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Covenant (group)

2010-07-12T06:43:50Z

67.33.130.4: /* Timelines: Wings of Honor */

{{disambig2|the twelve pre-Cybertronic Transformers that guarded time and space|the scriptural Covenant of Primus|Covenant of Primus}}
:''The Covenant is a group from the [[Beast Era]] [[Continuity family]].''

'''The Covenant''' is a group of ancient robots created by [[Primus]] to guard against the [[Omega Point]]. Before he became [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]], Primus had already conceived his grand plan of trapping Unicron and creating new life to carry on his fight, but he needed to make sure it would work. So, on a small moon called [[Protos]], Primus tested his ability to create robotic life. These life forms were the Covenant, charged by their creator to watch over their younger cousins, the Transformers, and to stand ready to join the fight against Unicron at a foretold time known as the Omega Point.

==Fiction==
===3H ''Tales from the Beast Wars'' comics===
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{{storylink|Herald, Covenant, Schism, Paradox|Covenant}} {{storylink|Herald, Covenant, Schism, Paradox|Schism}} {{storylink|Terminus}}

===Timelines: ''Wings of Honor''===

[[Dion]] recalled stories of the Covenant from his youth as a protoform while gazing at the constellations over Cybertron. In one story, Leonicus battled the fiendish ice-demon. The pneuma-lion's claws were useless against the creature, as each ice shard he cleaved free just formed into another ice-demon. Only Scorpius and his flame-breath were able to end the threat of the ice-demon. {{storylink|Flames of Yesterday}}

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==Covenant Members==
Many members of the Covenant were not named in the original "Reaching the Omega Point" story, though a list of all their members was included with the follow-up comic.

As a result, though all of the Covenant members appear in the [[BotCon 2000]] comic, it's not always clear who is who. There are some members whose identification is blindingly obvious, others who are less certain but still generally agreed upon, and finally, four Covenant members for whom matching a name with a form would essentially be a guess.

<center><gallery>
Image:Leonicus covenant.jpg|'''Leonicus'''<ref>Leonicus was the first member of the Covenant created by Primus. Though they recognize no rank among themselves, the other Covenant members often look to Leonicus as leader.</ref>
Image:Taurnotron covenant.jpg|'''Taurnotron'''
Image:Ariex covenant.jpg|'''Ariex'''
Image:Capricun covenant.jpg|'''Capricun'''
Image:Scorpius covenant.jpg|'''[[Scorpius]]'''
Image:Libras covenant.jpg|''Libras''<ref>Libras, a female Transformer, takes her name from the zodiac sign of Libra, ''the scales''. The most agreed-upon Covenant member outside of the main bunch.</ref>
Image:Geminator covenant.jpg|''Geminator''
Image:Virgol covenant.jpg|''Virgol''
Image:Unknown1 covenant.jpg|Unknown 1
Image:Unknown2 covenant.jpg|Unknown 2
Image:Unknown3 covenant.jpg|Unknown 3
Image:Unknown4 covenant.jpg|Unknown 4
</gallery></center>

{{note|'''Bold names''' are positively identified; ''italicized names'' are tentatively identified members.<ref>The uncertain members are Cancix, Piscor, Sagittarii and Aquator.</ref>}}

==Notes==
* The names of the Covenant members are derived from the [[wikipedia:Western_Zodiac|Zodiac]]. No, not that [[Zodiac]], the other one.

==Footnotes==
<references />

[[Category:Beast Wars characters]]
[[Category:Comic-only characters]]
[[Category:Primus]]

Visitations

2010-07-12T06:42:09Z

67.33.130.4: /* Items of note */

{{comicnav|Reaching the Omega Point|Visitations |seriesname=Tales from the Beast Wars: Reaching the Omega Point|prev=Ground Zero|next=Apelinq's War Journals}}
'''Mysterious visitors bring mystery, intrigue and bad comedy to the Beast Wars!'''

'''Writer:''' [[Bob Forward]] 
'''Cast:'''

* [[Scott McNeil]]: [[Packrat]], [[Vice Grip]], [[Rattrap]], [[Silverbolt (BW)|Silverbolt]], [[Waspinator (BW)|Waspinator]]
* [[David Kaye]]: [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]]
* [[Garry Chalk]]: [[Onyx Primal]], [[Optimus Primal]]
* [[Doug Parker]]: [[Fractyl]]
* [[Susan Blu]]: [[Antagony]]
* ''Minor Characters:''
*[[Apelinq]] (sort of)
*[[Ben Yee]]: himself

'''Music and sound effects:''' [[Vince DiCola]] 
'''Date of performance:''' June 20, 1998

==Synopsis==
Packrat and [[Onyx Primal]], scouting Predacon territory looking for a weird meteorite, stumble upon a strange device. They are suddenly attacked by Fractyl and Vice Grip, who were also looking for this Predacon artifact. During their battle, a "[[Apelinq|shadowy figure]]" appears, swipes the device, and vanishes.

Silverbolt and Rattrap show up and help beat the Preds. But in comes Antagony, who demands the device. Before she can attack them, though, Megatron flies in. She reacts violently to him, claiming to have searched for him across the cosmos.

Before she can reveal why she searched for Megatron, Optimus Primal arrives on scene, offering peace. Antagony fires on Optimus, Optimus takes her down, and Megatron shoots down Optimus. Antagony takes Waspinator hostage, but accidentally shoots him. Her power fades, and she collapses. Megatron takes her captive.

==Quotes==
"The BS&P will not save you this time, Maximals. For your doom is at hand!" 
:--'''Antagony''' is ''truly'' a formidable foe

==Items of note==
* This tongue-in-cheek Beast Wars story was only presented as a live reading at BotCon '98.

* The story is highly satirical, with self-referential and fourth-wall-breaking humor. For instance, at one point [[David Kaye]], reading [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]], shoots and "kills" audience member [[Ben Yee]], who "dies wallowing in his own gore".

* Despite its silly tone, this story set off the much larger [[Reaching the Omega Point]] storyline, and tied into the sequel ''[[Universe (2003 comic)|Wreckers]]'' storyline as well.

* The story is set during season two of ''[[Beast Wars (cartoon)|Beast Wars]]''.

* The "shadowy figure" is Apelinq, as revealed in [[Apelinq's War Journals]].
* [[Scott McNeil]]'s portrayal of Packrat was based on Ed Norton, the ''[[The Honeymooners|Honeymooners]]'' character played by Art Carney, to go along with [[Garry Chalk]]'s Jackie-Gleason-inspired voice for [[Onyx Primal]]. This was reportedly a spur-of-the-moment decision, arrived at about a minute before the presentation started.

*When Antagony claims to be Megatron's worst enemy, he assumes she is [[Raksha]]. Antagony says that after much searching, she found Megatron via Ben Yee's website.

*[[3H]] members indicated that the story of how Fractyl, Packrat, and the other non-show characters arrived on ancient Earth and why they weren't seen in the show would be later told, but this never happened.

* Originally, the premise behind the live reading was that of a fanscript contest with the winning script to be read by the attending voice actors. However, the contest was cancelled due to contract issues with Mainframe. However, a short excerpt from the winning script ''was'' performed prior to "Visitations" and revolved around a poker game between the Maximals and Predacons. Waspinator proved to be a poor bluffer and stated that he didn't need to draw any additional cards prompting everyone else at the table to fold.

==External links==
*[http://botcon.com/archive/story/1998/98script.html ''Visitations'' script at botcon.com.]

[[Category:3H issues]]
[[Category:Script reading]]

Visitations

2010-07-12T06:40:09Z

67.33.130.4: /* Items of note */

{{comicnav|Reaching the Omega Point|Visitations |seriesname=Tales from the Beast Wars: Reaching the Omega Point|prev=Ground Zero|next=Apelinq's War Journals}}
'''Mysterious visitors bring mystery, intrigue and bad comedy to the Beast Wars!'''

'''Writer:''' [[Bob Forward]] 
'''Cast:'''

* [[Scott McNeil]]: [[Packrat]], [[Vice Grip]], [[Rattrap]], [[Silverbolt (BW)|Silverbolt]], [[Waspinator (BW)|Waspinator]]
* [[David Kaye]]: [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]]
* [[Garry Chalk]]: [[Onyx Primal]], [[Optimus Primal]]
* [[Doug Parker]]: [[Fractyl]]
* [[Susan Blu]]: [[Antagony]]
* ''Minor Characters:''
*[[Apelinq]] (sort of)
*[[Ben Yee]]: himself

'''Music and sound effects:''' [[Vince DiCola]] 
'''Date of performance:''' June 20, 1998

==Synopsis==
Packrat and [[Onyx Primal]], scouting Predacon territory looking for a weird meteorite, stumble upon a strange device. They are suddenly attacked by Fractyl and Vice Grip, who were also looking for this Predacon artifact. During their battle, a "[[Apelinq|shadowy figure]]" appears, swipes the device, and vanishes.

Silverbolt and Rattrap show up and help beat the Preds. But in comes Antagony, who demands the device. Before she can attack them, though, Megatron flies in. She reacts violently to him, claiming to have searched for him across the cosmos.

Before she can reveal why she searched for Megatron, Optimus Primal arrives on scene, offering peace. Antagony fires on Optimus, Optimus takes her down, and Megatron shoots down Optimus. Antagony takes Waspinator hostage, but accidentally shoots him. Her power fades, and she collapses. Megatron takes her captive.

==Quotes==
"The BS&P will not save you this time, Maximals. For your doom is at hand!" 
:--'''Antagony''' is ''truly'' a formidable foe

==Items of note==
* This tongue-in-cheek Beast Wars story was only presented as a live reading at BotCon '98.

* The story is highly satirical, with self-referential and fourth-wall-breaking humor. For instance, at one point [[David Kaye]], reading [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]], shoots and "kills" audience member [[Ben Yee]], who "dies wallowing in his own gore".

* Despite its silly tone, this story set off the much larger [[Reaching the Omega Point]] storyline, and tied into the sequel ''[[Universe (2003 comic)|Wreckers]]'' storyline as well.

* The story is set during season two of ''[[Beast Wars (cartoon)|Beast Wars]]''.

* The "shadowy figure" is Apelinq, as revealed in [[Apelinq's War Journals]].
* [[Scott McNeil]]'s portrayal of Packrat was based on Ed Norton, the ''[[The Honeymooners|Honeymooners]]'' character played by Art Carney, to go along with [[Garry Chalk]]'s Jackie-Gleason-inspired voice for [[Onyx Primal]]. This was reportedly a spur-of-the-moment decision, arrived at about a minute before the presentation started.

*When Antagony claims to be Megatron's worst enemy, he assumes she is [[Raksha]]. Antagony says that after much searching, she found Megatron via Ben Yee's website.

*[[3H]] members indicated that the story of how Fractyl, Packrat, and the other non-show characters arrived on ancient Earth and why they weren't seen in the show would be later told, but this never happened.

* Originally, the premise behind the live reading was that of a fanscript contest with the winning script to be read by the attending voice actors. However, the contest was cancelled due to contract issues with Mainframe.
However, a short excerpt from the winning script ''was'' performed prior to "Visitations" and revolved around
a poker game between the Maximals and Predacons. Waspinator proved to be a poor bluffer and stated that he didn't
need to draw any additional cards prompting everyone else at the table to fold.

==External links==
*[http://botcon.com/archive/story/1998/98script.html ''Visitations'' script at botcon.com.]

[[Category:3H issues]]
[[Category:Script reading]]

Visitations

2010-07-12T06:39:03Z

67.33.130.4: /* Items of note */

{{comicnav|Reaching the Omega Point|Visitations |seriesname=Tales from the Beast Wars: Reaching the Omega Point|prev=Ground Zero|next=Apelinq's War Journals}}
'''Mysterious visitors bring mystery, intrigue and bad comedy to the Beast Wars!'''

'''Writer:''' [[Bob Forward]] 
'''Cast:'''

* [[Scott McNeil]]: [[Packrat]], [[Vice Grip]], [[Rattrap]], [[Silverbolt (BW)|Silverbolt]], [[Waspinator (BW)|Waspinator]]
* [[David Kaye]]: [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]]
* [[Garry Chalk]]: [[Onyx Primal]], [[Optimus Primal]]
* [[Doug Parker]]: [[Fractyl]]
* [[Susan Blu]]: [[Antagony]]
* ''Minor Characters:''
*[[Apelinq]] (sort of)
*[[Ben Yee]]: himself

'''Music and sound effects:''' [[Vince DiCola]] 
'''Date of performance:''' June 20, 1998

==Synopsis==
Packrat and [[Onyx Primal]], scouting Predacon territory looking for a weird meteorite, stumble upon a strange device. They are suddenly attacked by Fractyl and Vice Grip, who were also looking for this Predacon artifact. During their battle, a "[[Apelinq|shadowy figure]]" appears, swipes the device, and vanishes.

Silverbolt and Rattrap show up and help beat the Preds. But in comes Antagony, who demands the device. Before she can attack them, though, Megatron flies in. She reacts violently to him, claiming to have searched for him across the cosmos.

Before she can reveal why she searched for Megatron, Optimus Primal arrives on scene, offering peace. Antagony fires on Optimus, Optimus takes her down, and Megatron shoots down Optimus. Antagony takes Waspinator hostage, but accidentally shoots him. Her power fades, and she collapses. Megatron takes her captive.

==Quotes==
"The BS&P will not save you this time, Maximals. For your doom is at hand!" 
:--'''Antagony''' is ''truly'' a formidable foe

==Items of note==
* This tongue-in-cheek Beast Wars story was only presented as a live reading at BotCon '98.

* The story is highly satirical, with self-referential and fourth-wall-breaking humor. For instance, at one point [[David Kaye]], reading [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]], shoots and "kills" audience member [[Ben Yee]], who "dies wallowing in his own gore".

* Despite its silly tone, this story set off the much larger [[Reaching the Omega Point]] storyline, and tied into the sequel ''[[Universe (2003 comic)|Wreckers]]'' storyline as well.

* The story is set during season two of ''[[Beast Wars (cartoon)|Beast Wars]]''.

* The "shadowy figure" is Apelinq, as revealed in [[Apelinq's War Journals]].
* [[Scott McNeil]]'s portrayal of Packrat was based on Ed Norton, the ''[[The Honeymooners|Honeymooners]]'' character played by Art Carney, to go along with [[Garry Chalk]]'s Jackie-Gleason-inspired voice for [[Onyx Primal]]. This was reportedly a spur-of-the-moment decision, arrived at about a minute before the presentation started.

*When Antagony claims to be Megatron's worst enemy, he assumes she is [[Raksha]]. Antagony says that after much searching, she found Megatron via Ben Yee's website.

*[[3H]] members indicated that the story of how Fractyl, Packrat, and the other non-show characters arrived on ancient Earth and why they weren't seen in the show would be later told, but this never happened.

* Originally, the premise behind the live reading was that of a fanscript contest with the winning script to be
read by the attending voice actors. However, the contest was cancelled due to contract issues with Mainframe.
However, a short excerpt from the winning script ''was'' performed prior to "Visitations" and revolved around
a poker game between the Maximals and Predacons. Waspinator proved to be a poor bluffer and stated that he didn't
need to draw any additional cards prompting everyone else at the table to fold.

==External links==
*[http://botcon.com/archive/story/1998/98script.html ''Visitations'' script at botcon.com.]

[[Category:3H issues]]
[[Category:Script reading]]