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Hype! I'm so glad to see this getting posted.
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Me too :)
Well, that’s one hell of a way to start a book! I’m interested in just who this bot will be, and can’t wait to find out more! My only real question is, I’d this the same universe as Operation Star Drop? It’d be so funny to see Lyra meeting her “grandson” in that story, or this one.
Thanks for the great work as always Meep, keep up the good work!
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If you want it to be, yes. If you don't want it to be, no. I'm trying to keep my stuff loose but bound with just a thread or two. That way, you can choose what your personal head canon for FoE is. That is quite important to kkat, who insists her own blogs are non-canon even when they reveal her intentions behind story choices and world building decisions. And so I shall follow her lead.
Great start! Can’t wait to see where this one takes us.
Yeah! Head canons!
I read the summary and I couldn't help but think:
"They sound like the perfect team for this, I mean their chances of success are so mathematicaly small that the universe will give them an actual shot at succeeding just for the laughs"
Either way, looking forward to reading this to see what happens
Ah that makes sense, it did seem pretty short for such a big piece of metal
Freaking prophecies and their vague, beautiful poem like descriptions, at least this one made it clear that something really bad is coming and that none who wrote it has any idea how the story ends
Wonder what "Eagle" stands for in this context though, might just be my lack of knowledge about the word but I doubt it's referring to a bird... well, let's read on and find out
Now wouldn't that be interesting
River buddy, that's great and all but what you're saying is that you want to create a "race" of thinking feeling machines and then tell them fight and die for you en masse... that's probably
not gonna end well
117 in lab J huh
Oh that prophecy is trolling beyond the grave. I wonder if Celestia on her maneframe shall one day see the monolith and how she'll react to knowing she could've avoided it all if she had only paid more attention, investigated a little more...
A new type of computer, a new mechanical soldier. One more innovation that would've given Equestria victory had the bombs not fell. But such is the legacy of Kindness, the lesson on why the road to tartarus is paved by the fallen feathers of angels.
Who is this pony to be? The soldier, sure, but what more? Will they be as loyal as Brass believes? Would they be the shield to guard equestria? Will they?
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That's right we're gonna refrence that one game that ripped of System Shock 2! :D
Something more to look forward to! Thank you, Meep!
gets to reading
Well that's paranoia inducing
Roll Credits
A very good point
Now that would be quite useful
I feel like my paranoia just got justified
A Changeling
Poor Luna. An error not of her doing but her execution condemned Equestria and Zebrica if not the whole world. If there's a pony afterlife may she never find that out
Created life. As grand and terrible as that is.
Ahhh that explains it
A useful skill
I'm pretty curious about how it would have impacted his ability to generate emotional energy if they had
The standing orders were that all robots are to be offline during transport, so what could the Commander's "specific" orders be about... I think I might be paranoid
Created one of the three potential saviors of the world
DUN DUN DUUUUUUN!
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Agreed.
I giggled.
Ah, that part of the tradgedy of fallout equestria, isn't it...
Heehee!
Ah, I think I remember you showing me this bit long ago!
giggling intensifies
https://thisponydoesnotexist.net/
Lyra would do OK in one of my rimworld colonies, she'd be happy to be getting all the synthetic parts I could make for her :P
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BOOOM!
Rainy no D:
I'd like very much to believe this is a literal flock of pegasus sargents literally descending from the clouds screaming like banshees
Oh, she's not training soldiers. She's training warriors, champions to break the lines of the enemy for the grunts to do their jobs. I hope all four become what she expects and much more.
Bonus points if the three ponies do end in minotaur valhalla drinking and fighting with her.
She wouldn't be Rainbow if she did otherwise. I kinda expect them to meet again in the prologue or so, a piece of his old world still there.
I remember my days in boot camp, despite all efforts to forget about it. 42 1/2 years, and no success yet. Some things you CAN'T forget. Nuclear engineering school was just as bad, with better barracks.
If I may ask, just what is Lion Maze's rank? Enomarches is not in my lexicon. Just curious.
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That's why I used the word "flock".
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That's a good question. Enomarches is an ancient Greek word used for not quite a rank, but more of a... office. It's "Guy who leads new warriors to war". As far as I can tell it was only used by the Spartans, and since it is a very common and normal thing we know little about it specifically because you don't write down the things everyone knows. It would likely be equivalent to a Sargent or Lieutenant in modern day, but with an emphasis on taking green troops through their first few active engagements.
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Okay, no wonder I never heard of it. Sort of like a drill sergeant or recruit company commander. I still remember both of mine.
10608355 Sort of, except they would bascialy be leading people in combat situations directly rather than simulated war. I assumed if such a civilization survived unto the present day as I have it fluffed for the Minotaurs that they would likly keep old millitary posisions names but change the jobs behind them. So this modern version would be something like a dojo's instructor who might occasionally be moved to a spec-ops unit to fill a missing man's place from time to time. It's not really a good analogue to modern millitaries, but if you had a civilization that trained a warrior caste, you'd still see that kind of stuff even today.
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Logical. Thank you!
Is it normal during wartime to train crippled people to be soldiers/warriors?
I'm curious about that too, but I'll wait and see how she handles herself
That's because the "Neck Crack" is a technique that has been passed down the Maze family for generations
Curses, my paranoia does not react well to those lines
I like her
Cool
Of course she did
I don't think that's what she called it Sarge
Heh
Yes, yes it does
He has a name Lady
I'm also pretty curious about how she communicated with him
...
...
.............why is my paranoia pointing out that this might not be the Changeling Queen talking
Also while I'm here: Happy New Year
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Call me ableist, cancel me, but, ABSO-FUCKING-LUTLY NOT! Yes, handycapped people can do quite a lot of things, and can be functioning members of scosiety in most ways. For CIVILIAN life! At least for the US military, they will refuse anyone with a disability and they DO check to make sure you're able bodied and sound of mind as part of the recruitment process. If you become disabled during service, you're discharged back into civilian life (Medical discharge is an honorable form of discharge.). The US Military will refuse you if you're too fat, let alone missing a few fingers, or a leg, or otherwise not whole of body and able to function within the human norms unassisted.
Why? Think for about six seconds. Being a soldier is some of the most physically demanding work you can do. Not everyone who enlists will pass muster. Many will fail and go home. Many healthy, able bodied, mentally sound people cannot serve even if they want to. Even if they didn't reject disabled applicants, do you really think people want to have to rely on a guy in a wheelchair or with a prosthetic leg, to run those 300 yards through enemy fire to safely deliver orders to a squad whose radio is out? No. No they do not. They don't even want to rely on the average joe for that. They want fit motherfuckers at the head of the bell curve for athletic performance. Because of very obvious reasons.
And no, they don't let people just be a desk jocky if they're handicapped and enlist. Hell there's a whole movement right now to let people disabled in combat serve out their duty in non-combat rolls but the brass are having NONE of it. Every single memeber of the millitary must be fighting fit while in service. Full stop.
So yeah, Equestria has much diffrent standards. BUT, IMO the existance of cybernetics changes the rules for loosing a limb. It's no longer a big deal. Full capability can be restored, and natural limits can be broken. I expect that once we have cheep ones IRL we'll change the policy too.
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Thank you for the explanation
And my paranoia just got intensified... cool
Ok, a mysterious new player entered the game and Rainbow Dash is stealing select recruits like a thief in the night
Very impressed with the pacing, level of detail, world-building, and characters already, and we're aren't even in the wasteland yet. Definitely looking forward to more.
10673473 I'm working on more off and on :3
Reading this again because it's a great chapter.
That moment when the chapter ends and you're still gripping the edge of your seat
Ah yes, the old "screwing physics though the life of your pilots." Because sometimes your engineer might not hate you, but the world does.
Ash does need his awesome entrance, doesn't he?
Those things should indeed be called Mountain Goats. Four hoof traction!
Nothing like shanking a tank to death then stealing it to kill the other!
Spartans must be crazy terrifying on the battlefield
Aww, Mint has a crush! Let's hope it goes somewhere before they die they inevitable, painful and likely ultimately futile deaths.
Best soundtrack possible, that one!
Oh, that fall. Poor, poor Mint
The first one to fall. May the blood of 69 enemies pave your way to valhalla, Haybale
Absolutely wonderful! I actually shed a tear when Hay bought the farm.
Hay WILL be avenged!
..right?
10681265 You did? I didn't think anyone would. I made it unexpected and kinda pointless on purpose to have a war is hell message and-- *abruptly remembers your a vet* Oh, right. Realistic death is realistic. Sorry if I made you remember a friend IRL :c
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While I did lose some friends while in the service, it was never in combat. Car wreck, motorcycle wreck, two other motorcycle wrecks (those two lived), but do not blame yourself. It FIT the tale. Well done!
Haha!
Such a connoisseur, our robocolt has become!
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Alden, none of us EVER forget our Drill Instructors! (I know I never will. USMC '78 through '81).
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You too? I lost all three of my barracks mates in accidents during a 'mock war'. Two died when an Amtrack overturned in the surf during an amphib landing. The other I watched from over a mile away, through sniper scope, as he unknowingly walked back into the exercise area, self navigating using only a compass and map, right into the back of a posted mine field. The only other time I've felt THAT helpless was when my best friend's wife gave birth in their car, on the freeway, with a paramedic thankfully... But I could only stand there and hear her pain, and could do nothing. There wasn't even room to fit in the car to help hold her hand. Whatever god(s) may exist, the girl survived her birth and last time I saw her (a decade ago) she was a bright, lovely, and voraciously intelligent 7 year old.
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I know I can't forget mine. (USN Recruit company 78-135 Great Lakes, Illinois) PC1 Sanders and OS1 Martin. 42 years later and I still remember them. (Plus, I found my boot camp cruise book)
Okay I actually wrote quite a few comments (like i usually do) before this point but then I went to check how word was spelled by opening a new tab and when I came back the page refreshed and it was all gone and it's pretty late for me right now and I'm too tired to go back and remember most of them
That is statistically the most likely scenario yes
Remembered this one though
Sucks being the dependable ones
Oh well, never mind then, hurray for being dependable
10692023 I'm sorry that happened to you. I appreciate the comments :3
Solemn Creed, Com-dot-S-Creed-at-REAF-dot-mil... Probably Royal Equestrian Armed Forces, but I read it as: Rear Echelon as All F**k. hehehe If you've Served in the military, you'll 'get' this joke.
'These ones folded up and replaced the front set of boots or shoes for a pony when not in use.'
Rhymer: Ah, like the ones seen in Gears' tale recently, nice. :)
'The M113 was another fighting vehicle the troops hated. The simple twin tracked vehicles were designed to take a dozen soldiers anywhere they needed to go. No matter what was in the way.
The M113 would run through, over, or across damn near anything it could reach. Mines. Trenches. Barbed wire. Most buildings. Mud. Smaller trees. Water. Lawyers.'
Rhymer: Bwahahahaha!! Yup, M113's CAN deal with 'land sharks', like Lawyers... Unless, they are armed with a Court Order. In that case, it's just best to run them over again and again until they are just a smear on the pavement, burn the order, and tell 'Higher' (as in higher authority) that so far as you know, the lawyer is busy communing with nature. OR, that you really have no idea where the Lawyer might be, or in what state, or it's state of mind (paste) may currently be. Lawyers by definition have friends in low and infernal places.
'Seth's eyes narrowed as he whipped his head around to glare at Ash. "A good pony just died!"
Ash nodded. "Yes. That's the purpose of soldiers like us. To kill as is needed and to die as She demands."
Stampede stared at Ash, silently judging his apparent callousness.
Ash gave his sword in his right talon a quick spin to activate the enchantments on it, sending a blaze of green light flickering through the quiet hanger bay.
"The purpose of the enemy, on the other hoof, is to die as we demand. I say Hay costs them about, oh... sixty. Sounds right?"
Mint's hateful look faded. "Yeah. That does sound right. We'll make it sixty-nine. Hay would have liked that."
Rhymer: The funny thing is that Ash does not realize that the 'price for killing one of my squad members' is a joke about a sexual position.
Rhymer: Nicely written so far Meep. Keep it up. Few can do these kinds of action sequences properly. Even those that have experienced Combat in real life.
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*spit-takes in Army Brat* Holy crap someone noticed that. Literally just put it in for my mom to laugh at because she made those kinds of jokes.
I havent been in a gunfight, thought I have been shot it. I've been in more than enough melee enguagments though. I rely on those, along with accounts of soldiers I read about online and in books, to make good action scenes. There's also a writing trick here. SHort sentences make readers think something happened faster. Long sentences make people think something happened slower. You can use this to make "slo-mo" happen in text. Simply by altering what you can. Descriptions, actions, the works. All of it can be arranged and put into motion such that it makes a reader feel tense. Or relieved. Moment to moment.
Nice
Just read all the chapters not a bad story so far though I say maybe cut down on the techno dump if you have more in the future a lot of discussions on how to build Ash was getting a bit boring but glad I stuck through it can't wait to see what you have in the future.
I get the prophecy bit... but what actually happened here? There are some parts to this that sound like they got semi-violently annexed and left this as a final upraised middle finger (not that they have those) to the Equestrians. I mean, it's a eulogy for their own princess on the day after they were absorbed...?
Also, what's with hiding the prophecy until it's apparently too late? That also seems a bit intentional.
...Am I reading too much into that?
*Equestria
*Empire
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Sorry, the following part gets a bit ranty and I'm worried I'm being rude when I really respect you and your work. So, uh, if I offend you, you can stop reading this part (Not that you have to read anything I or anyone else says...)?
This is just one of my hot-button topics ever since Paolini floated the idea of doing an Eragon prequel about Brom. Excuse me, what? Why would I want to read it (also, the ending to his main series sucked on its own, it doesn't need further help) when it talks about Eragon's dead father who was prophesied to literally fail at everything he ever attempted?! It won't change the original ending and we already know how Brom's story ended! Reading a story about a man who continually fails at everything he tries to do only to see him amount to nothing in the end and then die is far too close to real life for me!
...So, how does optional canonicity work? Eventually some set of events has to overlap, which would make it part of the same setting, or it's (effectively) not part of the same setting.
I bring that up because this is Lyra we're talking about here and she shows up in the other story. There's already a link if there's any possible relation at all. It would have to appear at some point, even if it got mentioned, say, in that five year timeskip. Otherwise her son died and she never even found out what happened to him or that (probably) his creation survived, which is a bit of a kick in the teeth to that happy ending.
I'd also be fine if it were completely another AU and Gears never happened in this timeline, admittedly.
If you've thought of that, you're probably doing this already as a bit of an easter egg for previous readers, but I'd suggest referring to rumors of an indestructible mailmare or running into the leader of Las Pegasus with a certain book, for instance (but not have them actually interact). That way there's no real effect on the actual storyline and this set of characters can have all their own adventures somewhere else (apparently like the actual Fallout games; they're all set in different areas so they don't have to invent a new crisis and kill off favorite characters from the previous game) with a bit of long-term reader bonus.
Okay, that one's inspired.
This is unfortunately familiar to anyone who's been around Siri or Google Assistant too much. :D
Huh, a chronoprocessor. Neat!
Yeah, "deep fake" tech is both really interesting and weird. Also more than a bit creepy at times. Mostly, though, I just wish the dang crap would be actually open-sourced. It's getting (mis)used already either way, so the least that can be done is let people use the actual model instead of a black box.
I'm still somewhat confused why no one has built a neural net that self-modifies or "sleeps" yet, though. Probably because we don't usually want to make a real AI, but at the same time I feel like we've run down a dead end by basically using externally-trained tools which end up being "expert systems, but harder to debug."
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I've gotten my writing spark back after that bout of depression and the move... I might come back to pony stuf. I just... don't feel welcome here anymore :/ It's because Starlight Glimmer fans infest the fandom. She's such a terrible huge glaring WRONG to me that the fact that people like her pushes me away from the fandom. But... I do think I want to finish this.
Anywho... Soldier, Seeker, Eagle takes place WAAAAAAAAAY before my other FoE fic. Before Little Pip is born even. Before her mom's born even. 60 years, rather than 200. So yes, Lyra is ment to have never seen her son again after the Last Day if you want to take the two stories as existing together. But you don't have to do that at all. Which is my intent. Stardrop is comody, the bright and fun side of Fallout that's a wackey comic book world. This tragety. The serious, grim, black humor side.
It is! Uh, i'm not sure if I am allowed to mention specificly where here, since Deep Fakes are kind of a hot button legal issue... but they are open source and I may or may not be able to replicate the voices of any Fallout 4 character.
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Huh. I mean, I know a few of them were open-source, but there are also a few like GPT-3 that last I heard were still making everyone use an API rather than distribute the full model. Admittedly I haven't checked in a while since leaving college / starting work ate all my time so I may be wrong, but I kinda don't see this changing.
I'm also miffed that Nvidia has managed to make the tech stack for some GPU accelerators closed source as well, but that's a different topic.
Eh, I kinda figured that this was going to be something Lyra wasn't around for. Hopefully nothing precludes them being reunited years later after events in both stories have played out. Well, age might, admittedly, but hopefully she gets some sort of closure.
I'm somewhat curious why Starlight in particular bothers you, compared to other redeemed villains like, say, Discord (not denying she did some pretty terrible stuff, though!). And probably others since my knowledge of the show tapers off after a few seasons...