Well, yeah, you're right. I don't know shit about space.

[Self-deprecation works better with people who have big egos. Admit that Lord Starscream is smarter than him, and it might win him some subtle favor.]

I wasn't plannin' to build it myself. Once you tell everyone you know how to make a way outta here, you'll have a line of volunteers a mile long. But you've got a good point about the energy thing.

[He's... assuming that's what energon means.]

All we have here's a generator, and it's kinda busted, last I checked.