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<div>:''A shell program is a [[Spark]]-manipulating control program from the [[Beast Wars]] and [[Beast Machines]] portions of the [[Generation 1]] continuity family.<br />
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A '''shell program''' is a [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]]-designed personality altering program that can be installed within a Transformer to change the way they act. A shell program can even compel a Transformer to behave in ways diametrically opposed to what they would do without the shell program.<br />
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==Fiction==<br />
===''Beast Wars'' cartoon===<br />
Upon the landing of each [[stasis pod]], the [[Maximal]]s and Predacons would both rush to the scene in hopes of recruiting the [[protoform]] inside to their team. The protoforms were Maximals by default, but the Predacons were able to turn some by implanting shell programs before waking the protoform up. [[Blackarachnia]] and [[Inferno (BW)|Inferno]] joined the Predacons through this scheme. ([[Rampage (BW)|Rampage]] and [[Quickstrike (BW)|Quickstrike]] joined without being reprogrammed.) Rhinox's brief stint as a Predacon was not explicitly explained, but may have also been the result of a shell program. {{storylink|Dark Designs}}<br />
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Eventually, despite her shell program, Blackarachnia decided to side with the Maximals. When hidden code in her shell program began to threaten her life, the Maximals attempted to remove it entirely, a procedure which was very dangerous for her. [[Rhinox (BW)|Rhinox]] then conducted a strange kind of virtual, videogame-style "search and destroy" mission within Blackarachnia to accomplish this. Sadly, a safeguard that [[Tarantulas]] included in the program terminated her before Rhinox could finish the removal. (She was then revived "magically" by the [[Transmetal driver]].)<br />
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===''Beast Machines'' Cartoon===<br />
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[[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]] utilized the sparks of [[Silverbolt (Fuzor)|Silverbolt]], [[Waspinator]], and [[Rhinox]] to power shell programs giving life to the original three [[Vehicon general]]s. These shell programs were the reverse of the actual personalities of sparks that powered them (eg: Thrust was fearless while Waspinator was cowardly). [[Obsidian (BM)|Obsidian]] and [[Strika (BM)|Strika]], however, did not appear to be altered in this manner.<br />
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