fenrir72 wrote:Btw, to quote Saberblade " Only by the power of off-screen plot convenience", the same can also be said of BW Megatron in Beastmachines. He conquered Cybertron by releasing a virus in order to overcome the populace. How he did it has never been shown, just like in the 1986 Movie. Furman touched it a bit with the comic mini-series at the last page (he was like materializing...)but, well....never heard of any plans to "in canon" explain how he did it. Stopped reading the comics after AHM........
But unlike the Cons conquering Cybertron in the movie, Megs conquering Cybertron in BM was still at least explained and partly shown.
You said it yourself. He got back to Cybertron early, created a virus and Vehicons, then unleashed one after the other upon the populace.
How did he get back early? He broke out of his restraints on the roof of the Maximal's Autobot shuttle, fell through Transwarp space, and ended up on Cybertron sooner than they did. All seen in episode 8.
How did he create the virus? Well, while not explicitly touched upon in the show (as it only gives us the "what" rather than the "how"), according to
Cryotek's extended 3H bio, the virus was something that Cryotek himself was working on prior to Megatron's return to Cybertron, and, in exchange for "helping" Megatron to rid himself of his Transmetal 2 form (by assuming the form himself), Cryotek's research and operations fell in Megatron's hands, who carried them out himself while Cryotek ended up in stasis lock after his own Transmetal 2 metamorphosis.
Now, one could say that, since this comes from a non-show source, it doesn't necessarily have that much bearing on the show itself. While understandable, there is another factor to consider here. This bio is in continuity with the "Theft of the Golden Disc" episode and "Dawn of Future's Past" comic that most people DO consider to be in continuity with the two Beast Era cartoons, since both were made specifically to be the official prequels to shows. As such, what's viewed as in direct continuity with one can by extension be in direct continuity with the other (the bio even references "Theft", even though said bio was written years before "Theft"'s creation).
Now, back to Megatron.
How did Megatron unleash the virus on the populace? In the form of a large pillar of green gas that erupted from the city and spread planetwide:
Though, while we didn't see the exact mechanism and method to his launching the gas, I don't think we'd need to be so pedantic over such minor details, since we're at least still given this visual explanation and can see the final results of it.
How did he create his vast Vehicon drone armies? Well, again, while the show didn't go into minute details on this, there was at least one episode that showed how one factory could mass produce an uncountable amount of Tank Drones in just a short time. So, given the resources Cybertron had before it went dark, and given how illegal, underground activities unbeknownst to the higher-ups of Cybertronian society are pretty common in a lot TF fiction, it's not impossible to think that Megatron used one or some of these factories to manufacture and mass produce the first batch of his army while no one was looking. This could have even been going on while the gas was released, turning everyone's attention toward it instead.
Therefore, unlike the conquering of Cybertron by the Decepticons in the 1986 movie, we're given plenty of info to piece together just how Megatron took over Cybertron prior to the Beast Machines cartoon.
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