Beast Wars: Uprising - Revision history

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Lio Convoy -> Lio Convoy (BW) update

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	''Beast Wars: Uprising'' focuses on a dystopian, late 24th century [[Cybertron (planet)\|Cybertron]], ages after the conclusion of the [[Great War (G1)\|Great War]]. Forcibly disarmed and exiled to their homeworld by the vastly superior [[Human Confederacy]], the decrepit [[Autobot]]s and [[Decepticon]]s have become the immobile [[Builder of Cybertron\|Builders of Cybertron]], constructing the [[Maximal]]s and [[Predacon (BW)\|Predacon]]s as their successors. In addition to maintaining most of the essential functions of society, the Maximals and Predacons also provide entertainment and preserve the devolved Autobot-Decepticon conflict via [[Games (competition)\|gladiatorial matches]]. [[Cybertronian Civil Wars\|Unsurprisingly]], however, the planet descends into war as [[Lio Convoy]] launches the [[Grand Uprising]] against the Builders. His [[Resistance (BWU)\|Resistance]] battles [[Micromaster]] troops and [[Maximal Command Security Force\|Maximal]] and [[Predacon Secret Police\|Predacon]] loyalists for control of their homeworld.		''Beast Wars: Uprising'' focuses on a dystopian, late 24th century [[Cybertron (planet)\|Cybertron]], ages after the conclusion of the [[Great War (G1)\|Great War]]. Forcibly disarmed and exiled to their homeworld by the vastly superior [[Human Confederacy]], the decrepit [[Autobot]]s and [[Decepticon]]s have become the immobile [[Builder of Cybertron\|Builders of Cybertron]], constructing the [[Maximal]]s and [[Predacon (BW)\|Predacon]]s as their successors. In addition to maintaining most of the essential functions of society, the Maximals and Predacons also provide entertainment and preserve the devolved Autobot-Decepticon conflict via [[Games (competition)\|gladiatorial matches]]. [[Cybertronian Civil Wars\|Unsurprisingly]], however, the planet descends into war as [[Lio Convoy (BW)\|Lio Convoy]] launches the [[Grand Uprising]] against the Builders. His [[Resistance (BWU)\|Resistance]] battles [[Micromaster]] troops and [[Maximal Command Security Force\|Maximal]] and [[Predacon Secret Police\|Predacon]] loyalists for control of their homeworld.

	The ''Beast Wars: Uprising'' universe was first glimpsed as the backstory for two characters who played significant roles in other ''Timelines'' stories: the profiles for [[Blackarachnia (BW)#Beast Wars: Uprising\|"''TransTech''" Blackarachnia]] and [[Depth Charge (BW)\|Depth Charge]] released in Collectors' Club magazine issues [[Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 25\|#25]] and [[Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 49\|#49]] (the writers sought to explain why Blackarachnia might side with Alpha "steal people's souls and hang 'em from the ceiling" Trion).<ref>{{citesocial\|quote=I would like to hear Jim's answer for how he got his ideas for the universe. The initial initial spark way back in Transtech Blackarachnia's bio came from the idea that we wanted a bit of a sympathetic character. Even if she was working for a guy potentially more evil than SG Optimus Prime (that guy being SG Alpha Trion). So we pondered the idea of why she would go against the Transtech in such a conniving and twisted way - extracting sparks to steal the empty bodies for espionage meant she had to have a VERY good reason to go that far. That all led to the idea that the Maximals and Predacons in her universe were kept as slaves under an unreachable aristocracy. Just as the Transtech sat far above the Lowtech. But why would Maximals and Predacons exist if Autobots and Decepticons were still around? Ah, they're too old to fight and force the other factions to do it for them. The Games then entered into play when Eject was turned into a BWU character. As a guy obsessed with sports - and the chess analogy already in BA's bio - it made sense to make the Maximal/Predacon conflict into a sports thing. Especially with the gladiatorial background in so many TF universes.\|link=https://web.archive.org/web/20170218015723/https://www.allspark.com/forums/topic/133737-beast-wars-uprising-ama/?p=3360055#entry3360144\|name=Jesse Wittenrich\|site=The Allspark forums\|title=Beast Wars Uprising: AMA\|year=2016\|month=10\|day=15}}</ref><ref>{{citesocial\|link=https://www.allspark.com/forums/topic/133737-beast-wars-uprising-ama/?p=3360144\|name=Jesse Wittenrich\|site=The Allspark forums\|title=Beast Wars Uprising: AMA\|year=2016\|month=10\|day=15\|defunct=y}}</ref> The actual name ''Beast Wars: Uprising'' was first given in a Collectors' Club tweet on [[February 14]] [[2014]]<ref>{{citesocial\|link=https://twitter.com/The_TF_Club/status/434375769330958337\|name=@The_TF_Club\|site=Twitter\|year=2014\|month=02\|day=14\|defunct=y}}</ref> and the setting was finally seen in full in that year's magazine comic arc ''[[Alone Together]]'', which promoted their new toys for [[Rampage (BW)#Timelines 2\|Rampage]] and [[Transmutate (BW)#Timelines\|Trans-Mutate]].		The ''Beast Wars: Uprising'' universe was first glimpsed as the backstory for two characters who played significant roles in other ''Timelines'' stories: the profiles for [[Blackarachnia (BW)#Beast Wars: Uprising\|"''TransTech''" Blackarachnia]] and [[Depth Charge (BW)\|Depth Charge]] released in Collectors' Club magazine issues [[Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 25\|#25]] and [[Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 49\|#49]] (the writers sought to explain why Blackarachnia might side with Alpha "steal people's souls and hang 'em from the ceiling" Trion).<ref>{{citesocial\|quote=I would like to hear Jim's answer for how he got his ideas for the universe. The initial initial spark way back in Transtech Blackarachnia's bio came from the idea that we wanted a bit of a sympathetic character. Even if she was working for a guy potentially more evil than SG Optimus Prime (that guy being SG Alpha Trion). So we pondered the idea of why she would go against the Transtech in such a conniving and twisted way - extracting sparks to steal the empty bodies for espionage meant she had to have a VERY good reason to go that far. That all led to the idea that the Maximals and Predacons in her universe were kept as slaves under an unreachable aristocracy. Just as the Transtech sat far above the Lowtech. But why would Maximals and Predacons exist if Autobots and Decepticons were still around? Ah, they're too old to fight and force the other factions to do it for them. The Games then entered into play when Eject was turned into a BWU character. As a guy obsessed with sports - and the chess analogy already in BA's bio - it made sense to make the Maximal/Predacon conflict into a sports thing. Especially with the gladiatorial background in so many TF universes.\|link=https://web.archive.org/web/20170218015723/https://www.allspark.com/forums/topic/133737-beast-wars-uprising-ama/?p=3360055#entry3360144\|name=Jesse Wittenrich\|site=The Allspark forums\|title=Beast Wars Uprising: AMA\|year=2016\|month=10\|day=15}}</ref><ref>{{citesocial\|link=https://www.allspark.com/forums/topic/133737-beast-wars-uprising-ama/?p=3360144\|name=Jesse Wittenrich\|site=The Allspark forums\|title=Beast Wars Uprising: AMA\|year=2016\|month=10\|day=15\|defunct=y}}</ref> The actual name ''Beast Wars: Uprising'' was first given in a Collectors' Club tweet on [[February 14]] [[2014]]<ref>{{citesocial\|link=https://twitter.com/The_TF_Club/status/434375769330958337\|name=@The_TF_Club\|site=Twitter\|year=2014\|month=02\|day=14\|defunct=y}}</ref> and the setting was finally seen in full in that year's magazine comic arc ''[[Alone Together]]'', which promoted their new toys for [[Rampage (BW)#Timelines 2\|Rampage]] and [[Transmutate (BW)#Timelines\|Trans-Mutate]].
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	[[Jim Sorenson]] was approached by Fun Publications to develop the world further in a 2015 prose story promoting their [[Eject (G1)#Timelines\|Eject]] and [[Lio Convoy#Timelines 2\|Lio Convoy]] figures—one which would also serve to continue Blackarachnia's storyline. At first he found the "''Beast Wars'' meets ''{{w\|The Hunger Games\|The Hunger Games}}''" conceit unappealing, but was inspired by contemporary social movements such as 2014's {{w\|Ferguson unrest\|Ferguson protests}} to craft a story about a marginalized people rising up against a corrupt authority (and to name individual entries after social phenomena).<ref>{{citesocial\|link=http://www.allspark.com/forums/topic/133737-beast-wars-uprising-ama/?p=3360155\|name=Jim Sorenson\|site=The Allspark forums\|title=Beast Wars Uprising: AMA\|year=2016\|month=10\|day=15\|defunct=y}}</ref> Over the next two years, he and co-writer [[David Bishop]] produced eleven more prose stories, which together cemented the world as one of the darkest interpretations of the ''Transformers'' story.		[[Jim Sorenson]] was approached by Fun Publications to develop the world further in a 2015 prose story promoting their [[Eject (G1)#Timelines\|Eject]] and [[Lio Convoy (BW)#Timelines 2\|Lio Convoy]] figures—one which would also serve to continue Blackarachnia's storyline. At first he found the "''Beast Wars'' meets ''{{w\|The Hunger Games\|The Hunger Games}}''" conceit unappealing, but was inspired by contemporary social movements such as 2014's {{w\|Ferguson unrest\|Ferguson protests}} to craft a story about a marginalized people rising up against a corrupt authority (and to name individual entries after social phenomena).<ref>{{citesocial\|link=http://www.allspark.com/forums/topic/133737-beast-wars-uprising-ama/?p=3360155\|name=Jim Sorenson\|site=The Allspark forums\|title=Beast Wars Uprising: AMA\|year=2016\|month=10\|day=15\|defunct=y}}</ref> Over the next two years, he and co-writer [[David Bishop]] produced eleven more prose stories, which together cemented the world as one of the darkest interpretations of the ''Transformers'' story.

	For the most part, each prose story focused on new sets of cast members drawn not just from the Beast Era but from all across the franchise's history. Many [[Mini-Con]]s appeared as [[Micromaster]]s. Characters with [[beast mode]]s or [[Thunderhoof (RID)\|animalistic robot modes]] were [[Repurposing\|repurposed]] as new, analogous Maximals and Predacons. As the majority of the stories were set before any characters obtained their more recognisable beast forms, various vehicular figures were given [[Redeco#"Virtual" redecos\|"virtual" redecos]] to create Cybertronian forms for most of the cast. To help address the [[Female Transformer\|gender imbalance]] typical of ''Transformers'' fiction (particularly at the time), the authors would occasionally establish existing characters (particularly those who had no specified gender) to be female.<ref>{{citesocial\|quote=[Why do I sometimes make traditionally male characters female?] I hesitate to say it's random, but there aren't any hard and fast rules. One frustration I have with the TF mythology is the dearth of female characters, so for my stories I try to remedy somewhat. For characters with minimal fiction, I generally feel free to reimagine species and faction and personality and, yes, gender. Characters with no specified gender (Major Altitude comes to mind, as does Spacewarp) I'm especially prone to making female as it's not even genderbending in my head.\|link=https://web.archive.org/web/20170218015723/https://www.allspark.com/forums/topic/133737-beast-wars-uprising-ama/?p=3360055#entry3360150\|name=Jim Sorenson\|site=The Allspark forums\|title=Beast Wars Uprising: AMA\|year=2016\|month=10\|day=15}}</ref>		For the most part, each prose story focused on new sets of cast members drawn not just from the Beast Era but from all across the franchise's history. Many [[Mini-Con]]s appeared as [[Micromaster]]s. Characters with [[beast mode]]s or [[Thunderhoof (RID)\|animalistic robot modes]] were [[Repurposing\|repurposed]] as new, analogous Maximals and Predacons. As the majority of the stories were set before any characters obtained their more recognisable beast forms, various vehicular figures were given [[Redeco#"Virtual" redecos\|"virtual" redecos]] to create Cybertronian forms for most of the cast. To help address the [[Female Transformer\|gender imbalance]] typical of ''Transformers'' fiction (particularly at the time), the authors would occasionally establish existing characters (particularly those who had no specified gender) to be female.<ref>{{citesocial\|quote=[Why do I sometimes make traditionally male characters female?] I hesitate to say it's random, but there aren't any hard and fast rules. One frustration I have with the TF mythology is the dearth of female characters, so for my stories I try to remedy somewhat. For characters with minimal fiction, I generally feel free to reimagine species and faction and personality and, yes, gender. Characters with no specified gender (Major Altitude comes to mind, as does Spacewarp) I'm especially prone to making female as it's not even genderbending in my head.\|link=https://web.archive.org/web/20170218015723/https://www.allspark.com/forums/topic/133737-beast-wars-uprising-ama/?p=3360055#entry3360150\|name=Jim Sorenson\|site=The Allspark forums\|title=Beast Wars Uprising: AMA\|year=2016\|month=10\|day=15}}</ref>
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	{{Bp-m1\|[[Lio Convoy#Legends\|Leo Prime]]}}		{{Bp-m1\|[[Lio Convoy (BW)#Legends\|Leo Prime]]}}
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S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent 47: /* Toys */

2025-11-04T14:16:12Z

Toys

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	==Toys==		==Toys==
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	The prose story authors described the ''Uprising'' universe as being populated by characters primarily using toy designs, whether by [[repurposing]] physical figures or coming up with [[Redeco#"Virtual" redecos\|"virtual" redecos]].<ref>{{citesocial\|quote=We usually come up with them as-needed in the story. We all liked the Titans Return Mindwipe and thought he might be neat for someone like Psychobat.\|link=https://web.archive.org/web/20170218015723/https://www.allspark.com/forums/topic/133737-beast-wars-uprising-ama/?p=3360055#entry3360052\|name=Jim Sorenson\|site=The Allspark forums\|title=Beast Wars Uprising: AMA\|year=2016\|month=10\|day=15}}</ref><ref>{{citesocial\|quote=It's always my preference to have a preexisting toy design. non-toy designs mostly just slipped though the cracks. The exception to that rule was the Destructons, I wanted to keep their unique aesthetic while introducing the idea of them transforming, as teased at the end of ''Alone Together''.\|link=https://web.archive.org/web/20170218015723/https://www.allspark.com/forums/topic/133737-beast-wars-uprising-ama/?p=3360055#entry3360052\|name=Jim Sorenson\|site=The Allspark forums\|title=Beast Wars Uprising: AMA\|year=2016\|month=10\|day=15}}</ref> The latter kind were necessary as a result of the story's focus on ''Beast Wars'' characters, despite the fact that they only [[Beast mode\|obtain beast forms]] towards the end of the series—and when they do so, the intent was for them to be [[technorganic]], meaning characters without existing [[Transmetal]] bodies would look different from their original toys anyway.<ref>{{citesocial\|quote=In my head, TM for Cheetor. I actually never gave Blackarachnia's body all that much thought. Since they were never depicted in artwork and we didn't write with a specific body and mind, you should imagine them in whatever body you think is most appropriate. It could even be a slightly mechanized version of their non transmetal body, like Ram Horn.\|link=http://web.archive.org/web/20201203134006/https://www.allspark.com/forums/topic/140167-ama-bish-jesse-jim/page-2#entry3512177\|name=Jim Sorenson\|site=The Allspark forums\|title=AMA: Bish, Jesse, & Jim\|year=2017\|month=05\|day=22}}</ref><ref>{{citesocial\|quote=The original idea was that all of the beast-upgrade characters would take on their TM bodies. Any that didn't have a TM or TM2 toy would become a mechanical version of their beast frame. If I had to tell Jim what toy to use for BA, it would probably be her TM2 toy. Although her Beast Machines toy (since it differed so much from the show model) would be tempting too.\|link=http://web.archive.org/web/20201203134006/https://www.allspark.com/forums/topic/140167-ama-bish-jesse-jim/page-2#entry3512197\|name=Jesse Wittenrich\|site=The Allspark forums\|title=AMA: Bish, Jesse, & Jim\|year=2017\|month=05\|day=22}}</ref><ref>{{citesocial\|quote=For my part I honestly kind of imagined her as a metallic version of her first BW body - black and gold, kind of small and sleek. I don't think we ever described her in enough detail to really pin it down though.\|link=http://web.archive.org/web/20201203134006/https://www.allspark.com/forums/topic/140167-ama-bish-jesse-jim/page-2#entry3512249\|name=David Bishop\|site=The Allspark forums\|title=AMA: Bish, Jesse, & Jim\|year=2017\|month=05\|day=22}}</ref> As a complete list of repurposed figures and "virtual" redecos would be farcically long, the below list merely includes Collectors' Club figures appearing contemporaneously in ''Uprising'' stories.		The prose story authors described the ''Uprising'' universe as being populated by characters primarily using toy designs, whether by [[repurposing]] physical figures or coming up with [[Redeco#"Virtual" redecos\|"virtual" redecos]].<ref>{{citesocial\|quote=We usually come up with them as-needed in the story. We all liked the Titans Return Mindwipe and thought he might be neat for someone like Psychobat.\|link=https://web.archive.org/web/20170218015723/https://www.allspark.com/forums/topic/133737-beast-wars-uprising-ama/?p=3360055#entry3360052\|name=Jim Sorenson\|site=The Allspark forums\|title=Beast Wars Uprising: AMA\|year=2016\|month=10\|day=15}}</ref><ref>{{citesocial\|quote=It's always my preference to have a preexisting toy design. non-toy designs mostly just slipped though the cracks. The exception to that rule was the Destructons, I wanted to keep their unique aesthetic while introducing the idea of them transforming, as teased at the end of ''Alone Together''.\|link=https://web.archive.org/web/20170218015723/https://www.allspark.com/forums/topic/133737-beast-wars-uprising-ama/?p=3360055#entry3360052\|name=Jim Sorenson\|site=The Allspark forums\|title=Beast Wars Uprising: AMA\|year=2016\|month=10\|day=15}}</ref> The latter kind were necessary as a result of the story's focus on ''Beast Wars'' characters, despite the fact that they only [[Beast mode\|obtain beast forms]] towards the end of the series—and when they do so, the intent was for them to be [[technorganic]], meaning characters without existing [[Transmetal]] bodies would look different from their original toys anyway.<ref>{{citesocial\|quote=In my head, TM for Cheetor. I actually never gave Blackarachnia's body all that much thought. Since they were never depicted in artwork and we didn't write with a specific body and mind, you should imagine them in whatever body you think is most appropriate. It could even be a slightly mechanized version of their non transmetal body, like Ram Horn.\|link=http://web.archive.org/web/20201203134006/https://www.allspark.com/forums/topic/140167-ama-bish-jesse-jim/page-2#entry3512177\|name=Jim Sorenson\|site=The Allspark forums\|title=AMA: Bish, Jesse, & Jim\|year=2017\|month=05\|day=22}}</ref><ref>{{citesocial\|quote=The original idea was that all of the beast-upgrade characters would take on their TM bodies. Any that didn't have a TM or TM2 toy would become a mechanical version of their beast frame. If I had to tell Jim what toy to use for BA, it would probably be her TM2 toy. Although her Beast Machines toy (since it differed so much from the show model) would be tempting too.\|link=http://web.archive.org/web/20201203134006/https://www.allspark.com/forums/topic/140167-ama-bish-jesse-jim/page-2#entry3512197\|name=Jesse Wittenrich\|site=The Allspark forums\|title=AMA: Bish, Jesse, & Jim\|year=2017\|month=05\|day=22}}</ref><ref>{{citesocial\|quote=For my part I honestly kind of imagined her as a metallic version of her first BW body - black and gold, kind of small and sleek. I don't think we ever described her in enough detail to really pin it down though.\|link=http://web.archive.org/web/20201203134006/https://www.allspark.com/forums/topic/140167-ama-bish-jesse-jim/page-2#entry3512249\|name=David Bishop\|site=The Allspark forums\|title=AMA: Bish, Jesse, & Jim\|year=2017\|month=05\|day=22}}</ref> As a complete list of repurposed figures and "virtual" redecos would be farcically long, the below list merely includes Collectors' Club figures appearing contemporaneously in ''Uprising'' stories.
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	{{Bp-m1\|[[Depth Charge (BW)#Timelines\|Depth Charge]]}}		{{Bp-m1\|[[Depth Charge (BW)#Timelines\|Depth Charge]]}}
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	{{Bp-m1\|[[Lio Convoy#Timelines 2\|Lio Convoy]]}}		{{Bp-m1\|[[Lio Convoy#Timelines 2\|Lio Convoy]]}}

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			\|width="20%" valign="top"\|<u>''' ''Timelines'' / [[Transformers Figure Subscription Service\|TFSS]] 2.0 </u>
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	{{Bp-a1\|[[Eject (G1)#Timelines\|Eject]]}}		{{Bp-a1\|[[Eject (G1)#Timelines\|Eject]]}}
	{{Bp-p1\|[[Waspinator (BW)/toys#Thrustinator\|Thrustinator]]}}		{{Bp-p1\|[[Waspinator (BW)/toys#Thrustinator\|Thrustinator]]}}
	~~{{Bp-p1\|[[Scorponok (BW)#Combiner_Wars\|Scorponok]]}}~~
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	\|width="20%" valign="top"\|<u>'''[[BotCon 2015]]'''</u>		\|width="20%" valign="top"\|<u>''' ''Timelines'' / [[BotCon 2015]]'''</u>
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	{{Bp-m1\|[[Galva Convoy#Toys\|Galva Convoy]]}}		{{Bp-m1\|[[Galva Convoy#Toys\|Galva Convoy]]}}

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	\|width="20%" valign="top"\|<u>'''[[BotCon 2016]]'''</u>		\|width="20%" valign="top"\|<u>''' ''[[Combiner Wars (toyline)\|Combiner Wars]]'' / [[BotCon 2016]]'''</u>
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	{{Bp-p1\|[[Megatron_(BW)/toys#Combiner_Wars\|Megatron]]}}		{{Bp-p1\|[[Megatron_(BW)/toys#Combiner_Wars\|Megatron]]}}
	{{Bp-p1\|[[Terrorsaur (BW)#Combiner_Wars\|Terrorsaur]]}}		{{Bp-p1\|[[Terrorsaur (BW)#Combiner_Wars\|Terrorsaur]]}}
	{{Bp-p1\|[[Tarantulas (BW)/toys#Combiner_Wars\|Tarantulas]]}}		{{Bp-p1\|[[Tarantulas (BW)/toys#Combiner_Wars\|Tarantulas]]}}
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			\|width="20%" valign="top"\|<u>''' ''Combiner Wars'' / TFSS 5.0 </u>
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			{{Bp-p1\|[[Scorponok (BW)#Combiner_Wars\|Scorponok]]}}

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	\|width="20%" valign="top"\|<u>'''[[Transformers Legends (franchise)\|Legends]]'''</u>		\|width="20%" valign="top"\|<u>'''[[Transformers Legends (franchise)\|Legends]]'''</u>

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	{{Bp-m1\|[[Transmutate (BW)#Timelines\|Trans-Mutate]]}}		{{Bp-m1\|[[Transmutate (BW)#Timelines\|Trans-Mutate]]}}
	*[[Rampage (BW)#Timelines 2\|Rampage]]		{{Bp-multi\|[[Rampage (BW)#Timelines 2\|Rampage]]}}
	{{Bp-m1\|[[Lio Convoy#Timelines 2\|Lio Convoy]]}}		{{Bp-m1\|[[Lio Convoy#Timelines 2\|Lio Convoy]]}}
	{{Bp-a1\|[[Eject (G1)#Timelines\|Eject]]}}		{{Bp-a1\|[[Eject (G1)#Timelines\|Eject]]}}
	{{Bp-p1\|[[Waspinator (BW)/toys#Thrustinator\|Thrustinator]]}}		{{Bp-p1\|[[Waspinator (BW)/toys#Thrustinator\|Thrustinator]]}}
	{{Bp-p1\|[[Scorponok (BW)#~~Generations~~\|Scorponok]]}}		{{Bp-p1\|[[Scorponok (BW)#Combiner_Wars\|Scorponok]]}}
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	==Overview==		==Overview==
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	''Beast Wars: Uprising'' focuses on a dystopian, late 24th century [[Cybertron (planet)\|Cybertron]], ages after the conclusion of the [[Great War (G1)\|Great War]]. Forcibly disarmed and exiled to their homeworld by the vastly superior [[Human Confederacy]], the decrepit [[Autobot]]s and [[Decepticon]]s have become the immobile [[Builder of Cybertron\|Builders of Cybertron]], constructing the [[Maximal]]s and [[Predacon (BW)\|Predacon]]s as their successors. In addition to maintaining most of the essential functions of society, the Maximals and Predacons also provide entertainment and preserve the devolved Autobot-Decepticon conflict via [[Games (competition)\|gladiatorial matches]]. [[Cybertronian Civil Wars\|Unsurprisingly]], however, the planet descends into war as [[Lio Convoy]] launches the [[Grand Uprising]] against the Builders. His [[Resistance]] battles [[Micromaster]] troops and [[Maximal Command Security Force\|Maximal]] and [[Predacon Secret Police\|Predacon]] loyalists for control of their homeworld.		''Beast Wars: Uprising'' focuses on a dystopian, late 24th century [[Cybertron (planet)\|Cybertron]], ages after the conclusion of the [[Great War (G1)\|Great War]]. Forcibly disarmed and exiled to their homeworld by the vastly superior [[Human Confederacy]], the decrepit [[Autobot]]s and [[Decepticon]]s have become the immobile [[Builder of Cybertron\|Builders of Cybertron]], constructing the [[Maximal]]s and [[Predacon (BW)\|Predacon]]s as their successors. In addition to maintaining most of the essential functions of society, the Maximals and Predacons also provide entertainment and preserve the devolved Autobot-Decepticon conflict via [[Games (competition)\|gladiatorial matches]]. [[Cybertronian Civil Wars\|Unsurprisingly]], however, the planet descends into war as [[Lio Convoy]] launches the [[Grand Uprising]] against the Builders. His [[Resistance (BWU)\|Resistance]] battles [[Micromaster]] troops and [[Maximal Command Security Force\|Maximal]] and [[Predacon Secret Police\|Predacon]] loyalists for control of their homeworld.

	The ''Beast Wars: Uprising'' universe was first glimpsed as the backstory for two characters who played significant roles in other ''Timelines'' stories: the profiles for [[Blackarachnia (BW)#Beast Wars: Uprising\|"''TransTech''" Blackarachnia]] and [[Depth Charge (BW)\|Depth Charge]] released in Collectors' Club magazine issues [[Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 25\|#25]] and [[Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 49\|#49]] (the writers sought to explain why Blackarachnia might side with Alpha "steal people's souls and hang 'em from the ceiling" Trion).<ref>{{citesocial\|quote=I would like to hear Jim's answer for how he got his ideas for the universe. The initial initial spark way back in Transtech Blackarachnia's bio came from the idea that we wanted a bit of a sympathetic character. Even if she was working for a guy potentially more evil than SG Optimus Prime (that guy being SG Alpha Trion). So we pondered the idea of why she would go against the Transtech in such a conniving and twisted way - extracting sparks to steal the empty bodies for espionage meant she had to have a VERY good reason to go that far. That all led to the idea that the Maximals and Predacons in her universe were kept as slaves under an unreachable aristocracy. Just as the Transtech sat far above the Lowtech. But why would Maximals and Predacons exist if Autobots and Decepticons were still around? Ah, they're too old to fight and force the other factions to do it for them. The Games then entered into play when Eject was turned into a BWU character. As a guy obsessed with sports - and the chess analogy already in BA's bio - it made sense to make the Maximal/Predacon conflict into a sports thing. Especially with the gladiatorial background in so many TF universes.\|link=https://web.archive.org/web/20170218015723/https://www.allspark.com/forums/topic/133737-beast-wars-uprising-ama/?p=3360055#entry3360144\|name=Jesse Wittenrich\|site=The Allspark forums\|title=Beast Wars Uprising: AMA\|year=2016\|month=10\|day=15}}</ref><ref>{{citesocial\|link=https://www.allspark.com/forums/topic/133737-beast-wars-uprising-ama/?p=3360144\|name=Jesse Wittenrich\|site=The Allspark forums\|title=Beast Wars Uprising: AMA\|year=2016\|month=10\|day=15\|defunct=y}}</ref> The actual name ''Beast Wars: Uprising'' was first given in a Collectors' Club tweet on [[February 14]] [[2014]]<ref>{{citesocial\|link=https://twitter.com/The_TF_Club/status/434375769330958337\|name=@The_TF_Club\|site=Twitter\|year=2014\|month=02\|day=14\|defunct=y}}</ref> and the setting was finally seen in full in that year's magazine comic arc ''[[Alone Together]]'', which promoted their new toys for [[Rampage (BW)#Timelines 2\|Rampage]] and [[Transmutate (BW)#Timelines\|Trans-Mutate]].		The ''Beast Wars: Uprising'' universe was first glimpsed as the backstory for two characters who played significant roles in other ''Timelines'' stories: the profiles for [[Blackarachnia (BW)#Beast Wars: Uprising\|"''TransTech''" Blackarachnia]] and [[Depth Charge (BW)\|Depth Charge]] released in Collectors' Club magazine issues [[Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 25\|#25]] and [[Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 49\|#49]] (the writers sought to explain why Blackarachnia might side with Alpha "steal people's souls and hang 'em from the ceiling" Trion).<ref>{{citesocial\|quote=I would like to hear Jim's answer for how he got his ideas for the universe. The initial initial spark way back in Transtech Blackarachnia's bio came from the idea that we wanted a bit of a sympathetic character. Even if she was working for a guy potentially more evil than SG Optimus Prime (that guy being SG Alpha Trion). So we pondered the idea of why she would go against the Transtech in such a conniving and twisted way - extracting sparks to steal the empty bodies for espionage meant she had to have a VERY good reason to go that far. That all led to the idea that the Maximals and Predacons in her universe were kept as slaves under an unreachable aristocracy. Just as the Transtech sat far above the Lowtech. But why would Maximals and Predacons exist if Autobots and Decepticons were still around? Ah, they're too old to fight and force the other factions to do it for them. The Games then entered into play when Eject was turned into a BWU character. As a guy obsessed with sports - and the chess analogy already in BA's bio - it made sense to make the Maximal/Predacon conflict into a sports thing. Especially with the gladiatorial background in so many TF universes.\|link=https://web.archive.org/web/20170218015723/https://www.allspark.com/forums/topic/133737-beast-wars-uprising-ama/?p=3360055#entry3360144\|name=Jesse Wittenrich\|site=The Allspark forums\|title=Beast Wars Uprising: AMA\|year=2016\|month=10\|day=15}}</ref><ref>{{citesocial\|link=https://www.allspark.com/forums/topic/133737-beast-wars-uprising-ama/?p=3360144\|name=Jesse Wittenrich\|site=The Allspark forums\|title=Beast Wars Uprising: AMA\|year=2016\|month=10\|day=15\|defunct=y}}</ref> The actual name ''Beast Wars: Uprising'' was first given in a Collectors' Club tweet on [[February 14]] [[2014]]<ref>{{citesocial\|link=https://twitter.com/The_TF_Club/status/434375769330958337\|name=@The_TF_Club\|site=Twitter\|year=2014\|month=02\|day=14\|defunct=y}}</ref> and the setting was finally seen in full in that year's magazine comic arc ''[[Alone Together]]'', which promoted their new toys for [[Rampage (BW)#Timelines 2\|Rampage]] and [[Transmutate (BW)#Timelines\|Trans-Mutate]].
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	* An early idea for [[BotCon 2016]]'s [[Dawn of the Predacus\|exclusive comic]] would have involved the ''Uprising'' storyline, depicting [[Magnaboss (BW)\|Magnaboss]] as an antagonistic Builder creation.<ref>{{citesocial\|quote=VERY early on in the process, I was asked to pitch an idea for what Dawn of the Predacus would have looked like in the BWU universe. It would have been a story where the ghost of Prowl (Prowl II maybe) was acting from beyond the grave to put together a Builder threat, the Magnaboss. In the end, the Tri-Predacus Council itself would have had to intervene to stop the rampage. You can still see the toys solicited as such: https://www.toyarama.com/store/2016-botcon-beast-wars-uprising-dawn-of-the-predacus-five-figure-combiner-wars-boxed-convention-set-non-attending-1-pc-p1414.php In the end, though, FP opted to outsource the comic to IDW, so that story got shelved.\|link=https://web.archive.org/web/20170218015723/https://www.allspark.com/forums/topic/133737-beast-wars-uprising-ama/?p=3360055#entry3360055\|name=Jim Sorenson\|site=The Allspark forums\|title=Beast Wars Uprising: AMA\|year=2016\|month=10\|day=15}}</ref><ref>{{citesocial\|link=https://www.allspark.com/forums/topic/140167-ama-bish-jesse-jim/?p=3516969\|name=Jim Sorenson\|site=The Allspark forums\|title=AMA: Bish, Jesse, & Jim\|year=2017\|month=05\|day=28\|defunct=y}}</ref> For more information, see the page for that comic.		* An early idea for [[BotCon 2016]]'s [[Dawn of the Predacus\|exclusive comic]] would have involved the ''Uprising'' storyline, depicting [[Magnaboss (BW)\|Magnaboss]] as an antagonistic Builder creation.<ref>{{citesocial\|quote=VERY early on in the process, I was asked to pitch an idea for what Dawn of the Predacus would have looked like in the BWU universe. It would have been a story where the ghost of Prowl (Prowl II maybe) was acting from beyond the grave to put together a Builder threat, the Magnaboss. In the end, the Tri-Predacus Council itself would have had to intervene to stop the rampage. You can still see the toys solicited as such: https://www.toyarama.com/store/2016-botcon-beast-wars-uprising-dawn-of-the-predacus-five-figure-combiner-wars-boxed-convention-set-non-attending-1-pc-p1414.php In the end, though, FP opted to outsource the comic to IDW, so that story got shelved.\|link=https://web.archive.org/web/20170218015723/https://www.allspark.com/forums/topic/133737-beast-wars-uprising-ama/?p=3360055#entry3360055\|name=Jim Sorenson\|site=The Allspark forums\|title=Beast Wars Uprising: AMA\|year=2016\|month=10\|day=15}}</ref><ref>{{citesocial\|link=https://www.allspark.com/forums/topic/140167-ama-bish-jesse-jim/?p=3516969\|name=Jim Sorenson\|site=The Allspark forums\|title=AMA: Bish, Jesse, & Jim\|year=2017\|month=05\|day=28\|defunct=y}}</ref> For more information, see the page for that comic.
	* When asked about a possible ''Uprising'' incarnation of [[Vector Prime]] (star of Sorenson's previous work on [[Ask Vector Prime]]), Sorenson stated there probably wasn't one, but that [[Safeguard (Cybertron)\|Safeguard]] was probably a [[Targetmaster (technology)\|Targetmaster]] in this universe.<ref>{{citesocial\|quote=I don't think there is a Vector Prime analog in this universe. If there is, I haven't found a place for him. Maybe in the distant past or future. Safeguard was probably active during the Great War and, being Targetmaster-y, probably isn't alive anymore.\|link=https://web.archive.org/web/20170218015723/https://www.allspark.com/forums/topic/133737-beast-wars-uprising-ama/?p=3360055#entry3360151\|name=Jim Sorenson\|site=The Allspark forums\|title=Beast Wars Uprising: AMA\|year=2016\|month=10\|day=15}}</ref>		* When asked about a possible ''Uprising'' incarnation of [[Vector Prime]] (star of Sorenson's previous work on [[Ask Vector Prime]]), Sorenson stated there probably wasn't one, but that [[Safeguard (Cybertron)\|Safeguard]] was probably a [[Targetmaster (technology)\|Targetmaster]] in this universe.<ref>{{citesocial\|quote=I don't think there is a Vector Prime analog in this universe. If there is, I haven't found a place for him. Maybe in the distant past or future. Safeguard was probably active during the Great War and, being Targetmaster-y, probably isn't alive anymore.\|link=https://web.archive.org/web/20170218015723/https://www.allspark.com/forums/topic/133737-beast-wars-uprising-ama/?p=3360055#entry3360151\|name=Jim Sorenson\|site=The Allspark forums\|title=Beast Wars Uprising: AMA\|year=2016\|month=10\|day=15}}</ref>
	* ''Uprising'' sometimes based Cybertronians on franchises adjacent to ''Transformers'', such as [[Vampire]] from ''[[M.A.S.K. (franchise)\|M.A.S.K.]]'' or [[Battlefennec\|Fennec]] from ''[[Beastformers (franchise)\|Battle Beasts]]''.<ref>{{citesocial\|quote=Not as such. Quantum Harmonic Resonance is such that their analogues in this dimension tend to be Cybertronian. We've already seen that with guys like Fennec and will probably continue to do so. The same goes for MASK characters, like Aura and Vampire.\|link=https://web.archive.org/web/20170218015723/https://www.allspark.com/forums/topic/133737-beast-wars-uprising-ama/?p=3360055#entry3360152\|name=Jim Sorenson\|site=The Allspark forums\|title=Beast Wars Uprising: AMA\|year=2016\|month=10\|day=15}}</ref>		* ''Uprising'' sometimes based Cybertronians on franchises adjacent to ''Transformers'', such as [[Vampire_(BWU)\|Vampire]] from ''[[M.A.S.K. (franchise)\|M.A.S.K.]]'' or [[Battlefennec\|Fennec]] from ''[[Beastformers (franchise)\|Battle Beasts]]''.<ref>{{citesocial\|quote=Not as such. Quantum Harmonic Resonance is such that their analogues in this dimension tend to be Cybertronian. We've already seen that with guys like Fennec and will probably continue to do so. The same goes for MASK characters, like Aura and Vampire.\|link=https://web.archive.org/web/20170218015723/https://www.allspark.com/forums/topic/133737-beast-wars-uprising-ama/?p=3360055#entry3360152\|name=Jim Sorenson\|site=The Allspark forums\|title=Beast Wars Uprising: AMA\|year=2016\|month=10\|day=15}}</ref>
	* Sorenson cited his favorite characters to write as being [[Wolfang (Maximal)\|Wolfang]] and [[Longrack (BW)\|Longrack]].<ref>{{citesocial\|quote=Oooh, that's a toughie. There's one from the first part of the finale who was really difficult to write for but came out very nicely. Wolfang was a hoot, but Bish did most of the heavy lifting there. Longrack was a lotta fun; I love his officiousness. There's a little bit of Arnold J. Rimmer in there.\|link=https://web.archive.org/web/20170218015723/https://www.allspark.com/forums/topic/133737-beast-wars-uprising-ama/?p=3360055#entry3360052\|name=Jim Sorenson\|site=The Allspark forums\|title=Beast Wars Uprising: AMA\|year=2016\|month=10\|day=15}}</ref>		* Sorenson cited his favorite characters to write as being [[Wolfang (Maximal)\|Wolfang]] and [[Longrack (BW)\|Longrack]].<ref>{{citesocial\|quote=Oooh, that's a toughie. There's one from the first part of the finale who was really difficult to write for but came out very nicely. Wolfang was a hoot, but Bish did most of the heavy lifting there. Longrack was a lotta fun; I love his officiousness. There's a little bit of Arnold J. Rimmer in there.\|link=https://web.archive.org/web/20170218015723/https://www.allspark.com/forums/topic/133737-beast-wars-uprising-ama/?p=3360055#entry3360052\|name=Jim Sorenson\|site=The Allspark forums\|title=Beast Wars Uprising: AMA\|year=2016\|month=10\|day=15}}</ref>
	* Early in ''Beast Wars: Uprising'', the term "protoform" is used with its conventional definition as a developmental stage for Cybertronians, sometimes used analogously to "child", or more clinically as the basic form of Maximals and Predacons. "[[Intersectionality]]" introduced the phrase "Proto-races" to refer to these groups, which entered regular usage in "[[Not All Megatrons]]". "[[Cultural Appropriation]]" briefly used the phrase "Proto-Cybertronian". In "[[Safe Spaces]]", the term "proto-formers" first appeared, which by "[[Derailment]]" had become the most common term used to refer to the Maximals and Predacons; presumably to match this new term, "proto-races" was no longer capitalised. Often, "proto-" can just be used as a prefix, as in "proto-sized" (in "[[Trigger Warnings]]"), "Proto point one percenter" (in "Cultural Appropriation"), "proto-scale", "proto-nations", "proto-soldiers", "proto-punks", and the "[[League of Autonomous Proto-States]]" (all in "Derailment").		* Early in ''Beast Wars: Uprising'', the term "protoform" is used with its conventional definition as a developmental stage for Cybertronians, sometimes used analogously to "child", or more clinically as the basic form of Maximals and Predacons. "[[Intersectionality]]" introduced the phrase "Proto-races" to refer to these groups, which entered regular usage in "[[Not All Megatrons]]". "[[Cultural Appropriation]]" briefly used the phrase "Proto-Cybertronian". In "[[Safe Spaces]]", the term "proto-formers" first appeared, which by "[[Derailment]]" had become the most common term used to refer to the Maximals and Predacons; presumably to match this new term, "proto-races" was no longer capitalised. Often, "proto-" can just be used as a prefix, as in "proto-sized" (in "[[Trigger Warnings]]"), "Proto point one percenter" (in "Cultural Appropriation"), "proto-scale", "proto-nations", "proto-soldiers", "proto-punks", and the "[[League of Autonomous Proto-States]]" (all in "Derailment").

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	*Despite the title ''Beast Wars: Uprising'' having been assigned to the continuity from the very beginning, there were originally no plans for an actual uprising of any sort to take place—when tasked with fleshing out the universe, Jim Sorenson had to pitch Fun Publications on the idea of a rebellion!<ref>Jim Sorenson in conversation at TFNation 2023</ref>		* Despite the title ''Beast Wars: Uprising'' having been assigned to the continuity from the very beginning, there were originally no plans for an actual uprising of any sort to take place—when tasked with fleshing out the universe, Jim Sorenson had to pitch Fun Publications on the idea of a rebellion!<ref>Jim Sorenson in conversation at TFNation 2023</ref>
	*Being set in the late 24th century, ''Uprising'' contains a number of references to ''[[Star Trek]]: {{w\|Star Trek: The Next Generation\|The Next Generation}}''.		* Being set in the late 24th century, ''Uprising'' contains a number of references to ''[[Star Trek]]: {{w\|Star Trek: The Next Generation\|The Next Generation}}''.
	*Jim Sorenson revealed the titles of three more prose stories which he might have written had he had more time: "False Equivalencies", featuring [[Immorticon (BW)\|Immorticon]],<ref>{{citesocial\|quote=Sometimes we start with a character and then build the story around him or her. Immorticon was like that... I liked the name, and eventually a story clicked. (''False Equivalencies'', if I ever have the chance to write it.) Sometimes it's a request from editorial. ''Identity Politics'' came about because FP requested a story to help promote the FSS5 Scorponok figure. Sometimes the idea for the story comes first. ''Intersectionality'' was because I didn't like leaving Transmutate and Rampage hanging in deep space when the main thrust of the action was on Cybertron. The idea of the Beast Wars Neo Predacons as the heroes came from brainstorming.\|link=https://web.archive.org/web/20170218015723/https://www.allspark.com/forums/topic/133737-beast-wars-uprising-ama/?p=3360055#entry3360052\|name=Jim Sorenson\|site=The Allspark forums\|title=Beast Wars Uprising: AMA\|year=2016\|month=10\|day=15}}</ref> "Virtue Signaling", featuring [[Maxima]],<ref>{{citesocial\|quote=The finale will have some flashbacks and the like about the past, but most of it will be in the here and now. Should the universe continue, I've got plenty of stories ranging from minus eleven million years all the way to the 34th century. That said, I like that the focus of the universe is the Maximals and Predacons, so I'd mostly want to focus on stories that are relevant to them. I think it's neat to get a glimpse of the mythology, but probably wouldn't write a whole story about, say, Jazz vs Starscream in 1985. But the story of Maxima, ''Virtue Signaling'', is set in the past. So was the aforementioned Immorticon tale.\|link=https://web.archive.org/web/20170218015723/https://www.allspark.com/forums/topic/133737-beast-wars-uprising-ama/?p=3360055#entry3360052\|name=Jim Sorenson\|site=The Allspark forums\|title=Beast Wars Uprising: AMA\|year=2016\|month=10\|day=15\|archived=y}}</ref> and "Other Victims", featuring the [[Vok]].<ref>{{citesocial\|link=http://www.allspark.com/forums/topic/133737-beast-wars-uprising-ama/?p=3361191\|name=Jim Sorenson\|site=The Allspark forums\|title=Beast Wars Uprising: AMA\|year=2016\|month=10\|day=16\|defunct=y}}</ref>		* Jim Sorenson revealed the titles of three more prose stories which he might have written had he had more time: "False Equivalencies", featuring [[Immorticon (BW)\|Immorticon]],<ref>{{citesocial\|quote=Sometimes we start with a character and then build the story around him or her. Immorticon was like that... I liked the name, and eventually a story clicked. (''False Equivalencies'', if I ever have the chance to write it.) Sometimes it's a request from editorial. ''Identity Politics'' came about because FP requested a story to help promote the FSS5 Scorponok figure. Sometimes the idea for the story comes first. ''Intersectionality'' was because I didn't like leaving Transmutate and Rampage hanging in deep space when the main thrust of the action was on Cybertron. The idea of the Beast Wars Neo Predacons as the heroes came from brainstorming.\|link=https://web.archive.org/web/20170218015723/https://www.allspark.com/forums/topic/133737-beast-wars-uprising-ama/?p=3360055#entry3360052\|name=Jim Sorenson\|site=The Allspark forums\|title=Beast Wars Uprising: AMA\|year=2016\|month=10\|day=15}}</ref> "Virtue Signaling", featuring [[Maxima]],<ref>{{citesocial\|quote=The finale will have some flashbacks and the like about the past, but most of it will be in the here and now. Should the universe continue, I've got plenty of stories ranging from minus eleven million years all the way to the 34th century. That said, I like that the focus of the universe is the Maximals and Predacons, so I'd mostly want to focus on stories that are relevant to them. I think it's neat to get a glimpse of the mythology, but probably wouldn't write a whole story about, say, Jazz vs Starscream in 1985. But the story of Maxima, ''Virtue Signaling'', is set in the past. So was the aforementioned Immorticon tale.\|link=https://web.archive.org/web/20170218015723/https://www.allspark.com/forums/topic/133737-beast-wars-uprising-ama/?p=3360055#entry3360052\|name=Jim Sorenson\|site=The Allspark forums\|title=Beast Wars Uprising: AMA\|year=2016\|month=10\|day=15\|archived=y}}</ref> and "Other Victims", featuring the [[Vok]].<ref>{{citesocial\|link=http://www.allspark.com/forums/topic/133737-beast-wars-uprising-ama/?p=3361191\|name=Jim Sorenson\|site=The Allspark forums\|title=Beast Wars Uprising: AMA\|year=2016\|month=10\|day=16\|defunct=y}}</ref>
	*An early idea for [[BotCon 2016]]'s [[Dawn of the Predacus\|exclusive comic]] would have involved the ''Uprising'' storyline, depicting [[Magnaboss (BW)\|Magnaboss]] as an antagonistic Builder creation.<ref>{{citesocial\|quote=VERY early on in the process, I was asked to pitch an idea for what Dawn of the Predacus would have looked like in the BWU universe. It would have been a story where the ghost of Prowl (Prowl II maybe) was acting from beyond the grave to put together a Builder threat, the Magnaboss. In the end, the Tri-Predacus Council itself would have had to intervene to stop the rampage. You can still see the toys solicited as such: https://www.toyarama.com/store/2016-botcon-beast-wars-uprising-dawn-of-the-predacus-five-figure-combiner-wars-boxed-convention-set-non-attending-1-pc-p1414.php In the end, though, FP opted to outsource the comic to IDW, so that story got shelved.\|link=https://web.archive.org/web/20170218015723/https://www.allspark.com/forums/topic/133737-beast-wars-uprising-ama/?p=3360055#entry3360055\|name=Jim Sorenson\|site=The Allspark forums\|title=Beast Wars Uprising: AMA\|year=2016\|month=10\|day=15}}</ref><ref>{{citesocial\|link=https://www.allspark.com/forums/topic/140167-ama-bish-jesse-jim/?p=3516969\|name=Jim Sorenson\|site=The Allspark forums\|title=AMA: Bish, Jesse, & Jim\|year=2017\|month=05\|day=28\|defunct=y}}</ref> For more information, see the page for that comic.		* An early idea for [[BotCon 2016]]'s [[Dawn of the Predacus\|exclusive comic]] would have involved the ''Uprising'' storyline, depicting [[Magnaboss (BW)\|Magnaboss]] as an antagonistic Builder creation.<ref>{{citesocial\|quote=VERY early on in the process, I was asked to pitch an idea for what Dawn of the Predacus would have looked like in the BWU universe. It would have been a story where the ghost of Prowl (Prowl II maybe) was acting from beyond the grave to put together a Builder threat, the Magnaboss. In the end, the Tri-Predacus Council itself would have had to intervene to stop the rampage. You can still see the toys solicited as such: https://www.toyarama.com/store/2016-botcon-beast-wars-uprising-dawn-of-the-predacus-five-figure-combiner-wars-boxed-convention-set-non-attending-1-pc-p1414.php In the end, though, FP opted to outsource the comic to IDW, so that story got shelved.\|link=https://web.archive.org/web/20170218015723/https://www.allspark.com/forums/topic/133737-beast-wars-uprising-ama/?p=3360055#entry3360055\|name=Jim Sorenson\|site=The Allspark forums\|title=Beast Wars Uprising: AMA\|year=2016\|month=10\|day=15}}</ref><ref>{{citesocial\|link=https://www.allspark.com/forums/topic/140167-ama-bish-jesse-jim/?p=3516969\|name=Jim Sorenson\|site=The Allspark forums\|title=AMA: Bish, Jesse, & Jim\|year=2017\|month=05\|day=28\|defunct=y}}</ref> For more information, see the page for that comic.
	*When asked about a possible ''Uprising'' incarnation of [[Vector Prime]] (star of Sorenson's previous work on [[Ask Vector Prime]]), Sorenson stated there probably wasn't one, but that [[Safeguard (Cybertron)\|Safeguard]] was probably a [[Targetmaster (technology)\|Targetmaster]] in this universe.<ref>{{citesocial\|quote=I don't think there is a Vector Prime analog in this universe. If there is, I haven't found a place for him. Maybe in the distant past or future. Safeguard was probably active during the Great War and, being Targetmaster-y, probably isn't alive anymore.\|link=https://web.archive.org/web/20170218015723/https://www.allspark.com/forums/topic/133737-beast-wars-uprising-ama/?p=3360055#entry3360151\|name=Jim Sorenson\|site=The Allspark forums\|title=Beast Wars Uprising: AMA\|year=2016\|month=10\|day=15}}</ref>		* When asked about a possible ''Uprising'' incarnation of [[Vector Prime]] (star of Sorenson's previous work on [[Ask Vector Prime]]), Sorenson stated there probably wasn't one, but that [[Safeguard (Cybertron)\|Safeguard]] was probably a [[Targetmaster (technology)\|Targetmaster]] in this universe.<ref>{{citesocial\|quote=I don't think there is a Vector Prime analog in this universe. If there is, I haven't found a place for him. Maybe in the distant past or future. Safeguard was probably active during the Great War and, being Targetmaster-y, probably isn't alive anymore.\|link=https://web.archive.org/web/20170218015723/https://www.allspark.com/forums/topic/133737-beast-wars-uprising-ama/?p=3360055#entry3360151\|name=Jim Sorenson\|site=The Allspark forums\|title=Beast Wars Uprising: AMA\|year=2016\|month=10\|day=15}}</ref>
	*''Uprising'' sometimes based Cybertronians on franchises adjacent to ''Transformers'', such as [[Vampire]] from ''[[M.A.S.K. (franchise)\|M.A.S.K.]]'' or [[Battlefennec\|Fennec]] from ''[[Beastformers (franchise)\|Battle Beasts]]''.<ref>{{citesocial\|quote=Not as such. Quantum Harmonic Resonance is such that their analogues in this dimension tend to be Cybertronian. We've already seen that with guys like Fennec and will probably continue to do so. The same goes for MASK characters, like Aura and Vampire.\|link=https://web.archive.org/web/20170218015723/https://www.allspark.com/forums/topic/133737-beast-wars-uprising-ama/?p=3360055#entry3360152\|name=Jim Sorenson\|site=The Allspark forums\|title=Beast Wars Uprising: AMA\|year=2016\|month=10\|day=15}}</ref>		* ''Uprising'' sometimes based Cybertronians on franchises adjacent to ''Transformers'', such as [[Vampire]] from ''[[M.A.S.K. (franchise)\|M.A.S.K.]]'' or [[Battlefennec\|Fennec]] from ''[[Beastformers (franchise)\|Battle Beasts]]''.<ref>{{citesocial\|quote=Not as such. Quantum Harmonic Resonance is such that their analogues in this dimension tend to be Cybertronian. We've already seen that with guys like Fennec and will probably continue to do so. The same goes for MASK characters, like Aura and Vampire.\|link=https://web.archive.org/web/20170218015723/https://www.allspark.com/forums/topic/133737-beast-wars-uprising-ama/?p=3360055#entry3360152\|name=Jim Sorenson\|site=The Allspark forums\|title=Beast Wars Uprising: AMA\|year=2016\|month=10\|day=15}}</ref>
	*Sorenson cited his favorite characters to write as being [[Wolfang (Maximal)\|Wolfang]] and [[Longrack (BW)\|Longrack]].<ref>{{citesocial\|quote=Oooh, that's a toughie. There's one from the first part of the finale who was really difficult to write for but came out very nicely. Wolfang was a hoot, but Bish did most of the heavy lifting there. Longrack was a lotta fun; I love his officiousness. There's a little bit of Arnold J. Rimmer in there.\|link=https://web.archive.org/web/20170218015723/https://www.allspark.com/forums/topic/133737-beast-wars-uprising-ama/?p=3360055#entry3360052\|name=Jim Sorenson\|site=The Allspark forums\|title=Beast Wars Uprising: AMA\|year=2016\|month=10\|day=15}}</ref>		* Sorenson cited his favorite characters to write as being [[Wolfang (Maximal)\|Wolfang]] and [[Longrack (BW)\|Longrack]].<ref>{{citesocial\|quote=Oooh, that's a toughie. There's one from the first part of the finale who was really difficult to write for but came out very nicely. Wolfang was a hoot, but Bish did most of the heavy lifting there. Longrack was a lotta fun; I love his officiousness. There's a little bit of Arnold J. Rimmer in there.\|link=https://web.archive.org/web/20170218015723/https://www.allspark.com/forums/topic/133737-beast-wars-uprising-ama/?p=3360055#entry3360052\|name=Jim Sorenson\|site=The Allspark forums\|title=Beast Wars Uprising: AMA\|year=2016\|month=10\|day=15}}</ref>
			* Early in ''Beast Wars: Uprising'', the term "protoform" is used with its conventional definition as a developmental stage for Cybertronians, sometimes used analogously to "child", or more clinically as the basic form of Maximals and Predacons. "[[Intersectionality]]" introduced the phrase "Proto-races" to refer to these groups, which entered regular usage in "[[Not All Megatrons]]". "[[Cultural Appropriation]]" briefly used the phrase "Proto-Cybertronian". In "[[Safe Spaces]]", the term "proto-formers" first appeared, which by "[[Derailment]]" had become the most common term used to refer to the Maximals and Predacons; presumably to match this new term, "proto-races" was no longer capitalised. Often, "proto-" can just be used as a prefix, as in "proto-sized" (in "[[Trigger Warnings]]"), "Proto point one percenter" (in "Cultural Appropriation"), "proto-scale", "proto-nations", "proto-soldiers", "proto-punks", and the "[[League of Autonomous Proto-States]]" (all in "Derailment").

	==See also==		==See also==

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	[[Jim Sorenson]] was approached by Fun Publications to develop the world further in a 2015 prose story promoting their [[Eject (G1)#Timelines\|Eject]] and [[Lio Convoy#Timelines 2\|Lio Convoy]] figures—one which would also serve to continue Blackarachnia's storyline. At first he found the "''Beast Wars'' meets ''{{w\|The Hunger Games\|The Hunger Games}}''" conceit unappealing, but was inspired by contemporary social movements such as 2014's {{w\|Ferguson unrest\|Ferguson protests}} to craft a story about a marginalized people rising up against a corrupt authority (and to name individual entries after social phenomena).<ref>{{citesocial\|link=http://www.allspark.com/forums/topic/133737-beast-wars-uprising-ama/?p=3360155\|name=Jim Sorenson\|site=The Allspark forums\|title=Beast Wars Uprising: AMA\|year=2016\|month=10\|day=15\|defunct=y}}</ref> Over the next two years, he and co-writer [[David Bishop]] produced eleven more prose stories, which together cemented the world as one of the darkest interpretations of the ''Transformers'' story.		[[Jim Sorenson]] was approached by Fun Publications to develop the world further in a 2015 prose story promoting their [[Eject (G1)#Timelines\|Eject]] and [[Lio Convoy#Timelines 2\|Lio Convoy]] figures—one which would also serve to continue Blackarachnia's storyline. At first he found the "''Beast Wars'' meets ''{{w\|The Hunger Games\|The Hunger Games}}''" conceit unappealing, but was inspired by contemporary social movements such as 2014's {{w\|Ferguson unrest\|Ferguson protests}} to craft a story about a marginalized people rising up against a corrupt authority (and to name individual entries after social phenomena).<ref>{{citesocial\|link=http://www.allspark.com/forums/topic/133737-beast-wars-uprising-ama/?p=3360155\|name=Jim Sorenson\|site=The Allspark forums\|title=Beast Wars Uprising: AMA\|year=2016\|month=10\|day=15\|defunct=y}}</ref> Over the next two years, he and co-writer [[David Bishop]] produced eleven more prose stories, which together cemented the world as one of the darkest interpretations of the ''Transformers'' story.

	For the most part, each prose story focused on new sets of cast members drawn not just from the Beast Era but from all across the franchise's history. Many [[Mini-Con]]s appeared as [[Micromaster]]s. Characters with [[beast mode]]s or [[Thunderhoof (RID)\|animalistic robot modes]] were [[Repurposing\|repurposed]] as new, analogous Maximals and Predacons. As the majority of the stories were set before any characters obtained their more recognisable beast forms, various vehicular figures were given "[[Redeco#"Virtual" redecos\|virtual redecos]]" to create Cybertronian forms for most of the cast. To help address the [[Female Transformer\|gender imbalance]] typical of ''Transformers'' fiction (particularly at the time), the authors would occasionally establish existing characters (particularly those who had no specified gender) to be female.<ref>{{citesocial\|quote=[Why do I sometimes make traditionally male characters female?] I hesitate to say it's random, but there aren't any hard and fast rules. One frustration I have with the TF mythology is the dearth of female characters, so for my stories I try to remedy somewhat. For characters with minimal fiction, I generally feel free to reimagine species and faction and personality and, yes, gender. Characters with no specified gender (Major Altitude comes to mind, as does Spacewarp) I'm especially prone to making female as it's not even genderbending in my head.\|link=https://web.archive.org/web/20170218015723/https://www.allspark.com/forums/topic/133737-beast-wars-uprising-ama/?p=3360055#entry3360150\|name=Jim Sorenson\|site=The Allspark forums\|title=Beast Wars Uprising: AMA\|year=2016\|month=10\|day=15}}</ref>		For the most part, each prose story focused on new sets of cast members drawn not just from the Beast Era but from all across the franchise's history. Many [[Mini-Con]]s appeared as [[Micromaster]]s. Characters with [[beast mode]]s or [[Thunderhoof (RID)\|animalistic robot modes]] were [[Repurposing\|repurposed]] as new, analogous Maximals and Predacons. As the majority of the stories were set before any characters obtained their more recognisable beast forms, various vehicular figures were given [[Redeco#"Virtual" redecos\|"virtual" redecos]] to create Cybertronian forms for most of the cast. To help address the [[Female Transformer\|gender imbalance]] typical of ''Transformers'' fiction (particularly at the time), the authors would occasionally establish existing characters (particularly those who had no specified gender) to be female.<ref>{{citesocial\|quote=[Why do I sometimes make traditionally male characters female?] I hesitate to say it's random, but there aren't any hard and fast rules. One frustration I have with the TF mythology is the dearth of female characters, so for my stories I try to remedy somewhat. For characters with minimal fiction, I generally feel free to reimagine species and faction and personality and, yes, gender. Characters with no specified gender (Major Altitude comes to mind, as does Spacewarp) I'm especially prone to making female as it's not even genderbending in my head.\|link=https://web.archive.org/web/20170218015723/https://www.allspark.com/forums/topic/133737-beast-wars-uprising-ama/?p=3360055#entry3360150\|name=Jim Sorenson\|site=The Allspark forums\|title=Beast Wars Uprising: AMA\|year=2016\|month=10\|day=15}}</ref>

	In keeping with the intent of the original 1996 [[Beast Wars: Transformers (cartoon)\|''Beast Wars'' cartoon]], ''Beast Wars: Uprising'' uses an ambiguous mishmash of the [[The Transformers (Marvel comic)\|Marvel comic]] and the [[The Transformers (cartoon)\|Sunbow cartoon]] for its version of the Great War (for instance, [[Grimlock (G1)#Beast Wars: Uprising\|Grimlock]] takes his speech patterns from the cartoon but his personality from the comic) — though it throws in a number of elements from the [[2005 IDW continuity\|contemporaneous IDW comics]] (such as [[Conjunx Endura]]e and [[functionism]]) for good measure.		In keeping with the intent of the original 1996 [[Beast Wars: Transformers (cartoon)\|''Beast Wars'' cartoon]], ''Beast Wars: Uprising'' uses an ambiguous mishmash of the [[The Transformers (Marvel comic)\|Marvel comic]] and the [[The Transformers (cartoon)\|Sunbow cartoon]] for its version of the Great War (for instance, [[Grimlock (G1)#Beast Wars: Uprising\|Grimlock]] takes his speech patterns from the cartoon but his personality from the comic) — though it throws in a number of elements from the [[2005 IDW continuity\|contemporaneous IDW comics]] (such as [[Conjunx Endura]]e and [[functionism]]) for good measure.
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	The prose story authors described the ''Uprising'' universe as being populated by characters primarily using toy designs, whether physical figures or "[[Redeco#"Virtual" redecos\|virtual redecos]]".<ref>{{citesocial\|quote=We usually come up with them as-needed in the story. We all liked the Titans Return Mindwipe and thought he might be neat for someone like Psychobat.\|link=https://web.archive.org/web/20170218015723/https://www.allspark.com/forums/topic/133737-beast-wars-uprising-ama/?p=3360055#entry3360052\|name=Jim Sorenson\|site=The Allspark forums\|title=Beast Wars Uprising: AMA\|year=2016\|month=10\|day=15}}</ref><ref>{{citesocial\|quote=It's always my preference to have a preexisting toy design. non-toy designs mostly just slipped though the cracks. The exception to that rule was the Destructons, I wanted to keep their unique aesthetic while introducing the idea of them transforming, as teased at the end of ''Alone Together''.\|link=https://web.archive.org/web/20170218015723/https://www.allspark.com/forums/topic/133737-beast-wars-uprising-ama/?p=3360055#entry3360052\|name=Jim Sorenson\|site=The Allspark forums\|title=Beast Wars Uprising: AMA\|year=2016\|month=10\|day=15}}</ref> The latter kind were necessary as a result of the story's focus on ''Beast Wars'' characters, despite the fact that they only [[Beast mode\|obtain beast forms]] towards the end of the series—and when they do so, the intent was for them to be [[technorganic]], meaning characters without existing [[Transmetal]] bodies would look different from their original toys anyway.<ref>{{citesocial\|quote=In my head, TM for Cheetor. I actually never gave Blackarachnia's body all that much thought. Since they were never depicted in artwork and we didn't write with a specific body and mind, you should imagine them in whatever body you think is most appropriate. It could even be a slightly mechanized version of their non transmetal body, like Ram Horn.\|link=http://web.archive.org/web/20201203134006/https://www.allspark.com/forums/topic/140167-ama-bish-jesse-jim/page-2#entry3512177\|name=Jim Sorenson\|site=The Allspark forums\|title=AMA: Bish, Jesse, & Jim\|year=2017\|month=05\|day=22}}</ref><ref>{{citesocial\|quote=The original idea was that all of the beast-upgrade characters would take on their TM bodies. Any that didn't have a TM or TM2 toy would become a mechanical version of their beast frame. If I had to tell Jim what toy to use for BA, it would probably be her TM2 toy. Although her Beast Machines toy (since it differed so much from the show model) would be tempting too.\|link=http://web.archive.org/web/20201203134006/https://www.allspark.com/forums/topic/140167-ama-bish-jesse-jim/page-2#entry3512197\|name=Jesse Wittenrich\|site=The Allspark forums\|title=AMA: Bish, Jesse, & Jim\|year=2017\|month=05\|day=22}}</ref><ref>{{citesocial\|quote=For my part I honestly kind of imagined her as a metallic version of her first BW body - black and gold, kind of small and sleek. I don't think we ever described her in enough detail to really pin it down though.\|link=http://web.archive.org/web/20201203134006/https://www.allspark.com/forums/topic/140167-ama-bish-jesse-jim/page-2#entry3512249\|name=David Bishop\|site=The Allspark forums\|title=AMA: Bish, Jesse, & Jim\|year=2017\|month=05\|day=22}}</ref> As a complete list of repurposed figures and virtual ~~redecoes~~ would be farcically long, the below list merely includes Collectors' Club figures appearing contemporaneously in ''Uprising'' stories.		The prose story authors described the ''Uprising'' universe as being populated by characters primarily using toy designs, whether by [[repurposing]] physical figures or coming up with [[Redeco#"Virtual" redecos\|"virtual" redecos]].<ref>{{citesocial\|quote=We usually come up with them as-needed in the story. We all liked the Titans Return Mindwipe and thought he might be neat for someone like Psychobat.\|link=https://web.archive.org/web/20170218015723/https://www.allspark.com/forums/topic/133737-beast-wars-uprising-ama/?p=3360055#entry3360052\|name=Jim Sorenson\|site=The Allspark forums\|title=Beast Wars Uprising: AMA\|year=2016\|month=10\|day=15}}</ref><ref>{{citesocial\|quote=It's always my preference to have a preexisting toy design. non-toy designs mostly just slipped though the cracks. The exception to that rule was the Destructons, I wanted to keep their unique aesthetic while introducing the idea of them transforming, as teased at the end of ''Alone Together''.\|link=https://web.archive.org/web/20170218015723/https://www.allspark.com/forums/topic/133737-beast-wars-uprising-ama/?p=3360055#entry3360052\|name=Jim Sorenson\|site=The Allspark forums\|title=Beast Wars Uprising: AMA\|year=2016\|month=10\|day=15}}</ref> The latter kind were necessary as a result of the story's focus on ''Beast Wars'' characters, despite the fact that they only [[Beast mode\|obtain beast forms]] towards the end of the series—and when they do so, the intent was for them to be [[technorganic]], meaning characters without existing [[Transmetal]] bodies would look different from their original toys anyway.<ref>{{citesocial\|quote=In my head, TM for Cheetor. I actually never gave Blackarachnia's body all that much thought. Since they were never depicted in artwork and we didn't write with a specific body and mind, you should imagine them in whatever body you think is most appropriate. It could even be a slightly mechanized version of their non transmetal body, like Ram Horn.\|link=http://web.archive.org/web/20201203134006/https://www.allspark.com/forums/topic/140167-ama-bish-jesse-jim/page-2#entry3512177\|name=Jim Sorenson\|site=The Allspark forums\|title=AMA: Bish, Jesse, & Jim\|year=2017\|month=05\|day=22}}</ref><ref>{{citesocial\|quote=The original idea was that all of the beast-upgrade characters would take on their TM bodies. Any that didn't have a TM or TM2 toy would become a mechanical version of their beast frame. If I had to tell Jim what toy to use for BA, it would probably be her TM2 toy. Although her Beast Machines toy (since it differed so much from the show model) would be tempting too.\|link=http://web.archive.org/web/20201203134006/https://www.allspark.com/forums/topic/140167-ama-bish-jesse-jim/page-2#entry3512197\|name=Jesse Wittenrich\|site=The Allspark forums\|title=AMA: Bish, Jesse, & Jim\|year=2017\|month=05\|day=22}}</ref><ref>{{citesocial\|quote=For my part I honestly kind of imagined her as a metallic version of her first BW body - black and gold, kind of small and sleek. I don't think we ever described her in enough detail to really pin it down though.\|link=http://web.archive.org/web/20201203134006/https://www.allspark.com/forums/topic/140167-ama-bish-jesse-jim/page-2#entry3512249\|name=David Bishop\|site=The Allspark forums\|title=AMA: Bish, Jesse, & Jim\|year=2017\|month=05\|day=22}}</ref> As a complete list of repurposed figures and "virtual" redecos would be farcically long, the below list merely includes Collectors' Club figures appearing contemporaneously in ''Uprising'' stories.
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	[[Jim Sorenson]] was approached by Fun Publications to develop the world further in a 2015 prose story promoting their [[Eject (G1)#Timelines\|Eject]] and [[Lio Convoy#Timelines 2\|Lio Convoy]] figures—one which would also serve to continue Blackarachnia's storyline. At first he found the "''Beast Wars'' meets ''{{w\|The Hunger Games\|The Hunger Games}}''" conceit unappealing, but was inspired by contemporary social movements such as 2014's {{w\|Ferguson unrest\|Ferguson protests}} to craft a story about a marginalized people rising up against a corrupt authority (and to name individual entries after social phenomena).<ref>{{citesocial\|link=http://www.allspark.com/forums/topic/133737-beast-wars-uprising-ama/?p=3360155\|name=Jim Sorenson\|site=The Allspark forums\|title=Beast Wars Uprising: AMA\|year=2016\|month=10\|day=15\|defunct=y}}</ref> Over the next two years, he and co-writer [[David Bishop]] produced eleven more prose stories, which together cemented the world as one of the darkest interpretations of the ''Transformers'' story.		[[Jim Sorenson]] was approached by Fun Publications to develop the world further in a 2015 prose story promoting their [[Eject (G1)#Timelines\|Eject]] and [[Lio Convoy#Timelines 2\|Lio Convoy]] figures—one which would also serve to continue Blackarachnia's storyline. At first he found the "''Beast Wars'' meets ''{{w\|The Hunger Games\|The Hunger Games}}''" conceit unappealing, but was inspired by contemporary social movements such as 2014's {{w\|Ferguson unrest\|Ferguson protests}} to craft a story about a marginalized people rising up against a corrupt authority (and to name individual entries after social phenomena).<ref>{{citesocial\|link=http://www.allspark.com/forums/topic/133737-beast-wars-uprising-ama/?p=3360155\|name=Jim Sorenson\|site=The Allspark forums\|title=Beast Wars Uprising: AMA\|year=2016\|month=10\|day=15\|defunct=y}}</ref> Over the next two years, he and co-writer [[David Bishop]] produced eleven more prose stories, which together cemented the world as one of the darkest interpretations of the ''Transformers'' story.

	For the most part, each prose story focused on new sets of cast members drawn not just from the Beast Era but from all across the franchise's history. Many [[Mini-Con]]s appeared as [[Micromaster]]s. Characters with [[beast mode]]s or [[Thunderhoof (RID)\|animalistic robot modes]] were [[Repurposing\|repurposed]] as new, analogous Maximals and Predacons. As the majority of the stories were set before any characters obtained their more recognisable beast forms, various vehicular figures were given "[[Redeco#"Virtual" redecos\|virtual ~~redecoes~~]]" to create Cybertronian forms for most of the cast. To help address the [[Female Transformer\|gender imbalance]] typical of ''Transformers'' fiction (particularly at the time), the authors would occasionally establish existing characters (particularly those who had no specified gender) to be female.<ref>{{citesocial\|quote=[Why do I sometimes make traditionally male characters female?] I hesitate to say it's random, but there aren't any hard and fast rules. One frustration I have with the TF mythology is the dearth of female characters, so for my stories I try to remedy somewhat. For characters with minimal fiction, I generally feel free to reimagine species and faction and personality and, yes, gender. Characters with no specified gender (Major Altitude comes to mind, as does Spacewarp) I'm especially prone to making female as it's not even genderbending in my head.\|link=https://web.archive.org/web/20170218015723/https://www.allspark.com/forums/topic/133737-beast-wars-uprising-ama/?p=3360055#entry3360150\|name=Jim Sorenson\|site=The Allspark forums\|title=Beast Wars Uprising: AMA\|year=2016\|month=10\|day=15}}</ref>		For the most part, each prose story focused on new sets of cast members drawn not just from the Beast Era but from all across the franchise's history. Many [[Mini-Con]]s appeared as [[Micromaster]]s. Characters with [[beast mode]]s or [[Thunderhoof (RID)\|animalistic robot modes]] were [[Repurposing\|repurposed]] as new, analogous Maximals and Predacons. As the majority of the stories were set before any characters obtained their more recognisable beast forms, various vehicular figures were given "[[Redeco#"Virtual" redecos\|virtual redecos]]" to create Cybertronian forms for most of the cast. To help address the [[Female Transformer\|gender imbalance]] typical of ''Transformers'' fiction (particularly at the time), the authors would occasionally establish existing characters (particularly those who had no specified gender) to be female.<ref>{{citesocial\|quote=[Why do I sometimes make traditionally male characters female?] I hesitate to say it's random, but there aren't any hard and fast rules. One frustration I have with the TF mythology is the dearth of female characters, so for my stories I try to remedy somewhat. For characters with minimal fiction, I generally feel free to reimagine species and faction and personality and, yes, gender. Characters with no specified gender (Major Altitude comes to mind, as does Spacewarp) I'm especially prone to making female as it's not even genderbending in my head.\|link=https://web.archive.org/web/20170218015723/https://www.allspark.com/forums/topic/133737-beast-wars-uprising-ama/?p=3360055#entry3360150\|name=Jim Sorenson\|site=The Allspark forums\|title=Beast Wars Uprising: AMA\|year=2016\|month=10\|day=15}}</ref>

	In keeping with the intent of the original 1996 [[Beast Wars: Transformers (cartoon)\|''Beast Wars'' cartoon]], ''Beast Wars: Uprising'' uses an ambiguous mishmash of the [[The Transformers (Marvel comic)\|Marvel comic]] and the [[The Transformers (cartoon)\|Sunbow cartoon]] for its version of the Great War (for instance, [[Grimlock (G1)#Beast Wars: Uprising\|Grimlock]] takes his speech patterns from the cartoon but his personality from the comic) — though it throws in a number of elements from the [[2005 IDW continuity\|contemporaneous IDW comics]] (such as [[Conjunx Endura]]e and [[functionism]]) for good measure.		In keeping with the intent of the original 1996 [[Beast Wars: Transformers (cartoon)\|''Beast Wars'' cartoon]], ''Beast Wars: Uprising'' uses an ambiguous mishmash of the [[The Transformers (Marvel comic)\|Marvel comic]] and the [[The Transformers (cartoon)\|Sunbow cartoon]] for its version of the Great War (for instance, [[Grimlock (G1)#Beast Wars: Uprising\|Grimlock]] takes his speech patterns from the cartoon but his personality from the comic) — though it throws in a number of elements from the [[2005 IDW continuity\|contemporaneous IDW comics]] (such as [[Conjunx Endura]]e and [[functionism]]) for good measure.
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	The prose story authors described the ''Uprising'' universe as being populated by characters primarily using toy designs, whether physical figures or "[[Redeco#"Virtual" redecos\|virtual ~~redecoes~~]]".<ref>{{citesocial\|quote=We usually come up with them as-needed in the story. We all liked the Titans Return Mindwipe and thought he might be neat for someone like Psychobat.\|link=https://web.archive.org/web/20170218015723/https://www.allspark.com/forums/topic/133737-beast-wars-uprising-ama/?p=3360055#entry3360052\|name=Jim Sorenson\|site=The Allspark forums\|title=Beast Wars Uprising: AMA\|year=2016\|month=10\|day=15}}</ref><ref>{{citesocial\|quote=It's always my preference to have a preexisting toy design. non-toy designs mostly just slipped though the cracks. The exception to that rule was the Destructons, I wanted to keep their unique aesthetic while introducing the idea of them transforming, as teased at the end of ''Alone Together''.\|link=https://web.archive.org/web/20170218015723/https://www.allspark.com/forums/topic/133737-beast-wars-uprising-ama/?p=3360055#entry3360052\|name=Jim Sorenson\|site=The Allspark forums\|title=Beast Wars Uprising: AMA\|year=2016\|month=10\|day=15}}</ref> The latter kind were necessary as a result of the story's focus on ''Beast Wars'' characters, despite the fact that they only [[Beast mode\|obtain beast forms]] towards the end of the series—and when they do so, the intent was for them to be [[technorganic]], meaning characters without existing [[Transmetal]] bodies would look different from their original toys anyway.<ref>{{citesocial\|quote=In my head, TM for Cheetor. I actually never gave Blackarachnia's body all that much thought. Since they were never depicted in artwork and we didn't write with a specific body and mind, you should imagine them in whatever body you think is most appropriate. It could even be a slightly mechanized version of their non transmetal body, like Ram Horn.\|link=http://web.archive.org/web/20201203134006/https://www.allspark.com/forums/topic/140167-ama-bish-jesse-jim/page-2#entry3512177\|name=Jim Sorenson\|site=The Allspark forums\|title=AMA: Bish, Jesse, & Jim\|year=2017\|month=05\|day=22}}</ref><ref>{{citesocial\|quote=The original idea was that all of the beast-upgrade characters would take on their TM bodies. Any that didn't have a TM or TM2 toy would become a mechanical version of their beast frame. If I had to tell Jim what toy to use for BA, it would probably be her TM2 toy. Although her Beast Machines toy (since it differed so much from the show model) would be tempting too.\|link=http://web.archive.org/web/20201203134006/https://www.allspark.com/forums/topic/140167-ama-bish-jesse-jim/page-2#entry3512197\|name=Jesse Wittenrich\|site=The Allspark forums\|title=AMA: Bish, Jesse, & Jim\|year=2017\|month=05\|day=22}}</ref><ref>{{citesocial\|quote=For my part I honestly kind of imagined her as a metallic version of her first BW body - black and gold, kind of small and sleek. I don't think we ever described her in enough detail to really pin it down though.\|link=http://web.archive.org/web/20201203134006/https://www.allspark.com/forums/topic/140167-ama-bish-jesse-jim/page-2#entry3512249\|name=David Bishop\|site=The Allspark forums\|title=AMA: Bish, Jesse, & Jim\|year=2017\|month=05\|day=22}}</ref> As a complete list of repurposed figures and virtual redecoes would be farcically long, the below list merely includes Collectors' Club figures appearing contemporaneously in ''Uprising'' stories.		The prose story authors described the ''Uprising'' universe as being populated by characters primarily using toy designs, whether physical figures or "[[Redeco#"Virtual" redecos\|virtual redecos]]".<ref>{{citesocial\|quote=We usually come up with them as-needed in the story. We all liked the Titans Return Mindwipe and thought he might be neat for someone like Psychobat.\|link=https://web.archive.org/web/20170218015723/https://www.allspark.com/forums/topic/133737-beast-wars-uprising-ama/?p=3360055#entry3360052\|name=Jim Sorenson\|site=The Allspark forums\|title=Beast Wars Uprising: AMA\|year=2016\|month=10\|day=15}}</ref><ref>{{citesocial\|quote=It's always my preference to have a preexisting toy design. non-toy designs mostly just slipped though the cracks. The exception to that rule was the Destructons, I wanted to keep their unique aesthetic while introducing the idea of them transforming, as teased at the end of ''Alone Together''.\|link=https://web.archive.org/web/20170218015723/https://www.allspark.com/forums/topic/133737-beast-wars-uprising-ama/?p=3360055#entry3360052\|name=Jim Sorenson\|site=The Allspark forums\|title=Beast Wars Uprising: AMA\|year=2016\|month=10\|day=15}}</ref> The latter kind were necessary as a result of the story's focus on ''Beast Wars'' characters, despite the fact that they only [[Beast mode\|obtain beast forms]] towards the end of the series—and when they do so, the intent was for them to be [[technorganic]], meaning characters without existing [[Transmetal]] bodies would look different from their original toys anyway.<ref>{{citesocial\|quote=In my head, TM for Cheetor. I actually never gave Blackarachnia's body all that much thought. Since they were never depicted in artwork and we didn't write with a specific body and mind, you should imagine them in whatever body you think is most appropriate. It could even be a slightly mechanized version of their non transmetal body, like Ram Horn.\|link=http://web.archive.org/web/20201203134006/https://www.allspark.com/forums/topic/140167-ama-bish-jesse-jim/page-2#entry3512177\|name=Jim Sorenson\|site=The Allspark forums\|title=AMA: Bish, Jesse, & Jim\|year=2017\|month=05\|day=22}}</ref><ref>{{citesocial\|quote=The original idea was that all of the beast-upgrade characters would take on their TM bodies. Any that didn't have a TM or TM2 toy would become a mechanical version of their beast frame. If I had to tell Jim what toy to use for BA, it would probably be her TM2 toy. Although her Beast Machines toy (since it differed so much from the show model) would be tempting too.\|link=http://web.archive.org/web/20201203134006/https://www.allspark.com/forums/topic/140167-ama-bish-jesse-jim/page-2#entry3512197\|name=Jesse Wittenrich\|site=The Allspark forums\|title=AMA: Bish, Jesse, & Jim\|year=2017\|month=05\|day=22}}</ref><ref>{{citesocial\|quote=For my part I honestly kind of imagined her as a metallic version of her first BW body - black and gold, kind of small and sleek. I don't think we ever described her in enough detail to really pin it down though.\|link=http://web.archive.org/web/20201203134006/https://www.allspark.com/forums/topic/140167-ama-bish-jesse-jim/page-2#entry3512249\|name=David Bishop\|site=The Allspark forums\|title=AMA: Bish, Jesse, & Jim\|year=2017\|month=05\|day=22}}</ref> As a complete list of repurposed figures and virtual redecoes would be farcically long, the below list merely includes Collectors' Club figures appearing contemporaneously in ''Uprising'' stories.
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	[[Jim Sorenson]] was approached by Fun Publications to develop the world further in a 2015 prose story promoting their [[Eject (G1)#Timelines\|Eject]] and [[Lio Convoy#Timelines 2\|Lio Convoy]] figures—one which would also serve to continue Blackarachnia's storyline. At first he found the "''Beast Wars'' meets ''{{w\|The Hunger Games\|The Hunger Games}}''" conceit unappealing, but was inspired by contemporary social movements such as 2014's {{w\|Ferguson unrest\|Ferguson protests}} to craft a story about a marginalized people rising up against a corrupt authority (and to name individual entries after social phenomena).<ref>{{citesocial\|link=http://www.allspark.com/forums/topic/133737-beast-wars-uprising-ama/?p=3360155\|name=Jim Sorenson\|site=The Allspark forums\|title=Beast Wars Uprising: AMA\|year=2016\|month=10\|day=15\|defunct=y}}</ref> Over the next two years, he and co-writer [[David Bishop]] produced eleven more prose stories, which together cemented the world as one of the darkest interpretations of the ''Transformers'' story.		[[Jim Sorenson]] was approached by Fun Publications to develop the world further in a 2015 prose story promoting their [[Eject (G1)#Timelines\|Eject]] and [[Lio Convoy#Timelines 2\|Lio Convoy]] figures—one which would also serve to continue Blackarachnia's storyline. At first he found the "''Beast Wars'' meets ''{{w\|The Hunger Games\|The Hunger Games}}''" conceit unappealing, but was inspired by contemporary social movements such as 2014's {{w\|Ferguson unrest\|Ferguson protests}} to craft a story about a marginalized people rising up against a corrupt authority (and to name individual entries after social phenomena).<ref>{{citesocial\|link=http://www.allspark.com/forums/topic/133737-beast-wars-uprising-ama/?p=3360155\|name=Jim Sorenson\|site=The Allspark forums\|title=Beast Wars Uprising: AMA\|year=2016\|month=10\|day=15\|defunct=y}}</ref> Over the next two years, he and co-writer [[David Bishop]] produced eleven more prose stories, which together cemented the world as one of the darkest interpretations of the ''Transformers'' story.

	For the most part, each prose story focused on new sets of cast members drawn not just from the Beast Era but from all across the franchise's history. Many [[Mini-Con]]s appeared as [[Micromaster]]s. Characters with [[beast mode]]s or [[Thunderhoof (RID)\|animalistic robot modes]] were [[Repurposing\|repurposed]] as new, analogous Maximals and Predacons. As the majority of the stories were set before any characters obtained their more recognisable beast forms, various vehicular figures were given "[[Redeco#"Virtual" ~~redecoes~~\|virtual redecoes]]" to create Cybertronian forms for most of the cast. To help address the [[Female Transformer\|gender imbalance]] typical of ''Transformers'' fiction (particularly at the time), the authors would occasionally establish existing characters (particularly those who had no specified gender) to be female.<ref>{{citesocial\|quote=[Why do I sometimes make traditionally male characters female?] I hesitate to say it's random, but there aren't any hard and fast rules. One frustration I have with the TF mythology is the dearth of female characters, so for my stories I try to remedy somewhat. For characters with minimal fiction, I generally feel free to reimagine species and faction and personality and, yes, gender. Characters with no specified gender (Major Altitude comes to mind, as does Spacewarp) I'm especially prone to making female as it's not even genderbending in my head.\|link=https://web.archive.org/web/20170218015723/https://www.allspark.com/forums/topic/133737-beast-wars-uprising-ama/?p=3360055#entry3360150\|name=Jim Sorenson\|site=The Allspark forums\|title=Beast Wars Uprising: AMA\|year=2016\|month=10\|day=15}}</ref>		For the most part, each prose story focused on new sets of cast members drawn not just from the Beast Era but from all across the franchise's history. Many [[Mini-Con]]s appeared as [[Micromaster]]s. Characters with [[beast mode]]s or [[Thunderhoof (RID)\|animalistic robot modes]] were [[Repurposing\|repurposed]] as new, analogous Maximals and Predacons. As the majority of the stories were set before any characters obtained their more recognisable beast forms, various vehicular figures were given "[[Redeco#"Virtual" redecos\|virtual redecoes]]" to create Cybertronian forms for most of the cast. To help address the [[Female Transformer\|gender imbalance]] typical of ''Transformers'' fiction (particularly at the time), the authors would occasionally establish existing characters (particularly those who had no specified gender) to be female.<ref>{{citesocial\|quote=[Why do I sometimes make traditionally male characters female?] I hesitate to say it's random, but there aren't any hard and fast rules. One frustration I have with the TF mythology is the dearth of female characters, so for my stories I try to remedy somewhat. For characters with minimal fiction, I generally feel free to reimagine species and faction and personality and, yes, gender. Characters with no specified gender (Major Altitude comes to mind, as does Spacewarp) I'm especially prone to making female as it's not even genderbending in my head.\|link=https://web.archive.org/web/20170218015723/https://www.allspark.com/forums/topic/133737-beast-wars-uprising-ama/?p=3360055#entry3360150\|name=Jim Sorenson\|site=The Allspark forums\|title=Beast Wars Uprising: AMA\|year=2016\|month=10\|day=15}}</ref>

	In keeping with the intent of the original 1996 [[Beast Wars: Transformers (cartoon)\|''Beast Wars'' cartoon]], ''Beast Wars: Uprising'' uses an ambiguous mishmash of the [[The Transformers (Marvel comic)\|Marvel comic]] and the [[The Transformers (cartoon)\|Sunbow cartoon]] for its version of the Great War (for instance, [[Grimlock (G1)#Beast Wars: Uprising\|Grimlock]] takes his speech patterns from the cartoon but his personality from the comic) — though it throws in a number of elements from the [[2005 IDW continuity\|contemporaneous IDW comics]] (such as [[Conjunx Endura]]e and [[functionism]]) for good measure.		In keeping with the intent of the original 1996 [[Beast Wars: Transformers (cartoon)\|''Beast Wars'' cartoon]], ''Beast Wars: Uprising'' uses an ambiguous mishmash of the [[The Transformers (Marvel comic)\|Marvel comic]] and the [[The Transformers (cartoon)\|Sunbow cartoon]] for its version of the Great War (for instance, [[Grimlock (G1)#Beast Wars: Uprising\|Grimlock]] takes his speech patterns from the cartoon but his personality from the comic) — though it throws in a number of elements from the [[2005 IDW continuity\|contemporaneous IDW comics]] (such as [[Conjunx Endura]]e and [[functionism]]) for good measure.
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	The prose story authors described the ''Uprising'' universe as being populated by characters primarily using toy designs, whether physical figures or "[[Redeco#"Virtual" ~~redecoes~~\|virtual redecoes]]".<ref>{{citesocial\|quote=We usually come up with them as-needed in the story. We all liked the Titans Return Mindwipe and thought he might be neat for someone like Psychobat.\|link=https://web.archive.org/web/20170218015723/https://www.allspark.com/forums/topic/133737-beast-wars-uprising-ama/?p=3360055#entry3360052\|name=Jim Sorenson\|site=The Allspark forums\|title=Beast Wars Uprising: AMA\|year=2016\|month=10\|day=15}}</ref><ref>{{citesocial\|quote=It's always my preference to have a preexisting toy design. non-toy designs mostly just slipped though the cracks. The exception to that rule was the Destructons, I wanted to keep their unique aesthetic while introducing the idea of them transforming, as teased at the end of ''Alone Together''.\|link=https://web.archive.org/web/20170218015723/https://www.allspark.com/forums/topic/133737-beast-wars-uprising-ama/?p=3360055#entry3360052\|name=Jim Sorenson\|site=The Allspark forums\|title=Beast Wars Uprising: AMA\|year=2016\|month=10\|day=15}}</ref> The latter kind were necessary as a result of the story's focus on ''Beast Wars'' characters, despite the fact that they only [[Beast mode\|obtain beast forms]] towards the end of the series—and when they do so, the intent was for them to be [[technorganic]], meaning characters without existing [[Transmetal]] bodies would look different from their original toys anyway.<ref>{{citesocial\|quote=In my head, TM for Cheetor. I actually never gave Blackarachnia's body all that much thought. Since they were never depicted in artwork and we didn't write with a specific body and mind, you should imagine them in whatever body you think is most appropriate. It could even be a slightly mechanized version of their non transmetal body, like Ram Horn.\|link=http://web.archive.org/web/20201203134006/https://www.allspark.com/forums/topic/140167-ama-bish-jesse-jim/page-2#entry3512177\|name=Jim Sorenson\|site=The Allspark forums\|title=AMA: Bish, Jesse, & Jim\|year=2017\|month=05\|day=22}}</ref><ref>{{citesocial\|quote=The original idea was that all of the beast-upgrade characters would take on their TM bodies. Any that didn't have a TM or TM2 toy would become a mechanical version of their beast frame. If I had to tell Jim what toy to use for BA, it would probably be her TM2 toy. Although her Beast Machines toy (since it differed so much from the show model) would be tempting too.\|link=http://web.archive.org/web/20201203134006/https://www.allspark.com/forums/topic/140167-ama-bish-jesse-jim/page-2#entry3512197\|name=Jesse Wittenrich\|site=The Allspark forums\|title=AMA: Bish, Jesse, & Jim\|year=2017\|month=05\|day=22}}</ref><ref>{{citesocial\|quote=For my part I honestly kind of imagined her as a metallic version of her first BW body - black and gold, kind of small and sleek. I don't think we ever described her in enough detail to really pin it down though.\|link=http://web.archive.org/web/20201203134006/https://www.allspark.com/forums/topic/140167-ama-bish-jesse-jim/page-2#entry3512249\|name=David Bishop\|site=The Allspark forums\|title=AMA: Bish, Jesse, & Jim\|year=2017\|month=05\|day=22}}</ref> As a complete list of repurposed figures and virtual redecoes would be farcically long, the below list merely includes Collectors' Club figures appearing contemporaneously in ''Uprising'' stories.		The prose story authors described the ''Uprising'' universe as being populated by characters primarily using toy designs, whether physical figures or "[[Redeco#"Virtual" redecos\|virtual redecoes]]".<ref>{{citesocial\|quote=We usually come up with them as-needed in the story. We all liked the Titans Return Mindwipe and thought he might be neat for someone like Psychobat.\|link=https://web.archive.org/web/20170218015723/https://www.allspark.com/forums/topic/133737-beast-wars-uprising-ama/?p=3360055#entry3360052\|name=Jim Sorenson\|site=The Allspark forums\|title=Beast Wars Uprising: AMA\|year=2016\|month=10\|day=15}}</ref><ref>{{citesocial\|quote=It's always my preference to have a preexisting toy design. non-toy designs mostly just slipped though the cracks. The exception to that rule was the Destructons, I wanted to keep their unique aesthetic while introducing the idea of them transforming, as teased at the end of ''Alone Together''.\|link=https://web.archive.org/web/20170218015723/https://www.allspark.com/forums/topic/133737-beast-wars-uprising-ama/?p=3360055#entry3360052\|name=Jim Sorenson\|site=The Allspark forums\|title=Beast Wars Uprising: AMA\|year=2016\|month=10\|day=15}}</ref> The latter kind were necessary as a result of the story's focus on ''Beast Wars'' characters, despite the fact that they only [[Beast mode\|obtain beast forms]] towards the end of the series—and when they do so, the intent was for them to be [[technorganic]], meaning characters without existing [[Transmetal]] bodies would look different from their original toys anyway.<ref>{{citesocial\|quote=In my head, TM for Cheetor. I actually never gave Blackarachnia's body all that much thought. Since they were never depicted in artwork and we didn't write with a specific body and mind, you should imagine them in whatever body you think is most appropriate. It could even be a slightly mechanized version of their non transmetal body, like Ram Horn.\|link=http://web.archive.org/web/20201203134006/https://www.allspark.com/forums/topic/140167-ama-bish-jesse-jim/page-2#entry3512177\|name=Jim Sorenson\|site=The Allspark forums\|title=AMA: Bish, Jesse, & Jim\|year=2017\|month=05\|day=22}}</ref><ref>{{citesocial\|quote=The original idea was that all of the beast-upgrade characters would take on their TM bodies. Any that didn't have a TM or TM2 toy would become a mechanical version of their beast frame. If I had to tell Jim what toy to use for BA, it would probably be her TM2 toy. Although her Beast Machines toy (since it differed so much from the show model) would be tempting too.\|link=http://web.archive.org/web/20201203134006/https://www.allspark.com/forums/topic/140167-ama-bish-jesse-jim/page-2#entry3512197\|name=Jesse Wittenrich\|site=The Allspark forums\|title=AMA: Bish, Jesse, & Jim\|year=2017\|month=05\|day=22}}</ref><ref>{{citesocial\|quote=For my part I honestly kind of imagined her as a metallic version of her first BW body - black and gold, kind of small and sleek. I don't think we ever described her in enough detail to really pin it down though.\|link=http://web.archive.org/web/20201203134006/https://www.allspark.com/forums/topic/140167-ama-bish-jesse-jim/page-2#entry3512249\|name=David Bishop\|site=The Allspark forums\|title=AMA: Bish, Jesse, & Jim\|year=2017\|month=05\|day=22}}</ref> As a complete list of repurposed figures and virtual redecoes would be farcically long, the below list merely includes Collectors' Club figures appearing contemporaneously in ''Uprising'' stories.
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	==Notes==		==Notes==
			*Despite the title ''Beast Wars: Uprising'' having been assigned to the continuity from the very beginning, there were originally no plans for an actual uprising of any sort to take place—when tasked with fleshing out the universe, Jim Sorenson had to pitch Fun Publications on the idea of a rebellion!<ref>Jim Sorenson in conversation at TFNation 2023</ref>
	*Being set in the late 24th century, ''Uprising'' contains a number of references to ''[[Star Trek]]: {{w\|Star Trek: The Next Generation\|The Next Generation}}''.		*Being set in the late 24th century, ''Uprising'' contains a number of references to ''[[Star Trek]]: {{w\|Star Trek: The Next Generation\|The Next Generation}}''.
	*Jim Sorenson revealed the titles of three more prose stories which he might have written had he had more time: "False Equivalencies", featuring [[Immorticon (BW)\|Immorticon]],<ref>{{citesocial\|quote=Sometimes we start with a character and then build the story around him or her. Immorticon was like that... I liked the name, and eventually a story clicked. (''False Equivalencies'', if I ever have the chance to write it.) Sometimes it's a request from editorial. ''Identity Politics'' came about because FP requested a story to help promote the FSS5 Scorponok figure. Sometimes the idea for the story comes first. ''Intersectionality'' was because I didn't like leaving Transmutate and Rampage hanging in deep space when the main thrust of the action was on Cybertron. The idea of the Beast Wars Neo Predacons as the heroes came from brainstorming.\|link=https://web.archive.org/web/20170218015723/https://www.allspark.com/forums/topic/133737-beast-wars-uprising-ama/?p=3360055#entry3360052\|name=Jim Sorenson\|site=The Allspark forums\|title=Beast Wars Uprising: AMA\|year=2016\|month=10\|day=15}}</ref> "Virtue Signaling", featuring [[Maxima]],<ref>{{citesocial\|quote=The finale will have some flashbacks and the like about the past, but most of it will be in the here and now. Should the universe continue, I've got plenty of stories ranging from minus eleven million years all the way to the 34th century. That said, I like that the focus of the universe is the Maximals and Predacons, so I'd mostly want to focus on stories that are relevant to them. I think it's neat to get a glimpse of the mythology, but probably wouldn't write a whole story about, say, Jazz vs Starscream in 1985. But the story of Maxima, ''Virtue Signaling'', is set in the past. So was the aforementioned Immorticon tale.\|link=https://web.archive.org/web/20170218015723/https://www.allspark.com/forums/topic/133737-beast-wars-uprising-ama/?p=3360055#entry3360052\|name=Jim Sorenson\|site=The Allspark forums\|title=Beast Wars Uprising: AMA\|year=2016\|month=10\|day=15\|archived=y}}</ref> and "Other Victims", featuring the [[Vok]].<ref>{{citesocial\|link=http://www.allspark.com/forums/topic/133737-beast-wars-uprising-ama/?p=3361191\|name=Jim Sorenson\|site=The Allspark forums\|title=Beast Wars Uprising: AMA\|year=2016\|month=10\|day=16\|defunct=y}}</ref>		*Jim Sorenson revealed the titles of three more prose stories which he might have written had he had more time: "False Equivalencies", featuring [[Immorticon (BW)\|Immorticon]],<ref>{{citesocial\|quote=Sometimes we start with a character and then build the story around him or her. Immorticon was like that... I liked the name, and eventually a story clicked. (''False Equivalencies'', if I ever have the chance to write it.) Sometimes it's a request from editorial. ''Identity Politics'' came about because FP requested a story to help promote the FSS5 Scorponok figure. Sometimes the idea for the story comes first. ''Intersectionality'' was because I didn't like leaving Transmutate and Rampage hanging in deep space when the main thrust of the action was on Cybertron. The idea of the Beast Wars Neo Predacons as the heroes came from brainstorming.\|link=https://web.archive.org/web/20170218015723/https://www.allspark.com/forums/topic/133737-beast-wars-uprising-ama/?p=3360055#entry3360052\|name=Jim Sorenson\|site=The Allspark forums\|title=Beast Wars Uprising: AMA\|year=2016\|month=10\|day=15}}</ref> "Virtue Signaling", featuring [[Maxima]],<ref>{{citesocial\|quote=The finale will have some flashbacks and the like about the past, but most of it will be in the here and now. Should the universe continue, I've got plenty of stories ranging from minus eleven million years all the way to the 34th century. That said, I like that the focus of the universe is the Maximals and Predacons, so I'd mostly want to focus on stories that are relevant to them. I think it's neat to get a glimpse of the mythology, but probably wouldn't write a whole story about, say, Jazz vs Starscream in 1985. But the story of Maxima, ''Virtue Signaling'', is set in the past. So was the aforementioned Immorticon tale.\|link=https://web.archive.org/web/20170218015723/https://www.allspark.com/forums/topic/133737-beast-wars-uprising-ama/?p=3360055#entry3360052\|name=Jim Sorenson\|site=The Allspark forums\|title=Beast Wars Uprising: AMA\|year=2016\|month=10\|day=15\|archived=y}}</ref> and "Other Victims", featuring the [[Vok]].<ref>{{citesocial\|link=http://www.allspark.com/forums/topic/133737-beast-wars-uprising-ama/?p=3361191\|name=Jim Sorenson\|site=The Allspark forums\|title=Beast Wars Uprising: AMA\|year=2016\|month=10\|day=16\|defunct=y}}</ref>

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	''Beast Wars: Uprising'' focuses on a dystopian, late 24th century [[Cybertron (planet)\|Cybertron]], ages after the conclusion of the [[Great War (G1)\|Great War]]. Forcibly disarmed and exiled to their homeworld by the vastly superior [[Human Confederacy]], the decrepit [[Autobot]]s and [[Decepticon]]s have become the immobile [[Builder of Cybertron\|Builders of Cybertron]], constructing the [[Maximal]]s and [[Predacon (BW)\|Predacon]]s as their successors. In addition to maintaining most of the essential functions of society, the Maximals and Predacons also provide entertainment and preserve the devolved Autobot-Decepticon conflict via [[Games (competition)\|gladiatorial matches]]. [[Cybertronian Civil Wars\|Unsurprisingly]], however, the planet descends into war as [[Lio Convoy]] launches the [[Grand Uprising]] against the Builders. His [[Resistance (BWU)\|Resistance]] battles [[Micromaster]] troops and [[Maximal Command Security Force\|Maximal]] and [[Predacon Secret Police\|Predacon]] loyalists for control of their homeworld.		''Beast Wars: Uprising'' focuses on a dystopian, late 24th century [[Cybertron (planet)\|Cybertron]], ages after the conclusion of the [[Great War (G1)\|Great War]]. Forcibly disarmed and exiled to their homeworld by the vastly superior [[Human Confederacy]], the decrepit [[Autobot]]s and [[Decepticon]]s have become the immobile [[Builder of Cybertron\|Builders of Cybertron]], constructing the [[Maximal]]s and [[Predacon (BW)\|Predacon]]s as their successors. In addition to maintaining most of the essential functions of society, the Maximals and Predacons also provide entertainment and preserve the devolved Autobot-Decepticon conflict via [[Games (competition)\|gladiatorial matches]]. [[Cybertronian Civil Wars\|Unsurprisingly]], however, the planet descends into war as [[Lio Convoy (BW)\|Lio Convoy]] launches the [[Grand Uprising]] against the Builders. His [[Resistance (BWU)\|Resistance]] battles [[Micromaster]] troops and [[Maximal Command Security Force\|Maximal]] and [[Predacon Secret Police\|Predacon]] loyalists for control of their homeworld.

	The ''Beast Wars: Uprising'' universe was first glimpsed as the backstory for two characters who played significant roles in other ''Timelines'' stories: the profiles for [[Blackarachnia (BW)#Beast Wars: Uprising\|"''TransTech''" Blackarachnia]] and [[Depth Charge (BW)\|Depth Charge]] released in Collectors' Club magazine issues [[Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 25\|#25]] and [[Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 49\|#49]] (the writers sought to explain why Blackarachnia might side with Alpha "steal people's souls and hang 'em from the ceiling" Trion).<ref>{{citesocial\|quote=I would like to hear Jim's answer for how he got his ideas for the universe. The initial initial spark way back in Transtech Blackarachnia's bio came from the idea that we wanted a bit of a sympathetic character. Even if she was working for a guy potentially more evil than SG Optimus Prime (that guy being SG Alpha Trion). So we pondered the idea of why she would go against the Transtech in such a conniving and twisted way - extracting sparks to steal the empty bodies for espionage meant she had to have a VERY good reason to go that far. That all led to the idea that the Maximals and Predacons in her universe were kept as slaves under an unreachable aristocracy. Just as the Transtech sat far above the Lowtech. But why would Maximals and Predacons exist if Autobots and Decepticons were still around? Ah, they're too old to fight and force the other factions to do it for them. The Games then entered into play when Eject was turned into a BWU character. As a guy obsessed with sports - and the chess analogy already in BA's bio - it made sense to make the Maximal/Predacon conflict into a sports thing. Especially with the gladiatorial background in so many TF universes.\|link=https://web.archive.org/web/20170218015723/https://www.allspark.com/forums/topic/133737-beast-wars-uprising-ama/?p=3360055#entry3360144\|name=Jesse Wittenrich\|site=The Allspark forums\|title=Beast Wars Uprising: AMA\|year=2016\|month=10\|day=15}}</ref><ref>{{citesocial\|link=https://www.allspark.com/forums/topic/133737-beast-wars-uprising-ama/?p=3360144\|name=Jesse Wittenrich\|site=The Allspark forums\|title=Beast Wars Uprising: AMA\|year=2016\|month=10\|day=15\|defunct=y}}</ref> The actual name ''Beast Wars: Uprising'' was first given in a Collectors' Club tweet on [[February 14]] [[2014]]<ref>{{citesocial\|link=https://twitter.com/The_TF_Club/status/434375769330958337\|name=@The_TF_Club\|site=Twitter\|year=2014\|month=02\|day=14\|defunct=y}}</ref> and the setting was finally seen in full in that year's magazine comic arc ''[[Alone Together]]'', which promoted their new toys for [[Rampage (BW)#Timelines 2\|Rampage]] and [[Transmutate (BW)#Timelines\|Trans-Mutate]].		The ''Beast Wars: Uprising'' universe was first glimpsed as the backstory for two characters who played significant roles in other ''Timelines'' stories: the profiles for [[Blackarachnia (BW)#Beast Wars: Uprising\|"''TransTech''" Blackarachnia]] and [[Depth Charge (BW)\|Depth Charge]] released in Collectors' Club magazine issues [[Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 25\|#25]] and [[Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 49\|#49]] (the writers sought to explain why Blackarachnia might side with Alpha "steal people's souls and hang 'em from the ceiling" Trion).<ref>{{citesocial\|quote=I would like to hear Jim's answer for how he got his ideas for the universe. The initial initial spark way back in Transtech Blackarachnia's bio came from the idea that we wanted a bit of a sympathetic character. Even if she was working for a guy potentially more evil than SG Optimus Prime (that guy being SG Alpha Trion). So we pondered the idea of why she would go against the Transtech in such a conniving and twisted way - extracting sparks to steal the empty bodies for espionage meant she had to have a VERY good reason to go that far. That all led to the idea that the Maximals and Predacons in her universe were kept as slaves under an unreachable aristocracy. Just as the Transtech sat far above the Lowtech. But why would Maximals and Predacons exist if Autobots and Decepticons were still around? Ah, they're too old to fight and force the other factions to do it for them. The Games then entered into play when Eject was turned into a BWU character. As a guy obsessed with sports - and the chess analogy already in BA's bio - it made sense to make the Maximal/Predacon conflict into a sports thing. Especially with the gladiatorial background in so many TF universes.\|link=https://web.archive.org/web/20170218015723/https://www.allspark.com/forums/topic/133737-beast-wars-uprising-ama/?p=3360055#entry3360144\|name=Jesse Wittenrich\|site=The Allspark forums\|title=Beast Wars Uprising: AMA\|year=2016\|month=10\|day=15}}</ref><ref>{{citesocial\|link=https://www.allspark.com/forums/topic/133737-beast-wars-uprising-ama/?p=3360144\|name=Jesse Wittenrich\|site=The Allspark forums\|title=Beast Wars Uprising: AMA\|year=2016\|month=10\|day=15\|defunct=y}}</ref> The actual name ''Beast Wars: Uprising'' was first given in a Collectors' Club tweet on [[February 14]] [[2014]]<ref>{{citesocial\|link=https://twitter.com/The_TF_Club/status/434375769330958337\|name=@The_TF_Club\|site=Twitter\|year=2014\|month=02\|day=14\|defunct=y}}</ref> and the setting was finally seen in full in that year's magazine comic arc ''[[Alone Together]]'', which promoted their new toys for [[Rampage (BW)#Timelines 2\|Rampage]] and [[Transmutate (BW)#Timelines\|Trans-Mutate]].
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	[[Jim Sorenson]] was approached by Fun Publications to develop the world further in a 2015 prose story promoting their [[Eject (G1)#Timelines\|Eject]] and [[Lio Convoy#Timelines 2\|Lio Convoy]] figures—one which would also serve to continue Blackarachnia's storyline. At first he found the "''Beast Wars'' meets ''{{w\|The Hunger Games\|The Hunger Games}}''" conceit unappealing, but was inspired by contemporary social movements such as 2014's {{w\|Ferguson unrest\|Ferguson protests}} to craft a story about a marginalized people rising up against a corrupt authority (and to name individual entries after social phenomena).<ref>{{citesocial\|link=http://www.allspark.com/forums/topic/133737-beast-wars-uprising-ama/?p=3360155\|name=Jim Sorenson\|site=The Allspark forums\|title=Beast Wars Uprising: AMA\|year=2016\|month=10\|day=15\|defunct=y}}</ref> Over the next two years, he and co-writer [[David Bishop]] produced eleven more prose stories, which together cemented the world as one of the darkest interpretations of the ''Transformers'' story.		[[Jim Sorenson]] was approached by Fun Publications to develop the world further in a 2015 prose story promoting their [[Eject (G1)#Timelines\|Eject]] and [[Lio Convoy (BW)#Timelines 2\|Lio Convoy]] figures—one which would also serve to continue Blackarachnia's storyline. At first he found the "''Beast Wars'' meets ''{{w\|The Hunger Games\|The Hunger Games}}''" conceit unappealing, but was inspired by contemporary social movements such as 2014's {{w\|Ferguson unrest\|Ferguson protests}} to craft a story about a marginalized people rising up against a corrupt authority (and to name individual entries after social phenomena).<ref>{{citesocial\|link=http://www.allspark.com/forums/topic/133737-beast-wars-uprising-ama/?p=3360155\|name=Jim Sorenson\|site=The Allspark forums\|title=Beast Wars Uprising: AMA\|year=2016\|month=10\|day=15\|defunct=y}}</ref> Over the next two years, he and co-writer [[David Bishop]] produced eleven more prose stories, which together cemented the world as one of the darkest interpretations of the ''Transformers'' story.

	For the most part, each prose story focused on new sets of cast members drawn not just from the Beast Era but from all across the franchise's history. Many [[Mini-Con]]s appeared as [[Micromaster]]s. Characters with [[beast mode]]s or [[Thunderhoof (RID)\|animalistic robot modes]] were [[Repurposing\|repurposed]] as new, analogous Maximals and Predacons. As the majority of the stories were set before any characters obtained their more recognisable beast forms, various vehicular figures were given [[Redeco#"Virtual" redecos\|"virtual" redecos]] to create Cybertronian forms for most of the cast. To help address the [[Female Transformer\|gender imbalance]] typical of ''Transformers'' fiction (particularly at the time), the authors would occasionally establish existing characters (particularly those who had no specified gender) to be female.<ref>{{citesocial\|quote=[Why do I sometimes make traditionally male characters female?] I hesitate to say it's random, but there aren't any hard and fast rules. One frustration I have with the TF mythology is the dearth of female characters, so for my stories I try to remedy somewhat. For characters with minimal fiction, I generally feel free to reimagine species and faction and personality and, yes, gender. Characters with no specified gender (Major Altitude comes to mind, as does Spacewarp) I'm especially prone to making female as it's not even genderbending in my head.\|link=https://web.archive.org/web/20170218015723/https://www.allspark.com/forums/topic/133737-beast-wars-uprising-ama/?p=3360055#entry3360150\|name=Jim Sorenson\|site=The Allspark forums\|title=Beast Wars Uprising: AMA\|year=2016\|month=10\|day=15}}</ref>		For the most part, each prose story focused on new sets of cast members drawn not just from the Beast Era but from all across the franchise's history. Many [[Mini-Con]]s appeared as [[Micromaster]]s. Characters with [[beast mode]]s or [[Thunderhoof (RID)\|animalistic robot modes]] were [[Repurposing\|repurposed]] as new, analogous Maximals and Predacons. As the majority of the stories were set before any characters obtained their more recognisable beast forms, various vehicular figures were given [[Redeco#"Virtual" redecos\|"virtual" redecos]] to create Cybertronian forms for most of the cast. To help address the [[Female Transformer\|gender imbalance]] typical of ''Transformers'' fiction (particularly at the time), the authors would occasionally establish existing characters (particularly those who had no specified gender) to be female.<ref>{{citesocial\|quote=[Why do I sometimes make traditionally male characters female?] I hesitate to say it's random, but there aren't any hard and fast rules. One frustration I have with the TF mythology is the dearth of female characters, so for my stories I try to remedy somewhat. For characters with minimal fiction, I generally feel free to reimagine species and faction and personality and, yes, gender. Characters with no specified gender (Major Altitude comes to mind, as does Spacewarp) I'm especially prone to making female as it's not even genderbending in my head.\|link=https://web.archive.org/web/20170218015723/https://www.allspark.com/forums/topic/133737-beast-wars-uprising-ama/?p=3360055#entry3360150\|name=Jim Sorenson\|site=The Allspark forums\|title=Beast Wars Uprising: AMA\|year=2016\|month=10\|day=15}}</ref>
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	==Toys==		==Toys==
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	The prose story authors described the ''Uprising'' universe as being populated by characters primarily using toy designs, whether by [[repurposing]] physical figures or coming up with [[Redeco#"Virtual" redecos\|"virtual" redecos]].<ref>{{citesocial\|quote=We usually come up with them as-needed in the story. We all liked the Titans Return Mindwipe and thought he might be neat for someone like Psychobat.\|link=https://web.archive.org/web/20170218015723/https://www.allspark.com/forums/topic/133737-beast-wars-uprising-ama/?p=3360055#entry3360052\|name=Jim Sorenson\|site=The Allspark forums\|title=Beast Wars Uprising: AMA\|year=2016\|month=10\|day=15}}</ref><ref>{{citesocial\|quote=It's always my preference to have a preexisting toy design. non-toy designs mostly just slipped though the cracks. The exception to that rule was the Destructons, I wanted to keep their unique aesthetic while introducing the idea of them transforming, as teased at the end of ''Alone Together''.\|link=https://web.archive.org/web/20170218015723/https://www.allspark.com/forums/topic/133737-beast-wars-uprising-ama/?p=3360055#entry3360052\|name=Jim Sorenson\|site=The Allspark forums\|title=Beast Wars Uprising: AMA\|year=2016\|month=10\|day=15}}</ref> The latter kind were necessary as a result of the story's focus on ''Beast Wars'' characters, despite the fact that they only [[Beast mode\|obtain beast forms]] towards the end of the series—and when they do so, the intent was for them to be [[technorganic]], meaning characters without existing [[Transmetal]] bodies would look different from their original toys anyway.<ref>{{citesocial\|quote=In my head, TM for Cheetor. I actually never gave Blackarachnia's body all that much thought. Since they were never depicted in artwork and we didn't write with a specific body and mind, you should imagine them in whatever body you think is most appropriate. It could even be a slightly mechanized version of their non transmetal body, like Ram Horn.\|link=http://web.archive.org/web/20201203134006/https://www.allspark.com/forums/topic/140167-ama-bish-jesse-jim/page-2#entry3512177\|name=Jim Sorenson\|site=The Allspark forums\|title=AMA: Bish, Jesse, & Jim\|year=2017\|month=05\|day=22}}</ref><ref>{{citesocial\|quote=The original idea was that all of the beast-upgrade characters would take on their TM bodies. Any that didn't have a TM or TM2 toy would become a mechanical version of their beast frame. If I had to tell Jim what toy to use for BA, it would probably be her TM2 toy. Although her Beast Machines toy (since it differed so much from the show model) would be tempting too.\|link=http://web.archive.org/web/20201203134006/https://www.allspark.com/forums/topic/140167-ama-bish-jesse-jim/page-2#entry3512197\|name=Jesse Wittenrich\|site=The Allspark forums\|title=AMA: Bish, Jesse, & Jim\|year=2017\|month=05\|day=22}}</ref><ref>{{citesocial\|quote=For my part I honestly kind of imagined her as a metallic version of her first BW body - black and gold, kind of small and sleek. I don't think we ever described her in enough detail to really pin it down though.\|link=http://web.archive.org/web/20201203134006/https://www.allspark.com/forums/topic/140167-ama-bish-jesse-jim/page-2#entry3512249\|name=David Bishop\|site=The Allspark forums\|title=AMA: Bish, Jesse, & Jim\|year=2017\|month=05\|day=22}}</ref> As a complete list of repurposed figures and "virtual" redecos would be farcically long, the below list merely includes Collectors' Club figures appearing contemporaneously in ''Uprising'' stories.		The prose story authors described the ''Uprising'' universe as being populated by characters primarily using toy designs, whether by [[repurposing]] physical figures or coming up with [[Redeco#"Virtual" redecos\|"virtual" redecos]].<ref>{{citesocial\|quote=We usually come up with them as-needed in the story. We all liked the Titans Return Mindwipe and thought he might be neat for someone like Psychobat.\|link=https://web.archive.org/web/20170218015723/https://www.allspark.com/forums/topic/133737-beast-wars-uprising-ama/?p=3360055#entry3360052\|name=Jim Sorenson\|site=The Allspark forums\|title=Beast Wars Uprising: AMA\|year=2016\|month=10\|day=15}}</ref><ref>{{citesocial\|quote=It's always my preference to have a preexisting toy design. non-toy designs mostly just slipped though the cracks. The exception to that rule was the Destructons, I wanted to keep their unique aesthetic while introducing the idea of them transforming, as teased at the end of ''Alone Together''.\|link=https://web.archive.org/web/20170218015723/https://www.allspark.com/forums/topic/133737-beast-wars-uprising-ama/?p=3360055#entry3360052\|name=Jim Sorenson\|site=The Allspark forums\|title=Beast Wars Uprising: AMA\|year=2016\|month=10\|day=15}}</ref> The latter kind were necessary as a result of the story's focus on ''Beast Wars'' characters, despite the fact that they only [[Beast mode\|obtain beast forms]] towards the end of the series—and when they do so, the intent was for them to be [[technorganic]], meaning characters without existing [[Transmetal]] bodies would look different from their original toys anyway.<ref>{{citesocial\|quote=In my head, TM for Cheetor. I actually never gave Blackarachnia's body all that much thought. Since they were never depicted in artwork and we didn't write with a specific body and mind, you should imagine them in whatever body you think is most appropriate. It could even be a slightly mechanized version of their non transmetal body, like Ram Horn.\|link=http://web.archive.org/web/20201203134006/https://www.allspark.com/forums/topic/140167-ama-bish-jesse-jim/page-2#entry3512177\|name=Jim Sorenson\|site=The Allspark forums\|title=AMA: Bish, Jesse, & Jim\|year=2017\|month=05\|day=22}}</ref><ref>{{citesocial\|quote=The original idea was that all of the beast-upgrade characters would take on their TM bodies. Any that didn't have a TM or TM2 toy would become a mechanical version of their beast frame. If I had to tell Jim what toy to use for BA, it would probably be her TM2 toy. Although her Beast Machines toy (since it differed so much from the show model) would be tempting too.\|link=http://web.archive.org/web/20201203134006/https://www.allspark.com/forums/topic/140167-ama-bish-jesse-jim/page-2#entry3512197\|name=Jesse Wittenrich\|site=The Allspark forums\|title=AMA: Bish, Jesse, & Jim\|year=2017\|month=05\|day=22}}</ref><ref>{{citesocial\|quote=For my part I honestly kind of imagined her as a metallic version of her first BW body - black and gold, kind of small and sleek. I don't think we ever described her in enough detail to really pin it down though.\|link=http://web.archive.org/web/20201203134006/https://www.allspark.com/forums/topic/140167-ama-bish-jesse-jim/page-2#entry3512249\|name=David Bishop\|site=The Allspark forums\|title=AMA: Bish, Jesse, & Jim\|year=2017\|month=05\|day=22}}</ref> As a complete list of repurposed figures and "virtual" redecos would be farcically long, the below list merely includes Collectors' Club figures appearing contemporaneously in ''Uprising'' stories.
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	{{Bp-a1\|[[Eject (G1)#Timelines\|Eject]]}}		{{Bp-a1\|[[Eject (G1)#Timelines\|Eject]]}}
	{{Bp-p1\|[[Waspinator (BW)/toys#Thrustinator\|Thrustinator]]}}		{{Bp-p1\|[[Waspinator (BW)/toys#Thrustinator\|Thrustinator]]}}
	~~{{Bp-p1\|[[Scorponok (BW)#Combiner_Wars\|Scorponok]]}}~~
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	\|width="20%" valign="top"\|<u>'''[[BotCon 2015]]'''</u>		\|width="20%" valign="top"\|<u>''' ''Timelines'' / [[BotCon 2015]]'''</u>
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	{{Bp-m1\|[[Galva Convoy#Toys\|Galva Convoy]]}}		{{Bp-m1\|[[Galva Convoy#Toys\|Galva Convoy]]}}

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	{{Bp-p1\|[[Megatron_(BW)/toys#Combiner_Wars\|Megatron]]}}		{{Bp-p1\|[[Megatron_(BW)/toys#Combiner_Wars\|Megatron]]}}
	{{Bp-p1\|[[Terrorsaur (BW)#Combiner_Wars\|Terrorsaur]]}}		{{Bp-p1\|[[Terrorsaur (BW)#Combiner_Wars\|Terrorsaur]]}}
	{{Bp-p1\|[[Tarantulas (BW)/toys#Combiner_Wars\|Tarantulas]]}}		{{Bp-p1\|[[Tarantulas (BW)/toys#Combiner_Wars\|Tarantulas]]}}
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			\|width="20%" valign="top"\|<u>''' ''Combiner Wars'' / TFSS 5.0 </u>
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			{{Bp-p1\|[[Scorponok (BW)#Combiner_Wars\|Scorponok]]}}

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	\|width="20%" valign="top"\|<u>'''[[Transformers Legends (franchise)\|Legends]]'''</u>		\|width="20%" valign="top"\|<u>'''[[Transformers Legends (franchise)\|Legends]]'''</u>

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	{{Bp-m1\|[[Transmutate (BW)#Timelines\|Trans-Mutate]]}}		{{Bp-m1\|[[Transmutate (BW)#Timelines\|Trans-Mutate]]}}
	*[[Rampage (BW)#Timelines 2\|Rampage]]		{{Bp-multi\|[[Rampage (BW)#Timelines 2\|Rampage]]}}
	{{Bp-m1\|[[Lio Convoy#Timelines 2\|Lio Convoy]]}}		{{Bp-m1\|[[Lio Convoy#Timelines 2\|Lio Convoy]]}}
	{{Bp-a1\|[[Eject (G1)#Timelines\|Eject]]}}		{{Bp-a1\|[[Eject (G1)#Timelines\|Eject]]}}
	{{Bp-p1\|[[Waspinator (BW)/toys#Thrustinator\|Thrustinator]]}}		{{Bp-p1\|[[Waspinator (BW)/toys#Thrustinator\|Thrustinator]]}}
	{{Bp-p1\|[[Scorponok (BW)#~~Generations~~\|Scorponok]]}}		{{Bp-p1\|[[Scorponok (BW)#Combiner_Wars\|Scorponok]]}}
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	* An early idea for [[BotCon 2016]]'s [[Dawn of the Predacus\|exclusive comic]] would have involved the ''Uprising'' storyline, depicting [[Magnaboss (BW)\|Magnaboss]] as an antagonistic Builder creation.<ref>{{citesocial\|quote=VERY early on in the process, I was asked to pitch an idea for what Dawn of the Predacus would have looked like in the BWU universe. It would have been a story where the ghost of Prowl (Prowl II maybe) was acting from beyond the grave to put together a Builder threat, the Magnaboss. In the end, the Tri-Predacus Council itself would have had to intervene to stop the rampage. You can still see the toys solicited as such: https://www.toyarama.com/store/2016-botcon-beast-wars-uprising-dawn-of-the-predacus-five-figure-combiner-wars-boxed-convention-set-non-attending-1-pc-p1414.php In the end, though, FP opted to outsource the comic to IDW, so that story got shelved.\|link=https://web.archive.org/web/20170218015723/https://www.allspark.com/forums/topic/133737-beast-wars-uprising-ama/?p=3360055#entry3360055\|name=Jim Sorenson\|site=The Allspark forums\|title=Beast Wars Uprising: AMA\|year=2016\|month=10\|day=15}}</ref><ref>{{citesocial\|link=https://www.allspark.com/forums/topic/140167-ama-bish-jesse-jim/?p=3516969\|name=Jim Sorenson\|site=The Allspark forums\|title=AMA: Bish, Jesse, & Jim\|year=2017\|month=05\|day=28\|defunct=y}}</ref> For more information, see the page for that comic.		* An early idea for [[BotCon 2016]]'s [[Dawn of the Predacus\|exclusive comic]] would have involved the ''Uprising'' storyline, depicting [[Magnaboss (BW)\|Magnaboss]] as an antagonistic Builder creation.<ref>{{citesocial\|quote=VERY early on in the process, I was asked to pitch an idea for what Dawn of the Predacus would have looked like in the BWU universe. It would have been a story where the ghost of Prowl (Prowl II maybe) was acting from beyond the grave to put together a Builder threat, the Magnaboss. In the end, the Tri-Predacus Council itself would have had to intervene to stop the rampage. You can still see the toys solicited as such: https://www.toyarama.com/store/2016-botcon-beast-wars-uprising-dawn-of-the-predacus-five-figure-combiner-wars-boxed-convention-set-non-attending-1-pc-p1414.php In the end, though, FP opted to outsource the comic to IDW, so that story got shelved.\|link=https://web.archive.org/web/20170218015723/https://www.allspark.com/forums/topic/133737-beast-wars-uprising-ama/?p=3360055#entry3360055\|name=Jim Sorenson\|site=The Allspark forums\|title=Beast Wars Uprising: AMA\|year=2016\|month=10\|day=15}}</ref><ref>{{citesocial\|link=https://www.allspark.com/forums/topic/140167-ama-bish-jesse-jim/?p=3516969\|name=Jim Sorenson\|site=The Allspark forums\|title=AMA: Bish, Jesse, & Jim\|year=2017\|month=05\|day=28\|defunct=y}}</ref> For more information, see the page for that comic.
	* When asked about a possible ''Uprising'' incarnation of [[Vector Prime]] (star of Sorenson's previous work on [[Ask Vector Prime]]), Sorenson stated there probably wasn't one, but that [[Safeguard (Cybertron)\|Safeguard]] was probably a [[Targetmaster (technology)\|Targetmaster]] in this universe.<ref>{{citesocial\|quote=I don't think there is a Vector Prime analog in this universe. If there is, I haven't found a place for him. Maybe in the distant past or future. Safeguard was probably active during the Great War and, being Targetmaster-y, probably isn't alive anymore.\|link=https://web.archive.org/web/20170218015723/https://www.allspark.com/forums/topic/133737-beast-wars-uprising-ama/?p=3360055#entry3360151\|name=Jim Sorenson\|site=The Allspark forums\|title=Beast Wars Uprising: AMA\|year=2016\|month=10\|day=15}}</ref>		* When asked about a possible ''Uprising'' incarnation of [[Vector Prime]] (star of Sorenson's previous work on [[Ask Vector Prime]]), Sorenson stated there probably wasn't one, but that [[Safeguard (Cybertron)\|Safeguard]] was probably a [[Targetmaster (technology)\|Targetmaster]] in this universe.<ref>{{citesocial\|quote=I don't think there is a Vector Prime analog in this universe. If there is, I haven't found a place for him. Maybe in the distant past or future. Safeguard was probably active during the Great War and, being Targetmaster-y, probably isn't alive anymore.\|link=https://web.archive.org/web/20170218015723/https://www.allspark.com/forums/topic/133737-beast-wars-uprising-ama/?p=3360055#entry3360151\|name=Jim Sorenson\|site=The Allspark forums\|title=Beast Wars Uprising: AMA\|year=2016\|month=10\|day=15}}</ref>
	* ''Uprising'' sometimes based Cybertronians on franchises adjacent to ''Transformers'', such as [[Vampire]] from ''[[M.A.S.K. (franchise)\|M.A.S.K.]]'' or [[Battlefennec\|Fennec]] from ''[[Beastformers (franchise)\|Battle Beasts]]''.<ref>{{citesocial\|quote=Not as such. Quantum Harmonic Resonance is such that their analogues in this dimension tend to be Cybertronian. We've already seen that with guys like Fennec and will probably continue to do so. The same goes for MASK characters, like Aura and Vampire.\|link=https://web.archive.org/web/20170218015723/https://www.allspark.com/forums/topic/133737-beast-wars-uprising-ama/?p=3360055#entry3360152\|name=Jim Sorenson\|site=The Allspark forums\|title=Beast Wars Uprising: AMA\|year=2016\|month=10\|day=15}}</ref>		* ''Uprising'' sometimes based Cybertronians on franchises adjacent to ''Transformers'', such as [[Vampire_(BWU)\|Vampire]] from ''[[M.A.S.K. (franchise)\|M.A.S.K.]]'' or [[Battlefennec\|Fennec]] from ''[[Beastformers (franchise)\|Battle Beasts]]''.<ref>{{citesocial\|quote=Not as such. Quantum Harmonic Resonance is such that their analogues in this dimension tend to be Cybertronian. We've already seen that with guys like Fennec and will probably continue to do so. The same goes for MASK characters, like Aura and Vampire.\|link=https://web.archive.org/web/20170218015723/https://www.allspark.com/forums/topic/133737-beast-wars-uprising-ama/?p=3360055#entry3360152\|name=Jim Sorenson\|site=The Allspark forums\|title=Beast Wars Uprising: AMA\|year=2016\|month=10\|day=15}}</ref>
	* Sorenson cited his favorite characters to write as being [[Wolfang (Maximal)\|Wolfang]] and [[Longrack (BW)\|Longrack]].<ref>{{citesocial\|quote=Oooh, that's a toughie. There's one from the first part of the finale who was really difficult to write for but came out very nicely. Wolfang was a hoot, but Bish did most of the heavy lifting there. Longrack was a lotta fun; I love his officiousness. There's a little bit of Arnold J. Rimmer in there.\|link=https://web.archive.org/web/20170218015723/https://www.allspark.com/forums/topic/133737-beast-wars-uprising-ama/?p=3360055#entry3360052\|name=Jim Sorenson\|site=The Allspark forums\|title=Beast Wars Uprising: AMA\|year=2016\|month=10\|day=15}}</ref>		* Sorenson cited his favorite characters to write as being [[Wolfang (Maximal)\|Wolfang]] and [[Longrack (BW)\|Longrack]].<ref>{{citesocial\|quote=Oooh, that's a toughie. There's one from the first part of the finale who was really difficult to write for but came out very nicely. Wolfang was a hoot, but Bish did most of the heavy lifting there. Longrack was a lotta fun; I love his officiousness. There's a little bit of Arnold J. Rimmer in there.\|link=https://web.archive.org/web/20170218015723/https://www.allspark.com/forums/topic/133737-beast-wars-uprising-ama/?p=3360055#entry3360052\|name=Jim Sorenson\|site=The Allspark forums\|title=Beast Wars Uprising: AMA\|year=2016\|month=10\|day=15}}</ref>
	* Early in ''Beast Wars: Uprising'', the term "protoform" is used with its conventional definition as a developmental stage for Cybertronians, sometimes used analogously to "child", or more clinically as the basic form of Maximals and Predacons. "[[Intersectionality]]" introduced the phrase "Proto-races" to refer to these groups, which entered regular usage in "[[Not All Megatrons]]". "[[Cultural Appropriation]]" briefly used the phrase "Proto-Cybertronian". In "[[Safe Spaces]]", the term "proto-formers" first appeared, which by "[[Derailment]]" had become the most common term used to refer to the Maximals and Predacons; presumably to match this new term, "proto-races" was no longer capitalised. Often, "proto-" can just be used as a prefix, as in "proto-sized" (in "[[Trigger Warnings]]"), "Proto point one percenter" (in "Cultural Appropriation"), "proto-scale", "proto-nations", "proto-soldiers", "proto-punks", and the "[[League of Autonomous Proto-States]]" (all in "Derailment").		* Early in ''Beast Wars: Uprising'', the term "protoform" is used with its conventional definition as a developmental stage for Cybertronians, sometimes used analogously to "child", or more clinically as the basic form of Maximals and Predacons. "[[Intersectionality]]" introduced the phrase "Proto-races" to refer to these groups, which entered regular usage in "[[Not All Megatrons]]". "[[Cultural Appropriation]]" briefly used the phrase "Proto-Cybertronian". In "[[Safe Spaces]]", the term "proto-formers" first appeared, which by "[[Derailment]]" had become the most common term used to refer to the Maximals and Predacons; presumably to match this new term, "proto-races" was no longer capitalised. Often, "proto-" can just be used as a prefix, as in "proto-sized" (in "[[Trigger Warnings]]"), "Proto point one percenter" (in "Cultural Appropriation"), "proto-scale", "proto-nations", "proto-soldiers", "proto-punks", and the "[[League of Autonomous Proto-States]]" (all in "Derailment").

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	==Notes==		==Notes==
	*Despite the title ''Beast Wars: Uprising'' having been assigned to the continuity from the very beginning, there were originally no plans for an actual uprising of any sort to take place—when tasked with fleshing out the universe, Jim Sorenson had to pitch Fun Publications on the idea of a rebellion!<ref>Jim Sorenson in conversation at TFNation 2023</ref>		* Despite the title ''Beast Wars: Uprising'' having been assigned to the continuity from the very beginning, there were originally no plans for an actual uprising of any sort to take place—when tasked with fleshing out the universe, Jim Sorenson had to pitch Fun Publications on the idea of a rebellion!<ref>Jim Sorenson in conversation at TFNation 2023</ref>
	*Being set in the late 24th century, ''Uprising'' contains a number of references to ''[[Star Trek]]: {{w\|Star Trek: The Next Generation\|The Next Generation}}''.		* Being set in the late 24th century, ''Uprising'' contains a number of references to ''[[Star Trek]]: {{w\|Star Trek: The Next Generation\|The Next Generation}}''.
	*Jim Sorenson revealed the titles of three more prose stories which he might have written had he had more time: "False Equivalencies", featuring [[Immorticon (BW)\|Immorticon]],<ref>{{citesocial\|quote=Sometimes we start with a character and then build the story around him or her. Immorticon was like that... I liked the name, and eventually a story clicked. (''False Equivalencies'', if I ever have the chance to write it.) Sometimes it's a request from editorial. ''Identity Politics'' came about because FP requested a story to help promote the FSS5 Scorponok figure. Sometimes the idea for the story comes first. ''Intersectionality'' was because I didn't like leaving Transmutate and Rampage hanging in deep space when the main thrust of the action was on Cybertron. The idea of the Beast Wars Neo Predacons as the heroes came from brainstorming.\|link=https://web.archive.org/web/20170218015723/https://www.allspark.com/forums/topic/133737-beast-wars-uprising-ama/?p=3360055#entry3360052\|name=Jim Sorenson\|site=The Allspark forums\|title=Beast Wars Uprising: AMA\|year=2016\|month=10\|day=15}}</ref> "Virtue Signaling", featuring [[Maxima]],<ref>{{citesocial\|quote=The finale will have some flashbacks and the like about the past, but most of it will be in the here and now. Should the universe continue, I've got plenty of stories ranging from minus eleven million years all the way to the 34th century. That said, I like that the focus of the universe is the Maximals and Predacons, so I'd mostly want to focus on stories that are relevant to them. I think it's neat to get a glimpse of the mythology, but probably wouldn't write a whole story about, say, Jazz vs Starscream in 1985. But the story of Maxima, ''Virtue Signaling'', is set in the past. So was the aforementioned Immorticon tale.\|link=https://web.archive.org/web/20170218015723/https://www.allspark.com/forums/topic/133737-beast-wars-uprising-ama/?p=3360055#entry3360052\|name=Jim Sorenson\|site=The Allspark forums\|title=Beast Wars Uprising: AMA\|year=2016\|month=10\|day=15\|archived=y}}</ref> and "Other Victims", featuring the [[Vok]].<ref>{{citesocial\|link=http://www.allspark.com/forums/topic/133737-beast-wars-uprising-ama/?p=3361191\|name=Jim Sorenson\|site=The Allspark forums\|title=Beast Wars Uprising: AMA\|year=2016\|month=10\|day=16\|defunct=y}}</ref>		* Jim Sorenson revealed the titles of three more prose stories which he might have written had he had more time: "False Equivalencies", featuring [[Immorticon (BW)\|Immorticon]],<ref>{{citesocial\|quote=Sometimes we start with a character and then build the story around him or her. Immorticon was like that... I liked the name, and eventually a story clicked. (''False Equivalencies'', if I ever have the chance to write it.) Sometimes it's a request from editorial. ''Identity Politics'' came about because FP requested a story to help promote the FSS5 Scorponok figure. Sometimes the idea for the story comes first. ''Intersectionality'' was because I didn't like leaving Transmutate and Rampage hanging in deep space when the main thrust of the action was on Cybertron. The idea of the Beast Wars Neo Predacons as the heroes came from brainstorming.\|link=https://web.archive.org/web/20170218015723/https://www.allspark.com/forums/topic/133737-beast-wars-uprising-ama/?p=3360055#entry3360052\|name=Jim Sorenson\|site=The Allspark forums\|title=Beast Wars Uprising: AMA\|year=2016\|month=10\|day=15}}</ref> "Virtue Signaling", featuring [[Maxima]],<ref>{{citesocial\|quote=The finale will have some flashbacks and the like about the past, but most of it will be in the here and now. Should the universe continue, I've got plenty of stories ranging from minus eleven million years all the way to the 34th century. That said, I like that the focus of the universe is the Maximals and Predacons, so I'd mostly want to focus on stories that are relevant to them. I think it's neat to get a glimpse of the mythology, but probably wouldn't write a whole story about, say, Jazz vs Starscream in 1985. But the story of Maxima, ''Virtue Signaling'', is set in the past. So was the aforementioned Immorticon tale.\|link=https://web.archive.org/web/20170218015723/https://www.allspark.com/forums/topic/133737-beast-wars-uprising-ama/?p=3360055#entry3360052\|name=Jim Sorenson\|site=The Allspark forums\|title=Beast Wars Uprising: AMA\|year=2016\|month=10\|day=15\|archived=y}}</ref> and "Other Victims", featuring the [[Vok]].<ref>{{citesocial\|link=http://www.allspark.com/forums/topic/133737-beast-wars-uprising-ama/?p=3361191\|name=Jim Sorenson\|site=The Allspark forums\|title=Beast Wars Uprising: AMA\|year=2016\|month=10\|day=16\|defunct=y}}</ref>
	*An early idea for [[BotCon 2016]]'s [[Dawn of the Predacus\|exclusive comic]] would have involved the ''Uprising'' storyline, depicting [[Magnaboss (BW)\|Magnaboss]] as an antagonistic Builder creation.<ref>{{citesocial\|quote=VERY early on in the process, I was asked to pitch an idea for what Dawn of the Predacus would have looked like in the BWU universe. It would have been a story where the ghost of Prowl (Prowl II maybe) was acting from beyond the grave to put together a Builder threat, the Magnaboss. In the end, the Tri-Predacus Council itself would have had to intervene to stop the rampage. You can still see the toys solicited as such: https://www.toyarama.com/store/2016-botcon-beast-wars-uprising-dawn-of-the-predacus-five-figure-combiner-wars-boxed-convention-set-non-attending-1-pc-p1414.php In the end, though, FP opted to outsource the comic to IDW, so that story got shelved.\|link=https://web.archive.org/web/20170218015723/https://www.allspark.com/forums/topic/133737-beast-wars-uprising-ama/?p=3360055#entry3360055\|name=Jim Sorenson\|site=The Allspark forums\|title=Beast Wars Uprising: AMA\|year=2016\|month=10\|day=15}}</ref><ref>{{citesocial\|link=https://www.allspark.com/forums/topic/140167-ama-bish-jesse-jim/?p=3516969\|name=Jim Sorenson\|site=The Allspark forums\|title=AMA: Bish, Jesse, & Jim\|year=2017\|month=05\|day=28\|defunct=y}}</ref> For more information, see the page for that comic.		* An early idea for [[BotCon 2016]]'s [[Dawn of the Predacus\|exclusive comic]] would have involved the ''Uprising'' storyline, depicting [[Magnaboss (BW)\|Magnaboss]] as an antagonistic Builder creation.<ref>{{citesocial\|quote=VERY early on in the process, I was asked to pitch an idea for what Dawn of the Predacus would have looked like in the BWU universe. It would have been a story where the ghost of Prowl (Prowl II maybe) was acting from beyond the grave to put together a Builder threat, the Magnaboss. In the end, the Tri-Predacus Council itself would have had to intervene to stop the rampage. You can still see the toys solicited as such: https://www.toyarama.com/store/2016-botcon-beast-wars-uprising-dawn-of-the-predacus-five-figure-combiner-wars-boxed-convention-set-non-attending-1-pc-p1414.php In the end, though, FP opted to outsource the comic to IDW, so that story got shelved.\|link=https://web.archive.org/web/20170218015723/https://www.allspark.com/forums/topic/133737-beast-wars-uprising-ama/?p=3360055#entry3360055\|name=Jim Sorenson\|site=The Allspark forums\|title=Beast Wars Uprising: AMA\|year=2016\|month=10\|day=15}}</ref><ref>{{citesocial\|link=https://www.allspark.com/forums/topic/140167-ama-bish-jesse-jim/?p=3516969\|name=Jim Sorenson\|site=The Allspark forums\|title=AMA: Bish, Jesse, & Jim\|year=2017\|month=05\|day=28\|defunct=y}}</ref> For more information, see the page for that comic.
	*When asked about a possible ''Uprising'' incarnation of [[Vector Prime]] (star of Sorenson's previous work on [[Ask Vector Prime]]), Sorenson stated there probably wasn't one, but that [[Safeguard (Cybertron)\|Safeguard]] was probably a [[Targetmaster (technology)\|Targetmaster]] in this universe.<ref>{{citesocial\|quote=I don't think there is a Vector Prime analog in this universe. If there is, I haven't found a place for him. Maybe in the distant past or future. Safeguard was probably active during the Great War and, being Targetmaster-y, probably isn't alive anymore.\|link=https://web.archive.org/web/20170218015723/https://www.allspark.com/forums/topic/133737-beast-wars-uprising-ama/?p=3360055#entry3360151\|name=Jim Sorenson\|site=The Allspark forums\|title=Beast Wars Uprising: AMA\|year=2016\|month=10\|day=15}}</ref>		* When asked about a possible ''Uprising'' incarnation of [[Vector Prime]] (star of Sorenson's previous work on [[Ask Vector Prime]]), Sorenson stated there probably wasn't one, but that [[Safeguard (Cybertron)\|Safeguard]] was probably a [[Targetmaster (technology)\|Targetmaster]] in this universe.<ref>{{citesocial\|quote=I don't think there is a Vector Prime analog in this universe. If there is, I haven't found a place for him. Maybe in the distant past or future. Safeguard was probably active during the Great War and, being Targetmaster-y, probably isn't alive anymore.\|link=https://web.archive.org/web/20170218015723/https://www.allspark.com/forums/topic/133737-beast-wars-uprising-ama/?p=3360055#entry3360151\|name=Jim Sorenson\|site=The Allspark forums\|title=Beast Wars Uprising: AMA\|year=2016\|month=10\|day=15}}</ref>
	*''Uprising'' sometimes based Cybertronians on franchises adjacent to ''Transformers'', such as [[Vampire]] from ''[[M.A.S.K. (franchise)\|M.A.S.K.]]'' or [[Battlefennec\|Fennec]] from ''[[Beastformers (franchise)\|Battle Beasts]]''.<ref>{{citesocial\|quote=Not as such. Quantum Harmonic Resonance is such that their analogues in this dimension tend to be Cybertronian. We've already seen that with guys like Fennec and will probably continue to do so. The same goes for MASK characters, like Aura and Vampire.\|link=https://web.archive.org/web/20170218015723/https://www.allspark.com/forums/topic/133737-beast-wars-uprising-ama/?p=3360055#entry3360152\|name=Jim Sorenson\|site=The Allspark forums\|title=Beast Wars Uprising: AMA\|year=2016\|month=10\|day=15}}</ref>		* ''Uprising'' sometimes based Cybertronians on franchises adjacent to ''Transformers'', such as [[Vampire]] from ''[[M.A.S.K. (franchise)\|M.A.S.K.]]'' or [[Battlefennec\|Fennec]] from ''[[Beastformers (franchise)\|Battle Beasts]]''.<ref>{{citesocial\|quote=Not as such. Quantum Harmonic Resonance is such that their analogues in this dimension tend to be Cybertronian. We've already seen that with guys like Fennec and will probably continue to do so. The same goes for MASK characters, like Aura and Vampire.\|link=https://web.archive.org/web/20170218015723/https://www.allspark.com/forums/topic/133737-beast-wars-uprising-ama/?p=3360055#entry3360152\|name=Jim Sorenson\|site=The Allspark forums\|title=Beast Wars Uprising: AMA\|year=2016\|month=10\|day=15}}</ref>
	*Sorenson cited his favorite characters to write as being [[Wolfang (Maximal)\|Wolfang]] and [[Longrack (BW)\|Longrack]].<ref>{{citesocial\|quote=Oooh, that's a toughie. There's one from the first part of the finale who was really difficult to write for but came out very nicely. Wolfang was a hoot, but Bish did most of the heavy lifting there. Longrack was a lotta fun; I love his officiousness. There's a little bit of Arnold J. Rimmer in there.\|link=https://web.archive.org/web/20170218015723/https://www.allspark.com/forums/topic/133737-beast-wars-uprising-ama/?p=3360055#entry3360052\|name=Jim Sorenson\|site=The Allspark forums\|title=Beast Wars Uprising: AMA\|year=2016\|month=10\|day=15}}</ref>		* Sorenson cited his favorite characters to write as being [[Wolfang (Maximal)\|Wolfang]] and [[Longrack (BW)\|Longrack]].<ref>{{citesocial\|quote=Oooh, that's a toughie. There's one from the first part of the finale who was really difficult to write for but came out very nicely. Wolfang was a hoot, but Bish did most of the heavy lifting there. Longrack was a lotta fun; I love his officiousness. There's a little bit of Arnold J. Rimmer in there.\|link=https://web.archive.org/web/20170218015723/https://www.allspark.com/forums/topic/133737-beast-wars-uprising-ama/?p=3360055#entry3360052\|name=Jim Sorenson\|site=The Allspark forums\|title=Beast Wars Uprising: AMA\|year=2016\|month=10\|day=15}}</ref>
			* Early in ''Beast Wars: Uprising'', the term "protoform" is used with its conventional definition as a developmental stage for Cybertronians, sometimes used analogously to "child", or more clinically as the basic form of Maximals and Predacons. "[[Intersectionality]]" introduced the phrase "Proto-races" to refer to these groups, which entered regular usage in "[[Not All Megatrons]]". "[[Cultural Appropriation]]" briefly used the phrase "Proto-Cybertronian". In "[[Safe Spaces]]", the term "proto-formers" first appeared, which by "[[Derailment]]" had become the most common term used to refer to the Maximals and Predacons; presumably to match this new term, "proto-races" was no longer capitalised. Often, "proto-" can just be used as a prefix, as in "proto-sized" (in "[[Trigger Warnings]]"), "Proto point one percenter" (in "Cultural Appropriation"), "proto-scale", "proto-nations", "proto-soldiers", "proto-punks", and the "[[League of Autonomous Proto-States]]" (all in "Derailment").

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