Technically he was even the senior commander, giving that it was his idea, his ship, and his crew. Nowadays, though, especially with Grimlock having left (temporarily) to help Optimus on Earth, Magnus was as much the commander as him.

"Doesn't surprise me. Is he similar to the one that was here?" She pauses, and can't help a little grin as she uses the single greatest understatement in the history of everything: "A little... brash?"

Leaning back in her seat, rolling up the cable and then slotting it back in its place, the glow of Elita's optics softened in thought and longing both.

"He does rather well. At least well enough to not mind the nickname too much," she said with a dry chuckle, shaking her helm slowly. She missed them.