Vector Sigma Chamber

The Vector Sigma Chamber was a location on planet Cybertron that held the mega-computer known as Vector Sigma that gave all Transformers life. It was located in the very depths of the mechanical planet where Centurion droids protected the chamber from intruders.

Fiction

Generation 1 cartoon continuity

The Transformers cartoon

In 1985, Megatron, along with Rumble and Soundwave, journeyed down to the depths of Cybertron, passing by numerous shafts and pathways, when they arrived at the entrance to the Vector Sigma Chamber. However, obstructing their way were Centurion droids that were guarding the super computer. After the droids proved immune to the Decepticons' weapons, Megatron realized that he could control them with the Key to Vector Sigma, sending them against the Autobots. Unobstructed, the Decepticons used Vector Sigma to create the Stunticons. The Key to Vector Sigma, Part 1

Hanging around Vector Sigma's chamber even after Megatron had returned to Earth, Shockwave bore witness to the Autobots used Vector Sigma to create the Aerialbots and overheard Alpha Trion warning Optimus Prime that the Key to Vector Sigma had different powers and properties on Earth, passing the information along to Megatron. The Key to Vector Sigma, Part 2

In 2007, Optimus Prime descended back to Vector Sigma's chamber, using the Matrix of Leadership as substitute for the since destroyed Key. The Rebirth, Part 2 To prevent Galvatron from destroying Earth's sun, Spike Witwicky and the Autobots' new Nebulan allies reconfigured the Decepticons' planetary engines to absorb excess solar energy, the energy being drawn into Vector Sigma's chamber. The supercomputer subsequently channelled the excess energy into Cybertron's storage capacitors, revitalizing the planet and bringing about a new Golden Age. The Rebirth, Part 3

Japanese cartoon continuity

The Headmasters cartoon

Four Warriors Come out of the Sky Birth of the Fantastic Double Prime Cybertron Is in Grave Danger, Part 1 Cybertron Is in Grave Danger, Part 2

Unite Warriors comic

Sky Reign Chapter Megatronia Chapter Ruination Chapter, Part Two

Beast Wars Returns cartoon

See #Beast Machines cartoon below

Beast Wars Neo cartoon

No longer beneath Cybertron's surface, Vector Sigma now resided in a chamber located at the top of a structure called the Tower of Light. The Final Battle

Beast Wars cartoon continuity

Beast Machines cartoon

By the era of the Maximals and Predacons, Vector Sigma had become the Oracle, its chamber having been remodelled into a ornate bridge where Cybertronians could access the holographic interface.

When the crew of the Axalon returned to Cybertron, the Oracle lead Optimus Primal and his Maximals to the chamber, reformatting the quartet into technorganic forms to protect them from the effects of the transformation virus. No sooner had they been reformatted were the Maximals confronted by Cycle Drones, fleeing out the chamber as they had yet to figure out how to transform to robot mode. The Reformatting

After Rhinox had been reawakened within Tankor, the tank general sought out the chamber to try and recreate the Key to Vector Sigma, succeeding when he used the sparkless Diagnostic Drone to bypass the supercomputer needing a "receptive spark". The Key

After the energies of the Key to Vector Sigma and the Plasma Energy Chamber cancelled each other out, the Maximals returned to the chamber to commune with the recently deceased Primal. Finding that Primal had learnt his lesson, the Oracle released Primal from the Allspark and caused a technorganic orchard to spring up. Fallout

Home Soil

Once Megatron had recruited Strika and Obsidian, the Maximals retreated underground back to the chamber. The Search

Following the Maximals retaking the Grand Mal and the spark containment unit, Botanica was left weakened once the warship's force field was raised. Rattrap rigged an escape pod with a harmonics-matching disk allowing Botanica to pass through and rejoin the soil. The Downward Spiral Feeling the technorganic chamber being targeted by Mole Drones, Botanica, with Rattrap and Nightscream, descended down to the chamber to save the orchard only for them to be overwhelmed and their sparks extracted. When Legends Fall

As Optimus Primal and Megatron engaged in their final duel, Primal briefly retreated to the Oracle's chamber. Taking in the carnage for a moment left Primal open for Megatron to swoop in and overpower his foe, ascending directly out from the chamber to the Council Citadel. Seeds of the Future

3H comics

Departure Abduction Escape Homecoming

Dreamwave Generation One continuity

Countdown to Extinction Revelation

Cybertron comic

Balancing Act Balancing Act, Part 2 Revelations Part 2 Revelations Part 4

Prime cartoon

Vector Sigma's chamber was located beneath Kaon. When Jack Darby and Arcee came to Cybertron, the chamber reacted to the Key in the former's possession, the pathway emerging in a gladiatorial arena. After an Insecticon defeated Arcee, it tore down the chamber's door and followed Jack inside, only to meet its end when Jack made it the target of a scraplet swarm. Rebooting, Arcee followed into the chamber only to meet Jack, who had already downloaded the supercomputer's knowledge, halfway. Orion Pax, Part 3

2005 IDW continuity

In 2017, Joe Colton's Iron Ring, seeking to destroy Cybertron and the Transformers, descended into Cybertron to merge the Talisman with Vector Sigma. Seeing the threat, Vector Sigma began releasing energy bolts against the intruders when they got too close to its chamber, unleashing an Insecticon swarm when they got within 500 meters of the outer chamber. First Strike #5 When the Iron Ring faced further resistance, Merklynn decided to make the best of it and had the Talisman terraform a portion of the outer chamber into New Prysmos. First Strike #6

Undeterred, the Talisman continued to burrow through the chamber to reach Vector Sigma. Schismatic Cybertron No More Wheeljack subsequently developed an anti-magic bomb to inoculate Vector Sigma against the Talisman's necrotic energies, intending to detonate it in the lowest levels of Vector Sigma's antechamber. Good Men When the bomb detonated, it reacted with the energies of Galadria's healing spell, preserving Vector Sigma and raising New Prysmos to Cybertron's surface. The Curtain

The Functionist Universe

In a universe where Megatron was never born, the Functionist Council and the Senate came to loggerheads over the use of Nova Prime's stockpile of frozen sparks to increase the planet's population. The Functionist Council deemed the practice heretical against the teaching of Adaptus. In response, the Senate sealed Vector Sigma behind a wall of impenetrable ununtrium. In turn, the Council gathered an army of devoted followers, seized the Matrix of Leadership, and executed Nominus Prime and the Senate for blasphemy. A World Misplaced Since ununtrium walls could be cut by ununtrium blades, the wall around Vector Sigma was little more than an inconvenience for the Functionists, but they left the supercomputer alone out of fear that their collective alternate mode was not needed to activate it. Modes of Production

Five million years later, the Council found a way to save face and quickly drilled through the chamber's walls to reach Vector Sigma. To stop the Council from perverting Vector Sigma, Team Rodimus teleported into the chamber and managed to rescue Rung, halting their plans. Bad Moon Rising Modes of Production

Cyberverse cartoon

When Cybertron fell to war, Vector Sigma's chamber was seized by the Decepticons. Megatron intended to use the supercomputer to reprogram the Allspark and have it birth whole generations of Decepticons, delegating Shockwave to base himself in the computer's chamber. When the Autobots caught wind of this, Bumblebee was sent down to Vector Sigma to gleam the Decepticon plan only to be chased away by Shockwave's drones. Megatron Is My Hero Vector Sigma was eventually removed from its chamber and held aboard the Nemesis. Bring Me The Spark Of Optimus Prime

66 million years later, Vector Sigma was returned to its rightful place in within the Threshold of the Allspark. Battle For Cybertron II There the supercomputer was destroyed by Windblade and Wheeljack using unspace goo. Battle For Cybertron IV