Beast Wars: Uprising
Well, you know
We all want to change the world
Beast Wars: Uprising is a Generation 1 continuity based on the Beast Era. It has been depicted in Fun Publications comics and prose stories.
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Text stories:
Other: "A Change to the Agenda"
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Overview
Beast Wars: Uprising focuses on a late 24th century dystopian Cybertron ruled by the Builders of Cybertron, the former Autobots and Decepticons who are too decrepit to carry on the Great War and have constructed the Maximals and Predacons as their successors. In addition to maintaining most of the essential functions of society, the Maximals and Predacons also provide entertainment and continue the Autobot-Decepticon grudge via gladiatorial matches. Unsurprisingly, however, the Transformer homeworld descends into war as Lio Convoy leads many Maximals and Predacons against the status quo for their freedom. Thus Lio Convoy's Resistance battles Micromaster Builder troops, the Maximal Command Security Force, and the Tripredacus Council's Predacon Secret Police for control of their homeworld. However, no faction involved can be considered truly heroic, given the tactics they resort to in the name of winning the war.
Initially, the Beast Wars: Uprising universe was only referenced in the profiles for Blackarachnia and Depth Charge in Collectors' Club magazine issues #25 and #49 as those characters played significant roles in other Club stories. In 2014 Beast Wars: Uprising itself was fleshed out in more detail in that year's magazine comic arc Alone Together. The following year saw text stories which formally showed the beginnings of the titular "uprising".
In addition to using a wide variety of Maximals and Predacons from the Beast Era franchises, the Beast Wars: Uprising stories make use of various characters with animal alternate modes, and repurposes them to represent new analogous characters. Of course, most of the characters never get around to obtain their more recognizable animal forms, as the stories take place nearly entirely on Cybertron. Similarly, many vehicle alt-mode Mini-Cons were repurposed to represent Micromasters.
Creative team
Alone Together was written by S. Trent Troop and Greg Sepelak, with Jesse Wittenrich and Pete Sinclair writing the prologue. Art duties were handled by Naoto Tsushima, with Evan Gauntt on colors and letters by Jesse Wittenrich.
The prose stories have been written by Jim Sorenson and David Bishop, with Jesse Wittenrich, William Mangin, Josh Burcham, Hosono Tomoya, Christopher Colgin, and Dan Perico providing illustrations.
Notes
- Beast Wars: Uprising was first named in a Collectors' Club tweet on 14 February 2014.[1]
- The titles of the prose stories are references to psychiatry-related social phenomena.
- Being set in the late 24th century, Uprising contains a number of references to Star Trek: The Next Generation.
