Cybertron
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Cybertron is the home world of the Autobots and Decepticons in the fictional Transformers Universe. The capital of Cybertron is the Iacon Hub City and serves as the base of operations for the Autobots. Other cities are Kaon (the Decepticon capital), Perihex, Antihex, Uraya, Polyhex, Vos, Tarn.
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Physical characteristics
According to Marvel and Dreamwave comics, Cybertron is the size of Saturn, though in the cartoon universe, it is presented as being the size of or smaller than Earth's moon (a direct comparison was offered when the planet was pulled into Earth's orbit in 1984). It has a labyrinthine series of tunnels and caverns inside, creating something of a honeycomb effect that allows for the planet's gravity to be roughly the same as Earth (a planet the size of Saturn that was solid metal would have crushing gravity that humans could not survive).
Cybertron has two moons, names unknown, that in the later days of the great war served as bases for the Autobots during the planet wide Decepticon occupation. The moons have a gravity approximately equal to that of Cybertron owing to the fact that the moons are much denser than Cybertron,
Storyline
Cartoon
In the cartoon continuity, the planet was used by the Quintessons, malevolent beings with five faces, to manufacture commercially-sold robots that would eventually rebel and become the Transformers we know. Noted artifacts of legend on the planet include Vector Sigma, the supercomputer that gives Transformers life, and the Plasma Energy Chamber, the forge that the original Quintesson robots were created in, charged with destructive plasma energy.
Unicron consumed both of Cybertron’s moons in the year 2005, as depicted in Transformers: The Movie. The destruction of Unicron at the hands of Rodimus Prime wielding the Autobot Matrix of Leadership gave Cybertron a new satellite: Unicron's head.
In the G1 cartoon episode, "The Dweller in the Depths," some Transformers voyage down into the deepest region of the planet, which appears to be made of rock.
Comic
In the comic book storyline (produced by Marvel Comics, and more recently by Dreamwave Productions) Cybertron was formed when a benevolent deity named Primus trapped both himself and his immortal foe, Unicron, inside a couple of planetoids. While Unicron psionically shaped his planetoid into a mechanical world that could transform into a monstrous robot, Primus instead turned himself into a metal world, which he populated with a race of robotic beings that would become the Transformers.
Japanese series
Cybertron was all but destroyed in the Japanese series Transformers: Headmasters episode 8, after the Predacons plant bombs in Vector Sigma's chamber in a "Scorched Cybertron" attack. Outside the Japanese storylines, Cybertron was never destroyed, but it was heavily decimated by Unicron when he appeared in orbit.
Beast Machines
In the controversial sequel series, Beast Machines, revealing that the planet had once been organic, and that it's core remained intact, as Optimus Primal strove to restore the balance between the technological and the organic, resulting in the reformatting of the planet into a techno-organic form.
Some major events in Cybertronian history
Cartoon history
- Twelve Million Years Ago - Quintessons build factories on the planet to produce commercially sold robots.
- Eleven Million Years Ago - Robot rebellion forces Quintessons off planet. War begins between two factions of robots, who establish themselves as the Autobots and Decepticons. The Autobots win - or at least stalemate - the war through the invention of transformation.
- Golden Age of Cybertron - Guardian Robots police the peace, Energon is abundant. The creation of Megatron (the first Transformer with robot-mode flight capablities) begins the war anew. The precise duration of the Golden Age is unknown, but it was well established by Nine Million Years Ago.
- Four Million Years Ago - The severe energy depletion the war causes forces the Autobots to voyage in search of new planets with new energy sources.
- 1984 - Cybertron is transported into the Milky Way galaxy by the Decepticons' space bridge
- At some point prior to 2005, the Decepticon achieve total domination of the planet. The Autobots are forced off it.
- 2005 - The arrival and subsequent defeat of Unicron allows the Autobots to reclaim the planet.
- 2007 - After an attempt by Galvatron to use the Plasma Energy Chamber to destroy the planet, Cybertron is revitalized ushering in a second Golden Age.
Comic history
- Formation through Primus's gambit, creation of Transformer race
- Megatron establishes the politically dissident faction, the Decepticons, who invent transformation technology and wage war on the Autobots, who fight back by copying the tech
- The ferocity of the war knocks Cybertron out of its orbit.
- Cybertron drifts into the path of an asteroid belt - the Autobots pilot their craft, the Ark, out to blast a safe path through
- 1991 - Unicron attacks Cybertron
- In the wake of Unicron's destruction, the planet appears to be disintegrating, but in fact reshapes and renews itself.
Dreamwave comics history
- Primus creates 13 Transformers - the thirteenth betrays him and sides with Unicron.
- Death of Autobot leader, Sentinel Prime, leads to the choosing of the next Autobot leader, Optimus Prime. Plans for a planetwide exodus are halted.
- Prime and Megatron vanish in a spacebridge test. "The Dark Ages" begin. Factions splinter. The 13th Transformer, the Fallen, returns.
- Megatron returns with an army of 'air warrior' clones, courtesy of the Quintessons, bringing about an age of internment.
- Four million years ago, the Autobots search for new planets in hopes of renewing Cybertron's depleted energy resources
- Planetwide stasis lock, known as "The Great Shutdown"
- Shockwave revives, experiments on Transformers, brings Cybertron back online and plans to invade Earth