Nebulan

A group ofbinary-bondedNebulans in their armor.

Nebulans(orNebulons) are the inhabitants of the planetNebulosand speakNebulanese.They have found themselves involved with theTransformersin several different dimensions within the multiverse and are usually responsible for or deeply involved in theHeadmaster,Targetmaster,andPowermastertechnologies.

Their exact characteristics vary by universe.

Fiction

Marvel Comics continuity

MarvelThe Transformerscomics

The Nebulans were a race of humans that had lived without war for thousands of years on their home planet of Nebulos. That peace was disrupted when a group ofAutobotsarrived seeking to relocate from their own war-torn world ofCybertron.This caused divisions amongst the Nebulans based on whether or not to trust the newcomers.Ring of Hate!The arrival of a group ofDecepticonssoon afterward only escalated these tensions, and Nebulos's age of peace was lost as citizensbinary bondedto Transformers on both sides of the conflict to becomeHeadmastersBroken Glass!Love and Steel!andTargetmasters.

Realizing the damage that was being done to Nebulos's once-peaceful culture, the Autobots abandoned the planet to join Transformers already on the planetEarth,believing (correctly) that the Decepticons would pursue them off-Nebulos.Brothers in Armor!!

After this the citizens of Nebulos tainted their own energy sources so as to be poisonous to any Transformers that might seek to return to their world. When DecepticonsDarkwingandDreadwindarrived soon after the departure of the other Transformers, they soon found themselves victim of this poisoning, and lay dormant for a time. They were later revived by Nebulan traitorsHi-TestandThrottle,who had stolen power-conversion plans that eventually created thePowermasters.Hi-Q, the creator of this process, eventually binary bonded with a rebornOptimus Prime,and several of his staff joined with other Autobots, in order to combat the threat posed by Darkwing and Dreadwind. They, too, eventually left Nebulos to join the other Transformers on Earth.People Power!

Many more Nebulans ended up binary bonded to Transformers around these events, but how these team-ups came to be is not chronicled.

Classics

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Regeneration One

Nebulan scientists led byBorxinitiated "Project Lazarus",an attempt to rebuild the Autobot Headmasters' bodies and join them to the heads left behind.Loose Ends, Part 2When the Nebulans attempted to accessLord Zarak's files,Scorponokreactivated, and took control of the Nebulans.Natural Selection, Part One

Grimlock,seeking a way to cure his teammates suffering fromNucleon's side effects, became interested in the potential of Project Lazarus and went to Nebulos to investigate. Grimlock arrived at Koraja Spaceport, which initially appeared abandoned, only to be attacked by Nebulan forces. Grimlock, observing that the Nebulans appeared hypnotized, refused to fight back, and was captured by Scorponok.Loose Ends, Part 2Scorponok completed the Project Lazarus research under his terms, creating the Gene Key which he would use against Cybertron.Natural Selection, Part Two

After Scorponok's defeat,Natural Selection, Part FiveUltra Magnusdispatched theRescue Patrolto Nebulos, hoping thatFixitand his team could find a way to undo Scorponok's influence and restore the Nebulans.Destiny, Part OneAt Optimus Prime's suggestion, the construction of a Space Bridge began in theClar Macro-jungleso that humans and Nebulans could help each other rebuild their shattered worlds.Destiny, Part TwoThough regarded as theDark Matrixas one of the three "trinity",The War to End All Wars, Part 4the Nebulans remained largely ignorant of the entity's machinations. In the aftermath of the battle, a delegation of Nebulans greeted their human opposites with the two species going on to thrive in their partnership.The War to End All Wars, Part 5

Generation 1 cartoon continuity

The Transformerscartoon

Nebulons were extremely human-like aliens who possessed green skin and dark green or white hair. Some of the oldest of their ruling class, theHive,appear to have had cyborg alterations or even taken on fully robotic bodies.

Nebulos was a world whose inhabitants were enslaved by the Hive, a group of eleven Nebulon telekinetics whose focus on development of their mental powers had caused their bodies to wither, led by LordZarak.The populace was mainly forced to do routine farm work, watched over by the machines which the Hive controlled telepathically.

Several Transformers crashed on Nebulos. A small band of Nebulon rebels, led byGort,captured the Autobots, believing them to be Hive machines. The Decepticons were captured by the Hive. Convincing the rebels that they were not Hive machines, the Autobots volunteered to help, offering up four of their own to serve as Headmasters, with Nebulon partners inside their heads to serve as secondary operators.

Zarak demanded his own Headmasters, butCyclonusonly wished to offer up the Decepticon animals for this. The rest offered their weapons, which Zarak willingly accepted. The Autobots learned of this and adapted the newTargetmasterdesigns.

Zarak rebuilt a Hive facility into Scorponok, only to be countered by Fortress Maximus, an old Hive city converted into a Headmaster body bySpike WitwickyandCerebros.Defeated, the Hive and the Decepticons fled in Scorponok.The Rebirth

Wings Universe

In 2012, several Nebulan scientists, includingHi-QandHi-Test,were working on an unspecified power source (presumably thePowermasterprocess).A Flash Forward, Part 3

In 2013 upon meeting the DecepticonSerpentor,who unlike his "second generation" Transformer comrades was purely a human creation,Jhiaxusremarked that unlike the Nebulans, the humans continued to interest him.A Common Foe

Tornadoinitially thought thatOlin Zarak,Headmasterpartner toScorponok,was a 'bot from the planetMasteruntil realizing that Zarak was in fact a Nebulan.Tornado - Decepticon Saboteur

In the late 30th century,Apelinqregarded the Nebulans as a fascinating species as history had caused their society to become symbiotically linked to Cybertronian society. When a disturbance occurred in Nebulan space, CommanderGinraiordered theCybertronian Knightsto travel there aboard theApeximmediately, only to find that the disturbance was merely a spaceborne "fender-bender" caused by four transport vessels trying to access the same Nebulan spaceport at the same time.Apelinq's personal logs

Nucleon Quest Super Convoy profile

When Cybertron was devastated by another energy crisis, a scientist from Nebulos namedHi-Qassisted Optimus Prime on his quest for the potent energy sourceNucleon,which was located insideblack holes.Nucleon Quest Super Convoy's profile

Legendscomic

Zarak traveled to theLegends Worldand was followed byStylor,ArcanaandDuros,who combined their Nebulon Headmaster technology with the localtranstector-type Headmasters to defeat him.LGEX Headmaster Set Chapter

Ladybird books continuity

The Nebulans were small robots.Decepticons at the PoleAutobots Strike OilAutobot HostageDecepticons Underground

The Transformers Adventure Game Books continuity

Both the Autobots and Decepticons agreed that Nebulos should not be ravaged as Cybertron was in theGreat War,and limited their numbers on the planet to only those who were teamed up with Nebulan companions. These Nebulans were robotic life-forms and although some worked with the Autobots as scientists, many of them were miners on the planet's equatorial continent, relaxing by getting drunk on high-gradeoiland listening to extremely fast, loud techno music at theWolf at the Doornightclub.Desert of DangerSwamp of the Scorpion

DreamwaveGeneration Onecontinuity

Unicron Trilogy cartoon continuity

Ask Vector Prime

InAurex 503.01 Gamma,Nebulan doctorsHi-QandArcanaperformed theHeadmasterprocess to save the lives of their patientsOverloadandRollout.Ask Vector Prime, 2015/09/18

Cybertroncartoon

Following the conclusion of theEnergon War,theAutobotJetfirespent some time on the planet Nebulon. There he picked up a new accent from the locals, which to someEarthlingears resembles that ofAustralians.Sort of.Challenge

2005 IDW continuity

Nebulans were a hairless, green or reddish-pink skinned humanoid race with pointy ears. Their eyes were white. They had a bit of a vampiric look to human eyes.Spotlight: Ultra MagnusStormbringer

Several million years ago during theInterregnum,Delta Magnusused apower booster rodto fool primitive Nebulans into worshipping him as a god.An Intimate BeheadingSome time later, the unidentified Transformer who precededOrion Paxas captain of theRodionpolice enjoyed hunting "primitives" enough to keep a stuffed Nebulan on his wall.Chaos Theory Part 2

In the modern age,Scorponokviolated theCode of Interplanetary Conflictby making contact with the maverick Nebulan scientists behind theZarak Consortium.With his help, chairmanMo Zaraklearned to fuse Nebulans with Cybertronian technology, re-engineering them into transformable men. Seeking to bring Scorponok to justice,Ultra Magnusinfiltrated the Consortium and confronted him, leading to the death of Zarak and Scorponok's escape from Nebulos.Spotlight: Ultra Magnus

Nebulos was later devastated byThunderwing,likely killing a lot of Nebulans.Stormbringer #3

United

Supreme ScientistZelladeveloped a cure for thenano-virusthat was slowly killing the Autobots that were notbinary bonded.It saved them all.The Fierce Fighting on Planet Nebulos

Transformers vs. G.I. Joe

TheNeb'loslived on a planet that shared the same. The Autobot/Decepticon war eventually reached Neb'los with Zarak betraying his people to the Decepticons for a position of power. The digital ghosts of the Neb'los survived in Zarak's mobile city of Scorponok, with them urgingScarlettto kill Zarak when she found herself trapped in the city.Headmasters

Beast Wars: Uprising

The Nebulans found their world dragged into theGreat Warafter the Decepticoninfiltration protocolmanipulated the planet's two largest geographical superpowers, turning theHive Nationsagainst theWorld Watchers.When theHuman Confederacyarrived, the Transformers revealed themselves, kickstarting the war. The Decepticons experimented on prisoners of war and developed Headmaster technology, which was stolen by the Autobots and subsequently altered to create Targetmasters.

Presumably, the vast majority of Nebulans perished during the apocalypticScouring of Nebulosthat rendered their home incapable of supporting life. The stragglers that had already fled the planet with their Transformer partners died of natural causes before the 24th century. As the war drew to a close, the organic Nebulans were supplanted by the mechanicalCyberdroidinhabitants of the colony worldRebirth.A Brush With Infamy–Prologue

Last Bot Standing

WhenRodimusawoke fromstasis lock,he briefly mistookShib Wallkisfor a Nebulan. When he explained the Cybertronian race to her, he remembered the Nebulans as a casualty in theGreat Warbefore the conflict finally drained the universe ofenergon.Last Bot Standing #2

Energon Universe

WhenSkuxxoidpicked up theZertonianSolila,and her reluctantAgorrianallyDarak,he, after confirming they had no bounties, offered them a pre-HiveNebulan starship in exchange for the unique alloy of their makeshift craft.Void Rivals #3

Notes

• The spelling "Nebulon" for the Nebulan species has thus far been exclusive to the Generation 1 cartoon.

Foreign names

• Japanese:Nebulos-jin(ネビュロス nhân, "Nebulos people" ),Nebulan(ネビュランNebyuran)