"Well, immediately after the Senate was finally dismantled, the plan was to have Decepticon forces occupying every major Cybertronian city so that Megatron could begin the post-Functionist reform -- starting with an overhaul of the nursery system, and the job assignment protocols with it -- but by then the Autobots were already organizing, and even after the fall of the Senate, there were still pockets of the old memory trying to resist against the Decepticons."
Starscream hadn't joined the revolution until a little later, so the beginnings of it he'd only seen from the other side, but he's pretty well-versed in both sides of history by now. "The Autobots opposed the occupations, and then it became about territory, and they attacked the cities -- they even took some back and got enough of a foothold to keep the fighting going. The public opinion on the war is...mixed," he admits begrudgingly, wobbling a hand back and forth, "and the Autobots were preemptively offering protection to civilians the second they had enough forces to do so. And now Cybertron's sustainability is in decline, and the fight is shifting focus from territory to resources -- not just energy, but nurseries too." He frowned. "The Decepticons only control a handful of nurseries right now. They're pretty fiercely guarded."
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"Well, immediately after the Senate was finally dismantled, the plan was to have Decepticon forces occupying every major Cybertronian city so that Megatron could begin the post-Functionist reform -- starting with an overhaul of the nursery system, and the job assignment protocols with it -- but by then the Autobots were already organizing, and even after the fall of the Senate, there were still pockets of the old memory trying to resist against the Decepticons."
Starscream hadn't joined the revolution until a little later, so the beginnings of it he'd only seen from the other side, but he's pretty well-versed in both sides of history by now. "The Autobots opposed the occupations, and then it became about territory, and they attacked the cities -- they even took some back and got enough of a foothold to keep the fighting going. The public opinion on the war is...mixed," he admits begrudgingly, wobbling a hand back and forth, "and the Autobots were preemptively offering protection to civilians the second they had enough forces to do so. And now Cybertron's sustainability is in decline, and the fight is shifting focus from territory to resources -- not just energy, but nurseries too." He frowned. "The Decepticons only control a handful of nurseries right now. They're pretty fiercely guarded."