Autobot High Council

The Autobot High Council, also known as the Autobot Council of Elders or simply as the High Council, is a governing body among the Autobots of the Transformers franchise in several continuities.

History

Generation 1

Animated series

Though not featured or mentioned in The Transformers, the council was noted as having a continuation/succession of sorts in the form of the Maximal Council of Elders.

UK Comic Series

The council's membership included Emirate Xaaron, Traachon, and Tomaandi.

Animated

Animated series

In Transformers: Animated, Cybertron was ruled over by a council that included Ultra Magnus, Alpha Trion, and other high-ranking Cybertronians.

Aligned Continuity

Animated series

In Robots in Disguise, the Autobot High Council rules over Cybertron. They are known to have dispatched Jazz to Earth after Bumblebee's unauthorizied departure, and to have placed a bounty on him that Fracture and Drift both attempted to collect.

Books

In Transformers: The Covenant of Primus and Transformers: Exodus, the High Council were the leaders of Cybertron following the expulsion of the Quintessons, and included such notables as Soundwave, Sentinel Prime, and Elita One. However, the council enforced the caste system that led to Cybertron's decline, and was still in power when the Decepticons under Megatron rose up and began the Great War. While the majority of the council, led by Halogen, voted to make Orion Pax a Prime and gave him the name of Optimus, some members-including Ratbat and Contrail-sided with the Decepticons.