EARTH
The planet Earth, third from the Sun in the Solar System in the Milky Way galaxy, is a world populated by a wide variety of native organic lifeforms - most notably, humans. It frequently becomes involved in the conflicts of the Transformers. Perhaps too frequently. Whenever someone (or something) leaves, escapes, or is otherwise ejected from Cybertron, there's a disproportionate chance they will eventually wind up on Earth.
Jasper, Nevada
Jasper, Nevada is a small town in the United States of America. The local newspaper is The Jasper Daily. It is the hometown of June Darby and her son Jack, Miko's host parents, and Rafael Esquivel. Miko Nakadai is visiting as part of a foreign exchange student program. Jasper's population is small, and so are its schools, so the children of this town tend to be socially isolated and prone to making friends with giant alien robots.
Notable Locations include:
The Autobot Base
Autobot Outpost Omega One is the Autobots' hidden base on Earth, located inside a mountain in Nevada. It serves as Autobot Central Command. It used to be a Cold War missile silo before it was converted: as a result, it's shielded against radio signals and is operated using old human machinery. Trying to run Cybertronian programs on human machinery is a recipe for bugs out the exhaust, much to Ratchet's irritation! The silo is massive. In addition to the above ground structures build seemingly into the hollowed out interior of a desert plateau, the base has several levels of underground hangers and tons of tunnels and rooms. Since it was originally designed for humans there are plenty of human-sized rooms and utilities that are in somewhat regular repair now that there are more humans regularly on base.
Notable Locations include:
The Nemesis
The Nemesis serves as the Decepticons' primary base of operations during their time on Earth. Constantly moving through the skies of the planet and cloaked against detection by either Autobot or human systems, it provides the villains with a mobile headquarters that allowes them to often remain one step ahead of their adversaries. The ship is, in actuality, the massive transformer, Trypticon, currently in a form of stasis lock where his personality and consciousness remains dormant since the Exodus from Cybertron.
Notable Locations include:
Neutral Base
The Neutral base is located in Sahara, Africa, in an old energon mine. Their base is a DMZ sanctioned by Megatron and is frequently visited by both factions. Led currently by Cleaver, long time Neutral medic. Mechanoids from any faction are welcome here but they must adhere to the rules of the DMZ as established by Megatron and Optimus. The rules are simple here: NO FIGHTING. While they have a working power grid, everything else - rooms, equipment, furniture - tends to be cobbled together with the bits and pieces that the Neutrals bring with them when they arrive.
Notable Locations include:
CYBERTRON
Cybertron is orbited by three 'near-Cybertron' objects: Moonbase One and Two and the Trypticon Asteroid Belt Station, each on opposite hemispheres of the planet. Beyond the moons and asteroid belt floats the last of the great space bridges, the long-abandoned interstellar transportation system that once connected Cybertron to its colonies elsewhere in the galaxy.
According to legend, at the beginning of time, Unicron and Primus battled each other for eons, with neither side remaining victorious for long. Until, that is, Primus created the Thirteen. The Thirteen defeated Unicron and cast him into space.
The Covenant of Primus decreed only one Prime could rule at a time alongside the thirteen members of the High Council. The Quintessons seized control of the planet not long after, but the first Matrix-holder, Guardian Prime, led the revolution to fight them back. When he was lost a new Prime was named - Nova Prime - and, together with the High Council and the Guilds, he led the Transformers to a Golden Age of expansion. As the space bridges became less reliable and contact with the colonies was lost, Sentinel Zeta Prime and the Guilds instituted the caste system to slow their civilization's decline. The High Council and their Guards were in charge of law and order, but each state controlled its own militia.
But as the nameless miners resorted to gladiatorial combat as an outlet for their misery, a champion named Megatron rose to seize the title of Prime for himself. Unwittingly, his Iaconian ally was appointed Optimus Prime instead, and their anti-caste movement became a civil war for Cybertron's future. The AllSpark was lost to space, whole regions of the planet were laid waste, and the core of Cybertron was poisoned, prompting the Autobots to evacuate on the Ark. Megatron and his elite forces left on Trypticon too, now modified into the Nemesis.
The Cybertornian City States
Iacon
Iacon was the capital city of Cybertron, built on the northern-most region of Cybertron. This state was home to the Iacon Hall of records, the High Council Tower, and the Observatory of Iacon, and was widely known to be the centre of politics, culture, and the elite of the upper caste. It's here that the Primacy and the High Council made their home. Movement from lower city-states into Iacon was generally highly regulated and restricted with certain castes needing to acquire special passports and permissions to even be allowed into the city.
Kaon
Built on a plateau three times the size of Iacon, Kaon was the industrial heart of Cybertron, where nameless members of the low castes toiled endlessly. It was a dark, smoking mess of a city that was impossible to navigate without the Communication Grid. The High Council ignored the emerging gladiatorial combat in the areas surrounding Kaon, acknowledging it was the inhabitants' only escape in their lives. A champion taking the name Megatronus emerged. This Megatron took control of the gladiators and formed the Decepticons.
Tarn
Tarn is one of Cybertron's many city-states. It borders Vos and Iacon. Tarn is one of the largest city-states and, in a military sense, superior to the other city-states. During the civil war, Tarn surrendered to the Decepticons with minimal resistance, offering to root out Autobot sympathizers.
Vos
Vos had a great rivalry with its neighbor Tarn. To pacify the two states, Vos was made the base of the Cybertronian Air Command. It was neutral in the Great War for a great while before falling to the Decepticons. Most combat-flight models have their origins in Vos are tend to be designed after Vos-style frame-types.
Kalis
Bordering Iacon, Kalis was the site of the first Autobot victory in the war, which was all the more a relief, as the city's subsurface fusion reactor would power the city throughout the Decepticon siege.
Polyhex
Polyhex is a settlement that lies in the western hemisphere of Cybertron, where it is bordered by Praxis, Simfur, Uraya, and Kalis. The fortress Darkmount serves as its capitol. Polyhex is in charge of Cybertron's satellites and home to the Cybertron network command hub. The Polyhexian border was notorious for its ongoing aerial skirmishes that could last for years at a time, tying up huge aerial groups for ages vying for airspace.
The planet Earth, third from the Sun in the Solar System in the Milky Way galaxy, is a world populated by a wide variety of native organic lifeforms - most notably, humans. It frequently becomes involved in the conflicts of the Transformers. Perhaps too frequently. Whenever someone (or something) leaves, escapes, or is otherwise ejected from Cybertron, there's a disproportionate chance they will eventually wind up on Earth.
Jasper, Nevada
Jasper, Nevada is a small town in the United States of America. The local newspaper is The Jasper Daily. It is the hometown of June Darby and her son Jack, Miko's host parents, and Rafael Esquivel. Miko Nakadai is visiting as part of a foreign exchange student program. Jasper's population is small, and so are its schools, so the children of this town tend to be socially isolated and prone to making friends with giant alien robots.
Notable Locations include:
- KO Burger
- Franklin High School
- The hospital
- Gram Bakery
- Plug and Play
- Pins Fabric
- Simply Shoes
The Autobot Base
Autobot Outpost Omega One is the Autobots' hidden base on Earth, located inside a mountain in Nevada. It serves as Autobot Central Command. It used to be a Cold War missile silo before it was converted: as a result, it's shielded against radio signals and is operated using old human machinery. Trying to run Cybertronian programs on human machinery is a recipe for bugs out the exhaust, much to Ratchet's irritation! The silo is massive. In addition to the above ground structures build seemingly into the hollowed out interior of a desert plateau, the base has several levels of underground hangers and tons of tunnels and rooms. Since it was originally designed for humans there are plenty of human-sized rooms and utilities that are in somewhat regular repair now that there are more humans regularly on base.
Notable Locations include:
- The Control Room - where the outside ground-ramp and the ground-bridge feed into. It's where there main monitoring systems and control panels are and, of course, ground bridge control. There is also an elevator from the helipad at the top of the base into the control room. Usually used by Fowler when he flies in to talk to the Bots in person.
- The Medical Bay - located off the Control Room so that recently bridged injured can be rapidly attended to.
- The Rec Room - its basically where all the Bot-sized furniture and toys are. Ideal for hanging out and has human-sized platforms and catwalks for the humans to hang out without fear of being stepped on. It's also away from the friggin groundbridge so Miko can't run through it so easy.
- Personal Quarters - Everyone sleeps somewhere. Recharge slabs were salvaged from the Arc so that the rooms and hangers the bots use as quarters can be modded as needed for new arrivals, though, these resources are limited.
The Nemesis
The Nemesis serves as the Decepticons' primary base of operations during their time on Earth. Constantly moving through the skies of the planet and cloaked against detection by either Autobot or human systems, it provides the villains with a mobile headquarters that allowes them to often remain one step ahead of their adversaries. The ship is, in actuality, the massive transformer, Trypticon, currently in a form of stasis lock where his personality and consciousness remains dormant since the Exodus from Cybertron.
Notable Locations include:
- The Bridge - Located on the upper decks. The control room for the Nemesis where the captain and navigation team controls the ship.
- The Medical Bay - Knockout's realm. Located mid-decks. He has established a critical care ward that is sectioned off from the rest of the medical area. This is used for more delicate surgeries, stasis-locked victims, and other more specialized ailments. In addition to that there is a regular medical ward where post-fight injured can queue themselves to get patched up.
- The Labs - In the lower levels of the ship are several sections dedicated entirely to research and science. This wing of the ship tends to be inhabited by Shockwave and most of the other scientists on board.
- Personal Quarters - Officers tend to get their own quarters, but the Vehicon troopers and lower-ranking soldiers bunk together in massive troop barracks through-out the ship.
Neutral Base
The Neutral base is located in Sahara, Africa, in an old energon mine. Their base is a DMZ sanctioned by Megatron and is frequently visited by both factions. Led currently by Cleaver, long time Neutral medic. Mechanoids from any faction are welcome here but they must adhere to the rules of the DMZ as established by Megatron and Optimus. The rules are simple here: NO FIGHTING. While they have a working power grid, everything else - rooms, equipment, furniture - tends to be cobbled together with the bits and pieces that the Neutrals bring with them when they arrive.
Notable Locations include:
- The Main Atrium - The Main Atrium is the largest cavern in the energon mine and where the other tunnels branch out from. The groundbridge control is here as well as the main power grid control hub. Notably, there is only one entrance/exit into the Energon mine and that leads from outside into the Main Atrium. There are four main tunnels leading out from the Atrium, one of which is the exit, the other three of which lead to the maze of tunnels that is this massive mine.
- Personal Quarters - Literally whatever cave you care to put your stuff in. Be careful about setting up house too deep in the mines. The mineral content messes with shortwave communicators.
- The Med Bay - Cleaver's ship had a decent medical unit. The guts of both these respective med-bays have been stripped and fitted into a large cavern close down a tunnel just to the left of the ground bridge. It has working medical slabs and life support systems wired into their main power-grid.
- The Bar - With an ex-gen distillery built in, Layby has set up a pretty decent bar out of a cavern just down the right tunnel from the Main Atrium.
CYBERTRON
Cybertron is orbited by three 'near-Cybertron' objects: Moonbase One and Two and the Trypticon Asteroid Belt Station, each on opposite hemispheres of the planet. Beyond the moons and asteroid belt floats the last of the great space bridges, the long-abandoned interstellar transportation system that once connected Cybertron to its colonies elsewhere in the galaxy.
According to legend, at the beginning of time, Unicron and Primus battled each other for eons, with neither side remaining victorious for long. Until, that is, Primus created the Thirteen. The Thirteen defeated Unicron and cast him into space.
The Covenant of Primus decreed only one Prime could rule at a time alongside the thirteen members of the High Council. The Quintessons seized control of the planet not long after, but the first Matrix-holder, Guardian Prime, led the revolution to fight them back. When he was lost a new Prime was named - Nova Prime - and, together with the High Council and the Guilds, he led the Transformers to a Golden Age of expansion. As the space bridges became less reliable and contact with the colonies was lost, Sentinel Zeta Prime and the Guilds instituted the caste system to slow their civilization's decline. The High Council and their Guards were in charge of law and order, but each state controlled its own militia.
But as the nameless miners resorted to gladiatorial combat as an outlet for their misery, a champion named Megatron rose to seize the title of Prime for himself. Unwittingly, his Iaconian ally was appointed Optimus Prime instead, and their anti-caste movement became a civil war for Cybertron's future. The AllSpark was lost to space, whole regions of the planet were laid waste, and the core of Cybertron was poisoned, prompting the Autobots to evacuate on the Ark. Megatron and his elite forces left on Trypticon too, now modified into the Nemesis.
The Cybertornian City States
Iacon
Iacon was the capital city of Cybertron, built on the northern-most region of Cybertron. This state was home to the Iacon Hall of records, the High Council Tower, and the Observatory of Iacon, and was widely known to be the centre of politics, culture, and the elite of the upper caste. It's here that the Primacy and the High Council made their home. Movement from lower city-states into Iacon was generally highly regulated and restricted with certain castes needing to acquire special passports and permissions to even be allowed into the city.
Kaon
Built on a plateau three times the size of Iacon, Kaon was the industrial heart of Cybertron, where nameless members of the low castes toiled endlessly. It was a dark, smoking mess of a city that was impossible to navigate without the Communication Grid. The High Council ignored the emerging gladiatorial combat in the areas surrounding Kaon, acknowledging it was the inhabitants' only escape in their lives. A champion taking the name Megatronus emerged. This Megatron took control of the gladiators and formed the Decepticons.
Tarn
Tarn is one of Cybertron's many city-states. It borders Vos and Iacon. Tarn is one of the largest city-states and, in a military sense, superior to the other city-states. During the civil war, Tarn surrendered to the Decepticons with minimal resistance, offering to root out Autobot sympathizers.
Vos
Vos had a great rivalry with its neighbor Tarn. To pacify the two states, Vos was made the base of the Cybertronian Air Command. It was neutral in the Great War for a great while before falling to the Decepticons. Most combat-flight models have their origins in Vos are tend to be designed after Vos-style frame-types.
Kalis
Bordering Iacon, Kalis was the site of the first Autobot victory in the war, which was all the more a relief, as the city's subsurface fusion reactor would power the city throughout the Decepticon siege.
Polyhex
Polyhex is a settlement that lies in the western hemisphere of Cybertron, where it is bordered by Praxis, Simfur, Uraya, and Kalis. The fortress Darkmount serves as its capitol. Polyhex is in charge of Cybertron's satellites and home to the Cybertron network command hub. The Polyhexian border was notorious for its ongoing aerial skirmishes that could last for years at a time, tying up huge aerial groups for ages vying for airspace.