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“Millennia?” There’s now a note of real distress in Megatron’s voice. “We lose Cybertron itself? I don’t understand. Even Starscream can’t be that much a fool—the organics view us as prey, slaves at best. That would be our doom. What happened—what could possibly happen?”

He wants to dismiss it with a shrug and a declaration that it won’t be so in his ‘verse, but he won’t. Enough horrors have already come to pass. It’s easy to stand here in his comfortable little room in Autobot Headquarters, the nicest space he’s ever been able to call his own, with good fuel in his tanks and as many datapads as he likes lining the walls, and declare such destruction impossible. But it is not easy to see a way to bring Optimus and the Decepticons to surrender. The Autobots are doing well enough, but not so well to make an overwhelming strike like that possible.

The idea that this war might leak on… it’s all too imaginable, and it scares him.

    「♚」 ◦      WHERE TO START ? How to explain the myriad factors and trails which led Cybertron into self-immolation, the near-complete annihilation of a galactic empire and a species once numbering in the tens of billions? There is no answer━━not without delving into a hundred thousand vorn of history first.

       ...perhaps he need not examine the excruciating details in this conversation. Megatron does not seem to be a historian; a war leader is more likely to be satisfied with a rough summary of events. 

❝ There were many mistakes made━━many of them long before my time. The failure of the Empire to heed the distress of its people, the failure of leaders to heed the welfare of their followers, the inability and unwillingness of those betrayed once too often to come to the bargaining table and forge a treaty. We all played a role in our own downfall and unfortunately the sunk costs by the time some of us realised were too great to turn back upon. ❞

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