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Quintessons in the Generation 1 Continuum are cybernetic beings that, in cartoon continuity, are responsible for creating the Transformers. Using Cybertron as a factory to produce consumer goods and military hardware robots - the lineal ancestors of the Autobots and Decepticons - the Quintessons programmed their robots with a rudimentary intelligence, to allow them to carry out their tasks on their own, so the Quintessons would have to do nothing other than live in leisure. But what they failed to realise was that their robots had developed sentience and real feelings - they could tell the difference between freedom and slavery, and they struck back against their masters. The Quintessons created the Dark Guardians (which would later become the Guardian Robots), but a device created by the robot, A-3, shut them down, allowing the robots to claim the upper hand, eventually forcing the Quintessons off the planet.
Scattered throughout the galaxy in groups, one particular group of Quintessons took up residence on a world they named Quintessa. Here, they put many unfortunate robots they captured to trial, subjecting them to a twisted form of justice as they sought retribution for the theft of Cybertron. Innocent or guilty, the verdict is always the same - death.
There are several different types of Quintesson, but the most commonly-thought-of breed when referring to the race are the Judges. They have semi-cylyndrical bodies supported by a beam of anti-gravity energy, and, most distinctively, they each bear five faces, representing a different emotion - Laughter, Rage, Bitterness, Doubt and the infamous face of Death. Judges would be the breed of Quintesson most commonly encountered by the Transformers, with one particular group of them making several attempts to retake Cybertron.
In their coutroom proceedings, the Quintessons employed other types of their race, including snout-faced "bailiffs," an "executioner," who threw the switch to drop victoms into the Sharkticon (see below) pit, and multi-tentacled "prosecutors." To carry out their sentences, the Quintessons had a race of their own creation, the Sharkticons, unintelligent, rotund robots that could transform into amphibious, fanged monsters. Other transforming servants used by the Quintessons could assume alligator-like forms, though they were never given an official name besides "Quintesson Guards" (perhaps implying that they, unlike Sharkticons, actually were members of the Quintesson race). They have, in some fan circles, been unofficially named Alligatorcons, Gatorcons, and, by Dreamwave Comics, Allicons.
More unique breeds of Quintesson include a single-faced scientist called Inquirata, who sought to prevent the rebellion in the past by altering history, and another scientist of the same body type who captured Ultra Magnus, Cyclonus , Wreck-Garr and Marissa Faireborn for study. A completely unique, multi-faced Quintesson scientist was also introduced as the creator of the Trans-Organics, the Quintessons' first attempt to create a subservient cybernetic lifeform. Also of note was the Quintesson criminal, Mara-Al-Utha, who was convicted of the crime of pracitising sorcery, and banished to the mystical otherdimensional realm of Menonia.
The Quintessons did not appear in the American comic book series, aside from in the comic adaptations of " " and the episode, "The Big Broadcast of 2006." They did, however, feature in ther "Transformers Universe" profile books, where they are implicated as being servants of Unicron. This was never followed up on in any continuity, however, and certainly did not apply to the UK comics, where the Quintessons feaured in the story, "Space Pirates," which saw them target Cybertron for colonisation.
In the 2004 animated series, Energon, set in a parallel universe, a character named Alpha-Q , or 'Alpha Quintesson' appears. Similar in appearance to the G1 Quintessons in that he has tentacles and four faces (modelled in part on the faces of the G1 Quintessons), he is not a true Quintesson, but rather, a being from a planet consumed by Unicron who built a new body for himself while trapped within the planet-eater.
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