The Virus Revealed
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| "The Virus Revealed" | |||||||||||||
| Publisher | 3H Enterprises | ||||||||||||
| First published | April 4, 2001[1][2] (BotCon: Beyond) | ||||||||||||
| Writer | Rob Gerbracht | ||||||||||||
| Continuity | 3H Beast Wars continuity | ||||||||||||
He blighted us with SCIENCE!!
Synopsis
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Apelinq determines that Megatron must have used a virus in his takeover of Cybertron, a virus that must have induced a kind of stasis lock that paralyzed everyone's ability to transform and fight back, as it swept across the planet. That would explain how all of the planet's inhabitants and defenses were disabled so quickly.
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[edit]Continuity notes
[edit]- Having first commenced his all-out conquest of Cybertron back in Journal 6, and accomplishing it in Journal 7, it is here that Megatron's transformation virus is finally brought to light. The virus was first introduced in the Beast Machines episode "The Reformatting", while its first full release all across the planet was shown in a flashback in the episode "Forbidden Fruit", where it was seen deactivating most of Cybertron's population. However, that episode also stated that the virus was unleashed before the Vehicon armies swarmed over the planet, whereas all throughout this series Megatron has been launching terrorist attacks with his Vehicons prior to the release of his virus. It's not implausible that he could have started attacking with Vehicons, then used the virus as a trump card, and then finished off his takeover with a final Vehicon attack, but this is so far the first, last, and only piece of fiction to ever suggest such a retcon.
- As was the case in Beast Machines (most prominently in "The Reformatting"), Megatron's virus is said to be capable of "crippling one's ability to transform".
- Apelinq also postulates that the virus induces an intense form of stasis lock, a concept first introduced by Beast Wars, which is a state of unconsciousness brought on by an emergency systems shutdown. Here, it is tied into the fact that Megatron's virus deactivated much of Cybertron's population, as originally given in "Forbidden Fruit".
