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[The audio pops on and, without waiting overly long, a man starts to speak.]

This isn’t. Quite what I expected. Where is this?

… Is anyone actually here?

[He’s not exactly one for beating around the bush. Not when he can help it, anyway.
Also, if this is Peragus all over again, he’s going to scream. He cannot deal with dead silent empty places that should be teeming with people right now.]

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[He chuckles.] Not sure if me being a veteran to this sort of thing is good or bad, really.

I was curious, mostly. It's not a skill I'm terribly familiar with.

At least you're proof that someone can get out of weird situations alive.

Talking to machines? Or machines in general.

There's plenty of people around that have been in weird situations and gotten out. I'd be someone here has been in a situation even weirder than mine.

[Though he'd be hard to top.]

Talking to machines. Machines I already know, sort of.

I don't think that matters.

[Don't stop his optimism, man.]

I'm not too surprised. Are you a mechanic?

Guess we'll just have to see.

[He chuckles lightly at the question.]

Goodness no. I was never particularly good with machines. I'm just familiar with them. What about you?

I'm a Weapons/System Designer- I take the inventions of engineers and scientists and fix them up so everyone else can use them. I can also, as you've noticed, talk to any non-sentient machine.

What sort of machines are you used to? You don't seem to be having any problems with the comms, but you mentioned droids? [The things you said were like him! He wants to meet them!]

Sounds like you have a unique advantage over others in that career.

I did. Mechanical beings that served a variety of purposes. I haven't seen any here yet, though. Opinions on their independence and sentience. [He's hoping that certain ones won't show up, in fact.]

It's been useful.

Organic species don't usually have words to describe droids or any machine lifeforms that don't have connotations. Then, many Cybertronians view organic lifeforms the same way.

So who are Cybertronians?

Robotic organisms from the planet Cybertron. Sentient robotic organisms. We've only encountered humans recently.

Fascinating. [Fully independent, sentient droids, with their own planet. And presumably a way of assembling new ones themselves.] how have humans been to you so far?

Their responses were mixed, but I suppose that's common with humans or any sentient race. Some believe we can't actually think like we claim we can, but not all, and most that do still think we're going to take over or destroy their planet. The governments are the worst, but I think that's more because we inconvenience them than anything. [he sounds amused]

Then again, Soundwave was knighted by the Queen of England. I take it you don't know any sentient mechanical lifeforms aside from your own droids?

Well, most large organizations like governments don't like being shaken up too much. New species can certainly do that. [Heavens know he's been responsible for those reactions before.]

Well, droids can develop quirks and personality over time, but they're the only purely mechanical beings that we know of back home. [Cyborgs don't count, precisely.]

That's a shame. I'd like to meet a droid. Let me guess - they start out very function-oriented and devoted to their place in society, and it's only when they've had time to live a little that they start individualizing and opening up to new ideas?

[That sounded so much like many young Cybertronians he's known. Which aren't many (slagging war) but still.]

Something like that. I've heard theories that it's caused by programming degradation, but I think it's just a development of how they chose to react to the world. Though some of them... you might not want to meet.

[Even droids can get a bit murderous and psychotic.]

You might not want to meet half the population of my species. I think that's a risk with sentient beings no matter where they come from.

There's bad folks in most species. Good thing there's nice ones to make up for it.

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