re_alignment | [Video] [Origin : Junk Pile] Macro-Dimensional shift gives me a headache.

Arright. Something is seriously wrong with Cybertron's chrono-dimensional anchor. I dunno who, or what, or even when, but this constant planet change is not right at all. I mean, first the whole planet resets like someone hit 'Undo All'... and now it does it again only there's apparently rusting First-Forged walking around!

Ugh. There's also a huge anomaly out here that shouldn't be sustainable without insane levels of energy but at this point I'm willing to just overlook it, given that we're probably dealing with some kind of rupture in fourth or possibly fifth dimensional barriers here.

[Have an extended sigh, as Wheeljack runs his hands over his faceplate.]

I coulda dealt with things as they were. I mean sure we had an overpopulation of three different factions on a Cybertron that seemed to want nothing more than to kill us but at least things were starting to get organized.

Now I'm back to piles of junk.

Ooooohkay. Bee, Prowl, Metalhawk, Starscream - If any of you made it, let me know. Oh and Bee, if yer out there, this was not me.

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Hmm. It all seems a bit... [He doesn't really want to say 'arrogant,' even though that's the word that pops to mind] a bit much. Have you seen them in person, Jetfire? Is there anything to suggest that they have the powers that these 'temples' suggest?

[He doesn't like the word either. It suggests religion and faith over science. Hard to deny that it fits though.]

Ah, it's an obscure bit of tech. Used for repairing ground vehicles but in the past I've adapted them to modify alt-modes. Only ground-based of course. Could be useful.
[He flips it around and starts patting storage compartments, but none are really large enough. Eventually he looks up and lifts the device.]
Say, do ya mind carrying this for me?

Yeeup. Sure as slag is difficult. Especially when there's a ton of refugees all cramming into one structurally questionable city and everyone is looking at you to solve every single tech issue that pops up.
Lemme give some background. Before I left Optimus used the matrix and may or may have not caused Cybertron to reset to primal stage. A ton of Nails, err, neutrals, showed up as refugees and were so anti-war that Prime left. He'd gone, Megatron was MIA, so no side really had a leader. Now we've got Bee, Metalhawk, and Starscream running a cobbled together government. But yeah, status quo? Not where I came from.

There's seven around so far, they all came to inform us of what was going on when we woke up here. While size certainly isn't an indicator, at least some of the names coincide with suggested designations for the original Thirteen... These seven, either way, are all fifty feet and above.

[Just wait until you don't just have to deal with strange amalgamations of all Decepticons into one, but the actual creator and other such exciting things. And now, with this, remaining an agnostic is hard.]

Interesting... There might be more around, or there could perhaps be ways to make more... Ah, no. [Shaking his helm, he takes the offered device, looks it over and then puts it away... somewhere.]

That seems... difficult, being the least of it. And what would Optimus leaving help? Especially if Megatron is not confirmed dead. [Jetfire pauses and shakes his helm.]

Not that a confirmed, or ought-to-be-confirmed death seems to stop him from coming back. [Which he's done at least once.] And reverted? While the Matrix does contain uncategorized energy of unknown power and is the source of new sparks in my reality... It did that?

[Soft whistle] Big guys then. So they were here first and have names of the Firstforged. Plus they can either shape the landscape or have a sizable enough workforce to build impressively self-aggrandizing monuments. Well, we'll see.

[He spots another potentially useful bit of detritus and starts digging, before pulling out some long, rubbery tube-like thing. After looking it over for a moment he grunts and tosses it aside.]

Well... These neutrals. They got into a bit of a frenzy over Autobots being in charge. Prowl being his usual paranoid controlling self didn't ease any tempers, and it all kinda came to a head. Well, lemme show ya.
[He pulls up a short, grainy video, obviously taken while in motion away from a huge protest, pausing it on a particular frame.]
After that, Prime decided the best course of action was to step down.

Honestly, Jetfire? I dunno what set Cybertron back to it's primal state. I've been tryin to figure that out even since it happened. All I know is that the matrix was involved, and after it happened it was empty.

[Frowning at the video, Jetfire shakes his helm.]

I suppose the differenes are too large to draw parallels, but that seems like a short-term solution at best. I wonder why Shockwave, as I've heard it, had it easier than this...

[But nevermind any of that, because---]

Empty? But where--- Ah. [Pause, frown, and Jetfire straightens a bit and shake shis helm.] The Matrix doesn't supply the easiest and simpliest origin for sparks in your reality, then? Because while there are other methods to induce the ignition of spark-energy in an empty protoform, the Matrix is, as of yet, the easiest way.

[Crossing his arms, Jetfire looks up at the Lambda, the second-brightest object in the sky after Prima's light. The sun only comes in as a distant third.]

That's curious, however. Bumblebee told me of what happened after I left Cybertron... which, really they'd only found it recently too as they weren't present, but we did apparently have a similar event happen, even if Cybertron wasn't reduced to this.

[He gestures around them, but doesn't, of course, mean the piles of otherwordly garbage, but rather the state of this young Cybertron itself.]

The fighting led to all energon being consumed, and apparently the whole planet shut down, dragging all and any mechs on the planet with it. Shockwave was, by hiw own admission, supposedly the first to get reactivated. He then slowly rebuilt the society, as energon was, again, not a concern. Somehow the Great Shutdown [you can just hear the capitals] reset Cybertron in a way...

[Shrug]
I was never an expert in the hows and whys of the Matrix. Although I am pretty sure that I never saw it used for spark ignition. All I know for sure is that when Optimus showed up after the reset of the planet, he had two halves of the matrix's shell. He gave one to Bee and one to Rod.

['Jack is more interested in the piles of scrap - he starts sifting through the piles looking for bits and pieces with potential. He's still listening, of course, nodding and making small noises where appropriate, but every so often he digs out something and tosses it towards the bigger mech.]

Hmm, yeah that sounds a bit different than what happened to us. But the end result was almost the same - a rebooted planet. Although a restarted Cybertron under Shockwave's command? [He makes a face, or well, as much of a face as he can]
I'll pass on that.

It does make me wonder though - if there really is some space-time disturbance affecting Cybertron. All of them, across realities. Granted all I know about is yours and mine but still. Makes me wonder.

I see. Where do they come from in your reality, then? And I doubt anyone but Alpha Trion and the Council have any greater idea of the workings of the Matrix... and if they do, they haven't allowed that information out.

[Why would he give away the pieces, though? Jetfire decides not go to into that, and instead just catches the pieces as they're passed to him, putting them neatly on the ground at his feet for the moment.]

Mm... that's possible, but if so, it isn't in effect all the time, unless each individual dimension runs on its own time, and as long as any individual from a particular dimension is out of it, time won't pass... and they'll end up when and where they were taken from when going back.

[He turns the latets piece of maybe-not scrap in his hands over as he thinks.]

And Shockwave is no longer in command. Apparently he wasn't as sincere as he made himself out to be, and everything culminated in attempting to aquire the Matrix for something. Bumblebee didn't say much more than that, but he might not have known any more.

My Cybertron is currently under Autobot command with... as I understand it, Ultra Magnus and Prowl sharing the main responsibilities until Optimus is back up and running.

[All of this is, unfortunately, either second or third-hand information as Jetfire... wasn't there. Being frozen until recently.]

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