Foreston

The planet Foreston (フォレストン Foresuton) is home to an ancient facility for constructing Cybertronian bodies.

Fiction

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After expelling their Quintesson creators from the planet, the robotic inhabitants of Cybertron sought to give themselves new bodies of their own design, and an underground facility was established on Foreston to develop these frames. While the "second generation" project started well, the Diadem facility where the body frames were being tested suffered an attack by a faction called Liegemen, who devastated the installation and stole a large supply of bodies. The project subsequently faltered and was forgotten entirely during Cybertron's civil war, but the plant on Foreston never received a stop order, and its automated systems thus spent millions of years continuing to produce and improve "G2" bodies.

Unfortunately, the process also gave life to a swarm of strange, formless prototypes, which proceeded to burst its way out of the facility to the surface. Some time afterwards, a party of Autobots arrived at the factory, bypassing the plant's ancient security systems thanks to Crosscut's status as a senator. Although concerned about the escaped swarm, the team successfully claimed the facility's technology, which was used to grant Sideswipe a G2 upgrade Masterpiece Crosscut profile and later, to restore the form of the marooned interdimensional traveller Burn Out. Masterpiece Dia Burn Out profile

The Decepticons got wind of the G2 bodies and stole several for themselves. Desiring more, they sent a strike team to Foreston, with the goal of getting more or destroying what was left so the Autobots couldn't use them. However, they found themselves waylaid by the Liegemen's descendants, who also wanted G2 bodies of their own. Masterpiece Riggorus profile

Notes

• While the extent of the in-universe connection (if any) is currently unclear, Foreston's name and role in providing "G2 upgrades" are a reference to forestonite, an esoteric energy source first mentioned in Japanese G-2 fiction and later depicted in stories from Fun Publications as the mechanism by which many characters were upgraded into their Generation 2 forms.