You've been dormant for a long while, but finally, your time has come. Your Archqueen has awakened you and tasked you with establishing a new hive, your hive.

As a newly spawned changeling Queen, it is your duty to care for your hive and protect it from hostiles changelings, pony guards, and starvation.

Will you be subtle or hunt for love? Will you find allies among other changelings hives and ponies or conquer them all?

Author's Note:

This is a comment driven story set before the changeling invasion of Canterlot.
Cover art from Jeatz-Axl.
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Everyone knows that Russia is shifty at best and about as reliable as back alley surgery. I mean, that's been a given in our world since Ivan the Terrible was around. Unfortunately, the Princesses of Equestria haven't exactly learned this lesson, and have left themselves terribly open to a cyber attack launched by the Russian Federation.

But what exactly is Putin after?

Currently relevant, absurd pony political satire. Teen for hidden innuendos.
A number of links are provided in-story at relevant points. Be warned, a significant amount of political flaming (biased against everyone equally) within.

EDIT: Featured 1/2/17! Thanks so much!

Kuno, a young changeling, is left weak, bloodied, and bruised after the events of the Canterlot wedding. She is soon discovered by Warden, a Royal Guard. But for some reason, Warden shows her mercy. Instead of taking her into the custody of the Royal Guard, he becomes both her captor and her savior. But over time, Kuno will come to ask herself the hardest question she has ever pondered: Can a changeling feel love?

A changeling gets a very risky and clever idea.
Pretending to be an advanced magic doll left as an anonymous gift in front of Twilight Sparkle's home.
It's so audaciously stupid there is no way it's not going to work.

Are you a pony who travels?

Do you need to communicate on the go?

And do you totally lack any and all dragons in your life?

Then you need -- Slate!

Everypony does!

Unless they can think.

Which just might leave Trixie out.

(Part of the Triptych Continuum, which has its own TVTropes page and FIMFiction group. New members and trope edits welcome.)

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When the Princesses left us to our fate, many saw it as the end of Equestria itself. In reality, it was just the beginning of another chapter for the populace of Equis.

The Celestial Union; a regime forged from what was left of the noble houses of Canterlot and enforced by the remainder of the royal guard, are the promoters of the right of the individual to succeed.

The Luna Motherland; a state formed in the ashes of Manehatten after it was burnt to the ground, believe that only the co-operation and sacrifice of all in equal measure will salvage the former glory days of ponykind.

You couldn’t care less about either.

As an inhabitant of Canterlot you must struggle to make your life using any means possible, and through this style of living you discovered your natural talents of swiftly moving through the cityscape as a courier. Whether your deliveries are legal or not matters little to you.

But changes are on the horizon, many unseen forces are vying for power behind the scenes, and when the chances to shape Equestria are presented to you, what would you do?

This is a story which moulds around the choices presented to you; the direction of the story as well as the personality of the protagonist and his companions will be affected by the decisions made at the end of each chapter.

Choose carefully, as only those who survive get to decide the definition of good and evil.