Quintessa (planet)

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Quintessa, or Quintesson, is the home planet of the Quintessons. It is also home to various deadly robotic creatures, all as twisted and malevolent as the Quintessons themselves. Quintessa has a tendency to be destroyed, with the Quintessons creating themselves a New Quintessa somewhere else in the universe.

Fiction

Generation 1 continuity family

Generation 1 cartoon continuity

The Transformers cartoon

While fleeing the forces of Galvatron, a shuttle containing Hot Rod, Kup, and the Dinobots crash-landed on Quintessa. Kup and Hot Rod narrowly escaped death at the tentacles of a giant squid, but escaped only to be captured by Allicons. While imprisoned, they encountered Kranix, last survivor of Lithone, who managed to warn them of Unicron before he was tried and executed by the Quintessons. The Autobots were also tried and sentenced to death. but fought their way out of the Sharkticon pit and, with the aid of the Dinobots and their new ally Wheelie, defeated the Sharkticons and turned the surviving creatures against their masters. Stealing a Quintesson ship, the Autobots escaped the planet. The Transformers: The Movie

Shortly afterwards, Kup, Ultra Magnus, and Spike Witwicky were kidnapped from the Galactic Olympics and taken to Quintessa, where they were tried and sentenced to death. Before they could be devoured, Hot Rod, Grimlock, Arcee, Springer, and the Aerialbots mounted a daring rescue. Determined to destroy the Autobots, the Quintessons evacuated the planet and initiated its self-destruct sequence. While Quintessa was blown to atoms, the Autobots survived. Five Faces of Darkness, Part 2

Deviations

After their shuttle had been attacked by Megascream, Optimus Prime's group of Autobots were forced to set down on Quintessa for repairs where they were met by a group of Sharkticons. After the universal greeting failed, the Autobots chased the Sharkticons back to the citadel of the Quintessons where they met Kranix who informed him of the threat Unicron posed. The repairs complete, the Autobots departed Quintessa, taking the Lithone with them. Deviations

Marvel The Transformers comics

In 2008, the Quintesson homeworld was swallowed up by a time-space fault that was the result of Cyclonus and Scourge's time-travel activities. The Quintessons had planned to turn Cybertron (or another suitable robot planet) into a new homeworld, but they were unsuccessful. Planet Quintesson was subsequently consumed by a rift in time and space. Space Pirates!

Dreamwave Generation One continuity

Quintessa was one of the first planets to spawn sentient life. Home to the Quintessons, it was also inhabited by other dangerous lifeforms. More Than Meets The Eye

From their citadel on Quintessa, several Quintessons studied recent activity on Cybertron, and prepared for the coming of Unicron. Generation 1 #0

Beast Wars: Uprising

Quintessa was rich with naturally-occurring energon, allowing for the creation of energy-guzzling weapons like the Overcharge drones. Burning Bridges

Energon Universe

To try and get something for a Quintesson Prosecutor, Skuxxoid took him back to Quintessa to try and sell. Finding a less than receptive audience from the Quintesson Judge, the Skuxxoid was nearly taken away before he roused the Judge's interest by mentioning that he had Zertonian metals. Void Rivals #5

Delivering the promised ship, the Skuxxoid asked if he was free to go. Receiving no response, Skuxxoid quickly took off before the Quintessons could do anything while the Judge ordered the craft taken to a laboratory. Void Rivals #6

Energon comic

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Animated cartoon

Quintessa was the capital of the Quintesson Pan Galactic Co-Prosperity Sphere and presumably namesake for the colony world New Quintessa. The AllSpark Almanac II

Aligned continuity family

The Covenant of Primus

On his quest to seed planets across the universe with civilization, Quintus Prime used the Emberstone to seed the young planet of Quintessa with life forms, creating the first Quintessons. Although Quintus Prime intended to create peaceful, spacefaring beings, the arrogant, manipulative, and self-serving Quintessons he created did not fit this mold. Quintessa ultimately proved to be the hub and staging ground for many campaigns, including the attempted conquest and annexation of Cybertron. The Covenant of Primus

Aligned novels

Quintessa was the capital of the Quintesson Imperium, a group of subjugated worlds that claimed to be a part of a peaceful Co-Prosperity Sphere. Although the Quintessons kept the location of their homeworld a secret, Quintesson judges could holographically project themselves onto their various colony worlds to pronounce judgement over criminals and prisoners of war. Retribution

Rescue Bots cartoon

Rescue Force Sigma-17 left Cybertron for a routine patrol in the Quintessa quadrant. Changes

Knights of Unicron

The Sharkticon Pit, located on Planet Quintessa, was the ninth venue for the Knights of Unicron on their 2014 "Till All Are One" tour. Knights of Unicron

Games

Transformers Legends

The Quintessons destroyed their home planet of Quintesson in an attempt to destroy the Autobots. Five Faces of Darkness: Part 2

Transformers Roleplaying Game

Quintessa was a planet-sized space station populated by Quintessons. While not officially part of the Decepticon empire, the Decepticons occasionally visited Quintessa to bargain with the Quintessons. At some point, Quintessa was destroyed and succeeded by New Quintessa. Decepticon Directive

Notes

• Flint Dille's idea for Quintessa was that it was not the planet that the Quintessons originated on, but merely the latest in a series of planets colonized by the Quintessons and subsequently claimed to be their homeworld. He further envisioned the various sea creatures in the movie as some of their discarded experiments.^[1]
• Floro Dery modeled Quintessa after a skull,^[2] presumably one viewed in profile or slightly behind the rear of the skull.
• In Volume 2 of My Little Pony: The Manga, Doctor Hooves mentions saving a Cybertronian version of Fluttershy from the Sharkticon pits on Quintessa Prime.

Foreign names

• Japanese: Quintessa-sei (クインテッサ星 Kuintessa-sei, "Planet Quintessa")
• Italian: Quintessenza ("Quintessence")

References

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