It's just recently dawned on me that RiD (and other concurrent events in the IDWverse) could easily become a primer to connect G1 with Beast Wars. Let's consider the following:
* The war has ended in (dubious) favour of the Autobots
* There are many calling for the dissolution of the factions. Imagine if ex-Autobots (like Metalhawk) spearheaded the formation of the Maximals and ex-Decepticons (like Sky-Byte) formed the Predacon; both factions allied under as part of a unified Cybertronian government (possibly bipartisan).
* The formal dissolution of the Autobot/Decepticon factions could be made official with all parties signing the Pax Cybertronia.