Chaar

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Chaar (in Japan, Jarr) is a fictional planet in the Transformers series. It is a small, burned-out husk of a planet located in distant space, easily mistaken for a smudge on a map. It apparently supported a civilization at one point, as abandoned structures are seen on the surface. The surface is desolate and lacks vegetation, but some native lifeforms exist, including an enormous spider.

Following Unicron’s attack on Cybertron in 2005, the Autobots reclaimed Cybertron, and the surviving Decepticons, without their leader, Galvatron, were forced to withdraw to Chaar, where they struggled to eke out an existence, relying on the meager amounts of energon that could be acquired from off-planet. Eventually, Cyclonus set out to find Galvatron but, in his absence, the Quintessons supplied the Decepticons with energon in return for their assistance in launching an attack on the Autobots. With the return of Galvatron, the alliance was restructured, but the attack on Cybertron which ensued ended in failure, resulting in the Decepticons again returning to Chaar, which then served as their base of operations over the following year.

Chaar is frequently misspelled as “Charr.” Chaar was also mentioned in Transformers: Cybertron, but as an asteroid belt, not a planet.