Spindrift

Spindrift is a world known for its vast vapor oceans, where useful spume crystals, meaty vapor eels, and monstrous cloud leviathans can be found by anyone willing to brave the dangerous storms. Long in the past, during the First Cybertronian Civil War, it was a battleground between different Transformer factions who fought many battles over the spume crystals that could be refined into energon. Their battles wrought about many of the storms that now make Spindrift so hazardous, and the planet was eventually abandoned by both sides. It is now only visited by alien drifters who travel the vapor oceans in bloomships, catching vapor eels and whatever else they can make a profit of.

Locations on Spindrift include the Howling Blashie, a neverending storm zone, and the Realm of Wrecks, a veritable graveyard of Transformers who died during the war.

Fiction

2005 IDW continuity

Spindrift was one of the planets visited by Galvatron in his quest to use the Heart of Darkness to raise fallen soldiers from the dead and integrate them into his army. After saving the Murkdipper, a bloomship crewed by some crab-like drifters, from a cloud leviathan, he liberated Thinkbox from the ship's insides and traveled to the Realm of Wrecks, where he revived the corpses littering the place and transported them to Gorlam Prime. Heart of Darkness #3

Animated cartoon continuity

Spindrift was part of the Quintesson Pan Galactic Co-Prosperity Sphere in the Milky Way. The Complete AllSpark Almanac

Notes

• "Spindrift" is a real word! The term refers to sea spray blown by powerful winds.

Foreign names

• Japanese: Spindrift (スピンドリフト Supindorifuto)