CONTACT 001 // VIDEO

[0perator]

[The manic look of someone very new to Cybertron has faded by the time Alia actually makes her call to the network, but there's still an unmistakable wide-eyed expression to her as the video feed picks up. It's probably not helped by the fact that so many of the inhabitants here so are blasted tall that she's paranoid about being stepped on.]

If there are any Maverick Hunters in the area, please respond. This is Alia. I, ah, could use some company about now.

[She taps the microphone-- decorative, thankfully-- on her headset and sighs.]

Ok, so I'll admit to being new around here. I got the orientation, but... what is there to do around here if you're not fifty feet tall?

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[4_toteachus]

We have a police force and a government, so there's some form of organization.

Overall though, I think everyone just does what they want.

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[0perator]

A little bare-bones organization is a good thing. Total anarchy is not nearly as fun as some people seem to think it is. I was more thinking in terms of what everyone in the temple was doing. They were pretty intense.

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[4_toteachus]

Are you talking about the acolytes?

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[0perator]

The apologetic robe-guys? Yeah.

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[4_toteachus]

They're not like us, they serve the Firstforged directly.

You can ignore them if you want. I don't think they're actually people.

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[0perator]

That's good to know.

How are they not actually people? They seemed normal-ish enough to me.

[Non-people generally don't actually hold conversations and emote where she's from, they mostly just beep and look cute before shooting plasma death at you, sooooo...]

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[4_toteachus]

They're drones.

Once you interact more with actual Cybertronians, you will see the difference.

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[0perator]

I'll take that under advisement.

[Awkward.]

Thanks.

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[4_toteachus]

What's your name by the way? Mine's 4.

I keep starting conversations with new people without introducing myself! I'm not very good at socializing I guess.

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[0perator]

I'm Alia. It's nice to meet you, 4.

I've met people way less good at socializing, no offense taken.

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[4_toteachus]

Are you human by the way?

I have met some who look human but aren't really.

It's really exciting when it happens.

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[0perator]

I'm in the latter category. You won't be the first by a long shot to mistake me for human if you saw me, it seems like.

I don't know if it's exciting per se. I haven't had this many conversations with humans since I left the development lab.

[Maybe that's why she's been so weirded out. Something to consider, maybe.]

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[4_toteachus]

Oh, so you're a human-made AI?

It must be strange talking to Cybertronians then!

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[0perator]

I'm a reploid. Not all of us were built by humans, though.

They weren't built? Huh.

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[4_toteachus]

But you are built with human-like features. How strange.

The Cybertronians are alive like organics are, except in a different way. No one made them, they just exist. It's quite fascinating.

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[0perator]

I am. There are others modeled after animals from old Earth. I'm designed to look more like X... he was the first of our kind. I guess it's tradition, is all.

Huh. I would not have anticipated that. I wonder how they're put together... evolved nano-constructors or something else?

[Curse this Cybertron and its many mysteries that she would happily science at if there was not crap at home she'd best be dealing with.]