ahah some people say wait problem! cybertron is organic now and they all live happy ever after....that doesnt have to be the case.
im not sure if i should give my opinions on BM (i liked it but not as good as G1) but to sum it up i dont think that all bots on cybertron became the style of techno organic that the band of maximals were, ive thought of them as more of the perfect balance sort of the perfect creation that say an event like a sudden planet reformate would achieve which would be a chaotic event. so i really dont think other maximal re activated in that style of body. whos to say that if they traveled back to earth and became transmetals or the origional style of beast mode.
It kind of does for it to be logically consistent with itself. When you end things on a happily ever after note, and the go "But then...", well... the inner writer within me groans with such apathy and revilement that I feel nigh unclean merely entertaining the thought of such.
Consider various fairy tales that were sequelised after their respective and traditional "Happily Ever After" endings.
Cinderella 2The Little Mermaid 2Creating a happily ever after ending and then going ahead and breaking that by going "And then..." like a certain
Scene illustrates is generally a bad move.
It also kind of goes without saying that if you reformat an entire planet, everything on that planet goes with it as well as we can see by the sickening purple/green combo ground and pretty pink flowers growing everywhere. We can also presume that everyone post-reformat would be Techno-organic as a matter of course since the entire series was all about achieving "Balance" between Technology and Organics, and you cant exactly do that when you can choose either way.
Transmetals only really make sense if you expose them to alien influenced quantum radiation or the little explained alien Transmetal 2 Driver, both of which arent exactly options.
a new beast wars tv series/comic doesnt have to take place on cybertron. why can cybertron go through another catastrophic event that kills off the "techno organic" slowly reverting back to its origional state. what if the planet wide reformate was the only possible last ditch resort to rid megatron. some people say that predacons dont exist anymore. you cant be sure of that, we're not given enough information as to what exactly went down during megatrons rise.
The problem with that approach is that a two year story arc winds up being relegated to the likes of a cheap and corny plot device, especially when you count in that Vector Sigma was very big on the whole "Techno-Organic is teh futar!" angle.
As to the subject of Predacons, although it's true that we're never given any info whatsoever on Megatrons rise to power, we can infer that Predacons simply dont exist at all in the BM continuity.
Predacons are never mentioned. Ever. The word Predacon never even comes up in the series outside of brief mentions from the Tech Specs.
The closest we ever get is Vehicons and their "Generals", almost all of whom are resurrected Maximals and the one Predacon General (Waspinator/Thrust) is never referred to as being a Predacon.
The other problem with the scenario of G1 bots being reformatted into Beast era bodies is that it introduces a thematic dissonance between being robots, that turn into animals, living and fighting on a technological world trying to "Blend in" with their surroundings.
Animals on a world wholly covered by metal is simply not Robots in Disguise, it's Robots sticking out like sore thumbs and saying "OH LOOK! SHOOT ME!".
We also have to recall that the G1 bots have mostly retired by the BW era and that only a "few" cons were granted amnesty and of those few most had also gone into retirement with the exception of Ravage. We can presume that the bulk of the Decepticon army were dealt with in some manner that precluded retirement (Imprisonment? Banishment? It's never elaborated on what exactly happened to those that didnt get Amnesty).
And as for why a comic or series has to take place on Cybertron, it's frankly the Transformers homeworld. The only other place in all continuities of major importance where the Transformers slug it out is Earth, and that's because it's our home.
A series can start on another world if it has some kind of Importance to the Transformers and if there are Decepticons/Predacons for the Autobots/Maximals to fight. Generally you achieve this by forcing both sides to engage in a fight and crashland there (G1, Animated, Beast Wars) or by simply slipping them in without anyone really noticing and have them suddenly appear for no adequately explained reason (Unicron Series, RID? [havent seen the RID pilot but I have seen odd episodes]).
All in all, what I think is being missed here is that the Transformers are
Robots in Disguise. They adopt the shapes of Local Life forms to blend in with their surroundings and give themselves a combat and covert edge as well as nominal travelling abilities beyond walking and running.
Had Optimus Primal landed on a world where the major life forms were crystalline xenomorphs that sang at ultra-high frequencies and caused nasty headaches for carbon based biologicals, then that's undoubtedly what he and his team would have wound up transforming into.
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