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In 1996, the Transformers brand was given a complete overhaul in the form of Beast Wars: Transformers. A radical departure from what all came before, Beast Wars was headlined by an animated series of the same name and followed by a direct sequel, Beast Machines, in late 1999. Together, these two are the primary components of the "Beast Era" and thus make up the backbone of the Beast Era timeline. While early bios and packaging blurbs for the Beast Wars toys originally set the series as a close follow-up to Generation 1 and 2 set on modern-day Earth, the cartoon established a new setting, declaring its main cast of Maximals and Predacons as distant-future descendants of the Autobots and Decepticons of old, displaced through time to battle each other on Prehistoric Earth. Beast Machines would then shift the cast back to Cybertron in the far future some 300 years after the 21st century. Later Beast Wars and Beast Machines toy bios and blurbs would be written to better reflect this world of the cartoons.

Throughout the late 1990s and into the 2000s, additional stories that weaved in and around the two series was published for both the official Transformers fan convention BotCon and the Transformers Collectors' Club, first by 3H Productions and then by Fun Publications. These extra stories created a sprawling "expanded universe" for the Beast Era, further tying the Beast Wars and Beast Machines cartoons to certain events of the Generation 1 media that came before, as well as exploring brand new avenues such as alternate timelines, points set before and after the cartoons, and even the multiverse!

However, between various parties all wanting to write their own take on the cartoons, the Beast Era would evolve to encompass more than one continuity, each with their own timeline containing the same Beast Wars and Beast Machines cartoons surrounded by different supplementary media. Below is a chronology of the original, very first North American continuity of the Beast Era cartoon universe, consisting of the Beast Wars and Beast Machines cartoons and additional info gleaned from certain toy bios, packaging blurbs, stories by 3H Productions and Fun Publications, and Transformers Hall of Fame character bios.

• For the timeline of the Japanese Beast Wars cartoons (including original sequels Beast Wars II and Beast Wars Neo) see Generation 1 cartoon timeline (Japan).
• For the cartoon timeline of IDW Publishing's 2006–2008 Beast Wars comics, see Beast Wars timeline (IDW).
• For the timeline of Fun Publications' "Wings Universe", see Transformers: Wings Universe.

Events from outside the Beast Wars and Beast Machines cartoons are in italics.

Before the dawn of time

• There once was a universe full of god-like beings, until Unicron ate them all and the universe they inhabited. But remnants coalesced, forming a new universe, and this new universe created Primus to protect it.

Dawn of time

• Primus traps Unicron and himself inside planetoids. Unicron reforms his physical form into a being that can transform between robot and planet modes. Primus plans to create a race of tiny beings that can do the same, but first he practices by cyberforming a moon, Protos, and he creates a prototypical race, the Covenant, to inhabit it. The Covenant are charged with preparing against Point Omega, a future cataclysm. Covenant

• Unicron enlists the Quintessons to seek out the body of Primus. After discovering it in the form of Cybertron, the Quintessons decided to tell Unicron about it ... later. Forming a grand business venture, they tried to devise crude ways to control Primus's power, rejecting such prototype devices such as the Divine Light (which was lost). The Quintessons eventually constructed a shell program for Vector Sigma, called the Oracle. Disclosure

• But their creations, the Transformers, rebelled, and the Quintessons were forced off-planet. Disclosure

Four million years ago

Italicize its name and die.

• The resources on Cybertron dried up due to the long-term war. An Autobot space exploration team aboard the Ark led by Optimus Prime left. While Megatron led a crew of Decepticons aboard the Nemesis and chased the Ark. Both the Ark and Nemesis crashed on Earth. The Transformers enter a long period of stasis lock due to the impact.

180,000 BCE

The Beast Wars

In space, above an unknown planet with two moons, two ships emerge from a transwarp portal. The first is a Predacon ship crewed by fugitives who stole a relic called the Golden Disk. The second is a Maximal science vessel, the Axalon. The two ships battle above the planet before crash-landing in different areas, with the Axalon ejecting many stasis pods into orbit upon its descent. The planet is richly-seeded in raw, unstable energon, so both crews adopt organic-skinned beast modes to protect themselves from the radiation. Both teams soon find each other and a battle ensues, sending the Maximals in retreat. En route back to their base, a former Predacon named Dinobot blocks their path. He had previously challenged Megatron for Predacon leadership—believing they had come to the wrong planet—and was kicked out of the Predacons. Dinobot now challenges Optimus Primal for Maximal leadership, Beast Wars (Part 1) but their duel is cut short by another Predacon attack. This battle unearths a large deposit of energon on a faraway mountain and both teams race to secure it, with Dinobot joining the Maximals. At the mountain, both sides clash in beast mode until Megatron risks transforming to fire a missile at Optimus. But Dinobot deflects the missile to hit the energon, causing a massive explosion. Both sides retreat and Optimus declares that the Beast Wars have only just begun. Beast Wars (Part 2)

A month later, the reckless Maximal youth Cheetor finds himself captured by the Predacon scientist Tarantulas, and has to be rescued by fellow Maximal Rattrap. The Web Cheetor then gets himself teleported inside the Predacon base during a lightning storm, but uses his wits to escape. Equal Measures The Maximals later investigate a mysterious rock formation of standing stones that bear an unnatural design. A battle with the Predacons triggers a hidden beacon within the stones that shoots up into outer space. That night, an alien probe of some kind touches down at the standing stones, where it captures Optimus Primal. The next day, another altercation with the Predacons at the stones sets Optimus free of the probe, which then mysteriously vanishes. Chain of Command The self-serving Predacon Terrorsaur makes a bid for power against Megatron when he finds a floating mountain full of raw energon that supercharges his body. However, his reign is cut short when Optimus and Rattrap blow up the mountain. Power Surge

Both sides soon gain a new addition to their ranks as two stasis pods crash down from the sky. The Maximals are joined by Tigatron, Fallen Comrades while the Predacons acquire Blackarachnia. Double Jeopardy The Maximals also create a new defense grid for their base in the form of Sentinel, A Better Mousetrap while the Predacon Scorponok develops a virus that turns Optimus into a berserker. The Maximals unleash him on the Predacons and storm their base to acquire a cure for their leader. Gorilla Warfare Meanwhile, Cybertron sends out temporal probes to search for Optimus Primal and his missing crew. The Maximals attempt to make contact with one, but are thwarted by Megatron. The Probe The Predacons then fake their demise to trick the Maximals into looting their ship to repair the Axalon, in hopes that the Predacons may seize it and leave the planet. But Dinobot discovers their hiding place and a scuffle aboard the airborne Axalon sees it grounded once more. Victory Megatron then begins taking more experimental measures against the Maximals.

First he captures the Maximal engineer Rhinox and forcibly reprograms him into a Predacon. But, Rhinox proves too cunning for Megatron to control and begins eliminating the Predacons one by one, forcing Megatron to change him back into a Maximal. Dark Designs Megatron then creates a clone of Dinobot in hopes to use him to bypass the Maximal's defense grid Sentinel. However, the clone is defeated by the real Dinobot. Double Dinobot Another stasis pod comes down and Rhinox nearly risks everything to keep the pod's damaged protoform from dying. His efforts are success and Airazor joins the Maximals. The Spark Two weeks later, the Predacons develop an orbital weapons satellite that can target anywhere on the planet. The Maximals stop the satellite's launch and Airazor destroys it. The Razor's Edge prologue and epilogue From another stasis pod emerges the Predacon geochemist Fractyl, who prefers to be out in the field. Fractyl's BotCon 1997 Universe profile The Maximals are also joined by Packrat, who prefers to work alone. Packrat's BotCon 1997 Universe profile Having been a thief back on Cybertron who was stuffed into a stasis pod for his crimes, Betrayal he is a chronic hoarder and kleptomaniac who leaves the other Maximals wary of him. Packrat's BotCon 2015 toy bio

During one of Tigatron's field reports, he is attacked by the Predacon fliers Terrorsaur and Waspinator, who blast him into a cloud-filled gorge. Inside the cloud, they discover a flying island guarded by weapons of alien design. Tigatron seeks to protect this island and is joined first by Airazor The Trigger, Part 1 and then Optimus and Rattrap. But Blackarachnia and Scorponok arrive and reach the island's control center first; Blackarachnia then seizes the island's power for herself. Tigatron is regrettably forced to destroy the island before she can use it to destroy the Maximal base. Upon the island's destruction, it sends a signal up to one of the planet's moons, which is then sent out into space. The Trigger, Part 2 This ordeal puts Tarantulas on edge as he senses the planet's doom. He starts making plans to leave the planet as a new stasis pod crashes to the planet. He and Blackarachnia retrieve it and awaken the new Predacon Inferno, but Tigatron destroys the pod to prevent Tarantulas from stealing it. Spider's Game

Fractyl develops a new energon armor from a substance called furmanite. It is them stolen by Packrat. When an explosive reaction with pure energon reveals the furmanite to be "anti-energon", Fractyl tries to stop Packrat from entering the energon-rich Badlands. Fractyl is knocked out by Packrat, but Rhinox convinces the thief to stand down and give up the furmanite. Ground Zero Later, the Predacons steal the Axalon's rectifier coil, forcing the Maximals to remain in beast mode as their base no longer shields them from the planet's energon. This causes them to act feral and animal-like until Tigatron helps to bring them back to sanity. As the Maximals battle the Predacons in a jungle, Airazor recovers the stolen rectifier coil. Call of the Wild An energon explosion leaves most of the Maximals blinded and in urgent need of repair. Rhinox leads them on a dangerous trek back to the base. Dark Voyage The disembodied Spark of the Decepticon Starscream arrives on the planet and possesses the body of Waspinator. He helps the Predacons take control of the Axalon, but plots to betray Megatron and takes on Blackarachnia as an apprentice. However, Optimus and Dinobot retake the Axalon and Blackarachnia double-crosses Starscream, blasting his spark out of Waspinator and back into space. Possession

A new Predacon named Onyx Primal is rehabilitated as a Maximal and begrudgingly joins his new comrades. A former assassin for the Tripredacus Council, he keeps his past secret in hopes to avoid termination by his ex-employers. Onyx Primal's BotCon: Beyond profile A Predacon attack on the Axalon sees Tarantulas infect Rhinox with an energon discharge virus. Dinobot and Rattrap pursue Tarantulas for a cure. Thanks to some wild bean vines Rhinox had eaten, they succeed. That is all. The Low Road As the Maximals search for any more alien sites, a battle leads Tigatron to accidentally fire a stray shot at a mountain where his tiger friend Snowstalker is, causing an avalanche that claims her life. Grief-stricken, Tigatron takes a vow of pacifism and leaves the Beast Wars. Dinobot argues that the war is necessary to prevent Megatron from spreading more destruction to Cybertron and other planets, the Maximal/Predacon conflict being the legacy of the Autobots and Decepticons. Tigatron disagrees, but Optimus arrives to break the tension. He sympathizes with Tigatron and reminds him that the Maximals are the only one who can protect their friends and the planet from the Predacons. Law of the Jungle

An alien energy anomaly inside a mountain reveals a mysterious second golden disk, which Inferno brings to Megatron. Wanting to analyze the disk, Megatron declares a truce with the Maximals. Skeptical, the Maximals have Tigatron sneak into the Predacon base to find out what's going on. He discovers the new disk and learns from its contents that the aliens who created the flying island and seeded the planet with energon... are on their way. Meanwhile, Tarantulas furthers his plans to leave the planet by stealing a Transwarp cell from the Predacon base. Megatron takes notice and secretly adds his own programming to the cell. Before the Storm Together with Blackarachnia, Tarantulas decides to steal a stasis pod from the Axalon while some of the Maximals are out investigating another energy anomaly. The anomaly creates a a domed structure inside which Optimus is captured; the aliens assume the visage of Unicron to speak with him. They declare that the Maximals and Predacons' presence on the planet has contaminated an experiment they've been conducting, and prepare to "sterilize" the planet. An energy beam shoots upward from the dome and strikes one of the moons, the ensuing energy surge knocking the remaining stasis pods from orbit.

While this is going on, Tarantulas and Blackarachnia break into the Axalon Other Voices, Part 1 and proceed to convert a stasis pod into a flight-capable vessel. The moon is transformed into a planet-destroying machine and begins to superheat the planet in order to ignite its energon deposits. The Maximals discover the modified pod and Optimus decides to fly it up to the alien machine and destroy it with a transwarp explosion. However, Megatron's previous sabotage prevents Optimus from leaving the pod and is destroyed in the explosion along with the machine. Other Voices, Part 2 The explosion creates a quantum surge that strikes the planet and drastically changes its environments; it also reformats several Maximals and Predacons into new forms called Transmetals. Aftermath Two stasis pods that survived the mass planetfall had their DNA scanners damaged, resulting in the Fuzors: Quickstrike and Silverbolt. Both are recruited to the Predacons by Megatron, but Silverbolt has his reservations. The Maximals recover another stasis pod but whose protoform is a blank; Tigatron and Airazor depart to go look for other pods. Rhinox then conducts a dangerous experiment to access the Matrix.

Observing the presence of a single moon, Dinobot deduces that this planet is actually Earth. He sneaks into the Predacon base and steals both Golden Disks. He returns to the Maximal base just as Cheetor calls in a Predacon attack. Rattrap and Dinobot come to his aid and a massive battle begins. Coming of the Fuzors (Part 1) Back at the Predacon base, Blackarachnia finds and downloads Megatron's backup data for the Golden Disks, and then destroys the computer. The battle goes well for the Predacons and their fliers take off for the Axalon. The Maximals manage to stop them and spare Silverbolt's life. When Rhinox's experiment ends, he joins the others in time to be thoroughly overwhelmed by Predacon firepower. But the tide is turned by the miraculous return of Optimus Primal, reborn as a Transmetal by Rhinox's experiment with the blank protoform. Silverbolt also chooses to join to the Maximals. Coming of the Fuzors (Part 2) Despite losing the Golden Disks, the Predacons start building jamming towers to disrupt Maximal communications while Megatron plans for the future. Tangled Web

With the contents of the original Golden Disk weighing on his mind, Dinobot questions his place in the Beast Wars and considers rejoining the Predacons. He reluctantly returns the disk to Megatron as a test of loyalty, but ultimately chooses to remain a Maximal, unwilling to aid Megatron's "insane" ambition that will doom their race. He later discusses something urgent with Optimus. Maximal, No More Tigatron and Airazor find a valley with alien plantlife that abduct the pair into space. Megatron steals the alien Golden Disk back from Rhinox and Tarantulas declares himself no longer under Megatron's command, but also Megatron's only hope of surviving the oncoming alien attack. As both factions rendezvous at the abduction site, an alien spacecraft materializes. Other Visits (Part 1) Megatron takes control of the ship and prepares to take it back to Cybertron. But, thanks to Tarantulas's help, the Maximals are able to destroy the vessel—along with the alien disk—before it leaves the planet. Other Visits (Part 2) A new Predacon named Vice Grip proves himself to be very loyal and reliable to Megatron, taking all of his missions seriously and having excellent tracking skills. The other Predacons come to respect him and look to him for advice and guidance. Vice Grip's BotCon 1998 toy bio

In a remote region of the planet, Visitations a transwarp portal brings the Maximal Apelinq from the future, following a tussle through time with the Vehicon general Mirage. Observing his new surroundings, Apelinq notices that one or two of his belongings are missing. Timewrecked One of them lands in Predacon territory, where it is found by Packrat and Onyx Primal and taken for an "artifact" of Predacon origin. The two Maximals are attacked by Fractyl and Vice Grip, but Rattrap and Silverbolt help fend them off. Visitations During the battle, the "artifact" is secretly taken by Apelinq. Visitations Re-visitations After the battle, another transwarp portal suddenly opens to reveal a new female Predacon, Antagony, who demands the artifact be given to her. Megatron and Optimus arrive and Antagony faces each of them before being felled and captured by Megatron. Visitations Having recovered his belongings, Apelinq opts to observe other Maximals and Predacons from afar. Re-visitations At the Predacon base, Megatron's attempts to interrogate Antagony have proven futile. He knows she comes from a future time much farther than his own, but nothing more. He uses one of Tarantulas' inventions, the mind-drill, to try prying more info from her mind, but a failsafe in her brain wipes it clean, denying Megatron any answers. Herald

A massive stasis pod emblazoned with an X is discovered, containing the monstrous "Protoform X". The Maximals and Predacons fight over it, but an explosion separates Blackarachnia and Silverbolt from their respective teams. They work together to get back to the others, but run afoul the newly-awakened Protoform X. The Maximals and Blackarachnia defeat the monster and Megatron carves out a portion of X's spark to make him a loyal Predacon, naming him "Rampage". Bad Spark Realizing the severity of Megatron's ability to alter history with the Golden Disk, Dinobot sacrifices his life to stop the Predacons from exterminating the early ancestors of humankind, destroying the Golden Disk in the process. Code of Hero A new stasis pod damaged yields Transmutate, a deformed creature whom both Rampage and Silverbolt seek to befriend. The two battle over Transmutate, who tries to stop their fight but gets caught in the crossfire and perishes. Transmutate Back when the aliens' "planet buster" was destroyed, it not only created the quantum surge but also a transwarp wavefront that was traveling forward in time Code of Hero and would soon reach Cybertron in the Maximals' home-time.

However, both the Maximals and Predacons are surpised to find that the one who arrives from Cybertron in response to the wavefront is ex-Decepticon Covert Agent Ravage of the Predacon Alliance. He allies himself with the Maximals and helps them to finally arrest Megatron. Meanwhile, Blackarachia takes off for a distant location The Agenda (Part 1) and is pursued by Silverbolt. He tries to get her to leave the Predacons and join him as a Maximal, but she refuses. She tries to make him to leave, but he refuses. The two lovers from opposite sides arrive at a volcanic mountain where Megatron had previously dug a tunnel and sealed it back up. They work together to unearth it. Back aboard Ravage's ship, Megatron is interrogated in a holding cell. Tarantulas is revealed to have been an ally of Ravage all along, a member of the Predacon Secret Police. Megatron then reveals to Ravage the real reason he stole the Golden Disk from Cybertron: It not only contained the location of a large energon source, but also a secret message from the original Megatron. Recalling his original loyalty to the Decepticon leader, Ravage frees his Predacon captive and joins forces with him. The Agenda (Part 2)

The Predacons launch a full assault on the Axalon, which the Maximals barely overcome, destroying Ravage and his ship in the process. Megatron retreats, but not back to his base. This worries Optimus, who orders a pursuit. At the mountain, Blackarachnia and Silverbolt discover what was buried there: The legendary Autobot spacecraft, the Ark, containing the still-sleeping Autobot and Decepticon ancestors of the Maximals and Predacons. Having previously acquired the Ark's access codes from her download of Megatron's backup Golden Disk files, Blackarachnia plans to take control of the ship for herself. However, Megatron arrives and threatens Silverbolt's life if Blackarachnia doesn't give him access to the ship. She begrudgingly complies and stalls the approaching Maximals with one of the Ark's cannons. Megatron enters the ship's bridge and finds his prize: the dormant body of Autobot leader Optimus Prime. With nothing left to lose, Megatron takes a gamble by blasting Prime's head to kill him, hoping to change the course of history. This creates a massive timestorm that threatens to erase all Maximals from existence. The Agenda (Part III) The effects of this temporal crisis are felt throughout the timestream, creating a paradox that sends the time deity, the Chronarchitect, reeling in fatal agony. Covenant

Invisible to all, divine intervention from Vector Prime, the Guardian of Space-Time, helps to sustain Optimus Prime's life during the storm. Vector Prime: In the Beginning Having been a Maximal protoform, Blackarachnia refuses to die for Megatron's sake and ejects him from the Ark with its security system. She and Silverbolt put Prime on life support, stabiling the storm. The other Maximals arrive and work to repair their ancestor's damaged form. Optimus Primal takes Prime's fading spark into his body to save it; this causes Primal to mutate into a new, larger "Optimal Optimus" form. The Predacons are driven off from the Ark but succeed in sinking the unguarded Axalon to the bottom of a deep river. The Maximals salvage what they can from their former base and establish a new one inside the Ark's mountain to safeguard it. Blackarchnia joins Silverbolt as a Maximal-allied Predacon, Optimus Prime is repaired, and the timestorm finally ends. Optimal Situation Unbeknownst to all, however, the storm leaves behind a small tear in the fabric of space-time deep inside an underground cavern about two hundred miles away. Paradox Terminus

Still hoping for a response to the transwarp wavefront from the Maximal Elders, the Maximals are instead met with the surprise arrival of Depth Charge, who has come in pursuit of Protoform X (now Rampage). He becomes a reluctant ally to their cause. Deep Metal Seeking to fortify their new base, the Maximals attempt to salvage Sentinel from the sunken Axalon. However, their efforts are thwarted by the Predacons, who steal Sentinel and install it into their own base. Changing of the Guard Megatron creates cyber raptor drones to hunt the early-human anthropoids in another attempt to prevent humanity's existence. As the Maximals work to protect the anthropoids and destroy the cyber raptors, Megatron launches an assault on the understaffed Maximal base. He is thwarted by Depth Charge. Cutting Edge From afar, Apelinq observes Megatron's attempts to breach the Ark and is sorely tempted to take him out, but resists for the sake of preserving the timeline. The Frontiers of Our History After acquiring a stasis pod, Megatron uses an alien Transmetal driver and the carved out spark fragment of Rampage to create another clone of Dinobot, Transmetal 2 Dinobot. Cheetor and Depth charge steal the driver, but the former is caught in the overload of Megatron's organic Transmetal unit and is presumably killed.

Back at the base, Depth Charge disposes of the driver, but Blackarachnia secretly saves it for herself. Meanwhile, a savage cyber-creature begins terrorizing Predacon and Maximal alike. Feral Scream Part 1 The creature is revealed to be Cheetor, having been mutated into a new "Transmetal 2" form. His beast mode is still feral, but Optimus helps bring him back to his senses. Feral Scream Part 2 An examination of Blackarachnia reveals that the removal of her Predacon shell program could potentially wipe her core consciousness. Believing the others will force this procedure on her, Blackarachnia takes off on her own, only to be tracked by the new Dinobot. Silverbolt comes to her aid and Optimus explains that the procedure was always going to be her choice. Proving Grounds One of Cheetor's anthropoid friends, a young girl named Una, is kidnapped by the Predacons. They use her to finish construction on their new Disuptor Ray, but Una is rescued by Rattrap and Depth Charge. She also failed to install the cannon's stabilizer crystal, causing the weapon to explode. Go with the Flow

Using the Transmetal driver, Blackarachnia attempts to turn herself into a Transmetal 2. Silverbolt intervenes and her shell program begins to degrade. Before Rhinox attempts to remove it, Blackarachnia transfers the Ark's access codes to Optimus. Tarantulas finds out about the procedure and tries to disrupt it with a Predacon attack on the Maximal base. One of his safeguards in the shell program reaches Blackarachnia's core conciousness and leaves her braindead. Vengeful, Silverbolt pursues Tarantulas and near kills him in cold oil before Rampage steps in. However, the Transmetal driver revives Blackarachnia as a Transmetal 2 Maximal, allowing her to save Silverbolt from Rampage. Crossing the Rubicon Megatron and Tarantulas use a control suit piloted by Quickstrike to possess Optimus's body. Megatron is granted access to the Ark and the Predacon leader takes the original Megatron's spark into his own body. Tarantulas has Quickstrike attempt to drown Megatron in a lava pool so that Tarantulas can rig the Ark to explode. But Megatron survives, upgraded into a new giant dragon form.

Blackarachnia frees Optimus from Quickstrike's control and stops the Ark from blowing up. After a battle with Optimus, Megatron retreats, flying out of the mountain's volcano mouth. Master Blaster From a distance, his retreat is observed by Windrazor, a recent arrival from the far future via transwarp portal. Schism He had arrived after fighting and destroying his fission-brother, Cataclysm, who—like Antagony before him—served a future tyrant named Shokaract. Stranded in this time, Windrazor decides to search for what Cataclysm had been originally dispatched to this time to locate: a substance called the Dark Essence. Back at the the Ark, Rhinox detects the newcomer's arrival. The Maximals go to search for him but are ambushed in a canyon by the Predacons, who had likewise detected the visitor. Elsewhere, Windrazor locates the Dark Essence in a pit deep inside an underground cavern; floating high above the pit is a swirling rift in the fabric of space-time that threatens to pull the Dark Essence up into the timestream. Windrazor is then attacked by Megatron, who identifies the Dark Essence as the lifeforce of the Dark God Unicron.

As Optimus arrives and tries to save him, Windrazor is soon overcome by the Dark Essence, which possesses his body as a new host vessel for Unicron. The Chaos Bringer defeats both Optimus and Megatron before leaving to attack Maximal and Predacon alike. Optimus recovers and deduces that the Dark Essence must have been displaced through time to reside here in this cave following Unicron's destruction in 2005. Before Unicron can finish off the Maximals, his essence is expelled from Windrazor's body, exorcized by the completed fusion of Windrazor's dual mind (born from the fusion. While the Dark Essence returns to its prior resting place, Windrazor can answer no questions before another transwarp portal opens. Out steps the future tyrant himself: Shokaract. Paradox And so begins Point Omega, a battle prophesized to determine the fate of the future. Shokaract attacks the Maximals as Megatron watches from afar. Terminus Nearby, the equally-unnoticed Apeling also observes the attack and considers leaving, Terminus Point of No Return but is stunned by the sudden arrival of legendary warriors known as the Covenant of Primus! Terminus Witness to the Covenant The Covenant attack Shokaract, but he slaughters many of them. Terminus

Inspired, Apelinq abandons his reservations and joins the fight with a cry of "WRECK AND RULE!" Terminus Beyond Point Omega Meanwhile, Megatron attacks the pit of the Dark Essence, spurring Shokaract to revive Antagony and Cataclysm. The two Heralds battle Apelinq and the Covenant while their master deals with Megatron. Then, a warrior from the future named Sandstorm arrives, reuniting with his comrade Windrazor. They and Optimus Primal are soon met by other Beast Warriors from other universes, brought here by Point Omega's timestorm. As Shokaract secures the Dark Essence and disables Megatron, he is blasted by these new arrivals and uses his Matrix of Conquest to destroy them. As the Covenant and Apelinq destroy Shokaract's heralds, Sandstom is revealed to be the Covenant's missing member Scorpius. He weakens Shokaract's defenses at the cost of his own life. The Covenant take advantage of Shokaract's new vulnerability by becoming pure energy and entering the Matrix of Conquest, wherein they destroy an apparition of Unicron. No longer bound to its resting place on Earth, the Dark Essence is pulled into the timestream via the overhanging rift. With the arrival of "Legends" from a place called J'nwan, everyone fires on Shokaract, finally destroying him in a massive explosion. Terminus

Transwarp portals open to return all displaced participants back to their points of origin. Apelinq grabs Windrazor and disappears through time. The native Beast Warriors, however, are caught in the epicenter of the timequake and lose most of their of memories of this battle. Departure Elsewhere in the universe, two members of the alien race known as the Vok notice a temporal disruption at "Nexus Earth". Still possessing the abducted Tigatron and Airazor, they fuse the two Maximals together into a new being, Tigerhawk, whom they possess and dispatch to Earth to fix the disturbance. Having not forgotten Quickstrike's recent doublecross, Megatron puts the Fuzor on trial. The court is cut short by the sudden arrival of Tigerhawk, who destroys the Predacon base upon impact. He defeats all of the evacuated Predacons and is about to eliminate Megatron before Optimus arrives to stop him, since Megatron still possesses the original Megatron's spark. Tigerhawk deals with Optimus but is then subdued by Tarantulas. The spider tries to control the Vok emissary, but the two aliens emerge from Tigerhawk and enter Tarantulas; all three are killed by Tarantulas's own machine. Cheetor rescues Tigerhawk and the combined spark of Tigatron and Airazor takes its proper place within Tigerhawk's body. Other Victories

The Maximals observe that Tigerhawk's arrival coincides with a prophecy written in the datatrax of the Covenant of Primus, suggesting the whole Beast Wars to have been preordained. Meanwhile, now lacking a base, the Predacons become more desperate than ever. Megatron sends Inferno, Quickstrike, and Waspinator to seek a new base while he, Dinobot, and Rampage explore one last option left by the late Tarantulas: At some point prior, the spider had uncovered and restored the sunken Decepticon warship Nemesis at the bottom of the sea. Now it falls into Megatron's hands. Meanwhile, Waspinator quits the Predacons after growing sick of all the suffering he's endured. The Maximals race to stop the Nemesis from launching and both Depth Charge and Rampage perish in a final duel with each other. The Nemesis rises from the sea Nemesis Part 1 and begins attacking the land. Tigerhawk dies in a brave last stand against the vessel, Inferno and Quickstrike are caught in the blast of the ship's fusion cannon, and the Maximals try futily to reactivate the Ark. The Nemesis reaches the mountain and Optimus enters the ship to fight Megatron.

Meanwhile, Dinobot develops a change of heart. Upon Rampage's passing, his spark became "complete" Nemesis Part 2, miraculously made whole by the consciousness of the first Dinobot. Dinobot's 2010 Hall of Fame nominee bio He secretly leaks word to the Maximals of an Autobot shuttle aboard the Ark, and then refuses Megatron's order to fire on the Ark with the Nemesis's fully-charged fusion cannon. Rhinox takes the Autobot shuttle and flies it up to the Nemesis; he crashes through the warship's bridge, disabling the Nemesis and causing it to crash-land somewhere far beyond the horizon. Nemesis Part 2 With Megatron finally defeated, the Maximals return the stolen spark of the original Megatron back to its rightful owner. Ask Vector Prime, 2015/07/23 Four of the Maximals—Blackarachnia, Optimus, Rhinox, and Cheetor—meet with Waspinator in a jungle. Descent Later, with Megatron shackled to its roof, the Autobot shuttle takes off and flies into transwarp space; the Maximals aboard declare the Beast Wars finally over. Back down below on the planet, Waspinator remains behind as the anthropoids' new ruler. Nemesis Part 2

The Post-Beast Wars Era

In truth, Tarantulas was secretly a servant of Unicron and his death had been a ruse. He was able the capture the two Vok and infuse their powers into his very spark, reviving himself in an undead form. The Tripredacus agent Ravage is likewise restored to life in a new form. Aware of this, others of the Vok race take action to create new soldiers to combat Tarantulas's threat. Using the recovered Transmetal driver (which they call the "Datasphere"), Quickstrike's discarded control suit, and the Matrix of Leadership within the sleeping Optimus Prime, they create the Prime of Justice, Primal Prime, to be their champion. The Vok had also saved Tigerhawk's binary spark from death and use it to revive Airazor and Tigatron in new Transmetal bodies; Airazor from a stasis pod and Tigatron from the remains of Ravage's old body. Primeval Dawn Part 1 Elsewhere on the planet are the Maximal Packrat and the Predacon Fractyl, both having survived the Beast Wars Primeval Dawn II while, apparently, Vice Grip did not. Departure Packrat had also somehow acquired a new Transmetal form through unknown means. Primeval Dawn II

While out in the field, Primal Prime, Tigatron, and Airazor find a stasis pod from which emerges Ramulus, an angry Maximal who assumes Optimus Primal had abandoned him. The four are soon attacked by Ravage, along with new Predacons Spittor, Iguanus and Razorclaw. Tarantulas joins the fight and goes straight for Primal Prime, disabling him and seizing his real target: The Matrix of Leadership, which the Vok had placed into Primal Prime's body for protection. Primeval Dawn Part 2 With the Matrix in their possession, the Predacons scurry back to their base, a massively fortified cavern. They continue construction on a transwarp portal that will enable Tarantulas to bring the Matrix back to Unicron in the future. Back at the Ark, Primal Prime is in a coma. Inside his mind, he receives a vision from the Vok, who explain their intentions to safeguard the Grand Plan, the Creator's vision for the one and the all, which is once again threatened by the Enemy. The Vok choose to merge into a state of pure ener that rivals the Matrix itself, with Primal Prime as their vessel. Meanwhile, Ravage leads a Predacons attack on the Ark as Tarantulas's portal is nearly complete. When all hope seems lost, the revived and newly-empowered Primal Prime steps forward. Primeval Dawn Part 3

Known liar Sideways once claimed to have been sent back in time to witness this battle and, pretending to be MCSF, helped the Maximals fend off Ravage's forces. Sideways also claimed Tigatron and Airazor were so badly injured in the battle that he merged the pair back into a single composite being to save their lives. He claimed to have begun a "long con" with Primal Prime by also pretending to have been sent by the Vok to aid the Maximals in their time of need. However, the validity of all these claims remains questionable. Ask Sideways, 2015/06/06

At some point around this time, Waspinator grows bored of ruling the anthropoids, who likewise grow sick of worshipping him. They decide to kick him out of the tribe and send him off into the night. The Catalyst Someone observes this from afar. Collections

It is not fully known what all happens after this point. 3H Productions lost the license to produce Transformers fiction at this point and the storyline was never completed. In 2007, artist Dan Khanna revealed that the largely unscripted conclusion would see the Vok-empowered Primal Prime defeat Tarantulas in battle. Ramulus would recruit more allies in the form of Maximals Sonar and Packrat and Predacons Fractyl and Waspinator. And "something" would happen to Airazor (perhaps an abduction by Unicron). Afterward, Primal Prime and all his remaining comrades would return to Cybertron in the future via Tarantulas's transwarp portal. Plus, further clues from later-set stories reveal the following: Spittor apparently defects to side with the Maximals. Ravage, Iguanus, and Razorclaw are all presumably destroyed. The Matrix is recovered from Tarantulas and presumably placed back into Optimus Prime's body. Tarantulas survives and somehow makes back to Unicron (likely through his portal). Waspinator somehow gets back to Cybertron first (again, probably via the portal), well ahead of the others. Primal Prime's final team roster consists of himself, Tigatron, Ramulus, Sonar, Packrat, Fractyl, and Spittor. And finally, this team gets back to Cybertron in the future not simply via the portal but aboard a ship that travels through it. What this ship is and how they came to obtain it is not known.

Several thousand years ago

A duplicate copy of Packrat created prior to his Transmetalization is left behind on Earth. He devotes his time to scavenging and hoarding various objects (including many Maximal and Predacon body parts) left behind from the Beast Wars. He has even recovered and installed Sentinel within the Maximals' former volcano base. However his presence serves as a temporal anomaly that catches the attention of multiversal agent Thrustinator. Before Packrat can enact his plan to begin looting the Ark, he is met and apprehended by Thrustinator, who brings him to the the city of Axiom Nexus on another universe's Cybertron, removing the anomaly from this universe's timeline. Collections

1984 CE

• After four million years of dormancy, the inhabitants aboard the Ark are awakened and reignite the Great War. The Agenda (Part III)

2005 CE

Woo, science!

• Starscream is killed by Galvatron. Starscream's mutant indestructible spark wanders through time and space. Possession

• Unicron is defeated. Covenant

• The new Autobot leader, Rodimus Prime, commissions a science team shortly after Unicron's defeat. The Sojourner's Passage, crewed by Glyph, Tap-Out, and others, is launched. It crashlands on the distant planet of Archa Nine and is lost to the ages. Betrayal

Around 2015 CE

• An outbreak of an army of Nightbirds results in the death of Daniel Witwicky and Wheelie. Arcee goes into mourning. Departure

Latter 21st century CE

• The Pax Cybertronia is signed as the Great War truly ends. Autobots begin undergoing the Maximal Upgrade process. Arcee, still in mourning for Daniel, leaves this new society, and eventually becomes a techno-organic spider who can foresee others' deaths. Departure
• The Transformers develop two offshoot factions/species on Cybertron, the Maximals from the Autobots and Predacons from the Decepticons, all members of which begin their lives as protoforms.
• Ravage is granted amnesty. The Agenda (Part 1)

Around 311 AU

• The Maximals create a Transformer based on Starscream's indestructible spark. They try to use him as an immortal warrior, but his mind proves too unstable to control. Bad Spark This "Protoform X" massacres Colony Omicron. All its residents are killed except for the heavily injured Depth Charge, the Imperial Peace Marshal of the colony. This event sets Depth Charge on a tireless hunt for Protoform X. Deep Metal

Around 315 AU

• Four stellar cycles after the massacre on Colony Omicron, Protoform X is captured and turned over to the Maximal Elders by Depth Charge. The Maximal Elders decide to place Protoform X in a stasis pod and dump him on some barren world in deep space. The mission is assigned to Optimus Primal and his ship, the Axalon. Bad Spark

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• Under Cryotek's orders, Megatron steals the Golden Disk, which the Maximals have been safeguarding. Theft of the Golden Disk With his underlings, Megatron travels to prehistoric Earth. Optimus Primal and his crew, who are departing for a deep-space exploration mission (with a covert stop to dispose of Protoform X), are ordered to chase down Megatron instead. Colony Omicron's former chief of security, Depth Charge, begins tracing their ship. Dawn of Future's Past

• The Predacon Tripredacus Council view Megatron's independent actions as dangerous and send Ravage traveling back into the past to assassinate all Maximals and Predacons involved with the Beast Wars. Their plan ends in failure. The Agenda (Part 1) The Agenda (Part 2)

• Depth Charge travels back in time, still in pursuit of X. Deep Metal

• A "Quantum Cycle Upgrade" takes place on Cybertron, the entire population is fitted with DNA scanners. Survivor

316 AU

It was an evolution revolution.

• As Optimus Primal and his crew return to Cybertron via transwarp with the captured Megatron, Megatron escapes. He emerges on Cybertron in an earlier time period and uses a virus bomb to conquer the planet before Primal and his crew get there. Fires of the Past

• All of the Wreckers except for Rodimus and Apelinq are defeated by Megatron's drone armies. Apelinq disappears through a transwarp portal with an antidote to Megatron's virus during a fight with Vehicon Mirage. They both arrive in the middle of the Beast Wars. Apelinq's War Journals

• Primal and his crew are affected by the virus bomb and lose their memories and ability to transform, but through the guidance of Oracle, they are reformatted into new bodies. The Reformatting

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• Apelinq returns from the Beast Wars along with Primal Prime, his crew, and Waspinator. Along with Rodimus, all but Waspinator form the new Wreckers team under Primal Prime's leadership. Apelinq's War Journals The Wreckers are given a mission from the Oracle to find the Divine Light and keep it from falling into the wrong hands. Departure They travel to Archa Nine, where they meet up Glyph and Tap-Out, but they fail! Betrayal

• It is revealed that Primal was sent into the past to bring organic beast bodies back to Cybertron as part of the Oracle's plan. Primal takes Megatron with him as he throws himself into the core of Cybertron, a fountain of organic energy. They die. The sparks Megatron captured are all freed, and Cybertron is reformatted into a verdant world with a balance of organic and mechanical. Endgame Pt. III: Seeds of the Future

• One week after the Great Transformation, Cryotek and the Quintessons invade Cybertron, but are repelled by the newly-technorganic natives. Cryotek is banished. Rodimus dies. Wreckers: Finale Part II

317 AU

So this is how the Universe ends. Not with a bang, but with a two-panel speedy wrap-up.

• One year later, Cybertron welcomes home a ship full of exiled Autobots. When they and Silverbolt and Blackarachnia are abducted by Unicron, a new battle begins. Optimus Primal is reborn by the power of Primus to guide the Children of Primus against the Minions of Unicron, but Primal's rebirth necessitates Megatron's return as well. Abduction Escape

Undetermined point in the future

• The Universe War ends with victory for the Children of Primus, as Unicron himself dissipates below the combatants as a result of the Unicron Singularity's formation in another universe. Revelations Part 2

• Razorclaw is reborn, who plans to bring the Predacon army back to its former glory and crush the Maximals. Dawn of Future's Past

32nd century C.E. (undone)

• At this point in time, would it not have been prevented, Shokaract rules Cybertron and a good portion of the rest of the universe. When he notices disturbances in the timestream that could endanger his current might, he sends two of his elite to the past to secure it and later goes back in time himself to finish the job. However, Shokaract's reign is not unchallenged and some of his enemies too manage to get to the past to stop him.