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Chase the prospector, but Spike starts on the device. Applejack was right about how far behind they had become during the few weeks Twilight let the probe’s program run. The Equinox’s chief engineer made good use of the time—Twilight saw her moving every moment, always at work preparing for their mad gambit. Applejack performs repairs on damage caused by computer failure. 90% complete. But Twilight could be of only nominal assistance. The parts of the Equinox that made sense to her were digital. But…-
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Let the program run as long as it takes. 59%It had been almost two weeks. They’d burned through most of their emergency rations, along with their patience. For a prospector, Applejack was none too happy smelling like one. Twilight herself had spent at least a few minutes alone in decompressed rooms, screaming into her suit with the radio deactivated.But then the lights came on. Twilight blinked, stirring only sluggishly in her space suit. Starlight’s voice came next, flat as ever but with more emotion…
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Send the original signal 89%Twilight didn’t hesitate. They’d come all this way to investigate the ancient creators of the Signal. She dug through the computer for a few seconds, found the recording of the original signal, and sent it back as loud as their transmitter could handle.The instant she started, the vessel stopped transmitting its own signal, changing the overflow of white on all her screens back to the steady background hum of Proximus, still enormously distant.“I sure hope you know what…
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Towards the Prospector (60%)Twilight Sparkle watched the display in front of her with modest disappointment. Somehow, she expected a thrilling chase through an alien star system to be a little more like the movies she’d enjoyed as a child. Where were the clever angles of ships zooming past each other, of entire battles resolved in the course of minutes?Instead, she watched the Prospector’s tractor tick slowly away closer, so slowly that she almost couldn’t register it.“You should know, captain,…
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Applejack’s BreakthroughTwilight hardly even saw her friend over the next few weeks. Applejack was a ghost amid the conduits, occasionally emerging in the mess hall to grab a few dry hay-cakes and hurry off again. The work was obviously taking its toll on her—Applejack’s coat wasn’t growing back nearly as healthy as Twilight’s was, and her limbs still shook a little while she walked. At the rate she was going, they might run out of drugs before she ran out of need for them. Twilight cut her own…
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Twilight knew Applejack wouldn’t be happy even before they reached the docking platform. But whatever else might be said for the former prospector, she had good common sense. Whatever distrust she might still be feeling towards Spike, she didn’t show it.“Here to join our little investigation, eh’? Guess you didn’t quite get to finish yer beauty rest.”Spike chuckled weakly, showing no sign of his emotional weakness earlier. I’m glad I didn’t tell him that Applejack was the one who discovered…
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Tell him, then bring him along 63%“Spike, wake up.” She pushed him gently, but firm enough that he wouldn’t have a choice. It took a little more effort than it might’ve when he was younger. But he was no baby dragon anymore, not small enough to push around whenever she wanted. There was still something cute about the way he curled up, even if he didn’t use the bed, just slept on the floor in a corner. I wonder if that’s what happened because you grew up without any pony role models. Too bad you…
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Investigate the Storage Room 49% Twilight couldn’t help but agree with Applejack. Spike’s apparent degradation in sanity—undetectable though it was—made confronting this mission critical.But just because Twilight was determined to get inside and see what had happened didn’t mean she had to be an idiot about it. There were machines in there, and she couldn’t even guess at their function with a glance through the window.“Applejack, you there?” Twilight asked over the radio. It had been almost…
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“You made the right choice, Twilight. I ain’t never went and did nothin’ as unprepared as we were and found it went right.”Twilight stood on the bridge of the Equinox, where a transparent aluminum window looked out on the vast expanse of space in all directions. There was no denying that the Equestrian engineers had gone for vanity here, with all the structural reinforcement required to install a window this large. She could see its many transparent facets, each one banded with thin metallic…
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Repair the Engines Twilight Sparkle drifted through the computer mainframe, fighting down her stomach with every bounce and push with her wings. It’s okay, Applejack is doing what I told her. There’s no reason to be upset. Repairing the Equinox’s engines required shutting them down, which meant they stopped decelerating. No more negative acceleration meant no more apparent gravity. Unlike some of her friends, Twilight was no rock hopping prospector, who had spent months at a time in low-to-no…
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