See if we can't send some Pegasi/DD troops north, and check on the crystal empire. Speaking of which, how many Diamond dogs are there? Anyway, work on building a fort underground. Also, see if the diamond dogs can supply us with armor/spears. And James, if we have a reasonable hope of success...try for sweet apple acres. I know that cloudsdale also needs reinforcements, but we need a good food surplus before we can focus on going on the offensive.
Also, any information about the following:
•Trixie
•Zecora
•flim-flam bros.
•nurse redheart
•the wonderbolts
•the CMC
•Buffalo
•changelings
•Mayor mare
•Steve magnet
•Griffons
•Dragons
•minataurs
Edit: and evacuate cloudsdale, we can't fight a battle we can't get to. See if they can't bring supplies/vittles. (Thanks, night)
Edit: and ask the Pegasi to destroy cloudsdale as best they can. If we can't have weather control, no one can. I don't care how you do it, just destroy the weather factories. I'm sorry I have to do this but Stormcloud leaves us no choice.
We've been supplied 50 strong Diamond Dogs and more if needed. There tunnels underground go a LOT farther than I thought... we could get anywhere in Equestria from here!
And the Diamond Dogs have also supplied us with a good HQ underground, so no need to worry about that. In addition, they agreed to supply us weapons and armor, but it's obvious the other ponies don't know how to use them. Still, it's nice to have.
Sweet Apple acres: We need a strategy. There's a good size group of enemies there, but I think with some creativity we could take them. Come on, guys, we have the underground; surely that provides us with some attack plan!
Trixie: Location Unknown
Zecora: Probably in the Everfree forest
flim-flam brothers: Location unknown
Nurse Redheart: One of them
The Wonderbolts: Currently evacuating Cloudsdale
The CMC: One of them, but not fighting
Buffalo: Location Unknown
Changelings: Could be anywhere
Mayor Mare: One of them, but not fighting
Steve Magnet: Probably in the Everfree Forest
Griffons: I'll bet we could send a message to them
Dragons: I know where they're located, but I doubt they'd help...
Minotaurs: You mean Iron Will? Location Unknown.
Sorry, that wasn't much help, was it?
The ponies are getting pretty hungry. Derpy even set up a muffin stand... where you can bring him muffins to eat. Yep.
One other thing: Twilight thinks there's a book to reverse Stormcloud's spell on the other ponies in the library at the castle. I think if there was one, the princess would have just used that instead of sending the ponies to me in the first place, but Twilight insists she's seen one.
How's the evacuation/destruction of cloudsdale going? And any news from the crystal empire?
BTW, great to hear the wonderbolts are still on our side. Tomorrow we'll make a plan of attack for SAA, try to find Zecora, send an invite for the griffon kingdom, and try to find out where the changelings are. In fact, finding the changelings is going to be our top priority. We need spies, and if what I here about changelings is accurate, their hive mind will let us get up to the minute information. Let's just hope Stormcloud doesn't get to them first.
NOTE: This is NOT an order, these are my current ideas for tomorrow, and they may change.
Oh, and if we find him, give shining armor my regards.
Edit: AND FOR THE LAST TIME, DERPY'S A GIRL!...isn't she?
And by the way, do the mane si- er, five have their memories back?
To twilight: I need more info on that book. Tell me as much as you can.
...
On second thought, don't, that would probably take a LONG time.
Just give me what we need to know.
3403065 Cloudsdale is evacuated, and we got pretty much everypony out. However, the enemy now owns it. And... yes, Derpy is a mare. I don't know why I always say "he" without thinking, I always have for some reason.
Oh, and yes the five mane ponies have their memory back.
3403249 and the weather factories? Are they operational?
Sorry I haven't been very active... If they exist, could you contact Seaponies? (I tried.....)
3403261 Yes, they are... fully operational. In fact, it's been raining ever since they took over. We're underground, but all of us can still hear it above us.
3403399 ah well, we tried, at least we're underground.
3403316 I miss the times when I was raising the ponies and I looked forward to your suggestions. I know this isn't really what you want to read about, but I can't control what happens. I wish it hadn't come to this. WHEN we win, I think I should write another story: a what-if to say what if this other pony had come instead of Fluttershy? It would all be made up this time, but to just relax and write about that kind of stuff again would be really nice. Gotta have something to look forward to during a war.
3403829
Hmmm, destroying the weather factories, a sound idea, to be true. However, assume the enemy has ways of recovering the requisites for weather control? Either find a way to destroy all forms of evidence that the control has been in use in the last 25 years, or create defense camps to defend the information, not destroy it. I can help with the building of said camps, placement of defenses and such. Weather control can be used to help us, not just another piece of dangerous information that needs to be destroyed.
Celestia above, wish I could be on the front lines, organizing the resistance in the moment. It frustrates me that I must hold back.
3405186 Hello, concerning your thoughts of the danger of loosing the knowlege concerning weather control. As far as I know all pegasi learn how to use there abiltities in school, which also consists of weather control. The knowlege to rebuild the weather factory should also be in any library in Eqestria or at least the princcesses should know how to build it. But a good question is, is Cloudsdale the only location which has a weather factory? If necessary we could use the weather that will be produces over the Everfree Forest to distribute the weather.
What do you have in mind concerning building camps and defence positions?
Kind regards
Night Heart
3403249 can you read private messages?
3405547 True, all factories and knowledge centers should be protected. And not just concerning weather magic, all forms of important knowledge should be kept safe.
Ironically, weather manipulation weapons could work extremely well, as a single tower turret could create a controlled storm that would put an army in disarray. I have myself, being an inventor, created multiple forms of manipulation gear that can be used by a single Pegasi, and it also has a clause written into their design: if the controller is exposed to the form of energy used by Stromcloud to control others, the machine becomes unusable, and cannot be fixed, even by me.
To return to the point at hand, the towers should create a complex labyrinthine structure, forcing any intruder to have to pass through the line of fire for all the turrets and positions. I can create a way to create a magic bond ensuring that the knowledge of how to bypass the maze is erased if the subject is out under control. The camps should be unreachable by flight or any other means of transportation, including teleportation, and use a mix of technology and magic, ensuring that a two-pronged assault would be necessary to stop at least one aspect of the tower, allowing it to attack even under extreme duress.
I reiterate the need for camps, and I wish to personally oversee the construction.
-Clever Build
3406419 Yes, I can see it all just fine by myself, but I need Twilight if I'm going to reply/post anything. But Twilight stays with me all the time, so you don't need to worry. Wanna talk?
3398650 It would seem that lady Quill has joined us. I believe she should be redirected to the front line camps to increase morale for the war effort. That has always seemed to be her talent: causing emotion.
3406584 I wished that would be currently possible. The current information we have indicates that we are not able to open a portal to Equestria, if that would be possible I would already be there as tactical advisor. So we could more easily organize the structures over there.
I really wished Pinkie had told as this chant that opened the last portal.
3406689 I too my friend. If it was possible right now I would be stand looking in the Equestria map together with Twilight and Jemes, and plain our next moves.
3406740 Indeed. It would be easier if I was there, creating the defense systems instead of simply giving the blueprints.
If possible, we must create a portal to Equestria. It must, of course, be guarded.
3406768 Guarded or so designed that only people can go through it which meet special criteria. This portal would be needed to be portable because we all live around the globe.
3406807 Very true, contact points at different locations to ensure anyone who needs to has access to it... I could start the portal's 'selective entry' system, ensuring that only few are allowed through.
Also, started defense thread.
3406814 Thanks for your help my friend. If we all work this good together, we will find a solution for every problem.
3406817 No thanks needed. Always love to help those who need it.
Orders:
When the zap apples begin to bloom, launch the attack via night's plans that I PM'd you. Also, send a couple scouts to the everfree, and see if we can find Zecora, she would be a valuable asset for the alliance.
Twilight, see if you can't figure out a spell to detect if someone is under stormcloud's influence, and while you're at it, try making a changeling detection spell as well, so we can hopefully contact them.
Edit: make sure that Stormcloud won't know we have the diamond dogs on our side, make sure that we take ALL the enemy prisoner, we can't let any of them get away to report to Stormcloud. And try to keep morale up, using stage quill's advice above.
3407110 Have you spoken to Swiftbullet concerning the attack? He has told me something about that.
3407110
IDEAS
Pegasus hurricane
Leaving trails into ambush
Fluttershy's animal friend talent (Predators)
Never underestimate the power of singing while fighting. Sing marching songs to up morale!
Play games in camp. Create bonds in the army and make it easier to fight. Play sleepover games, camping games, stories, share laughter- Basically, reinforce why this war is going on. Enjoy the adventure. It's probably really scary, but have fun. The otehr side is probably dull as dirt, so having fun will give the Alliance an advantage.
3407335 I like your ideas, if we use this we can keep the moral up, for the ponies this must be a traumatic experience so that this is also really important. Naturally we can not let our guard completely down, but the others that are not on active duty should do exactly that. Thanks for you suggestion.
3407417 Exactly. I'm really more of an emotional person than a tactical one. The majority of my ideas come that way. I hadn't even thought about the guard, but naturally.
3407436 Every one of has has it´s strong and weak points, but that is the reason we work together, so we can be strong together. If someone/somepony stumbles we are all there to help. Not any soul is alone in this, we are all here to help. So we stand, walk and think together to help others who cannot help themeselfs.
That is what we the Alliance stand for.
Friendship, freedom, tolerance harmony that are only words but we all know the concept that stands behind them, we all strive to fill this words with live beyond the accumulation of letters and show the world, a way how it could work, another way how we could all be together and understand each other to be at peace with others and ourselves.
3407520 *cheer* Yes! Equestria will win. There's more to a fight than fighting. Equestria is allied with all the minds of all the bronies and pegasisters on Earth.
3407520, you are like the m.l.k.jr of the rebel alliance.
3407556 Could you please tell me who do mean with m.l.k.jr?
3407592 Martin Luthor King, Jr. He's pretty famous in the states, look him up, especially his i have a dream speech.
3407606 Ok, I thought that you might meant him, I know of course about him and I really admire him. I don´t think that I could ever be someone with such great spirit and visions. He worked so hard to reach his goal, even when nearly anything was against him, he never stopped.
He showed us so much and to reach that goal, he was ready to give everything, even his life.
I will always try to follow his example to show others that there are other way that could be gone. I will never stop on my way to reach this one thing to show all in existence that we can reach our goals if we really want to, we just need to find it within us to lay our differences behind us and work together.
Race, gender, color, religion yes this are differences, but must this differences devide us, would it not be possible to use this differences to enrich everyone with it, so we can learn from each other and so in the end from ourselves. I want to learn so I can change myself so I can learn more about myself in the process because change is the only constant in everything.
3407664 see, there you go again!
Not that it's bad or anything, it's freaking fantastic! I hereby appoint you official motivational speaker/spokesperson of the rebel alliance!
3408191 If you really think that I am worthy for such an important position and that I am able to fulfill the duties that comes with it.
If that is really your wish, then I will do everything that lies within my abilities to help, so we can reach all our hearts desire. I will speak hence we will find the balance in us as well in the ways we go. I will hear everyone and speak with everyone, so nobody will be unheard. My wish is to help so everyone can be what he/she/it all entities in existence and in the void can be what there inner self is so all can find there happiness in there existence not matter who or what they are.
I only can say that I feel honored and that I will humbly accept your choice *bow*.