"'Deserving' is rarely a useful metric in world government. Certainly only a few well-placed politicians benefited under the Senate -- but only mercenaries and arms manufacturers benefited from the chaos that followed. With no unified coalition to step into the power vacuum left by the Senate, one might argue that a civil war was inevitable. Certainly it seemed so at the time."

Now you've done it, Purple. This is Tarantula's area of special interest and he can easily talk about it for hours.

"This is not to say the Senate were undeserving of being removed, of course. They'd been puppets of the Functionist Council for millions of years by that point, and I'm the last person you'll ever hear defending Functionism this side of Megatron himself, hyeh hyeh hyeh!"