#chompazoids

The Chomapzoid enforcer chassis model resulted from a time of increasing cruelty by the upper classes in response to rebellion, and the elites going through a cultural phase similar to the X-treme 90s of Earth’s United States of America

Chompazoid were unleashed to destroy protest groups and homeless camps, often arriving suddenly from the sky using a flight-capable alternate mode. While the standard models were engineered to not have a taste for eating cybertronians (at least in one piece) due to “too many conflicting flavors”, the rumors of them devouring dissenters at least temporarily had a chilling effect on many. 

They started becoming less popular over time as enforcers due to their rampages erasing evidence that could be used to ensnare more activists.

Following the end of the so-called Golden Age, many Chompazoids faced understandable discrimination due to being former enforcers. Due to maintenance costs of flight modes and not having flight-mode specialized self-repair systems, most converted to terrestrial alt modes if they did not already have one.

Some of the most successful at breaking through discrimination became athletes in gladiator arenas or racetracks. 

Others went into construction work, taking on forms of cranes or bulldozers. Still others had their digestive or sensory systems further altered, becoming trash-eating janitors or crime scene investigators

Addendum

Later generations of chompazoids ,or their spiritual descendents would appear due to the chassis being used for guard duty without infringing on stringent laws forbidding combat alt modes among civilians. It was not unheard of for a member of a village to be rebuilt with chompazoid parts, or for a community to spark an unused chompazoid chassis found in storage.

Dear Chompazoid Champion,

Shockwave created the first Chompazoids after the fall of Cybertron, a side project that he worked on for many years in the ruins of Nuon City. While his earlier experiments—on the Insecticons, the Dinobots, the Forged—attempted to graft genetic information onto a living test subject, the Chompazoid project was far more ambitious—he attempted to create a hybrid, a superior organism that drew upon the strengths of multiple different Cybertronian organisms. Though the Chompazoids used the Dinobot “genome” as a base, Shockwave spliced in many traits from other lifeforms. Thanks to an infusion of Predacon CNA, for instance, they would be born with a powerful internal fusion reactor—not to breathe fire, but to burn up inorganic material and turn it into pure energy. Their jaws—a mixture of Sharkticon and Scraplet—would allow them to chew through solid durabyllium, and their modified brain modules would fill their minds with the mindless, all-consuming hunger of the Insecticons. Finally, his creations received the Cybertronian ability to transform into vehicles and machinery—but when the last of the energon he'd allocated for the project ran out, Shockwave put his specimens into cryogenic storage and turned his attention back to the less energy-intensive task of simply cloning a new Predacon.

After the end of the war, Cybertronians began resettling the city of Nuon, which had been left comparatively intact by the war—until an Autobot cleanup crew that consisted of Vectorium, Catapult, Sledgehammer, and Stormsong stumbled upon Shockwave’s backup lab quite by accident. When they thoughtlessly deactivated the stasis chambers keeping the newborn Chompazoids under control, the onrushing brood promptly devoured the four and escaped captivity. The Chompazoids were far smarter than Shockwave had intended, and proved able to outhink, outwit, and outfight their pursuers; the largest and most intelligent Chompazoid, a hulking brute by the name of “Underbite,” rampaged through Nuon for hours, eating everything in sight before the Cybertronian provisional government could martial a coordinated response—it took Ultra Magnus, Bulkhead, Ripraw, and all four Dinobots to finally subdue and arrest him. Ever the braggart, Underbite became inordinately proud of his famous rampage and boasted endlessly about it to everyone who crossed his path.

As for the other Chompazoids… well, I am sorry to say many did indeed succumb to their primal instincts and turned to villainy in an attempt to sate their hunger. This is not to say that all Chompazoids are inherently evil, of course, and many successfully integrated themselves into Cybertronian society before Cyclonus staged his coup. The Chompazoid Molar, for instance, became a kind and supportive mentor as part of Cybertron’s provisional tutelage system.