Domination of Equestria - T+45 - days.
“You can’t do this!”
“Out of the way librarian, this is a direct order from the Overlord.”
“I’m not letting you burn a single page in this entire library, let alone any of these rare and unique scrolls!”
“I have the authority to cut down anyone who gets in the way of this order, so you have two choices, you can get out of my way and I burn this library down, or I can cut you down where you stand and burn this library down. Either way, I’m getting this job done.”
"Then you're just going to have to kill me and explain to the Overlord why vast amounts of knowledge have gone up in smoke."
"Deal. Now if you wouldn't mind getting down on all fours to make it easier to remove your head, I have an excuse to write and a library to burn."
“Wait wait wait! There is another option!”
“Not so sacrificing now are we? I’m listening…?”
“Your orders are to destroy all of Starswirl’s works on time travel, correct?”
“Destroy them through any means.”
“Right, right. But If there truly is nothing that’s going to avoid that, then If I help you identify which works are on time travel, or otherwise fall directly under that command, then you won’t have to destroy the whole library, right?”
“You’re suddenly very co-operative?”
“If something’s going to burn, I’d rather minimise the damage than watch it all go up in smoke.”
“I see. Very well then. However, not only am I going to have everything searched and double checked, if I find you’re hiding something from me not only am I going to burn this library down, I’m going to fill in a form 41a.”
“41a?”
“Form 41a, request for permission to redecorate one’s quarters in the bowels and other assorted entrails of another pony.”
“Ah...I...see? Then...gulp, maybe it’s best we get started?”
“Indeed, I’d rather not be here all day and all night.”
Overlord Rule No:41 Once my power is secure, I will destroy all those pesky time-travel devices.
...The librarian better have memorized every section of the library, otherwise Equestria might have to rewrite its entire history... Again!
6649254 Well, it's not like the victors haven't already rewrote Equestria's history. Look at what tia did
Good luck destroying a certain blue box
Good luck stopping a time lord
But If there truly is nothing that’s going to avoid that, then If I help
1. Extra capitalisation. Twice.
6649363 without a Tardis even a Timelord can'T timetravel
6649275 well you always can park them on the moon (or something)
6649363 Especially when the time lord in question is banging war drums.
*shrugs* To be fair, it wouldn't have done much good. Starswirl only wrote how to create a stable time-loop. Though there always exists the danger of someone exceptionally brilliant, like Twilight Sparkle for example, reworking the spell to do more.
Is that a Fallout Equestria reference? Cause it totally sounds like a rider to want to decorate their quarters with... I can't even finish that thought.
~Leonzilla
6649275 haha i dont know if you know it but our time lord friend cannot do thing even if he actually exist in this universe wothout the overlord knownlwdge.
Besides they cannot interfere with the future or they will doom the entire time line of that universe he specifically said it to Rose
6649543 shut up, literallyy just shutup.
One of the less 'evil' rules, but still just as fun. Looking forward to more.
Keep up the good work. Deus tecum.
This is probably a somewhat good idea even if you aren't an Evil Overlord. Time travel is probably one of the most dangerous things ever.
Don't forget destroy any and all manuscripts, books, biographies, and really anything about history or society before the Overlord took control. Rewrite the histories to paint the Overlord as a savior and anything that contradicts this is destroyed. Less likely to have rebellion or a respark of certain ideas years later down the line.
If you make it so that people don't have anything to compare to present to, then they are less likely to question the present.
Control the writing of the history and the categories of knowledge available and you control people at their core. You control how their brain learns.
6649636 but what happens if the threat in this universe pours into the other universes
6649452 And two weeks later, you were answered.
Time travelling in the past creates a paradox. The only way it saves anyone is by having multiple timelines. In any case the timeline where you're from will never be saved because anything else other than observation of the past makes the reason you went to the past redundant and actually stops the time travel from occuring in the first place.
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Form 41a because this is rule 41 most likely
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Unless, of course, you take great pains to ensure that the time travel happens at that point anyway... then you'll have jumpstarted a Stable Time Loop.
This though requires you to not be sending the same instance of a physical thing back each time, as it will decay via subjective entropy and destabilize the loop.
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Yeah, but at least with time-travelling you can "emigrate" to another timeline, where everyone is, hopefully, saved.
But imagine this plot twist: while the time travel spells are being burnt, a pony from the future sneaks in and "borrows" one copy of the spell... Then, much later the spell is handed to Twilight (or to someone else), so that the time traveller could be validated by the time travel happening much later!
When done right, time travel can't be stopped!