Kolkular

As the capitol of the city-state Kaon, Kolkular is where Decepticon command is located. Via the many monitors and other equipment in the Cradle, the fortress's command hub and throne room, contact is maintained with the outside world. Kolkular has artificially been lifted up far above the Kaon landscape to keep it out of reach of attacks and other harmful events, extendable elevators allowing the inhabitants to enter and leave.

Fiction

Dreamwave Generation One continuity

At the Cradle, Megatron discussed the beginning of the war with Soundwave and Starscream while monitoring his troops's activities. As his leader took a few cheap swipes at the late Emirate Xeon, whose head adorned his throne, Starscream grew annoyed and demanded that he pay attention to the Autobots' evacuation plan. Megatron assured the Seeker the Autobots wouldn't get away and sent him, Skywarp and Thundercracker on a mission to Protihex. In the company of Soundwave, Megatron took the elevator down to the surface to obtain a status report on the planetary engines. The War Within #2

Later, believing he had killed Megatron, Starscream happily took over command. From the Cradle, he informed Shockwave over at Iacon that there had been a shift in the hierarchy, but Shockwave was not impressed and vowed to look into the matter when he returned. Unimpressed himself with Shockwave's words, Starscream ordered his soldiers to extract every scrap of data from their captive, Laserbeak, in order to understand Megatron's plans to reshape Cybertron. As soon as he had it figured out, he left for the controls of the planetary engines to initiate the mechaforming procedure. The War Within #4

2005 IDW continuity

Megatron was seated on his throne in Kolkular as he used Laserbeak to spy on Orion Pax's hunt for Hot Rod. Ruins After saving Orion Pax, Megatron brought him and his unit there to form an alliance with them to fight Zeta Prime. Choices

Following Megatron's first major defeat, he was exiled from Cybertron by Scorponok, who then gathered the Decepticon army at Kolkular and declared himself to be their new leader. Wreckage He then used Kolkular's central command center to plan his first move: an attack on the Toraxxis mega-refinery. Faces of Darkness Once Megatron returned to Cybertron, he summoned Scorponok to his throne room in Kolkular where he beat the life out of the usurper. The Illusion of Control

Live-action film series

Kolkular exists and is surrounded by Kaon, the area containing Maccadams, the Rad Zone, the Arena, Hexima State, the area in which the Smelting Pool is located and Altihex. Risk

Beast Wars: Uprising

During the Grand Uprising, the city of Kolkular became a contested area between the Resistance and the Builders. Safe Spaces

Games

Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark

Situated in Kaon, Kolkular was Megatron's seat of power in the time prior to the Great Exodus. After Shockwave brought the Dark Spark and Cliffjumper to Kolkular, Optimus Prime and Jazz snuck into the fortress to rescue their friend only to wind up trapped in the prison cells. Anticipating this, Optimus had Perceptor aim Trypticon's laser at Kolkular, destroying the prison and allowing the three Autobots to break free. After sending Jazz and Cliffjumper back to Autobot territory, Optimus went to confront Megatron, managing to use the Matrix of Leadership to banish the Dark Spark from Cybertron. Rise of the Dark Spark

Toys

Generation 1

Ugh, dude! You've got a Kolkular!

• Primus (Supreme, 2006)

Kolkular is one of two distinguishable cities molded into the surface of Primus's planet mode, designed specifically to match its appearance in Dreamwave's The War Within comics and DK's Transformers: The Ultimate Guide. In Primus's robot mode, Kolkular ends up on the underside of Primus's heel, which is probably symbolic.

The other city is the Autobot city-state Iacon, which, similar to the depiction on the Cybertron map in the Ultimate Guide, is placed on the opposite end of the toy from Kolkular. Its placement, however, is likely a coincidence.

Cybertron

• Cybertron Primus (Supreme, 2006)

Yep, it was still there when the toy was released months later in the Cybertron toyline.

Transformers (2010)

Stay out of my bathroom.

• Creator Primus (Supreme 2010)

Still here! And it's a new color!

Merchandise

• RISK TRANSFORMERS CYBERTRON Battle Edition (2007)

Kolkular is one of the purple zones on the board.

Notes

• Kolkular was first mentioned in Simon Furman's non-canon story "Alignment". After being driven off Cybertron, the Decepticons had made another planet their New Cybertron, where they had a complete "superbly detailed recreation" of Kolkular built. Kolkular is described as "a colossal fortress that spanned an entire continent and was clearly visible from outer space". It is home to the Grand Forum, "a vast open hall protected by a fiery energy dome", where the Decepticon High Council holds its meetings. An atrium lies next to it where "sculptures depicting former Decepticon leaders" stand. Interestingly, this sounds like a description of the Hall of Heroes, but any connection to it or the Decepticon stronghold is speculation. Kolkular was made official in adapted form a few years later in the pages of Dreamwave's comics.
• The drill-elevator used to get down from Kolkular looks similar in design to the docking tower the Decepticons used to get in and out of their underwater base in the original cartoon—only, of course, upside down.