Tripredacus Council
- The Tripredacus Council is a group of Predacons from the Beast Era of the Generation 1 continuity family.
The Tripredacus Council is one of the many ruling bodies of the fractured Predacon Alliance. They meet in secret in undisclosed locations, and plot the return of the Predacons to glory, though under their terms. They choose to wait and grow strong before attacking...
Many Predacons are impatient, and their strategy has led to some rogue behavior among the Predacon ranks. To neutralise the rogues and (in public) keep the Pax Cybertronia, the Council uses the Predacon Secret Police and its Covert Agents.
One of their agents, Tarantulas, suggests that, like himself and unlike the rest of the Predacons, the Tripredacus Council are not descended from the Decepticons trapped on Earth. Instead, they may have extradimensional origins, be linked to the Cybertronian Empire, or may be, in fact, creations of Unicron himself...
The three members of the Tripredacus Council are:
They can combine to form Tripredacus.
Their known affiliates and agents include:
Fiction
Beast Wars cartoon continuity
The Razor's Edge
After a Predacon insurrection led by Flamewar in the guise of Megatron arose in the J'kozian sector, the Tripredacus Council discussed it and decided to leak the insurrection's presence on Nibari to the Maximals so they would take care of the Council's renegade problem. The Razor's Edge
Descent into Evil
The Tripredacus Council employed Flamewar to check on Deathsaurus's operation on Ceti Alpha Seven. As Flamewar reported on the apparent success of Deathsaurus's Virulent Clones, Bumblebee hacked in the feed and informed everyone of the impeding failure built into the Clones. To rid themselves of an exposed agent, the Tripredacus Council remotely exploded Flamewar's ship with her in it. Descent into Evil
Dawn of Future's Past
The Tripredacus Council killed Razorclaw to seize control of the Predacons from him. Razorclaw's Timelines toy bio
Beast Wars cartoon
Renegades like Megatron sneered at the Council for kowtowing to the Maximal Elders. The Council actually had been using this as cover for their slow, secret rearming. The Agenda (Part 1)
The Council placed Lt. Tarantulas of the Predacon Secret Police, a direct agent of theirs, in Megatron's organization as a spy. The Agenda (Part 2) They were aware of his plan to go back into prehistory and intended for Tarantulas to hijack it, so he could completely destroy the Ark and its inhabitants. As they did not have Autobot or Decepticon origins, the Council would be spared the resulting timestorm and would take control of an altered Cybertron. Their own goal was galactic conquest. Other Victories
Unfortunately for them, Megatron escaped Cybertron in the Darksyde anyway, and caused a Maximal craft to go MIA in the process. The Council suffered diplomatic repercussions over this.
Later, the transwarp wavefront caused by the destruction of the Planet Buster eventually reached Cybertronian space in the Beast Era, hitting Predacon Command Outpost One, causing a severe power outage. The council apparently convened on the station immediately afterward, where they noted that the transwarp wave's signature matched that of the Darksyde, thus meaning that Megatron still functioned and was still carrying out his agenda. In order to prevent the Maximals from discovering this, they detonated a satellite somewhere near Cybertron, dispersing the wave before it reached the planet. They then dispatched Covert Agent Ravage in a prototype transwarp cruiser to track the wave to its point of origin and terminate Megatron "with extreme prejudice". The Agenda (Part 1)
When pressed by Megatron, Ravage admitted he was also meant to kill all the Maximals in the Beast Wars, as the Council wanted nobody coming back to Cybertron and embarrassing it. The Agenda (Part 2)
IDW Beast Wars comics
General Cicadacon, who was suspected of being so old he dated back to the Decepticons, was the Councillor who drafted the Council's long-term strategy of secretly rearming, under the noses of the Maximals. Beast Wars Sourcebook
The council summoned Magmatron to their tower and ordered him to ensure that the Maximals did not have knowledge of the transwarp wave. The Gathering #1 They believed that the Predacons must wait for the appropriate moment to strike. Many Predacons, however, tired of this strategy. A short time later, after the failure of their first agent, Ravage, the council sent Magmatron to capture Megatron. The Gathering #2
Apelinq's War Journals
The rogue Megatron came back to Cybertron and began a series of terrorist incidents, which rapidly increased in scale. After the bombing of New Cybertropolis spaceport, the Tripredacus Council called for martial law. It was to no avail: Megatron took out everyone on the planet. Apelinq's War Journals
Beast Wars: Uprising
Preditron founded the Tripredacus Council, but he himself was usurped. Head Games
Games
Transformers: Beast Wars Transmetals
In one timeline, they hired Blackarachnia as a double agent.
In another, Tarantulas returned to them and informed them of the discovery of the Ark on Earth. They promoted him and gave him command of a hundred-strong battle fleet, tasked to go back to the Beast Wars and carry out their grand scheme... Transformers: Beast Wars Transmetals
Notes
- The names of the Tripredacus Council members are taken from the script of "The Agenda (Part 1)", which used to be hosted on Ben Yee's website.
- Larry DiTillio and Bob Forward never got around to thinking up the "different origin" of the Council. They may have gone with them being descendants of the Cybertronian Empire.[1] Other creators have taken Megatron's insult of "Unicron's spawn" at Tarantulas as literal.
Foreign names
- Japanese: Trypticon Hyōgikai (トリプティコン評議会 Toriputikon Hyōgikai, "Trypticon Council")
