Editing Celestial Spires

:''The Golden Spires of Iacon are buildings from the [[Generation 1 (franchise)|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''
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The '''Golden Spires of Iacon''' are towers in [[Iacon (city-state)|Iacon]], located within the protection of the [[Great Dome]] that outlines [[Iacon Central]]. It is unclear what their significance is to Iacon, except for one of the spires housing the '''Celestial Temple''', also known as the '''Council Chambers'''. There, the [[Council of Autobot Elders]] comes together to decide on Iacon's course of action. Because Iacon tends to be the place that the [[Autobot]]s protect best, the Spires and the Dome are of symbolic importance to them and they often refer to them to signify amazement, surprise or exasperation.

==Fiction==
===Marvel Comics continuity===
====Generation 1====
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''The Council of Autobot Elders held session in the Celestial Temple to decided how to deal with the war between [[Tarn]] and [[Vos]]. [[Traachon]]'s wish to think of Iacon and let Tarn and Vos destroy each other won out.'' {{storylink|State Games}} ''Looking back, the Council agreed that had been a bad idea, as the Tarn-Vos conflict brought about the uprising of a new faction: the [[Decepticon]]s. They destroyed or conquered many [[Polities of Cybertron|city-states]] before they turned their attention to Iacon. Another hearing of the Council went in favor of [[Xaaron]]'s wish to grant [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Optimus Prime]] full control of the Autobot army. Under Optimus Prime's command, the Autobots saved what remained of Iacon, among which the Spires.'' {{storylink|And There Shall Come...a Leader!}} 

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As the war continued and [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] was knocked out of its orbit, an asteroid belt threated to destroy the planet. The Council called Optimus Prime and several other Autobots to the Celestial Temple to order them to do something lest they be all killed. [[Ark (G1)|Many of the Autobots' finest]] were lost during the mission to save their planet. {{storylink|The Transformers (issue)|The Transformers}} ''Despite this, the Council managed to organize the remaining Autobots in a force that could still withstand the Decepticons' attempt to take over Iacon. This situation remained for hundreds of thousands of years, until [[Decepticon leader]] [[Trannis]] decided that utterly destroying Iacon would do just fine too.'' {{storylink|Cybertron: The Middle Years!}}

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''As the only surviving Council member, Xaaron became one of the Autobot resistance's leaders and set up [[Autobase|his base]] under the remains of the Celestial Temple.'' {{storylink|Target: 2006}} Even the remains of the Celestial Temple were destroyed when [[Galvatron II]] and [[Hook, Line, and Sinker]] attacked the base on [[Unicron]]'s orders. {{storylink|Surrender!}}

In the meantime:<br>
''[[Optimus Prime (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Optimus Prime]] let out a "By the Celestial Spires" when [[Megatron (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Megatron]] destroyed the [[Sherman Dam]].'' {{storylink|Decepticon Dam-Busters!}}

''Optimus Prime vowed "[b]y the Spires of Iacon" that the Decepticons would pay for abducting (and partly dismembering) [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]].'' {{storylink|Crisis of Command!}}

''[[Jetfire (G1)|Jetfire]] felt alienated from the other Autobots and talked about this with his creator [[Buster Witwicky (G1)|Buster Witwicky]]. To illustrate the difference between him and the others, he mentioned that he'd never seen the Celestial Spires.'' {{storylink|The Gift}}

To delay the destruction of the [[Ark (G1)|Ark]], [[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]] called the [[Decepticon]]s' attention to a machine by exclaiming "By the Golden Spires of Iacon!". {{storylink|All the Familiar Faces!}}

=====Marvel UK Comics future timelines=====
Seeing [[Rodimus Prime (G1)|Rodimus Prime]] go apeshit on [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]] for killing [[Blurr (G1)|Blurr]], [[Arcee (G1)|Arcee]] reacted with "By the Celestial Spires!"

====Generation 2====
[[Optimus Prime (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Optimus Prime]] reacted with a "By the Spires!" when the [[Autobase]] in [[Nevada]] suddenly came under attack. {{storylink|Tales of Earth Part Six}}

===IDW continuity===
[[Pyro]] let out a "By the sacred Spires!" when he first saw a [[Verity Carlo|human]] with his own eyes. {{storylink|Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 1|Last Stand of the Wreckers #1}}

==Notes==
* The Spires, including the Autobots's tendency to swear by them, is one of the Marvel UK details that [[Simon Furman]] brought over to the US comics when he began writing those. 

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