Asteroid Belt

The Asteroid Belt is a field of rock and debris in the Solar System that floats in the orbital path between Mars and Jupiter.

Known asteroids[]

Fiction[]

Exosquad[]

The Exofleet and the Pirate Clans are battling in the asteroid belt during the Pirate Clans War.

The Magic School Bus[]

Marvel Comics continuity[]

Cybertron entered the Solar System and was faced with destruction as it approached the asteroid belt. Aboard a huge spacecraft dubbed the Ark, Optimus Prime led a team of Autobots on a mission to clear a path through the asteroids.

Japanese Generation 1 cartoon continuity[]

The Headmasters cartoon[]

While travelling back to Earth, Scorponok made a pit stop at Pallas. The pursuing Autobots made a similar stop at Ceres. The two forces battled on Pallas, but Sixshot arranged for a personal duel with Chromedome on Juno; the duel ceased when Daniel Witwicky got between the two of them and Scorponok caused Juno to explode after taking off for Earth.

Victory cartoon[]

Deathsaurus's Decepticons had set the Thunder Arrow on an asteroid and set up a factory. With devices planted on the asteroid, they pulled in spaceships to use their crew as slaves and the ships for smelting to produce the energy alloy. Ship disappearances had become so frequent that the region was called the "Devil's Space Triangle". Star Saber, realizing that it was a Decepticon plot, disguised himself as a human spaceship to be abducted. Once on the asteroid, Star Saber destroyed the devices and drove off the Decepticons.

Space Battleship Yamato 2199[]

Great Garmillas War[]

In 2191, early in the Great Garmillas War, the Asteroid Belt was used by the reorganized UNCN as an absolute defense line during the First Battle of Mars. While it was impossible for the Cosmo Navy to repel all of the invading garmillan forces beyond the Belt, the battle caused the garmillas to switch their tactics and begin bombing the Earth using planet bombs.

Yamato revolt[]

On December 24, 2202, the space battleship Yamato rebelled against the Earth Federation's government and the United Nations Cosmo Force and embarked on an unauthorized mission toward planet Terezart. At that time the Yamanami fleet and the Lunar Air Corps were engaged in a military exercise at the Asteroid Belt. Having caught wind of Yamato's revolt, the Yamanami Squadron of the Lunar Air Corps defected to join the space battleship's new mission. The Asteroid Belt would later be the site of a brief skirmish between Captain Yamanami's Andromeda and Yamato, the rebelling battleship used its ARGO system to create a protective shield out of the Belt's asteroids.

Aligned continuity family[]

Prime cartoon[]

The Decepticon space bridge—that was destroyed during Megatron's attempts to raise Cybertron—lay outside the asteroid belt.

Tales of the Beast Hunters[]

Bumblebee found a lead pointing to a derelict starship in the asteroid belt. He and Wheeljack located it, but were followed there by Megatron and Predaking. Optimus Prime soon joined in the battle by GroundBridging there and as the ship was destroyed by Lazerback's explosives, the Autobots managed to escape with some of the weapons. Megatron was not so lucky, and appeared to perish.

Transformers: Universe[]