Resistance (BWU)
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- The Resistance is a group from the Beast Wars: Uprising portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.
"Well, this is what we look like. Some of us. Others look different."
Led by Lio Convoy, the Resistance spearheads the Grand Uprising against the decrepit Builders. A cross-factional conglomeration of Maximals and Predacons, this rebel alliance seeks to topple the stagnant empire of the Builders once and for all, ending their tyranny and allowing the next generation of Cybertronians to rebuild their shattered planet.
This sounds like a noble goal, and perhaps it is, but the realities of fighting a guerrilla war on three fronts—against the Micromasters, the Predacon Secret Police, and the Maximal Command Security Force—mean that the Resistance fights just as dirty as the order it seeks to overthrow. Members have been known to utilize weapons of mass destruction and deliberately sacrifice the lives of innocents if it means advancing their own goals. That said, their myriad enemies aren't much better.
Fiction
Beast Wars Uprising
The first known Maximals to rebel against the Builders were a small group of gladiators originally led by Optimus Primal. Following the deaths of Rhinox and Silverbolt and the disappearance of Rattrap, Cheetor, Nightscream, and Blackarachnia assassinated their leader. Prologue "TransTech" Blackarachnia's profile in Club magazine #25
More Predacons rallied under Cheetor's leadership. Their rebellion resulted in a battle against the Builders, which saw Cheetor damaged and in stasis lock. Blackarachnia and some other rebels fled via transwarp and took refuge in a different universe. "TransTech" Blackarachnia's profile in Club magazine #25 Although believed dead, Cheetor had survived, and was interred in Fortress Maximus along with other political dissidents. Head Games Among them was Grimlock, who had illegally transferred his spark into a Maximal body and attempted to bomb the Builder Assembly in protest of Builder principles. Micro-Aggressions
From here, the Resistance appears to have gone underground for a period of time, with the Builders restoring a semblance of order to Cybertron. This would all change when Blackarachnia returned to her universe of origin. Gathering another group of like-minded dissidents, Blackarachnia, Scylla, and B'Boom recruited Lio Convoy, the Maximal Guardian of Order and the 'bot responsible for rigging the endless Games.
At the opening of the 1924th Game, the Resistance moved to interrupt the opening ceremonies. As the Maximal and Predacon teams began their fight, Lio Convoy cut the ceremonies short by assassinating emcee Supersonic with an Angolmois Blaster, then revealed on live broadcast that he had been rigging the Games since their onset. Lio Convoy revealed the energon matrix in his chest, and issued a call for every Maximal and Predacon to rise up against their twisted progenitors. Broken Windshields
Seeking to bolster their numbers, the Resistance began raiding prisons. An early target was Fortress Maximus, a mighty Autobot warrior who had been repurposed into a stationary prison. The first two raids ended disastrously; the massive Autobot was able to mentally manipulate the invaders into turning on each other. The third raid—consisting of Bighorn, Cybershark, Ser-Ket, Survive, and Corahda anticipated the psionic attack by recruiting Buzzclaw as a stooge. Once Fortress Maximus had manipulated the insecure Predacon into turning on his foes, the Resistance killed him. At least three prisoners—Cheetor, Preditron, and Grimlock—joined the Resistance. Head Games What Preditron didn't know was that he had been busted out so the Resistance could use him as leverage with the Tripredacus Alliance, or more accurately, kill him to gain leverage with them. Derailment
As the Resistance gained steam, the attacks became more and more daring, repeatedly clashing with the Predacon Secret Police and the MCSF. Bighorn directed one such strike on the Melpomene Bridge, a vital corridor between the cities of Kalis and Altihex. Bighorn was killed by Stiletto, and the loyalists managed to repel the attack and detonate the bridge to keep it out of rebel hands. Burning Bridges
Another Resistance cell was led by Grimlock, who led his squad to success seven times against Builders and MCSF operations. Contracting some Predacon mercenaries to raid the Forever Vaults, he obtained a sample of the G-Virus. Grimlock's cell planned to detonate this dirty bomb in Tesarus Arena, where Resistance prisoners were being forced to fight to the death for Councilor Ratbat's amusement. He was intercepted by Hot Rod, and the two former comrades fought a bitter fight. Hot Rod was triumphant, and Grimlock's trooper Snapper opted to turn himself in to the authorities after learning the terrible effects of the G-Virus. Grimlock vowed the Resistance would get Snapper for this act of betrayal. Micro-Aggressions
As the war went on, the Resistance made many gains, but Iacon, stronghold of the Builders, remained out of their grasp. Vos remained a hotly contested state, and an unknown Resistance member destroyed the Crystal City. While Resistance sympathy was light in Iacon itself, it wasn't absent entirely. Word got to the Resistance that one Builder in Iacon, a femme named Twirl, was something special, and Blackarachnia was sent to recruit her, off the records, with orders to "use her discretion" if Twirl declined. Before she could make any headway, Twirl was murdered by a panicking Overrun, who didn't want knowledge of Twirl's Targetmaster physiology getting in the wrong hands. However, as a result of the MCSF investigation, Blackarachnia learned Overrun himself was a Targetmaster, but by the time she had, she'd come to the conclusion that no-one, the Resistance included, could get their hands on that type of power, and allowed Overrun to let himself be destroyed. Trigger Warnings
Four years into the war, the Resistance had gained massive grounds, managing to take nearly a quarter of the planet, though the official party line from the Builders was that they were on the verge of defeat. Not All Megatrons Then the Beast Upgrade came along, and their advances increased even further, as their newly enhanced forms gave them greater fuel efficiency, allowing them to even make a raid on the Builder stronghold of Kaon. Elsewhere, various Resistance members made attempts on Snapper for his deeds, eventually prompting Hot Rod to have the Predacon transferred to Iacon for his own protection. As the prison convoy made its way through Proximax it came under attack from a cell led by Magmatron, with Snapper going missing in the melee. The prisoner forgotten, proto-former and Builders hunkered down for a long fight, until Rampage and Buckethead reappeared, looking to convince both sides to deal with a greater menace: A group of alien cyborgs called the Antares Eight, looking to lure humanity to Cybertron and steal their technology. Working together, the motley crew managed to prevent the aliens from provoking or harming the humans. In the aftermath, Magmatron and most of his cell left the Resistance, forming a neutral faction dubbed the "Ex-Bots". Cultural Appropriation
Six years into the war, the Beast Upgrade allowed the Resistance to press their control of Cybertron, taking it all the way up to a third. However, at Proximax, some Resistance members had been forcing captured Micromaster troops into a new version of the Games, for "morale" purposes. Also, the newly-formed Independent Predacus States began reaching out feelers, but they made it clear they'd only work with the Resistance if Preditron were taken out of the picture. So, on a visit to Safe Zone Alpha Two with Cheetor, Preditron was beaten up and thrown into one of the Games on the order of Lio Convoy. At the same time, a new, much worse problem showed up: A supposed Builder combat upgrade that turned Cybertronians into mindless, sparkless drones, which quickly spread through Proximax. Pushed to desperation by the Resistance, the Builders had unleashed the Vehicon Apocalypse. Safe Spaces Derailment
