Quintesson
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The Quintessons are an ancient alien race. They are mostly mechanical beings, there are several types. The apparent leaders, The Judges, main features being a spherical body lined with five faces and tentacles along the bottom. Each face seems to have a separate personality.
Other types of Quintesson include an anthropomorphic squid-like mechanoid, and a mantis-like executioner.
Animated series
In ages long past, a cold and emotionless race of aliens called the Quintessons created 2 lines of sentient robots on a planet-sized factory known as Cybertron. One was a line of robots designed for domestic duties and labor (known as Autobots) and another line designed for military use (known as Decepticons). The Quintessons were exceptionally cruel to their creations, eventually leading to wide-spread rebellion, a rebellion started by the Autobot A3. Forced to flee the planet, the Quintessons eventually settled on the small, twisted planet of Quintessa, but fostered an undying hatred of all Transformers for millions of years.
The Quintessons first appeared in 2005 during the events of Transformers: The Movie, where they are shown to capture prisoners for trial and feeding to their army of Sharkticons. The mock trials held by the Quintesson Court seemed to have no purpose at all, as even when the Judge determined the plaintiff to be innocent, they were still immediately fed to the ravenous Sharkticons.
One (or possibly 5, depending on who you ask) years after the defeat of Unicron, the Quintessons re-appeared. They first sent a commando team of Sharkticons to abduct various Autobots (as well as Spike Witwicky, though that may have been unintentional). Upon capturing the 'bots, the Quintessons seemed more interesting in interrogating their prisoners then feeding them to the Sharkticons. However, they eventually did find the captured Transformers to be guilty of the crime of... being Transformers (Spike was guilty by association).
After Rodimus and the Aerialbots mounted a rescue for their captive friends, the Quintessons attempted to kill the would-be rescuers by destroying the entire planet of Quintessa. After this plan failed, the surviving Quintessons made an alliance with the newly revived Galvatron to attack Cybertron (in return for the fictional Decepticon Matrix of Leadership.
The Quintessons betrayed Galvatron almost immediately after the battle had been won, toggling a switch which caused all Transformers the Galaxy over to literally freeze where they stood. Luckily, Spike stopped the Quintessons before they had much a chance to do anything. Despite their betrayal (and the fact that they almost killed him), Galvatron remained an ally.
Later plots by the Quintessons were no less nefarious. A rogue Quintesson scientist abducted several Transformers and a human for behavioral study, revived the deceased Optimus Prime in an attempt to lure all the Autobots into a trap (which nearly succeeded). Later still, the Quintessons attempted to rewrite history by preventing their loss of Cybertron (which nearly resulted in the very fabric of Time being destroyed).
During the events of The Return of Optimus Prime, a single Quintesson was captured by Sky Lynx to repair the body of Optimus Prime.