Combatron (planet)

Definitely not the kind of place you'd want to use the universal greeting.

Combatron orbits Delta Draconis and isn't much of a vacation spot. A world-spanning war left it largely devoid of life, with only a few scraggly plants and scragglier Autobots clinging to life on its irradiated soil. Much of the planet is covered in rusting heaps of robot corpses, but a few nasty surprises lurk beneath the surface...

Fiction

Force of Habit

Combatron was a colony world founded millions of years ago as a garrison for Cybertron's greatest soldiers. Led by the mighty King Atlas, they lived in peace until Atlas's inexplicable disappearance. Without a leader, the warriors of Combatron split into several factions and began a world-spanning civil war. The fratricidal oilbath devastated the planet until almost nobody remained alive to fight it. Only a few survivors, including Whirl, remained to guard the planet's treasures. Foremost amongst those treasures was the "doomsday arsenal", an underground bunker containing the deadliest and most dangerous weapons known to Transformerkind, including Nucleon shock gauntlets, Mini-Cons, and the means to make Decepticlones (all originally meant to fight Unicron).

Three hundred and fifty megacycles later, Combatron was rediscovered almost simultaneously by the Autobots aboard the Spanner and the Decepticons of the Upstart. The Autobots were found by Whirl and his Mini-Con allies, while the Decepticons stumbled upon the doomsday arsenal. The Decepticons soon raised an army of Decepticlones and defeated Whirl and his new allies, but the Autobot Armorhide sacrificed the Spanner to destroy the arsenal and the vast majority of the Decepticlones. The Autobots, plus Whirl and the Mini-Cons, then hijacked the Upstart, leaving the Decepticons stranded on the planet amid the echoes of toppling corpse-heaps. Force of Habit

Ask Vector Prime

In Aurex 1104.30-JM Zeta, it was Whirl rather than King Atlas who was abducted by Unicron to fight in the Cauldron, and thus King Atlas and his forces were present to aid the Autobots during the hunt for the Omega Lock. Ask Vector Prime, 2015/09/23

In an unspecified universe(s), Bludgeon was one of many young recruits who colonized Combatron. The endless civil war kicked off by King Atlas's disappearance disillusioned Bludgeon, and he stowed away on the last commercial freigher off-planet. Ask Vector Prime, 2015/09/29

Animated cartoon

Combatron was a robotic planet in the Autobot Commonwealth. During the Great War, it became the site of a sub-conflict known as the Atlas War. The AllSpark Almanac II

Games

Transformers Roleplaying Game

A former Cybertronian colony, the dead world of Combatron was a heavily irradiated planet that had once been the site of a major war. Field Guide to Action and Adventure

Notes

Combatron's Cyber Key symbol.

• Combatron was heavily influenced by "Apocalypse Planet", a planet that was planned to be included in the Cybertron franchise, but was dropped. Much like Combatron, Apocalypse Planet was to be a war-torn wasteland populated by heavily-armed and armored warriors. Armorhide even offhandedly refers to the planet by that nickname within the story.
• Befitting a planet from the Cybertron franchise, Combatron has its own Cyber Planet Key symbol, resembling the mushroom cloud of a nuclear bomb.