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[gunlegs]

Since there's more than two Cybertronians stuck together, I'm gonna be hammering in a gentle reminder that the Tyrest Accord still exists as long as I'm here. And that means no spreading any of our wartime scrap to anyone on this station. Any of it. Specially if you enjoy your freedom and your health.

To any of you fleshy types: If some two-bit Decepticon lowlife comes in offering something too good to be true, something particularly gruesome and good at making things you don't like explode - just don't even bother. Their faction name isn't there for fun. You'd be surprised how many times organics have fallen for the 'used antimatter cannon' routine.

My name's Fortress Maximus, by the way.

[Yes, it's a mouthful. Some robots have one of those names.]

I'll be here if you're having trouble with any of our lunkheads.

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[sorrynotguilty]

[ giving Max the flattest look he can muster. ]

Technically speaking, isn't that what the enforcer is for? I didn't realize that the Chief Justice appointed you as well.

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[gunlegs]

[An EQUALLY FLAT LOOK RIGHT BACK. An Autobrand really isn't befitting of you.]

Magnus retired.

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[sorrynotguilty]

[ it doesn't befit Whirl or Prowl either, but they both have one. ]

Perhaps there is a legitimate reason for that.

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[aerospacecommander]

What in the slag is a Tyrest Accord? And why should I care?

[And since when were you all angry sounding?]

[hologram]

[littlecousin]

[One organic squinting dubiously at what she perceives as the tiny robot floating above her wrist.]

What's the Tyrest Accord?

[Rodimus made the guy sound like a real jerk, but she kind of has the feeling Rodimus is an unreliable narrator.]

[walkingballpit]

According to the Tyrest Accord, are you supposed to be prejudicing the fleshy types against the twobit Decepticon lowlifes?

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[gunlegs]

Yeah, there is. But I don't have to explain it to you. Magnus passed the title and now I'm taking it up for him.

That's all you need to know.

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[sorrynotguilty]

I need more than that. Given that there are two and only two Decepticons here at the moment, I doubt that you need concern yourself with policing them. Prime is here and that should be sufficient enough.

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[rodders]

Max, hey! ( have a grinning ex-captain of yours, Fort Max. he's pleased to see you. ) You look like you're enjoying the job still.

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[gunlegs]

[SQUINTS]

What, Megatron never included you in his meetings?

It means you'd better not get caught selling our weapons to any aliens.

[hologram]

[gunlegs]

The basic gist is that we keep the tech produced by our war locked tight and out of outside hands.

I doubt you'll want to know more than that. The thing spans a couple thousand pages.

[hologram]

[littlecousin]

Oh.

[Bored now.]

I mean, we can probably get an antimatter cannon down on the marketplace level, just saying. And it'd have a grip that fits our hands.

[She holds up her empty right hand like she's holding a pistol and pulls the trigger at Max. Pew!]

[hologram]

[gunlegs]

As long as it isn't ours.

I'm not here to step in to whatever it is you organics do among each other.

[gunlegs]

That one's just advice from personal experience.

[He's processed a lot of robot criminals in the past ok, there are trends.]

[hologram]

[littlecousin]

[Wow no wonder the Galactic Council hates you guys.]

Oh, well, I don't want a giant gun, anyway.

[Not sour grapes. She genuinely does not want a giant gun.]

...What's a Decepticon?

[Nita has somehow managed not to pick up on the factions despite everyone yelling at Megatron over it.]

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[gunlegs]

["Enjoying" may be the wrong word since Tyrest can apparently TELEPORT. But it's better than sitting in a cell for six months.]

I didn't plan on it being a short-term thing.

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[gunlegs]

One of them is Shockwave.

[And given Megatron most likely helped draft up the law, he's not going to remind him that it applies to both factions. Even if Decepticons tended to break it a lot more.]

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[aerospacecommander]

Oh. That's a stupid rule I'm going to have to try and break.

[hologram]

[gunlegs]

[It's weird being in a universe where you have to explain 'What's a Decepticon'.]

...One of our factions.

'Cons tend to be fans of the idea of subjugating non-Cybertronians and act like your kind are beneath them. You'll probably get the hint real fast which ones decide to stick with the title.

[He gestures to his chest.]

Their badges are usually purple and triangular - in case the latter wasn't enough to differentiate them.

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[gunlegs]

You're free to try and see what happens.

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[organ_pharming]

How nice to hear someone is still upholding Tyrest's important contributions to our law system.

Incidentally, I never did find out what happened to him after all the....unpleasentness.

[gunlegs]

[What the fuck Pharma how do you find ways to keep coming back]

He's being taken care of. And so will you, once we're back in our own universe.

[organ_pharming]

[The universe must really like him!]

Taken care of? My, that sounds exciting~

And what, may I ask, do you plan to do to me exactly?

[gunlegs]

Luna 1 has a cozy cell for you to stay in until High Command figures out what to do with you.

That exciting enough?

[hologram]

[littlecousin]

[Processing.]

...Starscream was nice, though.

[A sentence that has never before been uttered in any language.]