Quintessa (planet)

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{{disambig2|the planet which the Quintessons call home|the Decepticon Triple Changer|Astrotrain (G1)}}
:''Quintessa is a [[planet]] in the [[Generation 1]] [[continuity family]]. In the Marvel UK comic continuity, it is known as Quintesson.''

[[Image:FFOD2 Quintessa.JPG|right|300px|thumb|It used to look like a normal planet, but the Quintessons made it look weird to upset everyone who saw it. Seriously, they're that evil!]]
'''Quintessa''' is the home planet of the [[Quintesson|Quintessons]]. It is also home to various deadly robotic creatures, all as twisted and malevolent as the Quintessons themselves.

==Generation 1==
===Generation 1 cartoon continuity===
While fleeing the forces of [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]], a shuttle containing [[Hot Rod (G1)|Hot Rod]], [[Kup (G1)|Kup]], and the [[Dinobot (G1)|Dinobots]] crash-landed on Quintessa. Kup and Hot Rod narrowly escaped death at the tentacles of a giant squid, but escaped only to be captured by [[Sharkticon (G1)|Sharkticons]]. While imprisoned, they encountered [[Kranix]], last survivor of [[Lithone (planet)|Lithone]], who managed to warn them of [[Unicron]] before he was tried and executed by the Quintessons. The Autobots were also tried and sentenced to death. but fought their way out of the Sharkticon pit and, with the aid of the Dinobots and their new ally [[Wheelie (G1)|Wheelie]], defeated the Sharkticons and turned the surviving creatures against their masters. Stealing a Quintesson ship, the Autobots escaped the planet. {{storylink|The Transformers: The Movie|The Transformers: The Movie}}

Shortly afterwards, Kup, [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]], and [[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Spike Witwicky]] were kidnapped from the [[Galactic Olympics]] and taken to Quintessa, where they were tried and sentenced to death. Before they could be devoured, Hot Rod, [[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]], [[Arcee (G1)|Arcee]], [[Springer (G1)|Springer]], and the [[Aerialbot (G1)|Aerialbots]] mounted a daring rescue. Determined to destroy the Autobots, the Quintessons evacuated the planet and initiated its self-destruct sequence. While Quintessa was blown to atoms, the Autobots survived. {{storylink|Five Faces of Darkness, Part 2|Five Faces of Darkness, Part 2}}

====Kiss Players Position====
While traversing space and time inside [[Fortress Maximus (G1)|Fortress Maximus]], the [[Kiss Players (singing group)|Kiss Players]] girls ended up stranded on Quintessa, where they were immediately captured and put on trial. With the help of their [[Sparkbot]] partners, they called on the power of [[wikipedia:Moe_(slang)|Moe]] to "cute" their way out of trouble, but this failed spectacularly. However, [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] and [[Bumblebee (G1)|Goldbug]] happened to be in the area, and rescued the girls from the [[Sharkticon (G1)|Sharkticon]] pit.

Fortress Maximus returned, and the resulting spacewarp not only pulled the girls to safety, but also scattered the Quintessons. {{storylink|Kiss Players (radio drama)|Kiss Players Position}}

===Marvel Comics continuity===
{{note|Events from the [[The Transformers (Marvel comic)|UK-only]] comic stories are in italics.}}
''In 2008, the Quintesson homeworld was swallowed up by a time-space fault that was the result of [[Cyclonus (G1)|Cyclonus]] and [[Scourge (G1)|Scourge]]'s time-travel activities. The Quintessons had planned to turn [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] (or another suitable robot planet) into a new homeworld, but they were unsuccessful. Quintesson was subsequently consumed by a rift in time and space and its survivors were not seen after this point.'' {{storylink|Space Pirates!|Space Pirates!}}

{{note|The Quintesson homeworld was simply called "Quintesson" in the UK comics.}}

===Dreamwave Comics continuity===
[[Image:Quintessa.jpg|right|180px|thumb|Astrotrain. Seriously.]]
From their citadel on Quintessa, several Quintessons studied recent activity on [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]], and prepared for the coming of [[Unicron]]. {{Storylink|Generation One issue 0}}

{{note|The planet Quintessa also seemed to appear in orbit around Cybertron in "[[Destined for Nothing|Destined For Nothing]]", but this is, in fact, an ambiguously drawn [[Astrotrain (G1)|Astrotrain]].}}

==Trivia==
*According to [[Floro Dery]] <ref>[http://hometown.aol.com/kuest144/making1.html The Making of the Transformers Visual Universe]</ref>, Quintessa is modeled after a skull, presumably one viewed in profile or slightly behind the rear of the skull.

also in the g1 movie hot rod cup and the dinobots crash landed on quintessa and hot rod and cup were captured by Sharkticons meanwhile the dinobots made a friend his name is wheelie later hot rod and cup were about to fall into a Sharkticon pit by the quintessons but the dinobots saved the almost hopeless autobots

==Footnotes==
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