The History Of The Human War

by Scorched Earth

After The War - State Visit

Canterlot
Capital of Equesteria
Planetside

Celestia was troubled. There were ponies out there, demanding that something was to be done about the humans. Get the criminals who dropped the asteroids. Make them return all the stolen gems. So much hate going around. It didn't help that the human ambassador had told her that there was unrest in Luna Aeternal, human capital. Apparently, more and more humans wanted to come to planetside. That mean increasing The Zone. However, they could not do it without losing a face to ponies. If they kept caving to human demands, it would seem as they were weak. That could lead to... a civil war. It was a tought she didn't want to think. It was enough during Nightmare Moons reign, those horrible two weeks when two sides collided, even if it was just corrupted guard versus loyal guard.

But now, there was no clear enemy. Ponies needed confidence, to see that their leaders were still strong. Yet, at the same time, she couldn't agitate humans. No, that was wrong. She had gotten much better grasp of human political system by now. It wasn't human government she needed to fear. It was few powerful political blocks. If she made something that could be understood as "a threat", those blocks would move to drum up support for a new war. It was not something she could allow to happen.

Human government was keeping the lid on the situation by carefully monitoring and controlling the media, but as the ambassador Fahrenheit had said, it was only temporal solution. Sooner or later something would slip by, or the people would start to question news blackout on the moon. They needed more permanent solution, a compromise. However, things she needed to be done to regain lost position were beyond what ambassador could give.

It left only one option. To talk to human leader, so called The First Citizen. She had already talked to ambassador about it and The First Citizen and send her an invitation for a state visit. But who could go? If she went, they would see the very symbol of the enemy, an extremely powerful magical pony. However, sending someone else would mean that they would in same position as they were with the ambassador, only in reversed roles.

That left only one option: Princess Luna. Humanity had some respect as a whole for her. It was she who had found key to end the war without further bloodshed. However, she was reluctant to let Luna to travel to middle of human territory. They would be out of contact for several days if that happened and she could not talk to her if needed. Plus, if humans really did have unrest among their population there was no way to know what would happen.

Life had become so complicated. She missed the times when the hardest decisions she had to make were related to ownership of a tree located on a border of two farms. In such a short time her life had turned into a minefield, where every step had to be carefully calculated.

"Tia? You said you wanted to talk to me." Luna walked in to throne room.

"Yes. We need to find a compromise that will satisfy the warhawks on the both sides. You know what we need and what they need..."

"And we can't just give them what they want and they can't give us what we want. So what do you propose?"

"Well, problem is that the ambassador can't promise such things and she can't remain in constant contact with The First Citizen. So we would need to speak to The First Citizen directly. However, he can't come here." Celestia said tiredly.

"That means... going to the moon."

"Yes. I have an invitation to visit their capital, Luna Aeternal. I think it's for the best if you go there. If I go it might agitate their populace and cause them to listen to those who want war..."

"Me? But, I... Yes. I will go. Who shall come with me?"

"Captain Stonewall shall come with squad of guards. Is there anyone else you might want to come with you?"

At this point Luna had to think hard. Who would want to come with her? Despite her efforts during the war, there were still poisonous voices whispering about her past as Nightmare Moon. Who would want to travel with her to the moon... Then she had an idea.

"Can I... Can I ask Twilight Sparkle to come with me?" Luna said meekly. Celestia raised an eyebrown at this.

"My faithful student? Well, if she wishes." Celestia was not exactly thrilled of idea of sending both Luna and Twilight to human capital, but if having Twilight with her helped Luna to handle the trip, she would allow it for now.

They talked for a while about how the visit to human capital would be done and when it would be done. Then there was matter of informing Twilight Sparkle.

...................................................

Ponyville was healing nicely from the war. Most of the damage had been repaired and ponies had settled in comfortable routines. Twilight was at the moment hosting two guest, Rainbow Dash and Rarity, with Rainbow Dash teasing Rarity and Spike.

"So, you two had any fun yet? Any vertical tango?"

"Dash! Such language is not suitable for proper lady!" Rarity shouted in a protest

"Besides, if we had we wouldn't tell about it to you." Came Spikes answer from the ladder where he was setting book in order.

"Spike!"

"Sorry, sorry..."

"Okay, all of you calm down. No need to tease them when you see them, Dash. Fun as it is." Twilight wasn't really the best to imprint other about teasing, considered she did all the time with Spike.

"So. How have you been? Is Scootaloo doing fine?" It had been a shock to everyone when Rainbow Dash had one day arrived with Scootaloo under her wing, with adoption papers in her mouth. Apparently Scootaloos parents had not survived the war, with her dad enlisting in the Guard and mother dying during Battle of Ponyville. So when Rainbow Dash had seen her in Canterlot Orphanage, she had adopted her right away.

"She is doing fine. Her grades are actually improving. She finally passed flying test." Rainbow Dash said with a small smile. She had calmed down considerably after adopting Scootaloo. Guess the sudden transformation from "cool big sis" to "parent" caused her to rethink her actions. "I just wish I could help her with the nightmares."

"Poor little one." Rarity said, before trying to reach for a sandwich. It flew slightly pass her mouth, but she quickly corrected the mistake.

"How about you? Do you need help getting back home?"

"Oh, no need. Spike promised he would help me to get there." Rarity said with a smile, while Spike turned visibly red. "Sweetie Bell has been great help with the shop now days, sometimes I think she might get better than me!" What was left out was that Sweetie Bell had the definite advantage of seeing what she was doing. A burp from Spike (and the accompanying crash) broke their discussion.

"Spike, what happened?" Rarity asked.

"Ooh... why it's always when I am on the stairs..."

"Hey, a letter from Princess Celestia!" Twilight said as she picked up the letter.

"What does it say!?" Rainbow Dash asked in excitement.

"Let's see..."

My dear faithful student.

Due to political difficulties faced by us, we have decided to make a state visit to human capital, Luna Aeternal, on the dark side of the moon. We will personally remain on Canterlot, while Princess Luna conducts this visit. We wish to ask you to accompany Her during this trip, to ensure she has a friend and confidential with her.

Yours
Princess Celestia

Everyone just stared at Twilight, while Twilight read the letter several times trough. It wasn't a normal letter Celestia send her, but a formal request.

"A state visit? To human capital?"

"That's... wow..." Spike was able to say.

"But but but what I am supposed to do!?"

"Relax dear, take a deep breath. She wants you to accompany Princess Luna during her trip. She doesn't ask you to negotiate for her, does she?"

"No and you are right. I guess I need to answer this..."

"What will you answer?" Rainbow Dash asked.

"Well, what do you think? Of course I agree. Princess Celestia asked me for this. She has been having hard time lately, this is the least I can do to help her. Spike, I need you to look after the library while I am gone. And no holding weddings while I am gone!"

"TWILIGHT!" Answered both Spike and Rarity in unison while Rainbow Dash chuckled.

(To be continued in a whole new story: "After The War - Luna Aeternal")

Comments

[Guardian]

Yes! Sequel!

[stalins organ]

1195125 I am

[Zervziel]

Sweet balls of fire, reread before posting! Celestia's letter starts with Dead rather than Dear!

[Scorched Earth]

1214491

I do reread before posting, but I tend to suffer from grammar blindness.

[Biker_Dash]

Well, I have to say that, inspite of the gramattical errors, I still quite enjoyed this.

I am curious at to how Rarity lost her sight.

I am looking forward to reading the sequal!

[cshadd]

Teh war is over!

static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/PostApocalypseLondon001_2039.jpg

[Scorched Earth]

1232139

Didn't want humanity just to steamroll over ponies. Besides, if you look at description of major battles, most of them are human victories. Those few pony victories are result of either superior numbers or catching human unprepared.

Like said in the fic, in the long run humans would have won. Except here I had peace treaty being signed. Humans are not bastards who kill for fun and profit. They kill only because they don't see an alternative. Now they got alternative.

1233607

New Zebas Treaty. It's named after a zebra city.

Zecora is dead and buried.

1233774

YES! Finally someone got that! Have a mustache

[Scorched Earth]

1234429

Nope. 600 billion includes Space (Lagrangian points), Mars and Jupiter's Moon(Callisto, Io, Ganymede) and few other solar colonies. Humanity had a massive population boom during it's expansion to solar colonies and is one of the reasons why humanity experimented with magic. To get out of the Sol system, since they started to have problems trying to feed everyone. Well, not stared, had a problem. Human diet was pretty much artificial food even before The Great Cataclysm.

However, if it seems that bad I can drop the number to 60 billion. That means scrapping some of humanities achievements tough. I don't want to use cliche 3rd Wold War.

Point is, a lot of humans died during the shift. We went from 600 billion people, who had colonized their solar system, to 50 million people living on the moon in fear.

[Scorched Earth]

1246132

First of all, humans WANT Earth to be able to continue to support life. It's not a war of genocide to kill everything non-human. It's a war of conquest. to get farming land.

Furthermore, Artificial-Gravity is HARD. It's something humans do with great care. It takes tons of energy to fold space-time, to 'cheat' and make universe think that moons gravity is higher than it actually is.

[Scorched Earth]

1258870

Ponies learned that one the hard way.

[Scorched Earth]

1311164

Not very big. Large enough to get trough the atmosphere, small enough to only wipe out cities and surrounding areas. Essentially, a different type of nuke. Also, humans cut them down from original size. Goal was to destroy political and industrial infrastructure, not to destroy the planet itself.

I admit I stole the idea from Iron Sky. Awesome movie

[Duffman18]

1314466
fair enough my good man, fair enough. Still. Trixie could never hope to be as awesome as Cain.

[Scorched Earth]

1354244

Yup, just add tubes from the sides going to back and you got basic human combat armor. I was thinking whenever or not humans would have power armor, but then I decided that humans would rarely need them and thus not use them. So they got NOD style armors, with ACES suits taking the role of power armor.

Glad you liked the story, I've been planning to go through this and fix the grammar once I am done with Innocence Once Lost

[normalshearstress]

I'm still suprised by the fact that humans didn't use any nukes, if they mastered fusion making nukes should be relatively easy.

[Scorched Earth]

2146743

They can easily make nukes. They just lack guts and will to do it. Nukes and other WMDs are very, very big taboo to humans. Mainly because if you mishandle even one, you can easily wipe out large chuck of what remains of humanity. Check the follow up story, Luna Aeternal to see what sort of damage can happen with them.

Besides, once you got the highest ground, AKA orbit, mere rock is enough to have the same effect. Once you use nukes, you are just putting salt to the wounds.

EDIT

Humans also used to know how to produce Anti-Matter reliably and how to use it safely, but that knowledge is lost due to several reasons.

[normalshearstress]

2146888 Fair enough, so did any of the humans try to colonize other planets in other solar systems by generation ships or sleeper ships? Also what happened to those human in the rest of the galaxy.
Foward to the sequel

[Scorched Earth]

2151286

Human did try, but found out that where ever planet that Equestria is on does not have the same solar configuration as Sol system had. Mainly biggest difference is lack of Mars, Jupiter and Saturn. Other planets are either hellholes like Venus or frozen iceballs like Pluto, AKA not very welcoming. As for planets outside the solar system, humans lack FTL methods (they were hoping that the new energy source could help them to cheat Einstein) and sleeper ships were deemed too risky. There was a small group of humans who took a ship and set out to find a new home, but nobody knows what happened to them (Spoiler: They died due to system malfunction)

As for what happened to those who were left behind... not good things. Sudden disappearance of a planet in a solar system left a quite a mess, mainly because Lagrangian points now suddenly lacked their "anchor". There was quite reconfiguration going on, with end result that the colony on Mars was only place that has human population, though they have regressed a lot.

Oh, and should be note that Earths shift was not inside the galaxy: They traveled to entire different reality. That is what happens when you brake fundamental laws of your reality.

[Scorched Earth]

2366352

One reason I am rewriting this. Numbers are insanely high, ain't they?

This was the first fic I wrote and published. Looking back, this has so many holes and errors that it ain't fun. I plan to release rewritten version after I finish Innocence Once Lost (which, at this rate, is somewhere around Armageddon and The Second Coming).

As a note: In rewrite, original human numbers are "From 10 billion to 2 billion", which is much, much better than insanely high 600 billion :/

As for explanation, originally it was that humans had, essentially, colonized the entire Sol star system (and where in middle of population crisis), but it's still way too large number.

[The Commandant]

The cover image was originally a image of soldiers from Battery B, 3rd Battalion, 320th Field Artillery Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, pause at the end of a patrol near Wynot, Iraq.

www4.army.mil/OCPA/uploads/large/2006/CSA-2006-09-08-094936.jpg

Source: Wikipedia

Read about them here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/101st_Airborne

[Scorched Earth]

3290774

Totally did not steal that from Ciaphas Cain. No sir.

[thewookie1]

Very interesting story, I love the historic style you used.

I would love a oneshot about how all of Earth's colonies reacted and have faired since.

I would assume the capital would have been moved to a terraformed Mars.

[Jack Kellar]

Quite a good read, plausible and well-developed. Faved.

BUT!
Due to the atrocious crimes against article usage and singular/plural mistakes, I'm not upvoting this.

[Scorched Earth]

3543711

Not blaming you. This was my first fic and yeah, English isn't my native language. My native language lacks the whole a/an/the thing, so it's hard for me to keep track of them.

[Twoandahalfinches]

This was quite an enjoyable read. It was manged to place a balance between the humans and the ponies. Sure the humans were incredibly more technologically advanced, but they presumably only had around 5 million people living on the human refuge with severely depleted resources. Magic wasn't overpowered yet neither was it understated. Having the ability to stop asteroids is a pretty impressive feat that makes for an enjoyable read. Unstoppable barriers don't. You have succeeded where countless others have failed.

[amiamera]

I have to say I enjoyed this story. The greatest issue was grammar, syntax, and word choice errors. I could see what you meant but the problems stood out very clearly. I would suggest having a copy editor read this over and point out all the grammar mistakes. Those are the only things really keeping me from upvoting this story because more than once I was brought out of the story by an obvious error.

[Solo Wing of The Abyss]

3290779 'TIS HERESY

[HellBreaker]

"Well, what do you think? Of course I agree. Princess Celestia asked me for this. She has been having hard time lately, this is the least I can do to help her. Spike, I need you to look after the library while I am gone. And no holding weddings while I am gone!"

😂😂😂

[HellBreaker]

1214491
Oh sweet fucking Jesus on a goddamn stick, thinking about it is horrifying

[theBeachBoysBrony]

I'm not sure it was deliberate or not, but this story might be secretly genius.
tanks. tanks would have gone straight through the ponies lines, giving humans the ability to disperse the enemy. but tank warfare, like blitzkrieg, would have been lost over time or during the cataclysm.
this can be seen with many other types of warfare and technology.
this human type of warfare is the most viable option in a scenario like this.
regardless, the story is still good.

[SWEETOLEBOB18]

1311164
Common mistake but no.

Most meteoroids disintegrate when entering the Earth's atmosphere. Usually, five to ten a year are observed to fall and are subsequently recovered and made known to scientists. Few meteorites are large enough to create large impact craters. Instead, they typically arrive at the surface at their terminal velocity and, at most, create a small pit.

In contrast, even relatively large stony or icy bodies like small comets or asteroids, up to millions of tons, are disrupted in the atmosphere, and do not make impact craters

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteorite