Cybertron (planet)

The name or term "Cybertron" refers to more than one character or idea. For a list of other meanings, see Cybertron (disambiguation).

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The planet Cybertron, as seen in the original series. Not pictured: Realistically sized buildings.

Cybertron is the home planet of the Transformers( and in bad lore the body of their creator, Primus). Cybertron is (almost always) a shining metal, technological world(except in trash like Beast Machines); a planet of towering future cities without end and vast metallic plains, spiraling metal mountains and bottomless neon-lit chasms. Battling over control of Cybertron and its resources is frequently the motivation for, or origin of, the Transformers epic wars. Beyond these facts much about Cybertron can differ between continuities, see individual entries below.

“	This world is older than you can imagine. It has sailed the starscape...tending budding galaxies...forever a buffer to the approaching darkness. And now its fate...is in your hands.	”
—A voice to Optimus Prime, The War Within #6

Japanese name: Cybertron (セイバートロン Seibātoron, except for "The Rebirth")

Hungarian name: Kibertron

Hungarian name, first dub of the movie: Kájbertron (pronounced like Cybertron, but with a 'K')

Hungarian Energon name: Mesterséges bolygó ("Artificial planet")

Generation 1 / Beast Era

Marvel Comics continuity

Just another Alpha Centauri sunrise.

Cybertron was the adopted form of the lord of the light gods Primus, who trapped himself and Unicron in barren asteroids which they then shaped into their physical forms. While Unicron turned his prison into a transformable, humanoid body, Primus reformed himself into a vast Saturn-sized machine-world, home for a robotic race he created to fight Unicron with similar transformation abilities. Primal Scream

A Saturn-sized metal world like Cybertron is an impossibility under our current understanding of the laws of physics. Then again it was created by and infused with the power of a “space god” so, well, if anyone’s gonna bend those laws…

It has been suggested that the Demons in the darkness were the world’s original inhabitants, locked away beneath the world by Primus, though this remains unconfirmed. Aside from the Transformers, the world seems to possess the mechanical equivalent of plant and animal life, though the exact nature and origin of this lower "life" has never been examined in detail. This version of Cybertron has rough hewn mountain ranges and great seas. (Though of note these seas are not made of water. Liquid water is so rare on Cybertron as to be thought a mythical substance.) The atmosphere and temperature on most of the surface is such that human life can survive unaided.

In its earliest recorded era Cybertron orbited Alpha Centauri, and the Transformers were at peace. But the avaricious Megatron sought to rule the planet and turn it into a "cosmic dreadnaught". This plan would find a kind of fruition, but not what Megatron intended: The cataclysmic forces of his wars eventually sent the planet careening through deep space.

Its aimless journey brought it near Earth four million years ago. When our asteroid belt threatened it, Optimus Prime led an expedition to clear the way. They were successful, but they were ambushed by Decepticons led by Megatron, and their battle ended with a crash-landing on Earth that left all the combatants deactivated. Their compatriots on Cybertron mourned their loss but continued the wars. The Transformers

In the modern day, Prime and Megatron's troops were reactivated, and they eventually found their way back to Cybertron. The world had changed little in the intervening eons, but the return of the old legends helped bring about the fulfillment of the planet's destiny. Deep below the surface, a small group of the once-lost Autobots fought the Mayhem Attack Squad in a chamber containing the giant head of Primus. A stray shot hit the god's face, and he awoke with a scream that alerted Unicron to his location. When the Chaos Bringer arrived, the Autobots and Decepticons united against him, but the battle still wreaked havoc on the planet. Unicron was defeated by the opening of the Matrix, which destroyed both deities. On the Edge of Extinction! In the aftermath, Cybertron suffered storms and earthquakes that many believed would tear the world apart. Exodus! The remaining Transformers evacuated, but Cybertron was ultimately saved by a band of humans who awakened the Last Autobot. The Last Autobot? He was, it turned out, a safeguard put in place by Primus to guide the planet's reconstruction after the god's “death.” Cybertron was healed and for a time there was peace.

Significant Locations

• Cybertron has two moons. The Bridge to Nowhere!

• Cybertron was historically organized into city-states, the largest and most important being Iacon. Others have included Kalis, Tarn, and Vos. Within the province of Polyhex was the Decepticon stronghold called Darkmount.

• Beneath the Mutant filled sewers, the Demons in the Darkness were locked away.

• At the center of this Cybertron there was a room with a huge head of Primus on the wall where he slept and was watched over by the Keeper. Somewhere within the depths of Cybertron could also be found a chamber containing the Last Autobot.

Generation 1 cartoon continuity

The Transformers cartoon

And that, my friends, is when you say "Look out below!"

Cybertron appeared considerably smaller than the planet Earth. Entirely metallic on the surface, some of the lowest levels of Cybertron consisted of rock and dirt, suggesting an organic beginning to the planet. Its gravity was light enough that humans were able to traverse the surface without any trouble, and it possessed a breathable atmosphere. Water, or at least a substance resembling it, was in evidence on the planet—lakes and rivers have been shown to exist, albeit sparingly. Many levels below the surface was the energy-furnace, the Plasma Energy Chamber, and at the heart of the planet was the spherical mega-computer, Vector Sigma.

LOOK HOW LOUD I HAVE TO YELL!

Cybertron was orbited by at least three unnamed moons, but its own place in the cosmos appears unfixed—in 1984, it was clearly shown to exist outside of the Milky Way; on the cusp of an entirely different galaxy, in fact. Nine million years prior, however, Starscream and Skyfire had been able to fly from their home planet to Earth under their own power, suggesting that it may drift freely through space, and had been passing through the Sol System at that point, going on to drift out of the galaxy over the ensuing millennia.

If the assorted colourful exclamations made by numerous Transformers are anything to go by, Cybertron also played host to a vast array of fauna, including but not limited to: ant-droids, bolt-bats, cyber-ducks, dynametal ducks, electro-toads, glitch mice, guineapigatrons, helio-hamsters, hydro-weasels, photovoltaic pussycats, retrorats, robo-rats, sheepacrons, titanium moosebots, turbofoxes, zap-mice robotopossums.

Twelve million years ago, the Quintessons used Cybertron as a factory to manufacture their robot creations. Notably, the origins of the planet are never explicitly stated—the Quintessons may have built it, terraformed an organic world, or colonized an existing metal planet. Whatever the case, after a million years, the Quintessons were forced to abandon Cybertron when their robots evolved true sentience and feelings, and knew they were being used as slaves, rebelling in the First Cybertronian War. The second war was soon to come, however, when the robots splintered into two factions, the peace-loving Autobots and the war-mongering Decepticons—and began fighting amongst themselves. With the Autobots' innovation of transformation, they were able to win—or at least stalemate—the war, and a period of peace descended on Cybertron, which shone with a healthy golden glow, distinguishing the period as the "Golden Age".

Eventually, however, Decepticons adopted transformation as well, along with robot-mode flight, and around nine million years ago, the creation of the Decepticon Megatron re-ignited the war on Cybertron. Megatron rallied like-minded individuals to his cause, and brainwashed others into his service, quickly killing the current Autobot leader in a strike on one of Iacon's outer cities. With this act kept out of the public knowledge, rumors circulated as Autobot machinesmith Alpha Trion worked diligently on a new process to reconstruct Autobots into battle-hardy configurations for the war he knew was coming. That war finally erupted in full when Megatron fatally injured a naive young dock worker, Orion Pax, and Alpha Trion made him the first subject of his new process, reconstructing him into Optimus Prime, who would lead the Autobots in the Third Cybertronian War.

After a further five million years of war, during which many Autobots fled the planet, the Decepticons had acquired a large hold on the planet, with the majority of it under their control. The main Autobot force continued to operate from the capital city-state of Iacon, but Cybertron's energy levels were depleted to a dangerous low, necessitating a space mission to locate a new planet with new sources of energy that the Transformers could harness. Optimus Prime led his best and brightest on the Ark, but they were pursued by Megatron's elite troops, and all were stranded in stasis on Earth for four million years.

The white zone is for blasting Autobots only.

In the ensuing four million years, Shockwave, who Megatron had left in charge as guardian of the planet, maintained the Decepticon hold on the planet, though he was unaware of the continued guerrilla efforts of Elita One's Female Autobots to undermine him as they raided his energy supplies. Eventually, Cybertron's energy level dipped so low as to put the planet in immediate, mortal danger. Reestablishing contact with Megatron, who had awoken with the other Transformers on Earth in the year 1984, Shockwave co-designed the Space Bridge, an intergalactic transport system that could transport Energon Cubes from Earth to Cybertron, abating the planet's impending doom.

I see a Cybertron a-risin'. I see trouble on the way.

Cybertron's place in the universe was forcibly altered in 1984 when the Decepticons constructed a colossal Space Bridge that actually transported the entire planet into the Sol system, into Earth's orbit, where its gravity wreaked havoc with the planet's natural balance, unleashing an unending torrent of energy created by natural disasters. The energy acquired re-energized Cybertron enough to put it out of the danger zone, but the planet was soon knocked out of orbit by a massive Energon explosion, and set drifting off through the solar system. At this closer range, Cybertron remained easily accessed throughout 1985 at least, with the Autobots now able to reach it by conventional transportation (Omega Supreme), rather than having to constantly hijack use of the spacebridge.

By the Earth year 2005, Cybertron had exited the Sol system, but, remaining within the Milky Way, was still relatively easily accessible by shuttlecraft from Earth. By this time, the Decepticon forces had succeeded in conquering the entire planet, forcing all the Autobots off it, leading them to relocate to Autobot City on Earth, and to two staging ground bases on two of Cybertron's moons. It was at this time that Cybertron came under attack from the world eater, Unicron, who consumed the two moonbases and assaulted Cybertron itself, only to be destroyed by the power of the Autobot Matrix of Leadership. His deactivated, decapitated head fell into orbit around Cybertron, a grisly new satellite to replace those he had destroyed. With the Decepticon forces in disarray after Unicron's attack, Rodimus Prime and his troops succeeded in driving their foes off Cybertron, reclaiming the planet for the Autobots, and restoring and re-energizing much of the planet by 2006, when the world came under frequent attacks from the returning Quintessons, whose previously-secret history with the Transformers came to light.

In the year 2007, Cybertron was once again wrenched from its place in space when Galvatron and the Decepticons invaded the planet and constructed a massive planetary engine that propelled Cybertron back into Earth orbit once more. Once there, Galvatron opened the Plasma Energy Chamber, intending for the energy release to drive the Sun supernova, consuming Earth, Cybertron and everything else in one final destructive blow. Spike Witwicky and the Autobots' Nebulan allies were able to stop this plan by reversing the rocket engine, which drained off the excess solar energy and channeled it straight into Vector Sigma, which used it to fully re-energize Cybertron. Its rich golden hue restored, Cybertron entered a new Golden Age. The Rebirth, Part 3

Japanese cartoon continuity

The events of the Generation 1 cartoon occur in Japanese cartoon continuity as detailed above, except that the events of "The Rebirth" do not occur. Japanese continuity inserts several new stories into the timeline, including an extensive 2007 retcon that revealed the complicated origins of Cybertron in this continuity.

Kiss Players

"It is like a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and cast into his garden; and it grew, and waxed a great tree."

12 billion years ago, the ancient genius Primacron and his assistant, the Oracle were attacked by Primacron's renegade creation Unicron. The Oracle's body was destroyed, but his essence, encased within a protective shell, fled to a dead planet at the center of the universe, which he proceeded to transform into a verdant, living world.

In time, the Quintessons discovered the Oracle's world and invaded, taking control of the Oracle and his powers. The Oracle was transformed by the Quintessons into the mega-computer Vector Sigma and also obtained the shell that had held his essence, which went on to become the Matrix of Leadership. Using the power of the Key to Vector Sigma, the Quintessons transformed the Oracle's green planet into the metallic Cybertron. 2007 TakaraTomy Transformers timeline

The Headmasters cartoon

In 2011, it was discovered that the release of the energy of the Matrix by Optimus Prime to cure the Hate Plague had much more far-reaching consequences that anyone suspected. With the Matrix's energy depleted, Vector Sigma's balance—permanently tilted in favor of the Autobots by the existence of the Matrix—was reset to neutrality, allowing the Decepticons, bolstered by their new Headmaster troops, to freely invade Cybertron. Eventually, this forced Optimus Prime to sacrifice his life by merging with Vector Sigma in order to stabilize the computer before it destroyed Cybertron from within.Four Warriors Come out of the Sky The Mystery of Planet Master Birth of the Fantastic Double Prime

Not long thereafter, Vector Sigma developed a new metal alloy dubbed Cybertonuron, which enticed Galvatron into another raid on the planet. However, the Decepticon Headmaster leader, Zarak, feared the power that Galvatron would gain from the alloy, and so, to prevent either him or the Autobots from obtaining it, arranged for his Headmasters to plant bombs at the core of the planet, within Vector Sigma's chamber. The Autobots were unable to stop the countdown and the bombs detonated, tearing Cybertron apart and leaving it a charred uninhabitable ruin drifting in space. Cybertron Is in Grave Danger, Part 1 Cybertron Is in Grave Danger, Part 2

G-2 story pages

When the Autobots and Decepticons finally laid down their arms and forged the Cybertron Alliance, they rebuilt and restored Cybertron, using the energy known as Nucleon, which Optimus Prime recovered from the core of a black hole.

Beast continuity

Beast Wars cartoon

Sunny with an 80% chance of lens flares. If you're traveling, watch out for transwarp waves.

At least it's finally trying to keep an orbit.

Three hundred years after the end of the Great War, the Autobots and Decepticons had faded into obscurity while their descendants, the Maximals and Predacons, dominated Cybertron. The planet had found a star to orbit (eccentrically, but still), which reflected the relative stability that had come upon Cybertronian culture at last. The Maximals, inheriting the Pax Cybertronia, ruled over the Predacons in a time of uneasy truce. Peacetime diversions had sprung up, such as the Six Lasers Over Cybertron amusement park. Or for more "mature" amusement, one could find joints where the servers went around without their torso plates on.

Beast Machines cartoon

Amidst Megatron's spark collection, a little pocket of validation blossomed.

The tranquility of that age would come to a rapid end when Megatron returned from the Beast Wars and set a virus loose on the world that incapacitated the population and paved the way for Vehicon rule.

As Optimus Primal and his Maximals fought back, several facts about the planet became apparent. It had at least two moons, one with big gashes in its surface. The Maximal city of Cybertropolis had been built over the ruins of Iacon and was home to billions of Transformers. And this was just the latest example of an eons-old trend of vertical expansion. In fleeing from the Vehicons, the Maximals found many layers of abandoned civilization, all the way down to the rocky crust of the world. There, fossils existed of bats, dinosaurs, and birds (which were well-preserved enough to harbor DNA). A few plants, such as trees and flowers, were seen growing underground or even occasionally breaking through to the surface. And stranger yet, drilling through the rock revealed the planet's green, oozing "organic core".

Times were so dark, the sun had a shadow.

Another previously-unseen feature of the planet—but one that went unremarked upon—was its heavy cloud cover. Across dimensions and timeframes, Cybertron has been conspicuously devoid of visible weather systems. But when the Maximals returned from the Beast Wars, their view from orbit showed extensive, unmistakable clouds (which were also seen from the ground). This wouldn't last forever, though: By the time Botanica arrived, the clouds had vanished again. The only major planetary event in the meantime was the doomsday energy storm that occurred when Primal and Megatron pitted the Plasma Energy Chamber against the Key to Vector Sigma. However, it is unclear whether this actually caused any meteorological effects.

Finding a chamber of fossils, Nightscream drew the conclusion that Cybertron's animals had been driven extinct by colonizing robots, a theory mildly supported by Primal's conviction that a balance between organic and mechanical needed to be "restored" to the planet. In the end, Primal's dream became a reality when he applied his "reformatting" power to the organic core and converted the entire world to a technorganic state.

Beast Wars Neo cartoon

Tens of thousands of years into the future, in the era of the Maximals and Predacons, Cybertron was reigned over by Vector Sigma itself, who handed down orders through the ruling body known as the Convoy Council. Big Convoy, Move Out When Unicron attempted to engineer his rebirth following his destruction eons beforehand, his lifeforce possessed Vector Sigma and briefly transformed Cybertron into his new body before he was defeated by Big Convoy.

3H comics continuity

According to the Al-Badur, the Quintessons had once served Unicron, and in so doing, they found the "dimensional landing" of Primus: Cybertron. Rather than alert their master, however, they decided to capitalize on their discovery for their own purposes. They attempted to subvert Primus's creations via the Plasma Energy Chamber, but the results were disastrous. Success came when they placed a shell program over Vector Sigma and channeled the divine power into creating a subservient race. That race would one day rebel and become the Transformers, but the Quintessons' influence remained in the form of the Vector Sigma shell program—otherwise known as the Oracle. Primus could nonetheless sometimes send messages from Vector Sigma through the Oracle, but it is difficult to tell the difference. Disclosure

Dreamwave comics continuity

The only continuity in which Cybertron has been mapped to some extent. A map of one hemisphere of the planet appears in the DK Transformers Ultimate Guide.

Devil's Due comics continuity

There aren't many details revealed in regards to Cybertron's past, but it involved the Quintessons creating both transorganics and the gladiator and slave races that would evolve into the Decepticons and Autobots. The Art of War issue 1

Following Optimus Prime and Megatron's crash on Earth, Cybertron was conquered by Shockwave. The planet was also the location of Teletran 3, which accidentally transported members of G.I. Joe and Cobra to the alien world. G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers II issue 1

Shockwave was eventually defeated and the Decepticons were driven back to the Gladiator Zone, allowing Cybertron to be at peace for the first time in millennia. A warp gate was set up between Cybertron and Area 52 on Earth. The Art of War issue 1 The peace was interrupted when Serpent O.R. warped to Cybertron and took control of the Decepticons, but he was eventually defeated. The Art of War issue 5 Notable locations on Cybertron included Capitol City and the large junkyards where the cannibalizers would reside. The Art of War issue 3

After the death of Serpent O.R., Cybertron was peaceful yet again, and seemingly stayed that way. Black Horizon, Part 1 of 2

IDW comics continuity

The Transformers' homeworld is located around Shaula which can be seen from Earth as the second brightest object in the constellation Scorpius located in its tail.

It is possible that Cybertron was originally an organic world with organic lifeforms, and that they deliberately made the evolutionary jump to cyborgs and, eventually, to fully mechanical lifeforms. Spotlight: Nightbeat In fact, the world of Gorlam Prime, a massive experiment by Jhiaxus in evolutionary science, gradually changed into a metal world full of transforming robots. The inhabitants forgot its old name and existence, and renamed it... Cybertron. This raises interesting questions about the planet's origin... Spotlight: Sideswipe

Cybertron is the only known world with naturally occurring energon. Escalation issue 1 This resource occurs deep beneath the surface and was initially mined by hand, before the mines became automated, and the labourers lost their livelihoods. Megatron Origin issue 1

Some 1500 years ago, the constant fighting and the stripping of Cybertron's natural resources by both Autobot and Decepticon to feed their age-long war led to a terrible cataclysm that rendered Cybertron uninhabitable. With no atmosphere, Cybertron's surface was unprotected from cosmic radiation and was wracked by plasma storms. Transformers had to divert energy to their personal shielding in order to remain on the surface for short periods; the surface was presumably immediately lethal for humans. Gravity was also weaker than normal and Transformers needed magno-treads to walk on the surface. The Transformer race abandoned the planet (save for occasional scientific surveys from orbit) and began conducting its conflict across the galaxy.

According to Autobot command directives, landing on Cybertron was forbidden. Stormbringer #1 However, with the resurrection (and subsequent defeat) of Thunderwing, this directive was lifted due to the unusual circumstances. Spotlight: Galvatron

Around the year 1997, the wise Alpha Trion returned to Cybertron with a plan to revive the planet. Through years of work, he began to repair Cybertron's atmosphere and rid it of radiation, though the planet remained dead and resourceless. Any Old Iron

Many years later, the Decepticons created the Insecticons on Cybertron, which had the side effect of also creating thousands of mindless monsters dubbed the Insecticon swarm. After the Decepticons defeated the Autobots on Earth, they sent their battered enemies through a portal to Cybertron, where the swarm would finish them off. All Hail Megatron issue 7 By this time, Alpha Trion's hard work had eliminated much of the radiation and electromagnetic storms, so the Autobots survived their stay on the planet with only minor pains. Any Old Iron Later, the Autobot starship Trion was shot down over Cybertron, and its crew joined the rest of the survivors on its surface. All Hail Megatron issue 5 They were eventually rescued by Omega Supreme. All Hail Megatron issue 10

Most of the Insecticon swarm survived their brushes with the Autobots and stayed on Cybertron, which interfered with Alpha Trion's plans. In order to make Cybertron habitable again, he first needed to get rid of the swarm, and thus he revived Ironhide to take care of them. Ironing Out the Details Trion then left again, with only Ironhide, Sunstreaker and a few hundred swarm members remaining on the planet. Any Old Iron

Robots in Disguise

Well, it's... uh... it's green!

Cybertron was located near or orbiting a larger ringed world,Ultra Magnus and had an asteroid prison colony in which dangerous Decepticon and Predacon prisoners were interred.The Final Battle At one point there were a series of civil wars, in which Optimus Prime and Ultra Magnus, both creations of Alpha Trion, fought side-by-side. Following the wars, Magnus was honored, but Vector Sigma selected Optimus as Autobot leader and bestowed on him the Matrix of Leadership. Ultra Magnus: Forced Fusion! The Predacons on Cybertron were ruled over by a council, of which Megatron was a subordinate,Mystery of the Ultra Magnus though he once claimed to be "leader of the Predacons and future ruler of the galaxy" and that he was already "ruler of many worlds".Battle Protocol!

Unicron Trilogy

Primus, a "unique digital entity", came to exist eons ago. To search for other life in the universe, it sent out the Transformers as explorers. One of the first places the Transformers settled was on a planet that would eventually become known as Cybertron. First Encounter

Flaky crust.

Cybertron is the body of Primus. Much like the versions of Cybertron before it, it is a metallic planet that is damaged by conflict. Cybertron existed in an unnamed system until the Energon series, where it was pulled from orbit and pushed into another part of space (or universe) that Alpha Quintesson had created.

In Energon, Cybertron was equipped with a system of Energon Towers that could surround the planet with a protective field, which has since been disabled due to Decepticon attack.

Cybertron had at least one known moon in the Armada series, but this moon turned out to be Unicron. It is unknown whether it was always Unicron's depowered body, or if the moon somehow became a new "host" body for him.

I can see my house from here!

Through the ages, Cybertron has had many repairs, causing new "layers" to be added to the surface of the planet. Deep within the core is a pool of Super Energon that was once guarded by the four ancient combiners, Constructicon Maximus, and Bruticus Maximus, Superion Maximus, and the latter's unnamed brother.

At the end of the Energon series, Cybertron was granted a new sun when Primus trapped Unicron's spark within a ball of Super Energon, igniting it. This sun would eventually collapse, becoming the Unicron Singularity.

You DENTED it!

It is unknown how large Cybertron is in this continuity, but it is most likely the size of Earth or smaller. Cybertron has an atmosphere, but it was unbreathable by Earth life forms as when Rad, Carlos and Alexis visited the planet in 2010, they required spacesuits to operate on the surface; by 2020, however, humans were capable of surviving without specialised suits, indicating that an oxygen/nitrogen-based atmosphere may have somehow been generated by the planet or created by Transformers or humans artificially.

In the Cybertron series, much of the planet had been repaired, including the construction of a "Sky Dome" headquarters where important meetings are held. This structure housed the artifacts that were used to mount the Omega Lock, which unlocks the robot form of Cybertron.

Live-action Transformers movie continuity

Cybertron as it didn't appear in the movie.

Cybertron was a world created by a device known as the AllSpark. With its power, it created a race of dimensional travelers, the Thirteen Primes, and made Cybertron suitable for their habitation. The Primes soon discovered that while the All Spark's power was vast, it was also finite, needing to be recharged. The universe soon provided the answer, for a nearby star went nova, recharging the AllSpark. Though the Primes could travel dimensions, they needed help locating stars and harvesting their energy. The AllSpark responded by creating two things to help the Primes. The first gift was the second race of Cybertronians, the Transformers, who could change their forms. The Thirteen Primes ruled over the Transformers with their descendants, forming the Dynasty of Primes, to protect the All Spark and Cybertron, while seeking out stars to harvest. The Dynasty even shared their dimensional traveling abilities with the Seekers, those tasked with finding stars. Once they found a star, the Dynasty would follow with builders to forge a harvester to drain a star of its energy and send it to the All Spark to form Energon. The second gift the AllSpark gave the Dynasty was the Matrix of Leadership, a key which contained the essence of the AllSpark and powered the harvesters. The Dynasty of Primes recognized the potential for destruction the harvesters presented, so they decreed that any star system which supported life was to be spared.

One day, the Dynasty of Primes and their attendants came to a world to harvest its star. Just as the harvester was completed, the Primes discovered primitive but sentient creatures. Twelve of the Primes upheld the sanctity of life, but the thirteenth despised the creatures as insects and sought to steal the All Spark's power for himself. What followed was the very first battle of Transformer against Transformer, as the rogue Prime and his loyalists waged war against the Dynasty of Primes and their loyalists. The rogue Prime murdered eleven of his brothers, but the twelfth stole the Matrix and hid it a tomb forged from the bodies of his brothers, sacrificing his own spark to seal the Tomb. The rogue Prime, now known as The Fallen, dispatched the Seekers to find the Matrix. When he returned to Cybertron, he brought his war there as well, killing the rest of the Primes and destroying his brothers' sarcophagi to prevent them from returning. However, he expended much of his power in this process and withdrew to his own sarcophagus to heal. It was there that he learned that he'd made two mistakes: First, the spirits of his brothers were able to seal him in the sarcophagus, preventing him taking over Cybertron. Second, the warriors of the Dynasty had managed to save a single orphan, hiding him from the Fallen. The Dynasty of Primes passed into the realm of legend. Defiance issue 3 Defiance issue 4 Revenge of the Fallen Movie Adaptation issue 3

Eventually, what little the Transformers knew of their origins would be lost to time. A new society arose, known as the Autobots. The Autobots were a peaceful people, led by Optimus, head of the Science Division, and Protector Megatron, head of the Defense Force. The two leaders created a balance; Optimus was fair while Megatron was firm. Prime Directive (IDW) issue 1 Their world's main cities included Tyger Pax, Metrotitan, Simfur, and the capital city of Trypticon. In time, the Autobots began work on a dig near the Simfur temple, discovering the remains of the Twelve's sarcophagi and the intact sarcophagus of The Fallen. At the same time, unknown alien hostiles attacked Cybertron. Megatron had Optimus remove the intact artifact to his quarters to better protect it, allowing him to come under the influence of The Fallen. Defiance issue 1 Defiance issue 2

Hell on Cybertron. Image taken from New York skyline.

As Megatron began to grow more aggressive, Optimus discovered that he was the orphaned Prime hidden away when the Dynasty fell. Megatron raised an army, the Decepticons, and sought to take the AllSpark to conquer the universe. However, most of the early Decepticon forces left on the Nemesis with The Fallen and Soundwave to seek out the harvester. With the number of Megatron's Decepticons now diminished, Optimus assumed his proper title and raised his own army of Autobots. In the war that followed, Cybertron was decimated. Prime eventually sent the AllSpark through a wormhole into deep space, and Megatron pursued it. Both were lost. Without the All Spark's power, Cybertron became a dead world. The Autobots and the Decepticons scattered across the galaxy, hoping either to create a new world or locate the AllSpark and restore Cybertron. Transformers (2007) A number of Transformers remained, with the Decepticons centered in Trypticon (now a Decepticon capital), but this didn't last long. The Reign of Starscream

Geography-wise, the surface of Cybertron is a mystery. Large rivers of molten liquid criss-cross the planet, though whether this is lava, molten metal, or possibly energon is anyone's guess. In more urbanized areas, such as the city of Tyger Pax, the stone and lava seem to be covered over with steel or other refined metal. However, these incidents took place during the war, so it may have been the result of the devastation Cybertron saw. This molten liquid is even on the tops of buildings! Training Day

Internally, Cybertron has similar features to the inside of a Transformer, including gyroscopic joints. Return to Cybertron, Part: 4

Titan Magazines Transformers movie comics

While everyone had abandoned Cybertron, the twin Autobot Skids and Mudflap hung out there for a while, and Starscream began organising an army there in secret. Training Day

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

Cybertron's status was unknown, with everyone abandoning it as it began to die. However, Stockade and a group of Decepticons remained, staying alive by using Nucleon. Stockade believed they could renew Cybertron by summoning a new power source, one related to the AllSpark. They succeeded in summoning such an energy being, Return to Cybertron: Part 1 which did enter Cybertron to renew it...

The Beast Planet!

...and to everyone's horror, announced itself as Unicron, the Anti-Life! Return to Cybertron: Part 2

The possessed Cybertron was swiftly altered into a scarier-looking form with a large mouth and grasping prongs, turned hostile to those on it, and warped to the Sol system. Return to Cybertron: Part 3 The Autobots and Decepticons were able to destroy Unicron, but Cybertron was left in its transformed state and seemingly in the Sol system, as well as continuing to be dead and powerless. Return to Cybertron: Part 4

When the Autobots were ordered off American soil, they regrouped under Cybertron and began working on the teleportation engines that Unicron had left there when he transformed the planet. Using these, they were able to make a decisive strike by teleporting the entire Decepticon army to Cybertron, then teleporting Cybertron to the far reaches of space. With the engines now burnt out and no energy on the planet, the Decepticons were marooned there, at the cost of the Autobots never being able to go home. Revolution Part 2 Revolution Part 3

Animated

Pointier than most.

In an interesting turn of events, the Decepticons have been driven entirely from the planet. Autobot mastery of space bridge technology, and their strategic relocation of the AllSpark led to ultimate victory, and a Cybertron where an entire generation has seen neither armor-plating nor transistor of a Decepticon.

According to Sentinel Prime, it doesn't rain liquid on Cybertron. Where Is Thy Sting?

Prime

Cybertron is orbited by three "near-Cybertron" objects: Moon Bases One and Two and the Trypticon Asteroid Belt Station, each on opposite hemispheres of the planet (presumably the Iaconian and Kaonian sides). Beyond the moons and asteroid belt floats the last of the great Space Bridges, the long-abandoned interstellar transportation system that once connected Cybertron to its colonies Velocitron, Gigantion and the Hub elsewhere in the galaxy.

Unicron attacked this Cybertron early on in its history, presumably after all but one of the Primes left once their squabbles escalated into murder. The Covenant of Primus decreed only one Prime could rule at a time, with the thirteen members of the High Council. The Quintessons seized control but an Elite Guard named Sentinel led the revolution, and with the High Council and the Guilds, he led to the Transformers to a Golden Age of expansion. As the space bridges became less reliable and contact with the colonies was lost, Sentinel and the Guilds instituted the caste system to slow their civilization's decline.

But as the nameless miners resorted to gladiatorial combat as an outlet for their misery, a champion named Megatron rose to seize the title of Prime for himself. Unwittingly, his Iaconian ally was appointed Optimus Prime instead, and their anti-caste movement became a civil war for Cybertron's future. The AllSpark was lost to space, whole regions of the planet were laid waste, and the core of Cybertron was poisoned by Dark Energon, the remnants of Unicron's attack, prompting the Autobots to evacuate on the Ark. Megatron and his elite forces left on Trypticon too, now modified into the Nemesis, leaving Shockwave to deal with the Wreckers. Exodus: The Official History of the War for Cybertron

Significant locations

Known cities (from various continuities) on Cybertron include:

• Ankmor
• Axiom Nexus
• Centurion
• Cyber City
• Cybertropolis
• Crystal City
• Gygax
• Helex
• Iacon
• Kalis
• Kaon
• Little Iacon
• Mebion
• Nova Cronum
• Simfur
• Tarn
• Trypticon
• Tyger Pax
• Uraya
• Vos
• Yuss

Known provinces include:

• Polyhex

Other locations include:

• The Well of All Sparks
• Vector Sigma Chamber
• Acid Wastes
• Autobase
• Cybertonium Pit
• Darkmount
• Decepticon Detention Center
• Decepticon Crypt
• Decepticon stronghold
• The Forbidden Zone
• Hall of Heroes
• The Heap
• Hibernation Chamber
• J'nwan
• Ky-Alexia
• Mass Transit System
• Maze
• Matrix (facility)
• The Oracle Tank
• The Pit (facility)
• Plasma Energy Chamber
• Rust Sea
• Security Services HQ
• Six Lasers Over Cybertron
• Smelting pool
• Sonic Canyons
• Stanix
• The Underworld
• Valvolux

Toys

Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers

• Primus (Supreme, 2006)
  • Japanese ID number: C-00
  • Accessories: Omega Lock, special silver Cybertron planet-type Cyber Planet Key

Primus transforms into the planet Cybertron as seen in the Cybertron cartoon series. In planet mode, he is considerably more detailed than Unicron from the Armada line, with visible cities, including Iacon, based upon its appearance in the DK Publishing book, Transformers: The Ultimate Guide, and Kaon as seen in The War Within. On the "bottom" of the planet mode there are four hard rubber legs, molded to be shaped like towers, allowing Primus to be displayed in planet mode, yet not require a flat base as Unicron did.

Primus's transformation is unusual, in many ways similar to a Powermaster, in that he requires the owner to insert his accompanying Omega Lock accessory into several special ports around the planet, then manipulate it to unlock his parts and transform him. When the Omega Lock is inserted into his back and pushed, a transforming sound is heard. When it is inserted into his chest and pushed up to reveal his head, his eyes glow red and a laser-type sound effect is heard. The Lock itself lights up red when it is inserted into any of the ports.

In robot mode, Primus resembles both the Beast Wars Neo Unicron prototype as well as Don Figueroa's Primus concept, created for The War Within and used in The Ultimate Guide. He is bristling with weaponry, including two shoulder-mounted cannons that can fire missiles, two forearm blasters that raise and extend when a Cyber Power Key is inserted, and several banks of Gatling guns, lasers and missile launchers in his shins and legs revealed by the Omega Lock.

Primus also has what might charitably be called a third mode—an intergalactic world-ship, which is basically formed by transforming the figure halfway and leaving the head down and the legs backward. It features no dedicated parts or transformation steps, making it very obvious that it was created after the fact.

Primus comes with two accessories, the aforementioned battery-operated Omega Lock that lights up red when inserted into any of the four Omega Lock ports, and a special silver Cybertron-Planet Cyber Power Key with the key code sp8u tampographed onto the back. Any four Cyber Planet Keys can be inserted into the four key slots at the base of the Omega Lock, though doing this does not activate any feature. There are also nine inactive Mini-Con powerlinx ports on the Primus figure, including two on the claws on his legs.

Primus was developed by Hasbro and Takara as a toy for their joint Cybertron/Galaxy Force toylines, but was released in Japan in the Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers line a few months after Galaxy Force had ended its run. This release can be considered a pre-release of the Cybertron toy because it features Hasbro's Cyber Key Codes that the Galaxy Force line lacked.

Cybertron

• Cybertron Primus (Supreme, 2006)
  • Accessories: Omega Lock, special silver Cybertron planet-type Cyber Planet Key

Cybertron Primus is the North American version of Primus, released a few months after the Japanese release. Both toys are identical.

In North America, limited early-run versions of Cybertron Primus came packaged with a very creepy "battle damaged" Unicron head based upon the planet eater's Armada appearance.

A later version, exclusive to Wal-Mart as a Black Friday 2006 special, included four Mini-Cons; Strongarm, Knockdown, Nightscream, and Offshoot.

Notes

• The name "Cybertron" was used by Marvel Comics long before the Transformers series came about. In issue 48 of the original X-Men title (released in September 1968), a computer named Computo created a race of robots named the "Cybertrons".
• Cybertron's "gashed" moon, often glimpsed during the course of Beast Machines, is heavily based on one side of a modern sculpture by Arnaldo Pomodoro, "Sphere with Sphere" ("Sfera con Sfera"), that can be found in the Vatican City's Courtyard of the Pinecone. See, kids? Transformers IS educational.
• The size of the Planet Cybertron varies between different continuities. In one, the diameter of the planet is around 6,300 km, while the Marvel comics describe it as "Saturn-sized," placing its diameter at around 120,000 km. We can probably lay these at the feet of Primus, who is god after all, and can decide to be whatever size he wants.
• Towards the end of the original comic run, Blaster was asked in the UK Letters Page whether Cybertron would be turned into a Transformer. His response was "No. More likely it will turn into a rapidly expanding ball of component molecules, the way things are going at the moment". Oh, what fools time makes of us all.