Predacon Council

The three-member Predacon Council is in charge of the Predacons. Their identities are unknown to most Predacons, who can only speculate about their masters.

Fiction

2001 Robots in Disguise cartoon

The Predacon Council sent Megatron to find and take control of the monolithic Autobot warrior Fortress Maximus. Surprise Attack! Megatron refused to return to face the Council without having first destroyed the Autobots. Mystery of the Ultra Magnus

Shark Sonnets

One iteration of Sky-Byte who ended up in Axiom Nexus admitted to being unaware of the Council's agendas or make-up, only knowing that there were three of them. He believed Megatron to be a peer of the Councillors. Shark Sonnets, 2015/10/25

Notes

• The idea of the Predacon Council is likely derived from the Tripredacus Council from the Beast Wars series (and "Shark Sonnets" cheekily added that there were three on this Council in 2015). The Predacon Council is a dub-original invention and does not exist in the Japanese version of Car Robots.
• The existence of a Predacon governing body of superior authority to Megatron (and to which he is a loyal subordinate) seems at odds with how Megatron is portrayed in the rest of the series. Up until first mentioning the Predacon Council's existence, the Robots in Disguise cartoon depicts Megatron as if he is the sole leader of the entire Predacon faction. The series repeatedly states his main goal of conquering the universe all for himself, and introduces him as having already conquered several planets. Fortress Maximus is even stated to have been sent to Earth in the ancient past in order to protect the planet from Megatron. All this was likely meant to cast Robots in Disguise Megatron in a similar light to the two Megatrons who came before him, both of whom were self-serving and had no higher authority above them that they were loyal to (the same is even true of "Gigatron" in the original Japanese version). It seems the Predacon Council was added to the dub simply to give a surprise twist to Megatron's true reasons for coming to Earth for the sheer sake of it, in the form of another Beast Wars reference squeezed into the series so late into its run.