LV-117

Excuse me while I crash into this bluish-black thing.

LV-117 is a world located in the Lenocinium Velnero System... but when it's located there is another question altogether. Due to strange circumstances, the entire planet has become detached from linear time and is always moving through the timestream, appearing from an outsider's view to drift in and out of existence at different points in time. Just passing through the atmosphere causes outsiders to end up in a random time period completely different from where they started.

The inhabitants of LV-117, a humanoid race able to change shape into larger, more vicious forms for fighting, have made it their mission to guide their homeworld through the sea of time, though there are also nasty creatures there such as the Chaosteros and Arachnosaurs. The planet also has a mysterious connection to the Quintessons.

Fiction

2005 IDW continuity

LV-117 was chosen as the first target of Shockwave's Regenesis program, a project to seed planets with energon-derived ores in the hopes that they would grow energon that Shockwave could harvest. It didn't quite work out like that, as the "Ore-1" sent to LV-117 mutated the very soil of the planet and turned it chronally unstable. The natives were able to master the technology of the missile that sent the ore and developed a means of guiding their homeworld during its erratic journey through time. Syndromica (2) Shockwaves Unbeknownst to Shockwave, his future self had arranged events so that the planet had become associated with one of the Thirteen Primes, specifically Vector Prime. The Crucible The First Who Was Named Ceremony

Thousands of years later, Turmoil arrived on LV-117 from the future to check on the progress of Regenesis on behalf of Shockwave. He enslaved the natives and took them with him as he returned to normal timestream, wholly unaware that he had been visiting the planet's past. Syndromica (2) At some point, the Autobot Wheelie crash landed on LV-117 and had to survive against the local deadly animals for an undisclosed period of time, but the nature of the planet makes it hard to tell when he got there. Spotlight: Wheelie Over 70 years back, the Reflector trio of the present then crashed there while on a mission similar to Turmoil's. Syndromica (2) Wheelie found Spectro and Spyglass tormenting a captured native named Varta, transported from the time of Turmoil's visit by a time-hopping Orion Pax, saving him at the cost of letting the two Reflector components steal a spaceship needed to leave the planet. He had sabotaged it, though, and it exploded in the sky, killing the Decepticons and stranding him and Varta. Elsewhere, a Quintesson temple painting began to glow... Spotlight: Wheelie

600,000 years after Regenesis, Orion Pax arrived on the Ark-27 in hunt of Jhiaxus, who was intending to steal the Regenesis missile's control device and use LV-117's unique properties for himself. Due to contact with a time machine brought by Reflector, he and Bludgeon were sent careening through several eras of the planet, culminating in Orion taking the device but Jhiaxus getting his hands on the time machine. Syndromica (2)

In late 2017, the activation of the Talisman roused Unicron from his slumber. First Strike #6 To augment his power, the Chaos Bringer began consuming the Regenesis planets with LV-117 as his first known target. In the final leg of his temporal journey, Orion Pax materialized as Unicron began consuming the planet. All the Transformers on the planet managed to escape in time, either by conventional starship or time travel, though Varta was killed by Bludgeon as he and Wheelie attempted to flee. Though it had occurred years in the future for his perspective, the Orion Pax of 2012 was able to record LV-117's destruction. Syndromica (2) Our Darkest

Wheelie eventually settled on LV-118, introducing the Chaosteros and Arachnosaurs to that world. The Stars My Destination

In 2018, once the timeline had caught up with Orion, now calling himself Optimus Prime once again, he realized Unicron had been the cause of LV-117's destruction. A week after LV-117 had been consumed, Unicron targeted and devoured Elonia, Optimus explained the fate of LV-117 to Rom and the forewarning it had given the Transformers. Our Darkest

Animated cartoon continuity

LV-117 was part of the Nebulon Republic. The AllSpark Almanac II

Ask Vector Prime

The Time Warriors made peaceful contact with the time-traveling natives of LV-117. Ask Vector Prime

Games

Transformers Roleplaying Game

LV-117 was an unusual planet that had somehow become stuck in time, weaving in and out of the normal timestream. LV-117 held vast reserves of energon in both its normal and primal variants; additionally, it was home tome to an indigenous race of biological shapeshifters and various predators such as the chaosteros, arachnosaurs, and a strain of metal-eating bacteria. Early Quintesson explorers had hoped that they would explore the world without triggering the native’s carnivorous instincts, but these early hopes were quickly dashed by the realization that LV-117’s fauna attacked just about everything that moved. At some point, Shockwave discovered the planet and used it as a test site to study time travel. Decepticon Directive

Notes

• LV-117's name appears to be a reference to the planet LV-426 from the Aliens series. This wouldn't be the first time for Furman.
• It might also be a reference to John-117, the protagonist of the Halo video games.