Space Horse is already nearing it's halfway point of completion, and with that I've already begun planning for the next story in the series.

(Though, I still am undecided on the name.)

So, does anyone want some spoilers?

Also, what name would you like?

Choose one, or put your own in the comments!

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Editor's Note:

As you may remember, "At the Inn of the Prancing Pony" was accompanied by a series of blog posts wherein Princess Luna of Equestria would review whatever pop culture ephemera caught her fancy. Well, the story may be over, but Luna's still reviewing.

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“Another Time, Another Place”, Production #6, first broadcast December 18, 1975.

Johnny Byrne, co-author of “Matter of Life and Death” wrote this, so be prepared for more dream logic in place of real world logic.

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For those of you who play Kerbal Space Program and saw Monday's stream, this is the single-seater plane that killed two kerbals in about three minutes and never got farther than the end of the KSP runway. It was that bad.

I invite you to try it yourselves and give feedback, though my personal guess is it was a combination of inadequate lift, tail-heavy, and pilot error.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1U5fTESby9r0leoieQyE68DNCo0n0PXp5/view?usp=sharing

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I recently created "Like a Moth to a Jet Flame" in my enthusiasm of Shinodage's Delta Vee's Junkyard (group link), but after reviewing my work, I need to unpublish what I have and actually plan out a compelling story rather than post something that was spur of the moment but half-baked.

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OK, so you may have noticed that in Chapter 10, the most recently released brick o' text, George Cowley proposed a Mission Twelve which could test a powered landing on Equus, on the premise that the skill was absolutely necessary for the future moon landing. The proposal was killed with extreme vehemence by Cherry Berry and Chrysalis because it was too dangerous, even on paper, to consider.

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Today I flew what has to be my most kerbal flight in Kerbal Space Program. (And, by the way, it had nothing to do with the CSP story- this is a separate game session.)

So, in this game session I managed to get three different missions at once that all required a Mun landing. I also had four tourists who needed an orbital flight above Kerbin, but not a ride all the way out to the Mun.

"Okay," I thought, "I'll unlock the three-man capsule and go from there."

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I shouldn't have wasted time today on it with so much to do, but I just went into Kerbal Space Program and flew the missions and grabbed the screen-caps for the next chapter of Changeling Space Program.

I'll try to work on the thing tonight, but tomorrow is loading the van for my next dealer's booth at a convention, so the odds are good the chapter won't be posted until next week at least.

So, here are a few hints for what you can expect.

Rainbow Dash is 20% more astronauty.

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I have just read approximately all of the "Humans are Space Orcs"/"Earth is Space Australia" stuff. All of it. There was a lot of it.

Naturally, my brain was like, "how can I connect this to MLP?"

What I came up with:

Ponyville regularly gets attacked by monsters and villains. It's situated on the edge of a forest so dangerous nopony except the most powerful or foolhardy individuals goes in.

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I got Kerbal Space Program today.

Now I'm no rocket scientist, but I'm aware of the basic rules and mechanics of space flight and aeronautics. Lift surfaces on the centre of mass, slingshotting off planets, Delta V, aerodynamics, that sort of thing. It would help if I did the tutorial, now I'm stuck because I don't know all the hotkeys. I got throttle up, zoom and camera rotate as well as the aerofoil control keys and that's about it.

There's a long road ahead...

It's hardly unusual for me to go to a convention- after all, that's where most of my income originates, in a dealer's room.

But I've decided to go to Dallas this weekend, using credit card points, for Nightmare Nights... and NOT sell things.

(Well, that last bit was decided for me. I applied as a vendor months ago and wasn't accepted.)

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Today I flew the second mission for the next chapter of CSP. All I have left to write is the outcome of that flight and the epilogue, and another 25,000-ish word chapter will be complete, or at least ready for final edits.

Expect a Changeling Space Program update next week.

New Changeling Space Program chapter completed.

Current draft: 25,508 words.

I will spend my non-sales time this weekend at my booth at Delta H Con editing, getting viewpoints more consistent, punching up descriptions, and definitely looking for deadwood to trim.

But I don't anticipate finding much.

And once I complete this final pass, the thing will get posted.

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Fanfiction Reader has rendered a voice-synthesis version of Changeling Space Program on YouTube! The program doesn't have any sense of timing, and it stumbles badly trying to pronounce unfamiliar words, but it provides a way to read (or re-read) the story without staring at a screen!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAJkWGZt-Zg&list=PL9t4yi6D1qAnclJl8AvSnq8W8rpay8guE

Jesus, ten years already? Gosh, I feel old.

Anyway, one of the best horror and sci-fi games ever made. The graphics still hold up shockingly well without being that taxing on your rig, and I've never seen a studio just completely grok sound in a vacuum on the level the now sadly defunct Visceral Games did in this series.

Definitely check it out, if you haven't already.

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So, I've had a frustrating and mostly futile afternoon...

... so of COURSE I'm going to top it off with a livestream of Kerbal Space Program in which I try to correct last week's fuckups.

Begins 7 PM Central time (about an hour and a half after I post this).

There will be another KSP livestream Thursday at 7 PM, by the way.

http://twitch.tv/redneckgaijin

My first FiMFiction story, Uncertain Stars, is now up - or at least the first chapter. All feedback welcome!