Quantum surge
- The quantum surge was an energy wave from the Beast Wars portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.
The quantum surge was one of the results of the destruction of the Vok Planet Buster in a transwarp explosion. Part shockwave and part energy/radiation wave, the quantum surge swept across Earth and caused strange changes in some of the Transformers stranded there.
Fiction
Beast Wars cartoon
When Optimus Primal piloted a stasis pod into the center of the Planet Buster and detonated a transwarp cell, the destruction was accompanied by a quantum surge. Other Voices, Part 2
The quantum surge irradiated both the Axalon and Darksyde. The strange energies unleashed altered Megatron, Tarantulas, Cheetor, and Rattrap, giving them new Transmetal forms. Aftermath The surge also affected the protoforms still in stasis pods, resulting in future awakened Transformers having partial or whole Transmetal bodies. Coming of the Fuzors (Part 1) Local deposits of unstable Energon were either destroyed or converted to stable Energon cubes by the surge. Coming of the Fuzors (Part 2)
The wavefront eventually reached Cybertronian space, where it disrupted a Predacon outpost and alerted the Tripredacus Council to Megatron's whereabouts. The council arranged for a Predacon satellite to explode, blocking the wavefront from being detected by Maximal sensors. The Agenda (Part 1)
The connection of the surge to Depth Charge's spontaneously becoming a Transmetal as he entered the Beast Wars time zone is not known. Deep Metal
e-HOBBY comics
The sudden activation of quantum surge energy in Megatron, obtained from unknown events, granted him black coloration and greatly increased strength and resilience. Destron Leader Megatron Black Ver.
2006 IDW Beast Wars continuity
In Primax 208.06 Zeta, it was Blackarachnia who piloted the spacecraft which destroyed the Planet Buster, tricked into doing so by Megatron. Ask Vector Prime When the quantum surge hit, Starscream (this one a dimension-hopper from Primax 206.15 Gamma) was able to influence the mutation of his possessed body of Waspinator to give Waspinator a third jet fighter mode resembling Starscream's old alt-mode. Beast Wars Sourcebook #4
Ask Vector Prime
In Aurex 1104.30-JH Zeta, Tarantulas gathered a cache of the powerful and volatile Super Energon. Optimus Primal hijacked Tarantulas's makeshift spacecraft and sacrificed himself to destroy it in orbit, causing a Super Energon Transwarp Explosion which gave a Transmetal upgrade to many of the participants in the Beast Wars and damaged some stasis pods to create Fuzors. Ask Vector Prime, 2015/08/13
'"War for Cybertron Trilogy marketing material
In an alternate timeline, the quantum surge pulled Road Ranger, Huffer, and Pipes to prehistoric Earth, fusing Huffer and Pipes into Puffer in the process. Golden Disk Collection Chapter 1 The quantum surge also pulled Jackpot and Sights through a time vortex to prehistoric Earth, giving the former the ability to transform and altering the weapon mode of the latter. Golden Disk Collection Chapter 2 The quantum surge had killed off all Maximals and Predacons on the planet save Tigatron and Terrorsaur, but left Tigatron a feral, mutated version of his previous self, devoid of inner peace and full of only aggression and rage. Golden Disk Collection Chapter 3 Meanwhile, Terrorsaur had been shielded from the quantum surge by a pool of lava he had fallen into, which somehow granted him fire-breathing powers instead of killing him. Ultimately, Tigatron turned on Terrorsaur and plotted with the three Autobots to travel back in time and use the Nemesis to block the quantum surge's blast, preventing it from killing everyone on prehistoric Earth. As everyone but Puffer was annihilated in the blast, the quantum surge's power was lessened so that it only transformed the Maximals and Predacons into Transmetal forms. Golden Disk Collection Chapter 4
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Foreign names
- Japanese: Quantum surge (クォンタムサージ kwontamu sāji)
- Italian: Onda trasmutazionale ("Transmutational wave")
