Contrary to popular belief, solar converted energon was not as perfect as most would lead you to believe. It required additives to give the consumer the full nutritional value as mined energon, and if the additives were added wrong... Well, the crew now had a splatter of what used to be emerging now cemented in the sorage bay where the converters out put rested.
While Westdawn and Skyfall saught a way to clean the mess and fix the converters additive valves, Torque and Domino had been sent to try and find any surface energon left. Thanks to their heritage, they had been able to conect to Decepticon communications and had a few mines to pick from. They split up from there to cover the most ground.
As Torque worked, he didn't understand why this mine wasn't in use. The energon was just a few inches in the walls by who had the sensors say, and he was sure it was fairly full! So what was keeping the Decepticons from it? As he pulled the emerging crystal out he had his guess.
"This isn't fragging energon!" he huffed, "it's the wrong color."