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// Mothership 
// Story: General Twilight Sparkle 
// by MMM WATCHA SAY 
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"So, Sparkle, we've been testing out something new."

"Mhm?

Twilight wasn't paying much attention to the pony in-front of her. Of course she knew who the pony was, but at this point, she was tired of hearing rubbish ideas that ponies thought were good, even though they were terrible. Then again, it wasn't her fault that she had to do this almost 24/7. Celestia gave her the position of weapons tester and usage, and she did have the most advanced weapon systems available to her. But, she might as well just be commanding her units to go attack something that needed to be attacked, not sit in a chair and listen to some boring ideas.

"So, what is your idea?" Twilight asked the pony upfront, not rude, but not nice either. She just sounded bored and emotionless.

"Well, me and my research team have tested our concept out in a simulation.."

"Let me stop you right there."

"What?..."

"You're saying, that not only is it run on a simulation, but you don't HAVE, a working prototype? What are you still doing here? Unless you have footage of it actually in use, it doesn't help. Get out, there are other ponies that could do better, and I'm still doubting it."

"But you didn't let me finish..."

"Get. Out. That is an order, not a request. Good Day."

The pony walked out, dejectedly with her head in her hooves.

Pfft, like I haven't seen that before, Twilight thought. "Next?"

Looking up, she saw a well-dressed stallion, with a bag full of, and she hoped, actual evidence of something she could use, not most of the crap given to her. In fact, 9/9.10 of the submissions handed in were turned down, with no consent. 

"So, what do you have for me? More junk that doesn't do much, or something actually worth my time? Because I'm getting tired." Twilight said, not caring much.

"Well, first off, I wouldn't expect a high-ranking pony in the military to be this rude, and secondly, the things I've brought in will be worth your time, I guarantee it." 

The stallion laid out digital display with buttons on it, some blueprints, and what seemed to be a prototype of a weapon. Twilight took a closer look at them and they had a extraterrestrial sort of feeling to them, not coming from Equestria, but rather another planet in space. 

"Do any of these use magic? I can't seem to trace any forms of it." Twilight was confused. She only knew of weapons nowadays powered by magic, even dashboards were magic powered.

"I assure you Ms. Sparkle, these items do not use magic, they were all created with technology and...science. Yes, that's the word. The weapon laid out before is what a call, a sub-atomic machine gun. It fires sub-atomic particles at a high rate of fire. The display is the footage we have of test firing, but that's not the point of this. The main item here are the blueprints."  The stallion seemed like he knew what he was doing. Twilight swore she knew him, but took no notice.

"This looks like..a ship? How will the military ever build something like this, not to mention that space travel isn't as updated as we thought it was! We can't possibly do this!" Twilight was hyperventilating. She got through hundreds of ponies a day. Finally, a good suggestion and it had space in it. Twilight knew why this job was terrible anyway, she had to go through it. 

"Here's the plan General. Get this into space, profit. You'll have a major advantage, not to mention satellite scanners and orbital missile strikes." The stallion was not going to give up on this. Him and as team worked on this project for their entire lives.

"You're telling me that you want a multi-million dollar space headquarters, that will most likely take at least 5 year to build, and you're hoping to get something our of this?" The stallion gulped. "Yes."

"I accept."

"What?"

"You heard me. I want this in now. This is by FAR, the best idea we've had in the U.E.A. Within months, we'll have simulations and weapon tests up, not to mention a wide range of air support. I propose that this goes through. It will need a name though. What are you suggesting?"
Twilight was eager to put this through. She could do anything, even if it costed her lives of soldiers for the countless test and the millions of bit that will be used, it would be worth it.

"Hopefully the Princesses will support this, and you'll be meeting up with someone you likely know. I won't lie, this is going to be hard to produce, and ponies will die. But I will agree that this is the right choice."

"I'll need a name of the project, and the name of your group, you've mentioned it."

"The team's Freejam, Project: Robocraft."