Everything is new again... as the Beast Wars era kicks off The Gathering! The Great War between the Autobots and Decepticons is over, but on Cybertron new factions - with the same old divisions and agendas - are formed, until the tenuous peace is suddenly stretched to breaking point... by a rogue Predacon with a very familiar name - Megatron! But even as Megatron and his opposite Maximal number, Optimus Primal, clash on prehistoric Earth, on Cybertron an even greater threat arise in the form of Magmatron - with a plan that could hand total victory to the evil Predacon forces. Featuring a host of background material created especially for The Definitive G1 Collection including a Q&A with Beast Wars TV script editor/writer Bob Forward, a Don Figueroa sketchbook, the first in-pack BW comic, and a new contextual introductions by series editorial consultant Simon Furman and Beast Wars expert Ben Yee. COLLECTING BEAST WARS THE GATHERING #1-4 & MATERIAL FROM TRANSFORMERS: BEAST WARS SOURCEBOOK