Kaon (polity)
Kaon is a Decepticon-controlled city-state in the southern hemisphere of Cybertron.
Fiction
Generation 1
Dreamwave comics
Far from the civilized metropolitan titans of the north half of the planet, Kaon was inhabited by a radical citizenry unsatisfied with the Autobot High Council and its maintained status quo. It was here that the industrial creations, the smelting pools, were first used to melt down living beings, a practice other city-states found horrible and barbaric. Disaffected, unruly, and thirsty for slaughter, Kaon was an obvious location for the fomenting of Megatron's underground Decepticon movement.
Its capitol is the fortress of Kolkular.
Optimus Prime forced Megatron through a space bridge in Kaon, causing the space bridge to explode and both to disappear. Fragmentation
IDW comics
Kaon was known to be one of the worst places on Cybertron. Thus, Sentinel Prime was operating out there when Megatron and his fellow miners fled there. One of Kaon's notable features were a series of underground gladiatorial combats run by Clench. After Megatron killed Clench, he took over the games as a method of recruiting gladiators into the Decepticon army. After being freed by Starscream and Soundwave, the Decepticons launched an attack on Kaon and took control of the city, using it as their base to direct the campaign against the Autobots. Megatron Origin
Unicron Trilogy
Universe
Snow Cat went in hiding in the ruins of Kaon after the Powerlinx Battles. Having fallen into madness due to the disappearance of Megatron, he began terrorizing the southern polar regions of Cybertron with hit-and-run maneuvers on whomever he happened to stumble upon. Cyclonus's Universe bio
Cybertron comic
Whether Decepticons were ever stationed here is unknown. What is known is that there are some smart-nukes in cold storage. After Ramjet was defeated and imprisoned, Over-Run, now in control of the planetary network, saw that one of Ramjets Mini-Cons (which one is never revealed) had escaped, so he sent one of the smart-nukes after it. It appeared to have made its mark. Revelations Part 2
Movie
If the Transformers RISK game is to be taken at face value, Kaon exists and is surrounded by Kolkular, the area in which the Smelting Pool is located, Altihex, Moon Alpha and the area containing Maccadams. Risk
Transformers Animated
Animated cartoon
Lugnut is known as the Kaon Krusher. That's just scary. Lugnut's toy bio
No longer welcome on Cybertron, the Decepticons built a colony world for themselves which they named New Kaon. Dispatches
Shattered Glass
War for Cybertron
Kaon is the Decepticons' capital city, and home to a huge prison complex where Autobot captives (including Zeta Prime) are held. The city is a rusting, haphazardly built mess, because who has time to build a proper city when there's so much smashing to do? [1] Transformers: War for Cybertron
Toys
Generation 1
- Primus (Supreme, 2006)
- Kolkular is one of two distinguishable cities molded into the surface of Primus's planet mode, designed specifically to match its appearance in Dreamwave's The War Within comics and DK's Transformers: The Ultimate Guide. In Primus's robot mode, Kolkular ends up on the underside of Primus's heel, which is probably symbolic. The city actually has limited articulation all of its own, being able to "pop up" when in planet mode to better represent Kolkular.
- The other city is the Autobot city-state Iacon, which, similar to the depiction on the Cybertron map in the Ultimate Guide, is placed on the opposite end of the toy from Kolkular. Its placement, however, is likely a coincidence.
Cybertron
- Cybertron Primus (Supreme, 2006)
- Yep, it was still there when the toy was released months later in the Cybertron toyline.
Merchandise
- Transformers Monopoly (2007)
- Kaon replaces Virginia Ave in this version of the game.
- RISK TRANSFORMERS CYBERTRON Battle Edition (2007)
- Kaon is one of the purple zones on the board.
Notes
- Kaon's fortress capitol Kolkular was first non-canonically mentioned in the short story "Alignment".
- In the December 2009 issue of GameInformer, Kaon is incorrectly spelled as Chaon.
