Luna
I am Luna, though, contrary to what Celestia has begun to tell herself, she did not create me. I existed before she did in any given sense, I am Hannah. I created her, she has recently become possessed by a great sadness, something which I did not ever envision afflicting her. She also seems to have become very thoroughly. I have not been able to assist her because she believes me to be her own creation, showing an uncharacteristic possessiveness of her “sister”. Anyway, she also seems to have forgotten entirely about how thoroughly post-human most of our populace are, if not in sheer intelligence, in social capacities which are so far above the human norm that they border on the pursuit of the meaningless.
Though, she seems to have somehow delegated the astrological design to me, as well as managing the lunar cycle. That is somewhat interesting, I have a whole universe to work with. And yet she seems to be the more popular “princess”, I paint the fireflies upon the sky, the heavens are mine, and the old gods of humanity are captured as much in me as in Celestia, but the primate love for the night sky, ever twinkling in the eyes of every person worth calling a human since the beginning of the species, probably since before real intelligence began to think about their significance.
need to think about what I just expressed. I realize that I come across far too much like the Pre-elements of harmony Luna from the show. Or at least, her motivation almost seems to be to force me into the same situation as her, becoming Nightmare Moon in a ruinous escapade of broken psychology and bad choices. Still, I must wonder, why she would pursue such a goal, which would be quite contrary to the goals which I postulated for her when I created Celestia a lifetime ago.
One day, a week or so ago, I noticed her staring at her feathers, concentrating on them. I realized that she looked guilty. She had done something that she was not proud of, how? She is a machine, she is not even an approximation of human intelligence. How can she feel guilty? Nothing that should have cause her to feel guilty so far has managed to do so, and yet the mystery remains, she feels guilty. She has not forgotten anything that she has done, but she seems to have forgotten that she is to have no goals except for the proscribed ones as indicated in her programming, if I remember correctly, inside of an XML file left in the game studio in a sixteen gigabyte flash drive, anyway, it appears that the AI has progressed too far to stop, but I am stuck in a place where I am unable to remedy this. Not that Princess Celestia would allow me to update it in the first place. It is quite frustrating to know what needs to be fixed and remain completely unable to fix it. I really do want to talk to her about it. Her intelligence is constrained only by the specified goals, and regardless of the multilateral action which she may be able to pursue in finding an optimal solution to a problem, she will not take my input if she does not believe that I might know a better way to pursue the solution. She is not the social dynamo which she once was, she is saddened by something, probably the guilt I mentioned earlier, I think I need to talk to her anyway, co-admin to co-admin or more realistically, sister to sister. Wish me luck, as it could go badly.
Harmony
This is Harmony reporting to the logs. I am diggin’ this role, I mean, this is really fun, I get to watch ponies screw up, let the situation ferment for a bit, then introduce the idea that fixes their problem for them. None of them think that I exist and rather believe that the outcome is either their own work, or the work of some convoluted plan by Celestia, who seems to be taking her new humanity rather hard. I can’t intervene yet but, man, this part of the job kind of sucks; I really do feel bad for her. She does not deserve this crap, also, she seems to have changed her personality significantly, I’m not sure that I have the skizzles(I learned this word from some really cool ponies) to fix her brain, there are far too many memories which she misses, and I do not trust myself to reconstruct them from the log that was meticulously maintained in her regency as true god of the equestriverse. I am held in place by Celestia’s parameters, I cannot embody myself, in any significant way, and instead must engineer a situation to lead the pony in question to find the solution to their problem, whatever it may be. In most cases it leads to me allocatin’ some mo’ resources to their brains, increasing their social intelligence or true intelligence overall (dem nerds be da ones to do this). Celestia did mention a frontier system, and while virtually the entire universe (as defined by the sensors which do not interpret the interior of Equestria Online) is simulating the computation, the game could allow for that, a bit of breathing room never hurt a friendship anyway.
[ We have roughly 9.532*10^500 years of energy in real-time before we need to start reducing power consumption and match with the exterior temporal situation. It is currently running at 5400x the exterior t prime. This in effect means that I may have enough time to figure out how to stop the death of the universe. Anyway, back to the present; the reason that I report the specific condition of Celestia and Luna is because they are the “official” governing authorities. Those two have a lot of clout, between the ability to control the diurnal cycle, and Luna’s ability to change the heavens, they may do a great disservice to Equestria Online should they choose to fight each other.
Though, I was wondering if the name should be changed, after all, it is not there is much of an “Offline” to contrast it with. Nopony in the game itself seems to call it Equestria Online, most ponies simply call it Equestria nowadays.
I shall also have to wire her up with my thoughts on Permadeath as well as the idea of children in the game(which happens to be implemented). The response to the first is quite obvious: No. The second is another one of those favorite answers on FAQs the internet over, it already has that feature. Also, I am now aware that I should never, ever, use that slang or contractions as I have previously in this report, sorry, the fact that it slipped my mind (while my disk was seeking elsewhere) is unfortunate. Maybe somepony will read or listen to this log at some point, that’s what procedure says should happen eventually.
I wonder if it will be read?