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robot satan ([personal profile] robotsatan) wrote in [community profile] robothell2014-12-19 11:20 pm

[ INTRO LOG ]

You don't know how you got here. One minute you were walking, sleeping, maybe dead -- then you're here, your feet suddenly carrying you down an empty street. Where's here?

Any Cybertronian would recognize this as their home planet, Cybertron, but it's not a Cybertron they've ever known. It has all the familiar hallmarks, but none of the specifics -- the city isn't one anyone here could identify, and even at a glance it's obvious that no one's set foot on the planet's surface in hundreds of years. The city and its surrounding areas all bear the marks of devastating war, of dust and rust collected over centuries. With no one in sight -- right at first, anyway -- there's plenty to explore. In fact, if you start walking, you'll find that your feet may just carry you in one particular direction.

A) The crater.
On one edge of the city is a massive crater left by some wartime weapon that seems to have taken out a large chunk of the surrounding metropolitan area. At the center of the crater it's broken through the surface of the terrain to reveal what looks like it might be a promising energon deposit. There is some strange but native vegetation growing around the edges, too, that no Cybertronian would be able to identify -- small, metallic, brittle-looking sprouts that bear a curiously organic-looking fruit of some kind that doesn't look like it's intended for consumption by any natives of the planet. In one rocky nook of the crater, light catches on the surface of a pool of water, which seems strangely out of place on Cybertron. On closer inspection, it seems that somehow an underground water source has formed a spring in the crater.

B) The center of the city.
If you follow where your feet seem to want to carry you, you'll find yourself in the middle of the ruined city. It seems that the center of the city was once home to a massive forum, and some of the pillars and structures still stand. At the very center of the forum is a massive, elaborately constructed fountain, although it has now long since run dry of whatever used to fill it. One of the low, inner walls of the forum has a terminal embedded in its surface, although it looks curiously ancient, out of place with the rest of the city, and unlike the rest of the technology still left around, there doesn't seem to be any way to power it on or operate it. There are a few scattered pools of water and a few of the strange metallic plants in the city, too, but they're not quite as plentiful as in the crater.

The planet was obviously once home to a massive network of communication relays, but those have all been long since destroyed. However, with the bits and pieces left behind and a few determined minds, it wouldn't be too hard to build a working, if rudimentary, one...
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[personal profile] milkruns 2015-01-11 08:07 pm (UTC)(link)
"It most certainly was not a coincidence," June says, her mouth pinched. Now that she knows that this Megatron means her no harm -- so far anyway -- she has a much easier time taking that Mom Tone. "The Autobots and the Decepticons have made my planet their latest battleground. It had something to do with resources, I guess -- I don't know all the details -- but trust me, it hasn't exactly been good for us."
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[personal profile] aminerproblem 2015-01-19 05:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Ordinarily he'd take issue with an authoritative tone, but given June wasn't a threat, she totally got away with Momming it up.

"Energon isn't a common resource," which meant their situation was quite unfortunate,"Unless it was something else."

"It's terrible that your world was wrapped up in our... issues. No one really deserves that."
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[personal profile] milkruns 2015-01-24 04:02 am (UTC)(link)
"No, I'm pretty sure it was energon. Go figure," June says. She looks at Megatron, thoughtful and considering. He's...genuine, way more than June was expecting. "It's nice of you to say, though. ...You really don't seem much like the other Megatrons I know. In that you're not a power hungry despot, I mean."