Dear Vector Prime: are there any Cybertronian colony worlds you like visiting?
Dear Colonial Compatriot,
Compared to most other Cybertronian settlements that exist across the multiverse, the planets of the Autobot Commonwealth are peaceful, well-developed worlds, connected to one another by a vast network of space bridges that allows for almost instantaneous transit between them. As the Autobots of this reality dislike organic lifeforms, their expansion out into the wider galaxy was a markedly peaceful affair compared to the ongoing campaigns of genocide and imperialism that has scarred the legacies of so many other Cybertrons—colonists mostly settled barren, uninhabited worlds, then set up elaborate strip-mining operations to cyberform these empty rocks into miniature copies of Cybertron.
Opulus was the first Cybertronian settlement upon another world. Nowadays, the “Commonwealth Gateway” is an urbanized commerce hub, a massive city-spaceport that marks the final destination for most inbound colonial trade vessels. Thousands of vessels come and go from the merchant city of Celestica Tetracornacapria every day; they bring iron ore from Dromadon, exotic crystals from Vespa, and precious metals from Antilla, and depart with their holds full of shanixes, energon cubes, and young Autobot emigrants looking to make a name for themselves on the frontier worlds.
If Opulus is the gateway to the Commonwealth, Caminus and Gigantion constitute its beating heart—they are smoldering furnace-worlds, industrial powerhouses unmatched by any other planet in the Commonwealth. Imported ore shipments are melted down, refined, shaped into alloys of iron and steel and cybertanium, then shipped out to the wider Commonwealth. While the engineers of Caminus imbue their work with an element of spiritualism, claiming the ancient Prime Solus as their spiritual liege, the engineers of Gigantion are a practical, hard-bitten lot, and a fierce but friendly rivalry exists between the two worlds. A significant percentage of their industrial capacity goes towards fuelling the massive spaceborne shipyards that orbit Combatron, which also hosts Silverbolt Prime’s prestigious Fleet Academy for would-be starship captains.
The Commonwealth is largely peaceful these days, of course, and that peace has allowed the development of pleasure worlds, recreational destinations devoted largely to trade and tourism. Once ravaged by war, the shimmering desert cityscapes of Velocitron are now advertised as the “crown jewel of the Commonwealth”; those rare Autobots curious about organic life, meanwhile, might visit Daffodil II, whose single “city”—a gigantic urbanized ring built around this mineral-rich planet’s equator—allows them to gaze at the alien forest below from a safe distance.
