Quintessa (planet)
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| This article is about the planet which the Quintessons call home. For the Decepticon Triple Changer, see Astrotrain (G1). |
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- Quintessa is a planet in the Generation 1 continuity family. In the Marvel UK comic continuity, it is known as Quintesson.
Quintessa 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.
Generation 1
Generation 1 cartoon continuity
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 Sharkticons. 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
Kiss Players Position
While traversing space and time inside Fortress Maximus, the Kiss Players girls ended up stranded on Quintessa, where they were immediately captured and put on trial. With the help of their Sparkbot partners, they called on the power of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moe_%28slang%29" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Moe_(slang)">Moe</a> to "cute" their way out of trouble, but this failed spectacularly. However, Optimus Prime and Goldbug happened to be in the area, and rescued the girls from the Sharkticon pit.
Fortress Maximus returned, and the resulting spacewarp not only pulled the girls to safety, but also scattered the Quintessons. Kiss Players
Marvel Comics continuity
<div style="width: 90%; margin: 0 auto .2em auto; background-color:#efefef; border: 2px solid #eeeeee; padding: 2px; text-align: left;">Note: Events from the UK-only comic stories are in italics.</div> 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. Neither Quintesson nor its inhabitants were seen after this point, the former quite possibly destroyed. Space Pirates!
<div style="width: 90%; margin: 0 auto .2em auto; background-color:#efefef; border: 2px solid #eeeeee; padding: 2px; text-align: left;">Note: The Quintesson homeworld was simply called "Quintesson" in the UK comics.</div>
Dreamwave Comics continuity
From their citadel on Quintessa, several Quintessons studied recent activity on Cybertron, and prepared for the coming of Unicron.
<div style="width: 90%; margin: 0 auto .2em auto; background-color:#efefef; border: 2px solid #eeeeee; padding: 2px; text-align: left;">Note: The planet Quintessa also seemed to appear in orbit around Cybertron in "Destined For Nothing", but this is, in fact, an ambiguously drawn Astrotrain.</div>
Trivia
- According to Floro Dery <sup id="cite_ref-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-0" title="">[1]</a></sup>, Quintessa is modeled after a skull, presumably one viewed in profile or slightly behind the rear of the skull.
Footnotes
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