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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[deadlydoctor]

What exactly is a Maverick Hunters?

[0perator]

It's an organization I'm part of, back home.

[deadlydoctor]

And what does that organization do? [He's both curious and wary.]

[0perator]

Mostly beat up crazy would-be genocidal maniacs.

[She shrugs. She did catch that edge of wary in his voice, though.]

Personally, I'm not interested in getting dragged into anyone else's conflict when so many people are at least twice my size. As long as nobody's tearing out anybody else's core in the name of evolution or something, we're all good.

[deadlydoctor]

Doesn't that sound like fun. [As log as that organitzation doesn't traffic with Cybertronian corpses for military purposes Knock Out is okay with it.]

A wise decision. We are trying to keep things civil between us too. Well, most of us.

[0perator]

There's always somebody, yeah.

[She shakes her head.]

I try not to punch above my weight class in any case.

[deadlydoctor]

A bunch of somebodies in this case.

Good. And what's the color of your Glyph? What FirstForged are you aligned to?

[0perator]

Why? Looking for some newbies to hand scut-work to?

[It's not like a glyph on her shoulder is going to be hard to see in video... even if it is pink like her armor.]

[deadlydoctor]

No, just making sure you won't lose your mind in a few days. That's what happens to those who arrive here without a glyph.

[He's paying attention to it now.] Alpha Trion, hm?

[0perator]

Eugh. No thank you.

[She sighs, the attention to the glyph drawing her own attention.]

Yeah.

[deadlydoctor]

It's not something the glyphless chose, it just happened to them.

He's one of the nice FirstForged, you are lucky.

[0perator]

Is it something that can be fixed? If they're not too far gone, you can drag them to one of the really big guys?

[Hey, she's done her share of knocking out people and dragging them in for their own good.]

Well.. yeah, can't really say that a person running a library is bad news.

[deadlydoctor]

The FirstForged couldn't do anything for them either, it was beyond their powers. It only happened once so far, let's hope it never happens again.

[Badass ladies are cool.]

The one in my world did a bit more than just read books. In a way, thanks to them we managed to revive the planet.

[0perator]

[She hisses between her teeth and nods agreement.]

Huh. That's pretty cool.

[All right maybe this Alpha Trion dude isn't so bad. At least worth doing a favor for now and again, sounds like.]

[deadlydoctor]

Never judge a book by its cover, they say.

They are leaving soon, Isuggest to go meet him while you can.

[0perator]

Leaving? Why?

[deadlydoctor]

To fight Unicron in a different way. I wish I knew more.

[0perator]

Thanks for the tip, at least. Guess the rest of us will just have to mind the store.

[deadlydoctor]

You are really welcome. Now that they're gone I wonder how much it will take before someone decided that they should be the ruler.

[0perator]

Ugh I don't even want to think about it. I hate politics.

[deadlydoctor]

You and me both, they're good for nothing. [Said the guy, who's in the Law Committee as part of The Defense Group.]

[0perator]

Amen.

[Nobody hates politics more than people who are actually competent leaders. Truefax.]

[deadlydoctor]

[True fact.]

We will have to wait and see how things go from here.