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[Video] One grumpy Seeker, coming up...

[Hello, Haven. Now appearing on your comms is a probably familiar form, though with a very unfamiliar paint job. Maybe Thundercracker or Starscream decided to try a new look?

Nope. Once this new Seeker speaks, it's clear that he's a stranger. A new arrival most likely. Whoever he is, though, he's clearly not very happy.]

Alright. I heard the story from the drone. Or Acolyte, or whatever the frag they're called. But can anybody out there tell me what the Pit is actually going on here? And why I've suddenly gained an extra, glowing brand that I don't recognize on my arm?

Because if this is all some kind of overly-elaborate joke or some Quintesson's latest idea on how to mess with us, someone is gonna get it...

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[He pauses briefly before giving a slow shrug, casting a glance to the side.]

Not with quintessons no. But it sounded... ah, reasonable, back then, when Megatron said that. Scientific advancement seemed worth it. It stopped seeming so relatively soon.

[He was slow to join and relatively slow to leave, though he didn't stay long.]

Hmph... Then from what I've heard, you and the Skyfire from my world have something in common. Apparently Starscream convinced him to join the Decepticons for awhile after they dug him out of the ice.

They said it lasted about a day before he changed sides. Wonder if that's some sort of record...

[Have a chuckle.]

Yes, we established that, since I believe he's present here. And at least he did not try staying despite previous ties.

[A shrug as he shifts slightly on his feet, optics narrowing briefly as he looks off-screen again.]

I stayed far longer than that, though it was a long while ago now.

... What was it that finally made you leave? With Skyfire, he refused to kill some human prisoners and Starscream shot him for it.

[pause as he considers that this might be something of a personal question for someone he just met]

You don't have to say if you don't want to. I'm just curious.

[The smile Jetfire gives is rather dry and lopsided as he slowly shakes his helm.]

Nothing so... ah, dramatic. Cumulative effect, really. It took a long while before I even started to listen to the doubts I was having. When the factions, temporarily as it'd turn out, started to splinter apart due to Optimus and Megatron's disappearances, I ended up leaving after finally admitting I couldn't stay any longer.

[More like, couldn't actually follow Starscream as he made his own faction and found he didn't really want or share enough of the ideology any more to stay with the main Decepticon one.]

p[Jadewing nods, noting both similarities and dfiierences to what he remembers.]

Hmm... Our Cybertron was really too energy drained for much splintering to happen, at least on the Decepticons. Shockwave had control of the only major source of energon in Decepticon control for most of that time. So you either reported to Shockwave, or else. Only splinter faction on the Decepticon side was the one led by that crazy fragger Trannis, and that was put down pretty quickly.

As for the Autobots, they'd been organized in smaller groups for awhile before the Ark and Nemesis launched, so if they had any problems with it, I never found out. [shrugs]

The Cybertron you come from shut down as well? [It doesn't sound precisely as what the Great Shutdown was, but the similarity needs explored.]

As for the factions splintering, it happened long before the Ark and Nemesis left, and the factions ended up joining together again after Megatron and then Optimus were found to be alive and came back.

Pretty much. The war drained the planet's energy reserves to critical levels; the only reason we could still survive on it was that the war also greatly reduced the population. And Vector Sigma was taken offline somehow too, until fairly recently, which meant that no new bots could be brought online that way. Not that anyone was inclined to anyway, because, y'know, no energy.

[shrugs]

Wait... what happened that made Prime and Megatron disappear? Cause neither of them was ever exactly the type to just randomly wander off.

Sounds... ah, smiliar to what happened for us, though I left on a mission before Cybertron - temporarily it'd turn out - shut down completely. Apparently Shockwave later had a hand in reactivating mechs when the energon started to come back.

[He shakes his helm slowly and then smiles, somewhat dryly.]

Ah, well. It wasn't willing on either of their parts. Megatron was testing the first spacebridge prototype, and Prime... took it up to himself to make sure the test wouldn't conclude.

By throwing himself at Megatron and through the spacebridge... which was calibrated only for a single individual.

I don't think ours ever completely shut down. Though that honestly may have been preferable to limping along for four million years, mostly living off what little energy we could collect from our nearest star. A good number of bots were put in stasis, though, as things got tighter. Wasn't til after contact with Megatron and the Nemesis crew was reestablished that things started improving a bit.

I hear the Autobots are doing more rebuilding lately too, but I haven't been back since that started, so... [shrugs]

[Winces slightly though at the thought of such a spacebridge accident, then sighs and facepalms.]

Yeah... that sounds like something Prime would do alright.

As long as one can be sure things will come back, then yes... a... ah, restart might be preferable to anything else. [His expression turns somewhat grim from the earlier lighter one.] We didn't know, though, so there were mounting worries regarding energon to keep everything going.

It's relieving that Cybertron did regain its energon resources.

[Then he chuckles.]

Indeed. I'm sure we could've done it in some other way, but that's not what happened.

I guess. Things didn't so much 'restart' as 'pick up where they left off' once we had some energy to speak of again. For awhile, at least. Cybertron's still not back to anything close to full power though. And probably won't be for awhile, no matter what the Autobots do.

[Jadewing gives a small, amused 'heh' as well.]

Yeah. Neither of our Commanders seemed to have much sense sometimes, especially where their opposite number was concerned.

[He shakes his helm.] Unfortunate. As I understand it, for ours... it seems back to pre-war levels of energon.

Mmhm. Something of an issue when they are not just focused on each other, but few have their equal.

Yeah. Still better than it was, so guess there's really no room to complain. [shrugs]

Yeah. It's a real pain in the aft. And probly the reason we were stuck on Earth so long. Neither one would willingly leave while the other was there.

That, and the issue of functioning ships if you continually sabotage each other's efforts or, as you say, don't wish to leave until the others do so.

That too, yeah. That's how the one that became our base wound up on the bottom of Earth's ocean.

Oh? [He tilts his helm, curious.] Not that I know how the Nemesis ended up on the bottom of the ocean either, but I don't think it had anything to do with sabotage...

Not the Nemesis; The Nemesis II. Megatron and the others built it after they first woke up on Earth in planetary year 1984. Once they'd stolen enough energon, they took off to return to Cybertron, but the Autobot Mirage had snuck aboard while cloaked and sabotaged the ship. It crashed into Earth's ocean while he parachuted out to safety.

Over the course of the next several months, it was reworked into the Decepticons' main base of operations on Earth. The crash site of the original Nemessis wasn't discovered until awhile later.

I see. [He's hardly about to say it's unfortunate or anything like that, given, ahem, everything. So instead he just nods.] An unpleasant way to be brought back to... ah, earth.

Interesting, either way. Though I suppose you may want to have a look around?

Definitely unpleasant, though I was still back on Cybertron when it happened. Good thing too; doubt I would've wanted to be stuck underwater for several months at a stretch.

Yeah. After I'm done talking to Starscreamand all, figure I'll take a look around Not like there's a rush or anything, though, given that we're stuck here.

At least Earth's oceans are rather pleasant, all things considered.

[He smiles slightly at that and then nods.]

As long as nothing is going on, we do have time yes. And despite the desolate looks, this Cybertron can be interesting. Just be wary of flying away from the Haven from Vector Prime's quadrant... it's closer to the Badlands - relatively at least - in that direction.

Eh, I'll admit there are worse places. But I'd have gone glitchy trapped in a base like that and unable to fly for months on end.

[Jadewing nods at the advice.]

I'll remember that. Thanks.

You don't think they left the base more often than that? Even if they weren't actively amassing for a raid, I doubt they would've stayed there all the time.

[That seemed... highly improbable.]

And... ah, if you attempt to leave orbit, if you're capable of it, you might find yourself unable to. I'm not sure if the forcefield that was there earlier still is in place.

[shrugs]

If they did, they were really quiet about it. The Autobots had apparently written them off as dead until they attacked a power plant a few months after the crash. And they did have a hold full of energon cubes, so fuel supplies wouldn't be a problem if they were careful about rationing.

And technically I can, but it generally takes too much energy to be worth the effort of trying it without a good reason. Which I doubt I'll have after that warning.

Could have been either way, then. [Nodding, Jetfire tilts his helm.] Since, if nothing else, it wouldn't be impossible to leave for flights or recon unnoticed if it weren't attached to high-profile attacks.

And it would probably definitely be better if you save the energy and effort, then. We don't have any lack of energon, but since you might not be able to get anywhere after hitting the forcefield...

[He shakes his helm briefly. It's a bit of a frustrating situation, really.]

If you do attempt it, could you perhaps inform me what the result was? Whatever that result might be. I'd be interested.

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