Beast (planet)
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Beast (ビースト Bīsuto, or Beest) is a distant planet inhabited by a race of anthropomorphic animals known as the Beastformers. Beast used to be a relatively peaceful planet, with dissenters few and generally quiet about their dissatisfaction with the planet's then-rulers, until the Transformers came to stir things up as they so often do, with each faction joining with their appropriate Beastformer counterparts.
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Geography
The surface of Beast is covered in a vast ocean, with five continents and a central archipelago, containing in total thirty-eight counties.
These landmasses are:
- Made up of the countries Bistoram, Sheepnia, Sunatoria, Bowdonia, Hogland and the island nation Rabbihos.
- Made up of the countries Lennonia, Ringostan, Harriso, Lapaul, and Johnston. The western half of the country is an undeveloped, lawless land called Rockland.
- The northernmost continent and the largest on the planet. Made up of the countries West Yutoranta, North Yutoranta, East Yutoranta, Iriano, Nupal, Madra, Tamaraham, Gamborudia, and Arxan.
- The Uorī archipelago
- Made up of the six island nations Agos, Ellas, Hilles, Rhodes, Halas, and Onomis.
- Made up of the countries Chibara, Stoll, Barāki, Hamanan, Gun Marino, and Saitan.
- Made up of the countries Zigrad, Nirmud, Palmyra, Uruk, Petra, and Tell es-Sawwan.
Beast also has a massive subterranean world, carved out by the Three Wise Ones millennia ago, home of the Laser Beasts. Details are sketchy, but it appears to be broadly an east–west mirror of the surface, but with many of the "landmasses" having considerable differences beyond the orientation shift....
Fiction
Japanese Generation 1 cartoon continuity
The Headmasters cartoon
While out in space, the Autobots came into contact with two refugee Beastformers who had come to seek help. The Decepticons invaded planet Beast and helped the enemy forces of Alligatron take control. The Autobots then assisted the good Beastformers, led by White Leo, to free planet Beast from Decepticon tyranny. Rebellion on Planet Beast
The Headmasters comic
Once again, the Decepticons teamed up with Alligatron to take over planet Beast. The good Battle Beasts (now being aided by the wild jungle boy, Kane) sent for help from the Autobots, who arrived to help defeat the Decepticons and Alligatron. The Decisive Battle of Planet Beast!
Ask Vector Prime
In Primax 304.25-P3 Zeta, Beast was allied with Nebulos, to protect against Decepticon incursions. As MegaZarak desired the Ultra Matrix hidden on the planet by the Three Wise Ones, he re-developed Pretender technology to allow a commando team, led by Fenris, to operate on the planet's surface. Though the team successfully stole the Ultra Matrix, an Autobot team, led by Marduk, retrieved it; in gratitude, White Leo gave the Ultra Matrix to the Autobots. Ask Vector Prime
Beastformers comic
The planet Beast was originally a wasteland scoured by intense heat, though it had the potential of hosting life thanks to the presence of water and a breathable atmosphere. When the Three Wise Ones crash-landed there, they immediately moved underground and developed the vast subterranean empire of the Laser Beasts. Years later, a splinter group of Laser Beasts left the underground and settled the surface, where their descendants would become the Beastformer race. Legend of the Three Wise Ones
20014 years later, the Beastformers' civil war, exacerbated by the arrival of the Decepticons and Autobots, caused an imbalance in six elemental gemstones left behind by the Three Wise Ones, leading to freak weather patterns breaking out across the planet. The Beastformers, now at peace again, worked together to collect the gems and end the chaos. The Water Gem of Stillness However, among the natural disasters was a great flood that wiped out the Laser Beasts' subterranean empire, leaving the survivors to journey to the surface as well.
Encountering the Beastformers for the first time, the two Beast lifeforms immediately clashed in an all-out war which would decide the fate of planet Beast. Beastformers VS Laser Beasts
Legends comic
After the defeat of their Quintesson masters, the Sharkticons resettled on Beast. A Sharkticon tail from the planet made its way to the Legends World, where Scourge and his Sweeps used the mutated Blowpipe's "electro-clone beam" on it to create Sharkticon clones. Bonus Edition Vol. 44
The Beastformers did poorly in the war with Laser Beasts and even the Autobots that came to help them were defeated. LG51 Doublecross Prologue White Leo was exiled from Beast after being defeated in the war, but returned to his homeworld after finding new strength in the Legends World. Bonus Edition Vol. 51 The war thus continued until additional Transformers arrived and joined the Beastformers' side, allowing White Leo to defeat his opposite, Emperor Tigerburn, once and for all. The Beastformers and Laser Beasts then agreed to live together in peace, a peace that would last until 2038 when Galvatron II targeted Beast for its energy. The Road to Legends' Revival Chapter 1
Dreamwave Generation One continuity
After being ejected out into deep space by Starscream, Megatron found himself on the planet Beest in the middle of the war of the Beastformers. Megatron became aware that the Predacons had taken refuge on Beest and proceeded to hunt them down. Welcome to the Jungle
G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers continuity
Beast was likely consumed by Unicron, as natives of the planet were living within his body as mind-controlled "anti-bodies". Black Horizon, Part 2 of 2
The AllSpark Almanac
Beast was an neutral organic planet in the Autobot Commonwealth's region of the Milky Way. The AllSpark Almanac II
Notes
- The first official English language spelling of the planet's name appeared in Dreamwave's 20th Anniversary Transformers Summer Special, where it was spelled Beest. However, every single other official English language spelling of the name ever (including the The Ark compendiums and the Metrodome, Madman and Shout! Factory DVD releases) have spelled it as the more intuitive Beast. Even though "Beest" came first for us Westerners, so far as this wiki is concerned, majority rules and we're going with "Beast".
- Among the 1988 Beastformers merchandise is the Battlefield Map game, which involves a folded-up plastic play mat that depicts a continent completely unlike anything on the map of Beast found on the toys' packaging and pack-in materials, covered in fantastical cities and natural features. Unfortunately, we do not currently have a good enough picture of this mat to extract details from.
Foreign names
- English: Pisto (Omni Productions dub)
- Mandarin: Beast (比斯特 Bǐsītè)
- Russian: Bisto (Бисто)
- Italian: Pianeta delle belve ("Planet of the beasts")
