Seacon (BW)

The name or term "Seacon" refers to more than one character or idea. For a list of other meanings, see Seacon (disambiguation).

The Seacons are scurvy space pirates from the Beast Wars II portion of the Beast Era continuity, they is!

We are the pirates who don't do anything
We just stay home, and lie around
And if you ask us, to do anything we'll just tell you
We don't do anything!

With the Jolly Roger hoisted high and the cannon fuses smoldering, the Space Pirate Seacons (宇宙海賊シーコンズ Uchū Kaizoku Shīkonzu) sail the spaceways in a neverending search for plunder and power. These ferocious freebooters will gladly ally themselves with whomever proves most beneficial to their larcenous ends, be they Predacon or Maximal. In reality, the Seacons typically end up double-crossing everybody, leaving them with few friends and a lot of enemies.

Their crew consists of:

• Halfshell, the greedy-yet-generous leader.
• Scylla, the lovesick squid of pristine beauty.
• Coelagon, the eldest member and source of senile "wisdom".
• Terrormander, the youthful slacker who's good in a fight but not for much else.
• Sea Phantom, the tough speedster who favours surprise attacks.

These scallywags can combine to form God Neptune, a powerhouse who keeps their rivals at bay (when his limbs aren't deserting him, that is).

Lawbhammer would've been the sixth member if he didn't walk the plank.

“	Our motto goes "We are as one!"	”
—Sea Phantom, "The Space Pirate Seacons!"

Fiction

Japanese Generation 1 cartoon continuity

Beast Wars II cartoon

After a streak of misfortune in their treasure-hunting profession, the Seacons sailed their photon sailer to Gaia to gather Angolmois Energy to sell for a tidy profit. Their hot spot of choice was a well amidst some ruins on the seafloor in the Sea Continent, to which they dove with a load of cylinders to store the energy in. The operation started out expeditiously, but their activity made the water around them cloudy and that plus their photon sailer at anchor nearby clued in the Maximals that they should investigate what the space pirates were up to. Scuba and Diver went to do just that, but Scylla was attracted by Scuba's scent and discovered them snooping. She alerted Halfshell and after Halfshell first fought the entire Lio Convoy Unit on land alone, the other four dropped their work and joined him literally by uniting into God Neptune. The Maximals's answer to their newfound disadvantage was for Scuba and Diver to hijack the unmanned photon sailer. Infuriated, God Neptune left the battle to get their ship back, unaware that the Maximals had rigged it with the Seacons' own Angolmois Energy cylinders. Moments after God Neptune had reclaimed the vessel, it exploded, forcibly separating the combiner and scattering the members around. The Space Pirate Seacons! The Seacons could keep their photon sailer afloat, but didn't have the materials to repair the damage and thus were stuck on Gaia. Badly smitten with Scuba, Scylla used the situation to look for him to confess her love. She failed to catch his interest, but did receive Bighorn's. As a result of her absence, the other Seacons failed to form God Neptune when the Predacons came spying on them and Sea Phantom was sent out to bring Scylla back. The Maximals followed them to the ship and ended up fighting the Seacons, who received backup from the Predacons. The skirmish ended in a tie, with both the Maximals and the Predacons fleeing and the Seacons realizing that either of the camps should have the materials needed to fix their ship. The Tentacular Scuba Impressed with what they saw the Seacons capable of, the Predacons offered them a deal: Angolmois Energy for each Maximal they defeated. Megastorm's Reckoning

Beast Wars II comic

When the Seacons made a stop on Gaia, Bighorn fell for Scylla on sight. Being shy, he had Scuba write a love letter and deliver it to Scylla, who as a result thought Scuba was courting her. Seeing in him a good match, she proposed marriage, which Scuba interpreted to be meant for Bighorn and promised an answer to at a later date. The Seacons went ahead setting up a wedding ceremony for their crewmate and all was going well until on the big day Bighorn showed up as Scylla's groom. Confusion, disappointment, and jealousy followed and all this drama in turn was followed by a surprising surprise attack by the Predacons. The Seacons merged into God Neptune to fend them off, but the Predacons fought back decisively to break apart the combiner. In a moment of mutual understanding, Bighorn, Scuba, and Scylla teamed up to unleash an attack powerful enough to send the Predacons running. Afterwards, Scylla realized she wouldn't find the romance she wanted on Gaia and returned with the other Seacons on their travels through space. Realize the Forbidden Love!

Beast Wars toy bios

Cybershark "honed his skills while bounty hunting a rogue band of Cybertronian space pirates." Transmetal 2 Cybershark toy bio

Toys

Beast Wars

I'm not fat, I'm big boned.

• God Neptune (Multi-pack, 1998)
  • ID number: D-21
  • Accessories: Sword, super robot head, shell-shield/chestplate, 2 foot-plates, left & right fists

Sold only as a boxed set of five toys, God Neptune is a redeco of most of the Generation 1 Seacon team, combining Halfshell (torso), Coelagon, Skyulle, Sea Phantom, and Terrormander. Since the set uses the Scramble City-style of construction, the body and limbs are interchangeable with similar-build combiner teams.

The set does not include a redeco of Nautilator, and almost all of the weapons and gun-mode stands for the individuals are also missing.

For unknown reasons, a great number of unboxed God Neptune sets—lacking all of their accessories, including combiner parts—ended up available on the secondary market. These went for considerably less than the "complete" releases, naturally.

This toy was later repurposed as Classics God Neptune in the comic arc Beast Wars Shattered Glass.

• More information on God Neptune at TFU.info

Generations Selects

Here is your god now!

• God Neptune (Multi-pack, October 31, 2020)
  • Hasbro ID number: TT-GS10
  • Accessories: "Neptune Sword", "Neptune Cannon", 2 foot-plates, left & right fists

God Neptune is a redeco of Generations Selects King Poseidon (omitting Lobclaw, of course). He is armed with a large trident-shaped "Neptune Sword" and a "Neptune Cannon," each formed by merging the weapons of the constituent Seacons. As a redeco, God Neptune shares King Poseidon's Targetmaster function, which went unadvertised due to having 5 components instead of 6.

The God Neptune 5-pack set was announced in May 2020 for an October 2020 release. It was exclusive to TakaraTomy Mall and Hasbro Pulse.

Notes

This two-page spread from Beast Magazine is the only known publishing to use the Space Pirate Seacons' actual character models.

• Oddly, though they are referred to as such practically everywhere else, the term "Seacon" does not appear on the team's toy packaging.
• The original depiction of the team in 1998 excluded the Lobclaw/Nautilator mold. In 2020, the digital character Lawbhammer would be created to fill this gap.
• At some point very early into production, the Space Pirate Seacons were going to use the Super-God Masterforce Seacon models in the Beast Wars II cartoon. Evidence of this was found in a collection of production materials that featured print-outs of the Masterforce Seacon models (including the unused robot mode models), where the Masterforce names were crossed out and replaced with the Space Pirate Seacons' names in red pen. For reference, the actual Space Pirate Seacon models used in the cartoon are supplied to the right.