At first I was like

But now i'm all like

Ill have to admit I skipped the beginning chapters to where the two faction met but it jsut got better and better.

I haven't seen mech warrior in years all I could thing about are memories of reading old PC gaming magazines that showcased the first games.

This was an awesome ride and everything turned out perfect!

It was long to read and a bit slow on the beginnng, but hey, 'mechs take a bit to heat. Great story two thumbs up ^_^

Omigosh! JUST 4.6 stars? It's a crime against the whole humanity (not to mention the entire Equestria)!!!

This ABSOLUTELY, BREATHTAKINGLY *EPIC* STORY truly, honestly deserves 5.0 stars!!!

Even if you hate human-in-equestria sci-fi stories, GIVE THIS ONE A CHANCE! Yes, it is that good.

I do not know, if it is the best one I have ever read (a close tie with The Past Sins) but nevertheless it is an EXCELLENT fanfic, truly deserving a sequel.

(pleeeeeeeease Dashukta . Maybe a tiny teaser or a mini-chapter :). Pretty please). How about making Twilight sad for what she asked for before the end of the story and try to come up with a better solution [I do not want to give any spoilers so I won't be writing about any details].

I will not lie...i literaly cried with joy as soon as i read the words 'inner sphere'.

My two things i love most in this world, brought together

THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is one of the best Human in Equestria fic's ever made.

Congratulations.

awsome

I was supposed to have favourited this last year

I loved this story on EQD and I love it here!

I will say that i indeed loved this story it was fun and unbelievably detailed.  Great job I hope you make more stories.

Mechwarrior..........mlp...............................................................................THERE IS A GOD!!!!!!!!!!!

Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww yeah, that was 2½ hours well spent.

So, I just booted MechWarrior 4 Merc. back up for the first time in years the other day. And here I was, scrolling along Fimfiction.net when "Inner Sphere" jumps out at me. Not familiar with Mech Warrior lore that much, and dont know squat about BattleTech, but this looks good.

LOL!! (( take us to your Leader!!)) I love it

It would be nice if you would a the Human tag to the story so the it can more accurately be searched for.

This is one of the few pony stories involving humans I have liked.

This... fanfic... is... absolutely... GREAT!

I read it with truly pleasure. The only element that I don't like is that sick xenophobia and hypocrisy of Celestia. Peace and harmony in my ass, troll! This is the reason why your nation is steeped in stagnation.

Anyway, I love this story and want sequel so much

This was the first FiM story I ever read, back in July 2011. If it hadn't been on EqD's front page the one day I went there on a whim, I would never have discovered ponies. It will always have a special place in my heart.

Now, how about that sequel?

>>449646449646 Pretty please, Dashukta. Just one tiny teaser for the new, even more EPIC sequel! PLEASE

I, too, would love to see a sequel to this fic. :)

I don't know a thing about BattleTech, and I still found this a very good and easy to follow story. The first contact scenes in particular have never been bettered in any other fanfic I've read.

Most Hie fics and crossovers are a pox on the fandom.

This is a very, very pleasant surprise.

i liked it. not much else to say for this story

I'll admit when I saw this fic, I was a little apprehensive. I thought "BattleTech and MLP:FIM? Those two get along as well as Sulfuric acid and water." Yet somehow you made it work, you crazy bastard.

5/5 Would read again

At first I was a bit impatient on how it meanders in describing the basic settings and characters we clearly know. That it should move on.

But the further I read, I've started to become accustomed to the pace. Seeing that you went through such deep detail of the outside world, that to speed things up would be imbalanced and look suddenly like it's neglected proper detail.

So it took me two chapters, but I figured out your pace of the story and am liking how it unfolds.

Why am I not surprised Fluttershy is the one who tries to interact with the 'aliens' first <laughs> and yes, I agree with RanDT1, Take us to your leader! Priceless!

I must say, I enjoyed this chapter. Well written, and the disposition between the ponies and soldiers was quite heartfelt. Very well done!

Liz? Nah, she is being framed. I would bet on it.

Remind me never to anger Twi...

Quite the enjoyable story. Thank you for sharing.

Interesting... I had not considered these things when watching the show. Awesome observations, Twilight.

That sounds like something out of an Ace Attorney game, for some reason. Ironically, Ace Attorney never had to deal with examinations of specific design choices of everyday objects, as far as I know. Besides the Ladder/Stepladder running gag... It makes sense in context.

Sounds like Twilight discovered an incoming DropShip... That is, if that is the DropShip.

Pinkie is smarter than her eccentricity lets on, apparently. I like that.

Princess Celestia has raised some good points, ironically putting up some points on both sides.

Given humanity's track-record, I'm on her side. Still, I'm surprised she knows so much about us just from a visit from the Thessalonica.

I'm in agreement with Paladin here. I'm liking how the examinations of human and pony cultures and natures play out.

Twilight actually swore!

... Huh. I guess hanging around certain people can cause things to rub off on you. Between ponies and humans who understand eachother, with them both being sentient, that's no exception.

Holy... She's really taken a level, hasn't she?

This is totally worth a second read!

When I have the time, of course.

This is incredibly good. How can this be so good? I am simply amazed. I clicked on this with a grim determination to see how horribly mangled two of my favorite fandoms could become...

When I saw the lede, I told my wife "Oh god, I hate this idea, but I have to see how bad it's going to be."  And then I found some of the best BattleTech writing in that first chapter, hands down.  And I've read a LOT of Battletech- I still have the entire original series of novels on my phone.  I've read classic fanfics (The Four Horsemen, anyone?) and TROs and even some Dark Age novels.  None of them can beat your technical writing or pacing.

"Ugh, the technical writing is great, I don't want to read the pony chapters now, they're going to suck." I said to the wife.  And then I read a chapter that sounds like it could be storyboarded into a stock-standard FiM episode. Characters, descriptions of book illustrations... all DEAD-ON. I salute the way you have faithfully recreated the characters of the Mane 6- lately I've despaired at finding an accurate representation of the cheerful nature of Rainbow Dash or Twilight, let alone Pinkie Pie. Most recent fics I've read flatten them to one- or two-dimensional parodies of the actual complex canon characters. Thank you especially for giving Pinkie the opportunity to be thoughtful instead of just random, for making Dash lighthearted as well as boastful, and Twilight insightful instead of just factual.

But the crowning achievement?  The way you treated the differences between human and poni culture and the inevitable clashes between them without getting grim, using magical hand-waving, or having characters conveniently ignore crucial differences.  I expected it to be jarring, but... the meeting and eventual merger of the cultures was outstanding.  

I.. I'm sort of at a loss for words.  My mind, it is full of buck.  *Jackie Chan head*  

Now, wait a minute... According to Sarna.net, the Valkyrie is one of the Unseen 'Mechs.

What inspired the use of one of those? Don't get me wrong, though; it's awesome, just the same. In fact, knowing that actually increases the awesome levels a bit, at least in my opinion.

Faved.

Nice thing to note that a light 'mech outside of a mech-on-mech brawl is actually more than a match for light forces.

I had just come across my old Battle Tech figures a few days ago.  Great read going into my favorites, thanks a lot!

She's being framed... if the person was good enough to set the bomb off in the 1st place I'm going to guess the next step would be to put blame onto someone else... such as planting evidence... and I like Liz... sooo JAIL BREAK!

I love da end to this chapter!

It was a little slow for me in the beginning... but I'm thinking that's mostly to do with the fact that a lot of the sci-fi jargon/sciency stuff usually goes way over my head. However, once I got past that (and more on the ground stuff) I felt it moved at a wonderful pace and I really enjoyed it. Thank you for writing it and posting. :3

An engaging and well-written story, all in all. Especially the parts explaining the weirdness of human paraphernalia in Ponyverse. I also enjoyed the ponies' discussion on the usual Sci-Fi clichés like rubber suit aliens. Plus, I think you've captured the weirdness of human-pony encounters pretty well for both sides. The prospect of a JumpShip being able to force a mis-jump into Equestria does sound all kinds of unnerving, though... I'd hate to see the grimdark of the Mech Warrior 'verse to pour out into everybody's favorite sugar bowl.

>>12037341203734

I know this is a little late and that I should probably read the rest of the stories before commenting, but I think Celestia is very ooc here. She is usually very over-trusting, and humans have been nothing but nice . On a kind-of-related note, Fuck Ackerman, he's a dick

>>15734401573440

Celestia and humans have history in this fiction. Not a nice one, at that.

As for Ackerman... Well, yeah. I'm not even gonna try to defend him.

Yes! BattleTech and ponies! I read it and I love it.

>> OnederMan

I think that I agree with Akamia.

Well, I just finished reading through this story, and i have to say that I was pleasantly surprised.

Even though I have never even heard of battletech, I was able to follow everything that was going on. Well done on the information front!

And, since this is a HiE fic, there were the usual situations that occur. (Human harming creature, ancient human connections, etc.)

However, I felt that you made your story into one that can stand apart from most other HiE fics in its quality, and general feel.

For me, the major problem of this story was what I felt to be some ponies being out-of-character, mostly due to Celestia, and the whole "Ah he just killed someone. No it was self defense. Oh ok." Basically, I felt that the mixed reactions of the different ponies to the humans and their actions was a little odd.

But on the whole, this was one the best HiE stories I've seen. (It helps a lot that I don't think it was a self-insert, and if it was, it didn't seem like one.)

I give it a really good 8/10, because you managed to pull of HiE well. I hope that you might writer another story sometime, because I think that you sure have the talent for it!

>>13425721342572

Exactly! I have also read the books and I totally agree with you. In any way!

>>16529401652940

AAAAAH, NEVER HEARD OF BATTLETECH? AAAAAH! IT'S A BATTLETECH STORY! (Freakin' supernovas, eight times.) I'mo read this first chance I get, been awake 30 hours atm. No bueno

With another glow, she flipped back to her original image of study. With a frown, she sent the pages flipping back the other way, then back, then back again. With an exasperated sigh, she turned to a new page entirely and began pouring over a new image.

With a tired glance Merlos did feel as though he'd read the same sentence several times over. D:

Trying a little bit too hard there at the start, but still lovin' the story.

Wait... WHAT?!!?

It can't be over! NO! DON'T LET IT END HERE!!! *cries* I became so connected to this fic!

There can only be one answer to this... I will continue de epix! Although it may not be of this kind of story, the human-pony interaction is not yet fully explored. Despite how completely AWESOME this was, I feel that I must begin writing on the human-pony interaction. I don't want it to end!

*PS: Can I be your editor's number one assistant?

“The better question is if they’ve ever visited us” Rainbow Dash grinned.

Applejack swallowed nervously, Spike’s toothy monster in her mind’s eye, “Really? Y’all really think there might be aliens here?”

“Oh, yeah!” added Spike, “Haven’t you heard the stories? Flying saucers and alien abductions?”

“A-Ab-Abductions?”

“What’s a ‘moose’?”

The Princess raised her head high and spoke in a clear, strong voice, “I am Princess Celestia. Along with my sister, Princess Luna, We rule over all of the lands of Equestria and ensure peace and harmony for all Our subjects. You are interlopers in Our kingdom. Who speaks for you?”

PLLEEEASE Tell me that Celestia isn't going to be a jerk this story has been so awesome so far uuaaagh.  

“Like this?” Pinkie Pie pulled a thin paper magazine out from beneath a mattress. She flung it on top of the bunk. “Huh, that’s weird.”

Fluttershy peered at the open page over Pinkie’s shoulder and turned a bright crimson, “Oh! Oh dear. Um… I’d say that still works the same way.”

peeeeerfeeeect

I'm really confused about the entirety of the ship's coming and going and the Thessalonica itself...

Are they saying it left and was never heard from again? Or what? I'm not even sure, I thought there were looking for the ship that made contact with the Equestrians anyway.

What exactly is going on here?

I picked up on hints that they were far in the distant future but from what I think I'm getting is that... the Thessa found them, left, came back and set up the research facility?

That doesn't make sense though because this planet was confirmed to be Terra wasn't it? Terra being Earth? As in the entire world was at one point industrialized?

>>19254011925401

Yes I found it to be too short as well, but definitely on a whole other level compared to most cross overs.

I enjoyed it for what it was, a pity it dropped the ball when it did and that it ended but all things end eventually, even the good ones.

I do love the moment of first contact in HiE stories

>>19485341948534 It seems to me that the Thessalonica got into a parallel universe by an accidental explosion as they were jumping. They were then sent off by the Princess and managed to make a deliberate explosion that got them home. They must have reported their findings to the Terran Hegemony, who then sent ships to set up the research facility. Then when Ian Cameron took the reins he shut the facility down.The facility was packed up, the ships deliberately mis-jumped their way home  and the project members were scattered throughout the hegemony.

Which is why the "Terra" that the protagonists are currently on is inhabited by pre-industrial talking magical ponies and isn't covered with the ruins of thousands of years of human civilization. It is not Earth. It is not our home.

>>19831131983113

That sounds like a fair assessment, I didn't puzzle over it long but the initial seemingly contradictory narration and subsequent dialogue really irked me when I read it.

Thanks for the reply it puts me at ease more!

Sci fi plot holes drive me nuts, Gah if someone points any out to me in my own story I'll be grateful though.

>>19823701982370 I'm not so sure you would like it in mine... *sinister old wizard laugh*

Sorry double post.

Not so different to us, are you Twilight?

Gah, this story hath ended to quickly! I must find another awesome Battletech/MLP crossover to read until Falling Stars updates!

>>19832961983296 Oh dear, I shall have to read that then.

>>19832861983286 No problem, I found it a bit difficult to get my head round it at first as well

Holy mofo! Twi can be badass as fuck!

I can't believe I found this! I remember when this was on EQD, and when the title screen video was made.

I remember reading this on a family road trip. I downloaded it as a PDF right before I left, and I couldn't put it down until I got to the very end. This is by far my favorite fan fic of all time. This got me reading fan fics, and by extension, it got me writing them.

...And I am glad to see that you reposted this from FF.net.

Another brony author to follow!

Is it just me, or did Spike's description of an alien basicly describe Aliens from AvP?