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Tracy didn’t usually keep a journal. He had no family to speak of, and wasn’t expecting he would have any children. Who was going to read anything he had to say? But when he got back from the Equinox festival, he found a notepad program and wrote down everything he could possibly remember. He spent hours getting it all down, and when he was done his only real regret was that he hadn’t managed to smuggle a camera in during the celebration.The Equestrians were strange, certainly. By some definitions…-
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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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Applejack (Engineering, Hydroponics) Twilight stared unblinking into her mirror, eyes watering even with the assistance of a pair of new plastic glasses. A thin line of fuzzy mane had sprouted in the week since she had first woken, the only healthy color on her whole body. Patches of her fur were still missing, with splotches of grayish skin visible underneath. But they’d started to itch terribly, which the manual told her meant they were healing. The joys of being generation one. She could only hope…
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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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Stay in orbit until Applejack's condition can be properly diagnosed. 70%Twilight stared down at the medical report, occasionally squinting at the close dots in the printout. “This is a joke, right? Pinkie Pie put you up to…”“I didn’t,” Pinkie called from across the large central area. She’d been zipped into the sleeping bag for the last few hours, apparently not actually asleep. “Wasn’t me.”Fluttershy glared over the printout at her. “I wouldn’t joke with a patient’s health,…
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After eternities vast enough to require multiple exponents to express, a new sunrise came to Saddle's End.It didn't exist in the strictly physical sense—but by volume, simulated spaces had once outstripped the real ones by many orders of magnitude. But they were gone now, sleeping as once Saddle's End had slept.A star rose in the sky, a G-type main sequence that bathed the small community in warmth and life once more. Birds began to sing, heralding the sunrise as though a trillion trillion trillion years…-
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Unfortunately for Twilight, she wouldn’t be waking in the medical bay with every problem in her world already resolved.Twilight takes five points of lethal psychic damage. Her whole body felt like it was on fire, her head most of all. But there were shouting voices in her ear, the voices of her crew. “Ugh… what?” she sat up, shaking her head once and trying to make her eyes focus on them.Has Twilight received the gift of INSIפH┴? Critical yes. She’s burning her fur is melted oh Celestia what…
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Arcane Word visited a memory.Technically speaking, it was not a moment she did remember, which was why she had chosen it. The serpent of causality in the Ouroboros recreated all things, traveling backward from the final moment of Earth's existence. Most of those moments were little more than historical curiosity for the population of Equestria. From the news she heard, it seemed that more of the Equestrian-born generations were interested in the simulation than the First Generation. So many wanted to see a…-
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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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Manipulate the highway with magic 53% Twilight could certainly see the danger in their decision. Using magic on an alien system they barely understood was hardly what she would describe a ‘wise’ choice. There were unknown dangers at play, interactions between pony magic and the Signaler technology.But the more Twilight considered their final voyage, the more certain she was that Canterlot would not survive a trip at conventional speeds. If they couldn’t win by following the rules, they would just…
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