"That would put a damper on any questioning," he admits. Still. Decepticon. It's just so... Obvious. Like Arkillo. Or Sinestro. Or Despero.

There's a long, long silence from Babbage. "...Well, you're only about several orders of magnitude older than my entire culture, but how do you do?" What else could you say? An AI can fit a lifetime into a minute. The idea of lasting for millions of years, not just millennia, but Maha-Yugas is just... Well, it's quite a lot to process.