Interlude (Rewritten)
A massive series of satellite dishes were built above ground began to power up just as Patina adjusted various monitors that displayed numerous layouts and a rather blank screen on the largest console. Pressing a button, the device began to make adjustments to its position while she enjoyed the early morning sky with the sun rising in the horizon.
As the dishes completed their movement, Patina grabbed a lever with her hooves and pulled down. Within moments, she could hear the satisfying hum of additional energy powering the powerful sensor array that she had been working on ever since the Love Generating Engine was past its 77% threshold. Immediately, the large screen in the center of the exposed screen exploded to life as various hardware and software started up for the first time. Three drones that had been waiting for the activation quickly jumped to man several of the consoles that displayed numerous data monitoring both ground, air, and space. With a satisfying 'blip', the large screen showed the ground on the bottom of the screen and various objects that existed directly above the massive underground base, all the way past the atmosphere of their planet.
"Nothing far too indicative on sensors " One of the drones reported as he utilized hoof-friendly touch screens to scan the void of space as best as their sensors could. “Kommandant-General, we have a residual presence of Kearny-Fuchida Drive in… Sector Delta-Fifteen.”
Patina wordlessly brought her attention to the drone’s console and narrowed her eyes at the display. Whenever an JumpShip utilized its Faster-Than Light K-F Drives, they left residual presence of energy in its place that lasted for a week or two before dissipating entirely. But to have such strong residual presence, that meant that there had been a JumpShip in orbit a couple of days ago. But the sheer amount of particles made it appear as if there were at least two to three JumpShips in orbit at one point.
“I guess I’m going to have to push that line of battlemechs through faster than planned.” If there was one thing she wanted to avoid were humans coming to the ‘rescue’ as it were to the ponies. Or the Griffons. This was going to require an… escalation of force.
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Princess Luna of the Night looked depressed at the work the 'experts' that Celestia had hired was doing. They had barely figured out how the Griffon autoguns, stolen secretly, worked and had injured themselves on more than one occasion from what she considered sheer arrogance.
Even she could tell what was what that made the weapons fire from the moment she fully 'scanned' the weapon! Constantly saying that 'magic' was better alongside throwing 'tantrums' when the weapons didn't work the way they 'thought'. Why were some of these brown-nosing ‘nobles’ even considered experts of the field of weapon development?
For her sanity and for her guards, she had fired the most recent 'experts' again and had refused Celestia's support along with her Solar Guard as even they had declared their magic far more superior against such ‘primitive’ weapons.
"Anything?" Luna asked the Night Guard Captain, Midnight Dusk, as said bat pony mare expertly pieced the autogun together with her bat-like wings, hooves, and her mouth. The mare possessed a dark blue coat, short yet curvy mane and tail colored a shade of light sea green, and a pair of light blue eyes gleaming in the dimly lit war room. Her cutie mark was that of a crescent moon with a black cloud behind the moon and she was also relatively taller than other ponies, being only inches shorter than her Princess.
"Construction of similar weapons for our own military would be simple, but the production of the smokeless powder would be much more difficult seeing as one of the ingredients is rather dangerous to produce with magic" Pushing over a set of documents, Midnight pointed at the three barrels of the powder they had managed to save from the unicorns trying to see if they exploded when magic was applied. (To which they found out rapidly that it did) "If many of those reports are true, most of the companies that can produce it would have to not use magic as it explodes when in contact with magic."
"Ugh." Luna slammed her head on the hardwood table several times lamenting her sister's era of peace. She had hoped that Equestria would be much more advanced, much more aggressive in other aspects; but without any large scale antagonizing forces, the country she and Celestia had created had stagnated. Griffons had airships of varying sizes, a relatively advanced technological base that did not rely on a drop of magic, and even had colonies in the Zebra-owned lands. Last she heard, the most recent Zebra rebellion had been put down within hours of engaging the Griffon military.
And now the mysterious and unexpected jump in Changelings’ own technology. Two of Equestria's airships had been sunk with little effort and the third was damaged enough to be hauled into dry dock to have most, if not all important components to be replaced and repaired. What really had her attention was the sheer amount of power behind the weapons that the Changelings possessed. What they considered top of the line magic shielding was torn apart in seconds and their weapons were almost jokingly out-ranged by the Changeling’s own weaponry.
"Princess... With what we have and from what we have observed, we won't be able to catch up with either the Griffons or whatever the Changelings possess without taking short-cuts." Midnight Dusk commented as she placed the unloaded rifle on the floor and walked to where the maps were. "The Griffons would never give us their best, seeing as they enjoy having something to have something over us; but the Changelings..."
"Do you truly believe they would negotiate with a species that have caused them many wrongs?" Luna, deep within her own guts, hoped that they were open to negotiations. "They fired on our airships rather quickly..."
"Perhaps it was due to them being warships? What I am recommending is a secret deal of sorts..." Luna's ears perked along with her own mind.
"Go on... Explain this 'deal' of yours." As her Captain explained what was most likely the best way to catch up technologically, Luna simply hoped that the Changelings were willing to negotiate.
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Magica looked at the sky with her eyes as she smiled at the chilly winds if the night caressed her gently. Testing various spells that her hive managed to learn over the years, she and Patina had determined that giving missiles an elemental effect would be efficient in altering the battlefield with ease, but to have the best effect; they would have to be mounted on the larger and slower Thunderbolt missiles or the Arrow IV missile artillery to change the battlefield conditions on the fly. That and finding out that the PPC had little effect on Changeling magic was strange.
While the ionizing particle cannon had the effect of causing Equestrian magic to go berserk, Changeling magic was only mildly affected as their magic seemed to be ‘wired‘ differently than what a unicorn would use. In fact, a PPC blast would only decrease the effect of Changeling magic by one factor rather than to destabilize everything. It was an interesting and great discovery as it would give them an edge in case anyone else used it against Changeling magic in the hopes of destabilizing it.
All in all, it would make Discord's reign and brief return look like a sideshow. Chaos would truly reign as nothing could be controlled by the ponies anymore. And while the development of the ‘pulse missiles’ would give them an even more absurd jump in power, Magica knew the ponies would react negatively to such a weapon.
Hearing a snort next to her, Magica turned her head to look at a snoozing Patina holding onto a datapad between her hooves. Patina's adjutant, one of her 'firstborn' as she called them, merely giggled as she gently levitated a blanket over her mother. It was also an unique experience on how Patina treated her drones. Perhaps it was due to her being raised by these... humans, but it had caused a large change in how the hives functioned now. Drones were now encouraged to call their queens 'mother' in private while calling them their appropriate rank in public.
Another interesting fact. Every queen, after the brief transfer of information with Patina, had found that they were each good at something. Myxine had become a great scientist, Ambrosia had strangely become quite efficient in managing information and had become the premiere Information specialist, Calliphora had become a rather respectable leader while being less quirky, and Gemini had, unsurprisingly, become in charge of the infantry of the Commonwealth. Patina's drones and herself acted efficiently as administrative advisors and engineers. In fact, each queen had an assistant from Patina's hive which made many things run much more smoothly and they also caused no trouble between the hives as they were incredibly polite and provided the best advice according to the situation. She, on the other hoof, had become quite attached to engineering like how Patina was, but on the front of magical integration and enchantments. In fact, seeing as she had the most magically attuned drones that could use magic on a wider scale easier than other hives allowed her to be promoted. So it was the best of situations seeing as half of Patina's drones were acting as adjutants for the other queens, some serving as battlemech instructors, and the remaining working in the engineering department had quite literally strained Patina's hive to the limit. So it had been up to her and her hive to fill the engineering department with efficient and diligent engineers.
But she truly wondered what made Patina so... unique. If you removed the technology from Patina, she would be like any other queen that existed; but what made her so unique? It was one puzzle she was willing to solve. Under all that knowledge, skills, and mind; Magica wondered what kind of gem she would find underneath it all.
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“So even ComStar has secrets so strange.” A smooth deep voice spoke in the darkened conference room inside of a 725 meter long WarShip, an Aegis Class Heavy Cruiser, as he took a sip from a glass of clear brown liquid. “To see aliens, clearly inspired by the Lyran Commonwealth, utilize our brand of technology.”
“They were certainly far more capable than some mercenary bands, but I doubt they would be able to do anything against us if we attacked them.” An elegant voice simply oozing with arrogance commented as she sat in a chair behind the larger man.
“Isn’t that how we thought before we were defeated in Tukayyid?” The man said with mirth in his tone before turning to address the woman. “We might be of superior blood, but remember that ComStar had left these ‘Changelings’ with weapons that can rival our own. If they learn to fight like the freebirth of the Inner Sphere, then we can expect new tactics and strategies that we might not have even imagined”
The woman merely shrugged before looking out into the void of space outside. “If you must know, I did manage to get a glimpse of their databases enough to see what they are going to build next as their ‘line’ units.”
“Oh? Will they be using standard Lyran doctrines?” The woman shook her head at that comment.
“Sadly, if it were so.” The woman brought up several images and vids onto the inbuilt screen showing what appeared to be a wide variety of battlemechs, tanks, infantry, and AeroSpace Fighters that were far too familiar as the man narrowed his eyes and sighed audibly.
“Then we must prevent pirate bands and mercenaries from coming near this star cluster, or they would declare that there are still surviving blakists.”
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Well i think it would be a three step problem. The ponies would first be shocked by the idea that Changelings can fly into space. Jealousy is something that would soon follow: "Outmached by parasital bugs? Immpossibru!". An attack though seems unlikley but not immpossible. Some would want to try to 'contain' the Changelings but most should realize that it would be a foolish endeavour. I mean they're practically refusing to understand how muskets work. How the heck would they fight a space-faring race? Unless they get the tech from the new ship that arrived, than an attack will be most likely.
Luna should contact the Changeling for tech-exchange. She seems to understand of what has to be done in order to advance her nation. However I see no reason why the Changelings should work with the Equestrians. Their supiriority in technology is pretty much the only thing that is keepeing them safe. Why should they give tech to a nation that has prooven themselves to be an enemy?
The problem with your story right now is that you've written yourself into a black hole.
Patina now owns all of the metaphorical cards per se', and has no reason to share with anyone else. Ever. You've made the Griffon Empire out to be quite large and powerful, but still vastly inferior in their understand as to how far the Changelings have come to outpace them. The Equestrians too are incredibly inferior because of how you've made Minovsky Particles work, which is kind of strange since they are only a byproduct of using helium3 as a nuclear power source. Luna is actively dealing with Equestria's stagnant state, but that doesn't mean she has anything to bargain with.
If the Changelings are the first ones to go into space, then it would be a whole different kettle of fish as to how the other two groups would react. Because regardless of how they did find out, they wouldn't be able to really do anything to stop them and would just be seen as caught by surprise by another unexpected development.
Really you're in a hole right now because of the poor pacing of your story. At this point there's nothing that can stop Patina's BESPA from destroying their world, so what does anything else matter? Patina could sit on her rump for the rest of her life and nothing would change.
Changeling just a little bit better tech level than the Griffins (but only a small amount) and tech knowledge that is less than them (let them learn what real knowledge is!)
For the Land and Air space rights to the 'Dragon Mountains' inside their borders, making 'Manehattan' the ONLY neutral city to the Changelings until (The Revolution of the World) better relations can be made.
With the statement: "The Technology we part with is 'Old tech', if you try use it for offensive means instead of Defense as we do. By our right as YOUR superiors in all things technological we will remove it from you and all those who are greed ridden!"
i shall read this due to the words changeling and gundam in the same description..... being a lifetime gundam fan. i will comment after :)
Hmm, I'd say Luna would be willing to negotiate with the Changelings but ^^^^^ makes a good point, why would the changelings be willing to. I mean heck, just a month ago the Ponies tried to exterminate them, the Changelings have no guarantee that it wouldn't happen as soon as the ponies caught up tech wise. I'd say the Changelings would first demand their diplomatic status be recognised by the other nation and receive an official appology before they even consider giving the ponies improved med equipment while holding the weapons systems close to their chest.
I'm kinda curious as to whether the Princesses have the same mindset as their subjects in regards to the Changelings being vermin? Future chapters are going to be interesting.
Luna should contact for the tech thing but it's not going to be "Here is the tech, use it" kind of thing but at a better suit pace...
The better the relationship and understanding of technology went, the more tech they will receive kinda thing...Also, maybe give them the 'old tech' during the early time first as a test.
And I think Luna and her ponies will be more accepting and receive aid easier and sooner (because they acknowledged what needed to be done) while the 'solar' ponies and their ignorance, arrogance and snobish attitude will further stanage Equestria in its entirety. (not to mention racism, cruelty, and a few other)
The Griffon will definitely want to avenge their loses, so no dice with the Griffon.
Also, the guy below make quite a few good points.
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Perhaps I have dug a far too deep to come out of, but I think that Patina doesn't actually hold all the cards. Note that you can have a large technological gap, but still lose in a direct battle due to being outnumbered. For example, the Earth Federation in the early days of the war took down Zaku IIs with modified missile launchers. It was risky, but it worked. Now I bring it to this. A griffon with light armor, packs of explosives, and enough speed can get in a mobile suit's blind spot and damage a lot things as long as its allies can bog down the metal giant. Not to mention that the Changelings have yet to produce a ship. Even if they do have one, the sheer numbers that the griffons or ponies at one point could throw at them is far more significant. Now I have yet to say just how many Changelings live in the Jaburo look alike, I woudl like to think that an average queen would possess at least a hundred drones. Some with less and some with more. Now make that around roughly 3,500 total changelings, but think how many soldiers a military nation can have? How many more artillery, airships, and machines they can produce en masse when pushed.
And if Patina did have all the cards, why doesn't she show it off? Maybe its because of the risk, but even a much more technological side can be taken down by a more primitive one. World War 2, Halo, Vietnam War, and many more just shows tha you can be more technologically advanced with quality weapons; but a much more numerous/strategic foe can take down a technological giant just as well, albeit with heavy losses.
I am liking this story so far, but you have got to fix your use of 'a' and 'an'.
Use 'a' when the following word starts with a cosonate. Use 'an' when the following word starts with a vowel.
As far as the changelings and ponies making deals, I do not see that happening. Or at least any deal they make lasting. I can see Celestia learning of the nature of Minovsky particles, freaking out, then declaring the changelings, and all their tech, as threats to her little ponies way of life. And Celestia is all about protecting Her little ponies.
My thoughts on the ponies going to war:
So far the ponies only enjoy a numerical advantage over the changelings of 3 to 1, plus the ponies would needs months if not a year or more to get their military up to a good size and state of readyness. The ponies way of waging war is entirely based on magic use so far, and their magic is severely limited by the Minovsky particles. Do the ponies even have the industrial base to support a large military build up? Do they have the political and social strength to absorb large numbers of military casualties?
Even with all the weaknesses of Equestria I can also easily see them making alliances with the other races, and combining into a great military alliance. Such an alliance would provide enough numbers to seriously challenge the changelings.
well at least it is neo zeon not the earth federation but is this the better part of zeon or the ghiren loyalist? well the best part is that MORE ZEON STLYE MOBILE SUITS YAY
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Did you know that the Wondwort series MS was 'taken' by the Neo-Zeon forces?
5184870 even if the ponies do form some sort of Alliance it's still a one sided fight, and patina has other Queens to back her up now
5188275 read the comment I wrote to Zaku pony. Numbers can still overcome quality.
Sorry for the late comment, long and hard weekend XD.
So for the first Q.
Luna should make the deal, she looks like the more open minded sister to me. And so she should be able to see the change in the well, (i don't want to finish this line XD) Changelings. I would believe she would make a good speaker for peace with the Changelings, if they are open to share their knowledge. Even going so far to meet the leading queens personally.
For the second Q.
Pls don't make them react all the same way, cry for blood and murder is for the simple minded mop. Not for Ponys that can see a future that is more than a few hours away. I hope to see a lot of different reactions in the ponys. Some planing to steal from the changelings, some that want to tag along wit them as friends, some that want to unite all the races under the princess. or what reaction you can think of at all, but pleas not just one big, fat, dump and angry mob.
This chapter was great. and as was the last one.
The slaughter of the changeling fleet was great and shine XD. All this nice weapons against wood and low quality metal ships XD, like shooting with Atomic rockets at a small bird with broken wings XD.
But still great to read.
5185963 i just like the zeon type mobile suits like the gouf the dom and the gelgoog all of these mobile suit did there intended jobs well beyond with good pilots
and other tools moved busily as the began to cover the exposed
"Unknown contact detected in sector Alpha, height Zero, level Omega. "
"I don't know, Captain." Female, sounding confused and with a hint of fear.
De teaching the radio from the side,
1. They.
2. Just an extra spacing at the end.
3. "I don't know captain." a female, sounding confused and with a hint of fear.
4. Detaching. I had to scratch my head at this quite abit to see how you wanted to make this sound.
All of these An's need to be changed to A's. Unless there's some sort of rule that resembles; An Unicorn as being grammatically correct... Yeah...
I guess clans scum is in the end or rather clan Jade Falcons because clan Smoke Jaguars are smoked by that time, timeline somewhere after the clan wars i believe
I have come to the conclusion that the clan at the end is Clan Nova Cats due to my research.
at least it is not clan wolf then the changelings will have problems, as that clan is the sole manufacturer of the goddess of the battlefield... the Mad Cat or as the clans call it Timber Wolf, as she can annihilate mechs well above her own weight class
No now I believe it is Clan Diamond Shark as they are a part of the nation that borders the lyran commonwealth.
What is blackist
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A sub-faction of ComStar
https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Word_of_Blake
Basically: The most tryhard Jihadit Space-Tech-Priest you can imagine.
They seperated themself from ComStar as the Spere started to take away all that fancy smancy mytic hyperwaygenerator-maintance stuff.
How many human factions are there?
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In Battletech? A few dozen. You have the Great Houses; Steiner, Davion, Kurita, Marik, and Liao. The Clans; Wolf, Jade Falcon, Ghost Bear, and a host of others. Then there is Comstar, and the Word of Blake, minor Periphery powers, mercenaries like the Wolfs Dragoons.
Battletech is essentially Game of Thrones in space and has more factions than you can shake a stick at.