For the past millennium, the small and technologically-advanced Equestrian Empire has waged war against the old and corrupt Cleomanni Confederacy, employing weapons of terrifying might in their struggle. It has been three years since they lost.
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I was kind of hoping they were going to end up in the Twilight tower
nice chapter, maybe too much action in a row.
WHAT this story still have under 100 likes... something is wrong.
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I'm starting to think that my story is as good at cloaking itself as Storm is, lol.
Im really loving this story so far and I can't wait to see what happens in the future, really looking forward to see the Cleomanni get what they deserve!
On a side note though, I have a couple question that I hope you can answer my good sir, but of course, you don't have to.
For my first question, are the humans in this story Earthbound or are they a space faring civilization? I hope the answer isn't considered a big spoiler.
Second question, are the creature's of Equestria(the planet) the only beings in the galaxy capable of wielding magic? Or are there other beings in the galaxy that can also use magic?
Third question, is the galaxy that this story is located in Star wars like? To clarify, I mean as in are there hundreds of thousands of different species spread throughout the galaxy, or is it a galaxy that has a numerous amount of species but not to the point of being everywhere?
And for the final question, are we gonna have space battles? I really, really love ship to ship fights!
Thanks again for such an amazing story and I hope to see an amazing writer such as yourself be recognized for such a great story!
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Haha, you and me both. They're pretty nasty, aren't they? Add a few tablespoons Ferengi greed, one cup Altmer smugness, two drops of essence of Martin Shkreli, and a dash of Go Nagai sideburns, and boom, Cleomanni. I engineered them to be very, very annoying.
Fair warning; all the spoilertext in this post contains some mild-to-moderate spoilers.
Most of the minor species in the galaxy are afraid of ponies because they fear that their mistreatment at the hands of the cleomanni will eventually lead to them becoming a threat to everyone. The cleomanni, for their part, are actively, deeply hostile; they propagandize against ponies constantly and generally forbid other races from trading with them, on pain of death. Most species would rather honor the FTU's embargo orders rather than risk going to war with the Confederacy, but Equestria still managed to get fairly rich exporting textiles and gemstones (among other things) on the down-low, as part of a healthy gray market trade with whichever species would dare to do business with them.
Almost anything I could say about the humans would be a spoiler. The short answer is, yes, they are spacefaring. The longer answer? Well:
All I can say with any certainty is that I intend for them to be a mysterious and antagonistic force, spoken of only in hushed murmurs. They have their own agenda, they're very dangerous when encountered, and they're not particularly chummy. They're more along the lines of tragic antagonists as opposed to the straight-up villainy of the cleomanni.
I wanted to do something a little bit different from the fandom's typical buddy-cop portrayal of humans and ponies working side by side, maybe something a bit like Nemesis the Warlock where humans are a threat and non-humans are the focus, but also not like TCB where it's a curbstomp and humans are incompetent. When you see a human dropship, that's your cue to run and hide, and pray you're not what they're looking for. The mood switches to survival-horror whenever they're around. Their tech level is way, way above everyone else's, they can't be reasoned with, and they're scary as hell.
There are other species that can use magic, but it's rare and unusual.
The nemrin - while capable of a form of magic on their own - have forsworn its use due to heretical cults using the dark arts to make flesh golems. The nemrin are actually very good at magic-canceling, and they're the manufacturers of the suppression rings the cleomanni use.
That's a good question. There are hundreds of different minor species in the galaxy, but the vast majority of them are uncontacted relative to the FTU. There are only a few dozen-ish sapient species known to the cleomanni. The Cleomanni Confederacy and their Free Trade Union are the dominant force in this particular region of the galaxy, but there are at least a half-dozen other major civilizations of equal or greater power, they're just too far away for the FTU to have any contact with; some are situated further coreward and consider the part of the galaxy with the FTU to be "out in the boonies", so to speak. Some don't even think there's any life out there, while others sent probes, saw the constant warfare and squabbles in the galactic equivalent of Darfur, and said to themselves ,"Yeah, no. We're not vacationing there. Turn the ship around, honey." To put it bluntly, the galaxy is big. Very big. There are large swaths of sparsely-populated nothing. It's not like SW, it's much emptier, colder, and lonelier than that.
A substantial number of the minor species are primitive and non-spacefaring. Damarkinds are one particularly nasty example; vicious, patriarchal, and psychotically aggressive space hillbillies, what few damarkinds have ships of their own are typically hired guns employed by the cleomanni or by crime bosses to do the dirtiest of their dirty work.
Linnaltans are exactly the opposite; civil and urbane, with advanced art and architecture, sleek spacecraft, and a few colony worlds of their own; plus, many of them are rumored to be Equestrian sympathizers, although the cleomanni have pressured them not to, quote unquote, "legitimize Twilight Sparkle's evil regime".
Basically, the part of the galaxy that ponies hail from is, unfortunately for them, a gallery of horrors.
There's a lot of stuff going on here, world-building-wise. I almost wish that Fimfiction didn't have a rule against off-site content, because really, the way I originally envisioned this story, it would be something of a multimedia hypertext novel with hyperlinks leading both to wiki articles and to hidden sub-chapters. Because I can't do that, the expospeak can get a little thick in places. I hope it doesn't ruin the pacing. I always wanted to experiment with multimedia or interactive-novel concepts. I'm actually in the process of composing a soundtrack for this series, too. I do synthetic orchestral arranging as a hobby. Sometime in the future, perhaps when this is all done, I'll come up with an alternate version with the extra stuff included and host it elsewhere.
There will definitely be more ship-to-ship combat in the future. The ELF don't have very many warships at their disposal, but when they do come out, shit gets real. Space combat in this series is of the Newtonian variety. Starships aren't like WWII fighter planes. Once they get going, they coast, and they can rotate and translate relative to their targets. The smallest serious combat craft are corvettes, and anything smaller is basically a missile or a decoy. There are "space fighters", but they're SSTO craft intended primarily for atmospheric combat; they're basically sitting ducks in space. Many of them are capable of interplanetary travel, and some shuttles can even warp, but other than ferrying themselves between planets, they're almost defenseless in space. Compared to things like expendable gun drones and high-velocity bundles of tungsten rods, they have no chance.
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That description of the Cleomanni is incredibly accurate hehe and I bet that lot's of species are tired of their shit, pardon my language.
Makes sense and hope I don't ruin the fun and mystery of this story for other readers, but Im such a lore freak that lore in any series I love is like a drug for me! (I blame Destiny and Elder Scrolls for that...)
But back to the human stuff, that is very very interesting stuff and while I thought of it from time to time, I didn't think you would go that route with the humans (not that Im complaining of course, Im a little bit of a human supremacist, in the nice sort of way hehe)
And regarding the human's , I have two question regarding their tech(you can choose not to answer of course). First question, are they the most advanced specious in the galaxy? Or only in that their part of the galaxy?
Second question, Is the tech gap between them and the Cleomanni/Ponies like that of the Pre-Covenant war Humans compared to the Forerunners at their prime (where basically there is no hope to compete in any single way)? Or is it more akin to Pre-Covenant war Humans compared to the Covenant (where while the Cleomanni/Ponies are very clearly outclassed in almost everysingle field of tech, their still able to put up a fight and win certain battles)?
And for a final non-tech question, how far into the future are these human's? Hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands of years (I prefer thousands of years for powerful interstellar civilizations because being a galactic super power in only a couple hundreds of years after becoming space faring race personally doesn't make sense to me, unless there is a reason of course)?
That is very very cool and good to know that magic isn't Equestrian exclusive, hope to see these magic bearing races and how they interact with the Equestrians hehehehe...
Starswirl the Bearded: Im the better wizard!
Random alien wizard: No, Im the better wizard! *proceeds to have a magic dual with Starswirl*
Thats a good choice and definitely makes reading the story and lore easier by not flooding the story with thousands of species all in one place, and I can't wait to see the races of the galaxy!
And that is such a bummer man, I would have loved reading more lore from these hidden sub chapters and wiki's, but what can ya do...and I hope you succeed in making the alternate version of the story, I'll read and see it all!
The pacing is perfectly fine and I love the lore tidbits (since remember, Im a lore junkey), so keep doing what you feel is right for the story and pacing.
I cant wait to hear your soundtrack, I bet it will feel and sound great for this story and makes me even more hyped for it!
Oooooh man I cant wait to see how you handle the ship to ship fights, I eat those right up! And I also can't wait to see how you handle fleet battles (those are my favorite space battles) especially since these battles are gonna be Newtonian style.
Also, two questions about this stories FTL system, is it instantaneous travel but at the cost of having a small range like in Battlestar Galactica? Or is it that it takes time for ships to reach their destination, but it has good range like in Star Wars and Star Trek? if its the second option, how fast is their Warp/FTL?(at least for the Ponies and Cleomanni, since I'm guessing that the speed of their warp is based on how advanced a species is, right?)
And thanks again for answering my questions and I hope you have a great day, hope to see ya soon!
Well, this is turning kinky fast.
Sounds like they have the superior ranged weapon tech. Reverse engineer that shit.
Call me ignorant if you want, but enemies killing enemies sounds like a good thing.
I'm almost cringing at the thought that he may be one of their brainwashed agents.
Oh hai Spec Ops: The Line moment.
Look, I sympathize with you kid, but he was literally pointing a gun at them and threatening to kill them. At some point SOMEONE was going to shoot.
So, just going to leave the kid to die then? K.
To be fair, Granny Smith is kind of immortal. I wouldn't be surprised if she were still around.
That's one hell of a way to wake up
So basically a normal Tuesday?
Does he wear a pot for a hat and speak gibberish?
(Plants vs zombies)
That's even worse 😢
This is probably what the doc in tf2 does
Dude it's completely your fault for getting her as high as a kite. That poor kid 😭
If I wasn't sad by what happened earlier i would be laughing at the reference 😢
I'm surprised on how your not bloody dead after getting shot blown up and several crashes so far
Welp there goes my hope of taming one
Son of a bitch....
ARE YOU FUCKING INSANE!?
God damn. They would need at least captain America to help them