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[[Image:BWDarksyde.jpg|right|thumb|The ''Dark Side''.]]
In the ''[[Beast Wars]]'' [[television serie]]s, the ''Dark Side'' is the name of the Predacon transwarp ship stolen by [[Megatron (Beast Wars and Beast Machines)|Megatron]] and his [[Predacon (Transformers)|Predacon]] rebels. <ref>The Transformers Beast Wars Sourcebook By Don Figueroa, Simon Furman, Ben Yee, Dan M. Khanna, Guido Guidi, Jake Isenberg, Marcelo Matere, Nick Roche, Rob Ruffolo and Simon Williams</ref>

Unnamed at first, the only time the Predacon ship is named 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 was confirmed as official when the ''Beast Wars'' video game and DVD box set also referred to it as the ''Darkside'' (The ship may have been called the ''Terror Crasher'' in the Japanese TV version). 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. Pete Sinclair posted at Allspark that it was spelled that way to make certain they didn't run into any legal problems with [[George Lucas]]. IDW Publishing's Beast Wars Sourcebook in 2008 then changed the spelling to "The Dark Side", with an "i" and a space. All three spellings of the ship are technically correct, as they were officially used. 

The ship's computer was voiced by [[Elizabeth Carol Savenkoff]]. <ref>Encyclopedia of television shows, 1925 through 2007 by Vincent Terrace</ref>

==Crew==
The original crew of the ''Dark Side'' included:
* [[Megatron (Beast Wars and Beast Machines)|Megatron]] - Commander
* [[Dinobot]] - Second-in-command.
* [[Scorponok#Beast Wars|Scorponok]] - Engineer, later second-in-command after Dinobot turned on Megatron.
* [[Tarantulas (Transformers)|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]] - Maximal protoform turned into a Predacon with a shell program by Tarantulas. 
* [[Inferno (Transformers)#Beast Wars|Inferno]] - Maximal protoform turned into a Predacon with a shell program by Tarantulas. His beast mode instincts take over his personality making him fiercely loyal to Megatron.
* [[Quickstrike]] - Maximal protoform whose violent nature and damaged datatracks resulted in him joining the Predacons of his own accord. 
* [[Rampage (Transformers)#Beast Wars|Rampage]] - Maximal serial killer forced to obey Megatron.
* Transmetal II [[Dinobot#Season three|Dinobot]] - Clone of the original Dinobot created by Megatron from a blank protoform, Dinobot's raptor DNA and half of Rampage's spark.

==History==
When the rogue Predacon crew stole the Golden Disk, the ''Dark Side'' went into transwarp and ended up in prehistoric Earth, fighting the Maximal ship, ''Axalon''. Both craft shot each other down.

In season three episode ''Changing of the Guard'', the [[Sentinel (Beast Wars)|Sentinel]] defense system was installed in the ''Dark Side'' after the Predacons stole it from a Maximal salvage mission. However, later in Season Three episode ''Other Victories'', the ''Dark Side'' was destroyed by the alien [[Vok]] when they sent [[Tigerhawk]] to stop Megatron.

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

===Timelines===
The origin of the ''Darksyde'' was expanded on in the [[Botcon]] ''Timelines'' story "Dawn of Futures Past". In this story, the ''Darksyde'' was a ship stolen from [[Cybertron]] by Waspinator and Terrorsaur. The two had a contest to decide the name of the ship. Terrorsaur won, and named the ship the ''Darksyde''. Waspinator expressed disappointment that the name ''Buzzerbot'' was not chosen, as he thought it sounded better; a sentiment surprisingly shared even by Megatron.<ref>http://www.seibertron.com/comics/view.php?comic_id=848</ref>

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