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[angleofscience]

[For anyone else whose seen it, it's clear Jetfire's inside the main structure of Liege's temple, the crystalline walls of the corridors partly seen at an angle while Jetfire frowns thoughtfully up at something... probably just another wall of said corridor.]

A warning, for anyone who either lives in, or would come by Liege Maximo's temple and isn't... hm, well-versed in complex math as applied to certain self-replicating patterns--- [He finally looks down into the feed, but looks somewhat... distracted.]

The corridors are fractals, from what I've observed. Compare it to a complicated labyrinth. I haven't yet had the chance to explore them fully, but it would be unpleasant if someone got lost.

[And he is going to deliberately go in there and "get lost" at some point, to try and figure it out. For the moment, however, merely this heads-up.]

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[angleofscience]

... Yes, I am. [Jetfire tilted his helm, somewhat confused at the seeming intensity to the request.] Technically all of us have to, no matter who we are, even if we might not associate with each other. Our current population is minimal, and if we aren't at least somewhat ready to help those here as well, we might be left without help when it's needed.

[brokendown]

So uhh... yeah, helping each other. Look, I don't know if Megatron or Optimus are here. But this is like fighting Unicron. We should probably all work together.

[angleofscience]

[Unicron. Something out of legends and glitched processors, except for what the Fallen had said, back when he'd attempted to open the Seal of Primus. Except for the faint lingering unease he'd felt from the moment (maybe before? he wasn't sure) he'd been unthawed and had booted up completely.]

I'm hardly the first to decline such a thing, but for that, we need not just information on how to get home, but resources and ability as well. [Jetfire shook his helm, feeling somewhat odd, since it seemed this mech was trying to convince him of something he would be most likely to work towards either way.]

[brokendown]

Well, y'see, me and Knock Out are at a forge. The little Prime told us that no one's been able to get out of here, but if we can get some location equipment and then a space ship put together, we could all get home. All the primes here are too busy being mysterious to help, but... I never underestimate what hard work can do. It'd be easier if we had an entire Nemesis full of Vehicons, but them's the breaks.

[Yeah, thus guy talked fancy. And fancy talkers? They could help build spaceships.]

[angleofscience]

... Well, yes, that's a possibility. But any ship built would need to be capable of interdimensional travel, as only a scattered few of us comes from the same reality; most of us come from disparate ones.

[Jetfire released a soft, barely warm exvent and shook his helm.]

And he'd need some way of calculating all the extant realities, and be able to tag each separate dimension we want to be able to bring people home.

[So in reality... not as simple as it seemed. Not at all.]

[brokendown]

Wait... WHAT? [That's just... not only unbelievable, impossible.... right?] Wait, how do you know ; I mean... what? I met some mechs who weren't from Cybertron, but I don't think that means Gunmax is from a different dimension.

[angleofscience]

Exactly what it sounds like. Anyone with a differing design... except for those who have an Earth-origin, but even those might not be originating from the Earth you know, isn't from the Cybertron... the reality you call home.

[Jetfire had finally gone to look away from considering the corridors to focus on Breakdown, shrugging slightly.]

That, truly, is the largest issue with anyone of us going home, rather than the lack of a method currently.

[brokendown]

Okay. That's crazy. But you're the scientist. I guess you've met more mechs though? Come to think of it, I met a weird Autobot earlier. And some of the videos I'm getting on the local wave feeds show some fra- [No, it's probably not right to swear a lot around smart people. Breakdown didn't want to seem stupid...er.] some really weird mechs. Rude even. Rude mechanicals. I mean mechanisms. I mean I don't actually know what mech is short for but I remember someone told me it was short for something.

[angleofscience]

[Jetfire's patient, so he just waits out until Breakdown's finished, slowly moving down the corridor he's currently in.]

Usually, it's short for "mechanoid", but as we're talking about what it might be an abbreviation of over several realities, and I have no data to compare for the others, that's merely from my own and not a universal claim.

[A very long-winded way of saying "this is what I know, but it might not be the same elsewhere".]

[brokendown]

[Breakdown realised he was blathering a bit, but he's... not really certain why he's still talking to this bot. Other than all of the revelations that his processor just isn't ready for.]

Uh, okay then. I guess I should let you get back to your explanation, uh, exploration. You probably have important stuff to do.

[Knock Out could talk to guys like this. Breakdown just felt outclassed. Anyway, this wasn't who the other mech was looking for, and Breakdown didn't owe Autobots any grace.]