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re_alignment2012-12-16 08:51 pm
angleofscience) wrote in re_alignment2012-12-16 08:51 pm
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[Video] - Bugs bugs bugs, but they glow, so it's like Christmas spirit?
[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.
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.
why did I put Blurr up there and not Knock out /)_(\ ooops
[Oh you, scientists.]
They're small and they'll get everywhere, they can still cause trouble. [You don't want to know, Jetfire, but yes there's an story.]That said, it could be worse. you didn't try to make scraplets at least.
Such things happen! /pets
Perhaps, yes. But even here, all we've had so far from anyone... except, I think, one or two, but I'm unsure either of them have met our supposed creator face to face [you have, Jetfire, stop denying it] there's no absolute evidence yet.
But when there is, I would agree that he would exist in all of them, whether or not the inhabitants know.
[Stop forcing him to concede things he doesn't want to, Knock Out! In fact, lets talk about those other things.]
They should, at the least... er, keep out of your inner workings, unless any by-products are easy to get to from there.
... Scraplets?
[He tilts his helm in inquiry, and would prefer if Knock Out perhaps would drop the train of discussion regarding Primus.
He's not quite ready.]thank you <3
[Nope.jpg. Knock Out likes messing with people minds. Philosophical debate is a go.]
They better stay away from my inner workings. For their sake, not mine.
Scraplets. Nasty little things, you never heard of them? Consider yourself lucky.
[Sorry, Jetfire. He will drop it in a bit. Probably.]
c:
What we have are an area of negative influence, planet-side as well as in space, several individuals who have linked "Unicron" to this, and that claims a being... which yes, might be Unicron, exists.
That's all.
[Then he drags a hand down his faceplates and adds a last thing.]
Whatever it is, it's presence is obviously not positive either for us or Cybertron, so in the end what it is or where it comes from or even who is responsible doesn't really matter. [It does remind him of the certainty that something... wrong had been put into motion, back after the debacle in the Well of All Sparks, and the faint similar opressive knowledge when he'd been defrosted.]
No. Either we simply don't have them in my universe, or they've not bothered us for the length of available records.
[Which he knows isn't all of their history, but that's all he has.]
♥
[You look tad stressed, Jetfire. Maybe you need a good buffing.] chances are that if someone ever saw them that was the last thing they saw. I really hope those don't show up here.
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[Have a slightly lop-sided dry smile at that, Knock Out. It's very obvious, isn't it?
And maybe he does need a nice buffing, but getting one...]
Ah, they consume... sparks, or metal, living cybertronian metal in particular, then?
[One or the other, and if it's the first, Jetfire would assume it another name for "sparkeater" which he's seen mentioned on the link. Either possibility sounds distinctly unpleasant, nonetheless.]
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[VERY obvious, yes.]
They eat all sorts living metal and leave nothing behind. Nothing.
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If it's the former, which I'd be inclined to believe since if nothing else there ought to be stories, I would count us lucky, then.
[He shakes his helm slowly.]
Must be a terrifying and painful way to die.
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Dying is never fun.
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No, I doubt it is.
Well, er... I apologise for the inconvenience, but give it a few days and it ought to be over.
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No. I've heard that people comes back from the dead here, though.
It's fine, I had much worse. Just don't try to make anything more dangerous or bigger than that. We don't really need insecticons around here either.
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[It's what makes the most sense to him, either way, though that does probably mean anyone who has died here is... in a new frame entirely.]
Ah... no. [Crossing his arms, Jetfire shakes his helm. Despite this arguable success, he's hardly an intelligence matrix engineer, and something larger would require something more involved, more precise... He wouldn't want to risk it, really.]
I wasn't planning to, given that something this tiny have to, by size restrictions, remain simple. Anything larger would require more intricacy, complexity and thus a greater risk for errors, harmless or dangerous.
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[It makes sense, but Knock Out doesn't quite like it.]
That idea sometimes encourage scientists rather than stop them. [Decepticon scientists, specially.]
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Ahh, yes. I am... familiar with the attitude. [Personally familiar, since it was an opinion he'd held himself once... when he'd been younger. He could say "when he'd been a Decepticon" and that would be true as well, but it wasn't until he'd been fully faced with what such an attitude would and could lead to that ethics and morals had woken up and he'd re-evaluated.]
I've seen what that can lead to, and prefer to be a bit more discerning about how far I go.
[Shaking his helm again, Jetfire shrugs as he considers the first point again.]
And given that we don't belong in this reality, I doubt us dying here would be a positive influence as it would mean foreign sparks dispersing to wherever they go here... becoming a permanent fixture in a way we presently aren't even if we're still affecting Cybertron by merely being here.
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More discerning or at least more discrete about it. Pick your choice.
Who knows what our existence here is already doing to our original universes. Not event eh first Forged seem to know.
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Given that such an attitude usually informs a wider view of things, definitely. [It's not easy to admit, but at least his was always fairly contained... And he grew away from it.] And yes... though getting away with performing ethically questionable science doesn't mean you still haven't done it.
[A frown on his faceplates, Jetfire leans back against the workbench he's resting against, ignoring the small amount of glowing bugs settling on his rounded shoulders and on top of his helm.]
Indeed. Guesswork, but there's a few main possibilities; either time does not match up, and it could go by both very fast, or very slow. Slowly enough we might in the end return with not much time passed for us. The worst case scenario would be one where time in our own realities pass extremely quickly compared to this one.
[A brief wave around them to exemplify, before he folds his arms instead of leaning them against the surface of the workbench behind him.]
Another would be time passing as it does here, which is more or less as bad as the fast-time scenario. The most desirable variations would be time either not moving at all, a relative "freeze" if not all individuals belonging there aren't where they should be... Or, er... splinter timelines being created.
[The frown deepends and Jetfire's optics darkens.]
Which means that there'd be one reality where we would be gone, but we would doubtfully ever realise that, returning instead to one that would match up with what we remember, and how things should be; us returning to the moment we left.
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I believe It's more about asking yourself if will be able to live with what you did rather than if it's ethical or not doing certain things. When we are at War we often find our ethics compromised.
[Knock out is free from bugs, mostly because he locked himself in his room and crushed all the little pest that dared to get in and bother him.]
That would be really really bad, indeed. If that's the case then perhaps I won't even have a planet go to back anymore.
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Ah, yes... [Then he frowns.] Though the difference between those positions was exactly partly why I... er, changed my attitude and where I was at the time the change happened. I didn't need to do the former any more.
[Compared to some other continuities, the Autobots from Jetfire's universe is a lot more... nice.]
And I think we're all hoping on either time moving so slowly as to not matter, or a "time freeze". A splinter-universe being created would mean we'd not be affected, but anyone from the reality that splintered and which we disappeared from would certainly be.
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Knock Out studies Jetfire's body language, thinking.]Change your attitude...are you trying to tell me that you changed factions at some point? And survived?
[Knock Out is realizing that.] Time freeze would be the better option. There are other mechs here from my universe and we got pulled from different time moments, I don't know what to think anymore.
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... That's exactly what I'm saying, yes. [He just shakes his helm.] Survival wasn't exceedingly hard, truly.
[Even if Starscream had been... very angry, which in turn had frustrated Jetfire, but they hadn't been able to kill. Trust had been harder to gain, though.]
The different points from which some of us have been taken from out various universes does hopefully imply a time freeze. Otherwise each and every one of us would be pulled from various splinter time-lines, which seems... overly complicated.
[Jetfire frowns at that. It's always better to go with as simple an explation as possible, since that is usually the correct one.]
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You are lucky you are not from my universe. But you area big guy, that might have helped. And you switched from Decepticon to Autobot, I take it?
[Human call that occam's razor, Jetfire. Knock Out knows that much.] Let's hope y0u are right.
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Mm, I suppose, but my frame didn't look much like this at the time I switched sides. [In fact, it'd been decidedly more... graceful, if no less powerful in its flight capabilities.] That came a lot later, but chasing after traitors that don't know much... er, technically anyway, would've been a waste of resources.
[He might not have known much of military operations but he did know of a lot of scientific projects... as well as the weapons he'd been working on.
Jetfire huffed a static sigh and nodded.]
Hopefully so. Of course, if I'm not at least in the reality I'm from, Earth has been a burned wasteland for over a year by now.
[Jetfire doesn't know of occam's razor, though!]
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Upgrades are never a bad thing. How did you look like? You weren't a flier?
[Knock Out seems surprised when he hears about Earth.] Did the humans destroy it or it was our fault?
[Shame! It's a really useful and simple theory.]
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I've been upgrading and modifying my frame for my function and effectivity for a long while now.
[He shrugs, and then his optics narrow a little as he thinks back on that.]
Ours by association. A... super-powered clone finally had its systems overwhelmed by the solar fusion generator it was powered by, and was going to explode. I was on my way of stopping him when I... and Starscream, got pulled elsewhere.
[A simplified explanation, but it's the easier one than bringing up apparent powering-up by an apparent strange form of energon (perhaps), and all the little bits implying something a lot less straight-forward.]
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Bigger is better, hm? I was never all that fond of that philosophy but it works for certain mechs.
You got transwarped.
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