Predacon (BW)
- The Predacons are a faction in the Beast Era portion of the Generation 1 continuity.
Arising from the ashes of the Great War, the Predacons are, at least in part, descendants of the Decepticons, born from what remained of the original five Predacons. By order of the Pax Cybertronia they exist as something of an underclass, appearing to be equals, but firmly under the Maximals in the social order.
Organization
The Predacon faction appears to be rather splintered. One of the major rulling bodies is the Tri-Predicus Council but they may not be the only political power in play. The Council keeps its folowers pacified and obeying the Pax Cybertronia under the promise of a slow, sly return to power, whispering of a long term plan to overthrow the Maximals when the time is right. A number of Predacons have expressed dissatisfaction with this approach and it has lead renegades such as Megatron, Galvatron and Magmatron to recruit private armies of followers and, either covertly or overtly, strike out against the Maximals on their own. All known Beast Wars Predacons tend to fall within the arms of these renegade millitias, with the exceptions of the Tri-Predicus Council itself, Tarrantulas, and Ravage who were members of the Predacon Secret Police. It is unknown whether the Predacons have any sort of official standing army or defence force other than this internal Secret Police.
Bases of Opperation
It is unknown where exactly the Predacons are based.
Beast Wars seems to depict a Predacon space station somewhere near Cybertron. This may be where the Tri-Predicus council is situated.
While one would presume they had some sort of presence on Cybertron itself, there is evidence that seems to counter this. After they return to Cybertron following the events of Beast Wars, Optimus Primal, Megatron, and the rest refer frequently and exclusively to the missing population as Maximals and later Maximal sparks only. This seems to strongly suggest that they did not expect any Predacons to be on the plannet, or at least, if they were, in such small numbers as to not even rate mentioning.
(In real world terms the Predacons were excluded from the Beast Machines show and toy-line in fear of confusing children with a third faction. Nonetheless, "in-story" it remains an odd and conspicuous abssence.)
