Cybertronian colonies



Just as humans have felt the need to set up shop on distant continents and faraway islands, the Transformers are a naturally expansionistic race. Their long history is frequently punctuated with interplanetary colonization efforts, aimed at creating a network of Transformer colonies scattered throughout the heavens. These planets are usually cyberformed to better accommodate Transformer life, but Cybertronians are well known for their adaptability, and have been known to adjust to planets utterly unlike their original birthworld of Cybertron.

Most of these efforts have been forgotten by the modern day, buried by the harsh realities of interplanetary war or simply the march of time. In a classic example of, the Transformers stranded on these distant worlds have subsequently adapted to their new homeworlds by developing cultures and physiologies entirely separate from their modern Cybertronian cousins.

The Transformers cartoon
Several Autobots fled Cybertron and the Great War in Vanguard-class vessels, settling on other worlds to find peace. One such group, the Thirteenth Legion of Autobots, landed on the planet Antilla. Though they initially founded a thriving colony, their world was struck by the malignant virus known as Cosmic Rust, killing all life within the colony.

The planet Paradron was colonized by a group of pacifistic Autobots. The planet they chose to inhabit was hidden within a space vortex and possessed an energon core, granting its inhabitants almost unlimited energy and a safe refuge from the Decepticons and other threats. The inhabitants of the world live peacefully.

2005 IDW continuity
The Transformer race has gone through several waves of expansionism, some more imperialistic than others, and many at the expense of indigenous organic species.

Titan expeditions, using hot spots within their bodies, were able to establish Cybertronian footholds on other worlds. Cybertronian colonists would go on to quash civilizations of technologically undeveloped inhabitants through aggressive cyberforming. At least five such worlds were colonized by the Transformers this way: Caminus, Devisiun, Arduria, Velocitron, and Eukaris; over the eons, this gave way to a legend of thirteen such colonies, each affiliated with one of the Primes.

On those colonies where Transformer-based life existed, their inhabitants maintained a concept of gender, whereas female Transformers would eventually be rumored to go extinct on Cybertron. 
 * LV-117: The colony of Vector Prime. Inhabited by an organic race of shapeshifters, the temporally-displaced planet was seeded with Ore-1, "Time."
 * Gorlam Prime: The colony of Quintus Prime. Formerly inhabited by humanoid organics, the machinations of Jhiaxus and his experiments with the Dead Universe led to a period of artificially-accelerated progress that led the inhabitants to rapidly evolve into a Transformer-like species. Produced Ore-2, "Death."
 * Prion: The colony of Micronus Prime, and formerly home to a civilization of Mini-Cons. Produced Ore-3, "Size."
 * Caminus: The colony of Solus Prime, home of Windblade, the religious Way of Flame, and the Cityspeakers. Produced Ore-4, "Gravity".
 * Devisiun: The colony of Nexus Prime, populated by Transformers who are born in pairs. Produced Ore-5, "Combination".
 * Arduria: The colony of Alchemist Prime, home to the Ardurian rocs, a species considered to be "cousins" of the Cybertronian race. Produced Ore-6, "Cold".
 * Antilla: The colony of Alpha Trion, and the site of "first contact" between Cybertronians and the rest of the galaxy, becoming the setting of a devastating war between the Transfromers and the native Antillans. The planet was destroyed in the conflict and refashioned into Unicron. Produced Ore-7, "Change".
 * Tsiehshi: The colony of Megatronus, a barren, uninhabited world where the tyrant once took refuge during the First Cybertronian Civil War. Produced Ore-8, "Destruction."
 * Velocitron: The colony of Amalgamous Prime, a desert world of intense temperatures, the Titan Navitas, who settled the world, was converted into a mobile city and racetrack. Produced Ore-9, "Space".
 * Carcer: The colony and living prison of Liege Maximo. A nomadic starship, it was overseen by a military dictatorship led by Elita One. Produced Ore-10, "Deception".
 * Eukaris: The colony of "Onyx Prime," inhabited by beast mode Transformers and guarded by his Titan, Chela. Produced Ore-11, "Evolution".
 * Elonia: The colony and final resting place of Prima and his Titan Emissary; in the present day, it was inhabited by the Elonians, and the capital of the Solstar Order. Produced Ore-12, "Protection" with the ore becoming essential to the order of the Space Knights.
 * Earth: The colony of Optimus Prime (possibly The Arisen). Associated with Metrotitan, the planet has been a hotbed of Transformer activity for many years, with the native humans occasionally coming into conflict with the Cybertronian species. Produced Ore-13, "Power."