Master (planet)
- Master is a planet in the Generation 1 continuity family.
Planet Master is an alien world blessed with particularly insane and murderously hazardous atmospheric conditions. Such a lovely place, it naturally became home to a group of marooned Cybertronian refugees. By the time they redeveloped spacefaring technology the castaways were apparently comfy enough in their protean hellhole that most of them decided to stick around anyway. (Perhaps, hailing from preternaturally clear-skyed Cybertron, it was simply a nice change of pace). Master is most notable for the advanced technology they developed there, including Headmaster Transtectors.
RTM dub name: Master Star
Fiction
Headmasters animated series and manga
Millions of years ago, during the Cybertronian civil wars, many groups of Autobots fled the planet in order to escape the wearying corrosion of war without end. One particular group of diminutive robots, so young as to not yet have even mastered transformation (where's Optimus Primal with a snappy mantra when you need him?), wound up crash-landing on Master. Unable to repair their ship at the time, they attempted to eke out an existence on Master, mining energy and constructing cities, but the planet's deadly weather conditions and seasonal changes - including sandstorms, whirlwinds, metal-searing acid raid (oooh, fun!), scorching heatwaves and, during the ensuing four million years, even two ice ages - claimed the lives of many of their number. Constant deadly peril has its bright side though, and the need for survival fostered many technological advances, most notably the creation of larger, stronger, non-sentient Transformer bodies named "Transtectors" that could better weather Master's dangerous environments, to which those smaller robot refugees who proved themselves worthy connected as heads.
At some point in all this they managed to develop spaceflight again, and yet never moved on to greener (golder?) pastures. Go figure. However when, chaffing under the leadership of Fortress Maximus, Scorponok and some of the other newly-created "Headmasters" rebelled, THEY were forced off of Master, eventually joining up with Galvatron's Decepticons. (Fine, if you don't like my leadership you can just leave our deadly and inhospitable place of enforced exile. There, that'll show you.) The Decepticon ninja Sixshot is known to have visited Master before the inception of Headmaster technology, so he may have helped forge this team-up. Whatever the case, he and the Decepticon Headmasters returned to Master in 2011 to attack the Autobots there, before pulling out to join Galvatron in an attack on Cybertron. The Autobot Headmasters departed Master aboard Battleship Maximus, pursuing their enemies to their home planet and teaming up with the Autobots there; Fortress and Scorponok eventually became the effective leaders of their respective factions, and the advanced technology that they brought with them from Master was responsible for resurrecting Soundwave and Blaster as Soundblaster and Twincast.
Life continued on Master, with more young Headmaster Warriors undergoing the training to perfect their transformation powers. Some time later, however, after being defeated on Earth, Scorponok's Decepticons returned to Master, and the young warriors formed a resistance force to battle them. A small group of refugees escaped from Master to alert the Autobots to their planet's plight, but after doing so, they were caught in a plasma explosion and fused to the arms of several Autobot and Decepticon warriors, creating the Targetmasters. Why the robots travelling to deliver this message were the only ones on the planet that seemed unable to speak actual words and had to communicate is artoo-detoo-ike beeps is unknown. Despite this handicap, the Autobots subsequently returned to Master to aid the resistance effort, but Scorponok had discovered G-Metal beneath Master's surface and used it to forge the Zarak Shield, with which he bested Fortress Maximus. Having claimed this victory, the Decepticons then immediately departed Master, and who can really blame them, for their final attack on Earth.
TV Magazine Masterforce prologue
Following the failure of the Decepticons' attack on Earth, they were forced off the planet for good, and the war became space-based, with the Autobot and Decepticon forces operating on Athenia and Chaar, respectively. The advanced technology of planet Master formed the backbone of this conflict, which was dubbed the "Master Wars." The Transtector technology of Master was subsequently upgraded with the addition of Masterbraces to create the Headmaster Juniors, and was presumably responsible for the creation of the Godmaster Transtectors as well.
