Convoy Council
- The Convoy Council is the ruling Maximal body during the Beast Wars Neo portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.
Tens of thousands of years into the future, the Convoy Council (コンボイ評議会 Konboi Hyōgikai) are the ruling triumvirate of the Maximals on Cybertron. They commune with the mega-computer Vector Sigma and carry out its will, handing down orders to generals of a Convoy ranking. The foremost member of the council is Great Convoy.
They've got some snazzy robes.
Fiction
Beast Wars Neo cartoon
The Convoy Council assigned Big Convoy with the task of training a fresh batch of new recruits. Big Convoy was notoriously anti-social and a bit of a psycho. The Convoy Council believed that by surrounding him with rowdy youngsters, Big Convoy might learn how to make friends. Big Convoy, Move Out
During an adventure on the planet Godbless, the power of an Angolmois capsule, amplified by Saberback's black magic, caused whoever approached it to see the god of their choice. The Maximals began to hallucinate seeing a gigantic member of the Convoy Council, calling itself the "god of the Maximals", which warded them away. They eventually overcame their fear, defeated the vision and secured the capsule. Chase the Mysterious Capsule
When Unicron was reborn, he made his way back to Cybertron to settle an old score with the planet. Great Convoy led a Maximal armada of hundreds of warships against the Chaos God. However, they were all instantly destroyed by Unicron's fiery serpent-mode and Great Convoy was killed in the battle. The fate of the other Convoy Councillors is unknown. Unicron's Ambition
Notes
- The Convoy Council were initially believed to be the Maximal Elders, the ruling body of the Maximals who went unseen in western fiction. This was a consequence of the belief that Big Convoy hailed from the same time period as Optimus Primal and the other Beast Warriors who travelled back in time to prehistoric Earth; in actuality, per Takara's 2007 Japanese Generation 1 cartoon timeline, they hail from tens of thousands of years further into the future.
