The Ten Steps, Riptide. The Ten Steps that, by the time you were brought online, were reduced to Eight. And then finally, Three.

The fact that so many soldiers--so many Cybertronians were brought online for a singular purpose; to fight a war that many of them literally could not fathom.

I cannot empathize, mainly because I knew the cause. I knew why we fought. And once the war concluded, I could see the benefits of co-existence. Of forgiveness.

I imagine that when you are brought online, handed a pathblaster, and shown his [He gestures to Megatron's frozen form.] image and told that everything he stands for is something you must defend against...it is difficult to separate yourself from that.