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Keep a pony with it at all times to be ready to talk 78% It wasn’t like they were in any kind of rush—crops would take time to grow with only hydroponics. They might very well be talking to one of the Signalers, wherever the message was actually coming from.Twilight occupied herself helping around medical when she could, and when there was nothing there to do, tinkering around the probe. It couldn’t be coaxed into communicating again, no matter how polite she was—but she could surround it with…-
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Try a little longer, 45% “We aren’t going to come all this way for nothing,” Twilight finally declared. “But that doesn’t mean we have to put the Equinox in unnecessary danger. That means trying to dock with that ring or land it on the planet are out of the question. But that doesn’t mean we could learn more about them…” Maybe the planet was safe, maybe it wasn’t. They wouldn’t be able to figure that out from orbit, which was the tricky part.“Give me a little time to think. Until…
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They weren’t all here this time. Fluttershy refused to hear about leaving medical, and obviously Pinkie wouldn’t be able to join them. That meant only the three of them gathered together around the table meant to hold all seven, with Spike’s report in front of them and two prominent empty seats.“You’ve both seen it,” Spike said, as soon as they’d finished with awkward progress reports. Hydroponics was coming along with more Geneseed, and there was still almost a full day before Spike’s…
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connect it without giving it mainframe access 74%It was hardly the time to be worrying about Spike’s project. With Pinkie Pie’s revival, Twilight barely had the time or the energy for what would come next. But with as invested as Spike was into the project, some part of her worried that if she didn’t throw it out an airlock or help him soon, she would wake up one morning with the reactor shut down and the computer monopolized by another alien.“Okay, Spike,” She swallowed, trying to keep her face…
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Treat her here 94% First there was the simple notification from the ship’s computer that they were nearing the end of their deceleration burn, and would soon fire the navigational thrusters to settle into stable orbit around Proximus B. This meant the Eye could get a good view, and would likely have interesting information about the planet below.But on her way to the eye’s little station near the top of the Equinox, she got another message—from Spike. “It’s finished,” he said, his voice nervous…
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Pinkie Pie 66%Twilight knew something was wrong from the moment Pinkie emerged from the ice. She wasn’t in the room then—the slurry of chemicals and refrigerants that would be in the air during a pony’s decanting were not something she wanted to ingest.But through the glass, she could see Pinkie Pie emerge, with a plain jumpsuit uniform still clinging to her frozen body. Bits of it broke apart in little chunks as she emerged, taking coat or skin with them on their way down. Sweet Celestia.The…
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Balanced Production 85%Twilight almost never visited Hydroponics. But now that she wandered between the rows of identical racks, surrounded by the first green and growing things she’d seen in months, she wished she’d come back more often. The system was mostly automated, with carefully measured spurts of water and precise modulation of the lights from the grow lamps.Per her instructions, half of the trays were filled only with a reddish green slurry, a paste that looked nothing at all like food and…
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Proximus B (Metallic, habitable world, 3 months) 81% Twilight couldn’t exactly remember the last time she’d caught two members of the crew in the rec room at the same time before. But then—she almost never used the space. Despite the promised two hours personal time in every day’s rotation, Twilight found herself more often gravitating towards getting more of her work done. There were mysteries to solve, data to investigate, and ponies that needed her attention.But today was different. Today she…
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"This last month, I tried to figure out why we weren’t in touch with Equestria. I was able to confirm a few things—there’s no jamming signal I can detect coming from anywhere in the system. I left a navigation probe a few thousand kilometers behind us—where we had our engagement with the Prospector. We’re still in perfect contact.”“How do we know the sensors aren’t lying to us?” Applejack asked. “Cozy mighta… done somethin’.”Twilight nodded. “I hardcoded a few modifications into…
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1. Hydroponics 8/8COMPLETE 2. Repair the prospector 4/4COMPLETE 3. Fully Refuel 20/20COMPLETE 4. Backup Cryogenics 4/4 COMPLETE 5. Replace field equipment 2/2 COMPLETE Mining decouple: complete.6. Study of communications blackout 2/?“Alright, everypony…” They were stuck having their meeting on the common room table. There were still three prominent empty chairs, and that was part of the reason they were meeting now. Fluttershy had healed enough that she was up and walking now, though her coat still…
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