"We primarily use a substance called energon as fuel, which can be enjoyed as a raw mineral, or purified--it liquefies once purified--and drunk, gelled into treats, or refined into an intoxicant. Also various types of mineral oils, metals, rocks, occasionally gems, but not pearls. Fossil fuel derivatives are less nourishing than energon, but can be used for survival as well." Megatron smiles. "Honestly, a cup of fresh diesel fuel would not go amiss. It's not something most of us favour, but as a tankformer, I have developed a taste for it."

He sits carefully in the chair, testing it to make sure he won't accidentally break it. "Violence is almost always a means to an end. Those of us who develop a taste for it normally haven't found pleasanter means of getting their needs met effective. When I was very young, I had rather a peaceful nature, but after I was forcibly convinced that violence was the only way to solve our society's problems, I got very good at it very quickly, and people enjoy things they master."

He smiles crookedly. "I am actually an intellectual by inclination. I write poetry. Essays. Philosophical treatises. I am fascinated by medicine and mathematics. These were not career paths that were open to me when I was young. Anyhow--what is it that I do, that you also do, but believe you do differently?"