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[tilallisoverused]

( So here's a friendly robot-face for you, network. Between the big political speeches and the kittens because he has always had excellent timing. But he's looking significantly less beat-up than he did previously, dents straightened out and looking polished up. )

Okay, here's a question for you. If you've decided to settle down on your home planet that's suddenly not-dead and start up a new government after a civil war that lasted for ages, would you elect the one bot who served directly under the guy who started the entire thing in the first place?

Because I'm really trying to see what anyone could have seen in Starscream and I just don't get it.

( He's really sorry about your problems, Exs, but he's not here for organic squabbling. If he was even aware of it in the first place. Which he isn't, because he just got back from his own universe. )

So, what'd I miss?

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[omnomcinnabon]

[He's just glad for the diversion, really.]

No. Why would they choose someone like that?

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[tilallisoverused]

I don't know! We leave for eighteen months and everything goes wrong.

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[omnomcinnabon]

Wrong? What do you mean?

[tilallisoverused]

Seriously? The whole 'Starscream is in charge of Cybertron' thing didn't give it away?

( THAT'S WHAT IS WRONG. SO WRONG. )

[omnomcinnabon]

I get that it's wrong, I just don't know him!

Is he someone that start wars?

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[badnewsboy]

Wait!

[holds out his hands at the screen, pause.]

What kind of name is Starscream?

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[tilallisoverused]

A pretty normal one?

( you're talking to the guy who's name was hot rod, loki. )

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[badnewsboy]

Have you robots named Bob or John or Thorbjörn oooor [he looks thoughtful and sort of waves his hands from side to side.] ... possibly Thorgood or Thorcall? Anyone like that?

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[tilallisoverused]

Nooooooo? Just Ultra Magnus, Ratchet, Cyclonus, Optimus Prime. Names like that.

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[badnewsboy]

Ultra Thor?

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How sure can you be he's not going to follow in the other one's footsteps?

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[tilallisoverused]

We can't. And the NAILs that voted him in and Blurr, I guess - they weren't there and they didn't fight so they don't know.

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[variates]

Nails?

So, what was it that led this guy to be voted in anyways? Doesn't sound too trustworthy to me.

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[tilallisoverused]

Non-Aligned Indigenous Life-forms. Prowl made it up - it means someone who isn't an Autobot or Decepticon.

No idea, I was off-world at the time. Still... am? I haven't gone back since he was elected.

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Those some robot things the rest of us don't know about?

Well, if you're here, there's not much you can do about what he's up to.

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[getoffmyearth]

If it preserves enough of the pre-existing structure and provides more stability than chaos with a reasonable guarantee you can nail the son of a schalg if he steps out of line...sure, I guess that's a valid political move. I've heard worse.

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[tilallisoverused]

There wasn't anything left. Bee wanted to make something completely new and I told him he was crazy, I did. ( And then refused to talk to him when he called. Because Rodimus is five. Rodimus vents air from his system in something that only be called a sigh. ) How worse can you get?

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[getoffmyearth]

[Peter gets the impression that, in some ways, maturity is as foreign a concept to his strange...robotic...acquaintance/friend as it is to Peter Quill himself.]

Than appointing a traitor or member of a former rebellion into a new government? The Kree do that all the time. His name is Ronan. the Accuser I think he's carried off like three rebellions now? I lost track. And believe me, they've done far, far worse than putting him back in a position of power. They put Blastaar in charge of the Negative Zone, knowing he'd stab them in the back, and then, predictably, he stabbed them in the back. Numerous times, I'm sure. They apparently revived the Supreme Intelligence, they invited the Inhumans to be in charge who promptly got involved in a war that set off a bomb that ripped open time and space...and really, that's just the Kree.

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[tilallisoverused]

( Most of that went straight over his head. He might have begun to doodle a bit on a piece of metal that wasn't a part of him out of frame, but he's trying. )

Well okay, but have they been fighting a war for four million years?

( TIME TO PUT IT TO THE TEST. )

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[getoffmyearth]

Uuuuuh something pretty close that? [Depending on whose history you read and what is stated to be the cause of the war etc.] Going way back to around the origin of the Kree species.

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[transuniversal]

Not without a really good reason.

[The Kree are pretty stiff-necked about treason. Unless your name is Ronan the Accuser.]

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[tilallisoverused]

I'm pretty sure they don't have one. At least one that could excuse that.

[transuniversal]

Brainwashing? Or whatever the equivalent is for your species.

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We've got the only mnemosurgeon still alive. ( So that can't be right. ) I wouldn't put it past Prowl, though.

( Saying that you think someone would be willing to resort to brainwashing is probably bad form. Especially when they're on your side. )

[transuniversal]

[There are so many questions to be asked here and Noh-Varr is not precisely sure how to go about answering any of them.]

The good guys don't always do the right thing.

[OH WOULD HE KNOW SO MUCH ABOUT THAT.]