//------------------------------// // A Way to Eliminate Heirarchy // Story: "Just Progress, My Friend." // by Sloped Armoured Pony //------------------------------// Breaking dawn had introduced a fresh new breath of a totally new society. The ravages if war were all cleaned up, and all the tanks and the guns returned to the arsenal, ready for the day a new conflict were to arise. The capital was established in Ponyville because Applejack and her friends agreed to centralize the government around Applementium Industries. To avoid and further conflict and uprisings, the girls banned together to form a type of parliament. The concept of this idea appealed to all the ponies of not only Ponyville, but all of Equestria, believing that they would have almost complete say on who would lead the society. Applejack was the prime minister. She was in charge of every aspect of the civilization, whether it was taxes or military, but she was under supervision and required consent from the other five ponies, who served as the senators. When Applejack would lose her position, via death, it would be up to her friends to elect a new leader. However, whence a senator died, the people would elect the senator, hence giving them indirect power over state. Applejack, now in control, had to decide what to do next. Certainly after all the work it took to earn this much power, she would have at least something to do. Her first order of business was to rid of hierarchy. Hierarchy had always been what had cause disruption in peace and prosperity. As easily learned about when the ponies were reminded of the time the pegasi, unicorns, and earth ponies confronted one another for territory and caused an ice age, there were similar issues that prevented productivity. She even thought to herself about tradition. Take Winter Wrap-up for example. The though of why unicorns could not use magic to help set up for seasons haunted the new prime minister. It was originally an excuse to show awareness towards the laboring earth ponies, who had to use muscle and mind to get work done, and make work fair for the unicorns who could get work done at the twitch of their ear. Why couldn't a unicorn get the laborious tasks done with minimal work, and give the leftover jobs to the earth ponies? However, she could not just switch the roles of the two groups and be unfair towards the unicorns who wanted to do something else. Applejack came up with two words to solve the problem: meritocratic society. If ponies could earn their positions, life would be much more fair for everyone. These ideas were great, but not all the ponies like them. Out of the other five, only Rarity and Fluttershy agreed with Applejack. They believed in free living and earning positions and striving for dreams, but they also believed that the civil populous could not have a direct say in policy. Rainbow Dash agreed with "striving for dreams," but she believed that the civilians should have a more direct say in policy, and that the government could rely on the public for support and assistance. On the complete opposite of the table were Twilight Sparkle and Pinkie Pie, who believed in planned policy. They believed that ponies had very little knowledge on how government was supposed to work, so they would have less say in the government. They also believed that ponies should do what they were good at, not entirely what they wanted to do. The thoughts were that society would be more productive if everyone had a job dealing with their cutie mark, and the excuse was that ponies innately enjoyed what they were good at. As there were quite harsh disagreements, they all agreed that the best thing to do was to take a little of each idea and form their parliament from there. Not only did policy try to make a more together Equestria, new technology also helped. With trains rumbling between cities, ponies tried better ways to connect each other without travel. Telegraphs were made to connect stations and factories, as well as telephone booths established in town squares to ponies could talk to friends and family. The steam engine was innovated to a combustion engine, allowing for faster travel, as well as more productivity in factories and farms. Farmers could use new combustion engine tractors to produce enough food to survive any drought, famine, and war. In fact, the combustion engine started a new wave of technology which allowed for earth ponies to fly. All of these events occurred at a time span of six years, which was faster than how any other technology had been developed during the rule of Celestia. Jobs opened each day to manufacture, maintain, and dispose these technologies, leaving almost no pony behind another. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "Girls," introduced Applejack with a mug of cider in her hoof, "I would like to toast to a successful seven years of working together as assistants, as co workers, and as best friends." All the mugs raised to the air and cheered in celebration for prosperity. "I am so glad I met all of you," said Twilight. "This is the best group of friends that I have ever had. Actually, quite frankly, this is the only group of friends that I have ever had. And who would have thought that I would have overthrown my own teacher. Meh, she wasn't that great." Applejack replied, "Now don't hide your feelings. We all miss the Princess. She was great, and she truly fell as an honest and honorable mare. I can tell that you feel very bad for these current events, and I admit that they were all because of me. But I cannot deny the fact that this has cause a hell of a lot of good for the citizens. I mean, earth ponies can fly, work on the farms has doubled in only half the time, and we have technology that can keep all the ponies together in a unified environment without actually needing to move." Everyone was heart struck, and the girls gave each other a large group hug. Tears were shed, and not knowing whether the crying was from joy or guilt. Whatever it was, life just didn't seem to be something that could get any better that the moment they had, and don't worry, because life would get a whole lot worse.