Safe Spaces

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Beast Wars: Uprising
"Safe Spaces"
Publisher Transformers Collectors' Club (online exclusive)
First published December 19, 2016
By David Bishop and Jim Sorenson
Art Matt Frank, Goncalo Lopes, and Josh Burcham
Continuity Beast Wars: Uprising
Chronology Circa 2390
Page count 27pp

Cheetor and Preditron are forced to confront the worst excesses of the growing Resistance.

Synopsis

(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)

Maximals Predacons Builders

Quotes

Notes

  • A safe space is a zone in an educational institution that is supposed to be free of discrimination, harassment, and hate speech against a marginalized class.
  • Characters mentioned but not seen include: Fortress Maximus, Rage, Psycho-Orb, Lio Convoy, Buzzclaw, and Maxima
  • As with "Not All Megatrons", a Sourcebook-style profile follows for Star Dasher.
  • As of this story, the Uprising is now in its sixth year. The events at the end of the previous story are mentioned as having taken place one stellar cycle ago. By this point, the Builders control only a third of Cybertron.
  • In a continuing Uprising tradition, characters appearing in this story are repurposed versions of characters from other continuity families. In this case, Preditron is Predacon.

Errors

  • The map of Cybertron refers to the current date being stellar cycle "6.3.17" of the war, but the narration refers to the war being in its fifth stellar cycle. The map's date must be the correct one as "Not All Megatrons", occurring approximately two stellar cycles earlier, takes place four stellar cycles after the outbreak of the Uprising.

Continuity notes

  • Cheetor and Preditron were prisoners of Fortress Maximus back in "Head Games", which detailed the Resistance's efforts to free them, along with Buzzclaw's, er, "heroic sacrifice" for the cause. Cheetor thinks the Predacon wouldn't have approved his name being used for the Resistance's gain, apparently not having been told the whole story about what went down during the breakout.
  • Rage was previously mentioned to have taken some territory for herself in "Head Games", and mentioned as turning her gaze to Perihex in "Not All Megatrons".
  • Cheetor angrily notes Blackarachnia's visit to Iacon, as detailed in "Trigger Warnings". Unsurprisingly, it seems she wasn't actually there on official Resistance business.
  • "A Brush With Infamy" stated that "The Nebulon" became a space pirate. This story reveals that he joined the Star Seekers.

Transformers references

  • Preditron's focus on Predacon honor and nobility harken back to Dinobot, who would often talk about such things, something no other Predacon in Beast Wars did.
  • The Uprising version of the Off Road Patrol utilizes two classic members and two G1 adaptations of the Off-Road Mini-Con Team.
  • Star Dasher is a repurposing of the Platinum Edition Astrotrain toy. Most of his fellow Star Seekers are taken from the Wings Universe version of the group.

Real-world references

References

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