Star Harvester

A harvester is a piece of technology from the live-action film continuity family.

When the All Spark runs low on energy, only the destruction of a star can replenish it. In order to harness the power of stars, workers in service to the All Spark built harvesters.

Fiction

IDW Transformers movie comics

In the distant past, the mysterious relic known as the All Spark Cube created life on the planet Cybertron and terraformed its surface to make the world suitable for habitation for its creations. However, this effort depleted the All Spark, and the power from a star was the one thing that could re-energize it. The Cube created a servant race of transforming workers who would seek out stars and build devices called harvesters to aid in collecting the solar energy.

One "Seeker" discovered a suitable star for this purpose and led his masters and the builders to the third planet of its solar system. The builders constructed the harvester and prepared to drain the Sun's energy, but it was discovered that this world contained life. Twelve of the thirteen master beings refused to utilize the harvester, for the process would destroy this world. Unfortunately, the remaining being felt no such obligation to protect life and merely wanted all of the All Spark's energy for himself. His twelve brothers gave their lives to seal him in his own sarcophagus, and the harvester was hidden by the native sentient inhabitants. Defiance issue 4

Thousands of years later, Decepticons under the command of Soundwave arrived on Earth in search of the harvester. Defiance issue 4

Revenge of the Fallen movie

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Notes

• A similar such piece of technology was present in the Generation 1 cartoon which was called the Solar Needle but instead of empowering the AllSpark, it simply drained the power of a star in order to produce energon.