Dread (planet)

Dread is a rather unpleasant planet which possesses hordes of slavers, wrecks of shrikebats, and the monstrous Chaos. As such, it is also the only planet on which death crystals can be mined.

It probably doesn't get much tourism.

The Transformers cartoon
While Optimus Prime and Megatron's crews were taking their stasis lock nap on the Ark, Kup found himself on Dread, being chased by an Ick-Yak. During his misadventure, he was captured by the Orbs to mine death crystals for them. Managing to get away from his work detail, Kup fled into the tunnels, finding a group of imprisoned robot slaves. As he tried to rescue them, the monstrous Chaos appeared. Kup was so frightened he fled, leaving the other robots imprisoned. He was so ashamed he never told anyone about the incident.

One hundred thousand years later, after the Autobots reclaimed Cybertron from the Decepticons, the death crystals were discovered by the Decepticons. Galvatron took Astrotrain and the Predacons to build a massive cannon to shoot death crystals at Cybertron, which would destroy the planet. Kup led a group of Autobots to stop them, in the process destroying Chaos and causing his volcano lair to erupt in an explosion that could be seen from orbit.

Animated
Dread is Cybertron's nearest neighbor and is within the Hadeen System. Its mountains can be seen by telescope from Cybertron's surface and it has a single moon named Westenra.

Foreign names

 * Japanese: Dread (ドレッド Doreddo)