Decepticon Headquarters (G1 Cybertron)

Decepticon Headquarters is the structure that serves as the primary base of operations for the Decepticons on Cybertron.

The Transformers cartoon
The dome-topped building known as Decepticon Headquarters on Cybertron was where Megatron planned to ambush Optimus Prime's energy-hunting expedition four million years ago. Before leaving, he told Shockwave to get off his shelf and watch the planet in his absence.

Four million years later, Shockwave was still doing just that.

Decepticon HQ contained a tower for sending and receiving passengers and cargo via space bridge from Earth. Occasionally, it would get hijacked by the Autobots for their own purposes. Usually, this would result in some damage to the base. And pain for Shockwave.

For some reason, the base contained or was connected to ventilator shafts, which could be used by smaller-sized beings to escape trap rooms connected to the base. At one point, the base held the duplicate computer used to control the hypno-chip slaves on Cybertron. It also served as storage for the Decepticons' dwindling cache of energon.

It seems that when the Decepticons conquered Cybertron, Shockwave was given a new working place. The center from which he operated during the Unicron ordeal looked nothing like the Decepticon Headquarters of old.

The Headmasters cartoon
Despite the years of disuse and Autobot occupation of Cybertron, Decepticon Headquarters and the space bridge node within remained in working condition. Galvatron made use of this in the year 2011, when he and several of his troops had to get from Chaar to Cybertron. As a side effect of the Matrix becoming depowered, Vector Sigma's link with the Autobots was broken and Galvatron wanted to reprogram the computer in the Decepticons' favor. When he explained the mission's objective to his troops gathered at Decepticon Headquarters, Weirdwolf demanded that he and the other new recruits be given a chance to prove their worth. Galvatron wasn't impressed by his demands, causing the Headmaster trio to boldly leave the base straight through the glass ceiling, even though there was a perfectly functional door. The rest of the Decepticons followed after them a few moments later with equal disdain for the door.

While an obvious security risk, the Autobots let Decepticon Headquarters be. The Decepticons made use of that to send the Headmaster trio and the Madmachine to Cybertron in another attempt to take control of Vector Sigma. Letting the whole "control Vector Sigma" gig rest for a while, the Decepticons tried to obtain the cybertonuron the computer had recently created. Galvatron sent the Predacons to Cybertron per space bridge first to make preparations for the attack. Meanwhile, he gathered his troops on Chaar and Earth and had them board Astrotrain's shuttle mode. Astrotrain in turn took the space bridge to Decepticon Headquarters, where the troops got out and moved out to unleash an onslaught on the unsuspecting Autobots. A few hours later, Cybertron was blown up, and Decepticon Headquarters ceased to exist.

Foreign names

 * Japanese: Destron Kichi (デストロン基地, "Destron Base")