Cum historia, Mutat valde Razgriz, Revelat ipsum, Primum daemon scelestus est
The Changelings have lost. Their cities destroyed, their Queen dead. Yet the war is not over. A bomber crew is assigned one final mission to remind the Equestrians of this fact: By using a Nuclear bomb to wipe the city of Las Pegasus off the map.
Written for the Equestria at War writing contest.
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The operations seem to have a few problems.
Memphis Belle
So, they received the order to surrender, yet they continued the mission without asking confirmation?
And what was the point of nuking an enemy city, with the war clearly lost?
Great job!!!
8869344
It's possible that they were given orders beforehand to disregard all other orders the instant they launched.
Or it could be more simple. Spite.
8869344
They might have been embittered toward Equestria. Maybe, as Emil said, it was spite. Or they were given orders from the higher ups in secret.
Without any evidence, though, I'd say this was a last strike by soldiers who found it difficult to care about the future consequences (such as how Equestria would retaliate). Given the description of the story - "The Changelings have lost. Their cities destroyed, their Queen dead" - that's what it seems to me. It was the wrong choice, given that they technically struck after their leaders had given up (and Equestria won't take this at all lying down - certainly not Celestia, who has lost her sister permanently).
There was no logic in the action.
"Surrender your war or perish in flames"
Sabaton-Nuclear Attack (Attero Dominatus)
Good story if i may say so
I really like the concept, but it needs more room to breathe. A second chapter detailing the fallout (both literal and figurative) from this would be just about perfect.
A child's view of war with a lot of meaningless fluff.
8869805
I actually was planning another shorter chapter, but ran out of time due to the contest. Maybe I'll put it up later.
8869435
Look Up 'Fail Safe' (1964).
8869344
Well in some cases of war when soldiers were told to surrender they wouldn't and they continued fighting
Holy Shi'ite, this was good. Have my god-damned like. Hope we get a second chapter.
*See's sabaton video*
Ah you're a man of culture as well I see
Great story, would like to see a chapter talking about the aftermath.
Good bittersweet story. Sad, but true, soldiers with orders don't usually respond to countermanding cease and desist orders without proper confirmation.
Oh look, a plane.
Twilight, horn laser, please.
*ZAP!!*
And that takes care of that.
Magic, it's a bitch in warfare.
Questions... so many...
1. Why are the changelings flying bombers?
2. When did Equestria invent planes?
3. When did anyone there invent nukes?
4. Why are changelings fighting to kill their primary food source?
5. Why aren't the ponies using magical defenses?
This feels like some WWII and some Pony were simply mashed together without thinking how any of it would work outside of 'grimdark sadfic'.
See, we have zero background for this 'story', and what we do know about Equestria conflicts with every last aspect of it. Therefore, it doesn't work.
9304943
I guess you didn't see
https://www.fimfiction.net/group/212917/equestria-at-war
9304970 Oh, this makes it basically a cross-over. With something I know absolutely nothing about.
The point still stands that it's a woefully incomplete story. Unless the reader is completely familiar with this other material, they're left scratching their heads.
9304997
Well... that's kinda the point.
9304997
See below.
9305028
Agreed. It's like a side story for readers of another much bigger story.
9521030 Still doesn't change the issues. A single bomber getting that far into country that is actually the one winning the war unopposed would never have happened even in WWII.
If they already have radar-equipped fighters, they'd certainly have ground radar units around every major city with flight crews on standby. I simply don't see this happening. There are too many holes in what I know SHOULD be taking place simply to permit blowing up Luna... which is one thing I support as it has no doubt angered Lunatics.
I ended up studying warfare tactics and watching hundreds of documentaries quite thoroughly thanks to my brother's long interest in WWII and aim towards his degree in history.
9521286
That wasn't what I was talking about. I was talking about this:
"The point still stands that it's a woefully incomplete story. Unless the reader is completely familiar with this other material, they're left scratching their heads."
My point is that it was a side story, meant to be read by fans of the main story, so it doesn't need to be complete. I didn't say anything about plausibility at all.
This has been posted last year, but...
Will there be a sequel to this story, the Equestrian now reminded that the war is far from over, now the Equestrian responding in kind & start dropping nukes over changeling territory. Just after those Changeling bombardier crew convinced the Equestrian in the most horrific manner, the war is far from over. It's just natural...
9016814
This is old but the aftermath is easy to guess.
The ponies driven mad with anger start committing whole sale atrocities against the Changeling population. They start massacring Changeling soldiers attempting to surrender to the advancing Equestrian army. A nuke or two dropped in retaliation against any remaining Changeling cities or manufacturing infrastructure that has remained reasonably intact from the bombing of Equestrian bombers.
The last thing I ever expected on this site was a Sabaton reference
10175169
There's quite a few actually
This is almost perfect, and I'd like to help push it over the 99% mark.
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10355497
You're two years late, but thanks anyway XD
10356049
Two years ago I was still reading the first story I'd ever read on this site, Austraeoh. It still amazes me how much quality it retains without a single editor.
Thanks for thanking me anyways, I don't always get appreciated for this job.
9304997
Wow, its almost like...a story written for a established continuity....requires reading the continuity to know context!
10640354 But if you're going to write for a continuity completely severed from the second fandom you're writing into, then you need some contextual material.
It's like writing LoTR lore into a Care Bears fanfic site... and explaining where NONE of it comes from or how it works.
First EAW story I read on here and glad it is. Love the mod and I loved this.
10644499
it is written as part of a contest. The contest's subject is a preestablished series. It is implied you need to read the series first. Do you need your hands held?
Even if this was the baseline crossover...crossovers.....
Expect you know the material! Wow!
If you read a LoTR- carebears crossover, then you probably either need to know both unless stated otherwise, unless you don't mind lacking context!
8869344
This
They couldn't, and went along, maybe thinking it was false or otherwise.
But they couldn't call for confirmation, if they can't speak.
Did Luna Die in this?
i soon as i saw the title and the name of the chapter my mind went to sabaton nuclear attack lol i knew it
And worst part is, theres still another one heading to Rockville.