Functionist Council
The Functionist Council are the twelve Cybertronians who regulate functionism: the social practice/religious belief that your class and job should be dependent on your alt mode. From their headquarters, they discuss any changes and oversee the Grand Cybertronian Taxonomy that explains how everyone fits into the social order.
This power is definitely not abused. (Look, just nod and agree, I think they're watching)
Members
- One-of-Twelve: Convener
- Two-of-Twelve: Auditor
- Three-of-Twelve: Authenticator
- Four-of-Twelve: Moderator
- Five-of-Twelve: Enumerator
- Six-of-Twelve: Enactor
- Seven-of-Twelve: Curator
- Eight-of-Twelve: Disseminator
- Nine-of-Twelve: Inquisitor
- Ten-of-Twelve: Evaluator
- Eleven-of-Twelve: Mediator
- Twelve-of-Twelve: Castigator
Fiction
Under the Council's edicts, the rare Transformers were the elite and the most ubiquitous were the disposable class (Few of the D-class had rights until Dominus Ambus challenged the system.) Before & After "Every shape has its purpose", they claimed How to Say Goodbye and Meant It, and this meant you had to do the job that your alt-mode 'implied'. The Council sold this as the best for everyone's peace of mind, asking who'd want medical care from an artillery Transformer or if workers would feel comfortable mining with a data stick. This was defended as part of the Guiding Hand's grand plan. Births, Deaths, and Interventions If you were an "outlier" with abilities that had nothing to do with an alt mode? Better make sure the Counci never heard about you. Shadowplay, Part 2: Patternism
If you were intellectual class you could be alt-mode exempt.Post Hoc If you performed a service that really made the Council happy, you were declared alt-mode exempt by them (as happened to Senator Momus). A Functionary Calls
Rung was a major threat to the Functionary Council as he didn't turn into anything they could identify. After a barrage of tests, they gave up, put "Ornament" in the Taxonomy, and told him to wear a fake wheel so as to "reassure" people. Little Victories
They were a particular bugbear of Megatron, who wrote that the Council had pulled the Taxonomy out of their arse and were using it to keep Cybertronians divided and stratified. This message spread wildly on Cybertron: many Transformers, especially the manual class, had become sick of alt mode segregation. Births, Deaths, and Interventions Shadowplay, Part 2: Patternism The first Decepticon activists were arrested outside the Council's building in Iacon. Post Hoc
The Functionist Council met their end during the Great War The Custom-Made Now and in the present day, their main contribution was when Rewind ironically repeated their slogan to defend his choice to stay a memory stick. How to Say Goodbye and Meant It
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When Brainstorm altered the timeline, he created a Cybertron where the Functionist Council had slowly but surely conquered the planet: the intellectual class outlawed, the Senate overthrown, the "knock-offs" deported, dissidents turned into flatheads with no ability to speak, and Functionary enforcers on every corner. Obsolence chips planted in everyone's head so that when their theoconomists agreed an alt-mode had no further use, the Council could issue a "mass recall". At their peak, they wiped out the memory sticks (despite the theoconomist rulings) so nobody could use stored data against them and began having everyone's optics turned into cameras so that everyone would be watching everyone forever. The Custom-Made Now
Notes
- In "The Custom-Made Now", they have a floating base: the Cog. When this was built (and if it existed in the regular time) isn't yet known. In "Shadowplay", they just had a building.
- All of the councillors have the same bodyshape and blank, one-optic heads. (They don't appear to be empurata victims though)