Praxus

This article is about the city sometimes known as "Praxis". For the planet, see Praxis.

Is this Praxis?

Praxus is one of Cybertron's city-states, located in the northern hemisphere. It borders one or more of the following city-states: Iacon, Uraya, and Protihex, making it a candidate for the city-states the Tri-Torus Loop leads to. Praxus is Cybertron's technological and cultural center and occupies a prominent position in Cybertron's political arena. This tends to put the citizens at odds with the Decepticons, who seek to forcefully reimagine Cybertronian society. For this reason, Praxus often is targeted during the early phases of the war.

Sometimes, it becomes more popularly known as Praxis.

Fiction

Dreamwave Generation One continuity

Events from The Transformers Trilogy novels are in italics.

• Locations
  • The Assembly
  • The Decepticon High Command Aerie
  • The Helix Gardens
  • Internment Camp Pi

Over 8.7 million years ago, Praxus was a flourishing, utopic metropolis, one of the Tri-Peninsular Torus States, Transformers: The Ultimate Guide and home to Bluestreak Hardwired and Prowl. The War Within #1 Many of its citizens pursued a career as merchants and traders, New World Order while others had occupations that supported Praxus's status as Cybertron's technological and cultural center. Praxus was a city with little coherence in its architecture. Rather, the city's buildings reflected the essence of the all-encompassing tradition of Praxus, with some bearing the mark of shadowy ancient cultures whereas others were designed in the spirit of progress. One building looked like a pyramid, with a large glowing orb on top of it that glowed blue, orange and white in order. The orb broadcast a greeting in every available Cybertronian language to any alien culture elsewhere in the universe. Another building of unknown purpose appeared as a hundred massive, opaque bubbles stacked on top of one another. The city's landscape additionally featured white, blue, brown and golden towers, massive bulbous structures and ziggurats, and a number of citizens lived in apartments in graceful, cezium steel towers. The center of the city was occupied by the circular, domed and spired structure of the Assembly, the crown on Praxus's achievements.

The downside of Praxus's prosperity was that it drew the attention of Megatron. As a symbol of the virtues of the "old way", its existence was a liability to the philosophies of the Decepticon faction, and it eventually became the target of a grand scale attack. The intent was for every citizen present in the city at that time and every piece of evidence of their culture and civilization to be destroyed, with one exception. One citizen had to survive in order to spread the message of the Decepticons' might. Ramjet was put in charge of selecting and secretly protecting the lone survivor. The choice fell on Bluestreak, who ended up performing his role as Decepticon propaganda tool excellently. Hardwired

A short time after the death of Sentinel Prime half a million years later, Grimlock called Jazz, Prowl, and other Autobots to the former site of Praxus's Helix Gardens to discuss the impending succession. Grimlock believed that the city served as a metaphor; The old ways were gone and the Decepticons' ruthlessness had left them without equivalent options. He informed his peers that if the new Prime was not able to do what needed to be done, they would have to take over leadership of the Autobots and, if necessary, take out the new Prime. The War Within #1

Centricide colorized.

2.2 million years later, Praxus became Megatron's base of operation during the Age of Internment. He had nearly all of the Autobots enslaved in Internment Camp Pi, where they were put to work digging a tunnel to Cybertron's very core. He himself took up residence in the Decepticon High Command Aerie, which like everything in Praxus was guarded by Aerospace Extermination Squadron units. Shockwave was given a laboratory inside the aerie to find a way to make the squadron units loyal to Megatron instead of their true masters, the Quintessons. The Age of Wrath Pt.2 Shockwave's research advanced steadily, the only interruptions being a series of inexplicable explosions inside his lab. The Age of Wrath Pt.3

The Age of Wrath ceased publication before the story could conclude. The following would have taken place in unpublished issues.

Megatron was informed by the Quintessons that the Autobot rebels hiding in Iacon were advancing on Internment Camp Pi to free their comrades, so the Decepticon leader went there to personally deal with them. Meanwhile, Shockwave succeeded in reprogramming two squadron units, only to find one of them possessed by Grimlock's ghost. The Age of Wrath Pt.4

In 2003, the Keepers informed Bluestreak how he had been manipulated by Megatron in the past, fueling his hatred for the Decepticons and Megatron in particular. Hardwired When Shockwave arrived on Earth with the message that the war on Cybertron was long over and the order for the Earth-stationed Transformers to surrender, Bluestreak was the most fiercely opposed to obliging the Decepticon. New World Order

Cyber Key Code info

The inhabitants of Jungle Planet have a card game they call Praxus Fold 'Em. One would reason that Praxus exists then, though whether the place is located on Jungle Planet or Cybertron is unclear. Brimstone's Cyber Key Code text

Live-action film series

Praxus exists and lies between the area where the smelting pool is located and Polyhex. The Launch Pad and Central City can be found some space aside from Praxus. Risk

Shattered Glass

When Astrotrain had attached himself to the hull of the Ark and was destroying the ship's guns along with his Micromaster squad, Rodimus compared them to Praxian mech-ticks and suggested they'd deal with them the same way; by burning them off. Do Over There's also a place called Praxus-Delta, but the nature of its supposed connection to Praxus is unknown. BotCon 2008 Rodimus profile card

2005 IDW continuity

Bluestreak was from Praxus. The One Where They Go to Earth

One time before the war, an electrical storm hit the Tri-Peninsular Torus States. As it passed close to Praxus and Protihex, it interrupted newsfeeds and scrambled communications in Rodion. Chaos Theory Part 2

Aligned novels

• Locations
  • The Assembly
  • The Helix Gardens

Praxus was a progressive state, its Helix Gardens a symbol of the Golden Age, and its Assembly was where scientists of Crystal City and Nova Cronum presented their findings. Many of its citizens approved of Megatron's anti-caste system beliefs, but were disappointed by his militant direction. Megatron felt betrayed by this reaction, and so he sent Seekers, Constructicons and Bruticus Maximus to attack. The Praxians threw in their support with the Autobots. With Praxus far from primary Decepticon territory, Megatron ran into the same supply problems as the Autobots normally did, and Praxus became the war's first stalemate. With thousands dead and the city ruined, Megatron conceded defeat and his soldiers left.

It was at Praxus that Optimus Prime gained two indispensable allies in Ironhide and Prowl. It was also the place where Ratchet made his name as medic and soldier. Exodus

Beast Wars: Uprising

During the Grand Uprising, the Resistance captured Praxus, a mixed city where Maximals and Predacons co-existed. However, they soon ceded the city to the independent warlord-turned-monarch Rage, who annexed into her growing domain. It did not survive the Vehicon Apocalypse; any survivors of the blitzkrieg retreated to her capital of Triax. Derailment

2019 IDW continuity

Nightbeat once held a posting in Praxus where he met Prowl. Swindle's

Merchandise

• RISK TRANSFORMERS CYBERTRON Battle Edition (2007)

Praxus is the purple rotatable zone on the board.

Notes

• Bluestreak's toy bio and Universe profile state that his home city was destroyed by Decepticons, with Universe adding that Bluestreak was the lone survivor, but neither give the city a name. The same is true for the Dreamwave Generation One continuity, including the More Than Meets The Eye books. It was Scott Ciencin who established in Hardwired that Bluestreak's home city is Praxus. This likely was because at the time "Hardwired" was written, only a few locations on Cybertron had been given names and of them only Praxus had the properties to be Bluestreak's home city. The fact Bluestreak's moldsake Prowl was already established to be from Praxus may have contributed to the decision. In any case, whether future continuities will keep to this or reassign Bluestreak's home to another location is yet to be seen.
• According to Selects Siege Smokescreen's Hasbro Pulse page, Barricade, Prowl, and Smokescreen are part of the "Praxus-native collection."

Foreign names

• Japanese: Praxus (プラクサス Purakusasu)