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// Chapter 8 : Through telescopes 
// Story: Crash Landing: The tale of 3 Kerbals 
// by Jebediah Kerpony 
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       Twilight arrived at her house about an hour before sundown. Her mind was still racing about the events that had just unfolded. The fact that the letters KSP meant something to Lyra was simply unbelievable. She would have to create a project about these "Kyans" but until then, she had some dinner to get. She reached for the doorknob, pushed the door and face planted the wooden structure. There was obviously something obstructing the door.
"Spike, are you there?" Twilight called.
"Hold on a minute Twilight, I'm just moving something out of the way." said Spike. Twilight pushed against the door again but with more force. It still didn't budge. She tried using her horn to move whatever was on the other side, but since she had no idea what was obstructing the door, it was impossible to manipulate.  
"Spike, what exactly is blocking the door?" Twilight asked.
"Oh, your new telescope arri..." Spike began saying before 'SMASH'.  Twilight burst through the door at an incredible rate.
"It's here, it's finally here!" Twilight exclaimed. She checked the box for any damages and when she made sure there were none, she ripped open the box. 

There it was, her new telescope. It was one of a kind, created for her specifications. Only problem was, it was in several pieces and was in need of assembly. She quickly grabbed all the metal, lenses and legs and galloped up to her room to begin the assembly of the telescope.
"So...do you not want anything for dinner then?" Spike asked.
"I'll get it later Spike." she replied. Spike shrugged and went to make himself something to eat for the time being.

Twilight had already put all the pieces in certain groups for easy identification. Lenses in one, legs in another, nuts and bolts in a third and so on. She was already reading the assembly manual, which turned out to have more pages than citizens that resided in Ponyville. After reading it through once, she decided to begin the assembly of the telescope.

Several Hours Later

Finally, after three and a half hours of following unclear instructions, fine tuning lenses and an empty stomach, the 7ft long telescope was complete. It was a sight to behold, sporting many tweakable parts and
many gauges. Twilight was ecstatic, she couldn't wait until she could use it. She walked over to the window to see how long it would be to it was completely dark. She drew the curtains and...no light entered her home. She turned to the clock with a very confused expression. It read 11:30. Wow, she'd spent a lot longer assembling that telescope. 
'Anyway' she thought, 'No time to waste, I have stars to observe!' 
Twilight pushed the massive telescope towards the windows and opened the glass, letting in a cold draft. This didn't stop Twilight, nothing was stopping her tonight. She first pointed her telescope at the moon. As she looked through her eye piece, she could see all the tiny craters that scattered the moon's surface that were not visible to the naked eye. It was breathtaking. She moved the telescope a bit more as she observed different parts of it. She swore she saw a tiny blue flag at one point but she couldn't locate it again. 
After staring at the rocky surface of the distant celestial body for 30 minutes, she decided to observe more of the night sky. She only had 6 hours left after all! As she was adjusting the telescope once more, a bright white light appeared in the sky for a quick second, then vanished. Nopony saw the event, but they were about to meet the cause soon enough.