Dread (planet)
- Dread is a planet from the Generation 1 continuity family.
Dread is a rather unpleasant planet which possesses hordes of slavers, wrecks of shrikebats, and the monstrous Chaos. As such, it is also the only planet on which death crystals can be mined.
It probably doesn't get much tourism.
Fiction
Generation 1 cartoon
While Optimus Prime and Megatron's crews were taking their stasis lock nap on the Ark, Kup found himself on Dread, being chased by an Ick-Yak. During his misadventure, he was captured by the Orbs to mine death crystals for them. Managing to get away from his work detail, Kup fled into the tunnels, finding a group of imprisoned robot slaves. As he tried to rescue them, the monstrous Chaos appeared. Kup was so frightened he fled, leaving the other robots imprisoned. He was so ashamed he never told anyone about the incident.
One hundred thousand years later, after the Autobots reclaimed Cybertron from the Decepticons, the death crystals were discovered by the Decepticons. Galvatron took Astrotrain and the Predacons to build a massive cannon to shoot death crystals at Cybertron, which would destroy the planet. Kup led a group of Autobots to stop them, in the process destroying Chaos and causing his volcano lair to erupt in an explosion that could be seen from orbit. Chaos
Animated
Dread is Cybertron's nearest neighbor. Its mountains can be seen by telescope from Cybertron's surface.Transformers Animated: The AllSpark Almanac Volume 2
Notes
- Dread must be very close to Cybertron, as Galvatron could see Cybertron through a telescope on Dread.
- Thus far, the planet Dread has never claimed to be either the Law or the leader of the Bio-Dread Empire.
