Beast class (Earth-1984)

The Beast class is a Functionist class for Cybertronians with beast modes. Those with said modes are placed near the bottom of society.

Origin
Cybertronians born with beast modes followed the ways of Onyx Prime, eschewing the vehicular alternate modes of other Transformers, preferring to wear the animalistic forms exemplified by their spiritual progenitor. However, after the end of the Primes' reign, other Cybertronians disregarded them for this and viewed them as "primitives", even segregating them on account of their beast modes.

This became more prominent at the beginning of the Golden Age; when Nova Prime united Cybertron after overthrowing the Quintessons and instituted Functionism, he placed them near the bottom of society, above only those in the so-called Disposable class. They would become the victims of institutionalized discrimination that lasted until the final days of Sentinel Prime's reign.

Knowing what was to come, Onyx Prime had instructed the Titan Ascella to colonize and defend the distant planet of Eukaris. From the hot spot within his body, Ascella created a civilization of beast mode Transformers, safe from the stigma of functionism. The Eukariens were aware of the prejudice their ancestors had faced on Cybertron, and cultivated a deep distrust of any "standard-formers" with vehicle modes.

By the time of the Great War, the stigma seemed to have largely dissipated, as nobody considered Transformers with beast modes to be especially remarkable. However, after the war and the restoration of Cybertron, many Cybertronians became more sympathetic towards them, as they fought in the war for equal rights and sought to do so again on the now healed Cybertron more peacefully.