Cyberforming

The Hub, a galactic-scale feat of cyberforming

Even though Cybertronian life-forms are quite capable of surviving on purely organic worlds, they sometimes resort to cyberforming to feel more at home. Cyberforming is the process of converting a planet into an environment hospitable to mechanical lifeforms, particularly those from Cybertron. It can be performed rapidly through devices capable of converting organic matter to technological matter, such as the Key to Vector Sigma. It can also be performed manually in a much more gradual process, such as that performed by the Cybertronian Empire in the construction of the Hub.

It is also known as eco-structuring, exo-structuring, or mechaforming.

“	The newcomers looked out upon the lushness and saw only filth. They looked at balance and saw only weakness. They looked at us.... and saw nothing at all. The newcomers were undying creatures built from the unyielding shimmer... and they remade our land in their image.	”
—Native Devisen storyteller, "Time Will Rust"

History

Generation 1 continuity family

Marvel Comics continuity

Marvel Generation 2 comic

The Cybertronian Empire, believing organic life to be little more than bacteria and viewing mechanical life as the pinnacle, spent untold millennia eco-structuring worlds. They believed this to be construction rather than genocide. The indigenous lifeforms were clinically exterminated, and a metal casing for the planet was manually built. This apparently could be done quite quickly.

The Cybertronian Empire has created at least 16 "little Cybertrons."

 War Without End!

The Transformers cartoon

The energies of the Key to Vector Sigma turn Earth soil into Cybertronian metal.

The Decepticons attempted to manually reconstruct New York City into an environment more akin to Cybertron, imaginatively dubbed New Cybertron, before the Autobots thwarted them and New York was returned to its normal self. City of Steel

After creating the Stunticons, Megatron discovered that the Key to Vector Sigma possessed the ability to turn organic matter into Cybertronian metal and attempted to use this feature to cyberform Earth. Silverbolt would later destroy the Key which undid the cyberforming. The Key to Vector Sigma, Part 2