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Repair Life Support 83%It was time to take the lives of her entire species into her hooves. Twilight settled into the controls, strapping herself in and resting securely against the helmet. She felt the eyes of several shiprats on her, tiny and almost unblinking. She couldn’t imagine they’d do well under real sunlight. Or real gravity for that matter—these creatures would live their whole lives in space even if she could save the Canterlot.“Any advice?” she asked conversationally. “We are about…-
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Try to Talk the survivors down 88%Twilight was frozen for a moment, taking in the terrible situation on the bridge. But only for a moment, long enough for her rational mind to catch up with what she was seeing. These were ponies, and from the look of it, ponies that were in desperate need of help. Could she really risk hurting them, even for such an important goal? Besides, she was a princess. Ponies had a way to do things.“Take it easy,” she said, settling her rifle onto the ground beside her and…
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Explore the bridge. 50%Twilight considered for a few moments where they would go first, but really there was no debate. “The bridge is going to be treated as the most essential section of the ship. It’s most likely to remain intact against threats, and to contain the information we need.”“We already have some idea of what happened,” Rarity said absently. “Assuming we trust Captain Sunset’s story. About creatures getting sick, and the plan to evacuate?”“I know,” Twilight said. “I’m…
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Board the Canterlot “You shouldn’t be leaving, Twilight,” Sunset said, from the other side of the docking bay. She might only be looking at her through a thin layer of glass, but it was still more than enough for Twilight to see her disapproval. “Seriously, you’re the captain. There’s no telling what could be waiting over there. You should send me instead.”Twilight was already wearing her suit, and she didn’t so much as turn around. As the airlock closed behind her, she answered Sunset over…
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Send the computer pones. 57% They watched from the bridge as their digital crew-members crossed the strange bridge of light into the waiting station. It was a strange sight, the three of them walking away without space-suits through the void. Nothing drew them in to be consumed and processed into scraps, or blasted them with lasers.Twilight could do nothing to intervene, but she could watch from one of Node’s fancy new displays. Because as Spike pointed out. “I’m not actually out there. I’m…
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Dock with the station instead. 51% Twilight’s decision was a near thing, requiring hours of deliberation before she was finally certain of it. But after a few minutes of planning, she finally spoke up. “We’re not going to keep doing what didn’t work and what other ponies have already tried. I saw the power readings on the Prospector—that thing could tear the Equinox apart just as easily. It’s time to try something different. We’re docking with that megastructure.”Silence descended on the…
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Send boarding crew to Canterlot Station 43%“You realize how stupid it is for you to be going on this mission,” Sunset said, glaring at her just outside the docking bay. “This is why we have crews. This is why we delegate. We trust them to do these sorts of missions for us.”Twilight glanced briefly down the open door to the Prospector. Her crew was already waiting inside—Node, Rainbow Dash, and Apple Bloom, and Rarity. Between the four of them, they would cover just about any skill the mission…
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Send an Unmanned Probe 61% Twilight watched the little probe’s faint exhaust trail as it shot away from the Equinox, building speed for its descent into the atmosphere of Proximus C. She wasn’t the only one on the bridge—Rainbow was there with her hooves on the weapons. Sunset sat at the coms console, with Rarity on the science station and Node just sort of orbiting around.Node’s new body demanded to be seen in a way that no synthetic pony could’ve. She’d made almost no compromises for the…
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Stop to mine 53% It wasn’t exactly a call Twilight wanted to make. Listening to that pony distress call playing over and over filled her with dread she could barely suppress. But however much she wanted to help, some rational part won out. They lasted this long, it doesn’t seem like two months will make a significant difference. They diverted a few degrees, slowing well short of Proximus C to orbit a metal-rich asteroid that would give them everything they needed in the shortest possible time horizon.…
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Sacrifice Applejack’s project. 47% Twilight didn’t want to tell any of her friends they had to stop working. Each one of the crew had some critical mission to accomplish, or at least they thought they did. But ultimately there was only one pony on the crew she trusted to protect the ship from gravity and wind.“I get ‘ya, captain,” Applejack said, raising her welding mask with the back of a hoof. There was a strange metal claw-apparatus on her foreleg now, one that folded flat when she walked but…
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