[STORY IDEA] I just gave myself the shivers... · 5:16pm Nov 24th, 2021
OK, so I don't think I've ever posted this idea before, but it comes off the "humans are space orcs" thing that's been circulating on Tumblr for a while. I've kinda been playing around with it in the back of my mind, and I was listening to Humanity - Chapter IV by Thomas Bergersen just now and track 12 hit and I imagined the climactic scene of the story (something I'd been struggling with; where am I taking this concept? It's cute, but I don't have a story until I have a premise, and I didn't have that until just now...) and the intensity of the scene and some of the dialog I imagined to go along with the music just kinda...blew me away. (Yes, I'm being impressed by my own daydreams, what of it?)
The Friendships of Stars
(working title)
(AU, diverges after FiM finale) 1,000 years after Princess Twilight Sparkle took the throne, pony-kind has entered a new era of peace and prosperity and unparalleled technological progress. Only recently were they able to return to the moon, this time using technological means rather than the Elements of Harmony, and established a colony, but they sought more, they sought friendship...and they got war. The Imperium found Equestria just as they started their first steps into the cosmos and watched their progress. As soon as they successfully tested their first FtL engine, they were fast-tracked as a new member species. The Equestrians would find that they were young, even their eldest Princess Emeritus Celestia has only lived for a fraction of the time the oldest star-born civilization has been around. And it turns out the ancient Imperium is in desperate need of more "primitive" species, ones that can execute the tactics of war better than they can, as they've been at peace for so long they had to dig into their archives just to find a record of what war was. This new quadrupedal species might just be the key to winning the war for the Imperium.
200 years after the Second Space Race, humanity's dream of reaching the stars finally got them beyond their own solar system. All the petty squabbling of politics, hostile climate, and the general human drive for individuality at all cost be damned, they managed to get manned, FtL flight...right into the lap of a galactic war. Their first ship distinguished humanity by being the first responders in the aftermath of an orbital strike on a colony world. Without even knowing the language, humans landed and began the process of triage and first aid on people that had no hope of rescue or survival. The Galactic Confederation brought Earth, wacky politics, Florida Man, and all right into full membership within less than a standard galactic month (literally no other species had been granted membership that quickly) and enlisted to help them fight a war. The Confederation had been losing steadily and slowly for a century because none of the member species had needed to fight a war for long enough they only had ancient combat manuals to learn from. Humans were still waging war among themselves, so they made a logical addition to try to give the Confederacy a fighting chance.
Two civilizations that have clawed their way through plagues, famine, apocalyptic climate change, war, conflict, and trauma but value compassion and friendship higher than life itself are set on a collision course in the heat of war.
If you're familiar with The Confederation Series by Tanya Huff will recognize a lot of the plot points here. Just like with any of my MLP work, I don't retread existing plotlines without EXTREMELY good reason, so rest assured that I'm only using her works as inspiration, this is not a crossover, this is just a tribute.
Nice. I'd read the hell out of it.
Quick question with the story follow a group of individuals or a single individual from his point of with his friends
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By necessity, this story will cover multiple people. It's not easy to tell a story on a starship from a single perspective.
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So similar to Star Trek were individual members of the crew will get thrown little ark but it usually focuses around the central theme of the story
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Oh, yeah, of course! Trek is my first sci-fi love, pretty much anything sci-fi I write is influenced by that in some way or another, so you'll likely enjoy this one if you like the Trek style of story telling.
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Sorry I was gone for a couple days I flew out of town and had no cell reception but yeah enjoy probably read I’ll keep an eye out for it