abstract
| - Kaon was once a smoky industrial cesspool where the lowest castes of Cybertron slaved away. As a distraction from their unfortunate lives, gladiatorial combat became common in and around the city. From the ranks of these gladiators there arose a champion named Megatron. His ambition would turn his quest for freedom into a war for tyranny, and all of Cybertron would pay the price. Far from the civilized metropolitan titans of the north half of the planet, Kaon was inhabited by a radical citizenry unsatisfied with the Autobot High Council and its maintained status quo. It was here that the industrial creations, the smelting pools, were first used to melt down living beings, a practice other city-states found horrible and barbaric. Disaffected, unruly, and thirsty for slaughter, Kaon was an obvious location for the fomenting of Megatron's underground Decepticon movement. Its capital is the fortress city of Kolkular, one of the worst places on Cybertron. In the past, one of Kaon's notable features was a series of underground gladiatorial combats. Megatron took over these games as a method of recruiting gladiators into the Decepticon army. The Decepticons launched an attack on Kaon and took control of the city, using it as their initial base to direct the campaign against the Autobots. After millennia of warfare, Kaon stood in ruins, its capital city of Kolkular largely abandoned. However, with the destruction of Polyhex, Kaon has once again become a center for Decepticon leadership, and the area has slowly begun to recover.
|