Ammonite

The Ammonites are a faction of robots from the IDW portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.

The Ammonites are a race of transforming and combining robots who have been at war with their sworn enemies, the Terradores, for sixteen million years. The Galactic Council was formed in response to their conflict, and specifically an event known as the Great Shattering.

Fiction

At some point a group of Ammonites infiltrated the crew of the Vis Vitalis posing as the Autobot Paddox, in order to pass secrets and weapons technology back to their own people.

While taking shore leave on the planet Hedonia, Whirl and Skids encountered a group of Ammonites. After a brief bragging match in which the Autobots found themsleves hopelessly outclassed, they settled down for a drink together and learned that the Ammonites were on Hedonia to keep a low profile and looking to buy a new ship to throw the Terradores off their trail. When they were interrupted by the arrival of a Terradorian warcruiser carrying their leader Imperious Drax, Whirl simply marched outside and killed him on the spot, showing the Ammonites how to bring sixteen million years of war to an end.

Following the assassination of the Terradorian leader, the Ammonites organised for one final big push against the disorganised Terradores. Aboard the Lost Light with Thunderclash's crew, Paddox revealed his true nature and attempted to sieze the ship, with the intention of taking its quantum generators back to the Ammonites to vastly improve their spacefaring technology. He was eventually defeated when Swerve knocked him into his component Ammonites with Rung's alternate mode. Little Victories

Notes

• Unbeknownst to the Transformers, they are popularly known as the Evil Ammonites (as opposed to the Heroic Terradores) and as such are analagous to the Decepticons.
• In real life, Ammonites are either an excinct species of mollusc or an ancient tribe from Biblical times.