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[thxforthememories]

[Surprise. A video feed from the local recluse. Bird-ninja. Robot. Anyway.]

[After a certain conversation with someone who will remain nameless, certain concerns have arisen.]

[... Never mind he's sitting in a medbay, hooked up to a generator, no. There are far more important things to consider than that.]

When you refuel... where do you put it? [After a beat, he clarifies.] Those of you who weren't made by humans.

Do you drink it? Or... do something else?

[THIS IS IMPORTANT OKAY. For friendship purposes.]

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[Video]

[thxforthememories]

So that's strange. There should be others in a world... besides these robots, shouldn't there? Or is there something I don't understand?

[Which wouldn't be a big surprise, all things considered. He's trying to understand this place, but it's been difficult.]

They are. Their frames sustain far less damage than ours.

Their... lives are easy to end, if we chose to.

[Video]

[angleofscience]

[Jetfire smiles slightly and shakes his helm.]

This planet, while another version of my own is still home, and while young... No, I don't think there would be. Since it's not truly ready to be inhabited yet, it would make sense that whatever brings sparks in to this world isn't active yet to do so.

When it is, there will come others besides our hosts, but they will most definitely look similar... Though smaller, I would believe. As I think is obvious, our usual height is not close to even the shortest of the Firstforged.

[It could also be that Jetfire isn't very good at doing good explanations. He tends to be long-winded and complicated about it, instead of simple, after all.]

Especially as small as they are; we can inadvertently injure or kill even with a simple lapse of attention... [He lets a vent go with slight more force than usual. He hadn't really considered this at all when he and the minibots had planned their fight with Sunstorm, but he realized now that the humans on the construction site where Bumblebee (unintentionally) had gone down could have been severely injured.]

It doesn't make their presence here any better, as Cybertron is not made for them, not as Earth is... and even there they die easily.

[Video]

[thxforthememories]

Then... we've gone back in time? Somehow? Is that... possible?

You've seen them? I haven't seen any one of them. Not even the one who owns the building I woke in.

[It's all right. Kagerou listens, anyway. He might not respond much, but he does listen.]

... it's so easy, isn't it? To harm them. And their lives can't be restored. They can't be rebuilt...

[Whose life is more important? Human beings, or ours? ... Humans. We can be rebuilt.]

Have they been damaged often, here?

[Video]

[angleofscience]

Not... precisely. I would rather posit that every individual universe is on its own timeframe, and while, perhaps, time can run differently between different realities, it could simply be that this universe is, on a wider, objective multiversal scale was created later than the ones each of us come from.

[We shall really hope you can get the bottom line out from that, Kagerou as while Jetfire talks, looking somewhat off-screen, he's... not at all aware this might end up hard to follow.]

Mmm, yes, I did. At least the one in whose... er, "temple" I have a room. Those I arrived with woke up out on the Junk Pile, not in the temples, and our hosts came to collect us personally.

[Neither is. Both are. Life isn't quantifiable, even with concern of relative fragility or ease of repair.]

Yes. It's something of a worry, especially as we lack many of the supplies and resources and knowledge to not just make their lives comfortable, but as safe as it can be here.

Not that I would doubt any Ratchet's ability to pick up the necessary knowledge, but still... ah. [Finally focusing back onto the screen and Kagerou, Jetfire shakes his helm.]

I haven't noticed any severe or lethal situations yet for them, so none have been gravely injured yet. That doesn't mean it couldn't... won't, happen however.