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[reapsthewind]

not that anyone noticed but raoul light's missing, as in totally missing, as in, after i hadn't heard from him in a while i went so far as to check up on his usual piano playing haunts and he's not been seen in a long while

given that he was an ex-cop with some pretty obvious mutations who was already on a hit-list for being a socialist i

yeah

i feel like we need a list of the dead

and for every name on it, we'll torture one of theirs. slowly. and leave them alive, to twist in the wind. bastards.

other news: not dead. giant thing at rachel's house -- anyone get samples of the pink stuff, and have you started doing some good old fashioned science yet?


From: c.starsky@lcu.edu
To: b.ratchet@lcu.edu

The stuff I remember is called Energon. After that incident at the party, I remembered this:

[There's two files -- one is in Cybertronian, in Decepticon script; the other is in English. Both describe a formula for making Energon, and some instructions on how to safely contain the stuff]

Does that match up with what you know? It seems kind of unstable. ... I included the file in Cybertronian because it's more elegant in that language, I can explain it to you though? It takes some getting used to but it's an amazingly useful notation for writing out engineering formulas in.

I'm free pretty much all the time, though both my living spaces are small and I'll need a ride if we're going anywhere. Let's do some horribly ill-advised science.

- C. Starsky


From: starscream@gmail.com
To: whatever mordin's email is k

I remembered how to make Energon. Working with a colleague on it, but figured you'd be interested. It's a method of converting energy from just about anything into a semi-stable liquid or solid form.

[same attachment]

And I mean literally any form of energy. I mean, some things are more efficient than others, as you can see converting chemical energy from food doesn't work nearly as well as it should, which is probably why things aren't working.

Also, here's the relative power draws, as near as I can estimate, of just keeping my limbs moving vs the guns vs full on flight. Interestingly, while I thought at first the engines in my legs were jet engines, they're actually not; they can work in a vacuum. It's some sort of electromagnetic pulse system, I think, I'm not sure how to describe it in English as I remember it in some crazy alien language. In any case, the power draw is still lower than a jet engine, but way higher than my guns.

I'm from SPACE.

Comments

[testsonseashells]

Would classify that as "unstable" myself, but to each their own. Admit I'm not familiar with nomenclature for these types of things. Have to say, "Cybertron" most disappointing name for an alien planet featuring robotic organisms yet.


Then again, our planet called "Earth".

[reapsthewind]

Unstable's probably a better word.

And yeah come on, what kind of a name for a planet is "Earth."

[testsonseashells]

Literally, "dirt". Or "soil".

In any case, want to know about Cybertron. Anything that stands out?

[reapsthewind]

Not much, unfortunately. I know that something left it drained of all its resources. And I think it's probably almost entirely a metropolis, if it's the same planet I saw in an earlier memory. It probably is.

[testsonseashells]

Entirely?

Explains resource consumption, but wouldn't think any planet could support even three-fourths metropolis.

[reapsthewind]

I dunno how it works. And maybe it was just an optical illusion, but I was really high up and the city seemed to stretch from horizon to horizon.

I mean, they might also have an entirely different ecology, or maybe it was a factory planet part of some other... system. Might explain the dumb name.

[testsonseashells]

Factory planet makes sense, actually - as colony, would survive by shipping and thus not require native resources.

Has suddenly occurred to me that I'm hypothesizing insterstellar colonial civilization based on one view of metropolis planet.

[reapsthewind]

fffffff it's fun though

I'll let you know if I remember more, for sure.

[testsonseashells]

Remember anything about the creature you're becoming? Got a full physiology echo for salarians on my end.

[reapsthewind]

mmm not much

they're inorganic and I think they were made in factories, BUT, nobody understood how the factories actually worked?? or well, the robots manning the factory didn't

[testsonseashells]

More interesting than salarian reproduction. Apparently, consisted of external fertilization of eggs in breeding pools. Non-hormonal, too

[reapsthewind]

thaaaaat's sorta gross for sure

[testsonseashells]

Your species made in factories.

[reapsthewind]

that's not gross that's just

no different than cars man!

[testsonseashells]

This no different than frogs or salamanders.

[reapsthewind]

frogs and salamanders are gross :|

[testsonseashells]

Will be sure to remember these comments the next time you're in my clinic.