Editing Shell program

:''A shell program is a [[Spark]]-manipulating control program from the [[Beast Wars]] and [[Beast Machines]] portions of the [[Generation 1]] continuity family.

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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.

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==Fiction==
===''Beast Wars'' cartoon===
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}}

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]].)

===''Beast Machines'' Cartoon===

[[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. [[Obsidian (BM)|Obsidian]] and [[Strika (BM)|Strika]], however, did not appear to be altered in this manner.

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