[Video] - Bugs bugs bugs, but they glow, so it's like Christmas spirit?

[angleofscience]

[The video comes on to Jetfire frowning thoughtfully at one of his hands, held up and... apparently crawling with pinpoints of moving lights. He shakes it, and there's a veritable cloud of winking lights exploding in all directions.

Some of them fly past the screen close enough to reveal they're tiny, dragonfly-like metal bugs. That glow.]

There was an accident, and the thirty of these that I had contained in my lab and were developing were let out. It seems their replication matrix is working, because they're certainly not thirty any longer.

I apologise if they are a... er, nuisance.

I am rather sure I can hazard a guess from a few cycles of observing that the replication matrix is working correctly though, since while they've become more as a response to the greater space available outside of the lab, I believe they're not replicating completely out of hand.

[He shakes his helm slowly, dislodging a crowd tiny bugs that has landed on his helm and nasal ridge.]

Hopefully they'll... spread outside of Haven soon.

Comments

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[pendragon]

I am curious as to what these are being developed for.

[ Have a somewhat annoyed knight, being swarmed by a bunch of these.. metal dragonflies as she is venturing through Vector's quadrant to get a view of these Badlands she has heard so much about. She's not annoyed at the creator, but that doesn't mean she's not curious as to the purpose of these things.

Surely they have something of a purpose rather than flying around and glowing? ]

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[angleofscience]

The beginning of a basic natural system. They don't consume energon, but rather what... well, I suppose could be compared to waste products. It was surprisingly simple to make them capable of getting the energy they needed out of that.

Given that the planet is otherwise empty, it was an... ah, attempt at giving more life within a natural pattern.

[Jetfire shrugs, dipping his helm in apology. She does seem to be rather... mobbed. Not that he has any idea why they'd do that merely because she's getting close to the outer edge of Haven.]

[pendragon]

How efficient.

[ Saber is impressed. The idea of making these critters so they can eat waste and also add some life to the somewhat dead Haven..

She notices the apologetic gesture. Her armored hand is lifted to wave off the notion, and at the same time, a few of the dragonflies. ]

No need to apologize. It was an accident. However, I would like your name. I'm called Saber.

[ Eventually, Saber will have officially introduced herself to everyone on this planet. Someday. ]

[angleofscience]

[Some more life had been part of the intention as well, but Jetfire hadn't wanted to try his hand at something more complex.]

If it works as intended. I'm quite sure they will, since they did avoid the samples of pure energon they were presented with, but a controlled lab situation isn't precisely the same as a controlled environment mimicking what would presently pass for a more natural setting.

[Now it's slightly too late.]

Of course. My designation is Jetfire.

[pendragon]

Well met.

[ Nodding, the knight lowers the raised hand. She's able to ignore the flies swarming around her quite well. She doesn't even seem to notice them anymore. ]

If anything, this is the ultimate test for them. I hope your creation succeeds.

[ Saber doesn't mind inconvenience if it's for a noble cause. ]

[angleofscience]

Ah, yes, quite.

[He smiles slightly and nods, the motion dislodging a lot of bugs again. The angle of the video is wide enough to show that there's quite a lot of them sitting lined up along the edge of his wings as well.]

I would merely have preferred to make at least one more test, more controlled than simply releasing them all... If the replication matrix had been wronly attuned, this could have been a catastrophe.