Temple of Knowledge

The Temple of Knowledge is the place where High Circuitmaster Boltax and his disciples resided as well as the home of the Underbase.

Fiction

Marvel Comics continuity

Marvel The Transformers comics

It existed over four million years ago and was where the Disciples of Boltax resided at the dawn of the Cybertronian Civil Wars. At the time, a young junior command officer of the Autobots called Optimus Prime journeyed to the Temple along with the Triggerbots in order to enlist the aid of the inhabitants of the Temple. Prime had hoped to use their help in stopping the war before it spread on Cybertron and after passing through several traps, they approach Boltax's Temple. The disciples allowed only Optimus Prime to pass and consult the knowledge in the Underbase.

However, the Decepticon's under the command of Megatron had followed them and sought to use the Underbase's power for their own ends. Destroying the Disciples, he wounds Optimus Prime in an attempt to claim the great power of the Underbase. Rather than allow Megatron to possess it, Optimus Prime manipulated the controls of the Temple of Knowledge and launched the Underbase on a never ending course through space in order to prevent its power from being taken by Megatron. The Flames of Boltax!

Shattered Glass

While preparations were being made for the launch of the Nemesis, Megatron received a signal that he thought was from Boltax and traveled to the Temple. It turned out that it had actually been a trick from Ricochet to lure him into a trap, and Boltax had been dead for gigacycles, soon after the Underbase "vanished". Ricochet captured Megatron, but during a subsequent clash between Autobot and Decepticon reinforcements, Megatron was freed and Ricochet's scheme was undone. Do Over