Beast Machine Technology

The **Mechanetherium** (メカネテリウム, *Mekaneteriumu*, from Greek *mēkhanḗ* (μηχανή) 'machine' + *thēríon* (θηρίον) 'beast') or **Beast Machine Technology** (ビースト・マシン 技術ぎじゅつ, *Bīsuto Mashin Gijutsu*) is a cybertronian technology in Transformers: Beast Wars - Revolution that is responsible for the creation of Beast Modes.

Ever since their species was created by their god Primus, the cybertronians had been known for being made of made entirely of metal, as well as having alternate modes that are traditionally based on vehicles, weapons, and so on. However, their very archaic body structure presented a problem, as they are very dependent on energon, their very resource of fuel, and because this is consumed faster than said resource could be replenished, the scarcity of this element became the cause of endless searches for this one throughout the cosmos, as well as the main reason for the Great War between Autobots and Decepticons, which lasted for centuries. After the war, energon became increasingly scarce, and in order to preserve the species and prevent further wars, the cybertronians gave up their pride in their large size and submitted to the process known as "**The Great Upgrade**", in which they were reduced in size, making them more fuel-efficient, and thus changing them into Maximals and Predacons, and starting a brand new Golden Age in Cybertron. Despite the fact that this is extremely beneficial to the cybertronian species, energon is still scarce, and if a faster method of replenishing energon is not developed, this could become a major issue in the future. There are already ways to replenish energon, such as synthesizing it from raw materials, building machines to accelerate underground energon growth, and so on, but someone had a different idea in mind.

A Maximal scientist named **Animus Magno** has been working ever since the final days of the great war for a more fuel-efficient and permanent source of energy in order save his species and maintain peace in Cybertron. He was the key factor behind the plan to scale down all Cybertronians to human size by combining the **Micromaster** and **Brainmaster** technologies. Animus was satisfied with this, but he believed that something more was required to ensure the longevity of this new Golden Age. Even though the existing methods of synthetizing energon using **ARC projectors** were efficient for the most part, they actually spent more energy in such processes than producing energon, so Animus contemplated creating a less expensive way to use **ARC projectors** to synthetize energon. In the following stellar cycles, Animus and Predacon scientist **Longarm** began working together to develop a process that would use ARC Projectors to transmute living metal into any other material in order to generate energon within a cybertronian body, but many of their attempts did not turn out as they had expected. Then, after studying the historical records of Cybertron, and inspired by the **Headmaster**, **Targetmaster**, and **Powermaster** technologies that involved a "**Binary Bonding**" between a Cybertronian and an organic being, with the latter transforming into either a head, engine, or weapon, Animus suggested combining said technologies with Pretender technology in the use of ARC projectors to create alt-modes made of a techno-organic matter based on scanned organic life forms, forming a binary bonding between cybertronian CNA and organic DNA that would make cybertronians self-sufficient and significantly more fuel-efficient by metabolizing their own energon within the techno-organic components of their bodies. This approach proved be viable and successful, and it became a wonderful innovation that would forever change the lives of cybertronians. However, this wasn't without controversy. Many traditionalists criticized this technology as an aberration because, in their opinion, Cybertron has always been built with metal on top of metal and should ALWAYS be that way. However, Animus and Longarm's invention proved to be so useful in exploration missions that any prejudice against this technology has almost completely vanished.

## How this technology works?

This techno-organic *Beast Machine* technology operates by installing a small ARC-Projector into a cybertronian's transformation cog or T-Cog, which is the bio-mechanism that allows Transformers to scan alternate modes and transform. As a result, when a cybertronian scans an organic life form as an alternate mode, the ARC-Projector projects a faux-organic replica of the scanned life form's cellular structure and DNA. Consequently, the cybertronian's CNA and living metal rearrange and combine with the projected image to form a beast alternate mode composed of a techno-organic matter created by such a process.

### Reformatting Proccess

The beast mode reformating process is as follows:

* Scanning & Virtual Projection: An organic life form is scanned by the T-cog, which then transmits the scanned data to the ARC-Projector which then generates an artificial virtual dimension around the cybertronian, into which are projected faux-organic replicas of the scanned life form's DNA and cell structure. The DNA data of the scanned life-form is saved within the cybertronian CNA schematic data in order to initiate the reformating process, which sends the necessary data to the ARC projector and living metal cells to generate the techno-organic material for the beast mode.
* Cyber-matter Re-alignment & Techno-organic Genesis: The living metal cells and CNA of the cybertronian are rearranged and mixed with the projected faux cellular and DNA structures, creating a techno-organic matter based on the scanned life-form. The Cybertronian's body adapts and reshapes itself, forming the animalistic features and attributes of the selected Beast Mode.
* In the case of a mutation caused by outside factors, a cybertronian's cellular structure can be reconfigured to accommodate that mutation. This reconfiguration allows their bodies to accommodate and integrate the mutations, granting them new abilities, and forms.

### Other important info

* When scanning prehistoric DNA from fossils that have been damaged through time, the T-cog and ARC projector can re-create the DNA structure of the scanned fossils in order to obtain the whole image of the desired life-form by executing one of the following:
	+ Using DNA data from similar life-forms to fill in the gaps in the damaged DNA.
	+ Using ai technology to re-sketch the scanned DNA data from scratch using what has already been scanned and external resources to create the most accurate restored version possible.
	+ Using a mix of the methods listed above.
* The cybertronian can alter the physical characteristics of their beast mode, such as color, shape, and other features. Tarantulas, for example, manipulating the scanned data of a brown tarantula to make his beast mode mostly purple.
* A spark is required for this procedure because it carries the transformers' CNA, or "genetic code", which is required for a "binary bonding" with organic DNA to successfully create techno-organic beast modes.
* Since this reformatting process results in a biological update to the cybertronian body, the gained beast mode is technologically permanent, and another alternate mode can only be obtained by reverting to protoform state.
* The superstructure is usually the only part of the cybertronian body to be reformatted to a techno-organic state in order to shield the still fully mechanical components and the spark from potentially hazardous outside factors such as excessive raw energon. It has been theorized, however, that the whole cybertronian body could be reformatted to this state, but this has never been attempted because such forceful reformatting could potentially damage the spark, driving the transformer insane.

## Trivia

* This technology takes its name from the cartoon series of the same name, whose storyline centers on finding a balance between the technological and the organic.
* This also makes use of the **ARC Amalgam System** or **ARC Projector** technology used in other series to create the solid vision with mass, which adds to the entertainment value of the card game Duel Monsters.
	+ It is still unclear how the ARC projector technology came to Earth.