"He liked your spike almost as much as I do," Ravage said sweetly, with a delicate snort. "He wants you to defect because he knows that you and I are more dangerous to him as leaders of our faction than Galvatron or your brother could ever be, because we know him, and you in particular know how he thinks. Not to mention how difficult it will be for him not to acknowledge our right to recognition as a legitimate political party with its own sovereign territories. He probably won't grant us the right to take outliers from the spark harvests, assuming that ever starts happening again on a regular basis. But he can't forbid us to open our borders to anyone who chooses to denounce the Primacy."