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Just as humans have felt the need to set up shop on distant continents and faraway islands, the Transformers are a naturally expansionistic race. Their long history is frequently punctuated with interplanetary colonization efforts, aimed at creating a network of Transformer colonies scattered throughout the heavens. These planets are usually eco-structured to better accommodate Transformer life, but Cybertronians are well known for their adaptability, and have been known to adjust to planets utterly unlike their original birthworld of Cybertron.

In many universes, these efforts have been forgotten by the modern day, buried by the harsh realities of interplanetary war or simply the march of time. In a classic example of allopatric speciation, the Transformers stranded on these distant worlds have subsequently adapted to their new homeworlds by developing cultures and physiologies entirely separate from their Cybertronian ancestors.

Fiction

Generation 1 cartoon continuity

The Transformers cartoon

According to Sandstorm, the planet Paradron was colonized by a group of pacifistic Autobots after the "Fourth Great War". The planet they chose to inhabit was hidden within a space vortex and possessed an Energon core, granting its inhabitants almost unlimited energy and a safe refuge from the Decepticons and other threats. The inhabitants of the world lived peacefully for many years until the arrival of the Decepticons in 2006 brought the war to their world. Unwilling to let the Decepticons sieze the planet's energon supply, Rodimus Prime made the decision to destroy the planet. The survivors, led by Sandstorm, were subsequently relocated to Cybertron. Fight or Flee

See also

• Eco-structuring