Because comparative science is... fun..?

[angleofscience]

WHO: Jetfire and Skyfire
WHERE: Jetfire's lab on one of the terraces surrounding Liege's temple.
WHEN: Around now.
WHAT: Sharing history - and the differences.
WARNINGS: None.


It had hardly been a pressing priority to have this comparative talk, but it'd still been something Jetfire had looked forward to - mostly anyway, given some of the possible subjects that'd come up. The chance to get to have a comprehensive comparison of two similar-but-different angles in two different realities.

Themselves, that was.

"We know a few things already, since it's quite impossible to not pick these things up..." Trailing off, Jetfire smiled slightly, and sat down, still somewhat surprised he'd managed to find seating large enough to hold him comfortably... and Skyfire as well, in this case.

"The two immediate crossing vectors being at least some time frozen on Earth, and Starscream." The latter one didn't surprise him at all. Then he frowned slightly, resting his curled hand against his chin in thought. "You were in the ice a lot longer than I was, however. I was... er, involved in the war nearly from the beginning." Pausing, he spread his hands and looked to Skyfire.

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[wherenobotsgone]

That did make sense. It must have felt gradual, for those who had been there since the beginning. He'd seen it in his own world too. Now they were at a point when even those who were old enough to remember a time before the war talked about it as if it had been going on forever.

As for the rest... Skyfire had to agree. He smiled a little, though it mostly came out sad.

"We have to believe it will stop sometime, right?" he said. "The thought of fighting on and on with no real end in sight... It'd be too much to take."

[angleofscience]

It was a little hard not to talk about it like that, even if all of them well-remembered the before. It simply became hard to think too closely on, easier to not dwell too much, and stay in the present.

"Precisely. Not beliveing it would be like... never letting your processor rest and defrag I think." Somber, Jetfire shook his helm and briefly it felt... like it was too much. But that was neither here or now and even so, they'd been close to peace more than once. It was not impossible.

"Simply not possible if you'd want to remain functional. But I don't see why it wouldn't end. For us, it almost has, a few times." That... might have been the grim latching onto a statement that simply was necessary to make and believe in.

[wherenobotsgone]

"Then there must still be hope," Skyfire replied. Or, at least, he wanted to believe that. Even if it was just 'almost' - there was a chance that this would, eventually, all end.

How it might end was a different story. It was also something that he'd rather not think about too much.

"I have to believe that, in any case," he admitted. "That we can still work towards peace somehow."

[angleofscience]

"It's a belief I'm holding onto as well," said Jetfire as he walked back to the bench where he'd left the samples of ore and rocks earlier in the discussion and carefully picked among them.

"It gets a bit hard to avoid the depressing nature of it, thinking about it this closely." It was more an off-hand, idle comment than anything else, but then Jetfire shrugged and looked over, lips quirking in a smile. "Should we perhaps return to something of a less... ah, heavy nature?"

It might be better for now, anyway, interesting discussions to be had from it or not. Besides, who could say no to science?

[wherenobotsgone]

It was a relief to hear that, in a way. Not that Skyfire wasn't enjoying the conversation - but it was getting depressing by now. And, of course, the temptation of going back to those samples was too strong.

"Of course," he replied. "We've got science to do, after all."