Senate

2011-09-09T21:20:25Z

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:''The Senate is a pre-war governing body of [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] from the [[IDW Generation 1 continuity|IDW]] comics portion of the [[Generation 1 continuity family|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''

[[Image:Ratbat symbol Megatron Origins.png|right|200px|thumb|This symbol denotes official Senate dealings on documents and also adorns many buildings and members of Senators' personal staff. Basically, if someone has this, then they're better than you.]]
The '''Senate''' is the legislative body of pre-war Cybertron. While the [[Prime (rank)|Prime]] and the [[Autobot]] [[Autobot Security Services|Security Services]] may hold military and police powers, the Senate creates the laws they enforce.

City-states like [[Kaon]] have their own senates.

Known senators from this era include:

* [[Decimus]]
* [[Proteus]]
* [[Ratbat (G1)|Ratbat]]

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==Fiction==
===IDW continuity===

The esteemed members of the Senate were held to be the honorable descendants of the progenitors and custodians of the sacred Primal lienage. By the time of [[Nominus Prime]], however, the Senate had become grossly corrupt and oppressive, overseeing a caste-ridden dictatorship with themselves on top. A few honest Senators remained but kept quiet.

In Cybertron's early age, the 113th Cybertronian Senate went into a private session at the [[Grand Imperium]] in order to address the matter of Nominus Prime's attempted assassination by terrorists. They decided that head of security, [[Sentinel Prime (G1)|Sentinel]] was to find the perpetrators of this attack and decided to forgo the rights of the citizens by initiating a [[Clampdown]]. Their session was interrupted by the arrival of a security officer known as [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Orion Pax]] who spoke out against the corruption. However, the outraged Senate had Sentinel place the officer under arrest and removed from the Grand Imperium. One Senator, however, prevented Pax from being sent to prison and confessed to him that a faction ''within'' the Senate was responsible for the assassination, as they were seeking to discover how the [[Creation Matrix]] creates life for their own motivations. {{storylink|Chaos Theory Part 2|Chaos Theory #2}}

[[Image:Megatron Origin 4 Senate falls.jpg|right|250px|thumb|Believe it or not, the Decepticons are the ''good guys'' here.]]

Just prior to the [[Great War (G1)|Great War]], after Nominus had died and Sentinel had become Prime, individual Senators like Ratbat had started to manipulate (and ''damage'') the planet's economy for their own benefit, while the Senate as a whole automated the [[Mining Outpost C-12|energon mines]] at the expense of the mining caste. They made only conciliatory gestures to the miners while hoarding [[Energon (fuel)|energon]] for themselves. Sentinel Prime appeared well aware that the Senate was out for itself and held a rather low opinion of them as a whole, even though they were basically ''his'' senate.

As part of Megatron's takeover for Kaon, the Kaon Senate's guards were subverted and assisted Starscream, who claimed to be snitching to the Senators, in wiping out the entire body (bar Ratbat) in one swoop. {{storylink|Megatron Origin}}

The Senate's status following the devastation of Cybertron is unknown, but things did not look good for them.

==Notes==
*As ''Megatron Origin'' was based on the decline of the [[wikipedia:Roman_Empire|Roman Empire]], the Senate was most likely based on the [[wikipedia:Roman_Senate|Roman Senate]]. Unlike that Senate, according to Optimus, they're not made up of
[[wikipedia:Roman_Magistrate|former magistrates]] but by the descendants of the progenitors, i.e. they inherit their seats.

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[[Category:Rulers of Cybertron]]
[[Category:Transformer governments]]

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