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[justamirage]

[At first he was going to encrypt the message to only Autobots. But then he started wondering if that was what he really wanted? Maybe it was time to try other things and see what came up. In any case, no one was to see who he was, and he made sure to scrub the connection clean of his personal identifiers. He even modulated his voice a bit to sound higher. He was a trained spy, after all, and he didn't want to go giving himself away.]

Is anyone hearing this? Is anyone out there? I'm not sure where I am or what I'm supposed to be doing, but... If someone could explain it to me that's not a temple drone?

[Was that too telling? Slag. Or did everyone start at these temples?]

Is there a way out of here? Any shuttles or teleports or whatever? Let me know what you've found. I'll be here.

[That little snippet was all anyone would get from. The mission was to collect data. the source didn't matter because all information was valuable. It would of course, be evaluated based on who it came from after it was obtained. ]

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[Voice] /bops on in here

[ichooseboth]

We've not yet found a way out, I'm afraid.

For now most of us are simply settling in to survive. It might be some time until we've built up the resources for anything more than that.

[Voice]

[justamirage]

[There. A voice he was so relieved to hear he almost broke cover. Almost.]

But you are trying? And these First Forged... Can they be trusted?

[Voice]

[ichooseboth]

[He decides to make his speech as generic as possible. He doesn't know who or what he is speaking to, so it is best not to make assumptions.]

We are. But from the point when we first arrived onward, simply finding enough fuel to subsist on - or food for organics - was challenge enough. Thankfully we have moved past that point to building some basic infrastructure, but it will be some time before anything high tech enough to get past the Lambda can be properly attempted.

The First Forged are...historical figures to my people, differing across worlds. They can largely be trusted, and they helped us as much as they could. But they have a world to build and a civilization to start, and our arrival here was not caused by them or even anticipated.

[Voice]

[justamirage]

Of course. Refugees must survive before they can survive. But is this Cybertron not new and untainted? Should there not be energon aplenty ripe for the taking?

[He was starting to feel comfortable dropping tidbits here and there. Maybe Optimus would be able to forgive him for what happened with time, but caution for now.]

[Voice]

[ichooseboth]

[Ah, so he is a Cybertronian. Good to know.]

There is. There are even natural, heated pools of the stuff. [He sighs happily at the reminder.]

But even finding or crafting the supplies to transport it or gather more was a challenge at first. This Cybertron is more than new - it barely has anything resembling infrastructure outside of the temples. So far.