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[When the vid feed pops up on the Link, it starts with Swerve looking pretty confused, but this isn't exactly new to anyone who knows him.
To those who don't, welcome to Swerve-ville! Population: This boxy motherfucker and a whole lotta mouth.
He does perk up pretty quickly though, which again, isn't all that surprising. Swerve is pretty ace when it comes to looking like he's perpetually in a good mood.]

You know, I kind of thought we'd crashed through some kind of portal at first, 'cause this looks a lot like Cybertron. So I was thinking maybe there was some kind of massive surprise twist on the way and the Knights of Cybertron were actually on Cybertron the whole time, but it was an alternate version of Cybertron and the quest was actually supposed to teach us a lesson about perseverance and friendship.

Buuuut then some mech who was with me when I came out of recharge explained most of the actual situation to me. Kind of a disappointment, really.

[Though, if he thinks about it, this is actually pretty good. If there was a test on how everyone on the Lost Light was best friends, they would have failed it pretty quick. Because they're them.]

But, uh, just a note here? Waking up to a mech who was watching you during recharge just to explain the whole situation? Actually pretty creepy. So... might wanna get management on that.

((OOC: Tags forthcoming when I return from classes.))

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[That "as far as he knows" shouldn't get disproven. Unless something happens.]

I... think the suggestion has been that Unicron is responsible, but I'm not completely sure of that. It wouldn't suprise me if so.

[There was a certain chaos about all trhis junk falling through, after all, as well as individuals from other realities, even less humans who certainly didn't belong on Cybertron. She can't help but chuckle at the flow of words, though.]

I suppose so, yes. [Shrugging, Elita taps her chin.] Not that there's a lot of the law that's relevant while we were at war, though more should become so now that things are settling... A "Code" sounds like it'd be more... inclusive than just laws, though.

[Something already happened. It's called the Lambda. But still, point taken.]

Unicron? Yeah, that sounds like a mech, alright.

So he is..? [IDWverse has a lot of things, but Unicron is not one of them, as far as anyone knows.]

It's a lot like a go-to guide for not committing war crimes and basically not making the galaxy think we're as bad as the other guys.

Try "the opposite of Primus" and a "deity that likes to eat planets and destroy realities" rather than a mech. I'm relieved you haven't had to fight it, but you haven't even heard of it?

[That's a... rather amazing thought, to her. Not that they had known, before Unicron woke up, much about it, but they'd been aware of the name itself, if only vaguely.]

... You'd need a guide for that?

[What is this moonman langauge.]

Sounds like a regular laugh-riot, but nope, not even a little. Is that weird?

[In IDW land, you've got your Primus, your Mortillus, Adaptus, Solomus, and that one whose name starts with an E. Epitemus! Yeah, that's it. No Unicrons here. Sorry.]

Well, I didn't. I was a non-combatant, and my field of science couldn't exactly make twisted machines that had no right to be brought into the war.

That was Brainstorm's department.

I'm not sure, really. We didn't know much at all about Unicron before both it and Primus were woken up, but the designation was still something we were aware of.

[Yet anyway.]

... If that happened at all, your war must have been different than the one that was fought in my reality.

[She shakes her helm, both curious and a bit unsettled.]

[Shrug.] Afraid I got nuthin'. He hasn't come up as far as I know. I guess he could exist, but he must be a pretty well kept secret back home if he does.

Did your war last for several million years, span a ton of planets, involve 'cons Phase Sixing a few planets, and wind up getting your race blacklisted on the Galactic Council?

Might, since Unicron appears to be able to cross realities. It might not even be around in yours... yet.

[Hopefully never?]

... [She's a little bit stunned.] Over eight million years, though part of the high command was lost for around four million... the Ark and Nemesis were lost on Earth, we later found out.

Phase Sixing? Not something I recognize. Though the war did of course spill over into other planets. And there's no Galactic Council.

[Whatever that is.]

Spooky.

The Galactic Council sort of looks out for the interests of all the races that are members of the whole thing. There are a pretty good amount last time I checked, but politics aren't really my thing.

It's like... okay, imagine a world that's been slowly brought to the brink of collapse. And then imagine a crazy powerful mech coming in and wiping the whole thing out. Like everything and everyone is slag. That's Phase Six. It's a 'con thing.

[Serious topic or not, that makes her chuckle a bit.]

... Huh. No, we don't have anything like that in my reality.

[She pauses then, and stares, listening to the explanation and slowly shaking her helm.]

Definitely seems like it could be a Decepticon thing. I don't think Megatron ever deployed something like that, but then, there never were much fighting on other worlds.

[Not that other worlds didn't get hit, though.]

[Aha! Made her laugh. This obviously means they are on good terms. And also that didn't sound like a crazy laugh. So yaaaaay.]

Yeah, our involvement with 'em got pretty bad for a while. Decepticons would mess something up, then we'd show up. Autobots would be doin' somethin' somewhere and then 'cons would show up. Eventually we all got stuck with a bad reputation.

[Not that they didn't deserve it.]

[Yes, a perfectly normal, if quiet laugh. Nothing crazy here!]

... And I assume both deserved it, and it wasn't just Autobots getting stuck with a bad reputation because of the Decepticons always coming after, or us being the same species?

[She hesitates before saying it, because honestly the idea is utterly strange to her. She wasn't actively involved for a long time in the war, but it was hard to miss, and the "bad" stuff usually only had one source. But from how Swerve's talking...

It's not too hard to pick up the details, expressly vocalised or not, and put together something of a picture.]

[Swerve just sort of shrugs. The Autobots did questionable things, but the worst of their atrocities never really made it to the public, so he has no idea.]

I always figured it was more of the latter, honestly. I wouldn't know about much about us deserving it or not, since I wasn't a combatant. I just invented alloys and the like. I always figured we did the best we could with whatever we could manage.

Doesn't surprise me. [She huffs and shakes her helm.] I wasn't actively always involved myself, but you do what you can...

[She does tilt her helm curiously at one thing, though.]

There was enough of a population to have completely uninvolved civilians?

Yeah, surprisingly! We didn't even think there was until they all came outta the metalworks after the war was over. Cybertron sort of called everyone home, and they came by the shipload. Some were still coming in when I left, I think.

Hmmm. It's odd to consider, but on the other hand, you either had to leave the planet, or join either faction. There were some, myself among them, who left for various reasons. I know Springer in my reality was fighting Decepticons alone for example, but he's technically an Autobot...

[Her optics widens a bit at the mention of a "call", since that was similar, but not exactly like...]

Called them? We had something similar, but I think they were returning to find out later what the noise had been... And luckily they came after Unicron was defeated.

That's kinda the problem with a huge war. You lose track of soldiers and scientists and so on. Everyone does their own thing for a bit. Mechs get stranded on planets.

Yeah. When it rebooted it told us all to come home. It was kinda nice to hear, but I figure it's kind of hard to call a new hostile Cybertron 'home'.

It looks similar to this one?

After Unicron was defeated, the Last Autobot created a tiny race of cybertronians to help clean Cybertron up... The rest of us simply had to rebuild what had been destroyed, otherwise it was the same.

[As far as she had seen, anyway; she hadn't actually gotten to spend much time on Cybertron after the war was... temporarily, it now seemed, over.]

I wouldn't really know. None of us would. I hadn't been off-planet since we bailed outta the shuttle, and when the Lost Light left, things were a little too busy exploding for be to get a good look at it from the air. Even the short time we spent there were spent in a small area, since it was to dangerous to go anywhere out there.

The Last Autobot? [That doesn't sound good.] Like, every other Autobot died?

[It does sound rather grim, doesn't it? Elita shakes her helm.]

Luckily, no. I have no idea why he was called such, but he created the minicons... ressurected Optimus Prime [again, but perhaps that doesn't need to be said]. Considering most thought Primus had perished against Unicron, perhaps that was part of why he was named that as well.

[Primus hadn't, obviously, but it's easy to forgive anyone to make that mistake during such a climatic and exhausting event.]

Your... "rebooted" Cybertron seemed like it might be more volatile than this one, then, excluding the Badlands. You had issues during takeoff?

[Curious name for a ship, though. "Lost Light"? That seems to simply be asking for trouble, really.]

Okay, yeah, that's a little impressive. Even if I've got no idea what lead up the all of that, like, at all.

[Swerve looks pensive at that, and then switches gears to a more sheepish sorta look.]

It might be. I haven't really checked out the Badlands yet.

During take off, someone got too close to the quantum generators and ended up mashed into them. Ore was his name. [He doesn't say that Ore didn't actually like him much unless he was pretending to be Pipes.]

[She just shakes her helm; it'd probably take a bit too long to discuss all the ~adventures~ and the history of her reality to lead to that. It'd involve "demons" and mutants as well.]

I haven't, either, but it's probably just as well... Doesn't seem like a place you should go to, but I should probably get a better idea about it.

[If only so she could do her "job" well if it was needed.]

Engines and science isn't my thing, but that doesn't sound good. At all. They're responsible for things like your version of space bridges or transwarp portals?

[Better idea. Let's not and say we did and then forget we said we did and do it at a later date.]

On one hand, it's called the Badlands, so it can't be good. On the other hand, It's called the Badlands, so it's probably interesting and full of things we need to know.

And yeah, sort of. They're like space bridges but with shorter distance and less portal and massive structures.

[Well, that does sound like a perfectly excellent idea, actually! Who ever said paradoxes weren't fun?]

There's that, yes. [And she can't help but laugh at that.] Especially the "need to know" part because if the Badlands are connected to the Lambda, and anything not marked by a glyph is affected...

[She's not sure, exactly, where that could lead ~~considering they aren't yet exactly aware Unicron's behind the Lambda...~~, but that does feel like it could be a useful thought.]

Ah. We do have similar things on our ships as well, but we call them transwarp drives, or just transwarp.

[Whoever they are, they probably don't exist anymore. You don't piss off the concept of paradoxes and get away unscathed.]

Wow. Good to know, I guess. Does that include non-sentient species, or am I gonna have to start worrying about my berth scooting out the door while I recharge?

[Rumors are good enough facts for him alright. At least, they're good enough to spread 'a friend of a friend of mine got information from some other person that there might be a slight possibility that maybe' gossip.]

Same basic principles then. Probably.

[She gives a brief nod to that, since it did seem to merely be a question of a naming difference, and then leaned back slightly, carefully folding her arms over her chestplates to make sure the video wasn't josted.]

No, luckily not. I think it either needs enough of a spark and sentience attached to it to be able to be affected, or just enough sentience if we're talking organic species...

Early on, there were a lot of... creatures [She shrugs; it's not the best description, but there was such a variety of the attackers that's the simplest collective noun to use.] that fell from the Lambda, unglyphed.

They were all hostile and became even more so as well as stronger as time went by, until we or the Firstforged had all dealt with them... or they'd left for the Badlands-

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