Cyberforming

Even though Cybertronian life-forms are quite capable of surviving on purely organic worlds, they sometimes resort to eco-structuring to feel more at home. Eco-structuring is the process of converting a planet into an environment hospitable to mechanical lifeforms, particularly those from Cybertron. It can be performed rapidly through devices capable of converting organic matter to technological matter, such as the Key to Vector Sigma. It can also be performed manually in a much more gradual process, such as that performed by the Cybertronian Empire in the construction of the Hub.

It is also known as exo-structuring, cyberforming, or mechaforming.

Fiction

Marvel Generation 2 comics

The Cybertronian Empire, believing organic life to be little more than bacteria and viewing mechanical life as the pinnacle, spent untold millennia eco-structuring worlds. They believed this to be construction rather than genocide. The indigenous lifeforms were clinically exterminated, and a metal casing for the planet was manually built. This apparently could be done quite quickly.

When they first reported their findings to Optimus Prime, Grimlock and his Firestormer team had encountered seventeen "little Cybertrons". War Without End!

Beast Machines cartoon

In the time of Megatron's Vehicon-powered rule over Cybertron, the Oracle revealed that even Cybertron itself was not originally technological, but had been an organic world cyberformed. Survivor

Dreamwave Generation One continuity

Megatron released a metallic virus that converted everything it touched — land, machines, people — into metal in an effort to remake Earth more like Cybertron. Prime Directive #3

Cybertron cartoon

The Cyber Planet Keys possess the power to remake planets.

Live-action film continuity

Titan Magazines movie comics

The following events occur in a splinter timeline where Megatron won the battle of Mission City.

The AllSpark was established as being capable of cyberforming a planet. Twilight's Last Gleaming, Part: 1 The Decepticons tried to use its power to cyberform Earth into a new Cybertron, but they were foiled by the Autobots. Twilight's Last Gleaming, Part: 5

Age of Extinction film

The detonation of a seed cyberformed anything caught in its blast radius. Circa 65 million B.C.E., the "Creators" detonated seeds upon thousands of planets to create vast quantities of transformium. On Earth, their cyberforming campaign triggered the extinction of the dinosaurs. In the present day, Transformer bounty hunter Lockdown, having been hired by the Creators, entered into a deal with the human corporation KSI and Harold Attinger's corrupt CIA taskforce Cemetery Wind: capture Optimus Prime in exchange for a seed. After the deal was complete, the revenant Decepticon leader Galvatron tried to steal the seed in order to build a new Decepticon army and destroy humankind, but he was ultimately foiled by the Autobots and their human allies. Optimus Prime then took the seed with him into space so that it could never be used for evil. Age of Extinction

IDW Generation 1 continuity

The plans of the Cybertronian scientist Jhiaxus under the guidance of Nova Prime culminated in the planet of Gorlam Prime being converted to mechanical life, its surface being restructured to resemble Cybertron. Spotlight: Hardhead

The Decepticons cyberformed planets during the days of the Decepticon Empire, among them B'lahr 39 where Fulcrum served as project manager during the conversion. The process was interrupted by an Autobot attack and may not have been completed. Who's Afraid of the DJD? The Phase Sixer Black Shadow was handpicked by Megatron to sterilize planets ahead of the cyberforming process. Rules of Disengagement

Wings Universe

Wings Universe is based on the Generation 1 cartoon, but deviates from it in cosmetic ways and continuity points.

Setting up a secret base on the unremarkable and barren planetoid Qre as part of his experiments towards restoring the Cybertronian Empire, Jhiaxus transformed at least a portion of Qre's surface into a metal-covered one much like that of Cybertron. A Flash Forward, Part 4

Aligned continuity family

Prime cartoon

Megatron planned on cyberforming the Earth using the Omega Lock into another metallic planet so that he could rule both Cybertron and Earth. The first energy pulse to be fired from the Omega Lock created the fortress Darkmount in Jasper, Nevada. However, Megatron's plan was thereafter foiled by Optimus Prime, who destroyed the Lock to protect Earth. Darkest Hour

When an attempt to clone an army of Predacons went awry, Evolution Shockwave discovered that their remains mixed with synthetic Energon created an imperfect form of cyber-matter. Megatron subsequently revived his old plan of using the Omega Lock to cyberform Earth Minus One, and with Ratchet's help in perfecting the synthetic Energon Persuasion Synthesis, he nearly succeeded until he was killed in a final battle for both Cybertron and Earth. Deadlock

Go! cartoon

After reawakening and acquiring the Legendiscs, the Predacon Emperor Dragotron began using their power to start turning Earth into a metal planet. However, Isami Tatewaki and Tobio Fūma had copied the power of the Legendiscs into their own hearts and enabled the Swordbots to eventually defeat Dragotron, with a little help from Optimus Exprime. The cyberforming disappeared, and the Autobots then sealed Dragotron away once more. Final Battle! Link-Up Triple Combination DaiKenzan! Final Battle! Link-Up Triple Combination DaiGekisou!