Chief Justice
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With the power to make and enforce the law, the position of Chief Justice is an extremely powerful one within Cybertronian society and as such its holder is denoted by a golden headpiece.
Fiction
2005 IDW continuity
The longest serving Chief Justice was Tyrest who was elevated to the position by Optimus Prime after establishing the Tyrest Accord, a cross-faction treaty designed to prevent Transformer technology falling into the hands of other races. House of Ambus During his tenure, Tyrest created the "immortal lawman" Ultra Magnus to act as his Duly Appointed Enforcer, The Divided Self appointed a panel of Autobots to work on the Magnus Inquiry, an investigation regarding the origins of Gideon's Glue Bullets and created the Aequitas computer, which was used in Autobot war criminal trials to calculate the guilt of the accused. House of Ambus These trials would lead Tyrest to the realisation that all of the defendants were constructed cold, a process for which he was personally responsible and so he retreated to the supposedly lost Luna 1 to engineer a universal killswitch that, when triggered, would eliminate every Matrix-born spark in the cosmos. The Divided Self He was almost successful in this genocide but was ultimately thwarted at the last second by the crew of the Lost Light. This Calamitous Life
Optimus Prime later presided as Chief Justice over Megatron's trial at the Raskol Arena on Luna 2. Towards Peace Megatron raised complaints about his nemesis being given the final say on his sentence. Predestination: A Beginner's Guide
