History WMG / BeastWars

* WordOfGod states that the intention was for Megatron's comments to be literal, conflict among the writers however, lead to the compromise of "Let them decide for themselves".

[[WMG: Megatron and Dinobot were more than just comrades-in-arms, IfYouKnowWhatIMean.]]

[[WMG: Tarantulas, while still having a "different origin" to other Maximals & Predacons, was not a Spawn of Unicron. He was actually...]]
* A Paradronian, a Cybertronian colony that fled Cybertron and settled on a new world of their own in "The Fourth Great War", one of the many Cybertronian Civil Wars before that fought by Optimus Prime and Megatron, and which was destroyed during the Civil War fought between Rodimus Prime and Galvatron.
** Tarantulas is descended from Paradronians who held a deep grudge against both the Ark Autobots (for blowing up their homeworld) and the Ark Decepticons (for conquering Paradron in the first place). When he discovered the Golden Disk and Megatron's plans for it, he stowed away in hopes that by destroying the Ark's inhabitants, he could prevent the destruction of his ancestral home.
* A Quintessonian infilitrator.
** The Quintessons created the Cybertronians in Generation One, and held a deep grudge against their creations for their many "crimes" against Quintessonians (namely successfully rebelling and chasing them off of Cybertron in the first place and forcing them to blow up Quintessa). They continued to spy on Cybertron long after the events of Season 3, and realising the Maximals and Predacons were losing their memories of the events of TransformersGenerationsOne, began seeding Cybertron with secret agents, new Transformers built in their own labs designed to hide amongst the Cybertronians and work on whatever schemes their Quintesson masters commanded. Tarantulas' scheme was especially audacious, but hardly unheard of for a Quintesson -- time and dimension travel were both technologies that the Quintessons were familiar with, and they had once tried to avert the Cybertronian Revolution by time-snatching the pivotal fighter, A3.

The -us Prime suffix was removed to represent his Fall. The Hero who would not win but would not surrender was one of the other Primes, as was the Mighty Warrior with the rainbows. The great mountain rising from the sea refers to a hidden unicronian ship underneath the Sea of Rust on Cybrertron, and the bit about "they who live and war as beasts" was just it being derrogatory about unircronian followers acting cruder and being doomed to death at the hands of righteous bots.

* It's possible that the predicons had already went through the sae thing. Inferno and Tarantulas already seemedfar too in touch with their beast modes to begin ith and most of the others would have been held up enough by te problematic terrain inside the predacon base for things to get too out of control. I wouldn't be surprised if megatron managed to fall into the CR tank and then forced the others to snap out of it. This would have also explained how he knew what woul happen.

He was smart enough to want to not be known, which is why he faked non-sapience whenever there was a chance of being seen or heard; Megatron consulted with him and recieved orders and strategy offscreen. He was also the level-headed sane one of the group, explaining why Megatron went completely off the deep end in BeastMachines- without his boss giving him orders, he had to rely on his own prejudices and intellect. This is also why Megatron was so good at manipulating, keeping tabs on, and seeing through the {{Xanatos Gambit}}s of the other Predacons- the real one in charge was small enough and unassuming enough to be a perfect spy, and he simply figured out how to turn what he saw to his favor, and relayed that to his figurehead.

** Another possibility is that it was Rampage's final act of corrupting Depth Charge. After all, Rampage repeated taunted Depth Charge.

When the Insecticons first appeared in the original Transformers cartoon there were several questions regarding their origin that were never answered. They apparently came from a Decepticon escape pod that had been jetisoned from the Nemesis and after some prompting from Megatron seemed to vaguely recognize him and their faction but they lacked any concrete memories of their past. Also, their alternate forms were capable of digesting organic matter and turning it into energon, an ability that is treated by the Decepticons as being unique. We know that Tarantulas was working to rebuild the Nemesis, it's possible that during his search for the ship he discovered the Insecticons and sought to repair them using technology from his time period, hence why the Insecticons have beast modes and are able to convert organic matter into energon, an ability that the Maximals and Predacons have been alluded to have as we have seen them eating in beast modes on several occasions and at one point Optimus outright told an infected Rhinox to eat some vines in order to keep his energy levels up. Tarantulas also sought to alter their minds to serve him, perhaps with a Predacon shell program but do to differences between past and current Transformers technology, which had previously seen when Teletraan-1's shielding failed to interface with technology from the Axalon in "Go With the Flow," the shell program failed and instead wiped the Insecticons minds.

It's cannon that Maximal and Predacon forms were designed to be more fuel-efficient than Autobots and Deceptacons, which shows that the leaders of Cybertron anticipated a shortage of Energon. Exploration ships like the Axalon would have been paid a finder's fee for any Energon deposits discovered, which is why Rattrap signed up for exploration. Current Energon reserves were being severely rationed on Cybertron to the point where any promise of more Energon would be enough for Megatron to recruit a crew. When the Axalon disappeared the Maximals only sent unmanned probes to search for it, which used minimal amounts of Energon. The Tripredicus Council assumed Megatron had already found Energon and built refineries for it so they sent Ravage without enough Energon to get back and expected him to refuel there. Had the Vok not destroyed most of the Energon on Earth the planet would have become the Middle East of Transformers.

...on behalf of Tarantulus' master, Unicron. The trigger, of course, was returning to Cybertron, and the action was a feeling of hatred for organics and to wipe out the population. Unicron ''wanted'' the initial plan- assasinating the Matrix-bearer at his weakest- to succeed, but on the off-chance it didn't, wanted a backup plan that would result in Cybertron (and thus Primus) being rendered defenseless. Megatron ''and'' the Maximals taking him to justice were actually just [[XanatosSucker Xanatos Suckers]]. This is why his behavior changed so drastically in Beast Machines.

[[WMG: Beast Megatron was planning to take G1 Megatron's place in history after destroying the Ark.]]