Denyer, thanks! I'm glad you like what you've seen.
A lot is explained here and there. One reason I've said it was "russian-esque" stems from my style: not sure I skim well.
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for pointing out the wrong word!
It's been fixed.
If anyone else spots any problem bits please point them out. I'd greatly appreciate it.
Some time ago I came up with: "The last edit you do is one edit too few." The problem is that you will often see the word that you expect to be there, and this was no exception.
As for posting here, I suppose I could alter my font selections to what's available: experiment a little. Though I love "impact" for drone speech (I used it for my pradulos – or "war machines" – in another as yet unpublished book) because it just feels right.
As for "daughters/girls," they threw in femmes for eye candy (which would explain the Barbie proportions, not a tomboy or full figure gal in sight) and then in the movie went one further and actually threw in "children" (at least just long enough to kill them all off – except for Wheelie, but his circumstances were different).
I only used "son" or "daughter" to describe a relationship to Cybertron (or any other homeworld, I suppose) as part of a poetic version of "Cybertronian" or just "Cybertron" (as was used in BW by the aliens).
One other odd thing about Lithone, not only were there crumb crunchers ("micro munchers?") but the ratio of femmes was much higher based on the screen shots.
Back in the day when this story first came to mind, this actually helped me to decide what was going on there, why Unicron came and why they were worried enough about the potential to have ships ready: Unicron was there because they were doing something they weren't supposed to be doing and – while he may be in rebellion against Primacron – he was essentially still performing his intended function as I saw it at the time. Namely: preserving Primacron's grand vision (or that portion agreeable to Unicron) by destroying the bits that don't comply with that vision.
Which would include the Alpha program that produced Magnus, so there must be leeway for the odd event (thus the "considered sparing" comment).
Now, before anyone thinks I'm saying these robots actually have special ... um ... equipment, please realize that they don't. At least not as far as I'm concerned. Even my doctor character confesses that they don't have any idea why they have gender – which is exactly the level of information that Primacron wanted them to have.
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