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A Short Tour of The System

Hello Everyone, and Happy New Year!

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She asked for G1 Cosmos and Omega Supreme chilling in space, so here we go!

Summary: Omega Supreme is on a short patrol of the nearest planets when Cosmos joins him. They both agree that this system is very interesting, and very pretty

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Omega Supreme caught a glint just to the side. He turned a sensor that direction, and it registered a smaller space craft heading toward him.

He tensed for a moment, then realized that it was a familiar spacecraft.

Cosmos slid to a relative stop next to him. "Hi, Omega," Cosmos transmitted. "I noticed that you were in this part of the system. Is anything wrong?"

"No, nothing is wrong," Omega responded. "I am just on a patrol. Prime suggested that I might like a chance to fly a longer route than just back and forth."

"I see," Cosmos said. "Have you found anything interesting?"

"No," Omega said. "There was a very small rocky asteroid that looks like it's temporarily orbiting Venus, but that's it."

"I like it when Asteroids do that," Cosmos said. "It's like they're visiting the planet for a bit."

"Yes," Omega said. "Wasn't there one orbiting Earth, too?"

"It's left Earth orbit," Cosmos said. "It'll probably return soon, but I haven't done the math. There's one- I think that one's a comet- that's around Jupiter, though. I saw it a few passes through the system ago."

Omega nodded. "I saw it. But Jupiter is so big, it has lots of small bits of rock around it."

"I think this one is different," Cosmos said. "It's really erratic. I think if things don't change, it’ll go back to orbiting the sun."

Omega considered that. "That might be interesting to watch."

"I'd need to do some math to make sure," Cosmos said. "But it might happen next year."

Omega nodded. "We might have to go and see, if we have time," Omega said.

"And if the Decepticons don't try something."

"Yes, that is true," Omega said. “They are always trying something.”

They flew on, side by side, for a while.

The orbit of the fourth planet was approaching. Mars was a quarter of the orbit ahead of them and they wouldn’t see the planet if they kept this direction of travel. Omega let Cosmos know and they altered their paths. “I have to check on Mars, make sure the Decepticons haven’t set up a base there again.”

“One thing about the Decepticons,” Cosmos said. “They keep trying, but at least they keep trying in new ways.”

“True,” Omega said. “But Jazz did point out that sometimes they’ll use old strategies, thinking we won’t expect them to try again.”

Cosmos hummed along the comm line, just letting Omega know he heard.

“Well, it won’t take long,” Cosmos said. “And maybe we can look for some of the old landers.

“That would be fun,” Omega said. “They’re small, though.”

“True,” Cosmos replied.

They flew on, side by side without speaking for a while. As they approached Mars and slid into orbit around the small red planet, Omega broke the silence. “Cosmos, look out!”

Reflexively, Cosmos dove down. As he did, he realized that he had been about to crash into Deimos.

“Thanks,” he said as he stabilized his flight.

“You really should pay more attention to where you’re flying,” Omega scolded mildly.

“Everything’s just so pretty, it’s hard,” Cosmos said. “Even Deimos.”

“Deimos is a tiny rock in space, just like so many others.”

“It’s a tiny rock that has interesting craters,” Cosmos retorted. “And I like the color.”

“It’s gray.”

“It’s a pretty gray,” Cosmos said.

Omega chuckled at that. “I suppose it is,” he conceded. “Will you help me scan Mars? From a safe distance, of course.”

“Sure,” Cosmos said. “I’d love to.”

They split up, Cosmos taking north to south and Omega east to west. That way, they’d both cover the entire planet, but at different times and they could hope that if one of them missed something, the other would find it.

It was companionable, even if they were separated by quite a bit of space, and at times, the entire bulk of the planet. They finally met back up just outside Phobos’ orbit. Omega hadn’t found any sign of the Decepticons.

“Nothing Decepticon,” Cosmos said. “I found what I think is Mars 3, and what is definitely Viking 1.” He sounded happy about it.”

“I didn’t find any evidence of Decepticons either,” Omega said.

“I bet Jazz will want us to scan it a few more times in the next year or so, just to be safe,” Cosmos said.

“Probably,” Omega agreed. “I’m going to send my report to Earth, then head for the outer giants. I’m supposed to check the larger moons of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, as well as the planets themselves, in the next year or so. Jupiter is in a good position right now, so I’m going to check.”

“Do you want someone to travel with?” Cosmos asked.

“I would enjoy the company, if you don’t mind.

“I would enjoy it,” Cosmos said. “I can check on that little rock. If I’m right, Jupiter will slingshot it closer to Earth. The humans might be able to find it.”

Omega chuckled. “Transmitting my report,” he said as he contacted Teletraan One.

He finished chatting with the bot on duty- Sideswipe- and turned his attention back to the space around him. Cosmos was idly orbiting around him as he waited.

“Jupiter?” Cosmos asked.

“It’s in a good position right now,” Omega agreed.

They headed out. After a quick scan of the area between the fourth and fifth planets, they chose their path. Jupiter and Mars were fairly close to each other right now, so it would not be a long journey.

Omega didn’t go full speed, mostly because Cosmos was slower than he was, and he was enjoying having someone to talk to.

"This system is really pretty," Cosmos said, as they passed through the area marked as an asteroid belt. Of course, there weren’t any of the rocks in this part, they had made sure it was safe before traveling through the belt.

They passed by the nearest asteroid- a small rocky blob less than kilometer long that was still only on the edge of their sensors. Aside from an increase in space dust, that was the only indication they were in a belt.

Cosmos deployed a scoop and let it gather some of the dust. “Perceptor asked me to pick up some dust next time I travelled through the asteroid belt,” he said. “He wanted to check for rare minerals, I think.”

“Perceptor is always focused on his science,” Omega said. “I wonder if he just wants to know, or if he thinks it might be useful.”

Cosmos giggled. “Probably he just wants to know, but he’ll find something useful anyway.”

Omega had to admit, Cosmos was probably right.

As they angled toward the spot of light that their sensors showed was a gas giant, Cosmos reeled in the scoop. “The Great Red Spot won’t be in view when we arrive,” he said. “But it should be visible before we finish scanning the moons.”

“Depending on how long it takes, we might see it several times.”

“That’d be nice,” Cosmos said. “I wonder why we don’t use Jupiter’s storms for power,” he said. “It would take some effort to get out here and build a power station, but the wind speeds could power a large energon factory.”

“We’ll suggest it to Prime when we get back,” Omega said. “He and the command team could decide if it’s possible.”

Cosmos hummed. “And the scientists,” he added.

They slid into orbit around Jupiter just inside of Callisto’s orbit. “Might as well check out Callisto first,” Cosmos declared.

“Yes,” Omega said.

They scanned the larger moons, and found no sign of Decepticon activity, though Cosmos got very exited about Europa for a moment, and Omega had to calm him down- he was drifting a little too close to the icy moon.

Cosmos laughingly thanked him, and they lingered over Europa. “I wish my scanners weren’t tuned for Cybertronian matters,” Cosmos said. “Or I’d check for signs of microbiology.”

Omega rumbled an agreement. “Someday, I’ll bring Perceptor out, or maybe we’ll get Skyfire to come,” he said. “They’d be able to scan it easily.”

“I bet we could bring some of the humans, too,” Cosmos said. “They’d love that.”

Omega nodded. “Some of the scientists would be ecstatic,” he agreed.

“Oh yes,” Cosmos said. “It’s one of the things I like about humans,” he admitted. “They’re just as curious about the universe as we are. They just haven’t had as much time to explore.”

Omega hadn’t thought about it like that. “I suppose that is true. They’re a lot like us, in a lot of ways.”

Cosmos sent a careful humming sound back at him. It didn’t really mean anything other than agreement. “That’s why Bumblebee and Spike get along so well, I think,” he said after a while.

Omega let himself scan Europa one more time, just because.

Cosmos turned and made his way toward the smaller moons. There were plenty that weren’t visible from Earth, but were still big enough for a small outpost, so they had to scan them.

Once all the moons large enough to hide a Decepticon were scanned- and there were plenty of those- they turned their attention to Jupiter itself.

The largest planet in this system rotated serenely under them, but they both knew the appearance was deceiving. The clouds that, from a distance, were so calm were deadly storms, even for them. If either of them weren’t careful, they could die in those storms.

“If we want to set up an energon station here, we’d have to be very careful,” Omega said. “I hope Preceptor or maybe Ratchet knows how they harvested gas giant wind power in the Golden Age.”

“I hope so too,” Cosmos said. He was hanging back from the giant as they scanned. “But I don’t see any signs that the Decepticons are using the planet, either.”

“Neither do I,” Omega said. “I’m going to take a closer scan, for Perceptor. You stay back here.”

“Absolutely,” Cosmos agreed. He transformed into his root form and spread his solar panels.

Omega approached the giant and carefully scanned it one more time. This time, he engaged his energy scanners for Perceptor. Hopefully, the cheerful scientist would be able to tell them if there was any point in even trying to use Jupiter.

He returned to Cosmos, who seemed to be distracted. He was looking at one of the smaller bits of rock in Jupiter’s orbit. “That comet is pretty close,” Cosmos said.

Omega looked at it, and had to agree. It was likely an icy comet, probably from the outer cloud around the system. He didn’t try to calculate its orbit, not when he only had one reference.

Too late, Omega realized that Cosmos had drifted too close to the comet. “Cosmos!” he shouted. Cosmos jolted… and hit the comet.

Thankfully not hard, but since it was only around a kilometer long, the little bit of ice and rock started rotating harder, and the orbit was almost certainly changed.

Cosmos stood up on the comet and stared up at Omega. Even from here, Omega could see the extremely chagrined expression on Cosmos’ face.

“I’m ok,” Cosmos sent him. He transformed and carefully took off. “I’m not hurt,” he added. “Managed to get some dust in a couple of seams, but otherwise fine.”

“I’m glad,” Omega said.

They both watched the new, slightly wobbly orbit the comet was on.

“I wonder what it’ll do now,” Cosmos finally said.

Omega didn’t say anything, but he was curious too.

“I’ll have to come back and check it out some time,” Cosmos added.

Omega shifted. “We should probably head back to Earth,” he said.

Cosmos nodded. “We’re not in a good position to go directly to Earth,” he said. “We’ll have to slingshot Venus.”

“Venus is a pretty planet,” Omega said as they started their journey.

“It’s too bad that it’s so hot,” Cosmos agreed.

“The fate of all planets too close to their suns,” Omega said.

“Yes,” Cosmos agreed. “But if it had less carbon dioxide, it might be cooler. Not as cold as Earth, but cool enough that organic life could survive it. Right now, there’s only a few microbes that could survive there, I think.”

“And the lack of the magnetic field is a challenge too,” Omega said.

“Yes,” Cosmos agreed. “I don’t think even we would enjoy the planet.”

“No, we wouldn’t,” Omega said. “We could survive there, but there’s no energy to be found, and the atmospheric pressure would require extra armor. Even for you and me.”

“The clouds are still pretty, though,” Cosmos said.

They were quiet for a while as they slingshot around Venus and headed for Earth. As the blue planet got closer, Omega scanned the only planet in this system they were sure life existed. “I think Earth is my favorite planet in this system, though,” he admitted. “It’s so rare to see such a blue and green world.”

Cosmos sent him a quick agreement. “It’s a gorgeous water world,” he agreed. “And the plants that turn it green are pretty,” he added. “I like how it’s so alive, too.”

“Organic life is so fast,” Omega agreed. “They do so much in so little time.”

“And there’s so much of it, all over the planet.”

“That’s why we’re still here. Because there’s so much life, even with all the energy this planet has. If we left, the Decepticons would destroy the life trying to get the energy.”

“Exactly,” Cosmos said. “But they don’t need to,” he added. “I mean, we’ve already got the geothermal collectors and the solar panels going, and that’s more than enough energy for everyone on the Ark. And if we can capture the spacebridge, we can send so much to Cybertron.”

“And if we can get something started on Jupiter, that’ll be even more true.”

“This system has so much,” Cosmos said. “Perhaps, if we’re careful, the means to revive Cybertron and save our home world.”

“Someday, maybe,” Omega agreed.

“Someday. We have to stop Megatron and the Decepticons first. And take down Shockwave.”

Omega chuckled and hailed the Ark. Blaster was on duty and got them a reentry path.

“Thank you for joining me,” Omega said as the dumped heat and speed as they approached the Ark.

“Thank you for letting me,” Cosmos said. “And. Maybe don’t tell anyone about the comet?”

“I won’t,” Omega agreed. “Come on. Let’s get this information to Jazz and Prowl, and the Jupiter scans to the scientists. Hopefully, it’ll all be useful.”

Cosmos laughed. “Even if it’s just to say that there’s nothing there, we can cross that off the list, it’s useful,” he said as he landed right in front of Omega.

They both transformed, and Omega offered his hand to Cosmos, and Optimus Prime, who was waiting for them. “Hello, Prime,” Cosmos said as Omega brought his hand up.

“Hello, my friends,” Prime said. “Did your expedition go well?”

“Well enough,” Omega said. “We have a lot of information, and Cosmos had an idea about Jupiter that he needs to talk to the science team about.”

“I look forward to hearing all about it,” Prime said. “For now, the new geothermally heated baths are finally completed, and you both probably want to soak the space dust off. And yes, we made sure at least one of the baths would fit you, Omega,” Prime added.

“Thank you, Prime,” Omega said.

“I’ll give the reports, Omega,” Cosmos said cheerfully. “Go enjoy the baths!”

Omega smiled down at them. “Thank you,” he said.

Omega lowered his hand and as Cosmos and Prime entered the Ark, he turned toward where the baths had been under construction. He was going to enjoy a warm soak, and getting clean. There were a few space pebbles stuck under his armor that he would love to get out.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Two years later, Omega chuckled as he got a message from Cosmos. It was rambling and embarrassed.

“So, you know that comet? The humans have found it. Jupiter tore it apart, and it got bright enough for them to see it. And now they think it’s going to hit Jupiter next July!”

He thought for a moment, and sent a message to Wheeljack, saying he’d be willing to carry a scientific team for the impact. He added that the discoverers of the comet might like to come along.

After another moment, Omega started laughing, startling a few birds that had been perched on him.

Only Cosmos.

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Author's notes: The comet around Jupiter they're talking about (and that Cosmos ran into) is Shoemaker-Levi 9, one of the scientific events that got me interested in astronomy in the first place. Look it up, it's such a great story. Also, yes, I did imply that the comet broke up the way it did because Cosmos ran into it.

Deimos is one of Mars’ moons. It’s a tiny little potato shaped rock, and the smaller of Mars’ moons. Phobos is the larger of Mars’s moons, and is… uh… also a tiny little potato shaped rock, but it’s a larger tiny little potato shaped rock.

Mars 3 was the first semi-successful Mars lander. It landed, and transmitted, but only for less than 2 minutes and the only picture it sent back was just gray. Viking 1 was the first successful Mars Lander. It was operational for over 6 years.

The Great Red Spot is a large storm on Jupiter that’s possibly been in existence for four hundred years. And when I say large, I mean larger than Earth.

Yes, Jupiter has tons and tons and tons (literally and figuratively) of moons. I think the last count was 95. They’ve stopped naming the smaller ones. Europa is one of the best candidates in our solar system for extraterrestrial life. It’s covered in ice, but likely has a large ocean under the ice. And just a few months ago, the JWST found carbon!

Venus does have a massive atmosphere of mostly carbon dioxide.

I… uh… kinda dumped a good bit of solar system knowledge on you, hope you don’t mind. Some of the more exact information was from Wikipedia and NASA, to make sure I got the information right. However, you hit one of my many interests by asking about space. I hope you enjoyed!

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