As Megatron started to speak, Optimus could only nod and grudgingly agree. The drone production replacing sparked labor needed to be stopped now, but coming up with the logistics of such a plan other than more bills and laws that would surely be shot down had so far eluded the Prime. He'd hoped, with time and the added pressure of the Quintesson threat, he would have been able to push a law into effect, but certainly not within the time frame Megatron hoped for. Not in a time frame they truly needed.

Then Megatron kept talking.

And Optimus was only vaguely horrified that he kept listening...and considering.

"That would certainly be a...terribly convenient occurrence." He glanced over at the mech with a carefully mild look, processor racing as he considered possibility, probability, and his own morality all at once.

"...But it would certainly be a waste of resources to replace them, in that hypothetical event." He could admit that much.