She started recording them with a device in her lower left arm.
“Tell me everything that I don’t know about Bludgeon’s movement.”
“Well, we were supposed to try to stop the Decepticons from corrupting the world nations into destroying each others. There was this event called the Cold War. It was pretty similar to our war but… No fighting.”
“The basics. What the general public knows about you, really.”
@Chromeharpoon “The humans are doing pretty well with their colonisation, tho they still separate themselves over things like nationality. They finished the Barnard and Luhman solar systems and now are going for Wolf and Lalande.”
This names would not sound familiar to Salvo.
“The public knows about us?” Shakedown asks. “I thought Bludgeon and Thunderblast kept their little uprising under wraps.”
“The dude stole a whole-aft fleet, hired a buncha pirates and Lockdown, and made off with several battalions on top of that,” Gearbox says to his comrade. “Try keeping that a secret.”
“Ah,” Salvo reacts, hiding her unfamiliarity with the names. “Really now? Good for them.”
The hall opened up to a massive chamber up ahead, lit by rays of sunlight and supported by thirteen monolithic columns that rose out of the ground.
“So,” Facelift says, “the map on the Key…?”
“Merely leads to another piece of the Omega Lock,” the male guard assumes.
“Great,” the doctor sighs. “And how many pieces are there?”
The male guard shrugs his shoulders. “No-one knows.”
Part of the controls included a map of Planet Omega, though the rest would be difficult for Gatecrasher and Epsilon to understand, as it was written in cyberglyphics.
The four Decepticons look to one another.
“Couple months ago, maybe?” Tossup replies. “Bludgeon’d been putting everything together for a while.”
“Ah,” Salvo reacts.
Zepar would find information lending credence to the possibility of the repair mechanisms basing their modifications to Salvation off of information given to them by the Omega Key.
Zepar tries contacting the Inquisitive Savant’s AI to ask if she could transmit the upgrades she had thought up for the Salvation to the control room he was currently in.
Epsilon tries to recall who he was able to contact that knew how to translate Cyberglyphics.