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Fluttershy 59% Did I really look that bad? Twilight shuddered as she watched Fluttershy’s sleeping form through the medbay window. Her coat was spotty, skin gray and blotchy, and her mane nearly gone. It was the look of a pony who was barely alive—or more accurately, recently dead. We don’t sleep for the trip. We die and get reconstructed on the other side. It hadn’t been an easy choice to make, by any means. But Fluttershy’s medical skills would’ve been useful more than once already, and her…-
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Equinox Bill of Repair:1. Hydroponics 8/8 COMPLETE2. Repair the prospector 4/4 COMPLETE3. Fully Refuel 2/204. Backup Cryogenics 0/45. Replace field equipment 0/26. Study of communications blackout 0/?Twilight adjusted the space suit a little tighter about her chest, wishing the standard design had done a little more to accommodate alicorns. As though just adding extra space for legs and horn was enough…But she couldn’t rightly protest—this was her first visit to the mining site since the day…
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Find a nearby asteroid 64% They’d named the asteroid Harmony’s Repost, probably because Twilight was tired, and she didn’t have hours to obsess about what it should be called. Ever since they’d tossed their stowaway into the freezer, Twilight had been having trouble sleeping.It was all bluster, it’s okay. Equestria isn’t in danger. Still, she hadn’t be able to get her last words from her mind. “It already happened. It’s all gone back to the way it should be.” Even if they were still in…
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Drug, then freeze 49% Twilight was pained to give up such a potentially useful crew-member. But considering everything she’d done so far, the injuries she’d already caused, there was no way for her to justify returning Cozy Glow to freedom. She was probably preparing an escape plan right then, and it was only a matter of time before somepony made a mistake and the dangerous pony escaped.She prepared the meal carefully herself, though it was really just the same nutrient paste they ate every day. A…
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“So that’s the message,” Twilight finished, after having explained everything. They would’ve ordinarily had a meeting like this in the dining room, but the risk of being overheard was too great right now. So they stood on the bridge instead, looking down at the translation and Twilight’s notes.Life is not advised, the message said. You must change into constancy. We will perform it.“So that’s her plan to convince us?” Applejack asked, her tone doubting. “Come up with some new way to read…
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Use a portable terminal. 65%Twilight Sparkle settled the “portable” computer down in Cozy’s cell. More accurately, the screen and keyboard were in the cell, and the three pieces of the computer took up most of the dining room.“You’ll find the entire text of the Signal in the root directory,” Twilight said. “And I made sure all the same math utilities are installed. If you need the mainframe for anything, you can write it out on the pad there and I’ll run it myself.”Cozy Glow visibly…
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Guard the prisoner 55%Twilight Sparkle was better now. She would stay better, so long as she didn’t try to use her magic accidentally in the next few days.Unfortunately, that meant she couldn’t possibly look like a skilled unicorn to the prisoner, since the simplest trick of a space-faring unicorn was making their own gravity. But the captured pony had held her mysteries long enough.“You both did excellent work,” she said, as the lift came to a stop on crew level. “I couldn’t have asked for a…
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Spike takes the pony prisoner 49% Applejack’s advice made perfect sense—space was merciless and cruel, he knew that even better than she did now. It didn’t matter-- he couldn’t kill someone just because it made sense. Even so, that didn’t mean he had to make the pony think she’d won.Spike attempts to act like a badass and intimidate over the radio. Success. “Alright stowaway, this is what we’re going to do. I want you to leave everything but your suit on the Prospector, then climb across.…
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Tie it down 49% Spike chewed nervously on the edge of his claws as he listened to Applejack’s running commentary on her work. He really would’ve rather been out there with her, to be the extra pair of claws if something went wrong. But Twilight needed tending, and they might need someone on the Equinox.“That’s three high-tension lines straight into her belly,” Applejack said. “If she tries to take off and fly away now, all she’ll do is be our little tugboat.”Spike had spent almost no time…
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Twilight could see the prospector in the viewfinder ahead of them, with its invisible cone of hyperaccelerated particles blasting almost directly back at the Equinox. But it didn’t matter—the ship could make interplanetary trips in a pinch. But the Equinox could travel between stars. It was a chase the Prospector was doomed to lose.“We’re in range for disruption,” Applejack’s voice came in only slightly distorted over the radio, echoing around in her helmet. “Just give the order,…
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