Quintessa (planet)

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

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

This is your planet on drugs.

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

This was at most a year after the picture above. Don't know what the hell happened to it, but no wonder the Quints were ready to blow it up.

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 The Transformers comics

Quintessa appeared exclusively in the UK portion of the Marvel Comics continuity.

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 One continuity

Astrotrain. Seriously.

Quintessa was one of the first planets to spawn sentient life. Home to the Quintessons, it was also inhabited by other dangerous lifeforms. More Than Meets The Eye 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.

Animated cartoon

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

Aligned continuity family

The Covenant of Primus

On his quest to seed planets across the universe with civilization, Quintus Prime used the Emberstone to seed the young planet of Quintessa with life forms, creating the first Quintessons. Although Quintus Prime intended to create peaceful, spacefaring beings, the arrogant, manipulative, and self-serving Quintessons he created did not fit this mold. Quintessa ultimately proved to be the hub and staging ground for many campaigns, including the attempted conquest and annexation of Cybertron. The Covenant of Primus

Aligned novels

Quintessa was the capital of the Quintesson Imperium, a group of subjugated worlds that claimed to be a part of a peaceful Co-Prosperity Sphere. Although the Quintessons kept the location of their homeworld a secret, Quintesson judges could holographically project themselves onto their various colony worlds to pronounce judgement over criminals and prisoners of war. Retribution

Rescue Bots cartoon

Rescue Force Sigma-17 left Cybertron for a routine patrol in the Quintessa quadrant. Changes

Knights of Unicron

The Sharkticon Pit, located on Planet Quintessa, was the ninth venue for the Knights of Unicron on their 2014 "Till All Are One" tour. Knights of Unicron

Beast Wars: Uprising

Quintessa was rich with naturally-occurring energon, allowing for the creation of energy-guzzling weapons like the Overcharge drones. Burning Bridges

Games

Transformers Legends

The Quintessons destroyed their home planet of Quintesson in an attempt to destroy the Autobots. Five Faces of Darkness: Part 2

Notes

• Flint Dille's idea for Quintessa was that it was not the original planet that the Quintessons originated on, but merely the latest in a series of planets colonized by the Quintessons and subsequently claimed to be their homeworld. Furthermore, he envisioned the various sea creatures in the movie as some of their discarded experiments.
• Floro Dery modeled Quintessa after a skull, presumably one viewed in profile or slightly behind the rear of the skull.

Foreign names

• Japanese: Quintessa (クインテッサ星 Kuintessa-sei)