Decepticon Headquarters (G1 Earth)

Decepticon Headquarters is a base from the cartoon portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.

...and Namor complains about the dwellers of the surface.

Built around the undersea crash site of their former starship, Decepticon Headquarters serves as the main base of operations for Megatron's troops on Earth. The base includes several buildings that surround the starship, a docking tower, and a giant telescoping "elevator" which allows the Decepticons to reach the surface without having to get wet and risk getting rusty.

Fiction

The Transformers cartoon

It's supposed to be cats that bring things home to their masters, not birds.

In the months after the Decepticons' space cruiser crashed into the ocean, they built several buildings around it to serve as their main base. Transport to Oblivion

Being located underwater, Decepticon Headquarters was quite prone to flooding; its walls were breached on at least four known occasions. The first was due to enemy action. The Decepticons had kidnapped Sparkplug Witwicky; in the process of rescuing him, Cliffjumper used his glass gas to burn a hole in the base. Brawn later punched another hole in the wall before the Autobots made their escape. The Ultimate Doom, Part 1

When the Decepticons used the space bridge to move Cybertron to Earth's orbit, it caused massive natural disasters which the Decepticons hoped to make energon with. Unfortunately, the space cruiser was damaged, with rocks from a nearby extension falling on the base and breaching the hull. Also, the docking tower snapped in half due to a tidal wave, flooding much of the base. That's what happens when Rumble is responsible for material acquisition. The Ultimate Doom, Part 2 The Decepticons spent some time repairing the damage and cleaning up the flooding. Countdown to Extinction

When Carly allied herself with the Autobots, she took it upon herself to sabotage Decepticon Headquarters, placing bombs on the hull. Unfortunately, when it went off, she had been captured and placed in the very room that was being flooded. The Decepticons sealed off the rest of the base, keeping it dry, and left the human to drown, unaware that Ironhide rescued her. The Immobilizer

Later, after the Sky Platform, a hovering energy collecting station built by the Constructicons, was lost, the Decepticons fled back to the space cruiser. However, Powerglide directed the station to sink directly above the space cruiser's location. Megatron ordered Soundwave to activate the base's force fields, only to learn that the Decepticons had never installed force fields. As the station came crashing down, Megatron assigned the Decepticons to their most difficult task to date... clean up the mess the station's impact had made of the base. They probably made Starscream do it. The Girl Who Loved Powerglide

Yet another big leaky hole was blasted into the base when Autobot prisoners Beachcomber, Perceptor, and Seaspray made their escape, flooding a section of the base. The Golden Lagoon

It is unknown what happened to the base when the Decepticons fully conquered Cybertron and abandoned Earth.

Japanese Generation 1 cartoon continuity

The Battle of the Star Gate

In Decepticon Headquarters' command center, Megatron, Starscream and Soundwave were watching a human newscast on the repairs being performed on the Trigger when Megatron and Starscream got in an argument about the latter's competence. Starscream left the command center angrily, after which Megatron and Soundwave moved on to a reconnaissance report made by Laserbeak on the development of the human-made C-X drones. The drones went haywire, which Megatron thought to be Laserbeak's doing, but Soundwave assured him Laserbeak had no part in it. He did, however, detect the interference of another, unidentified party. Divided Views Following an energon cube "theft" in Japan, Starscream was put in charge of the team that had to get them to headquarters despite the Autobots' best efforts to prevent it. In the end, it was not the Autobots who stopped the energon cubes from reaching Decepticon Headquarters, but the ghost of Starscream that had traveled to the past to ensure his survival. Activation Future Starscream took Past Starscream and the energon cubes with him to the Trigger. Megatron was informed of this when he returned to headquarters and issued the order to attack the traitors and stop whatever they were planning to do. The Battle of the Star Gate

Robotmasters

Change in Command: The Usurper Decepticon Starscream Grins 3 Times... Strategic Meeting: The Mysterious New Warrior And Then

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Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers comic

It seems the Decepticons occasionally used a ship to travel to and from Decepticon Headquarters. Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers #7

Megatron coordinated an attack on Tokyo from Decepticon Headquarters. Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers #1 During the construction of Trypticon, Megatron had Astrotrain and Reflector spy on the Autobots' construction of Metroplex. When they returned to the undersea base, Megatron found the data in their report reason not to be the least bit worried about the new Autobot soldier. Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers #3 When the Autobots gained control over Bruticus's and Menasor's movement, the battle was effectively won. Kenji suggested they'd just drop the two combiners off over the ocean. Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers #5 The Decepticons had imbued a dog with enough energy to destroy Tokyo. Despite the base being at the bottom of an ocean, the dog managed to escape. Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers #8

Merchandise

Diamond Select

• Decepticon Snow Globe (2007)

Decepticon Headquarters acts as the base to this snow globe, resting against an underwater cliff which Megatron sits atop of. The globe was sculpted by Art Asylum and released by Diamond Select Toys.

Notes

• According to the production bible of the original The Transformers cartoon, one of the ideas involving the space bridge was that its end on Earth would be located in a room within Decepticon Headquarters. Evidently, this idea was nixed in order to allow the Autobots a chance to use the space bridge once in a while.
• During the cartoon's course, the Decepticons were very keen on getting another headquarters or at least not being limited to one base. In order, they built New Cybertron as a new headquarters, created a giant Decepticon insignia-shaped temporary mountain base, possessed an incredibly tall rocket that served as a mobile base, obtained a hangar at an airport, constructed a moonbase, started work on a new headquarters that was never finished, owned the Sky Platform, and established a base strictly for the Combaticons. Going by the Japanese continuity, Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers #6 presents Trypticon as a new base meant to be taken in use while the undersea base was still fully functional. Finally, when the Decepticons reinstated their presence on Earth during The Headmasters, they set up a new main base. Since it has been 25 years since the undersea base was last seen, it seems likely the new base is its replacement.

Foreign names

• Japanese: Destron Kaitei Kichi (デストロン海底基地, "Destron Underwater Base")