I think it'd be so totally super cool if people actually used the few hints we got from Beast Wars about the dynamic on Cybertron for their headcanons rather than just making it IDW1 part 2, Electric Boogaloo, where the Maximal government is totally evil and super oppressive and Megatron just wants to be a revolutionary.
Sure, the Maximal government was behind the Protoform X experiment. However, the Tripedacus Council also hid a spy on Megatron's crew and sent another spy to then kill all of Megatron's crew AND the Maximal crew to avoid anything getting back to the Maximal government so they could continue their own schemes. I don't think Cybertron was an idyllic place under Maximal leadership, but I don't think the Predacons were actually slaves or anything like that. Maybe, just maybe, the guy who calls himself a tyrant multiple times and lies to people has a biased perspective about the Maximal government and regarding his place in the world.



















