[Video] - the garden in Alpha Trion's quadrant

[angleofscience]

[locked to Starscream (audio)]

[This part of the message comes a fair bit earlier than the rest, given that it's made the moment Jetfire's actually back on Cybertron and in the Haven, and thus... well, capable of even sending it out.]

Starscream... I'm sorry.

[He has to start somewhere, even if this will, obviously, not be enough.][/locked]

[While it's mostly a view of Jetfire, it's obvious he's standing near the garden in Alpha Trion's quadrant, looking slightly... pinched.]

While intending to perform a scan of the Lambda which would've hopefully given us more information to work with potentially getting back where we belong, the modifications I'd been fitted with had a bit of a... er, conflict, with some of my own systems.

I ended up elsewhere in the galaxy, and given the planet I landed on, I took some time to perform a few basic inquiries.

[The view tilts, sweeps down and shows an eclectic bunch of containers (made of one empty cube and two boxes made of rock obviously carved with lasers), one of which contained... well, nothing more exciting than dirt. The other two, however, were filled to the brim with nearly violently pink, oblong fruits - those of you from Earth and familiar with American football might recognise the shape. Scale was of course hard to tell, but they were probably the size of an adult human's head.]

With the limited knowledge I have of what's necessary nutrients for at least humans, and what's poisonous, as far as I can determine, they're edible. [He can't guarantee taste, though, not that Jetfire thought of that at all.] Someone with more knowledge than I may want to investigate further to make absolutely sure, however.

[The view shifts back to Jetfire as he moves his arm with the sceen away from the ground and the containers.]

I need to stress that you need to be very careful when handling the fruit; breaking the skin in any way will cause the up to four seeds within to start to germinate very quickly, so we need to figure out how to keep the seeds inert until they're needed, because the fruits will produce more seed than necessary to feed our current organic population...

The plant created by the seed will grow to bearing fruit and die within four days, so as you can understand, a steady, quick supply of fruit will not be an issue and does require some care in how many seeds are planted.

[He glances down at the ground, then back up, a frown growing from his flat, pinched expression.]

I'll answer questions as you might have them, but I would prefer to not have to be involved further with this.

[No, he's not going to elaborate too deeply into why. Suffice to say he doesn't like plants now. At all.]

Comments

[Video]

[knightinbluearmor]

[To be honest, all the science thing about going into space and all fly high above Melan's head but he understand food. He needs a lot of it, especially since he can't go into Ampoule form with nobody to break it and free him.]

Hm... Did you try to freeze the fruit? It might kill the seeds inside...?

[video] the usual apology for whirl

[whirlybird_of_prey]

Great. You. Doing more science. Because those bugs worked out so awesome.

And you brought back dirt. [WE HAVE DIRT RIGHT HERE, JETFIRE.]

[deadlydoctor]

you make a cute gardener. I didn't know you had it in you.

[raceme]

JETFIRE! You are back and safe, I'm glad. you GOT ME worried.

And you worried you-know-who- too.

[Locked]

[aerospacecommander]

... You --

You dare call me to say you're sorry?!

After I didn't even find out you left until after you were gone?!

[Video]

[staresat]

[Oh.]

[Someone is intrigued by your report.]

You've managed to break free of the Lambda's interference.

[Please, do explain. Shockwave has had some experience studying alien fauna namely earth dinosaurs, but the amount of cares he gives about this little fruit problem is currently at 0%. So let's get to the more important topic.]

[Video]

[treacherous_widow]

Try freezing the seeds or something.

[Don't ask. Blackarachnia's spent too much time trapped on Prehistoric Earth. A girl just notices things. ]

Now are you going to share what you found on your little expedition other then the fruit or should I start snooping around the lab when you settle back in.

[video]

[adamndoctor]

I was beginning to think the sky was literally the limit with this mechanical rock. But you have the means to travel through this galaxy?

[And... yeah the fruit is kind of... He raises an eyebrow at it.] Hmm, I'd like to run further tests. As you said, further investigation should be warranted before consumption. [Though it looks good--like those little palm sized multicolored... food things they sometimes have at parties!] I'll get my hands on some, run a few tests, see if they're edible and won't cause our intestinal tracks to implode or whatever.

[notyourblueangel]

You managed to return from off-planet? Past the Lambda?

[He's wondering if you'd be able to reverse that feat, and get back OFF planet. The possibilities that would open up if he can...]