uneasy truce, the Autobots and Decepticons joined forces as the Builders of Cybertron, though their old grudges and factional divides remained. With energon having attained such a high premium, the Macromasters wired themselves into Cybertron itself. Broken Windshields The Micromasters were fuel efficient enough to remain mobile, causing the petty builders to look down upon them as second class citizens. Identity Politics
With Vector Sigma, the source of new sparks, having been destroyed in the Great War, the Builder Cerebros reached out to the Human Confederacy, hoping to recreate their Eutychus Project. While the humans wouldn't hand over the project's secrets, they surrendered enough knowledge for Cerebros to build the energon matrix as a successor to Vector Sigma. Though Cerebros had hoped that this could lead to a new generation of Cybertronians that had never known war, the Builders saw the new generation as a means to continue the Great War. With the Maximals and Predacons as the successors to the Autobots and Decepticons, respectively, the Builders used the new generation for sport in a series of violent Games fought in the ruined remains of the old Builder cities. Head Games At the same time, new breeds of Cybertronian life—mechanimals—began to emerge in the ruins of these old cities. While the older generations of Cybertronians considered them vermin, the Oracle had masterminded the process after the return of the Underbase to Cybertron's core as a means for the wounded planet to heal itself by generating a functioning, self-sustaining ecosystem. Derailment
This dystopian Cybertron was rocked by the Grand Uprising, a protracted war where the Maximals and Predacons fought to topple the stagnant oligarchy that their predecessors had established. Broken Windshields Shortly after the Beast Upgrade hit the planet, Overshoot claimed that the Oracle had also engineered this war, an evolutionary step forward that would free the citizens of Cybertron from their dependence on energon cubes. The war ended with the disastrous Vehicon Apocalypse, and although the Resistance had ostensibly won the war by that point, it took the united forces of Maximal, Predacon, and Builder alike to curtail the genocidal ambitions of Lord Imperious Delirious. In the end, the planet was reorganized under the egalitarian Cybertronian Parliament. Derailment
Years afterwards, as the Human Confederacy fell victim to the Fall of Man, the Cybertronian race ventured beyond the Allowed Zone once again. The Inexorable March While communing with the Oracle during the Grand Uprising, Overshoot glimpsed visions of the distant future, and saw a time when Earth and Cybertron would first unite against a grave threat before eventually merging into a single, technorganic planet. Cultural Appropriation
Ask Vector Prime
In Primax 185.0 Beta, Cybertron was the capital of the Decepticon Empire. When the Decepticons went to war with the Quintesson Pan Galactic Co-Prosperity Sphere, their resistance promoted Galvatron to try and transfer his spark into Cybertron itself and be reborn as Grand Galvatron. As he commenced the transfer however, his spark was destroyed by the sacrificial efforts of The Autobot and the Dreadnoks. Ask Vector Prime, 2015/06/04
Of Masters and Mayhem
As the Great War continued, Decepticon science created Thunder Mayhem, a combiner so destructive that it was thought to have destroyed Cybertron outright and brought about the functional extinction of the Cybertronian race. Life Finds a Way History In reality, the combiner, while enacting a near-genocide, had simply devastated the planet's surface. Divination The Decepticon remained there for a while before he left to destroy other worlds. Deadly Aim
When Impactor, Fractyl and Counterpunch were seeking out allies for their crusade, they travelled to the ruins of their homeworld and found Toxitron. The Toxic Transformer
Left on Cybertron, Bluestreak eeked out an existence before he was contacted by the Teklaans who claimed that they could restore his world. Eager to bring about "New Cybertron", Bluestreak made contact with the Wreckers and brought them back home, sacrificing them to the Teklaans to provide them with the information they needed to rejuvenate the biosphere. As the prodding happened, Fractyl remembered that the Teklaans' last creation had fallen victim to a virus, implanted by the Teklaans themselves, and died off in a few generations. After convincing Bluestreak to aid them, the Wreckers confronted the Teklaans only to learn that the cyberforming had already begun. After incorporating Bluestreak and Impactor into Wreckage, the combiner destroyed the Teklaan ship, the central node of the cyberforming, and sent the aliens running. Upon leaving Cybertron, Impactor assured Bluestreak that his plan had been a good one but until Thunder Mayhem was defeated, it wasn't viable. Lively Pursuit
Prime Wars Trilogy continuity
Prime Wars Trilogy marketing material
Cybertron was drained of life by the war of conquest which Megatron started. Combiner Wars Megatron toy bio
Cybertron was the possible location of one of thirteen Titans, alongside Unicron, Dominius, Nebulos, Junkion, Antilla, Paradron, Caminus, Earth, Velocitron, Biosfera, Aquatron, Botropolis, Micron, and Gigantion. Titan Force[3]
Soundwave once led a Decepticon attack on an Autobot base on Cybertron only to be routed when the base transformed into Fortress Maximus. Titans Return Fortress Maximus online bio
Prime Wars Trilogy cartoons
In eons past, Cybertron was ruled by the Thirteen, who successfully vanquished Unicron with the help of the Requiem Blaster. The Swamp In the age that followed, the Thirteen were known to have inhabited, and subsequently sealed away, a variety of locations such as the mythical library of knowledge, the Athenaeum Sanctorum. Finally, however, Megatronus would accidentally murder his beloved, Solus Prime, and for this punishment he banished himself from the planet. The Requiem Blaster would be sealed within a dome inside the Primal Swamp, guarded by a lineage of warriors; by the present day, the most recently appointed guardian of the Blaster was Optimus Primal. Athenaeum Sanctorum
Though Cybertron and many other planets were ravaged by the Great War between the Autobots and Decepticons, the conclusion of the conflict allowed for the Council—consisting of Rodimus, Starscream, and the Mistress of Flame—to serve as the heads of the new postwar government, The Council while Megatron and Optimus Prime both chose to leave Cybertronian civilization to develop and retreated to the wildernesses of Cybertron to continue their lives in self-imposed exile. The Duel Unforgotten
It would not be until the events of the Combiner Wars that both Prime and Megatron would return to civilization to help deal with the Enigma of Combination, Unforgotten and were subsequently instrumental in combating the threat that a Starscream-possessed Trypticon posed to the planet. Prime perished during Megatronus's return, All Things Must Pass causing many of Cybertron's people to turn on one another for fear of the coming apocalypse. The Swamp. Optimus Primal was later upgraded by the Matrix into the powerful "Optimal Optimus" Megatronus Unleashed and, after Megatronus's defeat, would become the next leader of Cybertron, supported by the wisdom of the newly revived Optimus Prime. Saga's End
Star Trek vs. Transformers
Four million years in the past, Cybertron was a rogue planetoid menaced by asteroids, leading to the launch of the Ark and its subsequent crash on Earth.
While mind-melded with Optimus Prime, Spock experienced a vision of Cybertron during the planet's Great War, Prime's Directive, Part Two while James T. Kirk glimpsed flashes of the planet's Golden Age when he binary bonded with Fortress Maximus. Prime's Directive, Part Three
2019 IDW continuity
Cybertron was a living mechanical planet and the homeworld of the Transformers. At its core existed the AllSpark, a massive spark from which all other sparks originated; War's End Part Two these sparks would travel up through the Well of All Sparks to the planetary surface to be forged into new Transformer life. The World In Your Eyes Part Four Conventional mythology holds that the Thirteen were the first Cybertronians; it was Solus Prime who created the Firstforged, a second generation of Transformers who laid the groundwork for a global civilization. End of Time The Reversionists believed that Cybertron was the transformed body of Primus, who had surrendered his physical form to create a home for his children. Gauging the Truth: Part One When a Cybertronian grew tired of living, they could chose to go "immersant", a voluntary ego-death where their bodies and minds gradually merged with the planetary strata until their spark permanently left their body and rejoined the Allspark. Escape Part Two Many Titans chose to go immersant outside Iacon; their jumbled remains eventually became the Cybertronian Mountains. The World In Your Eyes Part One
During the Age of the Firstforged, early heroes like Halonix Maximus tamed the wilderness, battled bestial Transformers like Preditron, Tremors and raised towering works of art like the settlement that would eventually become Crystal City. A Dust of Crystals The Cybertronians established a planetary Senate in Tarn, Prime led by a Prime, who served as the assembly's "First Senator"; Constructicons Rising, Part 3 the Forge Pyramid in Iacon became the nexus of new Transformer life, where the sparks that arose from the Well of All Sparks were forged into new Transformers. The World In Your Eyes Part Four Early in Cybertron's history, a a group of Cybertronians used the Enigma of Combination to become "The Abomination", a monstrous, fuel-guzzling combiner which ravaged the planet until a group of Transformers successfully felled the creature in Iacon. Constructicons Rising, Part 1 At some point, the Senate was later relocated to Iacon. Prime
During Cybertron's ancient history, the Titan Chela saved the planet from a rogue comet. Titans
During the Age of Expansion, the people of Cybertron colonized many new worlds and vanquished rival galactic powers with the assistance of the mighty Titans. The Change In Your Nature Part Five During this prosperous age, Cybertron was invaded by rust worms, rust-secreting metallivores who threatened to consume the entire planet. Efforts to neutralize the creatures failed; in the end, Cybertron itself sealed them away within an impenetrable basin, which became the Sea of Rust. Sea of Rust I The Age of Expansion came to an end when Exarchon was corrupted by forces unknown while on an extraplanetary voyage; he returned as a living virus capable of snuffing out the sparks of other Cybertronians and incorporating their bodies into his tripartite collective. War's End Part One The subsequent War of the Threefold Spark saw the mass conscription of many Cybertronians. The final battle of the war was fought outside Iacon; while Exarchon was seemingly vanquished, the cost of victory proved high, and cities across the planet were left in ruins.
Realizing that their reckless expansionism had brought Exarchon down on their heads, then-Autobot leader Nominus Prime passed the Nominus Edict, which effectively curtailed any future colonization endeavours, mandated laws regarding energon rationing and storage, and limited the forging of any new Transformers. The Change In Your Nature Part Three Nominus made the decision to end the creation of new Titans; future Titansparks were placed in storage in a hidden room beneath the Forge Pyramid. War World: Titans The remaining Titans were repurposed into an orbital defense fleet that would protect the planet from spaceborne threats. The World In Your Eyes Part One Nominus Prime's term saw the rebuilding of Iacon Constructicons Rising, Part 1 the construction of the Winged Moon, a massive energon-harvesting station that would provide Cybertron with limitless energon, and the Tether that connected it to Cybertron. Orion Pax: Free Fall While some Transformers looked back on the past with regret, noting that their expansion had caused other races to fear their destructive nature, The Change In Your Nature Part Five other Cybertronians like Termagax mourned a lost age of prosperity and potential that'd been cut short and felt that the Nominus Edict had overstayed its welcome. Orion Pax: Free Fall
By the time that Sentinel Prime supplanted Nominus Prime, Cybertron had established diplomatic relations with neighboring powers such as the Thraal, A'ovan, Occulted Dremden, and Voin; Nautica: Home in time, different alien species immigrated to Cybertron and established various ethnic enclaves, such as Iacon's sprawling Xeno-Quarter. The World In Your Eyes Part Five They brought with them animals like skitters and flyts, which turned invasive and established breeding populations on the metal planet. The World In Your Eyes Part Two Many lived in the barren wastelands between cities; at least one region held a thriving forest of imported alien flora. I Have No Mouth And I Must Starscream
Termagax's "Ascenticon" movement grew to become a substantial political party that advocated for the abolition of the Nominus Edict in order to restart a new age of colonization and conquest; despite this sentiment, the Edict had indeed brought peace to the metallic planet, to the extent that Brainstorm's murder was the first in living memory. The World In Your Eyes Part Two Nautica: Home Eventually, however, tensions between the Autobots and Ascenticons flared, and their early conflicts saw the destruction of the Memorial Crater The Cracks Beneath Your Feet Part Three and a sleeping Titan in the Cybertronian Mountains. The Change In Your Nature Part Two One particularly vicious terrorist attack saw the Ascenticons unleash a data-bomb that took the planet's Titan Net out of commission; amidst the confusion, they hijacked the Titan Vigilem and used him to destroy the Tether, causing planetwide devastation. The Change In Your Nature Part Five As disasters piled up, unusually intense geological activity began plaguing Cybertron, Tremors to the point where intellectuals like Straxxus and Geomotus speculated that the quakes might rupture the Sea of Rust and unleash its contained population of rust worms into the planetary crust. Escape Part Two Groups of Cybertronians began drafting plans to get offworld: these included the population of Darkmount, Escape Part Four and a group of Reversionists led by Heretech—however, his "exodus" was a ruse so that he could double-back to Cybertron, in the hopes that he could kill everyone on the planet before Gauge helped foil his plan. Moment of Truth
Eventually, the Ascenticons—now calling themselves the "Decepticons"—stormed the Senate building, overthrew Sentinel Prime, and seized Iacon. We Have Deceived You An ad-hoc rescue mission ended with the Rainmakers killing Sentinel Prime; the Matrix of Leadership subsequently passed to Orion Pax, who became Optimus Prime. Prime The Autobots attempted to rescue as many alien immigrants as they could; Escape Part One with the assistance of Dai Atlas, they were able to evacuate many immigrants and neutral Transformers off-planet in a repurposed Ark-class vessel. Escape Part Five At the same time, however, the Insecticons went rogue and created an clone army, which threatened to overrun the planet. The Landscape of Fear
As the Decepticons consolidated their power, it was found that the data-bomb they'd used on the Titans was too effective. Fearing that the Autobots might be able to reactivate the giants, Megatron ordered them brought down. When the Titan Cargohold crashed in the Memorial Crater, Roadtrap and Gutcruncher found Provoke in the ruins, Titans unaware that she had been usurped by Exarchon. Enigmatic Ultimately, the Autobots were unable to hold Iacon and were forced to fall back to Crystal City. Although the Autobots controlled Crystal City and Darkmount the Decepticons captured multiple Cybertronian cities, including Protihex, Tarn, Stanix, the Tagan Heights, and Protihex. Test Flight I When the reclusive Termagax was located and was found to be holding the Enigma of Combination, Swindle's II the Autobots and Decepticons converged on her House. Sea of Rust I The battle saw the predicted fracturing of the Sea of Rust's basin, releasing the rust worms on the rest of the planet. As the Sea expanded, the Enigma fell in and concurrently, Exarchon began his power play once again. Enigmatic
The Decepticons attempted to capture Crystal City, only to be forced into a parlay by the arrival of Lodestar and Computron. A Dust of Crystals The Landscape of Fear Allowed to speak to Megatron, Optimus proposed a temporary alliance to save Cybertron, promising that the Decepticons could have the planet in the aftermath. On Starscream and Soundwave's advice, Megatron agreed. The Landscape of Fear War's End Part Two Knowing Strika would honor both the spirit and the letter of the alliance, Megatron pulled her out and sent Jhiaxus against the Autobots, having his general conduct a bombing that placed the Autobots in the path of the rust worms. Radical Time When Termagax witnessed an Insecticon overpower a rust worm, The Landscape of Fear she hit on the idea of turning the two predators against one another. Radical Time Once the viral program had been created, Novastar was able to detonate it on Bombshell; the software reprogrammed the swarming Insecticon clones so that they would only eat the rust worms. End of Time
Shortly before the fall of Crystal City, Optimus had sent a team to the Sonic Canyons to look for any clues about Exarchon. After they were found by the tyrant, War's End Part One they discovered his ultimate plan to use his abilities on the AllSpark and become Cybertron itself. When the Autobots caught up to the last third of Exarchon's spark, Zetar managed to destroy the Threefold Spark, ending his threat and saving Cybertron. War's End Part Four
As Optimus' convoy marched to Darkmount, they were met by Megatron's elite who refused to allow them to leave, knowing that the Autobots would frustrate the Decepticons' galactic expansion. The arrival of Computron and the removal of the imploder-bearing Skywarp allowed the Autobots to continue onwards. Arriving at Darkmount, Optimus learned the last Ark and Lodestar had been sufficiently repaired enough to leave the planet. As boarding commenced, the Decepticon army attacked, both Computron and Leviathan falling to the might of Devastator. To buy the Autobots enough time to leave, Scattershot called on the power of the Combination Core to add Pipes, Flareup, Backstreet, Javelin and Groove to the mix. Reborn as a ten-bot combiner, Computron managed to overpower Devastator and hold off the Decepticons long enough for the Autobot ships to launch. Though Shockwave congratulated Megatron on conquering Cybertron, the Decepticon leader was well aware that the war had only just begun. Fate of Cybertron
Alternate future
In a possible future where Exarchon had conquered Cybertron, the planet had become a ruined wasteland with its energon being beamed off into space while its surviving citizens were sold off to the Mercenary faction. Test Flight II
Transformers/Ghostbusters
While the Autobots fled Cybertron at the end of the Great War, Decepticon High Command was visited by Gozer who proceeded to take Starscream's form and attack Cybertron. Though the Decepticons fought back, they found their power outmatched by the invader. Unable to flee, Megatron was approached by Kremzeek the Scavenger who had come seeking the AllSpark, shuttled off Cybertron by the recently departed Autobots. Bargaining with the Decepticon leader, Kremzeek turned Megatron and his inner retinue into ghosts, leaving the majority of the Cybertronian race to be destroyed by Gozer along with their planet. Ghosts of Cybertron Part 1 Ghosts of Cybertron Part 2 Ghosts of Cybertron Part 4
Transformers vs. The Terminator
When the Autobots reawoke, thanks to the interference of the time-travelling T-800, Optimus Prime questioned what the intruder knew of Cybertron. Enemy of My Enemy Part Two When the time traveller later destroyed the Ark, the Autobots and Decepticons agreed to a truce until they could find an alternate method of returning to Cybertron. Enemy of My Enemy Part Four
War for Cybertron Trilogy cartoon
Long before the Great War, Cybertron was ruled by the Quintesson Empire who sold off its population as slaves. The Cybertronians eventually rebelled against their masters and reclaimed their world. The Judge Deseeus would later claim credit for emancipating the Cybertronians, though the veracity of this claim is unknown. Earthrise episode 2
In the era prior to the Great War, Alpha Trion was a revolutionary leader who brought freedom to Cybertron, taking on Optimus Prime, Ultra Magnus and Megatron as his students. Siege episode 1 A great battle took place at Tarn-Hauser Gate, with it becoming the largest mass grave in Cybertron's history. Siege episode 4 The Autobots rebuilt Cybertron, Siege episode 5 before the Transformers began colonizing other worlds, such as Velocitron, travelling to them via Space Bridges. Siege episode 6
Under as of yet unrevealed circumstances, Megatron led the Decepticons into the destructive Great War against the Autobots. The Decepticons proved the superior fighting force, setting up Surrender Stations across Cybertron. Siege episode 3 As energon became ever scarcer, neutrals across Cybertron began hoarding and trading the substance among themselves. Siege episode 5
Outmatched, the Autobots constructed the Ark to flee their world. As they scavenged for enough energon to power the ship, they discovered the last Space Bridge. Siege episode 1 After learning that Megatron sought the Allspark to reformat all Autobots into Decepticons, Siege episode 2 the Autobots decided to launch the Allspark off the planet. Siege episode 3
After Bumblebee had inherited the Alpha Trion Protocols, he used the information to pinpoint the Allspark's current location. Siege episode 5 Learning about the protocols, the Decepticons used Ultra Magnus' corpse to engineer a virus that destroyed them, though their similarity to Autobot code led to a widescale crippling of planetary infrastructure. Upon the Autobots retrieving the Allspark from the Sea of Rust, they managed to launch it through the Space Bridge, the Ark following shortly afterwards. A handful of Autobots, either by choice or circumstance, had remained behind, pledging to continue the fight against Megatron. Siege episode 6
As Cybertron's condition deteriorated, the Decepticons began construction of their escape ship, the Nemesis, fuelling it with the harvested sparks of a thousand Autobots and Decepticons, setting course for the Ark. Earthrise episode 2
As Megatron led the Nemesis after the Ark, Shockwave took command of Cybertron, continuing to harvest its citizenry to keep the planet running. Earthrise episode 3 The Autobots remaining on Cybertron later confronted him at Kaon Arena, destroying his facility, Earthrise episode 6 and killing all present.
Without the Allspark, Cybertron's condition continued to worsen, freezing over. When the Ark returned with the Allspark, Galvatron and Nemesis Prime arrived to try and claim the artifact to destroy Unicron. Despite their best efforts, Bumblebee succeeded in returning the Allspark to its rightful place, bringing the planet back to life. In the new era, the Autobots and Maximals kept to one side of Cybertron while the Decepticons and Predacons took the other, though Starscream worryingly noted to Blackarachnia that Unicron would one day come for them. Kingdom episode 6
Alternate timeline
In the dark future from which the Maximals and Predacons hailed from, the Allspark never returned to Cybertron with Optimus Prime and Megatron being reformatted into Nemesis Prime and Galvatron respectively and made servants to Unicron. Despite the uninhabitable world they lived on, the Maximals and Predacons managed to cease their war and continue their civilization, developing advanced technology such as time travel. Kingdom episode 1 Seeking to change the past by saving the original Megatron, Predacon Megatron stole the Golden Disk, and was chased by the Maximals aboard the Axalon to Earth. Kingdom episode 2 The Maximals and Predacons returned to a new Cybertron with the Autobots and Decepticons, never again seeing their dying world. Kingdom episode 5
My Little Pony/Transformers
The radiant shralls stopped off at Cybertron during the annual migration, roosting outside the planet's cities. The Beauty of Cybertron
In the midst of a battle for a space bridge that managed to pierce the barrier between realities, the Autobots and Decepticons were transported through the portal to the realm of Equestria as a result of the machine connecting to the magic of Queen Chrysalis. Transformation Is Magic
Though it was initially believed that changeling magic was required to reopen a portal to Cybertron, Grimlock and Spike found a way to manage without, prompting Optimus Prime and Twilight Sparkle to combine the Matrix of Leadership with the power of friendship and banish the Decepticons back to their homeworld. After a delightful tea and energon party, the Autobots followed suit. Though Optimus destroyed the space bridge to prevent Cybertron from menacing Equestria ever again, Shockwave had retained the dimensional coordinates of the equine realm and noted it was possible to bring its magic to Cybertron. Finale
Constructing a new space bridge, the Decepticons pilfered several magical artifacts and natives from Equestria only to come to blows with Twilight Sparkle and her friends once again. In the conflict, Twilight fired a blast of magic at one of the Decepticons' prizes, freeing King Sombra. When the evil unicorn king took in his new surroundings, he deemed Cybertron a suitable place to build a new army, enthralling some of his old foes and several Decepticons to his will. The Magic of Cybertron
The young Scootaloo was among the many ponies that the Decepticons had brought to their home, with her caretakers Holiday and Lofty following to find her. After the two had befriended Arcee and Greenlight and helped them see off the enthralled Killmaster, Scootaloo arrived, having befriended some Cybertronian youths. Content that the children were safe, the four adults settled down to a picnic. A Real Mother
Sombra's thralls were sent across the planet, stealing energy infrastructure from various sites. When Knock Out took Ratchet and Rarity on a tour of Cybertron's tourist spots, the three discovered that using Cybertronian technology to enhance unicorn magic negated Sombra's spell. The Beauty of Cybertron
When Sombra sought to enthral the Titan Scorponok, the Cybertronian/pony alliance confronted him, freeing his slaves with the power of friendship and overloading the Titan's systems, ending the threat. In the aftermath, hostilities between Autobot and Decepticon diminished as Cybertron began moving towards an official alliance with Equestria. Finale
2021 Beast Wars comic
In the centuries following the Great War, the Autobots and Decepticons had been supplanted by the Maximals and Predacons, with the former holding the majority of the power on Cybertron. When the Predacon Galavar went rogue, his followers stole the Golden Disk from the Science Ministry and a warship from the Great Shipyard while destroying all the others, fleeing from Cybertron to plan without interference. Savage Landing Part 1
Following their running afoul of the Vok, the Predacons joined forces with the Maximals who had pursued them. Rhinox and Scorponok eventually hit on the idea of using the Darksyde's Transwarp Drive to send a message through unspace to Cybertron. Their idea was later used by Tarantulas who hoped that he would be brought an escape ship. The Beginning of the End After the Vok had been defeated, Optimus Primal offered the Predacons passage back to Cybertron only for them to refuse, noting that they would be punished for Megatron's crimes. Agreeing, Rhinox and Dinobot noted to Optimus that they would need to take Megatron prisoner before returning home. The End
Calm Sleep Stories
Energon Universe
Cybertron existed in a galaxy beyond the Milky Way. Cobra Commander #1 Transformers #5
In the "earliest point" of their world's history, legends said that Zerta Trion had broken away from her fellows after the Cybertronians gained independence from their creators. Void Rivals #11 Over the following millennia, Cybertron became a peaceful world, beautiful, in its own harsh way, Transformers #2 though the Cybertronians shared a mutual hatred with the Quintessons. Void Rivals #4
Optimus' spark came into being towards the end of Cybertron's peaceful era Transformers #2 when an energy crisis struck, leading Jetfire to leave Cybertron in order to find a way to save the planet. Jetfire would spend centuries fruitlessly searching before he crashed on a desolate planetoid not far from the Sacred Ring where a lack of energon caused him to fall into stasis lock. When Darak and Solila inadvertently awoke Jetfire after finding his inert body in ship mode, Jetfire ran a quick scan of himself and deduced he had been asleep for a millennia. Concerned as to the state of his homeworld, Jetfire immediately flew off-planet, leaving Darak and Solila behind. Void Rivals #1 Much would change in the time Jetfire was away, all for the worse. Transformers #1
Since Jetfire's departure, Cybertron fell to war, Transformers #2 with Megatron seeking to restore his planet to its "rightful and glorious place among the stars". Transformers #14 For two centuries, the Autobots fought to try and keep the old ways of peace, but the extremist Decepticon faction caused such a large amount of casualties the Autobots had no choice but to abandon Cybertron to their oppressors. Led by Megatron himself, Decepticon High Command pursued. Transformers #2 In the absence of the Autobots and sufficient energon, the Decepticons on Cybertron went into stasis under the watch of Shockwave. Void Rivals #4 Other groups of Autobots also fled Cybertron, seeking new sources of energon. Void Rivals #11
Seeking to capitalize upon the Cybertronian/Quintesson rivalry, the Skuxxoid captured a Quintesson Prosecutor and brought his prisoner to Cybertron, hoping to arrange some kind of trade. However, he opted to barter with Shockwave, who now had little currency left for trade after spending it all on resources to survive for the past couple of centuries. With barely enough energon to sustain himself, and even less patience, Shockwave told the organic to take the Prosecutor out of his sight, lest the Decepticon start stripping the Rockeroid for parts. Void Rivals #4
After finding the Ark and unintentionally restarting the Great War on Earth, Jetfire was fatally wounded by Starscream as the Autobots fled the Decepticons. As he lay dying, Jetfire lamented that he had spent centuries of searching to try and heal their home, only to find nothing. He asked Optimus if there was any hope left for their homeworld, only for the Prime to reply he did not know. Believing he had failed in his mission, Jetfire succumbed to his wounds, stating that Cybertron would die. Transformers #1
Landing in a frozen wasteland, Transformers #4 Megatron was found by Cobra-La, the man who would become Cobra Commander extracting information on Cybertron from the Decepticon leader. Cobra Commander #1 Following Megatron's escape from Cobra-La, Golobulus and his elite examined the chamber where the Decepticon leader had been held in and discovered the outsider's data on him, including Megatron's nature as an extraterrestrial. Offended at the idea of a machine world, Cobra-La launched an organic probe at Cybertron, Cobra Commander #5 only for their scouts to instead find themselves at the planetoid Jetfire had crashed on. Void Rivals #13
Following Soundwave assuming command of the Decepticons, Transformers #7 he had the Nemesis partially raised and reactivated. Accessing the ship's communications array, Soundwave reestablished contact with Cybertron Transformers #8 so reinforcements could be sent via space bridge. On Cybertron, Elita One was the last survivor of a team seeking to rescue Ultra Magnus, managing to jump through the space bridge to Earth before she destroyed the portal. While this bought time for her, Magnus and Optimus to escape, the Decepticons began repairing the space bridge. Transformers #9
As the Decepticons worked to repair the space bridge, Shockwave determined that the Decepticons' Earth-bound resources were insufficient to achieve their objectives. To that end, he ordered the Constructicons to build a feeder, harvesting nearby ocean fauna and flora into energon. Once the space bridge was fully re-charged, Shockwave brought Cybertron itself into Earth's orbit. Transformers #10
As Cybertron quickly began to reenergize from the fresh bounty of resources, Shockwave briefly returned to the homeworld to order the Combaticons to stand ready against Autobot rebels who would be drawn by the fortress' energy signature. After scanning the space bridge, the Ark crew drew up plans to attack the Nemesis and sever the space bridge, though Elita balked at the thought of saving Earth at the expense of Cybertron and the Autobots still on the planet. Transformers #11
After punt-kicking Cliffjumper through the space bridge, Devastator was sent falling onto the feeder, sending Cybertron back to its orbit, even as the energy transfer continued. Refusing to leave Cliffjumper behind again, Optimus ran through the space bridge, chasing away the Combaticons and crushing Shockwave's head. Though Optimus sought to return to Earth, Elita destroyed Cybertron's end of the portal, citing the Autobots' need for Optimus and how they could use the pilfered energon. Refusing to win that way, Optimus attempted to detonate the charges and sever the link between the two planets only for Elita to reveal she'd never set them. With a heavy spark, Optimus turned his fusion cannon on the energon stores, destroying the fortress and severing the link. Left behind on Cybertron, Elita cursed Optimus for choosing Earth over his own people. A sizeable chunk of the planet was severed during all this, which fell into the ocean; a fate that would have befallen Prime had Beachcomber not swooped in and saved him. Transformers #12 The fallen chunks of Cybertron attracted the attention of Cobra Commander, who gleefully mused at further gifts from the mechanical world. Destro #5
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After chancing across one another, Starscream and Astrotrain agreed to an alliance, the latter turning to shuttle mode to try and escape the tsunami created by the fragment falling into the ocean, picking up the abandoned Onslaught and Brawl. Once the waters had calmed, Astrotrain landed on the chunk of Cybertron, the group reuniting with the other Combaticons and pledging fealty to Starscream. Transformers #14
Robots in Disguise (2001)
Cybertron was located near or orbiting a larger ringed world, Ultra Magnus and had an asteroid prison colony in which dangerous Predacon prisoners were interred. The Final Battle At one point there were a series of civil wars, in which Optimus Prime and Ultra Magnus, both creations of Alpha Trion, fought side by side. Following the wars, Magnus was honored, but Vector Sigma selected Optimus as Autobot leader and bestowed on him the Matrix. Ultra Magnus: Forced Fusion!
The Predacons on Cybertron were ruled over by a council, of which Megatron was a subordinate, Surprise Attack! Mystery of the Ultra Magnus though he once claimed to be "leader of the Predacons and future ruler of the galaxy" and that he was already "ruler of many worlds". Battle Protocol! Cybertron is also known to have an education system in place, featuring courses for such topics as Theoretical Mechanics, of which the Autobot Side Burn had been first in his class. The Two Faces of Ultra Magnus
Unicron Trilogy
Cybertron was the body of Primus. Cybertron Nine billion years ago, he created the Thirteen to aid him in his fight against Unicron. Vector Prime: In the Beginning
Another account claimed that Primus was a "unique digital entity" that came into existence eons ago. To search for other life in the universe, it sent out the Transformers as explorers. One of the first places the Transformers settled was the planet that would eventually become known as Cybertron. First Encounter
Unicron made another attempt to attack Cybertron but he was stopped by the mighty warrior Omega Supreme. Omega Supreme Joined by the four "Maximus" combiners he went into stasis lock deep beneath Cybertron to guard a reservoir of Super Energon. Ambition The Chaos Bringer however went into stasis lock and disguised himself as a moon orbiting Cybertron. Alliance Cybertron had at least two other moons. Titans
The Cybertronians attempted to turn Cybertron into the centre of a galaxy spanning empire via establishing four colony worlds with the intent of using the Cyber Planet Keys to cyberform them into mechanical worlds before connecting them all via a galaxy wide Space Bridge. For unknown reasons however, the plan fell through with Cybertron losing contact with the ships it sent out. Fallen The four worlds evolved in their own way with most considering Cybertron to be little more than a legend. Invasion
As the millennia rolled past, the Cybertronians fell into civil war. First Encounter Seeing an opportunity at revival, Unicron spawned the Mini-Cons intending for these diminutive robots to grant additional power to the Autobots and Decepticons so he could feed off the escalating war. Prehistory As a result of their unintended sentience however, Drift the Mini-Cons soon realized what they were doing to Cybertron and its people and promptly left the planet so that their power could do no harm. Their ship crashed on one of the four ancient colony worlds, Earth. First Encounter At some point during the war, Rodimus gathered a crew to escape the endless battle. The Legend of Rodimus Composed of both Autobots and Decepticons, these warriors left Cybertron behind for Omnitron. Survival Instincts
In 2010, the unwitting Rad White activated one of the Mini-Cons which beamed a signal to Cybertron alerting the planet to the Mini-Cons' location. While Optimus Prime and Megatron led their inner circles to Earth to retrieve the Mini-Cons, the bulk of the Cybertronians remained on their homeworld to continue battle. First Encounter
After repeated battles on Earth, Megatron managed to slay Optimus Prime and obtain all three Mini-Con superweapons. The Decepticons set course back for Cybertron, followed by the Autobots. Depart Unicron however made his move prompting Starscream to sacrifice himself to unite the warring planet. Cramp Unicron's defeat marked the end of the war and both Autobots and Decepticons began working together to rebuild their world. Mortal Combat
In the aftermath, the existence of Cybertronians was revealed to the human race who sent an envoy to Cybertron in 2012 to establish friendly relations. Cybertron City
In 2020, however, Unicron and Megatron returned. Megatron Raid After Cybertron had been protected by energon towers, the Autobots and Decepticons fought Unicron. Shockblast: Rampage After Unicron's physical form had been destroyed, Unicron Perishes he possessed Megatron and travelled to the Super Energon reservoir below the planet to properly revive himself turning Megatron into Galvatron once again. Wishes The release of energon gas however moved the planet from its orbit into Alpha Q's universe. Formidable Primus trapped Unicron's essence in a star composed of Super Energon. The Sun
The conflict ended (again), the now predominantly Autobot and Neutral population began to rebuild their world. A further ten years later however, Primus's plan failed when the star collapsed into a black hole so powerful it not only threatened to consume reality itself but warped space/time, altering the past to an extent. Revelations Part 2 With the black hole hovering above Cybertron, Optimus gave the order to evacuate. Vector Prime returned to the planet for the first time in eons and revealed to Optimus that the Cyber Planet Keys were required to save their homeworld. Fallen Though Optimus was skeptical at first, he eventually made the search for the keys the top priority of the Autobots. Hidden After the Autobots had retrieved the Omega Lock and the keys from Velocitron, Jungle Planet and Earth, they brought them all to an altar deep beneath Cybertron where the energy of the three relics (bolstered by the Matrix of Leadership's energies) allowed Primus to transform to robot mode. Cybertron
After all four Cyber Planet Keys had been restored to the Omega Lock, Primus was restored to his full power which allowed him to close the black hole and save the multiverse. With peace now secured, Primus transformed into a new Cybertron which incorporated aspects of all four colony worlds. End
The closing of the black hole had left the Jungle Planet drifting near Cybertron. When Galvatron damaged one of the planetary engines being used to restore the colony to its rightful orbit, the Jungle Planet risked slamming into Cybertron before the damage was mended. Unfinished
With peace finally restored to the universe, the Autobots hosted the first intergalactic peace conference to decide what to do with the Cyber Planet Keys on Cybertron. At Optimus Prime's suggestion, the four great colony ships launched from Cybertron once again to continue their ancestors' dream of colonizing the universe. Beginning
Live-action film series
Movies
Transformers film
Cybertron was a world created by a device known as the AllSpark. With its power, it gave rise to the Transformers, but their civilization soon fell to war over control of the AllSpark—and when the AllSpark was jettisoned from Cybertron, both Autobots and Decepticons chose to pursue it into the depths of space.
Shortly after arriving on Earth, Optimus Prime showed Sam Witwicky and Mikaela Banes a hologram of Cybertron so as to highlight the ruthlessness of his ancient foe Megatron. Transformers
Revenge of the Fallen film
In ancient times, Cybertron was ruled by the Primes, a powerful race of Transformers who refuelled the AllSpark by extinguishing suns, constructing vast harvesters that would extinguish suns to refuel the life-giving device. When the Primes visited Earth 17,000 years in the past, however, one of their number chose to sacrifice Earth by constructing a harvester on the planetary surface. This, in turn, would lead to the sacrifice of the Primes, who sealed the Matrix of Leadership required to activate said machine in a tomb composed of their own bodies. Revenge of the Fallen
Dark of the Moon film
At the end of the Great War, Sentinel Prime attempted to leave Cybertron aboard the Ark, carrying a cargo of space bridge pillars; using these, he hoped, he would be able to teleport Cybertron to Earth, and plunder the resources of the organic world in order to restore his ruined planet.
Though his plan would be delayed by the crash of his ship on Earth's Moon, Sentinel would reveal his alliance of convenience with the Decepticons in 2011, and attempt to teleport his homeworld into orbit. However, Bumblebee destroyed the master pillar before Cybertron could fully emerge from the portal, and the planet seemingly collapsed as it fell back through the portal. Dark of the Moon
The Last Knight film
Though Cybertron had survived its apparent destruction, the cataclysm left it condensed to a much smaller size than before (only slightly larger than Earth's moon) with several of its continents precariously attached to its core by large metallic cables. The sorceress Quintessa based herself on Cybertron, along with several Decepticon forces, and opted for a variation of Sentinel Prime's plan to restore Cybertron. Instead of draining Earth's resources to revive Cybertron, she would drain the life from Unicron (the core of the Earth) to revive Cybertron. To do this, she required a staff from Earth and Optimus Prime and thus sent Lockdown to retrieve the latter while she moved Cybertron into Earth's orbit. As the planet entered the Sol system, Optimus Prime crashed landed on it where Quintessa found him, brainwashed him and sent him back to Earth after she explained her plan to him. Cybertron's entry into the solar system caused Unicron's six horns to sprout from Earth's crust as the Chaos Bringer reacted to Primus' approach. Human scientists tracked Cybertron's approach and predicted it would collide with, and destroy, the Earth. Cybertron hid its final approach into the solar system behind the Sun, blinding the European Space Agency from tracking it before its trailing continents caused large gashes on the surface of the moon.
When Cybertron arrived in Earth's orbit, its continents slammed into the Earth and caused massive destruction. Quintessa and Megatron then began the ritual, draining Unicron's life force into Cybertron. Cybertron then began knitting itself back together, its continents reconnecting and the damage from the Great War vanishing as the planet began to regain its larger size. The Autobots and the TRF however managed to halt their efforts which left Cybertron in Earth's orbit. Enough of Unicron's life force had been transmitted to it that it had healed most of its damage and that Optimus felt it was time for all Autobots in the galaxy to return to their homeworld.
At the time of its partial restoration, Cybertron possessed notably organic landscapes such as grassy hills. As these were visible from space as the planet approached Earth, it is unknown if they were a natural part of the planet or if Cybertron collected this feature during its journey through interstellar space. The Last Knight
Bumblebee film
Wracked by civil war between the Decepticons and the Autobot resistance, it became clear to Optimus Prime that the Autobots could not hold out on their besieged planet forever, and ordered his Autobot soldiers to abandon their home and regroup elsewhere in the cosmos. One such warrior, the young Autobot B-127 was sent to scout out the planet Earth, which, eventually, became the temporary fallback position for other Autobot refugees from across the galaxy. Bumblebee
IDW movie comics
The AllSpark created a race of dimensional travelers, the Thirteen Primes, and made Cybertron suitable for their habitation. The Primes soon discovered that while the AllSpark's power was vast, it was also finite, needing to be recharged. The universe soon provided the answer, for a nearby star went nova, recharging the AllSpark. Though the Primes could travel dimensions, they needed help locating stars and harvesting their energy. The AllSpark responded by creating two things to help the Primes. The first gift was the second race of Cybertronians, the Transformers, who could change their forms. The Thirteen Primes ruled over the Transformers with their descendants, forming the Dynasty of Primes, to protect the AllSpark and Cybertron, while seeking out stars to harvest. The Dynasty even shared their dimensional traveling abilities with the Seekers, those tasked with finding stars. Once they found a star, the Dynasty would follow with builders to forge a harvester to drain a star of its energy and send it to the AllSpark to form energon. The second gift the AllSpark gave the Dynasty was the Matrix of Leadership, a key which contained the essence of the AllSpark and powered the harvesters. The Dynasty of Primes recognized the potential for destruction the harvesters presented, so they decreed that any star system which supported life was to be spared.
One day, the Dynasty of Primes and their attendants came to a world to harvest its star. Just as the harvester was completed, the Primes discovered primitive but sentient creatures. Twelve of the Primes upheld the sanctity of life, but the thirteenth despised the creatures as insects and sought to steal the AllSpark's power for himself. What followed was the very first battle of Transformer against Transformer, as the rogue Prime and his loyalists waged war against the Dynasty of Primes and their loyalists. The rogue Prime murdered eleven of his brothers, but the twelfth stole the Matrix and hid it a tomb forged from the bodies of his brothers, sacrificing his own spark to seal the Tomb. The rogue Prime, now known as The Fallen, dispatched the Seekers to find the Matrix. When he returned to Cybertron, he brought his war there as well, killing the rest of the Primes and destroying his brothers' sarcophagi to prevent them from returning. However, he expended much of his power in this process and withdrew to his own sarcophagus to heal. It was there that he learned that he'd made two mistakes: First, the spirits of his brothers were able to seal him in the sarcophagus, preventing him taking over Cybertron. Second, the warriors of the Dynasty had managed to save a single orphan, hiding him from the Fallen. The Dynasty of Primes passed into the realm of legend. Defiance #3 Defiance #4 Revenge of the Fallen #3
Eventually, what little the Transformers knew of their origins would be lost to time. A new society arose, known as the Autobots. The Autobots were a peaceful people, led by Optimus, head of the Science Division, and Protector Megatron, head of the Defense Force. The two leaders created a balance; Optimus was fair while Megatron was firm. Movie Prequel #1 Their world's main cities included Tyger Pax, Metrotitan, Simfur, and the capital city of Trypticon. Another area of importance was Burthov, where the Science Division had many facilities. In time, the Autobots began work on a dig near the Simfur Temple, discovering the remains of the Twelve's sarcophagi and the intact sarcophagus of The Fallen. At the same time, unknown alien hostiles attacked Cybertron. Megatron had Optimus remove the intact artifact to his quarters to better protect it, allowing him to come under the influence of The Fallen. Defiance #1 Defiance #2
As Megatron began to grow more aggressive, Optimus discovered that he was the orphaned Prime hidden away when the Dynasty fell. Megatron raised an army, the Decepticons, and sought to take the AllSpark to conquer the universe. However, most of the early Decepticon forces left on the Nemesis with The Fallen and Soundwave to seek out the harvester. With the number of Megatron's Decepticons now diminished, Optimus assumed his proper title and raised his own army of Autobots. In the war that followed, Cybertron was decimated. Prime eventually sent the AllSpark through a wormhole into deep space, and Megatron pursued it. Both were lost. Without the AllSpark's power, Cybertron became a dead world. The Autobots and the Decepticons scattered across the galaxy, hoping either to create a new world or locate the AllSpark and restore Cybertron. Transformers A number of Transformers remained, with the Decepticons centered in Trypticon (now a Decepticon capital), but this didn't last long. The Reign of Starscream
Titan movie comics
Internally, Cybertron has similar features to the inside of a Transformer, including gyroscopic joints. Return to Cybertron, Part: 4
While everyone had abandoned Cybertron, the twin Autobot Skids and Mudflap hung out there for a while, and Starscream began organising an army there in secret. Training Day
Alternate timeline
In a timeline where Megatron won the Battle of Mission City, Cybertron's status was unknown, with everyone abandoning it as it began to die. However, Stockade and a group of Decepticons remained, staying alive by using Nucleon. Stockade believed they could renew Cybertron by summoning a new power source, one related to the AllSpark. They succeeded in summoning such an energy being, Return to Cybertron: Part 1 which did enter Cybertron to renew it...
...and to everyone's horror, announced itself as Unicron, the Anti-Life! Return to Cybertron: Part 2
The possessed Cybertron was swiftly altered into a scarier-looking form with a large mouth and grasping prongs, turned hostile to those on it, and warped to the Sol system. Return to Cybertron: Part 3 The Autobots and Decepticons were able to destroy Unicron, but Cybertron was left in its transformed state and seemingly in the Sol system, as well as continuing to be dead and powerless. Return to Cybertron: Part 4
When the Autobots were ordered off American soil, they regrouped under Cybertron and began working on the teleportation engines that Unicron had left there when he transformed the planet. Using these, they were able to make a decisive strike by teleporting the entire Decepticon army to Cybertron, then teleporting Cybertron to the far reaches of space. With the engines now burnt out and no energy on the planet, the Decepticons were marooned there, at the cost of the Autobots never being able to go home. Revolution Part 2 Revolution Part 3
TransTech
This version of Cybertron occupies a unique position within the multiverse—the dimension it occupies is an overlapping "hub" for many different universes. Ask Vector Prime, 2015/05/14 The topology of the multiverse means that careless dimensional travellers may simply "fall through the cracks" and end up on this universe's Cybertron. Ask Vector Prime, 2015 In the past, the native Transformers simply assumed that these strange visitors were aliens and helped them offworld. Rook - Axiom Nexus News, 2015/05/06 At one point, a group of dimensionally-displaced Waruders took up residence underneath the planet and fed off the planet's supplies of Cybertonium. Cybertron's Most Wanted
The Autobots and Decepticons of this universe never fell to war; they focussed on the sciences and constrained most of their disagreements to the political arena. Withered Hope Without an endless conflict to blunt their development, they made incredible scientific and technological progress, and eventually evolved into highly advanced "Transcendent Technomorphs". However, many of these breakthroughs were only made possible through the amoral experimentation of Shockwave and his master Jhiaxus, under a secret government partnership with the Liege Maximo.[4]
The archivist Optimus and the military professional Megatron exposed Sentinel Prime's ties with the Liege Maximo, and after a dramatic battle most of the old High Senate was swept away and restructured under the auspices of Optimus, who became the next Prime.[5] Around this point, more and more dimensionally-displaced travellers began arriving, which forced the government to take an active role in accommodating the newcomers Rook - Axiom Nexus News, 2015/05/06 Under the supervision of Rhinox, Cybertron's science ministry established monitoring stations across Cybertron, which tracked potential alternate universes and redirected all dimensional traffic through to the processing stations in Axiom Nexus. Withered Hope Most dimensional newcomers would be "processed", fitted with an identification bolt, and released into the segregated "Offworlder Zone" reserved for "lowtech" Cybertronians and other alien races, Transcendent: Part 1 Rook - Axiom Nexus News, 2015/05/06 while more dangerous beings—including "offworlder" versions of Optimus Prime, Megatron, and other faction leaders—would be returned to their home dimension. Rook - Axiom Nexus News, 2015/05/08 At some point, the inhabitants of this Cybertron encountered and successfully repelled their universe's iteration of Unicron. Withered Hope
When the Waruders made themselves known and attacked the city of Axiom Nexus, they successfully shut down most of Cybertron with their venom and left only the various "lowtechs" in the Offworlder Zone functional. Cybertron's Most Wanted After they'd been dealt with, the Science Ministry took a more proactive role by launching hundreds of dimensional probes into distant universes to search for any more potential threats. Rook - Axiom Nexus News, 2015/05/06 This didn't last long, however; the coming of the Shroud fundamentally altered the nature of the multiverse and made dimensional travel much harder, essentially stranding most of the offworlders who had hoped one day to return home in Axiom Nexus. Rook - Axiom Nexus News, 2015/10/29
Shattered Glass continuity family
Fun Publications Shattered Glass continuity
In this backwards universe, the malevolent Omega Terminus supercomputer exists deep within Cybertron and creates new Transformers by recycling fallen corpses and imbuing them with "embers" instead of sparks. Dungeons & Dinobots Like many other Cybertrons, this iteration does not possess a fixed orbit; Eye in the Sky unlike most versions of Cybertron, however, this particular version possesses water vapor in its atmosphere. Dungeons & Dinobots
Cybertron was a peaceful planet whose inhabitants pursued only science and social harmony until the ambitious librarian-turned-warlord Optimus Prime founded the warmongering "Autobots" bent on conquest and plunder. Shattered Glass Only the heroic Megatron and his Decepticons took a stand against the villains, but their destructive civil war gradually drained the planet of its energy and resources. Do Over By the time that the Autobot Cliffjumper stumbled into this universe, Cybertron's trajectory had brought it close to Earth and a dangerous nebula known as the Plait Expanse that would severely limit travel to and from their homeworld. Optimus constructed the Ark to conquer the organic planet, but the Decepticons stymied his first attempt to get off-world. Shattered Glass With his window of opportunity closing, Prime made a second attempt to launch the Ark; however, the Decepticons pursued the Autobots aboard the starship Nemesis and the battle that precipitated their launch left both Megatron and Optimus stranded on their homeworld as it entered the Plait Nebula. Do Over
This Cybertron received a new satellite when the Earth of Primax 207.0 Epsilon entered its orbit as a result of the destruction of its home reality by Ultra Magnus's multiversal villainy. Invasion
Following the Shroud, Primus reawakened and assumed his robot form for the first time in eons, but had developed an evil personality as a result of ceasing being a multiversal singularity. Primus attacked the displaced Earth in his orbit but the planet fought back, revealing itself to be Primus's "sister" Gaea! Gaea was more than capable of defending herself and the Knights of Unicron helped her at a pivotal moment in the great clash, blinding Primus, and allowing her to obliterate her foe, destroying his body and thus the Cybertron of this reality. Only Primus's head remained, orbiting Gaea in her planet mode as she became "New Cybertron". The Future Buried...
IDW Shattered Glass comic
In ages long past, the Titans walked the surface of Cybertron, though details of this age eventually became lost to time. Shattered Glass #3
In the era before the Great War, Cybertron was ruled by a corrupt Senate, one that was protested by Megatron and his future Decepticons. The societal tensions eventually devolved into full-scale civil war between the ruling Autobots and the Decepticon malcontents. The fighting briefly spread to the distant planet Earth only for the Decepticons to fall back to Cybertron once they were defeated on the organic planet. After the Autobots razed Earth, they too returned to their homeworld, decisively retaking control of it. Shattered Glass #2 The Autobots' rule eventually fractured, Goldbug and Prowl breaking off from Optimus Prime and claiming a kingdom of their own, engaging in border skirmishes with their rivals. Shattered Glass #1 Shattered Glass #4 Left on Earth, Megatron eventually followed his kind back to Cybertron, a decision he soon came to regret, and took up an existence as a hermit in the wilderness. Shattered Glass #2
Almost a megacycle after the Great War ended in Autobot victory, Shattered Glass #3 Starscream eventually tracked down Megatron, Shattered Glass #1 managing to reignite his fighting spirit with a plan to reawaken the Titan Metroplex to reclaim Cybertron with. Shattered Glass #2 From a pub in Gold City, the Decepticons attempted to summon their remaining army only for Goldbug's forces to capture Starscream. Shattered Glass #3
While the Decepticons quickly mobilized to rescue Starscream, Shattered Glass #4 the fight ended with him killed by Goldbug who subsequently fled the city with the Seeker's unique spark. With the Decepticons poised to take Gold City, Goldbug fled to Metroplex, managing to rouse him with Starscream's spark. Shattered Glass #5
As the Decepticons rebuilt Gold City into "New Kaon", the Wreckers launched a coup against Optimus Prime. Shattered Glass II #1 After Goldbug had done the heavy lifting of rebooting Metroplex, the Wreckers moved in and claimed the Titan for themselves. Shattered Glass II #3 Soundwave and Jetfire managed to remove Starscream's spark, returning the Titan to stasis, while the Wreckers fell in battle. While Jetfire fled with Starscream's spark, Soundwave noted that other threats existed but that he would never stop fighting until Cybertron knew true peace. Shattered Glass II #5
Animated
The ancient world of Cybertron orbited the star Hadean, and was considered by the Autobots to be one of the most important planets in the Milky Way. Its true origins are unknown, though various theories suggested that it could have begun as a planet-sized factory, a product of atechnogenesis, or played a role in a clash between primordial titans. Chronometric dating suggests that Cybertron is approximately ten billion years old, with the earliest Cybertronian civilizations roughly eight billion years ago, a product of the mysterious, life-giving artifact known as the AllSpark. By six billion years ago, the Guardians and Malignus factions had colonized much of the Hadean system; by 750 million years ago, after the conclusion of the Third Cybertronian War, Cybertron had become the heart of a nascent interstellar empire that would come to be known as the Autobot Commonwealth as it underwent the Age of Expansion. The AllSpark Almanac II
The Great War between the Autobots and Decepticons began ten million years ago, when Megatron expressed his plan of using the Allspark to transform Cybertron into an "interstellar juggernaut". The AllSpark Almanac II The war razed Cybertron, The Thrill of the Hunt but the Autobots finally found a lasting advantage with the construction of the Omega Sentinels TransWarped. Autobot mastery of space bridge technology and their strategic relocation of the Allspark led to ultimate victory, where the Decepticons were driven from the planet entirely. Transform and Roll Out TransWarped Cybertron was once again dedicated to peace and an entire generation had seen neither armor-plating nor the transistor of a Decepticon. The AllSpark Almanac II
The Autobot culture under commander Ultra Magnus was primarily peaceful, although there was an organized militancy in the form of active boot camps Autoboot Camp. The ancient building Metroplex was home to the Autobot High Council and Guilds Domesticus, while the head of military operations was Fortress Maximus. The capital of Iacon was a major location, home to destinations such as Maccadam's Old Oil House, The AllSpark Almanac II and the abandoned Cyber-Ninja Dojo. Five Servos of Doom Cybertron and its citizens were very unfamiliar with and afraid of organic life. This Is Why I Hate Machines According to Sentinel Prime, it doesn't rain liquid on Cybertron; Where Is Thy Sting? despite this, it is has been shown raining. The Stunti-Con Job Make of this what you will.
Many stellar cycles later, a web of uncoordinated Decepticon attacks on the rim of the galaxy began taking place, in an attempt to claim control of the space bridges and TransWarp to the Spacebridge Nexus in Iacon, to wipe out the unarmed Autobot populace from within. Receiving wind of these attacks from a double agent on Cybertron, Megatron sent a transmission to the Decepticon cells and ordered the organizing of the attacks, Mission Accomplished and he himself began constructing a Space Bridge to lead his armies. Rise of the Constructicons
However, Megatron's space bridge was destroyed by the reactivated Omega Sentinel Omega Supreme. A Bridge Too Close, Part II The attacks were subsequently called off, much to the disappointment of the Decepticons who had managed to secure the bridges. TransWarped
When Megatron's double agent, Shockwave, sensed that his cover was about to be blown, he attacked Ultra Magnus, mangling the Autobot leader Where Is Thy Sting? and causing him to be put on severe life-support. This Is Why I Hate Machines This was not enough to save him, unfortunately, and he soon went offline. The AllSpark Almanac II Sentinel Prime, the acting Magnus, took advantage of the fear and paranoia created by the attack to grant himself emergency powers and aggressively remilitarize Cybertron, in an effort to combat the growing Decepticon threat. This Is Why I Hate Machines
However, Megatron, Shockwave and the other Decepticons immediately under his command were subsequently captured by the maintenance bot Optimus Prime and his team on Earth, Endgame, Part II where they were imprisoned in Trypticon Prison, part of the Decepticon City State of Kaon. A failed breakout attempt followed, with the Decepticons then diverting their attention to the (forceful) acquisition of Energon. The Stunti-Con Job
Aligned continuity family
The Covenant of Primus
Cybertron was the mortal form of Primus, who, in aeons past, chose to enter into a deep hypersleep as to avoid the depredations of his aggressive sibling Unicron. After Primus removed himself from the conflict, he created the Thirteen to fight in his stead, and the warriors successfully managed to defeat and exile Unicron, banishing his dormant body into a distant region of the galaxy.
Left to their own devices, the Thirteen began laying the foundations for a new society, only for the machinations of Liege Maximo to start the War of the Primes. The brief but violent battle concluded with the death of Solus Prime and the Liege Maximo, while Onyx Prime sustained mortal injuries and Megatronus exiled himself into deep space. Realizing that they themselves would need to leave Cybertron behind if the planet was to stand any chance of developing, the remaining Primes hatched a new plan to populate the planet with a race of beings based on their forms. Using a combination of Onyx Prime's Triptych Mask and the Well of All Sparks that had developed on the planet after Solus's passing, Vector Sigma itself was able to scan and gather data on all living creatures from across the universe and used that information to synthesize the first true generation of Cybertronian lifeforms: first, primitive bestial creatures, then the first humanoid Cybertronians—the Transformers themselves—and, finally, the Predacons. This era would later be known as the "Age of Evolution".
Early civilizations grew and thrived amidst this mechanical ecosystem, with the Thirteen defending these primitive villages against the aggressive Predacons, until Cybertron was menaced by the Great Cataclysm, which rendered most Cybertronian life, including the Predacons, extinct. In the subsequent "Age of Origins," the Cybertronian wilds would be tamed by increasingly sophisticated Cybertronian societies, with Azimuth and her Patterners responsible for reshaping vast swathes of Cybertron's wilderness with the ritualistic astrological charts necessary to predict another potential Great Cataclysm. It was in this state that Cybertron was discovered by the Quintessons, the rogue creations of Quintus Prime. The subsequent "Age of Wrath" saw Quintesson interference transform the planet into a spacefaring civilization almost overnight, installing Sentinel Zeta Prime as a puppet ruler while they manipulated the populace into an increasingly malleable and complacent state. As time went on, however, it became clear that the Quintessons had ulterior motives for the planet, and a Cybertronian rebellion that put their newfound transformational abilities to the test saw the Quintessons and their servants forced back offworld.
In their haste to flee the planet, however, the Quintessons had left their technology behind, and Cybertronians were able to reverse-engineer the principles behind space bridges. Using these devices, Cybertron began an age of colonization, the "Golden Age," settling worlds that included Archon and Velocitron, cyberformed via a conversion beam. The prosperous Cybertronian empire collapsed when the Rust Plague hit, a virulent disease that corroded all metal it touched; recognizing that the space bridges allowed it to jump from world to world, Sentinel ordered them all destroyed, cutting off Cybertron from the rest of the galaxy.
The Golden Age over, Cybertron entered the "Age of Rust," a period marked by strict social stratification and the consolidation of power under an ever-increasingly corrupt and stagnant Senate. This moribund state of affairs ended when an outspoken gladiator named Megatron emerged, his words inspiring Cybertron to accept a new generation of change. Among those who heard his message was the archivist Orion Pax, but circumstances would drive the two friends apart, sparking the Great War that would ultimately see Cybertron poisoned by Dark Energon and rendered uninhabitable for millennia until the end of the war, when the planet was re-energized and reborn. The Covenant of Primus
Video games
Transformers: War for Cybertron
When Megatron discovered the powerful substance known as Dark Energon, and that he could control it, he sought to use it to bring Cybertron under his control by infusing it into Cybertron's very core. Unaware of the true nature of the substance, the Dark Energon poisoned the planet. Though Cybertron's immune system initially fought back against the corruption, the spread proved too rapid and the planet was forced to shut down, Optimus Prime sending the Autobot fleet elsewhere in the galaxy to wait out Cybertron healing itself. War for Cybertron
Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark
In Cybertron's prehistoric era, the early Cybertronians discovered the Dark Spark, purported to be the antithesis to the Matrix of Leadership. Unable to decipher the truth of its origins, or properly tame its terrible power, the artifact was locked away within Crystal City.
In the modern era, as Cybertron continued to shut down following the Dark Energon corruption, the Autobots and Decepticons clashed over possession of the Dark Spark, Optimus eventually managing to use the Matrix of Leadership to send the Dark Spark off of Cybertron. Rise of the Dark Spark
Transformers: Fall of Cybertron
As Cybertron entered the final stages of shutdown, Shockwave re-discovered space bridge technology, using it to find a distant, primitive world that possessed a rich enough energy supply to reboot Cybertron. When he opened up a space bridge to this world, the tower was attacked by the Dinobots damaging it and rendering the portal unstable. Taking the chance to get off-world, the Autobots raced for the singularity, the Decepticons following for the chance to destroy their foes. The portal violently consumed both ships before it closed, cutting all combatants off from Cybertron. Fall of Cybertron
Aligned novels
Cybertron's origins are lost to time. It is known that the planet predated both Primus and Unicron, serving as their battleground in its prehistory. After Primus removed himself from the conflict and created the Thirteen, the warriors managed to exile Unicron from the planet. Exodus Early Cybertronian civilization can trace its roots back to Alchemist Prime, who was known to have lived on the planet and shaped the development of prehistoric Transformer societies. Exiles The planet was also visited by the Quintessons in the distant past, who reorganized much of the planet's civilization under their cruel and barbaric rule of law, though Sentinel Prime was able to successfully oust the invaders when the Cybertronians saw through their lies. Retribution
During the planet's Golden Age, Cybertronians colonized distant worlds that included Velocitron, Gigantion, the Hub, Exodus and Aquatron, Retribution until the Rust Plague necessitated the destruction of the network. In the aftermath, only one space bridge was left in orbit of Cybertron alongside Moon Bases One, Two and the Trypticon Asteroid Belt Station.
In the new era they found themselves in, Sentinel and the Guilds instituted the caste system to slow their civilization's decline. The High Council and their Guards were in charge of law and order, but each state controlled its own militia. Exodus But as the nameless miners resorted to gladiatorial combat as an outlet for their misery, a champion named Megatron rose to seize the title of Prime for himself. Unwittingly, his Iaconian ally was appointed Optimus Prime instead, and their anti-caste movement became a civil war for Cybertron's future. The AllSpark was lost to space, whole regions of the planet were laid to waste, and the core of Cybertron was poisoned by Dark Energon, the remnants of Unicron's attack, prompting the Autobots to evacuate on the Ark. Megatron and his elite forces left on Trypticon too, now modified into the Nemesis, leaving Shockwave to deal with the Wreckers. Exodus The largely-devastated planet would be invaded again by the Quintessons from their Aquatronian staging ground some years later, facing minimal resistance from the worn-down Autobot and Decepticon remnants that stayed on the planet, though their invasion was quickly thwarted. Retribution
Prime cartoon
Though Cybertron was once a thriving world, the former battleground between the Thirteen and Unicron in ancient times, One Shall Rise, Part 1 the war between the Autobots and the Decepticons led to the planet's poisoning, leaving it completely uninhabitable. During this conflict, Orion Pax retrieved the Matrix of Leadership from Cybertron's Core, which transformed him into Optimus Prime. One Shall Rise, Part 3
After the planet had been functionally abandoned, the Decepticons began shipping energon back to Cybertron, drawing the attention of Autobots Cliffjumper and Arcee. Discovering a Decepticon space bridge, the two Autobots managed to overload it and escape to Earth to join Optimus Prime. Out of the Past Though everyone else assumed Shockwave had perished when he chased Cliffjumper and Arcee into the portal, the scientist survived. Shockwave managed to repair himself but was left marooned on Cybertron, occupying himself by resuming work on Project Predacon. Scattered
In the present, Megatron raised a zombie Terrorcon army from Cybertron's dead by hurling solidified Dark Energon at it through a space bridge. His plan to have them sack Earth was foiled, when the Autobots turned the Energon pump on the space bridge and caused it to implode. Darkness Rising, Part 5
When Optimus lost his memories, Ratchet sent Arcee and Jack to Cybertron to find Vector Sigma. Arcee told Jack to watch out for vermin. Orion Pax, Part 2 They were attacked by an Insecticon, left behind as a sentry, and a swarm of scraplets, but managed to get the information they needed from Vector Sigma, deep under Kaon. Orion Pax, Part 3
Seeking to gain an advantage over Optimus Prime and his newly acquired Star Saber, Megatron and Dreadwing used a space bridge to travel to Cybertron to acquire the hand of an unnamed dead Prime. Alpha/Omega
After acquiring the four Omega Keys, the Autobots returned to Cybertron to activate the Omega Lock and restore the planet. However, as they were about to activate the lock, Megatron and his subordinates arrived with the Autobots' human allies, threatening to expose them to Cybertron's atmosphere if they did not give him the Omega Keys. Regeneration Prime and the Autobots surrendered, handing over the Omega Keys in exchange for the humans. However, before Megatron could use the Omega Lock to cyberform Earth, Optimus Prime used the Star Saber to destroy it and save the human planet. Darkest Hour
Soon after Darkmount was raised, Megatron sent Knock Out back to Cybertron to find any relics left behind in the ruins of the Omega Lock. Darkmount, NV His instruments having detected the Omega Lock's energy, Shockwave travelled to the wreckage and was brought back to Earth to join the Decepticons. Scattered
Eventually, the Decepticons, with help from Ratchet, built a second functioning Omega Lock on the exterior of the Nemesis. Synthesis Following their defeat of Megatron, the Autobots commandeered the ship and flew to Cybertron. There, they fired the Omega Lock into the Well of All Sparks, which healed the wounded planet. Deadlock
During the process of rebuilding the planet for returning refugees, Optimus Prime and Wheeljack flew off to retrieve the AllSpark, which had been removed from the planet during the war. During this time, however, Unicron revived and took control of Megatron's body, and returned to Cybertron to destroy Primus. The chaos god led an army of Predacon Terrorcons to the Well of All Sparks, and the Autobots and Predacons joined forces to oppose them. Their efforts failed, but Optimus Prime arrived with the AllSpark and was able to use its container to trap Unicron, returning his undead army to dust in the process.
Afterwards, Optimus Prime revealed that, in order to use the container, he had transferred the AllSpark into the Matrix of Leadership, rendering his own spark inseparable from the multitudes within the AllSpark in the process. Consequently, the only way to return the AllSpark to the core would be to give his own life. With his farewells complete, the Prime flew into the Well of All Sparks, returning the AllSpark to Cybertron's core and causing numerous sparks to soar into the sky. Predacons Rising
Rescue Bots cartoon
Despite Cybertron's isolation from the larger galaxy, some starships, such as the Sigma, were occasionally sent out to conduct deep space missions and patrols. Unfinished Business
2015 Robots in Disguise cartoon
After the restoration of the Well of All Sparks, Cybertron once again returned to a period of peace and prosperity. Statues commemorating various figures in the war were constructed. Pilot (Part 1) A new High Council was chosen to rule the planet Can You Dig It? but they were usurped by Cyclonus's Decepticon cell. Via the use of a light bender, the five Decepticons assumed control of their homeworld and began making preparations for the return of Megatron and the rebirth of the Decepticon Empire. Freedom Fighters As part of their plans, they kept Cybertron isolated from the rest of the galaxy and blamed the Autobots (Optimus Prime in particular) for the damage that the Great War did to Cybertron. Decepticon Island (Part 1) Those who stood by Optimus Prime were blacklisted and were forced to find work in the lower rungs of society. Enemy of My Enemy
Lieutenant Bumblebee eventually found employment as a street patrol officer, but eventually returned to Earth via space bridge on the orders of a ghostly Optimus Prime. Pilot (Part 1) This act caused the High Council to place a bounty on Bumblebee's head for his illegal use of a space bridge. Hunting Season The Council also sent Jazz to Earth to respond to the distress signal from the Alchemor. After capturing Ped, Jazz promised he'd smooth things over with the Council, Can You Dig It? but later Drift and Fracture (and their Mini-Cons) arrived on Earth to capture Bumblebee and collect the bounty. Hunting Season
Optimus Prime returned to Cybertron aboard the rebuilt Alchemor to confront the new Council. Decepticon Island (Part 2) During the flight, he made contact with several old friends, Worthy but returned to Earth in a smaller craft when Bumblebee put out a distress signal. Strongarm's Big Score When he departed Earth again, he said the political situation on Cybertron was fluid but he was working with his friends to change it. Worthy On Cybertron however, the Council freed Steeljaw and his pack to capture the Bee Team in exchange for a full pardon. Exiles Freedom Fighters When Bumblebee became aware of this, he commented on the growing corruption on Cybertron. Exiles After Soundwave's defeat, Optimus took him and Laserbeak back to Cybertron to stand trial. Collateral Damage
Knowing the people of Cybertron would never support galactic conquest, the Council developed powerful mind-control techniques through which they could control the entire planet's population. Five Fugitives Enemy of My Enemy The mind control was powerful enough to keep Cybertronians enthralled even if they were off Cybertron. Five Fugitives
The Bee Team eventually returned to Cybertron aboard Prime Force One only to come under attack from the planet's orbital defences. As a result of their situational ally, Steeljaw, they managed to land on their homeworld where they were soon surrounded by the Council's security forces Enemy of My Enemy only to be rescued by Dropforge. The High Council soon made a planet wide broadcast announcing the "glorious invasion of Earth" and the coming prosperity before the Bee Team destroyed their light bender and exposed their Decepticon bodies. When the mind-control signal had been destroyed, all of Cybertron bore witness to Galvatronus proclaiming loyalty to Megatron before Ultra Bee defeated him, freeing Cybertron from Decepticon control.
In the aftermath, Optimus Prime declined the opportunity to rule Cybertron and left Ratchet, Jazz, Bulkhead and Windblade in charge until free elections could be held. The Bee Team opted to return to Earth however as Cybertron's first ambassadors to the planet. Freedom Fighters
Rescue Bots Academy cartoon
Optimus Prime travelled to Cybertron to collect new students for the Rescue Bot Training Center on Earth. Recruits Part I In response to meteors heading towards Iacon City, Heatwave, Grimlock and Bumblebee had to travel back to Cybertron to help out. Dino-mite Duo
Knights of Unicron
Maccadam's Old Oil House, the Toxic Sludge Swamps, The Smelting Pool, and Iacon Stadium, all located on Planet Cybertron, were the final venues for the Knights of Unicron on their 2014 "Till All Are One" tour. Knights of Unicron
Cyberverse continuity
Cybertron's precise origins are lost to history, though evidence found by the Autobots in the modern day led them to theorize that the Monsterbots and the environment that they lived in were evident of Cybertron's prehistoric era. Battle For Cybertron III
During an era that would come to be known as the Age of Expansion, Primes and Titans walked the planet, but these had all faded into myths and legends by the modern day. The Citizen Thunderhowl
The Age of Expansion saw Cybertron colonize multiple planets often founded through the efforts of a Titan. Ghost Town A special class of Titan, the War Titans, carried Cybertron's conquering armies to other planets and waged wars on alien races for their worlds. Once the Age of Expansion had ended, only one of these giants, the mighty Iaconus, survived to return to Cybertron. Unable to cope with the peacetime, he went mad and attacked Cybertron, only being felled through the sacrificial efforts of his crew. The Citizen Eons after the Expansion, Cybertron kept in contact with at least two of its colonies, Caminus and Velocitron. Terminal Velocity Maccadam's
Overseen by the High Council and/or the Senate, Matrix of Leadership the government on Cybertron was a corrupt one, so much so that Megatron was able to rally a following based on his promise of equal rights to all citizens. As time passed however, it transpired that Megatron served only his own powerlust and plunged Cybertron into the Great War to try and gain control of the planet. To that end, he aimed to seize control of the AllSpark and have it birth a new generation of troops. Megatron Is My Hero Learning of this plan, the Autobots seized the AllSpark and sent it through a space bridge to prevent anyone from abusing its power. Allspark As a consequence however, Cybertron's condition began to deteriorate prompting Optimus Prime to lead a mission on the Ark to retrieve the artifact. Matrix of Leadership
Some 66 million years later, Cybertron was still habitable but overrun by the Decepticons who'd tracked the AllSpark to Earth, sending Slipstream's squadron to retrieve it, the Autobot resistance sending Windblade to do the same. Fractured Shockwave was able to remotely tie into Bumblebee's cortical psychic patch from Cybertron, Sabotage and eventually came to Earth personally to take command of the operations. The Extinction Event
After the AllSpark had been recovered by the Autobots on Earth, they attempted to return to Cybertron and restore their world with it only for the Decepticons to dupe them into thinking the space bridge had been destroyed. Escape From Earth Using the space bridge, the Decepticons arrived home long before their foes and quickly occupied the remains of their planet, taking Chromia and Perceptor prisoner and forcing them to send out a distress signal to the Ark. The Crossroads Battle For Cybertron I
When the Autobots returned home, the battle for the AllSpark saw Cybertron be regenerated by the artifact's energies. Battle For Cybertron IV The peace would be an extremely short-lived one however for Starscream, having been found by the extra-dimensional creatures known as the Quintessons, sold out his species and planet to the aliens, leading them to invade Cybertron. As the Quintessons incorporated Starscream into their new Judge, The End Of The Universe I they began draining the energy of Cybertron into him The Alliance before the Autobots and Decepticons defeated the invaders. When Starscream revealed himself, The Judge he was felled through the combined power of two versions of the Matrix of Leadership. Along with simultaneous death of the Scientist, the invasion was considered over. The End Of The Universe IV
In this new era of tentative peace, Megatron divided the planet in half. Enemy Line With Windblade's mind scattered following the Quintesson invasion, the Autobots searched the planet and its moon Luna 3 for her psychic shards so that they could repair their friend. Thunderhowl Alien Hunt! With Meteorfire And Cosmos Journey To The Valley Of Repugnus Dweller In The Depths The war's end saw many Cybertronians, since scattered across the galaxy, return home. Wild Wild Wheel
Cybertron would soon be invaded by another universe once again. The invader, an alternate version of Megatron, came from a timeline where he had won the war in its early stages and claimed the Matrix of Leadership, since stolen from him by the primary universe Megatron, and sought his prize. A psychic shard of Windblade had founds its way within this Matrix with the ghosts within it guiding her to destroy it, short-circuiting the alternate Megatron who was taken away by his former servant, Astrotrain. With the threat of both Megatrons neutralized, peace reigned on Cybertron once again. The Other One
To make this new peace official, the Autobot and Decepticon leaders drafted the Treaty of the Wall. Though the ceremony was interrupted by a gang of Mercenaries nearly managing to ransack and destroy the whole planet, the treaty was successfully signed and the wall deactivated, reunifying the Autobots and Decepticons. The Immobilizers The celebrations were short lived, as Decepticon supersoldiers from the other dimension nearly took control of the planet in an attempt by their leader Tarn to restart the war and eliminate the Autobots. Ultimately, the Autobots and Decepticons fought back, destroying Tarn and freeing the supersoldiers from his control. In the aftermath, Optimus ceded leadership of the planet to Bumblebee, Windblade, Hot Rod and Shadow Striker, confident that they would be able to maintain Cybertron's newfound peace. The Perfect Decepticon
Alternate universes
In their travels across the multiverse, the Quintessons had come into contact with Cybertron several times, enough for their Scientist to build a collection of Soundwaves. The Scientist
In the timeline from which Megatron X hailed from, the tyrant recognized that the rift between him and Optimus would never be mended and took the initiative, killing his old friend and claiming the Matrix for himself. With it, he defeated the Autobots and had the AllSpark create him a race of Decepticon supersoldiers before ridding himself of any "unneeded" troops. When the Quintessons sought to invade this Cybertron, Megatron simply used a laser snare to defeat them before harvesting their technology for his own ends. Cybertron was eventually visited by an alternate Megatron who stole the Matrix and fled with Astrotrain. The Other One
EarthSpark cartoon
"Light years" away from Earth, Secret Legacy, Part 1 Cybertron was originally inhabited by the Thirteen Primes. One of their number, Quintus Prime, eventually left his home, seeding new life across the universe with his Emberstone. Age of Evolution, Part 1 Cybertron was sustained through the AllSpark, the source of new sparks. Warzone
As the eons passed, an "epic battle" broke out between the Autobots and Decepticons. The fighting eventually spilled over to the planet Earth on September 17, 1984. Secret Legacy, Part 1 The Decepticons brought the AllSpark to Earth with them, threatening the metallic planet's continued survival. Aided by a repentant Megatron, the Autobots attempted to return the AllSpark to Cybertron so it could revive the planet. Megatron managed to toss the AllSpark through the spacebridge just as Optimus Prime destroyed the portal. With the bridge destroyed, the Cybertronians on Earth were cut-off from their homeworld. Given the totality of the explosion, Megatron feared that the AllSpark had been destroyed and taken Cybertron with it. Warzone
Decades later, when the Decepticons on Earth had reconsolidated their forces, Shockwave felt the best usage of their resources would be return to Cybertron. Given that they still had no proof that Cybertron existed, Starscream overruled that idea and instead sought to cyberform Earth into "New Cybertron". Witwicky, Part 1
One film
Cybertron was the alternate mode of Primus, who had first populated the planet with the Thirteen. Via the power of the Matrix of Leadership, energon flowed in abundance until the Quintessons invaded. The Thirteen led the defence of their homeworld until they were betrayed by their principle aid Sentinel who sold out his race to the Quintessons by leading the Primes into an ambush. Though Sentinel thought to claim the Matrix from Zeta Prime's corpse, the talisman rejected him and dematerialized. With the planet failing to produce fresh energon in the absence of the Matrix, the newly crowned Sentinel Prime spun a lie to his people as they retreated to Cybertron's underground, harvesting the transformation cogs of yet to born Cybertronians to act as miners who would mine energon crystals from the planet's lowest levels. Travel to the surface became restricted to only Sentinel and his inner retinue, where they delivered tributes of energon to the Quintesson High Commander.
Fifty cycles after Sentinel's betrayal, Orion Pax proved himself worthy of the Matrix and was reborn as Optimus Prime, energon flowing through Cybertron once again as the planet returned the mining class' transformation cogs. As the leader of the Autobots, Optimus beamed a message into space, warning the Quintessons to stay away from Cybertron. One
Toys
Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers
- Primus (2006)
- ID number: 00
- Accessories: Omega Lock, two missiles, silver Cybertron planet-type Cyber Key
- Primus was developed by Hasbro and Takara as a toy for their joint Cybertron/Galaxy Force toylines, but was released in Japan as a Generation 1 Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers toy a few months after Galaxy Force had ended its run. This release can be considered a pre-release of the Cybertron toy because it features Hasbro's Cyber Key Codes that the Galaxy Force line lacked.
- Primus is the first toy representation of the Transformers' creator as their home planet of Cybertron. In planet mode, he is considerably more detailed than Armada Unicron, with visible cities, including Iacon, based upon its appearance in the DK Publishing book, Transformers: The Ultimate Guide, and Kaon, specifically Kolkular, as seen in The War Within. On the "bottom" of the planet mode, there are four hard rubber legs, molded to be shaped like towers, allowing Primus to be displayed in planet mode, yet not require a flat base as Unicron did.
- Primus's transformation is unusual, in many ways similar to a Powermaster, in that he requires the owner to insert his accompanying Omega Lock accessory into several special ports around the planet, then manipulate it to unlock his parts and transform him. When the Omega Lock is inserted into the "top" of his planet mode and pulled back, a transforming sound is heard, and two spring-loaded missile-firing "Stellar Converter Cannons" swing out. When it is inserted into his chest and pushed up, his head is revealed, his shoulder-pads pop-up, his eyes glow red, and a laser-type sound effect is played. The Lock itself lights up red when it is inserted into any of the ports.
- In robot mode, Primus resembles both the Beast Wars Neo Unicron prototype as well as Don Figueroa's Primus concept, created for The War Within and used in The Ultimate Guide. He is bristling with weaponry in this mode, with the Stellar Converter Cannons ending up on his shoulders, and the Omega Lock revealing several banks of Gatling guns, lasers, and missiles in his shins and legs. Each of his legs also contains extendable articulated "manipulator arms".
- Primus also has what might charitably be called a third mode—a "battle station" mode, which is basically formed by transforming the figure halfway and leaving the head down and the legs backward. It features no dedicated parts or transformation steps, making it very obvious that it was created after the fact.
- In any mode, he is armed with two double-barreled cannons which pop-up and extend when a Cyber Key is inserted. He has a special silver Cybertron-type Cyber Key, with the key code sp8u tampographed onto the back. His Omega Lock also features four slots at its base, which are meant to accommodate the four Cyber Planet Keys, although inserting them does not activate any features. There are also nine inactive Mini-Con 5 mm powerlinx posts on his person, including two on the claw arms on his legs.
Cybertron
- Cybertron Primus (Supreme Class, 2006)
- Accessories: Omega Lock, two missiles, silver Cybertron planet-type Cyber Key, Unicron head (second wave only)
- Cybertron "Cybertron Primus" is the North American version of Supreme Class Primus, released a few months after the Japanese version. The toys are identical.
- In North America, Cybertron Primus was initially released in the second wave of Cybertron Supreme Class toys. This version came packaged with a very creepy "battle damaged" Unicron head based upon his Armada appearance, whereas the following wave did not come with the Unicron head. Unusually, both waves ended up shipping simultaneously.
- Cybertron Primus (Supreme Class, 2006)
- Accessories: Omega Lock, two missiles, silver Cybertron planet-type Cyber Key
- A later version of Supreme Class Cybertron Primus was exclusive to Walmart as a Black Friday 2006 special, and included four Mini-Cons: Strongarm, Knockdown, Nightscream, and Offshoot.
Welcome to Transformers 2010
- Creator Primus (2010)
- Accessories: Omega Lock, two missiles, clear Cybertron planet-type Cyber Key
- To celebrate the year 2010, Takara redecoed the Supreme Class Primus toy and released him in TakaraTomy's Welcome to Transformers 2010 campaign, being packaged in a special box that is meant to go with the Unicron toy released the same year. "Creator Primus" is primarily metallic gunmetal in planet mode, with metallic blue robot parts, and a large number of black paint washes here and there. His Omega Lock is now blue.
- Primus comes with a retooled Cybertron-style Cyber Key which was originally available with both Cybertron Planet Deluxe Class Optimus Prime and Cybertron Planet Deluxe Class Demolishor. This Cyber Key features a "smooth" central area with no molded insignia, and a Mini-Con-style Powerlinx socket on the back. The Cyber Key included with this figure is entirely unpainted, aside from the tampographed Autobot symbol at the center.
- Creator Primus is, unfortunately, a subject of Gold Plastic Syndrome, as his metallic blue parts hit their expiry dates 13 years later.
The Last Knight
- Cybertron (2017)
- Accessories: Omega Lock, two missiles, Autobot Cybertron-type Cyber Key
- The Last Knight Cybertron is a redeco of the Supreme Class Primus mold. Contrary to stock photography, which depict the Matrix-styled Cyber Key originally sold with Cybertron Leader Class Optimus Prime, it instead comes with the standard Autobot Cybertron Cyber Key, just as the older releases of the mold did. It is advertised on the box as having a third mode, "Defense Mode", that like his Battle Station mode appears to be an intermediate between his robot and planet modes. This figure was exclusive to Toys"R"Us under the Mission to Cybertron banner. As the rest of the toys under this banner, he has decodeable Cyberglyphics on his body that spell out CYBERTRON and two cards that can form a bigger picture of Optimus and Megatron fighting on Cybertron, with Cyberglyphic writing on the back.
- It was priced at $150. Ten years earlier, Cybertron Primus had been $50. Ooof.
- This toy was later repurposed as Neo Primus.
Notes
- The name "Cybertron" was used by Marvel Comics long before the Transformers series came about. In issue 48 of the original X-Men title (released in September 1968), a computer named Computo created a race of robots named the "Cybertrons".[6]
- The size of the planet Cybertron varies between different continuities. In one, the diameter of the planet is smaller than Earth's while the Marvel comics describe it as "Saturn-sized," placing its diameter at around 120,000 km.[7] We can probably lay these at the feet of Primus, who is a god after all, and can decide to be whatever size he wants.
- The Marvel UK letters page frequently responded to queries about whether Cybertron was a Transformer. Grimlock reckoned Primus becoming a robot would just reignite his battle with Unicron where it left off.[8] Dreadwind didn't think Primus could become a robot, but then what would he know?[9] Blaster thought that Cybertron was more likely to "turn into a rapidly expanding ball of component molecules, the way things are going at the moment"[10] and answered a similar query with a flat "No."[11] So there you have it. Cybertron would never become a Transformer! Now scroll back up.
- Cybertron's "gashed" moon, often glimpsed during the course of Beast Machines, is heavily based on one side of a modern sculpture by Arnaldo Pomodoro, "Sphere with Sphere" ("Sfera con Sfera"), that can be found in the Vatican City's Courtyard of the Pinecone.[12] See, kids? Transformers IS educational.
- In the English dub of the The Headmasters cartoon, the planet is repeatedly called Cyberton. This is most likely due to bad translation.
- A HasLab Cybertron/Primus was considered at one point.[13]
Foreign names
- Japanese: Cybertron-sei (セイバートロン星 Seibātoron-sei,[14] サイバトロン星 Saibatoron-sei, サイバートロン星 Saibātoron-sei; "Planet Cybertron")
- Armenian: Kibertron (Կիբերտրոն, "Cybertron")
- Cantonese: Cybertron (斯比頓 Si1 bei2 deon6)
- English: Cyberton (Omni Productions dub)
- Hungarian: Kibertron (Marvel Comics, Rescue Bots sometimes, Cybertron 2nd dub), Kájbertron (first The Movie dub), Mesterséges bolygó (Energon 1st dub, "Artificial planet"), Cybertron (live action movies, Rescue Bots sometimes, Rescue Bots Academy, Prime, Robots in Disguise)
- Indonesian: Saibertron
- Italian: Sibara (Dub of Super God Masterforce only)
- Korean: Cybertron (사이버트론 "Saibeoteulon")
- Mandarin: Cybertron (赛博坦/塞伯坦 "Sàibótǎn"; 賽博創 "Sàibóchuàng"; 賽博宙 "Sàibózhòu")
- Russian: Kibertron (Кибертрон, "Cybertron")
- Serbian: Kibortron (Generation 1 dub and first dub of Generation 2), Sajbertron (Second G2 dub, Armada, Cybertron, Animated, Prime)
- Ukrainian: Kibertron (Кібертрон, "Cybertron")
References
- ↑ Darn 'n' Blast, issue 303
- ↑ Author Simon Furman stated that Cybertron orbits the star Shaula, a real star that can be observed from Earth as the second-brightest object in the tail of the constellation Scorpius, though this information never made it into an actual issue.
- ↑ Titans Return Titan Force 3-pack map
- ↑ Shockwave's profile in Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club #22.
- ↑ Starscream's profile in Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club #23.
- ↑ Computo and the "Cybertrons" at the Appendix to the Handbook of the Marvel Universe
- ↑ World of TRANSFORMERS
- ↑ Grim Grams, issue 160
- ↑ Dread Tidings, issue 272
- ↑ Darn 'n' Blast, issue 323
- ↑ Darn 'n' Blast, issue 325
- ↑ Photo of Sfera con Sfera
- ↑ "Have considered doing #HasLab Cybertron/Primus. Banter about how impossibly huge a HasLab #GIJoe USS Flagg would be. #Hasbro #Transformers #MCMComicCon"—ZakuFan0079, Twitter, reporting on MCM Comic Con 2022, 2022/10/29
- ↑ For decades, Western fans have typically opted to render the Japanese pronunciation of the planet's name as "Seibertron" (pronounced "Say-ber-tron") in order to distinguish it from the Japanese name of the Autobots, the "Cybertrons" (pronounced "Sigh-ber-tron"). However, several Japanese sources actually spell it as "Cybertron" in English, including the Headmasters video game, the covers of the "Planet of Cybertron Guide" books included with Takara's mid-90s LaserDisc sets of the original cartoon, a Beast Wars trading card, and the packaging for Galaxy Force toys. Sources beyond these are surprisingly scarce, although an article in the December 1985 issue of Comic Bom Bom did render the planet's name in English as, of all things, "Saybertron".
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