Black Block Consortia

The Black Block Consortia is an organization from theIDW portionof theGeneration 1 continuity family.

TheBlack Block Consortiaused to be part of theGalactic Council.They're a lot more aggressive than their parent organization.

Fiction

2005 IDW continuity

According toWipe-Out,the Black Block Consortia seceded from the Galactic Council but kept the same philosophy, i.e. exploiting unsuspecting inhabited worlds for resources as part of a protection racket against the galaxy's mechanical races. The Council was...displeased at losing some of their market share and the two factions began a turf war.An Axe to Break the Ice

Upon encountering thousands ofAmmoniteson the planetHydrophena,Ultra Magnusasked if they were affiliated with the Galactic Council or the Black Block Consortia. In reply, they attacked him.Into the Abyss

The Consortia were involved in a three-way battle with the Galactic Council and theDecepticon Justice Divisionover the wreckage of the duplicateLost LightnearOfsted XVII.Births, Deaths, and Interventions

At some point, the Black Block Consortia discovered a Transformer civilization founded byPrion,one of the thirteen lostTitans.They attacked the planet and wiped out almost every mechanical life-form, leavingNickelas the sole survivor.The Permanent RevolutionWhen visiting the site,Sentinel Primecalled them merciless as he explained toOptimus Primewhat had happened to the planet.White Light

Needing space in theBenzene Clusterfor hisGod Gun,theGrand Architectbred a series of technorganic sleeper agents,Animalsand had them infiltrate the Black Block Consortia, turning the organization into a puppet state.Farsickness

OnTroja Major,AnodeandLughad a run-in with Consortia troops after breaking into a coffin-filled compound. Afterone of the coffinsturned out to be a disguised Transformer, the Black Block arrived, demanded that the two hand it over, and then gunned it down anyways when they refused. Anode and Lug escaped with the help of Wipe-Out. Elsewhere, the three briefly wondered if the Black Block Consortia were the ones hunting downblacksmithsbut dismissed the possibility because the mech they'd killed hadn't been a blacksmith and they hadn't simply shot Anode with it. Wipe-Out also explained to his time lost friends what the Consortia was.An Axe to Break the IceThe Consortia took possession of the corpse before the Infinite healed himself from death.Flamelater recovered the Infinite and "had words" with the Consortia.Chasing the Infinite

As theFunctionistavatar of Primus was soon to arrive, the Architect ordered the Consortia to war with the Galactic Council over ownership of Benzene. The fighting was so intense that the planetFrayushad to be evacuated.Filling the Blanks

When theProtectobotscaught up with theLost Light,Getawayclaimed the ship's radio silence was to avoid alerting the Consortia to their presence.Miragequestioned this, believing the region of space belonged to the Galactic Council whereuponAtomizerexplained the Consortia was massing on the far side of the Benzene which made them an obstacle on theLost Light's quest to reachCyberutopia.Full CircleThe two organic armies eventually made planetfall on Frayus to continue their feud only forNickel's Decepticon cell to arrive on the planet withLiokaiserbeating back the organics.Journey's End

After her run in with Flame, theCatharsianMengelfled toAgonizer.The Consortia troops on Troja Major eventually caught up with Mengel and messily ended her as part of the Architect's tying up of loose ends.The Ties That Bind

AfterMederihad been transported to the sterilized Benzene, the Consortia troops surrounded the crew of theLost Light,having been unwittingly dragged along via the rift in theWarren.Before they could fire however, Rodimus andNauticaconvinced the Architect to spare them and he invited them aboard hisWorldsweeper.Farsickness

When the faux-Primus arrived, it was flanked by a fleet ofFunctionary-crewed warships. Alongside the Infinites and thePhantom Fleet,the Consortia moved to engage only for their ships to prove woefully weaker than those of the Functionaries, being quickly destroyed.The Unremembering

The Functionist Universe

Inan alternate timeline,the BlackBoxConsortia had been at war with the Functionist-controlled Cybertron for two million years. In order to make peace, it was publicly claimed that the Functionists soldLuna 2to the Consortia,The Custom-Made Nowbut that would ultimately emerge as a lie told bySix-of-Twelveto cover up his secret retrofitting of the moon into giant harvester unit.Bad Moon Rising

Six-of-Twelve's genocidal attack on the city ofAdapticausing the moon was covered up as a Consortia attack to absolve the Council of guilt and keep the populace in a perpetual state of xenophobic fear.This Machine Kills Fascists

Notes

• The Black "Box" spelling originated as a typo that James Roberts decided to keep as a distinguishing marker between the two timelines.
• A footnote inLost Light#4describes the Black Box Consortia as "galactic peacekeepers/extortionists".
• Considering Anode's unfamiliarity with the group, the Consortia likely split from the Galactic Council sometime in the last 500 years before 2017.