Rules, Punishment, and Sacrifice
IDW Ironfist
The weather had been downright volatile since Ironfist had arrived in Nexus, and having spent the storm in safety at the NerdLab, he decided to venture out into the surrounding neighborhood to investigate his surroundings for a bit.
Here we go with round two of trying to express myself through writing. Apparently these prompts are a common thing here in Nexus. Wherever Nexus may be.
Rules
Rules are what got us into this war in the first place, aren't they? Aren't rules what start every war? One side likes the rules, one side doesn't. Or maybe groups go to war over how they think the rules should be set. But for the most part, the rules in my life have been set forth to keep me safe and in line. Rules when I was young to keep me out of the wrong areas, to make sure I studied properly, etc. Rules in inventing to make sure i don't hurt myself or anyone else while the weapon is in the early stages. ... Whoops. I always wonder why we have rules in war? Why even bother? Organized madness? It seems to me like maybe the Autobots only have themselves to blame for their failures in this war. We put so many rules and restrictions on ourselves. But maybe that's what makes us the good guys. We don't fight dirty. Mostly.
Punishment
Here's another subject that seems almost ridiculous to me in a war. I understand punishing your own soldiers when they disobey, but why bother locking away war criminals? Maybe I am just biased as a weapons engineer. But I'm not happy about the deaths, I just think it would be easier to kill an opposing soldier on the battlefield than to try to lock them up. Now that I'm thinking about it, I really don't want to get too far into this subject.
Sacrafice
What have I sacrificed? Friends, family, sanity, time, effort, energon... I remember a time when there wasn't a war and I thought passing up on a refuel once a month was bad. I realize that as an engineer who is generally sheltered from the battlefield, I haven't sacrificed as much as some soldiers. After all, I still have my life, for now. But I think i may have sacrificed so much more... My innocence is gone, and every time I send a new weapon out the door, more and more of me dies inside when I think about the death toll that weapon is going to rack up. But still, weapons are necessary for war, and even if I stopped making them, others wouldn't, and I like to hold on to the hope, though false it may be, that my weapons can save lives by killing others faster and more efficiently.
I've gotten off topic and put myself in a bad mood. Time to see what the weather has done here, I guess.
Ironfist Out.
He shut the datapad off and tucked it away in his subspace, vents heaving a sigh as he looked around at the buildings and roads around him, littered with light debris from the recently-passed flash-flood and thunderstorm.
The weather had been downright volatile since Ironfist had arrived in Nexus, and having spent the storm in safety at the NerdLab, he decided to venture out into the surrounding neighborhood to investigate his surroundings for a bit.
Here we go with round two of trying to express myself through writing. Apparently these prompts are a common thing here in Nexus. Wherever Nexus may be.
Rules
Rules are what got us into this war in the first place, aren't they? Aren't rules what start every war? One side likes the rules, one side doesn't. Or maybe groups go to war over how they think the rules should be set. But for the most part, the rules in my life have been set forth to keep me safe and in line. Rules when I was young to keep me out of the wrong areas, to make sure I studied properly, etc. Rules in inventing to make sure i don't hurt myself or anyone else while the weapon is in the early stages. ... Whoops. I always wonder why we have rules in war? Why even bother? Organized madness? It seems to me like maybe the Autobots only have themselves to blame for their failures in this war. We put so many rules and restrictions on ourselves. But maybe that's what makes us the good guys. We don't fight dirty. Mostly.
Punishment
Here's another subject that seems almost ridiculous to me in a war. I understand punishing your own soldiers when they disobey, but why bother locking away war criminals? Maybe I am just biased as a weapons engineer. But I'm not happy about the deaths, I just think it would be easier to kill an opposing soldier on the battlefield than to try to lock them up. Now that I'm thinking about it, I really don't want to get too far into this subject.
Sacrafice
What have I sacrificed? Friends, family, sanity, time, effort, energon... I remember a time when there wasn't a war and I thought passing up on a refuel once a month was bad. I realize that as an engineer who is generally sheltered from the battlefield, I haven't sacrificed as much as some soldiers. After all, I still have my life, for now. But I think i may have sacrificed so much more... My innocence is gone, and every time I send a new weapon out the door, more and more of me dies inside when I think about the death toll that weapon is going to rack up. But still, weapons are necessary for war, and even if I stopped making them, others wouldn't, and I like to hold on to the hope, though false it may be, that my weapons can save lives by killing others faster and more efficiently.
I've gotten off topic and put myself in a bad mood. Time to see what the weather has done here, I guess.
Ironfist Out.
He shut the datapad off and tucked it away in his subspace, vents heaving a sigh as he looked around at the buildings and roads around him, littered with light debris from the recently-passed flash-flood and thunderstorm.