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
 Spoiler warning: Plot details for Our Finest follow. |
Twelve million years ago, Antilla was the homeworld of the Antillans, orbiting a star near the galactic centre. Following the unification of the Thirteen on Cybertron, Onyx Prime proposed turning the fury of all Cybertronians outward in a galactic expansion. With the Omega Sentinels serving as vanguards, the Primes made first contact with the Antillans, intending to conquer the planet for its resources, with Onyx dedicating this first "colony" to Alpha Trion. The natives fought back, but failed to match the power of the invaders. As the Antillans neared extinction, a desperate scientist sought to end the fighting by constructing a machine that would end all life on Antilla. However, when activated, the device's energies proved uncontrollable, killing everyone on the planet and warping Antilla itself into an ultimate weapon of retribution against the Cybertronian race: Unicron. The First Who Was Named Stranger Eons Our Finest
Following the First Cybertronian Civil War, Onyx Prime and his Maximal army returned to Antilla and made camp there, discovering the heart of the doomsday weapon and dubbing it the "Talisman", eventually shipping it off to Earth. Strange Visitors Unstopped and Unstoppable Our Finest
Unknown years later, the Camiens detected a Cybertronian distress beacon emanating from the planet and sent a trio of representatives – the linguist Magrada, the Matriarch of Incaendium and the Torchbearer Praesidia – to make contact with their presumed ancestors. When they arrived, they were greeted by an unnatural mountain, which split open to reveal Onyx, who leapt down from his perch and beheaded Magrada. The other two quickly took their leave and left the planet behind. Ghost Stories Surfeit of Primes
Onyx eventually managed to track down the Camiens and claimed Praesidia's life. After bearing witness to the Prime's attacks on Parvus Oppidum, Pyra began experiencing nightmares of Onyx Prime on Antilla, prompting her to seek out the Mistress for guidance. The Mistress of Flame explained her and Praesidia's earlier voyage to Antilla, while regretting that her old friend had perished with such sorrow on her mind. Ghost Stories
The Cybertronian sleeper agent Garrison Blackrock remembered a "childhood visit" from a "black angel", who showed him a world of rust and infinite darkness. Lagrange The Maximal Transformer Centurion had jumbled memories of the "sun shining black" overhead. Dawn
When Unicron began attacking the Council of Worlds, Arcee and Shockwave revealed the Chaos Bringer's connection to the initial Antillan war. Our Finest
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)
