Stories set in the Oversaturated World, some silly, some less so.
"So what is it you wanted me to see, Rarity?"
"Well, Twilight, I thought you might be interested in this. You see, I caught the video of those Wonderbolts dissolving that hurricane, and I asked myself 'Why don't they do more weather management, like handling clouds?'"
"Clouds are too high in the atmosphere. Even if they could fly up there, they couldn't—"
"Couldn't breathe, yes, darling, I did research. However, there are air tanks and airtight suits in the world already. Scuba gear, space suits, all that. Rainbow, do you have it on yet?"
"Give me a moment! It's hard to adjust!"
"You're having Rainbow test this? Rarity, the feathers have to be exposed to the air to generate a lightbow!"
"That is the common wisdom, yes, but! The lightbow is a magical construct. So I thought to myself, if there was a way to transfer magic through a fabric, without transferring air, then it should be possible to make a skin-tight suit which allows featherfolk to fly!"
"Okay! I think I got it!"
"...What's that collar Rainbow's wearing?"
"That is my proof of concept. Twilight, behold: The thaumographic lightbow valve!"
"Huh. That's... actually pretty impressive. Rainbow, you doing okay there?"
"Yeah. It's a little tight, and to be honest I'm having to put more effort in to hover than I usually do. But I'm doing fine."
"Of course, we haven't done any stress testing--how long it lasts, how fast she can go, all that. I know that there's quite a bit of detail in recording that data, and I thought--"
"Right. I need all your notes on how you made this, and then I need to plan some experiments. If it's atmospherically enclosed and temperature resistant, that could theoretically enable you to fly to space! I wonder if this only works for pegasus aspected people. If you could make a headband..."
Pegasus aspects can project their wings through anything that's sufficiently air-permeable, including most fabrics. Silk presents problems. Pressure suits? Forget about it... unless the fabric's magically conductive.
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Technology + Twilight + Equestrian Magic = There are no limits!
She should patent that.
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Nice to know my little story inspired someone! I guess realistically it would take time to develop flight suits for feather people. But with magitech, you don't have to be realistic!
Yeah, no. Wings need air to push against to work, and once you get too high, about 80 Km, the air just starts to get too thin- Jets stop working around 50 Km. And then once you hit about 100 Km you'd need orbital velocity anyway, so wings are just extra weight... And good luck hitting orbital velocity. Just to reach 100 Km on a suborbital path takes about 1.4 Km/s of Delta V. All for Earth of course.
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Ah, but these aren't wings. This is a lightbow, a magical construct. There may be issues, but air support ain't one of them... as far as Twilight knows.
Testing is needed.
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Don't bring science to a world of magic you don't understand
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Rainbow dash as a filly created a sonic rainboom (essentially a sonic boom but with light as well as sound, which by itself would take more energy than a normal sonic boom), that spanned and was seen from all of equestria, the amount of energy needed for that is phenomenal even without any calculations