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[b]Location:[/b] Coruscant

Upon finishing his introduction, Optimus Prime decided to stand in the corner of the meeting room, his three other officers following after him. Unfortunately the room was not designed with Cybertronians in mind as the four Autobots could neither sit down or stand up fully without hitting their heads on the ceiling.

The Autobots decided to remain silent as the various other parties introduced themselves, Jazz noting that the heavily armored biologicals had a reaction to the sight of the Cybertronians. But Jazz decided to ignore it, as the Autobots probably seemed like some strange alien race. But to the group of Autobots in this room, these biologicals of seemingly the same species were foreign to them, having never encountered them before.

Admiral Killian then began to speak mentioning that something called a Jedi would be coming to test the sincerity of the dimensional travelers. Optimus Prime was fine with this, knowing in his Spark that he and his comrades intentions were pure. As for the other parties, Optimus hoped for the best that they were sincere in wanting to help. Yet he couldn’t help but glance with his optics at the one called Warmaster Horus.

The biological known as Colonel Carter, apparently an expert on the Replicators, then spoke, passing some sort of portable computer to each of the gathered factions. The Autobots weren’t really sure what to do with it as the buttons were much too small for their over sized mechanical digits. So instead they focused on what the Colonel had to say.

Apparently the Replicators could consume metallic material to create more of them, which given the fact that they were on a planet sized city did raise a lot of concern in Optimus. This scourge also had something called a human version, Hound assuming that a human was the name of the species that all these biologicals seemed to be.

Prowl took intense interest when the topic of how to defeat the Replicators came up. As Chief Tactical Officer of the Ark, it would be up to him to prepare a strategy to combat the rampant machines. While the Replicators were immune to energy weapons, apparently projectile weapons would do the trick. Thankfully, the Ark and its Autobot warriors did have a good supply of projectile weapons, and those currently with energy ones could switch.

The armored humans then showed off one of their projectile weapons. Optimus couldn’t help but be impressed as they explained its functions, though he did note that the size would better suit a Cybertronian than one of these humans. But that awe was quickly broken, when the Warmaster suggested that the ships began orbitally bombarding the planet below.

The Autobot commander was immediately taken a back by this idea. Daniel Jackson had said that there were over a trillion beings living on Coruscant, and with it being a city planet, that meant they were probably tightly packed together. Firing at even one area controlled by the Replicators would cause massive loss of life for the locales.

But before Optimus could object, the human known as Picard did. After rebuffing the ideas of Horus, Picard then suggested that the gathered alliance could try to negotiate with the Replicators as some of them had sentience.

“I agree that negotiations most always be attempted before one declares war,” added Optimus Prime.

But then Daniel Jackson, apparently a different being than the one who brought the Autobots here, jumped in and debunked the notion that the Replicators could be reasoned with as even the human form just existed to consume. While that didn’t technically mean they were evil, it did mean that they were a threat to every reality in existence. Optimus figured that once they consumed Coruscant and the rest of this galaxy, they would just look for a new one to feed on. That universe could easily be the Autobots’ own.

After Carter talked of creating a powerful disruptor, and O’Neill of using teleportation to evacuate the planet, Optimus turned to his Science Officer, Hound.

“Would it be possible to use our space bridge technology to evacuate Coruscant?” Optimus asked.

“Unfortunately no. We could open a portal to the planet below, but it would only be one way from the Ark to the planet,” replied Hound, “We would need some kind of mini space bridge generator to bring down to the planet. But all work on a mini generator was stalled by the evacuation of Cybertron.”

Optimus briefly paused, “And what of this disruptor weapon Carter speaks of?”

“Well, Wheeljack would probably be better suited for that, but I bet if we pool our technology together we could come up with something,” answered Hound.

Optimus then approached the center of the room and began to speak, “I’ll send my best minds to help work on the disruptor. As for evacuating, my ship the Ark could ferry evacuees away. While it is not massive, we should be able to fit several thousand beings if they are the same size as you humans. After all the Ark was built to evacuate beings off a dangerous planet.”

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[b]Location:[/b] Mandalore

As Christopher, Alex, Lorna, and Carol were led by the royal guard through the city, they couldn’t help but notice the similarities between this world of Mandalore and that of planets in Shi’Ar space. Even though he knew he was in an alternate universe, Christopher could believe that this city was designed under the leadership of the Majestrix of the Shi’Ar Imperium.

After a brief walk, the Starjammers were led to a warehouse nearby some docks. The pirates were then motioned to enter the building by their guard escort. Inside Christopher found a nearly empty warehouse, save more guards and a regal figure at then end of the building. The Captain of the Starjammer could only assume that this was the Duchess that had been mentioned over the comms.

The woman then confirmed that she was the Duchess Satine before welcoming the assembled parties. However, before Christopher could ask any questions, the Duchess asked how it was possible that they had arrived from alternate universes. Only for one group to mention dimensional engineering. Considering he was from a planet that didn’t even have faster than light travel, Christopher was out of his league when it came to knowledge of science. But then the others simplified by saying a powerful being named Daniel brought them.

“Yeah he kind of popped in out of nowhere, asking if we could help save a universe,” added Christopher.

Then one of the more heavily armored people removed their helmet, revealing a good looking red haired woman. Christopher tried not to stare, instead shifting his thoughts over to his beloved Hepzibah. But then the redhead stated that they had been gathered to fight machines attacking Coruscant.

At the mention of the threat to Coruscant, Duchess Satine confirmed that there was talk of a plague on the planet, but that the gathered individuals were far off from the Republic capital. The redhead then asked the most pressing question: Why were we here?

“Yeah, Daniel had said that we were to help with the fight on Coruscant, but we’re here on, Mandalore I think you called it. What’s the deal with that?” asked Carol.

“I don’t know, in all my time as a superhero, I’ve encountered a few ascended beings,” stated Lorna, “And they’re always mysterious, not doing exactly as they said they would.”

“Hold on ladies, maybe the Duchess does have an answer,” said Christopher.

But the Captain of the Starjammer wasn’t entirely sure that Satine could provide an answer. She seemed quite shocked by their arrival, so she could easily be just as in the dark as the dimensional travelers were.