There's a brief pause before that falls into place, and Karkat raises his eyebrows, and his ears. "Cybertronians? Shit, really?" It doesn't really occur to him to ask which faction – Alternian schoolfeeding is pretty sparing when it comes to the differences, focussing more on how hard they failed to infiltrate Empire space. Instead he asks, "So what are they doing here? Are they like us, or what?"