Wentera wrote:"Average day for a Decepticon on Cybertron?"
- A Wenteran Cultural Inquisitor
"If a Decepticon haven't been shipped out to battle, then the average day is basically this: you'll most often find Decepticons performing military exercises, practising raids and battle scenarios, or they're working in politics, law, economics or with some other kind of private firm. Employees working in private corporations are expected to swear their loyalty to Megatron every solar cycle, as well as participate in 'Five Minutes of Info': it's basically a speech about the Autobots, and it's also a good time to have them vent their aggression against the Autobots. We often have Autobot-loving inmates, cowards and traitors executed during this time; sometimes we throw the prisoner to the crowd if they're riled up enough. Not that we do it just then - it's just that it's we believe the best time to terminate them. We don't often go to 'sleep' (we call sleep 'voluntary stasis lock'); we can stay up for as long as we can... or at least until our processor is overheating, but that takes a long time to happen, and we have materials ready to reverse that if needed.
During the morning and evening, either Megatron or one of his esteemed officials will have a speech, and all true Decepticons are to either attend in person or watch it on their telescreens or their DataPads/DataPhones. The speech is often about Megatron's plans for the day, the most important or interesting battles going on near the Constellate, the government is praised and then Autobot prisoners are either brought out to be sent to forced labour in a mining colony, for example, or execution. It normally lasts for anywhere from ten kliks or an entire solar cycle, depending on how patient Megatron is that day. Oh, and we have devices and secret cameras installed in and around telescreens, as well as just within any building and other similar construction on Cybertron, so we can ensure that they're actually watching the broadcast and they aren't lying. If they aren't, well, all I can say is that they'd be visited by the Inquisition for their 'loyalty to Megatron to be inspected and rectified'. I should also mention that all Decepticons will be mandated to practise their aim, whether that's on Autobots, organics, or mech-made targets that they either made themselves or bought from a state-owned retailer.
Oh, and at any point, Decepticons can be conscripted into the army without warning. There, they will receive sufficient training and will be sent to a planet either on a starship or through a space bridge that will send them to a planet set to be annexed into the Constellate. From then on, it isn't really average, though I'd say that you should expect a shit-ton of action there. I, for example, have, and so have most Decepticons."
- Star-Wraith, Decepticon marks-mech.
Aeiouia wrote:Another transmission containing terrible grammar is detected:"The Yuck Sphere say goodbye and goodbye went. Does make Yuck Sphere goodbye to Mineral Sphere? I like Mineral Sphere, and Yuck Sphere is bad. Want to make more Yuck Sphere goodbye to Mineral Sphere. What am? Like Cyber Train Mineral Sphere hello? No Critter please."
"Alright, I think I'm starting to understand their language more with experience... I think. Yuck Sphere means organic planet; Mineral Sphere either means planet to colonize or a planet like Cybertron; Cyber Train means Cybertron; Critter means organic.
You're talking about us converting organic-based planets into metallic planets like Cybertron, correct? Well, we first either wipe out its indigenous species or enslave them - the survivors, if there are any, are then annexed into the empire and are, if they're organic, turned into slaves and are transported to any mining colonies in the planet. If they are mechanical lifeforms like us, they're integrated into our military and are mentally moulded into Decepticon soldiers, though they will always remain lesser than us Transformers. After that, we then begin to construct metal casings around the planet and remove some of the organic layers beneath if possible. We then begin to construct the structures you'd normally view on Cybertron. After a few stellar cycles, the cyberformation process will have finished, and we then will just need to ensure that the metal casings have been sealed around the planet, and that there's enough of them that there is little chance that they will be completely destroyed for one reason or another. If the need arises, and if we don't need to mine any resources from it, we sterilize the planet to ensure that nothing arises from the surface to attack us, among other reasons.
We share our belief that mechanical planets are preferable to organic-based planets. If you don't want any critters on the planet, then we'd be happy to provide some soldiers and help you wipe out their civilisation and cyberform it, though we'd like to be recompensed for our time, of course. I'd suggest that your weaponry on your sapient starships should be state-of-the-art at all times; you must upgrade your weaponry when possible if you don't want any critters, as you call the organics, on your planet. As for the minerals we use, we use giant metal casings to cyberform the planet, and we use Omega Locks to seal the casings to the planet and create some more metal casings around the planet, as well as to have them bore into the ground. Sometimes, however, we use a range of devices to convert planets into an environment that's more like Cybertron at a quicker rate - though this can be less thorough."
- Megatron, Supreme Emperor of the Decepticon Star Empire.
