Helex (polity)
- Helex is a populated area on Cybertron from the Marvel Comics portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.
Helex is the Decepticon capital and the seat of Megatron's empire, though he doesn't seem to spend much time there. It is unclear whether Helex is a city or a city-state.
Fiction
Marvel comics UK
When Straxatron returned to Cybertron following the events of the Time Wars, he was furious to find Autobots walking around Helex without fear, so naturally he killed them all, aided by Ravage. Enraged, he stormed off to confront the current Decepticon leaders only to find that Legonis, Octus and Seizer were more interested in drinking high-grade oil and watching prisoners fight than conquering the Autobots. They goaded the clone into fighting Quake until he regained his composure and delivered a rousing speech that convinced the Triggercons to shoot the Triumverate in their backs. The Fall and Rise of the Decepticon Empire
The clone continued to rule out of Helex until the real Megatron showed up from the Dead End Mind Games and convinced the false Megatron personality to kill itself and Straxus. Two Megatrons!
Notes
- Helex was created by as the Decepticon answer to the Autobot capital of Iacon, but hasn't been able to keep that title in later canon. Within the same continuity and by the same writer, albeit in the unofficial story "Alignment", Helex was replaced as the Decepticon capital by Kolkular. Kolkular was canonized in the Dreamwave comics a few years later and portrayed as the capital of the Decepticon city-state Kaon. Kaon has since become Iacon's counterpart in virtually any continuity while Helex couldn't have been more forgotten about.
