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The Vok
The Vok were only officially introduced by that name in the third-to-last episode of Beast Wars, "Other Victories". However, their presence became known right at the beginning of the show, in "Beast Wars Part 2". It was in that episode that Rhinox noted a stone henge formation or rocks which were clearly not built by any of the native creatures on the planet at that time. The Vok, or Aliens as they were known for most of the show, remained a mysterious force until near the end of season 3, making appearances in various strange ways. They sent down a golden egg-like probe in the episode "Chain of Command" which captured Optimus Primal and scanned him for information, before releasing him and disappearing. The next sign of the Aliens was the floating island in "The Trigger". The island, sheathed in a thick layer of clouds, floated in on the air in the snowy north when Tigatron discovered it inadvertently. The island was a lush paradise, but a dangerous one as there were various traps, marked by strange symbols, designed to 'test' the intelligence of whatever beings found it (or at least that was the assumption). It had a central control tower that Blackarachnia got into and she commandeered the island towards the Maximal base which she planned to destroy. Fortunately Tigatron grounded and destroyed the island, but it still managed to send a signal into space that bounced off one of the 'moons'. It was in "The Trigger: part 2" that Rhinox noticed that the mass of the second moon was such that it had to have been hollow. The Aliens made more direct contact with the Beast Warriors in "Before the Storm". In this episode Inferno finds the second golden disk wedged into a spinning rock. He takes it to Megatron (the disk will prove very valuable). In the same episode Airazor and Rattrap come across a circular area of land with field generators. Airazor is caught in a blast as the generators build up and eventually form a strange dome over the area. Inside, she is scanned by the Aliens. Later Optimus and Rattrap come inside to rescue her. Rattrap and Airazor leave but Optimus stays to reason with the Aliens. They take him and scan him. One takes a form of Unicron and tells him that he and his species have 'contaminated the project' (interfered with the planet) and so now they will sterilize it by destroying all on it. From this point on a frantic struggle ensues for all of the Transformers to survive, but it is Optimus who saves the planet by destroying the Aliens' weapon - the other moon! The moon opened out and prepared to destroy the planet completely, but when Optimus and the pod he was flying detonated inside it, it was blown to pieces. The transwarp wave explosion reached the planet in "Aftermath" and affected several Beast Warriors by transforming their superstructures into transmetals. The Aliens appear again in "Other Visits" when Tigatron and Airazor trigger an alien trap/signal. A plant they were nearby beamed them up into space and then an organic dome was created in the area they had been studying. Megatron used the golden disk Inferno had found as a key into this dome. The disk allowed him to take control of it. He used it as a weapon against the Maximals while he prepared to take it to Cybertron. Fortunately Rattrap and Optimus put a stop to his plans and all inside it escaped before it beamed into space and blew up. The final appearance of the Vok is in "Other Victories". The viewers finally see them. They have the appearance of floating semi-transparent skulls, with glowing eyes and tentacle-like tendrils of hair. Two of these aliens discussed how the Transformers continued to damage the time flow. They merged the bodies of Tigatron and Airazor together and entered the newly formed Transformer and sent him down to Earth to deal with Megatron. He was called Tigerhawk and he introduced himself to Megatron as an emissary of the Vok. Tigerhawk destroyed the Predacon base and defeated all the Predacons except for Tarantulas, who put him into stasis lock by means of arachnoids shorting him out. Tarantulas then used a device on Tigerhawk to 'destroy' the alien influence within him. He in fact drew them out and they infested him as a new host, but in his attempt to fend them off he shot the device around so that it wasaiming at him. Being knocked into to large pillars of power, Tarantulas was blown to pieces and the aliens within him died as well. This wass the last we ever saw of the Aliens. The Vok were a presence throughout the Beast Wars
and a formidable enemy of both sides. Site
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