Cyberformed Inbox

[legalcy]

"You have reached the personal frequency of Ultra Magnus. I am unable to answer your call either due to a scheduled priority or an emergency. If the issue requires my immediate attention, begin your message by stating "Emergency" and the level of threat or writing that information in the subject header. Please leave your name, time and date of contact, message, and location. I will respond at the nearest opportunity."

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[legalcy]

[His optics dim with uncertainty.]

He said that you and your Megatron were dead in his universe. It seems that he always betrays his superiors no matter from which dimension he comes.

[So not the one that tortured his brother. That’s…marginally better.]

Anyway [Back to sitting up straight and looking like he’s doing okay] tell me what types of crimes he commits. The Tarn I know focuses on prolonged torture and blatant violent displays, but as you said, he is not the same.

[autobotshield]

I suppose it is accurate to say that he is the same as any other megalomaniac that's ever wanted to conquer Cybertron. He has incited violence, lied and tricked his way towards a powerful artifact, used that artifact to enslave his own people, and put me in a fighting pit where I spent hours fighting for my life until I was rescued by Autobots and Decepticons alike.

[He's over all this, so explaining the torturous experience of being violently beaten for hours is hardly anything.]

However, the difficult thing about this is that he is from a point just before he commits all these atrocities and I come from a point long after. As of the time he is from, he has done virtually nothing wrong.

[legalcy]

Oh. Then I can assume that he killed your counterparts in his universe?

[That nasty habit of murderers - hiding crucial facts behind incomplete truths.]

On this ship, one's history in their home universe is not meant to dictate how we treat them. Unless he partakes in dangerous activity, I cannot jail him or observe him any more than the other crew members. [He wants to say that he hopes that this Tarn won't become a mass murderer, but when does the best outcome ever happen?] Be careful, Optimus.

[autobotshield]

Yes, though the other version of me died a long, long time ago.

[It's a huge time and multiverse thing Magnus, they don't need to get into it.]

For now, I believe that Tarn will behave. I will take full responsibility for his behaviour.