Cybertron (planet)
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Cybertron is the home planet of the Transformers and (usually) the body of their creator, Primus.
It has a number of moons. (More than 2 at least). It began its existance circling a binary star in Alpha Centauri, but in many continuities has left that orbit.
Generation 1
Marvel Comics
Here, Cybertron was the adopted form of Primus. This origin of the planet states that Primus trapped himself and Unicron in barren asteriods which they then shaped into their physical forms. In this continuity it does not seem that Primus designed his body to transform as it can in some others, but rather simply to be homeworld to his creations.
Cybertron in this continuity is roughly Saturn-sized. (We can chalk the scientific impossibility of that up to Primus, who is a God after all.)
Signifigant Locations
Cybertron is organized into city-states, the largest and most important being Iacon. Others include Vos, Tar, and Kalis.
Beneath the sewers the Demons in the Darkness are locked away.
At the center of this Cybertron there is a room with a Huge head of Primus on the wall where he sleeps and is watched over by the Keeper.
Animated Series
In the Generation 1 cartoon Primus does not exist and Cybertron's earliest known history was as a factory world of the Quintessons. Many Quintesson relics can still be found deep below its surface.
This Cybertron appears to be roughly moon-sized. It moved around space alot, via the Space Bridge and even giant jet engines. What apears to be water flows in some places on its surface. Deep beneath the surface are rock tunnels suggesting that this Cybertron was once a natural world.
Beast Era
Beast Wars/Beast Machines
Little is directly known about Beast Wars era Cybertron. It IS in orbit around a star which it shares with several other unnamed planets. It has several moons, one with big gashes in its surface.
It is ruled by Maximals. The Maximal city of Cybertropolis had been build over the ruins of Iacon. Six Lasers Over Cybertron is an amusement park found there in this era. Among the examples of cultural refinement are some joints where the servers go around without their torso plates on.
We learn that in Beast Machines that this Cybertron likewise was once a natural world, hosting organic life, including gigantic bat and eagle-like creatures. Some of that life was apparently sentient since the Oracle computer fortold the coming of robots to the planet. What exactly happened to this world remains a mystery, but in the end it was replaced by the entirely robotic/metalic city-world we know, except for a few remnants of plant life far, far below, and a strange green organic ooze burried deep beneath the rocky core of the world that had the ability to enhance the life force of any living thing and super-charge organic growth.
At the end of Beast Machines the planet was transformed into a new Technorganic state.
Universe
Takes place in part on the post-BM Tehnorganic Cybertron.
Dreamwave
The only continuity in which Cybertron has been mapped to some extent. A map of one hemisphere of the planet appears in the DK Transformers Ultimate Guide.
IDW
Some disaster happened durring the war that forced the complete evacuation of Cybertron. Landing on its surface in now forbidden.
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