"No need to apologise, Orion. I'm well-used to the feel of it." He didn't glance down as he spoke, rather kept his helm tilted back slightly as he watched the wall across the room above Orion's bent helm, optics unfocused.

"I've seen paid detailers be more wasteful and make more mistakes and thus taking more time and having to redo the designs than you are," Megatron smiled briefly and shook his helm, "the poor mech came back numb for two cycles after he was done, and when the sensor nodes started to recalibrate and work properly again, he just couldn't sit still."

Taking a deliberately small swallow of the energon to make sure it would last long enough, Megatron offlined his optics again, chuckling.

"Kaon has quite a few skilled and even artistic engineers and architects, but the artistry demanded of a good detailer seems to be less available, unless you want to pay too much." Gladiators could be rather well-paid, but unless you were a consistent champion or were sponsored, credits didn't exactly pour out. Not to the level that the nobles and noble-level merchants claimed.