Safe Spaces - Revision history

BerylRoll at 22:15, 11 May 2026

2026-05-11T22:15:02Z

← Older revision		Revision as of 22:15, 11 May 2026
Line 24:		Line 24:
	Somewhere on the planet, [[Roadhandler (G1)\|Roadhandler]] and his [[Race Car Patrol]] are routing a Decepticon team in a replica of their old Earth wars, but [[Skyhopper]] flies for it with a pun and a storm of bombs. In a strafing run, the Decepticon suddenly is wracked with a coughing fit and Roadhandler shoots him down.		Somewhere on the planet, [[Roadhandler (G1)\|Roadhandler]] and his [[Race Car Patrol]] are routing a Decepticon team in a replica of their old Earth wars, but [[Skyhopper]] flies for it with a pun and a storm of bombs. In a strafing run, the Decepticon suddenly is wracked with a coughing fit and Roadhandler shoots him down.

	At a [[Resistance (BWU)\|Resistance]] rally, [[Cheetor (BW)\|Cheetor]] ramps up the troops in preparation for storming [[Valvolux]]. Neither he nor [[Preditron]] are happy that [[Lio Convoy (BW)\|Lio Convoy]] won’t let them lead the charge, instead keeping the "First Resistor" and the ‘first Predacon’ restricted to propaganda boosts. They depart in disgust to a flight (on the lobotomised Builder transport ''[[Star Dasher]]'') to the logistics base Safe Zone Alpha Two in [[Protihex]] (a rare city the Resistance captured without damage), making sure to avoid "[[Rageland]]", as the gangster and warlord [[Rage (BW)\|Rage]] is calling her turf. Fussy [[Ikard]] greets them there, gushing about them and how proud Preditron must be about a whole nation of Predacons—Preditron, who believes the Council stole his factionless manifesto for their own power, is decidedly not and the tension hangs over them.		At a [[Resistance (BWU)\|Resistance]] rally, [[Cheetor (BW)\|Cheetor]] ramps up the troops in preparation for storming [[Valvolux]]. Neither he nor [[Preditron]] are happy that [[Lio Convoy (BW)\|Lio Convoy]] won’t let them lead the charge, instead keeping the "First Resistor" and the ‘first Predacon’ restricted to propaganda boosts. They depart in disgust to a flight (on the lobotomised Builder transport ''[[Star Dasher]]'') to the logistics base Safe Zone Alpha Two in [[Protihex]] (a rare city the Resistance captured without damage), making sure to avoid "[[Rageland]]", as the gangster and warlord [[Rage (BW)\|Rage]] is calling her turf. Fussy [[Ikard (BW)\|Ikard]] greets them there, gushing about them and how proud Preditron must be about a whole nation of Predacons—Preditron, who believes the Council stole his factionless manifesto for their own power, is decidedly not and the tension hangs over them.

	The squid moves on to business: quite glossy, explosion-heavy footage of Roadhandler's battle. The front? You wish. [[Ser-Ket (BWU)\|Ser-Ket]] arrives and casually mentions that this is actually footage of a Game playing at the [[Protihex]] Arena, where Builder prisoners are being forced to fight to the death as a ‘morale boost’ for the troops! Ikard and Ser-Ket don't get why Cheetor and Preditron are so sick. Why, they're here to open the final game of the [[Buzzclaw (BW)\|Buzzclaw]] Memorial Games, are they not entertained? The old Predacon threatens them to stop it, now, if they don't want Lio Convoy to hear about this, but Ikard tells him Lio Convoy already knows.		The squid moves on to business: quite glossy, explosion-heavy footage of Roadhandler's battle. The front? You wish. [[Ser-Ket (BWU)\|Ser-Ket]] arrives and casually mentions that this is actually footage of a Game playing at the [[Protihex]] Arena, where Builder prisoners are being forced to fight to the death as a ‘morale boost’ for the troops! Ikard and Ser-Ket don't get why Cheetor and Preditron are so sick. Why, they're here to open the final game of the [[Buzzclaw (BW)\|Buzzclaw]] Memorial Games, are they not entertained? The old Predacon threatens them to stop it, now, if they don't want Lio Convoy to hear about this, but Ikard tells him Lio Convoy already knows.
Line 34:		Line 34:
	Preditron's ‘other angle’ is to seek out Ser-Ket directly and knock on her door. To her surprise, he doesn't knock because he's concerned about the Games but because he's concerned about her. He says he recognises her as a true Predacon—ambitious, seeking out honourable combat against worthy foes—and knows neither of them are having much luck finding honour in this war. Unable to lie to the founder of her race, Ser-Ket comes clean about the truth of the [[Head Games\|raid that freed Preditron and Cheetor]], and how Buzzclaw was set up to die, and how she went back to the Resistance as there was nothing much else and Ikard suggested she could use her old friendship to help set the Buzzclaw Memorial Games up. Since him winning a match is the only thing true that anyone knows about her dead friend, she accepted and, to her shame, admits it was too easy to get sucked in. Preditron comforts her and says she reminds him of an old friend, [[Maxima]], the first Maximal, who helped him write his manifesto. Their works were taken from them to divide the proto-formers into feuding races but there's time to put it all right...		Preditron's ‘other angle’ is to seek out Ser-Ket directly and knock on her door. To her surprise, he doesn't knock because he's concerned about the Games but because he's concerned about her. He says he recognises her as a true Predacon—ambitious, seeking out honourable combat against worthy foes—and knows neither of them are having much luck finding honour in this war. Unable to lie to the founder of her race, Ser-Ket comes clean about the truth of the [[Head Games\|raid that freed Preditron and Cheetor]], and how Buzzclaw was set up to die, and how she went back to the Resistance as there was nothing much else and Ikard suggested she could use her old friendship to help set the Buzzclaw Memorial Games up. Since him winning a match is the only thing true that anyone knows about her dead friend, she accepted and, to her shame, admits it was too easy to get sucked in. Preditron comforts her and says she reminds him of an old friend, [[Maxima]], the first Maximal, who helped him write his manifesto. Their works were taken from them to divide the proto-formers into feuding races but there's time to put it all right...

	Cheetor, meanwhile, is visiting Ikard at his swanky home and tells him that he'll let the Games go for now—there'll be a full inquiry demanded once the war has calmed down—provided Preditron agrees as well. The little creep feels this is a good deal and Cheetor knows, even as he threatens it, there's little chance of the war ~~‘calming down’~~ for an inquiry for a long while. And on his way back to the Maximal, Predatron is jumped by a callow young Pred named [[Gaidora (BWU)\|Gaidora]] and forced into a beast-mode brawl! He handles himself well until Ikard zaps him from behind; once Preditron is neutralised, Gaidora has Preditron thrown in with the prisoners for execution. "Lio Convoy says hi," is the last thing Preditron hears Gaidora say...		Cheetor, meanwhile, is visiting Ikard at his swanky home and tells him that he'll let the Games go for now—there'll be a full inquiry demanded once the war has calmed down—provided Preditron agrees as well. The little creep feels this is a good deal and Cheetor knows, even as he threatens it, there's little chance of the war "calming down" for an inquiry for a long while. And on his way back to the Maximal, Predatron is jumped by a callow young Pred named [[Gaidora (BWU)\|Gaidora]] and forced into a beast-mode brawl! He handles himself well until Ikard zaps him from behind; once Preditron is neutralised, Gaidora has Preditron thrown in with the prisoners for execution. "Lio Convoy says hi," is the last thing Preditron hears Gaidora say...

	Elsewhere, Ser-Ket can't bring herself to trust another legendary figure after Lio Convoy failed her and plans to bug out to the IPS once the Games are done.		Elsewhere, Ser-Ket can't bring herself to trust another legendary figure after Lio Convoy failed her and plans to bug out to the IPS once the Games are done.
Line 54:		Line 54:
	\|h1=[[Maximal]]s\|c1=		\|h1=[[Maximal]]s\|c1=
	*[[Cheetor (BW)\|Cheetor]] (7)		*[[Cheetor (BW)\|Cheetor]] (7)
	*[[Ikard]] (11)		*[[Ikard (BW)\|Ikard]] (11)
	*[[Blackarachnia (BW)\|Blackarachnia]] (14)		*[[Blackarachnia (BW)\|Blackarachnia]] (14)

AzimuthAcolyte: Lio Convoy -> Lio Convoy (BW) update

2026-03-25T06:08:00Z

Lio Convoy -> Lio Convoy (BW) update

← Older revision		Revision as of 06:08, 25 March 2026
Line 24:		Line 24:
	Somewhere on the planet, [[Roadhandler (G1)\|Roadhandler]] and his [[Race Car Patrol]] are routing a Decepticon team in a replica of their old Earth wars, but [[Skyhopper]] flies for it with a pun and a storm of bombs. In a strafing run, the Decepticon suddenly is wracked with a coughing fit and Roadhandler shoots him down.		Somewhere on the planet, [[Roadhandler (G1)\|Roadhandler]] and his [[Race Car Patrol]] are routing a Decepticon team in a replica of their old Earth wars, but [[Skyhopper]] flies for it with a pun and a storm of bombs. In a strafing run, the Decepticon suddenly is wracked with a coughing fit and Roadhandler shoots him down.

	At a [[Resistance (BWU)\|Resistance]] rally, [[Cheetor (BW)\|Cheetor]] ramps up the troops in preparation for storming [[Valvolux]]. Neither he nor [[Preditron]] are happy that [[Lio Convoy]] won’t let them lead the charge, instead keeping the "First Resistor" and the ‘first Predacon’ restricted to propaganda boosts. They depart in disgust to a flight (on the lobotomised Builder transport ''[[Star Dasher]]'') to the logistics base Safe Zone Alpha Two in [[Protihex]] (a rare city the Resistance captured without damage), making sure to avoid "[[Rageland]]", as the gangster and warlord [[Rage (BW)\|Rage]] is calling her turf. Fussy [[Ikard]] greets them there, gushing about them and how proud Preditron must be about a whole nation of Predacons—Preditron, who believes the Council stole his factionless manifesto for their own power, is decidedly not and the tension hangs over them.		At a [[Resistance (BWU)\|Resistance]] rally, [[Cheetor (BW)\|Cheetor]] ramps up the troops in preparation for storming [[Valvolux]]. Neither he nor [[Preditron]] are happy that [[Lio Convoy (BW)\|Lio Convoy]] won’t let them lead the charge, instead keeping the "First Resistor" and the ‘first Predacon’ restricted to propaganda boosts. They depart in disgust to a flight (on the lobotomised Builder transport ''[[Star Dasher]]'') to the logistics base Safe Zone Alpha Two in [[Protihex]] (a rare city the Resistance captured without damage), making sure to avoid "[[Rageland]]", as the gangster and warlord [[Rage (BW)\|Rage]] is calling her turf. Fussy [[Ikard]] greets them there, gushing about them and how proud Preditron must be about a whole nation of Predacons—Preditron, who believes the Council stole his factionless manifesto for their own power, is decidedly not and the tension hangs over them.

	The squid moves on to business: quite glossy, explosion-heavy footage of Roadhandler's battle. The front? You wish. [[Ser-Ket (BWU)\|Ser-Ket]] arrives and casually mentions that this is actually footage of a Game playing at the [[Protihex]] Arena, where Builder prisoners are being forced to fight to the death as a ‘morale boost’ for the troops! Ikard and Ser-Ket don't get why Cheetor and Preditron are so sick. Why, they're here to open the final game of the [[Buzzclaw (BW)\|Buzzclaw]] Memorial Games, are they not entertained? The old Predacon threatens them to stop it, now, if they don't want Lio Convoy to hear about this, but Ikard tells him Lio Convoy already knows.		The squid moves on to business: quite glossy, explosion-heavy footage of Roadhandler's battle. The front? You wish. [[Ser-Ket (BWU)\|Ser-Ket]] arrives and casually mentions that this is actually footage of a Game playing at the [[Protihex]] Arena, where Builder prisoners are being forced to fight to the death as a ‘morale boost’ for the troops! Ikard and Ser-Ket don't get why Cheetor and Preditron are so sick. Why, they're here to open the final game of the [[Buzzclaw (BW)\|Buzzclaw]] Memorial Games, are they not entertained? The old Predacon threatens them to stop it, now, if they don't want Lio Convoy to hear about this, but Ikard tells him Lio Convoy already knows.
Line 101:		Line 101:

	==Notes==		==Notes==
	* Characters mentioned but not seen include: [[Hot Rod (G1)\|Rodimus Prime]], [[Lio Convoy]], [[Fortress Maximus (G1)\|Fortress Maximus]], [[Rage (BW)\|Queen Rage]], the [[Tripredacus Council\|Tripredacus Alliance]], [[Psycho-Orb]], [[Buzzclaw (BW)\|Buzzclaw]], the [[Pack]], the [[Oracle (BM)\|Oracle]], [[Maxima]], and [[Primus]].		* Characters mentioned but not seen include: [[Hot Rod (G1)\|Rodimus Prime]], [[Lio Convoy (BW)\|Lio Convoy]], [[Fortress Maximus (G1)\|Fortress Maximus]], [[Rage (BW)\|Queen Rage]], the [[Tripredacus Council\|Tripredacus Alliance]], [[Psycho-Orb]], [[Buzzclaw (BW)\|Buzzclaw]], the [[Pack]], the [[Oracle (BM)\|Oracle]], [[Maxima]], and [[Primus]].
	* Characters mentioned in Star Dasher's profile include [[Cannonball (G1)\|Cannonball III]], the [[Star Seeker]]s, [[Nebulon (Headmasters)\|the Nebulon]], [[Devcon (G1)\|Devcon]], [[Death's Head (G1)\|Devcon's partner]], [[Neurotoxin]], [[Guillotine]], [[Bilge (BWU)\|Bilge]], [[Tornado]], [[Pillage]], [[Slizardo]], and [[Spratt]].		* Characters mentioned in Star Dasher's profile include [[Cannonball (G1)\|Cannonball III]], the [[Star Seeker]]s, [[Nebulon (Headmasters)\|the Nebulon]], [[Devcon (G1)\|Devcon]], [[Death's Head (G1)\|Devcon's partner]], [[Neurotoxin]], [[Guillotine]], [[Bilge (BWU)\|Bilge]], [[Tornado]], [[Pillage]], [[Slizardo]], and [[Spratt]].

BerylRoll at 12:24, 8 February 2026

2026-02-08T12:24:07Z

← Older revision		Revision as of 12:24, 8 February 2026
Line 20:		Line 20:

	==Synopsis==		==Synopsis==
	It's six stellar cycles into the [[Grand Uprising]]. The [[Builder of Cybertron\|Builders]] were already holding less territory than the Resistance and now the [[Maximal Nation]] breakaway state of [[Tagan Heights\|Tagon Heights]] has gouged them and the [[Tripredacus Council]]’s "[[Independent Predacus States]]" have straddled from the [[Rust Sea]] up to the Nation. The front line cuts through the [[Rad Zone]] and major cities like [[Kolkular]]. The ''[[Gung Ho]]'' has recently blown up the satellite network and now coded shortwave radio is the name of the game. While the Nation and Predacus States claim neutrality, the latter has no clear borders and has constant spats with Builder forces. Even though it’s heavily industrialised and mostly undamaged, the Builders have just a third of Cybertron and falling fast.		It's six stellar cycles into the [[Grand Uprising]]. The [[Builder of Cybertron\|Builders]] were already holding less territory than the Resistance and now the [[Maximal Nation]] breakaway state of [[Tagan Heights\|Tagon Heights]] has gouged them and the [[Tripredacus Council]]’s "[[Independent Predacus States]]" have straddled from the [[Rust Sea]] up to the Nation. The front line cuts through the [[Rad Zone]] and major cities like [[Kolkular]]. The ''[[Gung Ho (BW)\|Gung Ho]]'' has recently blown up the satellite network and now coded shortwave radio is the name of the game. While the Nation and Predacus States claim neutrality, the latter has no clear borders and has constant spats with Builder forces. Even though it’s heavily industrialised and mostly undamaged, the Builders have just a third of Cybertron and falling fast.

	Somewhere on the planet, [[Roadhandler (G1)\|Roadhandler]] and his [[Race Car Patrol]] are routing a Decepticon team in a replica of their old Earth wars, but [[Skyhopper]] flies for it with a pun and a storm of bombs. In a strafing run, the Decepticon suddenly is wracked with a coughing fit and Roadhandler shoots him down.		Somewhere on the planet, [[Roadhandler (G1)\|Roadhandler]] and his [[Race Car Patrol]] are routing a Decepticon team in a replica of their old Earth wars, but [[Skyhopper]] flies for it with a pun and a storm of bombs. In a strafing run, the Decepticon suddenly is wracked with a coughing fit and Roadhandler shoots him down.

Cylasbreakdown: Cleanup

2025-06-25T23:22:03Z

Cleanup

← Older revision		Revision as of 23:22, 25 June 2025
Line 20:		Line 20:

	==Synopsis==		==Synopsis==
	It's six stellar cycles into the [[Grand Uprising]]. The [[Builder of Cybertron\|Builders]] were already holding less territory than the Resistance and now the [[Maximal Nation]] breakaway state of [[Tagan Heights\|Tagon Heights]] has gouged them and the [[Tripredacus Council]]’s "[[Independent Predacus States]]" have straddled from the [[Rust Sea]] up to the Nation. The front line cuts through the [[Rad Zone]] and major cities like [[Kolkular]]. The ''[[Gung-Ho]]'' has recently blown up the satellite network and now coded shortwave radio is the name of the game. While the Nation and Predacus States claim neutrality, the latter has no clear borders and has constant spats with Builder forces. Even though it’s heavily industrialised and mostly undamaged, the Builders have just a third of Cybertron and falling fast.		It's six stellar cycles into the [[Grand Uprising]]. The [[Builder of Cybertron\|Builders]] were already holding less territory than the Resistance and now the [[Maximal Nation]] breakaway state of [[Tagan Heights\|Tagon Heights]] has gouged them and the [[Tripredacus Council]]’s "[[Independent Predacus States]]" have straddled from the [[Rust Sea]] up to the Nation. The front line cuts through the [[Rad Zone]] and major cities like [[Kolkular]]. The ''[[Gung Ho]]'' has recently blown up the satellite network and now coded shortwave radio is the name of the game. While the Nation and Predacus States claim neutrality, the latter has no clear borders and has constant spats with Builder forces. Even though it’s heavily industrialised and mostly undamaged, the Builders have just a third of Cybertron and falling fast.

	Somewhere on the planet, [[Roadhandler (G1)\|Roadhandler]] and his [[Race Car Patrol]] are routing a Decepticon team in a replica of their old Earth wars, but [[Skyhopper]] flies for it with a pun and a storm of bombs. In a strafing run, the Decepticon suddenly is wracked with a coughing fit and Roadhandler shoots him down.		Somewhere on the planet, [[Roadhandler (G1)\|Roadhandler]] and his [[Race Car Patrol]] are routing a Decepticon team in a replica of their old Earth wars, but [[Skyhopper]] flies for it with a pun and a storm of bombs. In a strafing run, the Decepticon suddenly is wracked with a coughing fit and Roadhandler shoots him down.
Line 28:		Line 28:
	The squid moves on to business: quite glossy, explosion-heavy footage of Roadhandler's battle. The front? You wish. [[Ser-Ket (BWU)\|Ser-Ket]] arrives and casually mentions that this is actually footage of a Game playing at the [[Protihex]] Arena, where Builder prisoners are being forced to fight to the death as a ‘morale boost’ for the troops! Ikard and Ser-Ket don't get why Cheetor and Preditron are so sick. Why, they're here to open the final game of the [[Buzzclaw (BW)\|Buzzclaw]] Memorial Games, are they not entertained? The old Predacon threatens them to stop it, now, if they don't want Lio Convoy to hear about this, but Ikard tells him Lio Convoy already knows.		The squid moves on to business: quite glossy, explosion-heavy footage of Roadhandler's battle. The front? You wish. [[Ser-Ket (BWU)\|Ser-Ket]] arrives and casually mentions that this is actually footage of a Game playing at the [[Protihex]] Arena, where Builder prisoners are being forced to fight to the death as a ‘morale boost’ for the troops! Ikard and Ser-Ket don't get why Cheetor and Preditron are so sick. Why, they're here to open the final game of the [[Buzzclaw (BW)\|Buzzclaw]] Memorial Games, are they not entertained? The old Predacon threatens them to stop it, now, if they don't want Lio Convoy to hear about this, but Ikard tells him Lio Convoy already knows.

	On their way out, consumed with rage, Preditron advises Cheetor to contact Resistance Command to learn exactly who's in charge while he checks thing from another angle. Unfortunately, Cheetor can't get through to Convoy while the [[Tesarus (polity)\|Tesarus]] campaign is on. Just because it's Cheetor asking, [[Drill Bit (BW)\|Drill Bit]] digs up [[Blackarachnia (BW)\|Blackarachnia]]. The spider is not impressed with being asked about a bunch of Builders and less with being told this was what they were ~~fight~~ against, and tells him that the troops are tired, weary, in need of the bread and circuses that he and Preditron and, yes, the Games will give them. Her ends-and-means speech slips up at the end though, implying by accident that this isn't something she's actually told Lio Convoy about.		On their way out, consumed with rage, Preditron advises Cheetor to contact Resistance Command to learn exactly who's in charge while he checks thing from another angle. Unfortunately, Cheetor can't get through to Convoy while the [[Tesarus (polity)\|Tesarus]] campaign is on. Just because it's Cheetor asking, [[Drill Bit (BW)\|Drill Bit]] digs up [[Blackarachnia (BW)\|Blackarachnia]]. The spider is not impressed with being asked about a bunch of Builders and less with being told this was what they were fighting against, and tells him that the troops are tired, weary, in need of the bread and circuses that he and Preditron and, yes, the Games will give them. Her ends-and-means speech slips up at the end though, implying by accident that this isn't something she's actually told Lio Convoy about.

	[[File:Safe Spaces Preditron Gaidora.jpg\|thumb\|left\|350px]]		[[File:Safe Spaces Preditron Gaidora.jpg\|thumb\|left\|350px]]

	Preditron's ‘other angle’ is to seek out Ser-Ket directly and knock on her door. To her surprise, he doesn't knock because he's concerned about the Games but because he's concerned about her. He says he recognises her as a true Predacon—ambitious, seeking out honourable combat against worthy foes—and knows neither of them are having much ~~like~~ finding honour in this war~~. Neither has he~~. Unable to lie to the founder of her race, Ser-Ket comes clean about the truth of the [[Head Games\|raid that freed Preditron and Cheetor]], and how Buzzclaw was set up to die, and how she went back to the Resistance as there was nothing much else and Ikard suggested she could use her old friendship to help set the Buzzclaw Memorial Games up. Since him winning a match is the only thing true that anyone knows about her dead friend, she accepted and, to her shame, admits it was too easy to get sucked in. Preditron comforts her and says she reminds him of an old friend, [[Maxima]], the first Maximal, who helped him write his manifesto. Their works were taken from them to divide the proto-formers into feuding races but there's time to put it all right...		Preditron's ‘other angle’ is to seek out Ser-Ket directly and knock on her door. To her surprise, he doesn't knock because he's concerned about the Games but because he's concerned about her. He says he recognises her as a true Predacon—ambitious, seeking out honourable combat against worthy foes—and knows neither of them are having much luck finding honour in this war. Unable to lie to the founder of her race, Ser-Ket comes clean about the truth of the [[Head Games\|raid that freed Preditron and Cheetor]], and how Buzzclaw was set up to die, and how she went back to the Resistance as there was nothing much else and Ikard suggested she could use her old friendship to help set the Buzzclaw Memorial Games up. Since him winning a match is the only thing true that anyone knows about her dead friend, she accepted and, to her shame, admits it was too easy to get sucked in. Preditron comforts her and says she reminds him of an old friend, [[Maxima]], the first Maximal, who helped him write his manifesto. Their works were taken from them to divide the proto-formers into feuding races but there's time to put it all right...

	Cheetor, meanwhile, is visiting Ikard at his swanky home and tells him that he'll let the Games go for now—there'll be a full inquiry demanded once the war has calmed down—provided Preditron agrees as well. The little creep feels this is a good deal and Cheetor knows, even as he threatens it, there's little chance of the war ‘calming down’ for an inquiry for a long while. And on his way back to the Maximal, Predatron is jumped by a callow young Pred named [[Gaidora (BWU)\|Gaidora]] and forced into a beast-mode brawl! He handles himself well until Ikard zaps him from behind; once Preditron is neutralised, Gaidora has Preditron thrown in with the prisoners for execution. "Lio Convoy says hi," is the last thing Preditron hears Gaidora say...		Cheetor, meanwhile, is visiting Ikard at his swanky home and tells him that he'll let the Games go for now—there'll be a full inquiry demanded once the war has calmed down—provided Preditron agrees as well. The little creep feels this is a good deal and Cheetor knows, even as he threatens it, there's little chance of the war ‘calming down’ for an inquiry for a long while. And on his way back to the Maximal, Predatron is jumped by a callow young Pred named [[Gaidora (BWU)\|Gaidora]] and forced into a beast-mode brawl! He handles himself well until Ikard zaps him from behind; once Preditron is neutralised, Gaidora has Preditron thrown in with the prisoners for execution. "Lio Convoy says hi," is the last thing Preditron hears Gaidora say...

Saix: /* Synopsis */ clean up, replaced: Resistance → Resistance, |right| → |

2025-05-07T04:57:57Z

Synopsis: clean up, replaced: Resistance → Resistance, |right| → |

← Older revision		Revision as of 04:57, 7 May 2025
Line 24:		Line 24:
	Somewhere on the planet, [[Roadhandler (G1)\|Roadhandler]] and his [[Race Car Patrol]] are routing a Decepticon team in a replica of their old Earth wars, but [[Skyhopper]] flies for it with a pun and a storm of bombs. In a strafing run, the Decepticon suddenly is wracked with a coughing fit and Roadhandler shoots him down.		Somewhere on the planet, [[Roadhandler (G1)\|Roadhandler]] and his [[Race Car Patrol]] are routing a Decepticon team in a replica of their old Earth wars, but [[Skyhopper]] flies for it with a pun and a storm of bombs. In a strafing run, the Decepticon suddenly is wracked with a coughing fit and Roadhandler shoots him down.

	At a [[Resistance]] rally, [[Cheetor (BW)\|Cheetor]] ramps up the troops in preparation for storming [[Valvolux]]. Neither he nor [[Preditron]] are happy that [[Lio Convoy]] won’t let them lead the charge, instead keeping the "First Resistor" and the ‘first Predacon’ restricted to propaganda boosts. They depart in disgust to a flight (on the lobotomised Builder transport ''[[Star Dasher]]'') to the logistics base Safe Zone Alpha Two in [[Protihex]] (a rare city the Resistance captured without damage), making sure to avoid "[[Rageland]]", as the gangster and warlord [[Rage (BW)\|Rage]] is calling her turf. Fussy [[Ikard]] greets them there, gushing about them and how proud Preditron must be about a whole nation of Predacons—Preditron, who believes the Council stole his factionless manifesto for their own power, is decidedly not and the tension hangs over them.		At a [[Resistance (BWU)\|Resistance]] rally, [[Cheetor (BW)\|Cheetor]] ramps up the troops in preparation for storming [[Valvolux]]. Neither he nor [[Preditron]] are happy that [[Lio Convoy]] won’t let them lead the charge, instead keeping the "First Resistor" and the ‘first Predacon’ restricted to propaganda boosts. They depart in disgust to a flight (on the lobotomised Builder transport ''[[Star Dasher]]'') to the logistics base Safe Zone Alpha Two in [[Protihex]] (a rare city the Resistance captured without damage), making sure to avoid "[[Rageland]]", as the gangster and warlord [[Rage (BW)\|Rage]] is calling her turf. Fussy [[Ikard]] greets them there, gushing about them and how proud Preditron must be about a whole nation of Predacons—Preditron, who believes the Council stole his factionless manifesto for their own power, is decidedly not and the tension hangs over them.

	The squid moves on to business: quite glossy, explosion-heavy footage of Roadhandler's battle. The front? You wish. [[Ser-Ket (BWU)\|Ser-Ket]] arrives and casually mentions that this is actually footage of a Game playing at the [[Protihex]] Arena, where Builder prisoners are being forced to fight to the death as a ‘morale boost’ for the troops! Ikard and Ser-Ket don't get why Cheetor and Preditron are so sick. Why, they're here to open the final game of the [[Buzzclaw (BW)\|Buzzclaw]] Memorial Games, are they not entertained? The old Predacon threatens them to stop it, now, if they don't want Lio Convoy to hear about this, but Ikard tells him Lio Convoy already knows.		The squid moves on to business: quite glossy, explosion-heavy footage of Roadhandler's battle. The front? You wish. [[Ser-Ket (BWU)\|Ser-Ket]] arrives and casually mentions that this is actually footage of a Game playing at the [[Protihex]] Arena, where Builder prisoners are being forced to fight to the death as a ‘morale boost’ for the troops! Ikard and Ser-Ket don't get why Cheetor and Preditron are so sick. Why, they're here to open the final game of the [[Buzzclaw (BW)\|Buzzclaw]] Memorial Games, are they not entertained? The old Predacon threatens them to stop it, now, if they don't want Lio Convoy to hear about this, but Ikard tells him Lio Convoy already knows.
Line 42:		Line 42:
	Two such friends are meeting up when Cheetor tells Ser-Ket what's going on. She's going to rip Ikard in two for this betrayal but not if Cheetor beats her to it!		Two such friends are meeting up when Cheetor tells Ser-Ket what's going on. She's going to rip Ikard in two for this betrayal but not if Cheetor beats her to it!

	[[File:SafeSpaces Ikard.jpg\|thumb~~\|right~~\|300px]]		[[File:SafeSpaces Ikard.jpg\|thumb\|300px]]

	Fifteen cycles into the arena, Preditron is hiding out in what he assumes is a camera blindspot and where Roadhandler quietly died some time ago. Torque finds him, in pain and starting to [[Reformatting\|reformat]] into a new shape.... And then, to Preditron's horror, Roadhandler's corpse sits up and changes too! Now he has to fight. And as the crowd roars, Ikard sneers at his antagonists as they rush his podium and asks them if it sounds like he can stop their Game. And telling Lio Convoy? Lio Convoy wants an army, and the Independent Predacus States have one, and the only thing preventing them from forming up with the Resistance is if their old rival Preditron is still alive and able to challenge their political standing. He's just following orders. So's Gaidora when she goes for Cheetor and Ser-Ket and swats them into the arena—now they're part of the show too!		Fifteen cycles into the arena, Preditron is hiding out in what he assumes is a camera blindspot and where Roadhandler quietly died some time ago. Torque finds him, in pain and starting to [[Reformatting\|reformat]] into a new shape.... And then, to Preditron's horror, Roadhandler's corpse sits up and changes too! Now he has to fight. And as the crowd roars, Ikard sneers at his antagonists as they rush his podium and asks them if it sounds like he can stop their Game. And telling Lio Convoy? Lio Convoy wants an army, and the Independent Predacus States have one, and the only thing preventing them from forming up with the Resistance is if their old rival Preditron is still alive and able to challenge their political standing. He's just following orders. So's Gaidora when she goes for Cheetor and Ser-Ket and swats them into the arena—now they're part of the show too!

The Wadapan at 17:41, 6 February 2023

2023-02-06T17:41:00Z

← Older revision		Revision as of 17:41, 6 February 2023
Line 144:		Line 144:
	* As with "[[Not All Megatrons]]", a ''[[Transformers: Beast Wars Sourcebook\|Sourcebook]]''-style profile follows for Star Dasher.		* As with "[[Not All Megatrons]]", a ''[[Transformers: Beast Wars Sourcebook\|Sourcebook]]''-style profile follows for Star Dasher.
	* Each scene break contains Predacon [[Cybertronix]], that, when translated, reveals the short story "[[The Predacon Manifesto]]".		* Each scene break contains Predacon [[Cybertronix]], that, when translated, reveals the short story "[[The Predacon Manifesto]]".

			==See also==
			*[[Source:The Predacon Manifesto\|"Safe Spaces" Cybertronix translation: "The Predacon Manifesto"]]

	==External links==		==External links==
	*[https://www.transformersclub.com/prose/Beast%20Wars%20Uprising%20-%20Safe%20Spaces.pdf "Safe Spaces"] at The Official [[Transformers Collectors' Club]] website		*[https://www.transformersclub.com/prose/Beast%20Wars%20Uprising%20-%20Safe%20Spaces.pdf "Safe Spaces"] at The Official [[Transformers Collectors' Club]] website
	*[https://sites.google.com/site/goingfullsorenson/beast-wars-uprising/safe-spaces ~~Annotations for~~ "Safe Spaces"] ~~on Google Sites~~ by [[Jennifer Alexis Carlo]]		*[https://sites.google.com/site/goingfullsorenson/beast-wars-uprising/safe-spaces "Safe Spaces" annotations] by [[Jennifer Alexis Carlo]]

	~~==See also==~~
	*"[[The Predacon Manifesto]]," the, erm, manifesto, nested inside the [[Cybertronix]] ciphertext of "Safe Spaces"

	[[Category:Beast Wars: Uprising media]]		[[Category:Beast Wars: Uprising media]]
	[[Category:Timelines text stories]]		[[Category:Timelines text stories]]

AzimuthAcolyte: Adding more explicit link to ciphertext

2022-12-14T08:10:15Z

Adding more explicit link to ciphertext

← Older revision		Revision as of 08:10, 14 December 2022
Line 144:		Line 144:
	* As with "[[Not All Megatrons]]", a ''[[Transformers: Beast Wars Sourcebook\|Sourcebook]]''-style profile follows for Star Dasher.		* As with "[[Not All Megatrons]]", a ''[[Transformers: Beast Wars Sourcebook\|Sourcebook]]''-style profile follows for Star Dasher.
	* Each scene break contains Predacon [[Cybertronix]], that, when translated, reveals the short story "[[The Predacon Manifesto]]".		* Each scene break contains Predacon [[Cybertronix]], that, when translated, reveals the short story "[[The Predacon Manifesto]]".

	~~==References==~~
	~~{{reflist}}~~

	==External links==		==External links==
	*[https://www.transformersclub.com/prose/Beast%20Wars%20Uprising%20-%20Safe%20Spaces.pdf "Safe Spaces"] at The Official [[Transformers Collectors' Club]] website		*[https://www.transformersclub.com/prose/Beast%20Wars%20Uprising%20-%20Safe%20Spaces.pdf "Safe Spaces"] at The Official [[Transformers Collectors' Club]] website
	*[https://sites.google.com/site/goingfullsorenson/beast-wars-uprising/safe-spaces Annotations for "Safe Spaces"] on Google Sites by Jennifer Alexis Carlo		*[https://sites.google.com/site/goingfullsorenson/beast-wars-uprising/safe-spaces Annotations for "Safe Spaces"] on Google Sites by [[Jennifer Alexis Carlo]]

			==See also==
			*"[[The Predacon Manifesto]]," the, erm, manifesto, nested inside the [[Cybertronix]] ciphertext of "Safe Spaces"

	[[Category:Beast Wars: Uprising media]]		[[Category:Beast Wars: Uprising media]]
	[[Category:Timelines text stories]]		[[Category:Timelines text stories]]

Abates: /* External links */

2022-06-30T02:53:38Z

External links

← Older revision		Revision as of 02:53, 30 June 2022
Line 149:		Line 149:

	==External links==		==External links==
	*[~~http~~://www.transformersclub.com/prose/Beast%20Wars%20Uprising%20-%20Safe%20Spaces.pdf "Safe Spaces"] at The Official [[Transformers Collectors' Club]] website		*[https://www.transformersclub.com/prose/Beast%20Wars%20Uprising%20-%20Safe%20Spaces.pdf "Safe Spaces"] at The Official [[Transformers Collectors' Club]] website
	*[https://sites.google.com/site/goingfullsorenson/beast-wars-uprising/safe-spaces Annotations for "Safe Spaces"] on Google Sites by Jennifer Alexis Carlo		*[https://sites.google.com/site/goingfullsorenson/beast-wars-uprising/safe-spaces Annotations for "Safe Spaces"] on Google Sites by Jennifer Alexis Carlo

	[[Category:Beast Wars: Uprising media]]		[[Category:Beast Wars: Uprising media]]
	[[Category:Timelines text stories]]		[[Category:Timelines text stories]]

AzimuthAcolyte: Tidying formatting slightly

2022-06-20T21:49:19Z

Tidying formatting slightly

← Older revision		Revision as of 21:49, 20 June 2022
Line 149:		Line 149:

	==External links==		==External links==
	*[http://www.transformersclub.com/prose/Beast%20Wars%20Uprising%20-%20Safe%20Spaces.pdf "Safe Spaces"] at The Official Transformers Collectors' Club		*[http://www.transformersclub.com/prose/Beast%20Wars%20Uprising%20-%20Safe%20Spaces.pdf "Safe Spaces"] at The Official [[Transformers Collectors' Club]] website
	*[https://sites.google.com/site/goingfullsorenson/beast-wars-uprising/safe-spaces Annotations for Safe Spaces on Google Sites by Jennifer Alexis Carlo]		*[https://sites.google.com/site/goingfullsorenson/beast-wars-uprising/safe-spaces Annotations for "Safe Spaces"] on Google Sites by Jennifer Alexis Carlo

	[[Category:Beast Wars: Uprising media]]		[[Category:Beast Wars: Uprising media]]
	[[Category:Timelines text stories]]		[[Category:Timelines text stories]]

AzimuthAcolyte: Adding annotations

2022-06-20T21:39:02Z

Adding annotations

← Older revision		Revision as of 21:39, 20 June 2022
Line 150:		Line 150:
	==External links==		==External links==
	*[http://www.transformersclub.com/prose/Beast%20Wars%20Uprising%20-%20Safe%20Spaces.pdf "Safe Spaces"] at The Official Transformers Collectors' Club		*[http://www.transformersclub.com/prose/Beast%20Wars%20Uprising%20-%20Safe%20Spaces.pdf "Safe Spaces"] at The Official Transformers Collectors' Club
			*[https://sites.google.com/site/goingfullsorenson/beast-wars-uprising/safe-spaces Annotations for Safe Spaces on Google Sites by Jennifer Alexis Carlo]

	[[Category:Beast Wars: Uprising media]]		[[Category:Beast Wars: Uprising media]]
	[[Category:Timelines text stories]]		[[Category:Timelines text stories]]

← Older revision		Revision as of 22:15, 11 May 2026
Line 24:		Line 24:
	Somewhere on the planet, [[Roadhandler (G1)\|Roadhandler]] and his [[Race Car Patrol]] are routing a Decepticon team in a replica of their old Earth wars, but [[Skyhopper]] flies for it with a pun and a storm of bombs. In a strafing run, the Decepticon suddenly is wracked with a coughing fit and Roadhandler shoots him down.		Somewhere on the planet, [[Roadhandler (G1)\|Roadhandler]] and his [[Race Car Patrol]] are routing a Decepticon team in a replica of their old Earth wars, but [[Skyhopper]] flies for it with a pun and a storm of bombs. In a strafing run, the Decepticon suddenly is wracked with a coughing fit and Roadhandler shoots him down.

	At a [[Resistance (BWU)\|Resistance]] rally, [[Cheetor (BW)\|Cheetor]] ramps up the troops in preparation for storming [[Valvolux]]. Neither he nor [[Preditron]] are happy that [[Lio Convoy (BW)\|Lio Convoy]] won’t let them lead the charge, instead keeping the "First Resistor" and the ‘first Predacon’ restricted to propaganda boosts. They depart in disgust to a flight (on the lobotomised Builder transport ''[[Star Dasher]]'') to the logistics base Safe Zone Alpha Two in [[Protihex]] (a rare city the Resistance captured without damage), making sure to avoid "[[Rageland]]", as the gangster and warlord [[Rage (BW)\|Rage]] is calling her turf. Fussy [[Ikard]] greets them there, gushing about them and how proud Preditron must be about a whole nation of Predacons—Preditron, who believes the Council stole his factionless manifesto for their own power, is decidedly not and the tension hangs over them.		At a [[Resistance (BWU)\|Resistance]] rally, [[Cheetor (BW)\|Cheetor]] ramps up the troops in preparation for storming [[Valvolux]]. Neither he nor [[Preditron]] are happy that [[Lio Convoy (BW)\|Lio Convoy]] won’t let them lead the charge, instead keeping the "First Resistor" and the ‘first Predacon’ restricted to propaganda boosts. They depart in disgust to a flight (on the lobotomised Builder transport ''[[Star Dasher]]'') to the logistics base Safe Zone Alpha Two in [[Protihex]] (a rare city the Resistance captured without damage), making sure to avoid "[[Rageland]]", as the gangster and warlord [[Rage (BW)\|Rage]] is calling her turf. Fussy [[Ikard (BW)\|Ikard]] greets them there, gushing about them and how proud Preditron must be about a whole nation of Predacons—Preditron, who believes the Council stole his factionless manifesto for their own power, is decidedly not and the tension hangs over them.

	The squid moves on to business: quite glossy, explosion-heavy footage of Roadhandler's battle. The front? You wish. [[Ser-Ket (BWU)\|Ser-Ket]] arrives and casually mentions that this is actually footage of a Game playing at the [[Protihex]] Arena, where Builder prisoners are being forced to fight to the death as a ‘morale boost’ for the troops! Ikard and Ser-Ket don't get why Cheetor and Preditron are so sick. Why, they're here to open the final game of the [[Buzzclaw (BW)\|Buzzclaw]] Memorial Games, are they not entertained? The old Predacon threatens them to stop it, now, if they don't want Lio Convoy to hear about this, but Ikard tells him Lio Convoy already knows.		The squid moves on to business: quite glossy, explosion-heavy footage of Roadhandler's battle. The front? You wish. [[Ser-Ket (BWU)\|Ser-Ket]] arrives and casually mentions that this is actually footage of a Game playing at the [[Protihex]] Arena, where Builder prisoners are being forced to fight to the death as a ‘morale boost’ for the troops! Ikard and Ser-Ket don't get why Cheetor and Preditron are so sick. Why, they're here to open the final game of the [[Buzzclaw (BW)\|Buzzclaw]] Memorial Games, are they not entertained? The old Predacon threatens them to stop it, now, if they don't want Lio Convoy to hear about this, but Ikard tells him Lio Convoy already knows.
Line 34:		Line 34:
	Preditron's ‘other angle’ is to seek out Ser-Ket directly and knock on her door. To her surprise, he doesn't knock because he's concerned about the Games but because he's concerned about her. He says he recognises her as a true Predacon—ambitious, seeking out honourable combat against worthy foes—and knows neither of them are having much luck finding honour in this war. Unable to lie to the founder of her race, Ser-Ket comes clean about the truth of the [[Head Games\|raid that freed Preditron and Cheetor]], and how Buzzclaw was set up to die, and how she went back to the Resistance as there was nothing much else and Ikard suggested she could use her old friendship to help set the Buzzclaw Memorial Games up. Since him winning a match is the only thing true that anyone knows about her dead friend, she accepted and, to her shame, admits it was too easy to get sucked in. Preditron comforts her and says she reminds him of an old friend, [[Maxima]], the first Maximal, who helped him write his manifesto. Their works were taken from them to divide the proto-formers into feuding races but there's time to put it all right...		Preditron's ‘other angle’ is to seek out Ser-Ket directly and knock on her door. To her surprise, he doesn't knock because he's concerned about the Games but because he's concerned about her. He says he recognises her as a true Predacon—ambitious, seeking out honourable combat against worthy foes—and knows neither of them are having much luck finding honour in this war. Unable to lie to the founder of her race, Ser-Ket comes clean about the truth of the [[Head Games\|raid that freed Preditron and Cheetor]], and how Buzzclaw was set up to die, and how she went back to the Resistance as there was nothing much else and Ikard suggested she could use her old friendship to help set the Buzzclaw Memorial Games up. Since him winning a match is the only thing true that anyone knows about her dead friend, she accepted and, to her shame, admits it was too easy to get sucked in. Preditron comforts her and says she reminds him of an old friend, [[Maxima]], the first Maximal, who helped him write his manifesto. Their works were taken from them to divide the proto-formers into feuding races but there's time to put it all right...

	Cheetor, meanwhile, is visiting Ikard at his swanky home and tells him that he'll let the Games go for now—there'll be a full inquiry demanded once the war has calmed down—provided Preditron agrees as well. The little creep feels this is a good deal and Cheetor knows, even as he threatens it, there's little chance of the war ~~‘calming down’~~ for an inquiry for a long while. And on his way back to the Maximal, Predatron is jumped by a callow young Pred named [[Gaidora (BWU)\|Gaidora]] and forced into a beast-mode brawl! He handles himself well until Ikard zaps him from behind; once Preditron is neutralised, Gaidora has Preditron thrown in with the prisoners for execution. "Lio Convoy says hi," is the last thing Preditron hears Gaidora say...		Cheetor, meanwhile, is visiting Ikard at his swanky home and tells him that he'll let the Games go for now—there'll be a full inquiry demanded once the war has calmed down—provided Preditron agrees as well. The little creep feels this is a good deal and Cheetor knows, even as he threatens it, there's little chance of the war "calming down" for an inquiry for a long while. And on his way back to the Maximal, Predatron is jumped by a callow young Pred named [[Gaidora (BWU)\|Gaidora]] and forced into a beast-mode brawl! He handles himself well until Ikard zaps him from behind; once Preditron is neutralised, Gaidora has Preditron thrown in with the prisoners for execution. "Lio Convoy says hi," is the last thing Preditron hears Gaidora say...

	Elsewhere, Ser-Ket can't bring herself to trust another legendary figure after Lio Convoy failed her and plans to bug out to the IPS once the Games are done.		Elsewhere, Ser-Ket can't bring herself to trust another legendary figure after Lio Convoy failed her and plans to bug out to the IPS once the Games are done.
Line 54:		Line 54:
	\|h1=[[Maximal]]s\|c1=		\|h1=[[Maximal]]s\|c1=
	*[[Cheetor (BW)\|Cheetor]] (7)		*[[Cheetor (BW)\|Cheetor]] (7)
	*[[Ikard]] (11)		*[[Ikard (BW)\|Ikard]] (11)
	*[[Blackarachnia (BW)\|Blackarachnia]] (14)		*[[Blackarachnia (BW)\|Blackarachnia]] (14)

← Older revision		Revision as of 06:08, 25 March 2026
Line 24:		Line 24:
	Somewhere on the planet, [[Roadhandler (G1)\|Roadhandler]] and his [[Race Car Patrol]] are routing a Decepticon team in a replica of their old Earth wars, but [[Skyhopper]] flies for it with a pun and a storm of bombs. In a strafing run, the Decepticon suddenly is wracked with a coughing fit and Roadhandler shoots him down.		Somewhere on the planet, [[Roadhandler (G1)\|Roadhandler]] and his [[Race Car Patrol]] are routing a Decepticon team in a replica of their old Earth wars, but [[Skyhopper]] flies for it with a pun and a storm of bombs. In a strafing run, the Decepticon suddenly is wracked with a coughing fit and Roadhandler shoots him down.

	At a [[Resistance (BWU)\|Resistance]] rally, [[Cheetor (BW)\|Cheetor]] ramps up the troops in preparation for storming [[Valvolux]]. Neither he nor [[Preditron]] are happy that [[Lio Convoy]] won’t let them lead the charge, instead keeping the "First Resistor" and the ‘first Predacon’ restricted to propaganda boosts. They depart in disgust to a flight (on the lobotomised Builder transport ''[[Star Dasher]]'') to the logistics base Safe Zone Alpha Two in [[Protihex]] (a rare city the Resistance captured without damage), making sure to avoid "[[Rageland]]", as the gangster and warlord [[Rage (BW)\|Rage]] is calling her turf. Fussy [[Ikard]] greets them there, gushing about them and how proud Preditron must be about a whole nation of Predacons—Preditron, who believes the Council stole his factionless manifesto for their own power, is decidedly not and the tension hangs over them.		At a [[Resistance (BWU)\|Resistance]] rally, [[Cheetor (BW)\|Cheetor]] ramps up the troops in preparation for storming [[Valvolux]]. Neither he nor [[Preditron]] are happy that [[Lio Convoy (BW)\|Lio Convoy]] won’t let them lead the charge, instead keeping the "First Resistor" and the ‘first Predacon’ restricted to propaganda boosts. They depart in disgust to a flight (on the lobotomised Builder transport ''[[Star Dasher]]'') to the logistics base Safe Zone Alpha Two in [[Protihex]] (a rare city the Resistance captured without damage), making sure to avoid "[[Rageland]]", as the gangster and warlord [[Rage (BW)\|Rage]] is calling her turf. Fussy [[Ikard]] greets them there, gushing about them and how proud Preditron must be about a whole nation of Predacons—Preditron, who believes the Council stole his factionless manifesto for their own power, is decidedly not and the tension hangs over them.

	The squid moves on to business: quite glossy, explosion-heavy footage of Roadhandler's battle. The front? You wish. [[Ser-Ket (BWU)\|Ser-Ket]] arrives and casually mentions that this is actually footage of a Game playing at the [[Protihex]] Arena, where Builder prisoners are being forced to fight to the death as a ‘morale boost’ for the troops! Ikard and Ser-Ket don't get why Cheetor and Preditron are so sick. Why, they're here to open the final game of the [[Buzzclaw (BW)\|Buzzclaw]] Memorial Games, are they not entertained? The old Predacon threatens them to stop it, now, if they don't want Lio Convoy to hear about this, but Ikard tells him Lio Convoy already knows.		The squid moves on to business: quite glossy, explosion-heavy footage of Roadhandler's battle. The front? You wish. [[Ser-Ket (BWU)\|Ser-Ket]] arrives and casually mentions that this is actually footage of a Game playing at the [[Protihex]] Arena, where Builder prisoners are being forced to fight to the death as a ‘morale boost’ for the troops! Ikard and Ser-Ket don't get why Cheetor and Preditron are so sick. Why, they're here to open the final game of the [[Buzzclaw (BW)\|Buzzclaw]] Memorial Games, are they not entertained? The old Predacon threatens them to stop it, now, if they don't want Lio Convoy to hear about this, but Ikard tells him Lio Convoy already knows.
Line 101:		Line 101:

	==Notes==		==Notes==
	* Characters mentioned but not seen include: [[Hot Rod (G1)\|Rodimus Prime]], [[Lio Convoy]], [[Fortress Maximus (G1)\|Fortress Maximus]], [[Rage (BW)\|Queen Rage]], the [[Tripredacus Council\|Tripredacus Alliance]], [[Psycho-Orb]], [[Buzzclaw (BW)\|Buzzclaw]], the [[Pack]], the [[Oracle (BM)\|Oracle]], [[Maxima]], and [[Primus]].		* Characters mentioned but not seen include: [[Hot Rod (G1)\|Rodimus Prime]], [[Lio Convoy (BW)\|Lio Convoy]], [[Fortress Maximus (G1)\|Fortress Maximus]], [[Rage (BW)\|Queen Rage]], the [[Tripredacus Council\|Tripredacus Alliance]], [[Psycho-Orb]], [[Buzzclaw (BW)\|Buzzclaw]], the [[Pack]], the [[Oracle (BM)\|Oracle]], [[Maxima]], and [[Primus]].
	* Characters mentioned in Star Dasher's profile include [[Cannonball (G1)\|Cannonball III]], the [[Star Seeker]]s, [[Nebulon (Headmasters)\|the Nebulon]], [[Devcon (G1)\|Devcon]], [[Death's Head (G1)\|Devcon's partner]], [[Neurotoxin]], [[Guillotine]], [[Bilge (BWU)\|Bilge]], [[Tornado]], [[Pillage]], [[Slizardo]], and [[Spratt]].		* Characters mentioned in Star Dasher's profile include [[Cannonball (G1)\|Cannonball III]], the [[Star Seeker]]s, [[Nebulon (Headmasters)\|the Nebulon]], [[Devcon (G1)\|Devcon]], [[Death's Head (G1)\|Devcon's partner]], [[Neurotoxin]], [[Guillotine]], [[Bilge (BWU)\|Bilge]], [[Tornado]], [[Pillage]], [[Slizardo]], and [[Spratt]].

← Older revision		Revision as of 23:22, 25 June 2025
Line 20:		Line 20:

	==Synopsis==		==Synopsis==
	It's six stellar cycles into the [[Grand Uprising]]. The [[Builder of Cybertron\|Builders]] were already holding less territory than the Resistance and now the [[Maximal Nation]] breakaway state of [[Tagan Heights\|Tagon Heights]] has gouged them and the [[Tripredacus Council]]’s "[[Independent Predacus States]]" have straddled from the [[Rust Sea]] up to the Nation. The front line cuts through the [[Rad Zone]] and major cities like [[Kolkular]]. The ''[[Gung-Ho]]'' has recently blown up the satellite network and now coded shortwave radio is the name of the game. While the Nation and Predacus States claim neutrality, the latter has no clear borders and has constant spats with Builder forces. Even though it’s heavily industrialised and mostly undamaged, the Builders have just a third of Cybertron and falling fast.		It's six stellar cycles into the [[Grand Uprising]]. The [[Builder of Cybertron\|Builders]] were already holding less territory than the Resistance and now the [[Maximal Nation]] breakaway state of [[Tagan Heights\|Tagon Heights]] has gouged them and the [[Tripredacus Council]]’s "[[Independent Predacus States]]" have straddled from the [[Rust Sea]] up to the Nation. The front line cuts through the [[Rad Zone]] and major cities like [[Kolkular]]. The ''[[Gung Ho]]'' has recently blown up the satellite network and now coded shortwave radio is the name of the game. While the Nation and Predacus States claim neutrality, the latter has no clear borders and has constant spats with Builder forces. Even though it’s heavily industrialised and mostly undamaged, the Builders have just a third of Cybertron and falling fast.

	Somewhere on the planet, [[Roadhandler (G1)\|Roadhandler]] and his [[Race Car Patrol]] are routing a Decepticon team in a replica of their old Earth wars, but [[Skyhopper]] flies for it with a pun and a storm of bombs. In a strafing run, the Decepticon suddenly is wracked with a coughing fit and Roadhandler shoots him down.		Somewhere on the planet, [[Roadhandler (G1)\|Roadhandler]] and his [[Race Car Patrol]] are routing a Decepticon team in a replica of their old Earth wars, but [[Skyhopper]] flies for it with a pun and a storm of bombs. In a strafing run, the Decepticon suddenly is wracked with a coughing fit and Roadhandler shoots him down.
Line 28:		Line 28:
	The squid moves on to business: quite glossy, explosion-heavy footage of Roadhandler's battle. The front? You wish. [[Ser-Ket (BWU)\|Ser-Ket]] arrives and casually mentions that this is actually footage of a Game playing at the [[Protihex]] Arena, where Builder prisoners are being forced to fight to the death as a ‘morale boost’ for the troops! Ikard and Ser-Ket don't get why Cheetor and Preditron are so sick. Why, they're here to open the final game of the [[Buzzclaw (BW)\|Buzzclaw]] Memorial Games, are they not entertained? The old Predacon threatens them to stop it, now, if they don't want Lio Convoy to hear about this, but Ikard tells him Lio Convoy already knows.		The squid moves on to business: quite glossy, explosion-heavy footage of Roadhandler's battle. The front? You wish. [[Ser-Ket (BWU)\|Ser-Ket]] arrives and casually mentions that this is actually footage of a Game playing at the [[Protihex]] Arena, where Builder prisoners are being forced to fight to the death as a ‘morale boost’ for the troops! Ikard and Ser-Ket don't get why Cheetor and Preditron are so sick. Why, they're here to open the final game of the [[Buzzclaw (BW)\|Buzzclaw]] Memorial Games, are they not entertained? The old Predacon threatens them to stop it, now, if they don't want Lio Convoy to hear about this, but Ikard tells him Lio Convoy already knows.

	On their way out, consumed with rage, Preditron advises Cheetor to contact Resistance Command to learn exactly who's in charge while he checks thing from another angle. Unfortunately, Cheetor can't get through to Convoy while the [[Tesarus (polity)\|Tesarus]] campaign is on. Just because it's Cheetor asking, [[Drill Bit (BW)\|Drill Bit]] digs up [[Blackarachnia (BW)\|Blackarachnia]]. The spider is not impressed with being asked about a bunch of Builders and less with being told this was what they were ~~fight~~ against, and tells him that the troops are tired, weary, in need of the bread and circuses that he and Preditron and, yes, the Games will give them. Her ends-and-means speech slips up at the end though, implying by accident that this isn't something she's actually told Lio Convoy about.		On their way out, consumed with rage, Preditron advises Cheetor to contact Resistance Command to learn exactly who's in charge while he checks thing from another angle. Unfortunately, Cheetor can't get through to Convoy while the [[Tesarus (polity)\|Tesarus]] campaign is on. Just because it's Cheetor asking, [[Drill Bit (BW)\|Drill Bit]] digs up [[Blackarachnia (BW)\|Blackarachnia]]. The spider is not impressed with being asked about a bunch of Builders and less with being told this was what they were fighting against, and tells him that the troops are tired, weary, in need of the bread and circuses that he and Preditron and, yes, the Games will give them. Her ends-and-means speech slips up at the end though, implying by accident that this isn't something she's actually told Lio Convoy about.

	[[File:Safe Spaces Preditron Gaidora.jpg\|thumb\|left\|350px]]		[[File:Safe Spaces Preditron Gaidora.jpg\|thumb\|left\|350px]]

	Preditron's ‘other angle’ is to seek out Ser-Ket directly and knock on her door. To her surprise, he doesn't knock because he's concerned about the Games but because he's concerned about her. He says he recognises her as a true Predacon—ambitious, seeking out honourable combat against worthy foes—and knows neither of them are having much ~~like~~ finding honour in this war~~. Neither has he~~. Unable to lie to the founder of her race, Ser-Ket comes clean about the truth of the [[Head Games\|raid that freed Preditron and Cheetor]], and how Buzzclaw was set up to die, and how she went back to the Resistance as there was nothing much else and Ikard suggested she could use her old friendship to help set the Buzzclaw Memorial Games up. Since him winning a match is the only thing true that anyone knows about her dead friend, she accepted and, to her shame, admits it was too easy to get sucked in. Preditron comforts her and says she reminds him of an old friend, [[Maxima]], the first Maximal, who helped him write his manifesto. Their works were taken from them to divide the proto-formers into feuding races but there's time to put it all right...		Preditron's ‘other angle’ is to seek out Ser-Ket directly and knock on her door. To her surprise, he doesn't knock because he's concerned about the Games but because he's concerned about her. He says he recognises her as a true Predacon—ambitious, seeking out honourable combat against worthy foes—and knows neither of them are having much luck finding honour in this war. Unable to lie to the founder of her race, Ser-Ket comes clean about the truth of the [[Head Games\|raid that freed Preditron and Cheetor]], and how Buzzclaw was set up to die, and how she went back to the Resistance as there was nothing much else and Ikard suggested she could use her old friendship to help set the Buzzclaw Memorial Games up. Since him winning a match is the only thing true that anyone knows about her dead friend, she accepted and, to her shame, admits it was too easy to get sucked in. Preditron comforts her and says she reminds him of an old friend, [[Maxima]], the first Maximal, who helped him write his manifesto. Their works were taken from them to divide the proto-formers into feuding races but there's time to put it all right...

	Cheetor, meanwhile, is visiting Ikard at his swanky home and tells him that he'll let the Games go for now—there'll be a full inquiry demanded once the war has calmed down—provided Preditron agrees as well. The little creep feels this is a good deal and Cheetor knows, even as he threatens it, there's little chance of the war ‘calming down’ for an inquiry for a long while. And on his way back to the Maximal, Predatron is jumped by a callow young Pred named [[Gaidora (BWU)\|Gaidora]] and forced into a beast-mode brawl! He handles himself well until Ikard zaps him from behind; once Preditron is neutralised, Gaidora has Preditron thrown in with the prisoners for execution. "Lio Convoy says hi," is the last thing Preditron hears Gaidora say...		Cheetor, meanwhile, is visiting Ikard at his swanky home and tells him that he'll let the Games go for now—there'll be a full inquiry demanded once the war has calmed down—provided Preditron agrees as well. The little creep feels this is a good deal and Cheetor knows, even as he threatens it, there's little chance of the war ‘calming down’ for an inquiry for a long while. And on his way back to the Maximal, Predatron is jumped by a callow young Pred named [[Gaidora (BWU)\|Gaidora]] and forced into a beast-mode brawl! He handles himself well until Ikard zaps him from behind; once Preditron is neutralised, Gaidora has Preditron thrown in with the prisoners for execution. "Lio Convoy says hi," is the last thing Preditron hears Gaidora say...

← Older revision		Revision as of 04:57, 7 May 2025
Line 24:		Line 24:
	Somewhere on the planet, [[Roadhandler (G1)\|Roadhandler]] and his [[Race Car Patrol]] are routing a Decepticon team in a replica of their old Earth wars, but [[Skyhopper]] flies for it with a pun and a storm of bombs. In a strafing run, the Decepticon suddenly is wracked with a coughing fit and Roadhandler shoots him down.		Somewhere on the planet, [[Roadhandler (G1)\|Roadhandler]] and his [[Race Car Patrol]] are routing a Decepticon team in a replica of their old Earth wars, but [[Skyhopper]] flies for it with a pun and a storm of bombs. In a strafing run, the Decepticon suddenly is wracked with a coughing fit and Roadhandler shoots him down.

	At a [[Resistance]] rally, [[Cheetor (BW)\|Cheetor]] ramps up the troops in preparation for storming [[Valvolux]]. Neither he nor [[Preditron]] are happy that [[Lio Convoy]] won’t let them lead the charge, instead keeping the "First Resistor" and the ‘first Predacon’ restricted to propaganda boosts. They depart in disgust to a flight (on the lobotomised Builder transport ''[[Star Dasher]]'') to the logistics base Safe Zone Alpha Two in [[Protihex]] (a rare city the Resistance captured without damage), making sure to avoid "[[Rageland]]", as the gangster and warlord [[Rage (BW)\|Rage]] is calling her turf. Fussy [[Ikard]] greets them there, gushing about them and how proud Preditron must be about a whole nation of Predacons—Preditron, who believes the Council stole his factionless manifesto for their own power, is decidedly not and the tension hangs over them.		At a [[Resistance (BWU)\|Resistance]] rally, [[Cheetor (BW)\|Cheetor]] ramps up the troops in preparation for storming [[Valvolux]]. Neither he nor [[Preditron]] are happy that [[Lio Convoy]] won’t let them lead the charge, instead keeping the "First Resistor" and the ‘first Predacon’ restricted to propaganda boosts. They depart in disgust to a flight (on the lobotomised Builder transport ''[[Star Dasher]]'') to the logistics base Safe Zone Alpha Two in [[Protihex]] (a rare city the Resistance captured without damage), making sure to avoid "[[Rageland]]", as the gangster and warlord [[Rage (BW)\|Rage]] is calling her turf. Fussy [[Ikard]] greets them there, gushing about them and how proud Preditron must be about a whole nation of Predacons—Preditron, who believes the Council stole his factionless manifesto for their own power, is decidedly not and the tension hangs over them.

	The squid moves on to business: quite glossy, explosion-heavy footage of Roadhandler's battle. The front? You wish. [[Ser-Ket (BWU)\|Ser-Ket]] arrives and casually mentions that this is actually footage of a Game playing at the [[Protihex]] Arena, where Builder prisoners are being forced to fight to the death as a ‘morale boost’ for the troops! Ikard and Ser-Ket don't get why Cheetor and Preditron are so sick. Why, they're here to open the final game of the [[Buzzclaw (BW)\|Buzzclaw]] Memorial Games, are they not entertained? The old Predacon threatens them to stop it, now, if they don't want Lio Convoy to hear about this, but Ikard tells him Lio Convoy already knows.		The squid moves on to business: quite glossy, explosion-heavy footage of Roadhandler's battle. The front? You wish. [[Ser-Ket (BWU)\|Ser-Ket]] arrives and casually mentions that this is actually footage of a Game playing at the [[Protihex]] Arena, where Builder prisoners are being forced to fight to the death as a ‘morale boost’ for the troops! Ikard and Ser-Ket don't get why Cheetor and Preditron are so sick. Why, they're here to open the final game of the [[Buzzclaw (BW)\|Buzzclaw]] Memorial Games, are they not entertained? The old Predacon threatens them to stop it, now, if they don't want Lio Convoy to hear about this, but Ikard tells him Lio Convoy already knows.
Line 42:		Line 42:
	Two such friends are meeting up when Cheetor tells Ser-Ket what's going on. She's going to rip Ikard in two for this betrayal but not if Cheetor beats her to it!		Two such friends are meeting up when Cheetor tells Ser-Ket what's going on. She's going to rip Ikard in two for this betrayal but not if Cheetor beats her to it!

	[[File:SafeSpaces Ikard.jpg\|thumb~~\|right~~\|300px]]		[[File:SafeSpaces Ikard.jpg\|thumb\|300px]]

	Fifteen cycles into the arena, Preditron is hiding out in what he assumes is a camera blindspot and where Roadhandler quietly died some time ago. Torque finds him, in pain and starting to [[Reformatting\|reformat]] into a new shape.... And then, to Preditron's horror, Roadhandler's corpse sits up and changes too! Now he has to fight. And as the crowd roars, Ikard sneers at his antagonists as they rush his podium and asks them if it sounds like he can stop their Game. And telling Lio Convoy? Lio Convoy wants an army, and the Independent Predacus States have one, and the only thing preventing them from forming up with the Resistance is if their old rival Preditron is still alive and able to challenge their political standing. He's just following orders. So's Gaidora when she goes for Cheetor and Ser-Ket and swats them into the arena—now they're part of the show too!		Fifteen cycles into the arena, Preditron is hiding out in what he assumes is a camera blindspot and where Roadhandler quietly died some time ago. Torque finds him, in pain and starting to [[Reformatting\|reformat]] into a new shape.... And then, to Preditron's horror, Roadhandler's corpse sits up and changes too! Now he has to fight. And as the crowd roars, Ikard sneers at his antagonists as they rush his podium and asks them if it sounds like he can stop their Game. And telling Lio Convoy? Lio Convoy wants an army, and the Independent Predacus States have one, and the only thing preventing them from forming up with the Resistance is if their old rival Preditron is still alive and able to challenge their political standing. He's just following orders. So's Gaidora when she goes for Cheetor and Ser-Ket and swats them into the arena—now they're part of the show too!