It had definitely been an eye-opening experience for Knock Out as well. Being able to interact in his natural form with humans as an imPort -- even though he still occupied an "outsider" perspective in the fact that they were summoned by the Porter -- had been a dizzying change from having to hide at all times outside the ship. And it had, over the course of the year that he'd been there, helped temper his otherwise intense (though not undeserved at the time) dislike of humans in general.

"Cybertron had something similar," he discloses. "Where outliers were ostracized, persecuted. Given extra restrictions even within the forced castes. Functionism was brutal regime."

But this is her story, not his. Her tale is lining up with the research he's done through the internet so far, at least. "It didn't leave you with much of a choice, especially not if registering didn't keep those who had safe. Be a legal prisoner or an on the run criminal... no good option either way."