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Twilight stared across the hospital bed at Starlight Glimmer, wincing at the obvious signs of cryosickness. Even Earth Ponies woken always looked a little worse for wear, but the effect seemed even more pronounced on Unicorns. Her mane was a faint fuzz, and where her coat no longer covered, her body was covered angry red patches. There was no winning against the necrosis, only holding it back. But Twilight was most interested in her eyes--even if her body looked perfect from the outside, there was no…-
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Replace the Canterlot Mainframe 65%Twilight had serious reservations about any of these options--as soon as she pulled the trigger, Spike would be changed forever, and the rest of the mission too. It was true that his body might be easier to modify and replace than anypony else in their group--but being a computer made her think of him as even more fragile. It wasn't true, but the thought remained in her mind regardless, impossible to shake. And even more dangerous to us than physical damage is emotional…
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The Thaumic Solution 73% It wasn’t exactly a list of good options. Twilight could practically taste the chaos in Canterlot as soon as they tried anything that might leave their two halves of pony civilization with some lasting class divide. Node could only give vague answers about how long it would take to reach the Flotilla once they stepped into the Highway, but Twilight didn’t think the enlightened races there would take too kindly to their arrival if their ship was in the middle of a civil war.…
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Build a Habitat 54% In some ways it was the hardest decision Twilight had made yet, with the possible exception of whether or not to trade Equestria’s safety for its freedom. After all, the crew of the Equinox amounted to a small minority compared to the number of shiprats, which the Canterlot’s dubious sensors placed somewhere in the low hundreds.Even if their hugely weakened bodies could survive being frozen (and eventually revived), there was a very real chance that their friendliness with the…
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Join the Flotilla 66%There was definitely a part of Twilight that reveled in the idea of staying back to stick it to the forces arrayed against them. The Hunger had cost her so much--had nearly devoured her civilization whole, and somehow finding a way to stop it had a deeply personal appeal. If Equestria wasn't in her hooves, and it was just her and her friends left, she might've done it.But they weren't alone. Over a hundred thousand creatures were frozen on the Canterlot, all depending on her Twilight…
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Try to win them over. 38%The stakes were so incredibly high. But in the end, Twilight couldn't fight her nature. It was tempting to banish the problem completely, considering the absurdity of attacking the princess, the only Alicorn these ponies had left. The one whose crew had just saved them. But she resisted. She couldn't leave them in prison forever, when they were the ones who knew the Canterlot as it was better than any of her own ponies. That kind of expertise couldn't be easily replaced.But…
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Refuse the Bargain 69% Some part of Twilight was tempted by what the speaker offered. The essence of Hunger? Embodiment of entropy? She was the only princess left to make decisions, and she could guarantee the safety for Equestria’s survivors forever. A powerful temptation.She probably would’ve taken the deal, if it wasn’t for Node. In her was an echo of their past, their creators. The others like her had sacrificed much to give Equestria life. Could she decide for ponies and griffins and changelings…
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Visit the castle relay 52% Twilight knew something was wrong, even if she couldn’t quite explain why. She couldn’t be home again, not now. Something happened, and now…She emerged from the Golden Oaks library, into a street that was… wrong. The grass was gray, the flowers chalk-white. There were no birds humming overhead, no bees. Not even a passing butterfly.She passed the deserved train station first, the HV-rail buzzing away. A train sat on the platform, its doors open. Leaves clogged the…
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Slow and Methodical 64% If a repair this serious had been on Twilight’s own ship, she probably would’ve jumped at the chance to try something more radical. She had some interesting ideas based on the Signaler tech she’d seen on Proximus B. But in the end, those ideas had to fall away beyond the simple, terrifying reality of what they faced.This was the last of their species. Princess Celestia had apparently died to get this ship here. Luna too, by the sound of it, and Cadence. She could not treat…
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Twilight knew what her next priority would be, now that the Canterlot was intact. She glanced down at the struggling shiprats, feeling a tug of guilt for the pain they were feeling. None seemed to be catastrophically wounded, but if the damage was internal how could she even know that for sure? She turned over her shoulder. “Flywheel, can you walk? I’d like you with me when we start on Life Support.”For a moment it seemed like he was going to let her go. But then she said where she’d be going, and…
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