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You misunderstand, I believe it implies Soundwave is creating the message on the Terran Golden disc from Beast Wars.
If Soundwave creates the paradox by changing the past, does he even need to commit suicide? Unless you're saying the original timeline is continuing to exist redundantly and independent of his meddling? You would have gotten extra points from me if he was depicted as the WFC voyager (with disk launching action), despite the fact that it may have confused the issue a bit.
The timeline would continue until someone changed it. It was almost changed in Beast Wars my BW Megatron when he shot Prime. If Prime had died, history would have been rewritten from that point, and then when the 'bots woke up in 1984 in the Ark, Prime would have been dead and a new future would begin from that point for Soundwave and all the other Transformers. I made Soundwave kill himself for a few reasons. 1 - To make the stakes of the whole plan seem larger. 2 - I've always seen him as supremely loyal, and with the Decepticons defeated he'd rather not live on a Cybertron (or in a Universe) where the Autobots won. And 3 - It gets him out of the way. The impression I get from what little we see and hear of Cybertron and its society during the Beast Wars is that there has been a lot about the past forgotten, and old 'bots and 'cons aren't all that common. Their all dead or off in the cosmos doing other stuff.