Golden Disk (Voyager)



The Golden Disk is a recurring object throughout the Beast Wars series, beginning with the first episode, Beast Wars, Part 1. It plays a major role in the escalation of the conflict between the Maximals and the Predacons, and lead to the death of a major character. It was destroyed in the episode Code of Hero, but the Predacon leader, Megatron recovered one of the shards and used it in the episode The Agenda, Part 2 to escape capture at the hands of a Cybertronian government agent.

Beast Wars, Part 1
The Predacons steal the Golden Disk from the Cybertron archives. Megatron claims that the disk holds the location of a vast store of energon, with which the Predacon commander believes he can reignite the Great War against the Maximals.

Coming of the Fuzors, Part 1
Dinobot breaks into the Predacon base and steals the Golden Disk.

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Origins
The Golden Disc was launched in the 1970's by Nasa with the hope that it would be found by an alien intelligence. It included a record of Earths history up to that point in time. Eventually, the disc WAS found by aliens, specifically the Transformers, presumeably sometime prior to the events of the movie. The orignal Megatron claimed the disc as his own and engraved a message into it intened for any Decepticon loyalists that would find it after his demise. Though the whole message is never revealed, it presumeably indicates the specific location of the Ark, and instructions on how to use this knowledge to rewrite history completely! The Beast-Era Megatron discovers this message, and (using the pretense of gathering a vast storehouse of Energon) recruits a crew of like-minded Predacons to steal the Disc and travel to ancient Earth.

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