redshiftrp | 01 ⚡ voice - un:starscream;

[ 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.

Threaded | Flat

[It's a good thing this is audio so Carlisle can't see this is a huge construct he's talking to. His life could use more mystery.]

Just what is it you're mining in this awful place? And why?

I haven't seen any excavation equipment just laying around, but I can definitely take a look around. Same with that other stuff, might have a couple parts sitting around in R&D, I'll see what we can do about the rest. What'd you find?

What'd you find?

[he's trying to keep his voice casual but if he was there he would be throttling Starscream to get info out of him. Assuming his hands fit around him. Which they wouldn't. Point still stands.]

In exchange for our servitude, you mean.

[ Yeah, Qubit kinda did think Starscream had been Ported out! He's hard to miss, being a giant robot and all. (But also he's hard to miss, in the sense that Qubit didn't like him much and was not terribly concerned about his absence.) ]

Well, welcome back. Care to tell us why we're starting a major mining operation all of a sudden?

[audio; un: longinmouth]

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