Nebulan

This article is about the inhabitants of the planet Nebulos. For the Targetmaster whose Japanese name is Nebulon, see Nightstick (Ricochet).

Nebulans (or Nebulons) are the inhabitants of the planet Nebulos. They have found themselves involved with the Transformers in several different dimensions within the multiverse and are usually responsible for or deeply involved in the Headmaster, Targetmaster, and Powermaster technologies.

The description Nebulans themselves vary from continuity to continuity.

Fiction

Marvel Comics continuity

The inhabitants of Nebulos were often referred to as humans (as well as "Nebulans"). The UK printings tended to correct 'human' to 'Nebulan' as if it were an error, However, Dreadwind said in a UK letters page that Nebulans were indeed human.

The Nebulans were a race of humans that had lived without war for thousands of years on their home planet of Nebulos. That peace was disrupted when a group of Autobots arrived seeking to relocate from their own war-torn world of Cybertron. This caused divisions amongst the Nebulons based on whether or not to trust the newcomers. Ring of Hate! The arrival of a group of Decepticons soon afterward only escalated these tensions, and Nebulos' age of peace was lost as citizens binary bonded to Transformers on both sides of the conflict to become Headmasters Broken Glass! Love and Steel! and Targetmasters.

Realizing the damage that was being done to Nebulos' once-peaceful culture, the Autobots abandoned the planet to join Transformers already on the planet Earth, believing (correctly) that the Decepticons would pursue them off-Nebulos. Brothers in Armor!!

After this the citizens of Nebulos tainted their own energy sources so as to be poisonous to any Transformers that might seek to return to their world. When Decepticons Darkwing and Dreadwind arrived soon after the departure of the other Transformers, they soon found themselves victim of this poisoning, and lay dormant for a time. They were later revived by Nebulan traitors Hi-Test and Throttle, who had stolen power-conversion plans that eventually created the Powermasters. Hi-Q, the creator of this process, eventually binary-bonded with a reborn Optimus Prime, and several of his staff joined with other Autobots, in order to combat the threat posed by Darkwing and Dreadwind. They, too, eventually left Nebulos to join the other Transformers on Earth. People Power!

Generation 1 cartoon

Nebulons were extremely human-like aliens who possessed green skin and dark green or white hair. Their facial features seemed to have tended towards a rather Native American cast. Some of the oldest of their ruling class, the Hive, appear to have had cyborg alterations or even taken on fully robotic bodies.

Nebulos was a world whose inhabitants were enslaved by the Hive, a group of eleven Nebulon telekinetics whose focus on development of their mental powers had caused their bodies to wither, led by Lord Zarak. The populace was mainly forced to do routine farm work, watched over by the machines which the Hive controlled telepathically.

Several Transformers crashed on Nebulos. A small band of Nebulon rebels, led by Gort, captured the Autobots, believing them to be Hive machines. The Decepticons were captured by the Hive. Convincing the rebels that they were not Hive machines, the Autobots volunteered to help, offering up four of their own to serve as Headmasters, with Nebulon partners inside their heads to serve as secondary operators.

Zarak demanded his own Headmasters, but Cyclonus only wished to offer up the Decepticon animals for this. The rest offered their weapons, which Zarak willingly accepted. The Autobots learned of this and adapted the new Targetmaster designs.

Zarak rebuilt a Hive facility into Scorponok, only to be countered by Fortress Maximus, an old Hive city converted into a Headmaster body by Spike Witwicky and Cerebros. Defeated, the Hive and the Decepticons fled in Scorponok. The Rebirth

Nucleon Quest Super Convoy profile

When Cybertron was devastated by another energy crisis, a scientist from Nebulos named Hi-Q assisted Optimus Prime on his quest for the potent energy source Nucleon, which was located inside black holes. Nucleon Quest Super Convoy's profile

Dreamwave comics continuity

No native Nebulan, sans *-master armor, is ever seen in the DW books, and the world itself only appears in the More Than Meets The Eye guidebook and one panel of the The War Within comic. Dreamwave's Nebulon, like much of its continuity, is built from a fusion of previous iterations.

IDW comics continuity

Nebulans were a hairless, green OR reddish-pink skinned humanoid race with pointy ears. Their eyes were white. They had a bit of a vampiric look to human eyes Spotlight: Ultra Magnus Stormbringer

Ladybird books continuity

The Nebulans were small robots. Decepticons at the Pole Autobots Strike Oil Autobot Hostage Decepticons Underground

Cybertron cartoon

Following the conclusion of the Energon War, the Autobot Jetfire spent some time on the planet Nebulon. There he picked up a new accent from the locals, which to some human ears resembles that of Australians. Sort of. Challenge