He furrows his brow at that, but because he's curious instead of angry. His ears lift, betraying the urgency of his interest and they turn forward attentively. He makes a weird clicking sound, with no immediate lingual purpose.

"I don't actually know a ton about Cybertron's rule," he says. "If the Decepticons ever did anything to overturn it, the Empire sure as hell didn't put it in the history books. They kind of try to avoid that kind of thing."