Golden Disk (Vok)
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This Golden Disk (also often referred to as the Alien Disk) is of Vok origin, one of a pair of Golden Disks obtained by Megatron during the Beast Wars. It was discovered in a mountain by Inferno.
Despite its uncanny similarity to the Voyager disk, there is no known connection between the two. Its information seems only to pertain the Vok and their projects on prehistoric Earth, with no explicit reference to the distant future. Some of its outer symbols correspond directly to markings found on the Vok's constructs. Megatron and Tarantulas, through their own independent analyses of the disk, gleaned much information about the Vok and were able to predict and even subvert the aliens.
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Fiction
Beast Wars cartoon
Following odd energy readings, Inferno discovered the alien disk embedded in a rotating monolith within a glowing, hollow mountain. He tore the disk from its recess, which caused the energy discharge to cease. Then he brought it back to Megatron, who claimed he had "long expected" to find it.
It was identical in size, shape, and color to the Voyager disk, except for the markings: several pictographic symbols which were also found on Vok constructs. These symbols could be observed to change independently of each other, fading from one to another.
Megatron immediately began analyzing it, even calling a truce with Optimus Primal while he focused his efforts on the disk and its implications. (Evidence strongly suggests that the disk contained information about the coming Planet Buster apocalypse.) He kept his decipherments to himself, but Tarantulas hacked into his datatrax and learned its secrets as well. And then Tigatron did the same. But in both cases, Megatron was aware of the subterfuge. In Tarantulas's case, Megatron hoped that the spider would devise his own plans, which Megatron would be able to weave into his own. And in Tigatron's case, he simply saw it as giving "bait". Before the Storm
After the Planet Buster's destruction, Dinobot infiltrated the Predacon base and stole the Golden Disks. Coming of the Fuzors (Part 1) He gave the Vok disk to Rhinox, and they uncovered the disk-symbol/construct-symbol congruity. But it's unclear how much more information, if any, the Maximals got out of it before Megatron stole it back. He claimed it still contained secrets that only he knew, but Tarantulas countered that only he could implement them. So the two combined their efforts in anticipation of the Metal Hunter's arrival, another event they predicted from disk information. Other Visits (Part 1)
This apparently-unmanned Vok ship tried to subdue all the Beast Warriors. However, its power only worked on the non-Transmetallized, and Megatron approached it unfazed. A symbol on the ship matched one of the disk's markings, and when Megatron touched the latter, the Metal Hunter's door opened. Inside, he placed the disk into an interface apparently made for the purpose, and after being subjected to some sort of painful energy beam, he received the command seat. His subsequent rampage might have been unstoppable, had Tarantulas not turned on him and used a virus to destroy the ship and, presumably, the disk along with it. Other Visits (Part 2)
While the physical artifact may have been lost, the information it contained—or at least information about it—had been copied into more than one datatrax. Tarantulas in particular showed an ongoing knowledge of and obsession with the Vok, and his manipulations of Tigerhawk and even the Vok themselves suggest he continued to put the disk's secrets to use. Other Victories
War for Cybertron Trilogy marketing material
Games
Transformers: Beast Wars Transmetals (PS)
As the Axalon came under Predacon attack, Primal hatched a plan: drive the Predacons back to their base, then retake the Golden Disk while they're still weak. With the help of Rattrap, Cheetor and Silverbolt, the plan was successful and the Maximals reclaimed the Golden Disk from Megatron. Transformers: Beast Wars Transmetals (PS)
Toys
War for Cybertron: Kingdom
- Autobot Ark (Titan Class, 2021)
- Hasbro ID number: WFC-K30
- Kingdom Autobot Ark comes with both the Vok and Voyager Golden Disks. Deviating from its cartoon appearance, the Vok disc features the Voyager disk's "Sounds of Earth" design on its rear, instead of more alien symbols. The accessories can only be wielded by several figures with poseable hands/open-palms.
- Kingdom Terrorsaur includes a Golden Disk, identical to the Vok disk from the Kingdom Autobot Ark (complete with the erroneous "Sounds of Earth" reverse design from the Voyager disc) but with darker paint. The product description refers to it as the Voyager Golden Disk,[1] so maybe this time it's the Vok side which is in error?
Notes
- Dreamwave's More than Meets the Eye profile book series included a framing device in the form of a comic story set during the time frame Megatron stole the Voyager probe's Golden Disk... except it was accidentally drawn as this Golden Disk. Whoops.
Foreign names
- Japanese: Alien Disk (エイリアンディスク Eirian Disuku)
- Spanish: Disco de origen desconocido (America, "Disk of unknown origin")
