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// Rule 50 
// Story: Chronicles of an Evil Overlord 
// by Melancholy 
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Domination of Equestria - T+182 days.

“How’s it coming?”
“Humm? Oh, Overlord. I wasn’t expecting you today.”

“You should expect me any day. This is after all quite possibly the most important project in all of equine history.”
“Expect-...Any day? Do you have any idea what that will do to my schedule!?”

“If things are to keep going smoothly then I would think that should have no effect on your schedule at all.”
“I-what? Wait, no, that’s not what I- Don’t do anything rash-”

“Calm down. I’ve no complaints with your work so far, Chief Scientist and Engineer in Charge of the After Harmony Project.”
“Long titles don’t impress me.”

“Titles never impressed you. Now, enough of the pleasantries, what’s the latest?”
“Humph. Well. As per your instuctions, Master-”

“Hah.”
“-We’ve built a new operating system for the After Harmony Project from the ground up. We’ve called it Yggdrasil, after an old earth pony myth about a tree which holds up the universe.”

“Appropriate.”
“We thought so too. Unfortunately, the system is already so intricate that we’re having problems with networking. Yggdrasil can’t interface with any external systems because the data stream is too complex.”

“That’s an advantage here. I fail to see the issue.”
“While that may serve the purposes of making it incorruptible from the outside and more self healing from the inside it rather defeats the whole purpose of your grand project, Master.”

“Have the system run virtualizations of common home and business environments and have it run the external interfacing through those.”
“That...could work. Except that it’s going to be running hundreds of thousands of connections at once. Running that many virtual environments is going to be taxing on system resources.”

“Have multiple similar connections run through a single virtual machine to cut down on duplication. Besides, you’re building the most powerful computer in existence, system resources shouldn’t be an issue.”
“‘Just because you can’ is no excuse for lazy programming.”

“Hah, maybe. And that’s why you’re building this and not me.”
“I still wonder why I ever agreed to this in the first place.”

“That makes two of us. Maybe once this is all done we’ll both know.”
“Perhaps.”

Overlord Rule No:50 My main computers will have their own special operating system that will be completely incompatible with standard IBM and Macintosh powerbooks.