User blog:Bzero/Ratchet - Report on Valvolux

< Audio Only > Chief Medical Officer log, Cyberdate 73239.7. I returned from Valvolux last night and I’m still mulling over how much to report. I went there to investigate half-eaten parts shipments from Valvolux. I suspected Insecticons. What I found was much worse: Strong evidence of Scraplets. Valvolux has a real infection on their hands and my first thought was plague.

“My original recommendation was going to be closing our embassy there and pulling out of the city completely. However, I talked to their security head Takedown and she made the case that a broad announcement would just cause panic and that closing the embassy would hurt Autobot/Valvolux relations at a crucial time when we need to work together. I’m a doctor, not an ambassador, so I’ll leave that up to command.

“Every shipment from Valvolux, however, needs to be carefully scanned for scraplets before it’s let into Iacon. I hate to say it, but we might want to scan visitors from that polity as well. We can’t afford a scraplet outbreak here while our medical services are already so overtaxed. I offered to help treat their problem at the source, but I was kindly but sternly rebuffed. Their city, their problem, seems to be the consensus.

“So, I guess we protect our own city and wait. One damn scraplet, however, and I’m having Inferno douse the whole damn city in water. Ratchet out.”