Legislator

The Legislators are Transformers from the IDW portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.

Sent by radical GEEWUN fundamentalists, no doubt.

The Legislators are the private shock troops of Chief Justice Tyrest. Sparkless drones, he constructed them with the single imperative: countermand any infractions of the Tyrest Accord. They do this without hesitation, without thinking and without remorse, taking whatever measures their programming deems sufficient for the enforcement of Tyrest's wishes.

Nineteen eighty-four.The Legislators, Hangers On

Fiction

IDW Generation 1 continuity

At some point around the time of his religious "awakening", Tyrest constructed the Legislators as a remorseless, unthinking army programmed to enforce the Tyrest Accord. He sent them to Theophany where they destroyed the city and captured the surviving members of the Circle of Light. Tyrest would go on to murder 90% of these captives and use their remains as spare parts for the maintenance of his Legislators. Remain in Light 3 of 5: The Divided Self

Skids awoke, amnesiac, to find himself aboard a mode-locked shuttlecraft flying over a planet. As the shuttle began to transform, Skids—trusting his instincts—reset the mode lock, pointed the shuttle at the planet's surface, and bailed out.

The explosive crash of the shuttle destroying one of its three component bots. The two remainders transformed into their massive robot forms and, toting swords and repeating the phrase "Nineteen eighty-four", advanced relentlessly to attack Skids. The wayward theoretician magnetized the corpse of Polaris and attached it to one of the Legislators, then blew up the body's fuel supply, taking out the giant. When the other kept coming, Skids took it out with an array of built-in weaponry and pit-fighter-worthy moves. Hangers On

Tailgate, who witnessed the battle, would be reminded of the Legislators while learning about an obsolete sub-section of the Autobot Code: specifically, paragraph 19 (80) 4 dealt with thought warfare, a threat that never materialized... at least as far as Ultra Magnus knew. How Ratchet Got His Hands Back

Upon reaching the fabled Crystal City of the Circle of Light, the crew of the Lost Light found it had been utterly razed. While tapping into the brain module of the Metrotitan beneath the ruins, Chromedome saw from its memories that the Legislators had abducted the entire populace. You, Me, and Other Revelations

An army of Legislators would later attack the Lost Light upon its discovery of Luna 1, under the direction of Chief Justice Tyrest. The crew was overwhelmed by the sudden assault, despite their best efforts. House of Ambus

The Legislators acted as guards throughout Tyrest's base. After Cyclonus and Whirl freed the Circle, they found themselves confronted by a vast army of the drones. At the same time, as part of Tyrest's new Pre-Emptive Execution clause, a Legislator crushed the head of Minimus Ambus. Remain in Light 3 of 5: The Divided Self

Notes

• The name "Legislators" was originally revealed in the concept art for the robots, published in the first trade paperback volume for the series.