LAST EDITED ON Jan-02-13 AT 02:37 AM (EST)
 
>[1086] Because of the damage to Megatron's gun barrel shown
>in the amazing Fred Perry illustration Phil commissioned to depict an
>earlier point in this fight, we had to lose the diamond-arc muzzle
>moment from the Cybertron Dreams version, but frankly I think
>the Ultimate Raving Beam of Death image that replaces it easily rocks
>as much, and has a much higher general "Megatron! Fuck yeah!"
>quotient (if arguably a somewhat lower Priss one).

Well, you could put a diamond-arc somewhere else. Like, say...

> "Doom comes to Cybertron," Galvatron told him. "My mission is
> to notify the children of Primus that our dread lord approaches - and to
> demonstrate the futility of resistance by making an example of the Prime
> who presumed to oppose him four centuries ago. I am commanded to offer
> you this one chance: Join me in this divine errand and you will survive
> the apocalypse to come." Galvatron folded his arms across his barrel
> chest and smiled complacently at his template. "What say you,
> Megatron?"
> For a second or two, Megatron stood so still he might as well
> have been a mere statue, his face utterly impassive.
> Then, calmly, he replied, "I say... "

...right here.

> With a speed and decisiveness that took even Galvatron aback,
> the Decepticon commander raised his right arm and blasted Galvatron's
> grey-clad companion straight through the chest with a full-power shot
> from his fusion cannon. The blast shattered its target's plastron,
> sending his already-collapsing wreckage flying back into the structure
> behind him - which, being an ancient fuel storage tank filled with the
> fumes of its long-exhausted contents, exploded in a towering fireball
> upon the fiery wreck's impact.
> "... no," Megatron concluded.