Editing Decepticon Justice Division

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:''The Decepticon Justice Division is a group from the [[IDW Generation 1 continuity|IDW portion]] of the [[Generation 1 continuity family|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''
[[File:Mtmte7 djd.jpg|thumb|upright=2.8|So it's just "Or Death" then?]]
The '''Decepticon Justice Division''' is a division of the Decepticon army that handles justice. And by justice, we mean "unmarked graves". Assuming there's enough left of their victims to bury.

Traitors, deserters and any manner of transgressors to the [[Decepticon]] cause end up on "[[The List]]", and are targeted by these enforcers of [[Megatron (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Megatron's]] will. If the rumors are to be believed, they ''always'' find their quarry, and execute them in the messiest fashion possible to make an example of them. Several of them are living torture devices, either having horrific instruments of pain built into their bodies, or having [[alternate mode]]s that become such devices. As a group, they're even able to take down the mighty [[Phase Sixer]]s. So fearsome is their reputation that many Decepticons prefer suicide to waiting for the D.J.D. to find them... unfortunately, many Decepticons only find out they were ''on'' The List right as the D.J.D. arrive. Obviously, this makes them incredibly unpopular among the rank-and-file, many wondering just what level of minor infraction will get you on The List in the first damn place. 

Their usual killing fields are in the proximity of the planet [[Messatine]], and they pursue targets in their spaceship the ''[[Peaceful Tyranny]]''. 

The group's lineup has changed over the years, but its core five members always use the same five code-names: those of [[Fall of the First Five Cities|the first five cities]] to fall to the Decepticons. Should one member die, another Decepticon is eventually selected to take their place and name. Only the group's leader, [[Tarn (DJD)|Tarn]], is known to have been in the group from the start.

Known members include:

*[[Helex (DJD)|Helex]]
*[[Kaon (DJD)|Kaon]]
*[[Tarn (DJD)|Tarn]] (leader)
*[[Tesarus (DJD)|Tesarus]]
*[[Vos (DJD)|Vos]]
*[[The Pet]]
*[[Nickel]]

{{bigquote|Find. Kill. Cleanse.|The D.J.D. motto}}

==Fiction==
===IDW Generation 1 continuity===
Tarn runs a tight ship. Each of his team have to do health and safety reports and are subjected to constant performance reviews. It's not all fun and games! {{storylink|The Permanent Revolution}}

The late and unlamented [[Crosscut (Decepticon)|Crosscut]] was often mistaken for a Justice Division man, which he used to his advantage. {{storylink|The Transformers: Last Stand of the Wreckers|Crosscut's Squadron X profile}}

The D.J.D. has killed quite a few of the renegade Decepticon warlord [[Deathsaurus (Victory)|Deathsaurus]]'s troops for their desertion. {{storylink|The Permanent Revolution}}

One time, the Division had learned the mysterious [[Censere|Necrobot]] was real and the existence of his planet. They didn't bother to investigate it. {{storylink|The Not Knowing}}

The current Vos's predecessor had hooks for hands and feet. Footage of him doing his usual business with the rest of the D.J.D. was recorded and presented as evidence during Megatron's trial. {{storylink|World, Shut Your Mouth Part 2: Words Hang in the Air|Words Hang in the Air}} Unknown to the Decepticons, that Vos was an [[Autobot]] [[Agent 113|mole]], passing information to them from within the Division. Usually this information would be the turncoats and traitors that the Division was hunting down, whom the Autobots could protect from [[death|justice]] in return for information. It was this agent that informed [[Springer (G1)|Springer]] and the [[Wrecker]]s that any attempt to get near [[Garrus-9]] was blown out of the sky with extreme prejudice. {{storylink|Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 1|Last Stand of the Wreckers #1}} {{storylink|Bullets}} 

[[Swerve (G1)|Swerve]] once saw the Justice Division doing its dirty work. The shock rendered him speechless for six months, which was quite a feat for him. {{storylink|Life After the Big Bang}} What wasn't known for a while was that the mole formerly known as Vos had shot a message bullet into his shoulder {{storylink|The One Where They Go to Earth}} and by the time it had been found, Agent 113 had been found, killed, and replaced with the current Vos. The only useable data on the bullet was the location of the Necrobot [[Censere]]. {{storylink|The Not Knowing}}

At some point, the D.J.D. discovered the ravaged Cybertronian colony founded by the [[Metrotitan (body-type)|Metrotitan]] [[Prion]] and recruited its sole survivor Nickel into their ranks. She took up a job as their nurse. {{storylink|The Permanent Revolution}}

In order to ensure the safety of the Autobot medical facility of [[Delphi]] on the planet [[Messatine]], deep within D.J.D. territory, the facility's chief medical officer [[Pharma (G1)|Pharma]] entered into a deal with the Division's leader. In return for their leaving Delphi be, Pharma would provide the leader with a constant supply of fresh [[transformation cog]]s from Delphi's dead, in order to feed his addiction to changing shape that caused him to constantly burn through cogs. With the monthly quota of cogs constantly rising, Pharma was forced into drastic action, seeking to escape the deal by shutting down the facility without implicating himself. To this end, he hired Decepticon nobodies [[Sonic (G1)|Sonic]] and [[Boom]] to pose as [[Monoformer]]s and seek asylum at Delphi, professing to be on the run from the D.J.D. Once inside, they detonated a viral soundbomb that infected Delphi with a corrosive plague that would be blamed on D.J.D. chemical warfare. {{storylink|Life After the Big Bang}} {{storylink|How Ratchet Got His Hands Back}}

The D.J.D. caught up with [[Black Shadow (Victory)|Black Shadow]] and brutally tortured him to death after he sold his services to the Autobots. Despite popular conceptions, Tarn declared the war wasn't over until Megatron personally ''said'' it was over. Kaon then alerted Tarn to a signal on the planet Clemency from the undetonated [[K-Class]] named [[Fulcrum]]. When they arrived Tarn gave Fulcrum's companions fifteen minutes to give him up and watch him die, or be killed themselves. {{storylink|Rules of Disengagement (issue)|Rules of Disengagement}}

[[File:Slaughterhouse mtmte -32 djd attack.jpg|thumb|upright=1.3|And the fandom collectively wept. Whether it was because they had [[spark|souls]] or because they loved watching the DJD kill people has yet to be determined.]]‎The so-called [[Scavenger (group)|Scavengers]] chose to fight, turning an incidental captive [[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]] against Tarn and the others. The initial surprise wore off, though, and the Scavengers got brutalized. Tesarus ground up [[Flywheels]] in his chest compartment, while Vos made [[Krok (G1)|Krok]] "wear his face". Even a [[Cybernought]] barely helped improve their odds. The remaining hapless Decepticons only survived because Kaon detected [[Overlord (Masterforce)|Overlord]]'s spark signature, plus Fulcrum had seemingly died moments prior in a failed suicide-bomb attempt (he hadn't, but everyone was a little too busy to double-check). Tarn ordered the D.J.D. off to hunt for bigger fish, but not before warning the surviving Scavengers that their names had all been added to the List. {{storylink|Scavengers (Part 2): Who's Afraid of the DJD?|Who's Afraid of the DJD?}}

[[File:BrainstormDJDComeGetHim.jpg|thumb|upright=1.6|left|Only Brainstorm invites genocidal murderers not to genocidally murder everyone on his ship.]]
The D.J.D. would later catch up with the ''[[Lost Light]]'' (unbeknownst to anyone, one of two created by a quantum engine accident) over [[Ofsted XVII]] in their search for Overlord (following a tip-off from the Decepticon mole [[Brainstorm (G1)|Brainstorm]]) and made short work of the crew(after learning that known defector [[Drift (G1)|Drift]] was also onboard) before reaching the rogue Phase Sixer in his slow cell beneath the ship and sawing off his head. The group, however, failed to kill one member of the crew — [[Rewind (G1)|Rewind]]. {{storylink|slaughterhouse}} 

Their work finished, the D.J.D. departed from the ''Lost Light'', but later returned at Nickel's urging in order to steal the ship's [[Quantum generator|quantum engines]]. This turned out to be a mistake: the D.J.D. arrived in the middle of a battle between the [[Galactic Council]] and [[Black Block Consortia]], both of which were also after the engines. Rather than leave Cybertronian technology in the hands of ''organics'', the D.J.D. attacked both sides, which simply led to the two organizations teaming up against them. {{storylink|The Permanent Revolution}}

Pursuing Council forces to the surface of Ofsted XVII, Vos and Kaon were trapped on the planet when an overwhelming number of organic reinforcements forced the ''Peaceful Tyranny'' to retreat. {{storylink|The Permanent Revolution}} The two Decepticons were left badly damaged and close to death by the battle. The pair's salvation arrived when a trio of Autobots (from the main ''Lost Light'') foolishly helped them, and after killing [[Trailbreaker (G1)|Trailcutter]], Vos and Kaon were able to call for a teleport back to their ship, bringing with them the postwar edition of ''[[Towards Peace]]''. {{storylink|Births, Deaths, and Interventions}}

The D.J.D. caught up with and murdered [[Blip]] in the interim. {{storylink|The Permanent Revolution}}

Watching Megatron renounce and denounce the Decepticon cause in ''Towards Peace'' shook Tarn's faith in the movement, and he nearly killed himself by [[Nuke]] overdose before realizing a better option. The D.J.D. leader organized a meeting with the rogue Deathsaurus, not to murder him, but to ''ally'' with him. In exchange, he and all of his troops would be stricken from The List. Despite some initial friction, Deathsaurus agreed to the alliance. With the D.J.D. now bolstered by the addition of Deathsaurus's considerable forces, Tarn declared their new objective: kill the traitorous Megatron and all of his allies aboard the "primary" ''Lost Light''. {{storylink|The Permanent Revolution}}

When [[Getaway]] launched his mutiny on the ''Lost Light'', he informed the DJD that Megatron would be getting marooned on Censere's planet. The Division butchered the Necrobot and ambushed Megatron, and his only loyal crew members, when they arrived. {{storylink|The Dying of the Light: (1) How Bright Their Frail Deeds|How Bright Their Frail Deeds}}

==Notes==
*In an early plan for "[[Chaos Theory Part 1|Chaos Theory]]", the D.J.D. were going to attack.<ref>[http://www.fullmetalhero.com/t14540/ Moonbase2's second interview with James Roberts - 01:33:27 to 01:35:00]</ref>
*[[James Roberts]] elaborated that when a D.J.D. member dies, his replacement takes his name.<ref>[http://boards.idwpublishing.com/3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=12651&start=15 IDW Forums James Roberts Q&A]</ref>

==References==
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