Iacon (polity)

This article is about the city-state from numerous continuities. For the weird Godmaster-related thingy from Super-God Masterforce, see Iacon (Masterforce).

Iacon, sometimes called Iacon City, is an Autobot-controlled city-state at the north pole of Cybertron. Iacon often is the planet's capital.

Fiction

Generation 1

Marvel Comics continuity

Events from the UK-only comic stories are in italics.

• Locations
  • Iacon Central
    • The Great Dome
    • The Celestial Spires
      • The Celestial Temple
  • Academy of Science and Technology
  • Autobase (post-war)
  • Jan-Ja
  • Imperial Amphitheatre
  • Maccadam's Old Oil House
  • The Matrix Flame Chamber

Iacon functioned as the heart of Autobot territory on Cybertron, and appears to have been the base of the Council of Autobot Elders prior to the departure of Optimus Prime and his comrades from the planet. It was termed "greatest of the city-states" for the Autobots on Cybertron.

Without Prime's leadership, the Autobot war effort fell further and further into disarray—but Iacon's defences remained steady. The Decepticons, led by Trannis succeeding Megatron, besieged the city and continued to attempt its capture for many thousands of years. Eventually, being in control of the remainder of Cybertron, Trannis decided it simply was not worth capturing Iacon intact and ordered his troops to level the city, which they did to such an extent that by the time Optimus Prime returned briefly to Cybertron, the city was completely in ruins.

Still, the Autobots maintained a presence in Iacon, if only from small resistance bases in its ruins. Autobase itself was located within these ruins at one point, and the Wreckers operated from this base conducting strikes and raids on Decepticon holdings on a continuing basis.

Generation 1 cartoon continuity

As one of the two starter continuities, The Transformers cartoon was not influenced by the Marvel comics' depiction of Iacon as Cybertron's capital city. Instead, Iacon was the name of the Autobots' headquarters on Cybertron, appearing as a large, domed fortress colored gold. When Iacon needed to be actually shown in the Marvel comics, the artists took "inspiration" from the cartoon and reinterpreted the domed fortress as the Great Dome, a defensive structure surrounding Iacon Central that was the only part of Iacon to survive the millennia of war, thus becoming synonymous with the city. Whether such a history should be applied to the cartoon version is debatable, but the domed fortress was "just" called Cybertron Autobot Base in Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers and The Headmasters cartoon. Moreso, War for Cybertron fiction has established that the Hall of Records, a building that appeared first in the The Transformers cartoon, is located in Iacon. What goes for one continuity family does not necessarily go for another, but Cybertron's locations have thus far been reasonably alike across them. Either way, see the aforementioned buildings' pages for more information on what-could-be-Iacon in the orginal cartoon.

Dreamwave Generation One continuity

• Locations
  • The Alpha Preserve
  • The Border Regions (sub-orbital district)
    • The Forum of Enlightenment
    • The Promontory
  • The Central Spaceport
  • The High Council Pavilions
    • The Chamber of the Ancients
    • The Decagon
    • The Energon Pools
    • The Grand Oratory
    • The Stellar Galleries
    • The Tower of Pion
    • The Vaults
    • Central Hall
  • The Oracle Tank
  • Iacon East
  • Access Shaft 0-5 (sub-surface)
  • Quadrant Epsilon
    • The Detention Banks
    • Shockwave's secret laboratory
  • Shockwave's Tower
  • Planetary Engine Vents (sub-surface)
  • Virtue's Forum

Iacon was the capital of Cybertron and the headquarters of the Autobots. After Optronix became Prime, he ordered an evacuation of Cybertron. However, Megatron ordered a planetary engine vent to activate, destroying the Forum of Enlightenment. Optimus Prime went down beneath the wreckage, in an attempt to leave him isolated and vulnerable. Shockwave then led an assault on Iacon, with Jazz and Prowl leading the defense. During the assault, Starscream believed he killed Megatron, and activated the mecha-forming process, intending to destroy Iacon, the Autobots, and Shockwave, the only real threat to his leadership. After seeing the devastation that was Iacon, the Autobots agreed to Prime's evacuation order, but Optimus reversed the order and ordered the Autobots to dig in. The War Within

In the future, Iacon had completely shut down as part of a world-wide stasis lock across the face of Cybertron. The first to awaken, Shockwave saw the dead world as having infinite potential. As part of his efforts to restore the planet, Shockwave united Autobot and Decepticon factions and rebuilt the city as a testament to the supremacy of his rule. Revelation

On Earth, Shockwave arrested Optimus Prime and the Autobots under his command and brought them back to Cybertron, Iacon specifically, planning to deactivate them. Brothers' Burden Prime and the others escaped with help from the Autobot resistance and then staged an all-out assault on the city. Countdown to Extinction

IDW Generation 1 continuity

• Locations
  • The Celestial Spires
  • Iaconian Aerial Academy

Iacon was the capital of Cybertron and the base of the Senate, and where most Senators spent their time, rather than with their constituents. When the Great War began with the Battle of Kaon, Sentinel Prime's Autobots were trying to contact Iacon for reinforcements. After Sentinel Prime's body was dropped in front of them, Prowl instead requested an evacuation to Iacon. Megatron Origin

Wings of Honor

Following a prosperous career in the Decepticon army, Jetstorm was stationed as a spy on the outskirts of New Iacon. Jetstorm's Wings of Honor profile

Beast Era

Beast Machines cartoon

After the Great Upgrade, Iacon was paved over and replaced with Cybertropolis. Megatron led Optimus Primal to believe that clues to the locations of the lost sparks could be located in Iacon's ruins, so Primal and Nightscream went searching there. Sparkwar Pt. II: The Search

When the Maximals visit Iacon's ruins, everyone who speaks the city's name incorrectly pronounces it a "Iocon. This isn't the first time this kind of error has been made

Unicron Trilogy cartoon continuity

Armada cartoon

Starscream mentioned having been a warrior since his "spark left the Iacon chamber." Rebellion

Cybertron cartoon

• Locations
  • Maccadam's Old Oil House

Iacon had become the capital of Cybertron, apparently replacing Cyber City or Central City.

Lugnutz longed for his pre-Decepticons days in the nanobrew shops of Iacon where poetry was recited. Lugnutz's Cyber Key Code text

Live-action film series

Risk

If the Transformers RISK game is to be taken at face value, Iacon exists and is surrounded by The Oracle and Pion Tower. Risk

Shattered Glass

• Locations
  • Iacon
  • Smelting pool
  • A launching platform

Upon finding Cliffjumper alive and well, Rodimus contacted Optimus Prime at Iacon and was ordered to bring back the lost hero immediately. Rodimus did, admitting to a decidedly confused Cliffjumper that he was impressed Optimus Prime was interrupting his hobbies just to welcome him back. Only just inside the Iacon main complex, the duo was greeted by Optimus Prime, who was thrilled to see his good friend alive. Cliffjumper was merely confused, a condition that only worsened as he was led further into the headquarters and found "his" comrades revelling in atrocities that would be more sutied for Decepticons. He spoke up against it and was promptly shot down for his audacity. Optimus Prime considered killing him, but for the sake of their old friendship, he instead had Cliffjumper dumped in the Rad Zone where he could either re-earn his Autobot insignia or die trying.

However, the Decepticons found Cliffjumper before he even woke up and brought him with them to Polyhex, where Cliffjumper learned he had somehow traveled to a dimension in which the Autobots were evil and the Decepticons good. Hearing of the Autobots plan to build a ship to reach other planets with and subsequently conquer them, Cliffjumper agreed to help Megatron's troops destroy the launching platform. The assault was initiated at sundown and started with two of the Predacons taking out the platform's guards. Next, Starscream, Whisper and Divebomb flew in and bombed the energon storage tanks near the platform's support beams with glass gas bombs. The tanks did not explode though, and so it came to a battle between the two armies. When Megatron took a shot from Optimus for Cliffjumper, the latter's indecision who to trust was undone and he finished the job of getting the tanks to explode on his own. With the platform collapsing badly, the Decepticons retreated victorious. Shattered Glass

A battle in Khon didn't end in the Autobots' favor. First and foremost, they lost the Arch-Ayr fuel depot to the Decepticons, but before they did, Wheeljack returned from exile with a small army of Dinobots. Dinobots who he couldn't control and either killed one another or fled the battlefield, leaving the brutes' strength an asset up for grabs only if the Autobots could retrieve them before the Decepticons would. After discussing a few matters with his officers, Optimus Prime sent out his troops to capture as many Dinobots as possible. What they returned with were eight specimen, but also the information that Grimlock, the strongest Dinobot, had perished during the hunt. Optimus Prime was very much not pleased, but before he could kill anyone, Grimlock showed up in the main complex alive, well and willing to join the Autobot cause if his sovereignty would be acknowledged. Optimus accepted the deal with some reluctance. Dungeons & Dinobots

A civilian spotted a Decepticon very nearby Iacon. Even more so, that Decepticon had a meeting with two treacherous Autobots. The civilian filmed the meeting and relayed it to Punch for a news report... in return for energon. Around Cybertron #3 Do Over

Animated

• Locations
  • Iacon Central
  • The Autobot Memorial Plaza

When Optimus Prime and his repair crew vanished shortly after taking possession of the AllSpark, Sentinel Prime begrudgingly gave their eulogy at the Autobot Memorial Plaza in Iacon City. Dispatches

When Captain Carmine Fanzone first arrived on Cybertron via the space bridge atop Sumdac Tower he arrived in Iacon. Ratchet quickly followed behind him before the two left for Maccadam's Old Oil House. This Is Why I Hate Machines

Exodus

• Locations
  • Hall of Records
  • High Council Tower
  • Observatory of Iacon

Barricade hailed from Iacon Transformers Vault and Alpha Trion, Optimus Prime and Jazz worked at the Hall of Records. The latter two would drink at Maccadam's. The High Council would meet in a tower built over Teletraan-1, which contained the Plasma Energy Chamber and the dormant Omega Supreme. Vector Sigma was also located beneath the city, and Six Lasers Over Cybertron and the Manganese Mountains were nearby. Iacon remained unmolested until the end of the war, as the Autobots also held Kalis, which produced enough fusion energy for the city, and because of the city's formidable anti-aircraft turrets. Art, music and maintenance of the DataNet continued. The Decepticons infiltrated Teletraan-1 to steal the Chamber so they could poison Cybertron's core with Dark Energon, causing Omega Supreme to crash into the city. When the Autobots left Cybertron on the Ark, Decepticons flooded into the city. Transformers: Exodus

Games

Transformers: War for Cybertron (Xbox 360/PS3/PC)

Transformers: War for Cybertron

Toys

Generation 1

I can see my house from here.

• Primus (2006)

Iacon is one of two distinguishable cities molded into the surface of Primus' planet mode. It features many major landmarks as depicted in the Dreamwave comics and DK's Transformers Ultimate Guide, such as the Stellar Galleries, the Decagon, the Chamber of the Ancients, and the Tower of Pion.

The other distinguishable landmark is the Decepticon fortress Kolkular, which, similar to the depiction on the Cybertron map in the Ultimate Guide, is placed on the opposite end of the toy from Iacon. The War Within comics also describe Iacon being built on the surface above buried planetary engines that could conceivably maneuver Cybertron through space; likewise, the toy places Iacon directly over Primus' shoulder cannon shafts. Both of these details, however, are likely a coincidence.

Cybertron

• Cybertron Primus (Supreme, 2006)

Yep, it was still there when the toy was released months later in the Cybertron toyline.

Transformers 2010

• Creator Primus (Supreme 2010)

Still here and going strong!

Merchandise

• RISK TRANSFORMERS CYBERTRON Battle Edition (2007)

Iacon is one of the green zones on the board.

Notes

Foreign names

• Japanese: Iacon (アイアコン Aiakon)