Core and Crust
Twilight smiled at the empty void. This was her canvas, the gas, dust and rocks her paint.
Her horn lit with a bright magenta glow. Particles floating before her glowed and converged in a seething mass under the influence of her magic. Soon a minuscule planetary core sat before her.
The magic field around her horn expanded. It extended to reach the asteroid belt in the far off distance. At a speed that would have given Rainbow Dash motion sickness, large lumps of rock began hurtling through space. Clouds of gas robbed from the gas giant came flying along, and joined the core, expanding it.
Twilight continued her process for what could have been hours, or could have been days. Out here in space, it was difficult to tell.
She now hovered in space before a mass of gathered space debris. She glanced back at Equus. Her core was smaller, but not significantly so. She was no more than an insect when compared to her creation; which was a hulking behemoth and an example of true telekinetic mastery. But it lacked a few properties...
She lit her horn once more, casting a powerful gravity spell at the centre of the soon-to-be planet. She released her hold on the matter, and was elated to find that it stayed in place.
Telekinesis: completely mastered, she thought.
Now to set it alight. She turned to Celestia's glorious sun, a blazing inferno of raw power and energy.
I'm sure she won't mind me borrowing a bit of her flame...
Twilight's horn sparked to life once more. A looping arc of solar fire was caught and dragged across space. Twilight hovered back from the ball of rock and gas. This would be dangerous.
In a burst of magic she flung the flame, which had taken on a magenta colour, at the core, and threw up a shield around herself. The gas within the core combusted violently, creating a gorgeous fireball not unlike the sun. Flames were thrown out across the surrounding space, but split harmlessly around Twilight's shield.
Shields: mastered, she thought.
The difference between her core and the sun, however, was that rock was involved in her project. The searing heat of the solar flames soon melted the asteroids and her other rock.
She now had a burning ball of molten rock. But she wasn't done.
She lit her horn once more, the familiar magenta aura changing to a dark blue colour. The very tip of her horn glowed iridescently, before a bright beam of ice-infused magic came streaking from her horn, striking her core.
The outer layer of the ball of magma began to harden into rock once more, creating an oddly smooth surface.
Ice magic: mastered, she thought
To check that it was safe, Twilight descended from above and stood on it. It was as hard as the rock in Equestria.
Still, she thought, it's very featureless.
She decided to remedy that. Lifting off into the air on her great wings once more, she decided to shape her landscape. Gripping the entire newborn planet in her telekinetic aura, she created cracks in the base rock. The crust had been split into tectonic plates.
Choosing a pair of plates, she smashed them together like cymbals. The still-malleable plates folded upwards, creating a long spine of rock along the borders of the plates.
Twilight smiled. The first mountain range of her new world. The peaks were tall and the bases wide. They seemed to stretch into infinity, angled in such a way that Twilight truly believed they were trying to grab the sun.
It took little effort for her to come up with a name for them: The Celestial Range .
She flew across her vast landscape until she found another tectonic boundary. She repeated the process, crashing the two plates together to form a mountain range. This range was different. Instead of being sharp, tall and proud like the Celestial Range, these mountains were smooth, the tips more rounded. Not as tall as its sister range, but far wider.
Twilight had no trouble naming this mountain range either: The Lunar Range.
She teleported to the other side of her planet. While it was daytime near the Celestial and Lunar Ranges, it was nighttime on this half of the planet. She decided to sculpt this area too.
Once more taking two plates and banging them together like a foal with building blocks, she created a third mountain range.
This set of mountains looked as though they were made of crystals. Jagged spires rose up oddly and stuck out at pointed angles. Twilight briefly wondered why each formation looked so different, but passed it off as her own technique differing from mountain to mountain.
Again, she found it easy to name this line of mountains: The Amorous Range.
Flying off, she decided to create two more great mountain ranges, for now, before stopping.
For her next range, she decided to have a little bit of fun. She made sure to crash the stone together in odd ways, with no point being the same in terms of how she hit it.
The result was a strange combination of the other three ranges, tall and pointed in some places like the Celestial Range, smooth and rounded in others like the Lunar Range and jagged and angled in others like the Amorous Range.
She was finding it incredibly easy to name her creations; this one would be named the Chaotic Range.
She teleported to a section of her world which she had not transformed yet. Here it was evening.
She gripped the last two plates she would mould into a truly massive mountain range and struck them together.
This mountain range was a simple one. It was tall, but not too much so, and it was wide, but not truly expansive. It was keeping to itself, not affecting the landscape around it in as many ways as it could. It reminded Twilight of herself in an odd way.
In an odd homage to herself and the time of day she had moulded it at, Twilight named this spine of mountains the Dusk Range.
For a few hours, maybe longer, Twilight went about creating lesser mountain ranges, scattered around. She left them nameless—the ponies she would create later could decide their names.
She hovered in the atmosphereless sky, gazing down at the world she had sculpted. She still had a lot to do. But this was a truly impressive start.
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Computer trolled everybody. Update is up now, for real.
I am glad we get to see this update, and what a start this story is off to. I really look forward to what comes next.
Twilight Sparkle: God mode activated.
I'm guessing this is a worldbuilding story
I'm pretty sure I'm gonna love it, I'm a sucker for good world building
I love creative alicorns.
This is gonna be good...! *bounces*
This I liked alot. Keep it up
I have wondered if given the chance to build a world from the inner most core up, what kind of world would you or I create? so many Sci-Fi and fantasy stories and I've only came across one porno "guy finds a genie in the bottle" fic that takes the literal world building fic to a whole 2 stories I've ever found like this.
SO looking forard to see where and how you take this!
3888461 Well I've been mulling over whether or not I should write a fic using one of my OC races, specifically the ones that build galaxies.
If I could build a world I would be it's ruler and everyone would have the same rights, there would not be poverty, there wouldn't be any disease and there would not be any wars. I believe if a world is to be peaceful everyone has to treated equally, because wars are started over petty differences and desperation. I would create creatures that would be beautiful and intelligent. I would also create beautiful mountain ranges, valleys and lakes with food a plenty. Everyone would be safe and well fed. Although a god or ruler is allowed there willing luxuries, it is only fare for the one who created them.
Computer: Trololololo
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Good Chapter! I cant what to read, whats the next point on Twilights "Create Planet"-checklist is!
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I think that quite a few of us bronies would create Equestria.
All. Over. Again.
I know I would.
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Cheat code- Thematulaaklives.
MOAH, FOAL!!!
but seriusly don't tire up yourself. I can wait.
3896370 I'm not in charge of the next chapter actually. Someone else is guest-authoring.
3900262 Okay.
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*wave*
3902039 oh hai. ah know....
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Whaaaat?
3902073 Nothin'. Whats uuuuuup????
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and proud
Best and worst pun ever... You should be ashamed
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I am I am
Nice set up so far...
~Skeeter The Lurker
Says the alicorn that is smashing her continents around to create mountains....
Twilight sure does love her some mountains.
Great story! I like what I see.
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Ah, now, see... if I read you right that is a trick so hard that even Celestia and Luna are still working on it. Free will is a problem, but leaving it out is generally agreed (including by myself) to be even worse. One might manage to avoid diseases, although that might be difficult to manage with the whole "trade with Equestria" thing.
Would you qualify the Changeling invasion as a "War"? I can't imagine that the royal guard (not to mention some of the ponies on the street) didn't try to fight back, and Chrysalis WAS going for "Control" and "All of Equestria".
It will be interesting to see how, or even IF the author covers such things.
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Well, it is sorta like water pipes in a house... you have to install them everywhere you want them early on or it is a REAL pain to do later...