Skold
- Skold is a Predacon from the 2021 Beast Wars portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.
A warrior, Skold believes that the rising Megatron will lead the Predacons to glory.
Fiction
2021 Beast Wars comic
Skold was a Predacon in the employ of Galavar. When the ambitious Predacon agent—now going by the name "Megatron"—launched a plan to steal a Golden Disk held within the Maximal Science Ministry, Skold joined Tarantulas and Waspinator as they commandeered the Maximal warship Darksyde from the Great Shipyard in Vos and sabotaged the other transwarp-capable ships to cover their escape. The deed done, the Predacons fled Cybertron aboard their stolen vessel. While spooling their transwarp drive, however, they came under fire from the Maximal science ship Axalon. Using the coordinates encoded on the disc, their trip through unspace warped them across time and space, and the subsequent ship-to-ship combat ended with both sides shipwrecked on a primitive, energon-rich world. The Darksyde's computer brought the Predacons back online with new beast modes obtained from the local wildlife, and Skold awoke as a snapping turtle. Savage Landing Part 1 While trying to get the lay of the land, Skold assisted Tarantulas as he conducted a geographic survey, but when she accidentally scanned the ship she discovered a number of unspace anomalies in the Darksyde itself. Savage Landing Part 2
Notes
- The name "Skold" derives from sköldpadda ("shield-toad"), the Swedish word for "turtle".[1]
- Skold's pre-beast vehicular form is heavily based on Beast Machines Tankor's first toy.[2] For her Earth body, Josh Burcham used elements of Snapper's body-type and adjusted the design to an alligator snapping turtle at Erik Burnham's request.[3]
