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Hmm, dropping a joke that may or may not have been set up (don't remember at this point), adding a little bit of emphasis on some of the drama around those presumed dead. I get that.

From the changes...

“I hate the moon!” Bastard shouted from somewhere below in the wreckage..

Extra period at the end

“Fuck!” Bastard hissed, sitting down and glaring at Eqqus.

Equus

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Why not a 1740?

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It's gonna hurt, reading this chapter again...

damn it i cant cry Evin if i want to i try but i cant not being able to cry when your sad sucks

Hallelujah!!!!!!

Now i have plenty to read later. Just have to do some work first.

PRAISE THE HORIZONS CREW!!!

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Yes you are right. Dangit, I was mistaken with that abbreviation mark yet again. 5 new chapters on Sunday? Holy shit why was I napping. This is it. The final stretch of the fimfic upload. And I just got a whole lot more motivation this week. Amazing. I'm gonna find time to read these 5 chapters, I shall not fall behind.

Damn

P-21's death was heart breaking. But Rampage's sacrifice...
I haven't cried like that since FoE: Pink Eyes.

This was heartbreaking... but I'm sure it was for about 98% of the people reading it.
Goddamn it... I know something bad is gonna happen next... it always does...

Nice job on this you guys... nice job...
*salutes*

7406346 That is an idiomatic phrase? Huh. I did not know that. Thank you.

There probably only 2 stories I've read that have made me cry on this site, this makes 3.

I don't get P-21's cutie mark (his real one). What does it mean?

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I figure something along the lines of love overcoming the conditions of his bondage, first in the literal sense of finding love among his fellow breeder, and later exhibited in a different form in his coming to love Blackjack, one of his former oppressors. Another take could be related to how the heart as a symbol of the pony (/human: "stories about ponies are stories about people") spirit drove him to escape his slavery and find freedom. But given the way it's presented, it's really up to each of us to decide what it means. Depending on how much you buy into the death of the author, I guess.

Man this chapter...so good... yet. Damn it.
T

How long did I have before the taint from Folly threatened by baby?

How long did I have before the taint from Folly threatened my baby?

Did.. did Echo just die by mechasprites swarm? Fucking hell god damn it. What will happen with Cognitum now if anything? Of all the ways to die and P-21 is impaled by rods. Horizons doesn't fire..? No wait it did. But Tom definitely ejected to the Eater. Hmm, how will that turn out? And Rampage denies her own death wish to get Scotch Tape, Blackjack and Bastard to the rocket. Another foreshadowed death of a main supporting character of the mane gang of PH, and another death happens. I know this is immature to say, but.. Seriously it's just not fair. Ugh, the characters endure the worst and for this? It feels like a waste and betrayal to the main characters. I am definitely curious to look up the reasoning for these deaths as meaningful sacrifices. And it shouldn't hurt emotionally like it does to the reader.
This chapter: Tears

Goddamn.
Goddamn.

I don't even have words. Bravo. This was something special.

FUCK YOU.
I hate you. Y u do dis.

Heartbreaking, the hole story, really. Better then the original, worth another few reads. I probably missed a ton of stuff, i'll need to re-read again, though I might skip the last few chapters, just thinking about them makes tears well up in my eyes.

So is this story finished? Its not marked complete yet but a sequel as already been uploaded. Im quite confused! Well, i guess this gives me time to read your other stories as well as catch up with other writes. I'll keep an eye out in case more is uploaded or the story is marked finished.

Somber, and the other people involved, you did a wonderful job. While the original laid down a great framework, this one exceeds it, by a lot. Keep up the great work!!

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The story is not finished with the fimfiction upload (yet) There is still a handful of chapters before the story can be marked as 'complete' on fimfiction. Fallout: Equestria - Project Horizons is complete on Google docs version just not fimfiction version, yet.

Chapter 75 Part 1
Chapter 75 Part 2
Chapter 76
Chapter 77
Epilogue

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Ah I see. Well, I can wait, got plenty of other stories that require reading. To be honest. I'm afraid of the ending, considering what went down in the last 2 chapters. I know it's far to late but, I hope its a happy ending. And if it's not, well, I'm gonna be sad :<

Didn't cry as I'm a hardened bastard. Hit me in the feels, though. Hit me real hard.
It's totally not because I read the GDoc just after it finished, so have been exposed to it before

Well, finally almost caught up with this epoch... I have had to endure trying to read this whole damn thing for quite a while. Not to say that it as terrible, the fact that I managed to make it this far means something, but by god was my patience wearing thin.

Then when I reached this chapter. As I was not spoiled with this thankfully... All I can say was... fuck my bloody damn heart, THE FEELS! For all of my patience being worn out, this manages to revitalize my longing for this book to reach its conclusion. And now that I find out that this epoch is finally reaching its climax (which again, thankfully, I am not spoiled by... All I can say it... Make all those sacrifices worth it

“Forbidden operation! Kernel panic!!”

Cognitum runing on Linux confirmed. Made me laugh more than it probably should have.

It’s not fair. It’s not right

there's no reason to fight
but still this is our daily lives

If you know what that song is, and I mean actually kmow, you are the best.

Fläshyn!

I knew it. No.... not this, though I suspected something along the lines. I don't assume it's done with, either. It really is the home stretch for me, though. I'm glad of that. What I knew was that I should have stopped to comment halfway through this one. I'd even stopped reading and taken a break from it at one point, I was a bit annoyed and didn't want to hit the end of a chapter called 'Call' in this fic while in that frame of mind. Really, I had a whole bunch of stuff I wanted to type down, but now...

I made it through work with just eyes welling up. Allergies or something, you know, nothing to be curious about. Got out to my car this morning... a song started playing... I just.... started bawling. Well, quiet bawling... but still. I certainly uh, got a concerned look from the girl at the donut shop on the way home. Couldn't be helped... this needed a chocolate donut, and coffee, and I don't really know what else. I may have said it before... forewarned is not the same as... ready.

Man.. this felt really heavy.. i didnt cry or anything but.. fuck me man.. cant BJ just have a break for once...?

Damn. Just, damn.

5 month later and I still cannot bring myself to read the final chapters. Considering what happened in the last few chapters, I'm afraid of what will happen in the last few. I'm sorry Somber. I'll read them someday, but I don't think my heart can take it right now.

Damn... this chapter hurt. It's always the ones that deserve to live the most that end up dying. I guess... I'll see what happens next. Tom is probably moving plenty quick, so who knows when he'll hit. Just a little more, then all the pain will be over.

~SolidFire

FFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUCKKKKKK YOUUUUUUU WHY MUST U CAUSE ME PAIN AHHHHHGGGGGGGG

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All life is suffering.

Well, all life connected to Blackjack, at any rate.

Me as of right now

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This is the chapter that broke me... I simply don't have any more words left. I haven't cried like that in a while.

This is the second time i have read through this fic since it was first released a year ago. This is the second time this chapter made me cry. Please Somber, dont make me feel this again in Homelands. I dont think i could take it. That is all i have left to say

I met Johnny cash years ago at a concert. He was quiet, and Kurt; not rudely so, but brief in a sense that perhaps he knew how much the little time in life means when you're getting close to spending your allowance of it. Good man, he was.

Good men die just the same as bad men, just with more glasses raised and less pity.

I want to die a good man too.

Thanks Mr. Cash
Thanks David

Shinde, Yariman

Shinde is simply the command form of the verb "to die". 
Yariman means slut.

Basically she just said "Die, slut" in Japanese.
Gotta love japan~

Watashi wa... meiyo nashi de... shinu koto ga... dekinai...

Translation: I... Without me... Things that do not... Can not...

Uso megami-sama...gomen na–

Translation: Lie Megami...I'm sorry-

Gotta love Japanese!
So dramatic!

Too bad. Wish you could have convinced this sniper. She died praising Luna after stepping on a mine.

Well that's one way to go out...

I was in the black void place again. From somewhere near me came a white light... no. I was the light. And I was going to a place. Ahead of me was a thing. It was a pony on fire. A pony made of faces. A hundred screaming, enraged faces that belched fire and wept blood. A thing that should not be. It charged straight at me, hooves exploding like balefire bombs as it loomed larger and larger. It swelled to the size of an alicorn. A giant. A titanic behemoth.

And I thought Pac Man was scary...

I...I can't believe he died.
And Rampage...and...and Echo.

Why?
Shy did they have to die?
Its not fair!

*sobs*

It's just not fair!!

This story has definitely had the biggest emotional impact on me of any story.
You don't skirt around feelings or killing off characters, Somber, you inflict your namesake with stunning accuracy.

You could give KP a run for her bits and sell her out of feelios.
Charity would go bankrupt from all the bits she would lose pouring out the epic feels.

But still...maybe a few last words for the old stallion are in order?

Well...ahem...
...he was a very good stallion.

There. See? That's it! That is, like, literally I have to say!
DON'T JUDGE ME!

First Glory, now P-21...why?

7741226 keep talking, Angel

I'm not crying ... You're crying

those damn ninja's cutting onions

Can you please stop killing all the ponies that Blackjack loves?

I've never cried reading a book before, until today. The worst part about this chapter was I knew it was coming from the beginning because of the way that Somber foreshadowed his death (just like Glory in 72, just I knew better what that foreshadowing looked like) and yet his death at the end was still just as heart wrenching. Throughout the chapter I started to think maybe it was just a close call and it was just to get us to appreciate P-21, or cogs would kill him and it would make us hate cogs more, but know, Somber doesn't do nice and predictable. Instead we get emotionally raped as P-21 dies protecting the ones he loves and showing just how far he's gone. P-21 showed more growth than almost any other character in PH, going from a rebellious, angsty teen, to a caring, loving father. So, when he was ripped away it stung so much more because we've seen him struggling to want to live, form a relationship with his daughter, and forge a better life. He never got the ending he worked so hard for so that others could.

I don't know whether to love or hate this book at this point.

So, it's not high literature or anything, but I gotta say, I love this line:

“Hey, Princess Fuckslut! I’m still alive down here!”

Well shit, everyone does die in this story. :B I still feel bad for Rampage.

Uh, so, I feel obligated to mention that you should probably take the lyrics out of the end there. Not so much because that's a cheesy way to undercut an otherwise emotional scene (which it totally is), but that you're not supposed to have copyrighted lyrics other than those from the show in fanfics, and it could get the whole thing taken down. D:

As for the chapter itself, I liked the ethical dilemma posed by Tom, even if it worked out pretty quickly. (Not a criticism; even to my mind, there was only one real solution.) Who's Bastard? I heard folks in a Discord chat talking about him not long ago; is he from another story? That bullet-duplication spell he used was fucking badass. Actually, that whole final showdown with Cognitum inhabiting the sprites was fucking awesome, and one of the best action sequences, not to mention scenes, in the whole story. :D

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Oh, "Fuckslut"! I heard "Princess Cockslut". Thanks for clearing that up for me. :) (I love that line, too.)

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Bastard is an 11th hour character that I created and loved, when I really should have just had him die. He's a hitpony who lived before the great war, doing all kinds of dirty deeds for criminal profiteers. He was also a stripe lover. He was in love with a zebra mare named Xura who's brother was a bar tender who disapproved of their relationship. He gave Bastard a brew that was supposed to only put him in a sleeping beauty type slumber till he could be woken up. Instead, he slept through the bombs falling and wound up with an absolutely wicked hangover. It was so bad that he didn't realize that anything was wrong until he noticed the Bucklyn bridge blown to pieces. After that he was elated. sure, his loved ones were dead, but the guy he owed a LOT of money to was dead too. He was free! Free!

Then his boss shows up, older than granny smith, on life support, and he wants his fucking money back! With interest. So Bastard goes back to being a hitpony. He finds out that Xura and her brother both lived as well (and Xura is the companion of his boss) and after some dirty deeds, his boss gets killed... but not before selling Bastard's debt to the mob in Dise. Now bastard still has to pay, but they're a lot less picky about how he gets them their money. He does some odd jobs, exposes an Enclave scrap smuggling operation by accident, takes out a unicorn breeding slave program that's trying to mass produce unicorns for Unity, and has some shenannigans with the mirror pool. Then he gets approached by the Harbingers with one last special job (and she showed him a cargo container full of bits) and so he signs on and goes sent to the moon.

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From another story indeed! :O

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One of the things with that scene that's tended to bug me is that for all that convincing him they had a workable plan, throwing in how their lives mattered too, etc. that goes on, it's kind of missing the point relative to the fact that Horizons going off helps the Eater rather than harming it. That undercuts Tom's entire point all on its own. Just a bit.

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(Six seconds in.)

Why so much sadness