Through alliances with the Autobots, humanity's own technology began to grow, and they slowly began to spread out into space. One of the first settlements created by humans off-planet was the Lunar Colony, on Earth's moon.

Fiction

The Transformers cartoon

When held captive on the planet Quintessa in the year 2005, Spike Witwicky prepared Kup and Ultra Magnus for an escape attempt by way of a coded message that involved recalling a football match between the Lunar Colony's team and "the Bears". Magnus didn't get it, but fortunately, Kup caught on. Five Faces of Darkness, Part 2

Story of Binaltech

Going undercover as part of Operation: Carwash to ferret out the full extent of the Decepticons' influence over the Binaltech Project, human special operative D.R. Faireborn had his family told that he was visiting the Lunar Colony as a cover story. Expose All of Evil's Designs!

Notes

• A line of dialogue cut from "Five Faces of Darkness, Part 2" would have established that the Lunar Colony existed as early as 1997. ^{[citation needed]}