Orb


 * Orbs are aliens .

Orbs are a bunch of alien slavers who capture robots to use as labour. Their primary interest is mining death crystals on planet Dread —- a hazardous task at best, due to the shrikebats inhabiting the cave, and the ever-present threat of a visit by Chaos himself.

The Transformers cartoon continuity
A group of Orbs armed with electrified spears captured Kup and led him back to their mine in Queeg Mountain, where he was put to work mining death crystals with the hundreds of other slave robots. It wasn't until a visit by Chaos disrupted things that Kup was able to escape, though he was unable to free any of the Orbs' prisoners.