Editing Earth's core

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'''[[Earth]]'s core''' is a turmoil of superheated rock known as magma. It is potentially a source of immense power, provided it can be safely tapped. Accessing Earth's core can be a tricky prospect, however should you try, be very careful what you're getting into, as Earth's core might actually be [[Unicron]], and he tends to get cranky if you drill into him.

==Fiction==
===Generation 1 cartoon continuity===
====''The Transformers'' cartoon====
A shaft of crystal in the [[Arctic]] led all the way to Earth's core. The [[Decepticon]]s tapped it to turn Earth's heat into [[energon]], causing temperatures worldwide to plummet. After a battle with the Autobots resulted in the Decepticons retreating, the crystal was buried. {{storylink|Fire in the Sky}} Another similar crystal shaft was located in [[Peru]]. The Decepticons used the energies from the Earth's core to power a laser cannon until the Autobots again foiled their plans. {{storylink|Fire on the Mountain (episode)|Fire on the Mountain}} Never ones to give up, the Decepticons constructed a massive drill in a cave and began drilling their way to the Earth's core. This plan was undone when an Autobot attempt to gain control of [[Devastator (G1)|Devastator]] resulted in the giant damaging the drill, endangering Earth while the Decepticons were still on it. Devastator successfully stopped the drill before Earth was destroyed. {{storylink|The Core}}

====''The Headmasters'' cartoon====
The Decepticons constructed [[Death Tower]]s as part of a plan to destroy the planet, drawing power from Earth's core and turning it into electromagnetic radiation. {{storylink|The Final Showdown on Earth (Part 1)}}

===Marvel ''The Transformers'' comics===
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After traveling back in time, [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]] set up a [[power siphon]] atop [[Mount Verona]] with the aim of harnessing the power of Earth's core, believing it would give him godlike power. {{storylink|Burning Sky!}} The siphon was eventually destroyed during a battle between Galvatron and the Autobots [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]] and [[Bumblebee (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Goldbug]]. {{storylink|Vicious Circle!}}

===The Official Transformers: Generation 2 Annual===
The Decepticons constructed huge rocket engines on [[Clarke Atoll]], powering them with plasma from Earth's core in order to turn the planet into a huge spacecraft. The Autobots flew right into the engines and them engines up, because that sort of thing isn't cool. {{storylink|Moving Day Planet Earth}}

===2001 ''Robots in Disguise'' cartoon===
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[[Optimus Prime (RID)|Optimus Prime]] lured [[Megatron (RID)|Megatron]] into Earth's core via the [[Global Space Bridge]] for a final climactic battle and defeated the Decepticon leader with the [[Matrix Blade]]. {{storylink|The Final Battle (RID)|The Final Battle}}

===Live-action film series===
====Titan movie comics====
In a [[Tyran 208.28 Gamma|divergent timeline]], the Decepticons succeeded at Mission City and conquered the United States. Following an unsuccessful attempt by [[Megatron (Movie)|Megatron]] to use the [[AllSpark]] to reformat Earth into a new [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]], {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 9|Twilight's Last Gleaming, Part: 1}} [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]] worked out that the corruption had reached the Earth's core and infected it. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 17|Return to Cybertron: Part 1}} The Autobots later successfully obtained a supply of [[Nucleon (substance)|Nucleon]] with which to save the planet. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 20|Return to Cybertron: Part 4}}

====''The Last Knight''====
In the distant past, the planet Earth formed around the inert body of [[Unicron]] who became the planet's very core. A NASA scientist explained that Earth's core created the magnetic field that protected the planet from solar winds and cosmic radiation. When [[Quintessa (TLK)|Quintessa]] began draining the life from Unicron into Cybertron, the same scientist explained to his colleagues that Cybertron was using the geo-thermal energy from Earth's core to reignite its own and repair the damage to its surface. He warned that the core's temperature was rapidly dropping and if the core became too cold, the magnetic field would collapse altogether and all life on Earth would surely die. While the Autobots managed to prevent the core from being completely drained of energy, it was still a great deal cooler than it was before. {{storylink|Transformers: The Last Knight (film)|The Last Knight}}

===Aligned continuity family===
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====''Prime'' cartoon====
Earth formed around [[Unicron/Aligned|Unicron]], with the evil god becoming its core. {{storylink|One Shall Rise, Part 1}} As a planetary alignment approached, [[Dark Energon]] began welling up from Unicron. {{storylink|One Shall Fall}} As Unicron began to wake {{storylink|One Shall Rise, Part 1}} [[Team Prime]] took the desperate step of teaming up with [[Megatron (WFC)|Megatron]] and [[GroundBridge|GroundBridging]] to the core. {{storylink|One Shall Rise, Part 2}} Braving [[Unicron's antibodies|anti-bots]], they fought their way to Unicron's spark chamber and [[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus Prime]] used the [[Matrix of Leadership]] to defeat the dark god. {{storylink|One Shall Rise, Part 3}}
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====2015 ''Robots in Disguise'' cartoon====
Attempting to exact revenge against both Earth and Cybertron for their role in his perceived fall, [[The Fallen|Megatronus]] used a [[spark fuser]] to summon both the [[AllSpark]] and the remaining Anti-Spark of Unicron. The Anti-Spark consequently rose from Earth's core to Earth's surface, but after Optimus Prime destroyed the fuser, the Anti-Spark flew back down through the hole it had come from. {{storylink|Battlegrounds, Part 2}} 

[[Flamesnort]] was assigned to Earth during the war the Decepticons to guard a [[Seismic-shock warhead]] hidden within an isle offshore of [[United Kingdom|England]]. When [[Bumblebee (WFC)|Bumblebee]] and [[Fixit (RID)|Fixit]] arrived on the island, his attempts to fight them were hampered by his extreme old age and Energon deprivation, and, faced with Bumblebee's tale of an Autobot invasion fleet being two days away, chose to execute "Plan Omega" - the detonation of the warhead, to deny the island (and the planet) to the evil Autobots. The two Autobots actually present arrived in his base just as the warhead powered up and began to hammer down Earth's core (where the dormant Unicron resided), where it would detonate and "crack the planet in half". Bumblebee was able to distract Flamesnort from his control console long enough for Fixit to remove the weapon's ignition key before the warhead could reach the Earth's core, deactivating the superweapon. {{storylink|The Golden Knight}}

==External links==
*{{w|Structure of Earth}} at Wikipedia
*{{w|Earth's inner core}} at Wikipedia
*{{w|Earth's outer core}} at Wikipedia

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