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Providing free helicopter rides demonstrates commitment bringing peace to man, one communist at a time.

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The girls decide to listen in on alien transmissions. But will they like what they hear? This is a bit of a random one off that suddenly popped into my head when I was looking at the features page. If they could tune in to human music, why not military transmissions? I realize that the story is not very coherent, but it was a good distraction.

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These types of stories needs a group, seriously.
I liked this one! It was entertaining.

3237280 Thank you. Your opinion is always valued.

Another should be made, but with police transmissions.

3237280 Okay. Check out my new group! It is called Ponies Picking Up Human Transmissions.

3237291 I'm not so good with police stuff.

I smell a sequel / spinoff off of this!

3237312 I haven't actually thought of a sequel. It was just a random idea that popped into my head.

Oh wow, the first unofficial spinoff from my fic! How exciting!

3237327 I liked your fic very much. You, good sir, are a genius! This idea would not have even occurred to me if you hadn't written that story!

3237327 No disrespect intended, but you didn't write the first of that genre. I remember one a year or so back about the Beatles.

I was looking for a story like this for a while now, you got to continue this!

3237699 Perhaps. I was just taking a break from other stories. I wanted to write something, but I wasn't coming up with anything good for my other story, so I came up with an independent one to keep everybody satisfied. A sequel may be in order.

This was nice, if not a tad dark. Though it was still good, I think you got the reactions right from the characters as well.

3237785 Thank you. I tried to imagine how pacifists would react to warfare.

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Yes, but this particular story at least was directly inspired by mine

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Play them both at same time to get an awesome war scene.

3237718 You gotta, though perhaps they discover other stuff? Maybe a NASA rocket launch!

RTK

You should make a series out of this,do different transmissions for each one.:pinkiehappy:

3237283 Heh I love this concept in story telling, it feels like a fresh breath of air into these ficts. Thank you for your work.

A very interesting take on a one sided first contact scenario.

And I really liked the detail that Twilight didn't assume what she was hearing was business as usual, but rather something tragic.

Adding my voice to the screams of "More!"

Wow... well that escalated quickly...

Can you please make a story where somehow Twilight helps the soldiers? She can be a relay or something. :fluttercry:

3241508 They would wonder who she was. Also, its a restricted channel. How could Twilight relay?

3241523 Well, since Twilight probably doing it with magic, maybe the encryption is somehow bypassed (she is LISTENING on an encrypted channel). By "relay" I mean some kind of "repeater station" that boost signal quality so it can be transmitted better, giving a better communication over the chaotic battlefield (I'm not even sure it's the right term, sorry).

As for believing her, well... I haven't thought about it yet. Military operators would rather depend on miracles rather than some unknown entity intercepting their communications. :facehoof:

So... yeah. This is your story, though. It's all up to you, really. :twilightsheepish:

Sequel. Seriously.

duuude keep going with this :D

This fic has some serious potential, you could slowly introduce our world to theirs and gauge their reactions little by little.

Also, correct me if i'm wrong but, since you mentioned the javelin missile, it stands to reason that the conflict occurs sometime after 1996 because thats when the javelin was put into service. the javelin being an american weapon also implies that it was the U.S. fighting against the Russians. However the U.S. hasn't been in a "conflict" with Russia since the second cold war which ended in 1991. [source: wikipedia:moustache:]

So this is either a mistake on your part or you just wanted to include these things in for dramatic effect in which case it means its an Alternate Universe? if so you might want to add that tag.

added to favs in hopes of future chapters. Please do write more:twilightsheepish:

Did anyone else think of Sgt. Foley when Two-One Actual was said?

Comment posted by Shader deleted Sep 23rd, 2013

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That's not what the AU tag is for, though.
AU means that the pony world is an alternate universe. Not any human world they meet.

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Thank you for that. Is there a page that explains these things?

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I should have said that it's not a written rule, but rather that nobody uses the AU tag like that.

There are many stories about a human world with various changes (Like a war happening, or various levels of technology) coming into contact with pony kind. But so long as the pony universe isn't altered, then people don't use a tag.

It seemed like all the radio transmissions were coming from one person. I would've recommended a space where the transmissions change between persons. Honestly if it weren't for the indentations, I would say that this is suffering from serious wall-of-text-syndrome.

I'm impressed with how real your military transmissions sounded however. A lot of wannabe military fiction writers never seem to have a clue on actual military lingo.

I would say that other than slight formatting issue, this is a rather good example of fan flash fiction. Not to mention, good foundation to build off of if you want to.

I'm impressed with how real your military transmissions sounded however. A lot of wannabe military fiction writers never seem to have a clue on actual military lingo.

What 3246359 said.

Funny story though 'ponies as pacifists' has been played out a bit - still, it works for this fic I suppose. Also, for all they knew APC was a covered wagon so having them automatically assume that the technology was 'great' is a bit much - though the constant stream of explosions might be more a clue and I could have read that wrong. I can't see this being much of a major fic - it'd get into mil-porn a bit too quickly for my tastes but that's just me. If you want to go ahead and make a bigger piece to it, that's 100% up to you (obviously) so don't let me discourage you in that. Just not my tastes. EDIT: just noticed my love of dashes here, whoops.

And to those wondering, I'm PRETTY sure this is more a 'what-if' scenario between America and Russia set in present-day. Though maybe it's Syria or another Russian-supplied nation (what with Hinds et al.)

To be honest, what Twilight and the others discovered was long lost transmissions. It takes light thousands of years to travel through our solar system, same thing for radio waves. What she could be picking up is Humanities lingering foot print after a very bloody war.

You could make a series of this as she discovers more of Humanities down fall. Like a time capsule to warn the future.

Great short story.

3246359 The wall-of-text was merely to punctuate the chaos of the battle. They are all different voices.

3245240 It is a fictional war set in the future. I created my own war so that there would be no constraints on what happens.

Some of the most undisciplined tac-com I have ever seen. No matter how bad it gets you remain calm on the radio because if your not gonna be understood if your yelling. Keep calm and carry the fuck on. Lance Corporal Underground

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That's not how a battlefield sounds like!
This is how a battlefield sounds like!

tsk tsk tsk... :moustache:

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It takes light thousands of years to travel through our solar system

If it takes thousands of years for light to get out of our solar system then how come the nearest star (Not counting the sun) is only 4.2 light years away? And how come Voyager left the solar system after a few decades when it's going much slower than the speed of light, much, much slower.

For all you know if the ponies are on the star system I mentioned and the transmissions may only be years old. :twilightsmile:

3247918 I put on all videos at once... now THAT was chaos.

Haha!! :rainbowlaugh: The ammount of stuff that was going on in such a short time made me laugh my ass off! Cant wait to read the ponies reaction to the overly dramatic radio transmission! ^^
Keep the chapters coming!

I wish this was being continued! So much potential!

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Oh! My mistake. I didn't mean Solar system but Galaxy instead. Thanks for pointing that out. I feel ashamed for not noticing that before hand... :raritydespair:

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