01 ⚡ voice - un:starscream;

[vosseeker]

[ You'd be forgiven for thinking that this world had sent Starscream away, considering he hasn't been present in Anchor for a good while. Not down in the public park, not in the vehicle bays, not even poking around engineering. No word of a departure, no expected return.

And yet here he is! Spending an obscenely long time in the garage decontamination showers, until the systems check finally says he's free of dangerous radiation levels. Sadly, it seems Anchor is not yet free of him. ]

In all your little scurrying about and exploring this place, tell me someone has come across excavation equipment. Specifically rock drills and cutters. For that matter, are there any hauling carts? Mag-grav would be best, I'm not carrying this all back by hand. I'm not a mining drone.

Further, I require the following items:

[ He lists off about a dozen parts, which individually aren't that special, but combined sound an awful lot like he's building a distillation tank. ]

Finally, I have high fidelity scans of planetary areas outside the colony. In exchange for assistance with extracting my located resources, I will share them with the rest of you.

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[vosseeker]

[ Whereas Starscream assumes that any delay is simply a result of him not yet accumulating enough goodwill among the Anchorites to warrant urgency. Being under Megatron's command does not do wonders for one's skewed sense of merit. ]

I will send you a file regarding cubes, but refining for immediate use needs to take priority over storage. If it cannot be done here, I will assemble a power core and take the distillation unit out to the crevasse and use it on site.

[ Look, he's really hungry. Qubit's offer to get him settled in the R&D sector is interpreted not as a gesture of kindness, but as a proposal meant to be bartered for. ]

In exchange for?

[superposition]

[ Hm. Making it portable will be tricky, they might have to do it in real small batches. But if anyone can make it work, it's Qubit. ]

Nothing in particular. Consider it a favor, how's that?

[ A favor which may, of course, be called in at some point... ]

[vosseeker]

[ Owing an unspecified favour is never ideal (unless Starscream is the one getting to call it in) but he does acknowledge there are limited options at this point. ]

I'll consider it.