Pirate Planet

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The true name of the world now calledPirate Planet( hải tặc tinhKaizokusei) is unknown—it gained its current name from its role as a storehouse for theproton energygathered by a gang ofSpace Piratesin days gone by. Rocky desert is all that is seen of the planet’s surface, while out in space, a graveyard of ships and space-junk floats nearby.

Fiction

Japanese Generation 1 cartoon continuity

The Headmasterscartoon

Excuse me, excuse me. Has anybody seen a planet called Calufrax? Funny, nobody's seen it.

While on another planet, a map showing the location of the stored proton energy came into possession of theAutobot ClonesFastlaneandCloudraker,but half of it was stolen by their Decepticon counterparts,WingspanandPounce.Knowing that the villains would head for the Pirate Planet, the Autobot Clones made it there ahead of them and ambushed them, hoping to reclaim their half of the map. However, they discovered that the rest of the Decepticon forces were also present, and were defeated and lost their own half of the map.

Joining the two halves of the map,Galvatronfollowed its directions but had yet to find anything before the AutobotHeadmastersattacked and reclaimed it.Highbrowdeduced that the map itself was part of an electronic lock—putting the map in place on a skull-shaped rock unearthed a massive pyramid that supposedly contained the energy. Neither Autobot nor Decepticon was able to penetrate its walls, but Highbrow was able to match the electronic signal the pyramid was emitting to one emanating from the graveyard of spaceship nearby. Plucking a skull from the prow of a ship in the graveyard, he placed it upon a decapitated skeleton by the pyramid’s door, and the temple opened.Fortress Maximusdispatched the Decepticons, but Highbrow then discovered that the proton energy was long gone—an ancient booby trap set by the pirates had long ago released it, scorching the once-green planet and turning it into the barren wasteland it now was.Mystery of the Space Pirate Ship

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Ten years after their failed mission, Wingspan and Pounce returned to the Pirate Planet to search for any traces of proton energy they may have missed. This time, they discovered a hidden chamber within the pyramid containing an interdimensional portal and realized the energy had not dispersed as previously thought—the Space Pirates had never stored it there it the first place, but rather shunted it through the portal intoanother universe.Bonus Edition Vol. 61

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Swindle,on his map, originally consideredBarbarossathe Pirate Planet, but corrected his mistake, labeling it the "Pirate Moon" instead.The AllSpark Almanac II