Antilla
Antilla is an ancient ringed planet which was the site of an early Autobot colonization effort. This colony was wiped out by the deadly plague known as Cosmic Rust.
Antilla is home to the adorable creatures known as Antilian bumble-puppies.
Fiction
The Transformers cartoon
The Thirteenth Legion of Autobots, fleeing the wars of Cybertron, landed on Antilla. There, they founded a thriving colony. Eventually, however, they were all dead due to the malignant Cosmic Rust. Cosmic Rust
Animated cartoon
Antilla was a contested world in the Autobot Commonwealth during the Great War. It was destroyed as a part of the War of the Waves. The AllSpark Almanac II
Knights of Unicron
The Thirteenth Legion Outpost, located on Planet Antilla, was the twentieth venue for the Knights of Unicron on their 2014 "Till All Are One" tour. Knights of Unicron
IDW Generation 1 continuity
Antilla was an uninhabited world in a distant region of space, orbiting a singularity. At one time it had hosted a Transformer colony that had succumbed to an unspecified disaster, leaving nothing behind but an endless wasteland of rust deserts. The Camiens Praesidia Magna and the Mistress of Flame discovered the barren planet while following an abandoned distress beacon across space; an old poem in a Camien religious text spoke of a barren world that fit Antilla's description.
Following her traumatic encounter with Onyx Prime and the death of Praesidia, Pyra began experiencing nightmares of Onyx Prime on Antilla, prompting her to seek out the Mistress for guidance. The Mistress of Flame regretted that her old friend had perished with such sorrow on her mind. Ghost Stories
The Cybertronian sleeper agent G.B. Blackrock remembered a "childhood visit" from a "black angel", who showed him a world of rust and infinite darkness. Lagrange
Notes
- According to episode writer Paul Davids, the word Antilla comes from "the 'Antilles'—always thought of as the inaccessible 'hinterland' in the days of the explorers".[1] The Antilles are actually a series of islands in the Caribbean Sea, but their name in turn derives from the phantom island of Antillia that was supposedly located in the Atlantic ocean far west of Spain.
- It was Davids's intent to portray Antilla as an "Autobot Atlantis", a "super-civilization that met its end". Outside of their Lightning Bug weapon, the society's relative advancement does not particularly come across in the episode.
- The dialogue script for "Cosmic Rust" included additional information on the timing of the colony's founding. Two cut lines between Megatron and Starscream regarding an ancient Autobot inscription reveal the following:
- "It says that the Thirteenth Legion of Autobots arrived here the first millennium after the creation of the Autobot Matrix."
- "Which would make it about five hundred thousand years before we left for Earth."[2]
- However, this does not line-up with the history of the Matrix that would later be revealed in "Five Faces of Darkness, Part 4," which showed that the Matrix had existed for millions of years before the departure of the Ark and Nemesis from Cybertron.
Foreign names
- Japanese: Antilla (アンティラ Antira)
