Gaia
| This article is about the planet introduced in Beast Wars II. For the robot mode of Classics Earth, see Gaea (Classics). |
Gaia (ガイア), or Gaea, is Earth in the distant future, tens of thousands of years away. Thanks to the millennia without humanity, most of mankind's structures have been completely destroyed and most of the planet has been grown-over with dense jungle. Gaia possesses a corrosive, toxic atmosphere; a few minutes of exposure will fatally corrode the bodies of Transformers. Fortunately, it's possible to circumvent this problem by adopting new alternate modes native to the planet.
Fiction
Japanese Generation 1 cartoon continuity
Beast Wars II cartoon
While traversing space, Lio Convoy and the Maximals, as well as Galvatron and the Predacons, landed on Gaia. Galvatron was drawn to Gaia due to the high levels of the powerful energy source known as Angolmois energy riddled throughout its surface. Lio Convoy, aware that the universe would be doomed if the Predacons got control of the Angolmois energy, stayed with the Maximals to fight them off.
While the Maximals chose bodies based on the local wildlife, the Predacons selected bodies based on the war machines of the planet's former inhabitants.
Eventually, Galvatron used his artificial planet, Nemesis, to suck all the Angolmois energy out of the planet. Thanks to the intervening of Lio Convoy, the Angolmois energy was sealed away in capsules and scattered across the cosmos before Galvatron could use it.
Beast Wars Neo cartoon
After the disappearance of Lio Convoy and the Maximals, the Convoy Council sent Big Convoy and his new recruits to investigate Gaia. They found Lio Convoy's black box, learned about the Angolmois capsules and set off to retrieve them.
As it turns out, the Angolmois energy was really the lifeforce of Unicron. After his destruction in 2005, Unicron's lifeforce raced through time and space and became trapped within Gaia.
Beast Wars II manga continuity
Beast Wars II manga
Great Convoy at Maximal Army Central Headquarters sent Lio Convoy's team to Gaia to prevent the Angolmois energy from falling into the Predacons' hands. Demolish the Superdreadnought Tank!
Beast Wars Neo manga
The Convoy Council sent Big Convoy to Gaia as an instructor to train on Gaia five rookies: Longrack, Break, Stampy, Cohrada, and Heinrad. Because Big Convoy paid little attention to the rookies, Longrack persuaded the others that they should do their own training, starting with infiltrating the abandoned Galvaburg II. There, they encountered the Predacons Guiledart and Saberback, who were expecting an elite unit to come to the Galvaburg II. After the rookies were saved by Big Convoy, the Maximals found the mysterious Black Ball. The 5 Rookies
IDW Beast Wars comics
Gaea was in sector C-16 of Cybertronian space, as an Earth-like planet with two moons and a supply of Angolmois to which Galvatron would attempt to lay claim. Beast Wars Sourcebook
The AllSpark Almanac
Gaia was an unclaimed or neutral organic planet separate from Earth in the Milky Way. The AllSpark Almanac II
