re_alignment | [video] Edge of Solus' quadrant, crystal tree forest

Since the Firstforged are leaving, unknown for how long, I was thinking we might want to patrol more consistently towards the borders of Haven, especially in the direction of the Badlands.

[She needs some distraction and she's been considering bringing this up since she talked to Solus either way.]

Where, and how far, do the police force patrol? Though, anyone who can and feel like it should probably assist, but coordination would probably make it more effective. So far I've kept it mostly around the edge of Solus Prime's outer border.

[Elita walks as she speaks, looking more at the now rather impressively large crystal "trees" around her than the screen, but not just for admiring them - rather looking for something.]

Also, would anyone be capable of making some form of alarms we could put around the edges? Simple motion-detection ones might be useful enough, but I was thinking of something that might be able to detect the type of energy the Badlands contain.

[Nothing she can do, but hopefully someone else would be - or could try to.]

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Leaving? What? Why?

[No this is not a dismayed face whyever would you think that.]

Frag it.. I can help with alarms. Sure. Gotta see what kind of sensors we have to work with, though.

If you weren't present for it, recently we had an incident with a huge pillar coming down from the Lambda [she angles her helm to vaguely indicate upwards, even if the Lambda can't really be seen from this angle and among the faintly glowing trees] that apparently required more effort from the Firstforged to combat, and they didn't - or couldn't - return until we had disposed of the pillar.

[Frowning, Elita reaches out to run a hand down a crystal tree and then digs her fingers in around a slightly protuding shard and breaks it off.]

Apparently they feel they need to concentrate on fighting Unicron in whatever method they will do it in, which means leaving.

And thank you. [The smile is quick, but genuine.] The scientists or engineers around here... hm, Jetfire, Perceptor... Wheeljack seems more interested in weapons... Blackarachnia, I think? would probably be able to get you up to speed about what we have available and workable.

[Another, drier, smile.]

It's not really my area of expertise.

I was wondering what the catch of all this was. Now we know.

[She scowls a moment and fidgets with the microphone on her headset.]

Sensors and alarms are a bit of a speciality of mine. I'm sure I can rig something. The problems are going to be coverage and sensitivity, followed closely by networking the bleeding things.

I think I'll run by the junk pile myself, too. Thanks for the name-drop. Hopefully we can coordinate something.

Unfortunately yes. Other things has happened before, but this was the first time the Firstforged seemed to be either taken out of commission or waylaid and requiring additional, outside assistance from another angle to allow them to finish what they were doing.

I don't think we can expect perfect, overlapping coverage considering our available resources, so the most practical may simply be a widely-spaced net for now.

[She taps her chin thoughtfully with the shard she broke off as she thinks for a moment.]

As for sensitivity... all creatures we've seen so far has been either partly or fully made of metal, which means heavier than the average organic we have here so far, so they'd not need to be extremely sensitive regarding what weight would set them off, I think.

Weight sensors? Those are pretty easy. I can rig those with basic electronics.

[She looks thoughtful.]

I'll get back to you. Definitely.

I hoped it wouldn't be, as they would, along with motion ones, be the easiest and at least the beginnings of a basic security net. More complicated sensors can hopefully be added later.

[Smiling as she tucks away the crystal and then carefully breaks off another, Elita shakes her helm slowly.]

Thank you. Hopefully with a few working on the same thing the burden won't be too large, since we have a lot of space to cover.

No problem. I don't think I want to deal with any sneak-attacks from Cybertronian scale critters anytime ever.

[And frag it, having a real sensor network hidden away through the Haven meant that she would have a much easier time keeping tabs on everything going on. Useful, if things did decide to go south in a big way.]

It has been a feature, yes. [She shakes her helm.] Humans, or human-sized beings aren't exactly suitable for Cybertron and its surroundings, no matter what state or stage of development it's in.

Yeah. Just a little.

Not that it's very welcoming to us for the moment either, but at least we were made for it... [She snorts then.] Though I suppose it's unsurprising a tear in space-time caused by Unicron is brining in beings unsuited to the surroundings they end up in.

The more I hear about Unicron, the more Unicron reminds me of some other genocidal whackjobs I know.

[She shouldn't laugh, but she does, even if it's more of a bark than something more relaxed.]

Similar to something like that, but by orders of magnitude greater, since his goal is the eradication of all things that exist.

Sounds like a blast at parties.

Regular party crasher, definitely. [She smirks briefly and shakes her helm.]

Hopefully it won't matter here, but either way we'll have to deal with his effects on this reality and Cybertron. Thank you for offering your help with the sensors.

No problem.

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