[Voice]

[weapabilities]

Well. It ah. Seems I'll have some time on my hands until I get some repairs finished. Fortunately I'm still mobile via my holomatter avatar so any students who I am tutoring should have no break in schedule and everything else is business as usual...

I do have a question however.

I'm just wondering, what is it that humans and other organics do for fun? Or at least to occupy your time?

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[Audio]

[weapabilities]

Yeah...

[ Awkward silence. ]

Hey um. Do you think. You could tell me more about him? I mean. You know. About who he was?

I want to be able to-

I mean. In case he ever...

[ Comes back, he wants to say, but he knows hope is a very dangerous thing in cases like this. ]

[Audio]

[biwinning]

... I know a little more than you do probably, but not much. Before he wath a Helmsman, he wath known ath The Psiioniic. There'th a lot of psionics on Alternia, since it's a common lowblood thing, but he was extremely powerful. If Alternia existed anymore, I'd probably have that same title, because I'm his descendant. But anyway, I don't know everything about him, but lowbloods under the Empire don't have any rights. So he couldn't have been anything higher than a slave. Somehow he wound up part of a movement though. That'th what Di was also a part of. It was for lowblood and highblood equality, but I don't know much else about it. The Empress tried to eliminate it from history. I only know about it becauthe it wath a hobby of mine to break into secure serversth.

...He thpoke to me once. Like the real him, not thith Helmsman.

[Audio]

[weapabilities]

Wow... that's just. Wow. It's kind of startling how similar our societies are. I mean, as species. Primus, I'm starting to sound like Perceptor. But really oh wow... that explains so much.

I got bits and pieces from him but he didn't talk much and I didn't want to bother him about it.

... Really? What was it like?

[Audio]

[biwinning]

He called me a child. Told me there were things I didn't understand. He's the one who was being a wriggler and hiding.

[Audio]

[weapabilities]

Oh.

Sounds like he had some sass.

[Audio]

[biwinning]

... That ith genetic.

[Audio]

[weapabilities]

Hahaha!

I like you.

[Audio]

[biwinning]

I haven't decided yet about you.

[Audio]

[weapabilities]

I guess we'll have to wait and see.

[Audio]

[biwinning]

You can start by telling me about yourthelf.

[Audio]

[weapabilities]

Well... I'm pretty old. I mean uh. What do you want to know? Kind of a broad question.

[Audio]

[biwinning]

How old?

[Audio]

[weapabilities]

Several million years. My species is effectively immortal.

[Audio]

[biwinning]

Wow. That's even longer than the Empress. How does that work?

[Audio]

[weapabilities]

Mmm, we just don't really die of natural causes. Only of each other, really.

[Audio]

[biwinning]

... And tho there'th a lot of casualty still, isn't there?

[Audio]

[weapabilities]

Yeah. We've been in a civil war for... for a long time.

[Audio]

[biwinning]

Are you the good side?

[Audio]

[weapabilities]

Hard to say if there is a good side anymore. War's over, anyways.

[Audio]

[biwinning]

And who won?

[Audio]

[weapabilities]

We did. The Autobots. I guess I would say. We won. We were the ones left after everything, anyways. Things kind of got derailed and really, it's a pretty massive gray area.

Doesn't feel like a win, though.

[Audio]

[biwinning]

It never will.

[Audio]

[weapabilities]

I know.

[Audio]

[biwinning]

Decided I like you.

[Audio]

[weapabilities]

Just now?