Darkside (Transformers)

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The Axalon (foreground) and the Darkside (background) before crashing on prehistoric Earth.

Terrorsaur welcomes Cheetor to the Darkside in the Beast Wars episode Equal Measure.

In the Beast Wars televison series the Darkside is the name of the initially unnamed Predacon transwarp ship stolen by Megatron and his Predacon rebels.

Seemingly unnamed at first, the only clue to the name in the television series was in the episode Equal Measures where Terrorsaur said to Cheetor "Welcome to the dark side!" upon being discovered in the ship. Since then fans had adopted the name Darkside for the ship. The name became official when the Beast Wars video game and DVD box set also referred to it as the Darkside. In the Botcon 2006 exclusive toy box set, Dinobot was called "Darksyde Dinobot", in the same fashion that the included Maximals were called "Axalon Rhinox", "Axalon Cheetor", etc., meaning that another possible spelling is "Darksyde" with a y instead of an i.

The original crew of the Darkside included:

Megatron - Commander
Dinobot - Second-in-command.
Scorponok - Engineer, later second-in-command after Dinobot turned on Megatron.
Tarantulas - Weapons/Special Ops. Secretly a spy for the Tripredacus Council.
Terrorsaur - Fighter
Waspinator - Pilot

After the ship crashed the crew was joined by several former Maximal protoforms:

Blackarachnia
Dinobot (switches sides in episode 32, reborn in episodes 44-52)
Inferno
Quickstrike
Rampage
Rhinox (for one episode)
Silverbolt (temporarily)

In season 3 of the television, the Sentinel defense program was installed in the Darksyde after Predacons stole it from a Maximal salvage mission (Changing of the Guard). However, later in season 3, the Darkside was destroyed by the alien Vok when they sent Tigerhawk to stop Megatron (Other Victories).

A toy of the Darkside was packaged in with the 2006 release of Megatron by Hasbro, though not named as such. It is simply called a Predacon ship.

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