>>117095250The west was highly unclear, but showed there wasn’t many. They weren’t at open war. Predacons were ruled by a council and were secretive until some nutcase started calling himself Megatron and stole a ship to go back in time. It’s unclear what happened to the Autobots and Decepticons, but the leaders of the Predacons are surviving Decepticons. Predacons are just considered criminals.
Japan actually tried to explain shit, combining everything like G2 and their own cartoons. Perceptor was the Autobot leader and accepted the surrender of the last Decepticons, uniting both factions. The Tripredicus Council is an illuminati trying to bring back Decepticons, and the Magnaboss Council are surviving Autobots.
West later made the Japanese stuff canon via Ask Vector Prime, followed by the IDW comics.
Since BW continuity was a clusterfuck even when it was on the air it’s worth taking everything with a grain of salt. Even Beast Machines should honestly be a “what if” rather than a direct canon continuation, let alone commercials, tie-in comics, and trying to unfuck it all later. To say nothing of TransTech linking back to Beast Wars, Beast Wars II, Beast Wars Neo, and so on.
