Crystal City
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The Crystal City was famous for its elegance in construction, and the scientific minds that hail from it. It also has a habit of getting slagged by those who fail to recruit certain inhabitants.
Fiction
The Transformers cartoon
Millions of years ago, the Crystal City was one of the most beautiful structures on all of Cybertron. It was built by the Constructicons and their then-teammate Hauler RoadHauler's toy bio and protected by a Guardian robot named Omega Supreme. Omega and the Constructicons were dear friends, although they didn't get to visit him and the city very often.
Tragically, the very Constructicons who created this masterpiece were responsible for its destruction. They were ambushed by Megatron and his Robo-Smasher, which turned them evil. Under his orders, they lured Omega Supreme away from the Crystal City with a false story of a nearby Decepticon attack. He was reluctant to leave his post, but took the Constructicons at their word when they promised to protect the city in his absence. Once he was gone, they razed the structure to the ground. The Secret of Omega Supreme
IDW Generation 1 continuity
The Crystal City was an ancient place said to be the home of the god Primus and his pantheon, the Guiding Hand. Following the disappearance of the gods, the city was hidden away underground and guarded by Omega Supreme until it was eventually discovered by Nova Prime, who raised it to the surface and made it a symbol of Cybertron's new Golden Age. Beneath it lay a dormant Metrotitan whom only Omega knew about. By the end of Nova's rule, the Crystal City sustained heavy damage in a battle between Omega Supreme and Monstructor, causing it to be swallowed back into the depths of Cybertron. All Good Things Shortly before it was lost, the Shockwave planted a seed of "Ore-14", a type of self-replicating energon, within the city. Shockwaves
Early in the Great War, a group of Cybertronians called the Circle of Light decided Cybertron's fate was sealed so they left the planet with a group of scientists, scholars and general pacifists. They settled on the planet Theophany and, to hide their existence from the expanding war, built a settlement underground and named it Crystal City after the old lost city. Drift #2 The city was founded on top of the very same Metrotitan, brought by Dai Atlas to serve as the new Crystal City's power source. You, Me, and Other Revelations
The Circle lived in isolation in their city until the arrival of Drift led to Braid and his slavers learning of their existence. Though Dai Atlas, leader of the Circle of Light, was hesitant about joining the fight, he ultimately raised Crystal City from beneath the earth and allowed the Circle to drive away the attackers. Drift #4
A short time later, Crystal City was attacked by Legislators sent by Chief Justice Tyrest to abduct the Circle of Light, who were able to bypass its defenses thanks to the treacherous Star Saber. Arm the Lonely The Circle fell, and by the time Drift returned the hidden city lay in ruins and its inhabitants had all been taken or recycled. As the crew of the Lost Light investigated what had happened, they discovered the Metrotitan and helped it teleport home to Cybertron. You, Me, and Other Revelations
The Metrotitan wound up warping into the remains of the old Crystal City, causing its molecules to be physically enmeshed with those of the city. It was discovered by the local Cybertronians, who didn't recognize the city but were surprised that it had survived the recent reformatting of Cybertron. Unfortunately, the interaction between city's protons and the Metrotitan's anti-protons was causing local reality to destabilize, leading to a massive explosion that completely wiped out both the Crystal City and the titan. All Good Things Unbeknownst to all but Shockwave, however, the resurrective properties of Ore-14 were able to restore the city to perfect shape, and he soon returned there with Dreadwing to prepare for future plans. Shockwaves
Cybertron
Downshift and his lifebond partner had planned to spend some time at the Crystal Cities for their honeymoon, but then Cybertron was evacuated. Downshift's Cyber Key Code text
Shattered Glass
Starscream was once one of the most brilliant scientific minds to hail from Crystal City, until Optimus Prime tried to recruit him into his evil Autobots. Starscream refused, and Prime had Crystal City destroyed while Starscream watched in horror. Starscream's toy bio
Animated
Ratchet once courted a girl from Crystal City who reminded him of Arcee. The AllSpark Almanac
Exodus
Crystal City was the home of Cybertron's scientific elite. Shockwave worked there, as his innovations in stressed-crystal material allowed the large-scale usage of it in the city's construction. He was made to leave when his combination experiment, Bruticus Maximus, failed. Before the war, Soundwave sent Frenzy and Rumble to look for the Matrix of Leadership within the city. They overheard plans to reactivate Omega Supreme, Guardian of Cybertron's artifacts, as well as information on the Code Keys and the Plasma Energy Chamber that became useful during the final days of the war.
It was destroyed in the fourth offensive of the war, as Shockwave returned with a vengeance by unleashing his perfected combiner, Devastator. Devastator loomed over the Refracting Gardens and smashed open the wall, allowing the Decepticons to flood in. They took their time, smashing each and every object and piece of architecture. Watching on the Communication Grid, Alpha Trion remarked the dazzling display of light and colour as Crystal City collapsed was the most beautiful thing he had ever seen. Some scientists managed to get out of the underground laboratories, taking some of their research.
In the aftermath of the battle, Shockwave set up camp at Crystal City and reactivated Bruticus. The Geosynchronous Energon Bridge below the ruins also became of strategic importance in the war's final days. Transformers: Exodus
Games
Bot Shots Battle Game!
Crystal City was a floating city and one of the locations on Cybertron used as battle arena by jet-type Bot Shots. Bot Shots Battle Game!
Notes
Foreign names
- Japanese: Crystal City (クリスタルシティ Kurisutaru Shiti)
