Simfur

Simfur is a location on Cybertron from the 2007 film continuity family.

Eons ago, the first inhabitants of Cybertron built a city for themselves around the site where they had found and kept the AllSpark. When they disappeared, their servants inherited the world and eventually turned the oldest of cities into the Simfur of modern times. Though the Transformers have forgotten much about their oldest past, Simfur remains the resting place of the AllSpark, which is kept under guard in a temple. The city of Metrotitan has been built near Simfur.

Fiction

Live-action movies

IDW comics

• Locations
  • Simfur Temple
  • Excavation site LT34

The area of Simfur was home to the Cybertronian lifeforms created by the AllSpark. When The Fallen destroyed the rest of his kin, he was stopped from completing his goals by the only one escaping his attack and locked into his sarcophagus, leaving Cybertron devoid of Primes. In their absence, the Transformers took control of the planet and over time made the old settlement around the AllSpark their city of Simfur. Defiance #4

As head of the Science Division, Optimus supervised an investigation into abnormal depth readings received near the Simfur Temple. This led to the discovery of multiple broken artifacts that quickly were found to be somehow linked to the AllSpark. Megatron took an interest in the discoveries and came with Optimus to the excavation site just when the first whole artifact was unearthened. As the two argued about what to do with it, Cybertron came under attack from aliens. Megatron ordered the artifact to be brought to his quarters in Trypticon and took off to lead the Defense Force into battle.

Simfur particularly came under siege, and Megatron was forced to help out Cliffjumper and Bumblebee, who were put on guard duty at the Simfur Temple. Defiance #1 In the end, the Defense Force drove off the aliens and the members of the Science Division got to the cleanup work. While the rest recovered the corpses of the aliens left behind in battle and tended to the victims, Prowl and Jazz investigated the damages done to the temple, deducing from it that the aliens had been after the AllSpark. Megatron came to the same conclusion and, under the influence of the artifact that was in fact The Fallen's sarcophagus, ordered for Cybertron to ditch its defense-only principles and actively annihilate the threat. Optimus disapproved of this and held a speech at Simfur for the Science Division not to follow Megatron. Defiance #2 This obviously did not sit well with Megatron, but he let it pass until The Fallen informed him Optimus had made use of his absence to break into his quarters and investigate the sarcophagus. Believing Optimus was a threat to his power, Megatron sent the Security Force to arrest him and his associates at the excavation site. Defiance #3

Out of these and following events arose two factions of Transformers: (The Fallen's) Megatron's Decepticons and Optimus Prime's Autobots. Megatron spent a lot on trying to reclaim Simfur, and more in particular the AllSpark. When he finally managed to defeat the Autobot forces at Simfur, it turned out to be still for naught as Optimus Prime had had the AllSpark relocated. Movie Prequel #2 The Reign of Starscream #5 Because the war was destroying Cybertron, Optimus Prime had decided to launch the AllSpark, as it was the main cause of the war, into space. To do this with a minimal chance of the Decepticons preventing the launch, Optimus Prime leaked the rumor to both factions that the AllSpark was still at Simfur and had most of the Autobots forces stationed there to make it believable. In reality, the AllSpark had been moved to Tyger Pax, where only a small group of (uninformed) Autobots were stationed to buy a bit of extra time if needed. Defiance #4

Despite all precautions, Megatron sensed the AllSpark's presence in Tyger Pax and used Optimus Prime's strategy against him. Placing the necessary number of soldier under command of Starscream, he had him prevent Optimus Prime's Autobots at Simfur from helping Bumblebee's troops at Tyger Pax. Movie Prequel Special Movie Prequel #1 The Reign of Starscream #5

Much later, after the destruction of the AllSpark and Megatron on Earth, Starscream travelled to a Decepticon base on Mars to make his claim on leadership. He had a message transmitted to the Cybertron-based Decepticons to prepare for his return and begin construction at the ruins of the Simfur Temple on a new AllSpark according to information he had gathered on Earth. The Reign of Starscream #2 Stockade oversaw the construction of the new AllSpark, which was built through the combined forces of Decepticons and captured Autobot slave labour. The Reign of Starscream #3 With Signal Flare being brought in at the last stages of construction, Starscream travelled from the city of Trypticon to oversee the next phase personally. Once Payload arrived with a generator, Starscream had the Autobot prisoners and one Decepticon strapped to the new AllSpark to sacrifice their sparks to power the new AllSpark.

A rescue squad of Autobots led by Arcee arrived in secret just as the 'ceremony' was about to take place. The Reign of Starscream #4 While Starscream held a speech to rally the Decepticon forces under his banner, the Autobot rescue team failed to come up with a plan in time to save their colleagues from electrocution. Starscream wasn't much more fortunate either: His new AllSpark turned out to worthless and Dreadwing launched an attack on Starscream's troops in a bid for leadership. Arcee tried to take them all out by sniping the generator, but most survived the subsequent explosion. As most of the Decepticons kept fighting among themselves, the Autobots, Starscream and Dreadwing all rushed to Trypticon for respective reasons. The Reign of Starscream #5

Notes

• Chris Ryall named Simfur after, of course, writer Simon Furman. This sort of thing happens sometimes.

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