( video | un: offseer )

[offseers]

[ this is strange to do without the iris network, but it isn't hard. every network is the same after all. ]

Hello. I have a few questions, if people don't mind.

1) How does time work here? Does it pass? Do people really get older?

2) Has anyone died on a mission?

3) How old are you?

I'd really appreciate it. Thank you.

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video, un: Ambus

[legalcy]

[A robot approaches.]

I don't recall any member of our crew dying on a mission, but time passes on the station just as it passes in each world. That lead to some issues in the past when looking for the orbs after spending too much time on one planet.

I, personally, am over 5 million years old, but I am an outlier among the organics.

[offseers]

[ a ferronis? with . . . a face? incredible. ]

What's it like, living that long?

[legalcy]

It's horrible how slowly most of us learn and change when we feel as if we can procrastinate for thousands of years, but I think I can accomplish a lot in that time.

[Both of those sentiments are being applied to himself.]

Although...it can be difficult to have friends with shorter lifespans.

[offseers]

[ slow to change . . . that feels right. the moebius . . . they don't want anything to change. not even themselves. ]

But you can change. You even want to.

[legalcy]

Well, yes. I think anyone can change.

[offseers]

. . . I'm not so sure about anyone.

[legalcy]

They have the capability to do so. It's up to them to take the initiative.

[offseers]

[ that makes sense. though he still wonders about moebius. could they change?

joran. joran had, but . . . ]

Do you ever feel the need to? After so many years, you must have seen it all.

[legalcy]

To change? [He rests his chin on one hand.] No, not from within.

[offseers]

Then how do you know you can?

[legalcy]

It's because I changed. I made friends and returned home as a person who can function outside of a war. I know of those who took steps to make amends for their actions knowing that they will never be forgiven.

Evidence shows that it's possible.

[offseers]

[ functioning outside of war. ]

What did you do after the war?

[legalcy]

I traveled. I joined a group of explorers in search for a lost planet, and I made friends. Then, upon returning home, I opened a facility to raise the youngest generation of Cybertronians.

That's just a gross generalization of my life. [His adventures could fit years of books.]

[offseers]

That's good to hear.

A few colonies I knew were starting lives outside of war. It took time to grasp the concept.

[legalcy]

Give it a few centuries. [Oh. Wait. They're likely organic.] Although considering your life spans, it may only take years.

[Human civilization changes very quickly from his perspective.]

[offseers]

[ noah shakes his head. ]

We don't have that kind of time. We only get ten years.

[legalcy]

Ten years until what?

[offseers]

Until we die.

[legalcy]

...Only ten?! How old are you?

[offseers]

I'm on my ninth term. Close to my tenth.

[legalcy]

And you were in a war for all nine?

[offseers]

We're always at war. It's a never-ending, ceaseless war.

[ even when they die, they return to the cradle. they come back and then they do it all over again. ]

[legalcy]

[So Noah is more of a Made-To-Order soldier, designed and built to fight and expected to die within the next battle. But Noah is one that survived.]

Can you take a break from the war, at any time? The next best solution is to carve out a life during times of calm.

[offseers]

[ noah slowly shakes his head. ]

It's not that simple. I can and a few others . . . but most of the soldiers are bound by the Flame Clock.

If they don't kill, their life runs out. They'll die. That's the cycle. You fight to live only to live to fight.

[legalcy]

You were created by someone else. Are you... [Hm, how does he politely ask this?]

Are you of an organic or mechanical nature?