Winged Moon

Imagine if you will, a race of beings with the vision, the capacity, to reshape a moon into the greatest energon harvester in the universe. For those of you with no imagination, or are simply curious, the answer to that lies in the Winged Moon, designed to filter energon from the very fabric of spacetime and keep Cybertron healthy.

Fiction

IDW 2019 continuity

The idea of the Winged Moon was conceived by the great visionary Termagax with the efforts of two thousand workers, labouring for kilocycles, making her dream a reality by repurposing one of their homeworld's moons. Once construction was completed, the moon was moved into a low geostationary orbit and equipped with an automated thruster array to keep its position constant, ensuring it only skimmed Cybertron's atmosphere. The moon was then connected to the planet via a space elevator known as the Tether. Though the moon represented a masterpiece of engineering, some felt it was not particularly efficient at its job, finding the harvest energon crystals to be a better way of refuelling the planet. "Long ago", two crazy bots free-fell from the moon during its harvest cycle.

On Rubble's forty second cycle of existence, Bumblebee brought him to meet Wheeljack at the Tether where he was employed for the day. When evening fell, Bumblebee took his protege to a nearby rooftop so they could watch the moon commence its harvest, though Bumblebee felt compelled to point out some of the moon's criticisms. When the harvester sprung into operation however, its surface transforming to "wings" to allow for operation, Rubble declared it the most amazing thing he'd ever seen, a statement Bumblebee was hard pressed to challenge. The World In Your Eyes Part Two