Moving from his spot to stand at the balustrade - this time not shielded by the collection of crystals, easily in view of the Prime - fingers drumming against smooth metal that revealed how well-cared for the State Gardens were, Megatron smirked out at the view.

"Sooner or later, accidents happen. Unforseen and hidden glitches on factory hardware as well as drone programming and software... these things can pile up." One hand was lazily gestured with in the air, slowly extended away from Megatron in an expansive arc as he spoke into the air, though still to Optimus.

"The only thing that might ever be... ah. Inconvenient would be if it all happened at once. Which, while supposedly terribly convenient depending on who you are, have happened before. As far as I know, this is even one of the arguments used against having extensive drone production in the service of extracting raw resources as well as production of goods. Even just one extensive accident at some point in the chain..." Megatron's expression as he turned around to lean back against the balustrade, stopping his rhytmic drumming and spreading both hands wide, was as bland as his voice was.

"Usually ends in a large blow to the effectiveness and profit of using drones." He pulled his arms in, folding them over his chestplates and partly obscuring the light from his sparklights as he gave Optimus an arch look.

Of course, there were precautions and protections in place against these sort of natural accidents. That didn't mean the drone production chain wasn't vulnerable - from the drone factories to every instance where drones were used - to a more direct... "accident".

But they weren't talking about that, now were they?