Pursued by a crew of Maximals, both ships crashed on the planet, with only Megatron truly aware of when and where they were.

The Autobots and Maximals then go to the planet where they save the victims from the Decepticons.

The shock of being damaged in capture had the side effect of making the Predacons think they were Maximals.

The Maximals from Transformers: Beast Wars are also known as Cybertrons in Japan, but in North America they are called Maximals and are descendants of the Autobots.

After the destruction of one of their probes and the Floating Island and the sending of a signal prior to its destruction, they investigated remotely, and found the planet infested with the time-travelled Predacons and Maximals.

When the Maximals arrived on the planet at their intended destination time, they found a world that Megatron had conquered using a transformation-freezing virus and an army of Vehicon drones.

In the Beast Machines series that came out after Beast Wars, the Maximals lose their Transmetal forms after they are exposed to Megatron's transformation virus, which reverted them back to their previous " beast modes ".

After returning the original Megatron's spark to his body ( in a cut scene from the final episode ), the Maximals chained Megatron to the upper hull of their craft, as they blasted off from Earth and entered transwarp space, heading back to Cybertron.

When the Maximals emerged from the timestream at their intended point in time, they found the planet under Megatron's control, and were immediately devolved to their original beast modes by the virus.

Scorponok announced to Megatron that he had one mega missile to shoot at the Maximals while they were inside, to which Megatron replied, " Excellent!

The Maximals and Predacons crashed on prehistoric Earth, where high energon levels threatened to destroy the crew unless they adopted organic alternate modes.

The shock of being damaged in capture had the side effect of making the Predacons think they were Maximals.

According to the Maximals in the episode " Sparkwar " they fought a thousand wars and won them all.

Therefore, they joined the Maximals, only to betray them shortly after when Megatron returned.

Relieved, Primal and the Maximals return back to their base, and Waspinator is repaired back to normal by Megatron, who is informed by Blackarachnia of the reasons of her betrayal were to find out Starsceam's true intentions.

Diver and the Kid were able to ambush the Maximals, allowing Galvatron to gain the upper hand on Lio Convoy, but the Maximals were aided by Dirge and Thrust.

In Beast Wars and Beast Machines, the Maximals were first introduced as the crew of the starship, Axalon ( led by Optimus Primal ), pursued the Predacons ( led by Megatron ) to prehistoric planet Earth.

Many Maximals were not included in the Canadian TV series ; some of them did appear alongside other Maximals in the Japanese series Beast Wars Second and Beast Wars Neo.

In Beast Wars Second, the Maximals were referred to as Cybertrons ( the same title used for " Autobots " within Japan ) in the Japanese series.

A notable occurrence of this happening is Optimus Primal taking the Autobot Matrix of Leadership, and Optimus Prime's spark, during the Beast Wars on prehistoric Earth while Teletraan I and other Maximals were repairing the incredible damage to his body.

Setting up base around the Ark to protect it from further Predacon attacks, the Maximals were soon joined by Depth Charge, an old acquaintance of Primal's, who harbored some degree of hostility for him for his role in the preservation of Protoform X's life.

In a Deleted scene for this Episode ; before the Maximals Leave the planet, it shows Optimus pulling the Original Megatron's spark out of his foes ' chest and returning it to the Shell of the original Megatron himself to ensure events and time were not altered when the time would come for the Autobots and Decepticons to awaken and rebegin their fight on earth.

While the Maximals were returning to Cybertron, via Transwarp space, Megatron broke free from the ship's hull and hurtled full speed onwards the rest of the way, ahead of his foes.

Oddly, the Robot Masters series depicted Megatron standing as tall as original Decepticon characters, when Maximals and Predacons were much smaller.

Maximals were first introduced as the crew of the starship, Axalon ( led by Optimus Primal ), pursued the Predacons ( led by Megatron ) to prehistoric planet Earth.

Many Maximals were not included in the Canadian TV series ; some of them did appear alongside other Maximals in the Japanese series Beast Wars Second and Beast Wars Neo.

These Maximals were referred to as Cybertrons ( the same title used for " Autobots " within Japan ) in the Japanese series.

These Maximals were referred to as Cybertrons in the Japanese series.

In the season one finale, he joined Megatron and Terrorsaur at the alien structure, where the Maximals Rattrap and Optimus Primal were trying to get inside of it to rescue Airazor.

The origins of the Vehicons came about when Megatron returned from the Beast Wars ahead of the Maximals and unleashed his transformation freezing virus, rendering the populace of Cybertron helpless to fight back as it sent them into stasis lock.

Starting off, Starscream manages to fomulate a successful attack on the Maximal spaceship, forcing the Maximals to flee in defeat, leaving the Predacons to take control of the ship.

Each side is governed by a council ; the Maximals governing body is known as the Maximal Imperium while the Predacons ' version, the Tripredacus Council, operate out of a satellite orbiting the planet or star, quietly working to their own agenda ... an agenda that was sorely disrupted by the rise to power of the renegade, Megatron, who stole a ship and escaped to prehistoric Earth with the intent of altering time.

The Maximals ' own ship however, the Axalon, fell into the water by Rampage.

The Maximals became unconscious at the time their ship was attacked.

A retaliatory attack by the Vehicons crashed the ship, and the Maximals subsequently fell one by one until only Primal was left to face off with Megatron, who had installed his spark in a copy of Primal's old " Optimal " body.

Planning to take the ship back to Cybertron, he was thwarted by an unlikely alliance between the Maximals and Tarantulas, which succeeded in destroying both the ship and the second Golden Disk.

Megatron predictably pulled a double-cross, forcing Tarantulas ( who had planned to do the same ) to form a wary alliance with the Maximals to stop him from returning to Cybertron with the ship, actually helping them to stop Megatron due to his hatred of the Vok.

Though the Decepticons and Predacons share many similarities, several important differences exist, such as leadership and ideals ( for example, choosing a pretense of peace with the Maximals rather than maintain a war at all costs ).

Delighted, Starscream took her under his wing to teach her the ways of treachery, and at the same time, he wards off Scorponok and forced the surrendering Maximals to attack the Predacon base by threatening their leader Optimus Primal and Dinobot with death, revealing his true intentions to rule both Maximal and Predacons.

After chasing away the Predacons Tripledacus notices the remaining mechs are Maximals and becomes friends with them.

The peace on Cybertron is maintained through a treaty known as the Pax Cybertronia, which-perhaps unfairly-ranks the Predacons as second-class citizens, with the Maximals in control of the planet.

Megatron's perfect technosphere was shattered with the return of Optimus Primal's Maximals, arriving in their intended time period to discover Megatron's mastery of the planet.

Reformatted into new technorganic bodies by the Oracle-the shell program that now surrounded Vector Sigma that enabled users to commune with the afterlife dimension called the Matrix-the Maximals subsequently discovered that Cybertron had indeed been an organic world before it acquired its current metallic shell.

This foreshadows the smaller, more energy efficient bodies of the Maximals and Predacons in the Beast Wars TV show in comparison with the much larger bodies of the Generation One Transformers.

One of his first major battles on Earth was a duel with the renegade Predacon Dinobot, whose life Primal then saved — grateful, Dinobot joined the Maximals, and Primal dubbed the ensuing conflict for control of the energon on earth as the " Beast Wars ".

It was not long before Rhinox sprang into action, using the residual transwarp energy to access the Matrix, from which he plucked Primal's spark, installing it within a blank protoform ( which was also a victim of the quantum surge, but remained blank until a spark with a beast form was installed ) Emerging in a new transmetal body at a moment of great crisis, Primal used his new powers to save the Maximals from a massive Predacon attack with the aid of the Fuzor, Silverbolt.

With all the other Predacons dealt with, and Megatron finally their captive courtesy of Rhinox's quickly strategised intervention, the Maximals clamped him to the hull of the Autobot shuttle, and, with the Beast Wars finally concluded, headed back at last to Cybertron.

In response to this, the Maximals use the device to pluck Optimus Primal, referred to as " Convoy " in the Japanese continuity, from prehistoric Earth at a point prior to his becoming a transmetal to join with their leader, Lio Convoy to battle the demonic Transformer.

A recent interview with writer Tim Seeley indicated that the use of Teletran-1 by the Maximals and Predacons during the Beast Wars imprinted itself on the computer, allowing the information to be passed down to other Transformers.

However, despite being the most " show-accurate " version of BM Primal, the figure is not particularly compatible with other toys of the Beast Machines line as the very large figure is grossly out of scale with his fellow Maximals.

It was Cryotek who masterminded the theft of the Golden Disk, but Megatron betrayed his mentor and fled Cybertron with his prize, leaving Cryotek and Dirge to be arrested by Maximals.

Three centuries after the end of The Great War, when Maximal and Predacon had risen to replace Autobot and Decepticon, one Predacon in particular was discontented with the Maximals ' control of Cybertron following the Autobot victory in the war.

After some encounters with remnants of their technology left on the planet, and the discovery of a second Golden Disk of alien origin, which foretold their coming to Earth, Megatron entered into an alliance with the Maximals in hopes to stopping the Vok's plan to sterilize the Earth with a massive heat beam.