Megatron really wishes he could be talking to Strika about all this instead, honestly. He'd very much like to hear her stance. For all that he just about believes this Starscream when he says that he cares, he doesn't trust him as far as he could throw him -- which, with his diet restricted to fool's energon, is not particularly far.

Still. He's getting somewhere, even if it's somewhere egotistical and self-serving. He just hopes that's enough to get Starscream to actually make an effort at this.

"... What do your Decepticons stand for?" he asks, tilting his head a little as he contemplates how best to move this. "What do your Megatron's writings espouse?"