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Every four vorns (or 332 human years) the Decepticons hold an election to choose their leader; an honest election where the candidate with the most votes wins, which always happens to be Megatron. Of course, his opponents are carefully chosen to be easily defeated, comically inept strawmen that make Megatron look good simply because he’s not them (though not so inept as to become the stars of the election). Thus the Decepticon populace feels that they’ve both made an impact on society AND have successfully identified and routed out deceivers in their midst. Technically, not untrue…
This year, the opposing candidates are:

Octus is a proponent of manifest destiny, that the Decepticons have the sole right to the entire cosmos. Anyone who gets in the way gets exterminated (or at least kicked off the planet). Under his reign all Decepticons would have to join the armed forces in order to become a “true” citizen, not earning their full rights until they do so.
Of course Octus himself is infamously lazy and hedonistic, in sharp contrast of his idealized warrior-citizen, though he attests that his alien tank mode’s weaponry are more than capable of compensating. Not that he’d ever voluntarily join the battle line.

Scorponok would instead prefer to work with the universes other inhabitants, even going so far as to grant full citizenry to anyone who so much as visits a Decepticon-occupied planet. Scorponok has especially close ties with one organic world in particular, though he is quick to assure his fellow robotic comrades that he’s still loyal to the cause.
Scorponok has launched a number of exotic building projects, allegedly “for the economy” (though it often seems to benefit non-Transformer workers…). His latest plan seems to concern a massive fortress of some type, with himself as the head. But of course, he designed the thing and is running for Leader, why wouldn’t he be in charge?
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Went thru quite a few ideas for this one. At one point I considered Sky-Byte and Scourge, as they'd be so focused on each other Megatron would be politically unscathed -- but given who everyone remembers from the old Robots in Disguise toon I quickly changed my mind. So I went with obscure-but-sorta-memorable Decepticon Leaders.

You may have guessed (or known) that Octus turns into a Dalek. Scorponok, on the other hand, turns into a tree harvester, specifically the Plustech Walking Harvester.
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Description
Every four vorns (or 332 human years) the Decepticons hold an election to choose their leader; an honest election where the candidate with the most votes wins, which always happens to be Megatron. Of course, his opponents are carefully chosen to be easily defeated, comically inept strawmen that make Megatron look good simply because he’s not them (though not so inept as to become the stars of the election). Thus the Decepticon populace feels that they’ve both made an impact on society AND have successfully identified and routed out deceivers in their midst. Technically, not untrue…
This year, the opposing candidates are:

Octus is a proponent of manifest destiny, that the Decepticons have the sole right to the entire cosmos. Anyone who gets in the way gets exterminated (or at least kicked off the planet). Under his reign all Decepticons would have to join the armed forces in order to become a “true” citizen, not earning their full rights until they do so.
Of course Octus himself is infamously lazy and hedonistic, in sharp contrast of his idealized warrior-citizen, though he attests that his alien tank mode’s weaponry are more than capable of compensating. Not that he’d ever voluntarily join the battle line.

Scorponok would instead prefer to work with the universes other inhabitants, even going so far as to grant full citizenry to anyone who so much as visits a Decepticon-occupied planet. Scorponok has especially close ties with one organic world in particular, though he is quick to assure his fellow robotic comrades that he’s still loyal to the cause.
Scorponok has launched a number of exotic building projects, allegedly “for the economy” (though it often seems to benefit non-Transformer workers…). His latest plan seems to concern a massive fortress of some type, with himself as the head. But of course, he designed the thing and is running for Leader, why wouldn’t he be in charge?
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Went thru quite a few ideas for this one. At one point I considered Sky-Byte and Scourge, as they'd be so focused on each other Megatron would be politically unscathed -- but given who everyone remembers from the old Robots in Disguise toon I quickly changed my mind. So I went with obscure-but-sorta-memorable Decepticon Leaders.

You may have guessed (or known) that Octus turns into a Dalek. Scorponok, on the other hand, turns into a tree harvester, specifically the Plustech Walking Harvester.
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My Art Website
Redbubble Shop