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[mccrane]

I might have accidentally started the fireworks early.

[The edges of his plating are singed, and just behind him the very flaming carcass of an automobile is roaring in its death throes.]

Energon, it seems, is not a viable replacement for gasoline. [He is grateful he didn't try consuming it before this test, and even more grateful that he managed to start the vehicle from a distance.]

[Since. Ah. It exploded.]

I don't suppose anyone has any suggestions? Or a way to convert us to a different fuel source?

Or some wash-cloths and soap?

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[invisiblepinkboat]

[Keeping time was a detail that could be - and often was - important in her line of work, so she'd early noticed that her internal chronometer and the passage of Cybertron's turning hadn't lined up correctly, and so adjusted to compare.]

This Cybertron has a full revolution of 32 hours, so it's significantly longer than an Earth day...

[Which made her frown, expression tightening slightly. That meant both the shorter time-frame and the longer one McCrane had given would have to be shortened. Significantly.]

My own had a shorter one, but after it went rogue, the day/night cycle tended to be... erratic.

[She shook her helm and shrugged. The problems the lack of a set orbit and no gravity from a nearby star would cause.]

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[mccrane]

32 hours?

[He is worried about the effect that might have on humans. It hasn't been bad for him, yet.]

[Wait.]

Cybertron went rogue?

[How do you keep saying these things like they are normal?!]

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[invisiblepinkboat]

On the dot, nearly. I over-adjusted for planetary temporal lag at first, and jad to adjust back.

[Which... doesn't surprise her; Cybertron... even void of its most precious, important core, isn't a normal planet subject to the inprecise whims of its parent star.]

It did, yes. The fighting...

[She shrugs, frowning as she briefly looks away.

You mean they aren't normal? :D?]

I suppose the knowledge that Cybertron isn't a normal planet would explain why the intensity of the war might knock Cybertron out of orbit and send it rogue, but it was quite a shock when it happened.

[Suddenly, no suns.]

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[mccrane]

[It might have been a shock, then, and it is definitely a shock, now.]

That didn't rip the planet to shreds from gravitational forces?

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[invisiblepinkboat]

[She's briefly wondering why this would be an issue before she remembers how planets and gravity and everything (basic even so) that she does know about space. She shakes her helm.]

No. Which I don't think any of us thought about back then. There were only very brief consequences of that happening, in fact.

[She tilts her helm, and yes, that's strange, but with Primus being Cybertron... well, that seems to be enough of an explanation. To her, anyway.]