by FuzzymusPrime » Fri Feb 03, 2012 2:40 pm
Bottom of the Yellow Sea
With all of the Constructicons assembled, Scrapper took a moment to collect himself before beginning his response. "You're quite right, Mixmaster, and in fact thats exactly what I had hoped to accomplish if we'd been given the chance. But we weren't, despite our efforts. We have all the preperations done, and if we had 10 Breems alone, I'm sure we could have the dome assembled and drained to form stage 1 of the base. But its probable we don't even have that long."
"I don't think any of us doubted this would happen eventually, it was obvious that without Megatron, someone would make this power play. And I don't mind saying, I didn't support Starscream because I wanted to, but rather because I would have had to start a civil war right there and then to stop him. I've tried to play for time, ever since, to give us a chance to finish the Devestator project, but we've run out."
"As I see it, we have three options. Sticking with Starscream really isn't one, even if he had the loyalty to win a fight with Shockwave, he'd still be too flawed as a leader We can respond to Shockwaves call, but only to declare allegiance, and try to continue on the construction while under his protection. We can tell Shockwave about the Devestator project, in order to get resources to complete it faster, but that means giving up our independence in the hopes Shockwave will bring order to the Decepticons. Lastly, we can break contact with all sides, and continue the project with the resources at hand, ignoring any civil war until we have the power to end it ourselves."
"These are all risky ideas, and none of them are perfect, but we're used to working in imperfect circumstances. Still, I want feedback from all of you. If you support any of these ideas, or have one of your own, say it now."
"We don't have long to decide. War waits for no mech."