Kaon (polity)
Kaon is a Decepticon-controlled city-state in the southern hemisphere of Cybertron. Under Decepticon rule, its capitol is the fortress of Kolkular.
Fiction
Generation 1
Classics
Skywarp, revived since his demise in Tokyo, missed Cybertron badly. In particular, he missed the days in Kaon, when the Decepticons were still a proper army and he could steal small things from his fellow soldiers without everyone immediately suspecting him. Skywarp's Classics profile
Dreamwave Generation One continuity
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.
Optimus Prime forced Megatron through a space bridge in Kaon, causing the space bridge to explode and both to disappear. Fragmentation
IDW Generation 1 continuity
Kaon was known to be one of the worst places on Cybertron. Thus, Sentinel Prime was operating out there at the time Megatron and his fellow miners had chosen it as their place of hiding. One of Kaon's notable features was 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 cartoon continuity
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. Snow Cat'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
Live-action film series
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
Target.com profile
Some Autobot prisoners were being detained by Space Case and the other Decepticons in Kaon. They were rescued when Leadfoot stormed in single-handedly and offered the Decepticons their kicked transistors on a silver platter. The Story of Leadfoot
Animated
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 on Pyrovar Transformers Animated: The AllSpark Almanac II which they named New Kaon. Dispatches
Autobot-controlled Kaon was the location of Trypticon Prison, a former Decepticon stronghold. The Stunti-Con Job
Shattered Glass
Aligned continuity
Exodus novel
Built on a plateau three times the size of Iacon, Kaon was the industrial heart of Cybertron, where nameless members of the low castes toiled endlessly. It was a dark, smoking mess of a city that was impossible to navigate without the Communication Grid. The High Council ignored the emerging gladiatorial combat in the areas surrounding Kaon, acknowledging it was the inhabitants' only escape in their lives. A champion taking the name Megatronus emerged. This Megatron took control of the gladiators and formed the Decepticons. His base was a single, large pyramid.
During the war, Optimus Prime, Jazz and Prowl rescued Sentinel Prime from the pyramid, which had become Kaon Prison. Megatron and Shockwave had made a deal with the Underworlders to chain the prisoners underground. The Autobots were only confronted by two gibbering guards, which Optimus presumed was the toll of Dark Energon. Transformers: Exodus
Prime comic
Before the war, Arcee explored the tunnels in Kaon. In the present, she returned with Cliffjumper to find Starscream had constructed a space bridge. Cliffjumper distracted his Eradicons while Arcee activated and overloaded the space bridge's controls. She, Cliffjumper and Starscream jumped through the space bridge to Earth before it blew up. Prime
Prime cartoon
Kaon was the Decepticon capital on Cybertron. When Bumblebee used a cortical psychic patch to enter Megatron's subconscious, he found himself in a recreation of the city. Sick Mind Attempting to find Vector Sigma, Jack Darby and Arcee were led to Kaon by the Key to Vector Sigma. Orion Pax, Part 2 They managed to wake up an Insecticon sentry which attacked Arcee while Jack went below ground to the Vector Sigma chamber. He was able to download the contents of the Matrix from the computer, despite interference from scraplets, and he and Arcee headed back for the space bridge. Orion Pax, Part 3 Megatron honed his gladiator skills in "the pits of Kaon". Crossfire
Games
Transformers: War for Cybertron
Kaon is the Decepticons' capital city and home to a huge prison complex where Autobot captives, including Autobot leader Zeta Prime are held. Megatron put Soundwave in command of the Kaon Prison Complex. The prisoners there are loaded onto Decepticon Dropships. The Dropships take the prisoners to Kaon Prison, and Decepticon soldiers escort them to cells or are executed by Titans. Or, they could be sent to 'recycling', where the prisoners are thrown into a strong current, and crushed in a masher. The city houses huge industrial buildings, which may include weapons manufacturing, or experimental labs. During the Decepticon assault of Iacon, Soundwave raided an Autobot base, and his troops took prisoners and energon. When Optimus, Ratchet, and Bumblebee arrived. He detected them, and ordered some troops to attack and destroy them, while he and the other Decepticons left in a Dropship for Kaon with the energon and prisoners. 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 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.
Transformers 2010
- Creator Primus (Supreme 2010)
- Still here! And it's a new color!
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.
- It seems likely that Megatron's castle, a building that has only appeared in the More Than Meets The Eye series, is located in Kaon.
