Predacon computer

The Predacon computer is a device from the Beast Wars portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.

"Computer, choose a suit for me!"

The Predacon computer controls the systems of the Darksyde, the ship that serves as headquarters to Megatron's band of Predacons. Although artificially intelligent, with several specific purposes such as analyzing, diagnosing, computing and system controlling, it lacks any personality or emotion, not to mention a spark. Each Predacon is equipped with an onboard computer of the same type.

Fiction

Beast Wars cartoon

Voice actor: Carol Savenkoff (English), Xu Lin (Chinese), Loredana Nicosia (Italian), Nancy McKenzie (Latin-American Spanish), Susanne Sternberg (German), Roseli Maria Gonçalves (Portuguese), Françoise Vallon (French)

From the very beginning, the Predacon computer acted as Megatron's assistant whenever he had some evil scheme to employ. Beast Wars (Part 1) This continued for some time, until the Darksyde was blown up by the arrival of Tigerhawk and the Predacon computer along with it. Other Victories

Ravage had the same voice for the computer on his cruiser. The Agenda (Part 2)

Japanese Generation 1 cartoon continuity

Beast Wars cartoon (Japan)

Voice actor: Ryōka Yuzuki (Japanese)

For the Japanese dub of Beast Wars, the Predacon computer was given the name "NAVI-ko" and made part of the NAVI line of shipboard computers. She was given a distinct personality, or several of them, in fact. NAVI-ko would regularly alternate between a "cute" voice, a harsh "witch" voice and a... "sexy" voice (that sounded like it was constantly in the midst of orgasm). Additionally, most scenes where in the English version the Predacons were shown talking to themselves were rewritten into conversations with Navi-ko, thus making her an accomplice in numerous military coups.

Yokohama Decepticon Secret Base

Oh, sure, she looks cute now, but she's probably going off to murder some helpless protoforms.

Through the machinations of Tarantulas, NAVI-ko was "warped" into a body of her own, which transformed into a dolphin. She debuted her new form to the bemused Megatron as she presented him information (secretly provided by Tarantulas) on "Nemesis Prime", an evil clone of their ancestor, Optimus Prime. Megatron wanted to add Nemesis Prime to his own forces, so he sent NAVI-ko forward in time via a transwarp portal to Doctor Arkeville's Decepticon Base in Yokohama, Japan, in the year 2014 where Nemesis Prime had been detected.

Once in 2014, NAVI-ko located Nemesis Prime as Doctor Arkeville and Yokohama Prime fought over whose cookie would activate the clone. NAVI-ko claimed Nemesis Prime for herself with her Yokohama Decepticon Cookie. Mach Five Racing Prime, Yokohama Prime, and Kawasaki Prime teamed up to fight Nemesis Prime, but they were blasted away, and NAVI-ko met with the clone after, pointing out the nearby Transformers Expo. She bore witness to Nemesis Prime fighting the Autobots within the Expo and Nemesis's seeming sacrifice to save Yokohama from the explosive interaction of the Dark Energon within himself and the artifacts stored in the Expo—events that Tarantulas sought to bring about as an agent of Unicron. NAVI-ko was saddened by her comrade's death, only for "Yokohama Convoy" to awaken and flirt with her. NAVI-ko didn't have time to respond as Megatron ordered her back to base after the failure of their plan. Yokohama Decepticon Secret Base

Legends comic

NAVI-ko in her dolphin body was among the evil female Transformers who appeared in Tigatron's dream, fighting a group of heroic female Transformers in a bid to kidnap Tigatron. LG11 Chromia

Legends comic

A blocky NAVI-ko was among the evil Kreons summoned by Megatron to conquer the Legends World. Special Chapter

Toys

Masterpiece

• Megatron (Beast Wars) (March 30, 2019)
  • Japanese ID number: MP-43

In one of Megatron's hidden voice clips, one of Ryōka Yuzuki's voice clips as NAVI-ko was reused.

Notes

• The Predacon computer is named as Computer Globe in the Beast Wars Universe guidebook.
• It is likely that the name "NAVI-ko", a combination of "NAVI" and the Japanese feminine ending -ko, is derived from a line of dialogue from Megatron in "Beast Wars (Part 1)", when he asks the Darksyde computer: "Navigation! Is this the right planet?" Japanese regularly abbreviates words and the abbreviation of "navigation" is navi, so it appears that the Japanese production staff misconstrued or perhaps deliberately repurposed Megatron's declaration of "Navigation!" as the computer's name.
• In the Expo Campaign comic, NAVI-ko interacts with characters from the "Cybertron Satellite" promotion, all of whom are redecoed Legends Class and Cyberverse Legion figures. In keeping with this, her dolphin body is based on a redecoed Cyberverse Airachnid, sans rotors, but with fins that plug into the 3 mm ports on her shoulders and back.

Foreign names

• Japanese: NAVI-ko (ナビ子 Nabi-ko)

Gallery

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External links

• NAVI-ko's personal Twitter account created to advertise the Yokohama Decepticon Secret Base campaign.