Quintessa (planet)

This article is about the planet which the Quintessons call home. For the Decepticon Triple Changer, see Astrotrain (G1).

It used to look like a normal planet, but the Quintessons made it look weird to upset everyone who saw it. Seriously, they're that evil!

Quintessa, or Quintesson, is the home planet of the Quintessons. It is also home to various deadly robotic creatures, all as twisted and malevolent as the Quintessons themselves. Quintessa has a tendency to be destroyed, with the Quintessons creating themselves a New Quintessa somewhere else in the universe.

Fiction

The Transformers cartoon

While fleeing the forces of Galvatron, a shuttle containing Hot Rod, Kup, and the Dinobots crash-landed on Quintessa. Kup and Hot Rod narrowly escaped death at the tentacles of a giant squid, but escaped only to be captured by Allicons. While imprisoned, they encountered Kranix, last survivor of Lithone, who managed to warn them of Unicron before he was tried and executed by the Quintessons. The Autobots were also tried and sentenced to death. but fought their way out of the Sharkticon pit and, with the aid of the Dinobots and their new ally Wheelie, defeated the Sharkticons and turned the surviving creatures against their masters. Stealing a Quintesson ship, the Autobots escaped the planet. The Transformers: The Movie

Shortly afterwards, Kup, Ultra Magnus, and Spike Witwicky were kidnapped from the Galactic Olympics and taken to Quintessa, where they were tried and sentenced to death. Before they could be devoured, Hot Rod, Grimlock, Arcee, Springer, and the Aerialbots mounted a daring rescue. Determined to destroy the Autobots, the Quintessons evacuated the planet and initiated its self-destruct sequence. While Quintessa was blown to atoms, the Autobots survived. Five Faces of Darkness, Part 2

Marvel Generation 1 comics

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

In 2008, the Quintesson homeworld was swallowed up by a time-space fault that was the result of Cyclonus and Scourge's time-travel activities. The Quintessons had planned to turn Cybertron (or another suitable robot planet) into a new homeworld, but they were unsuccessful. Quintesson was subsequently consumed by a rift in time and space and its survivors were not seen after this point. Space Pirates!

The Quintesson homeworld was simply called "Quintesson" in the UK comics.

Dreamwave Generation 1 comics

Astrotrain. Seriously.

From their citadel on Quintessa, several Quintessons studied recent activity on Cybertron, and prepared for the coming of Unicron. Generation 1 #0

The planet Quintessa also seemed to appear in orbit around Cybertron in "Destined For Nothing", but this is, in fact, an ambiguously drawn Astrotrain.

Energon comic

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

The AllSpark Almanac

Quintessa was the capital of the Quintesson Pan Galactic Co-Prosperity Sphere. The AllSpark Almanac II

Notes

• Floro Dery modeled Quintessa after a skull, presumably one viewed in profile or slightly behind the rear of the skull.