
The planet is found to be rich in deposits of raw Energon, in such extreme amounts that it proves to be poisonous to both factions' robot forms, forcing them to take on alternate organic forms for protection until their robot forms are needed. Together the ships plunge through a time/space phenomenon created by the transwarp device during their battle in space, and crash-land on a mysterious planet.

A Maximal exploration ship, the Axalon, led by Optimus Primal, is sent to stop them. They do this with the aid of an artifact known as the Golden Disk and Megatron's stolen ship, the Darksyde, which is equipped with a transwarp drive. He and his forces are a splinter group on the hunt for powerful crystals known as Energon. The leader of the Predacon team is Megatron, a namesake of the original Decepticon commander. (In the sequel series Beast Machines, the process during which Autobots and Decepticons became Maximals and Predacons is referred to as "The Great Upgrade.") The two main factions of "Transformers" in Beast Wars are descendants of the two main factions in the original cartoon: the Maximals are the descendants of the Autobots and the Predacons are the descendants of the Decepticons. Additional Beast Wars limited comic book series have been released by Dreamwave Productions and IDW Publishing. Beast Wars is also the second installment in the Generation 1 cartoon era.Ī sequel television series, Beast Machines: Transformers, aired from 1999 to 2000. These boxsets include commentaries and interviews with the voice actors. In Australia, to coincide with the show's tenth anniversary in 2006, Madman Entertainment released all three seasons in Region 4 format. All three seasons were released on DVD in the United States and other Region 1 territories. The production designer for the show, Clyde Klotz, won a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Animation in 1997 for his work on Beast Wars.

The Beast Wars TV series was the first Transformers series to feature computer-animated characters, and was produced by Mainframe Entertainment of Vancouver, British Columbia its story editors were Bob Forward and Larry DiTillio. While engaged in battle, small teams from each faction crash land on an unknown planet, and must find a way to return home while continuing their war. The series is set in the future of the "original" Transformers franchise, 300 years after the events of The Transformers, and features the Maximals and Predacons, descendants of the Autobots and Decepticons respectively. Beast Wars: Transformers (titled Beasties: Transformers in Canada), is a computer animated television series that debuted in 1996 and ended on March 7, 1999, serving as the flagship of the Transformers: Beast Wars franchise.
