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Between Lines
A purveyor of intelligent literary commentary some of the time, and whatever I feel like the rest of the time.
Between Lines
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This was quite poetic. Well-written and sad.
My process of reading this story:
1. Check latest stories.
2. See first story and... a black rectangle. The cover is actually a black rectangle, and the description is a short sentence. Congrats, you captured my curiosity.
3. Read story.
4. Whoa.
Really good stuff. A bit confusing at times, but overall just simple and amazing.
Yes
I am having a hard time with this one. It's done well enough, but I have a strong dislike of fics that go for the nihilistic, "nothing matters anymore" feel.
oblivion is terrible and beautiful.
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Honestly, I wrote this when I was having a really hard time of it. My stories were refusing to come together, and I wound up deleting most of them.
There aren't a ton of options when you're writing from a complete absence of hope. So I wound up going with something that had been bouncing around my mind for the longest time: the Berzerker concept. I.E., that the dominant form of space exploration would simply be dispatching bombs programmed to destroy any life they came across, ensuring no competing stellar societies would arise to interfere with the harvesters and their work. Of course, after scooping up thousands of star systems, you'd have so many resources that even a competing society couldn't oppose you.
I briefly considered setting the story with one bomb exterminating every pony but celestia, then her wielding the sun as a weapon against the coming harvesters, swatting them down even as they dispatched more and more bombs, finally overwhelming her in a hail of mass-driver oblivion. However, I was too nihilistic at the time for that.
Well, now, that's why the Ponies need an interstellar empire.
So, the planet was hit by a RKV, and then some sort of stellar scoops came to collect the dust?
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Yes, not only do you neutralize resistance, but it also removes the problems inherent in descending into a gravity well to mine. This way, Mineral deposits are readily exposed, speeding appraisal, and collected without dedicated high-G mining equipment.
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I had actually had the same idea about this method of planetary mining for a while... Cool to see someone had the same idea!
I guess Luna died in the initial attack huh. Such a shame
3828981 The sacrifices we make for narrative, eh?
Have you ever had a moment where nothing mattered, but everything mattered somehow? Yeah, this story actually gave me pause. I was actually forced to stop and consider what I had just read.
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-_Ƣ ~ Stay classy.
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It's more of the 'Shocked by the suddenness of the end of your world' thing than anything.
Uh?
Well, drat...
Some typos:
its own
opportunists
Existential Angst.
I have some nightmares like this!
You have a favorite and a follow.
If you read some of the later Star Wars novels, the Death Star was originally designed to be a gigantic mining station, the superlaser designed to rip open dead planets for mineral processing. This is no different to that concept.