"'Reformatted.'" Apparently that was funny, judging by Val's tone. Mechanical figures of speech, heh. "Before mysterious forces flattened your entire planet for a reinstall--overkill--did it have abundant energon, free-standing water, atomic oxygen, and techno-organic plant life? People have expressed surprise about finding all of those here."

She thought not on the last three, since they'd all be bad for people made of metal. Energon was at least not alien, though from context it sounded like they'd exhausted their resources. Probably one of the things they'd been fighting over. For giant space robots, they were very human.