[But Science, don't be like that!]

I suppose, yes. [It shouldn't be amusing, but it sort of is. It reminds him somewhat of a few scientists in the spark-processor interface field talking about the possibilities of creating artificial telepathy.]

If I wanted to be incorrect, I could blame it all on Starscream. [Jetfire's not so much drinking what he's been given at this point as simply trailing a finger around the glass itself.] Since we were partners in the Academy. But it's partly connected to why I asked if you knew how it started, the reasonings for it...

Megatron talked about our supposedly suppressed purpose, the rights we had... what we ought to be doing and taking, and that the Council of Ancients were deciveing us. Keeping us as less than we could be. It made sense, back then... it simply seemed logical to do what we had to do. [He shrugs.]

I still wasn't sure if I should join, but Starscream managed to convince me. For a while.

[That "for a while" was still around a million years.]

So I was merely curious about the reasons behind it, in your reality.