Friendship is Sufficiently Advanced

by Cordial Nova

APPENDIX A: DRAMATIS PERSONAE

(Current to the most recent - or occasionally next - chapter at all times.)

IMPERIALS

* Cordelia Vintar ith-Vidutar Iriliselen, a.k.a. "Moongleam", a first-in scout of the Imperial Exploratory Service
* Quicksilver, Cordelia's muse

Cordelia's family:

* Merété Idolos-ith-Idolos, mother
* Valéran Vintar-ith-Vidutar, father
* Filia Vintar-ith-Vidutar, younger sister
* Rhúas Vintar-ith-Vidutar, bandal

* OPERATION DEMIURGE ERRANT, the Empire's working group for monitoring seed AI superintelligences and other "gods"
* OVERSIGHT*, AI managing Exploratory Service operations in the local region
* Istry 0x9912A637, the non-sophont AI of Cordelia's starship, the CSS Istry Lochran

EQUESTRIANS

Royalty

* Princess Celestia Invicta, Keeper of the Sun, Queen of the Bright Zenith, Guardian of the Herd, and Diarch of Equestria
* Princess Luna Versuta, Keeper of the Moon, Queen of the Midnight Skies, Avenger of the Herd, and Diarch of Equestria

Element Bearers

* Twilight Sparkle, Bearer of the Element of Magic, Daughter of House Twinkle, personal student of Princess Celestia, and Ponyville librarian
* Applejack, of the Apple Family, Bearer of the Element of Honesty, freeholder of Sweet Apple Acres
* Fluttershy, of the Wind Clan, Bearer of the Element of Kindness, Ponyville animal caretaker
* Pinkamena Diane "Pinkie" Pie, Bearer of the Element of Laughter, party planner, journeyman baker, and possessor of an unusual relationship to reality
* Rainbow Dash, Bearer of the Element of Loyalty, Ponyville weather team manager, and fastest pegasus alive
* Rarity (Belle), Bearer of the Element of Generosity, and proprietor of the Carousel Boutique

Other Present-Day Characters

* Apple Bloom, Cutie Mark Crusader, and younger sister of Applejack
* Berry Punch, vintner and distiller
* "Big" McIntosh Apple, tremendously strong older brother of Applejack
* Blossomforth, pegasus on the Ponyville weather team, and amateur tinkerer
* Bon Bon, confectioner, and marefriend of Lyra Heartstrings
* Cheerilee, teacher at the Ponyville schoolhouse
* Cloud Kicker, polyamorous pansexual pegasus par excellence
* Daisy, flower seller and professional terrified pony
* Ivory Scroll, mayor of Ponyville
* Lily Valley, flower seller and professional terrified pony
* Lyra Heartstrings, musician, amateur archaeologist, and marefriend of Bon Bon
* Professor Pot Sherd, lecturer in equinology and paleontology at the School for Gifted Unicorns
* Nurse Redheart, nurse at the Ponyville General Hospital
* Roseluck, flower seller and professional slightly-less-terrified-than-her-sisters pony
* Scootaloo, Cutie Mark Crusader
* Spike, young dragon, and #1 assistant to Twilight Sparkle
* Sweetie Belle, Cutie Mark Crusader, and younger sister of Rarity
* Winona, Applejack's herd dog

Mentioned Only

* Coldback, speculative fiction author
* "Dynamite" Smith, speculative fiction author
* Heinrein, speculative fiction author
* Sky Watcher, astronomer and theorist about extraequian life
* Vanner, speculative fiction author

Historical Figures

* Princess Platinum Blueblood, ruler of Unicornia at the time of the foundation of Old Equestria, approximately eight octennia (4,000 years) before present, and the distant ancestor of both Prince Rhodium Blueblood of Canterlot and King Palladium Blueblood IX of Unicornia Antiqua.

OTHERS

None yet.

Comments

[Oliver]

...Fluttershy didn't make the list by virtue of not having a two part name. They said it won't look good on a poster.

[Booster Spice]

Rose, Not as Wee as Wee Jock Jock.

Now waiting for the update after Flutter Rage and Stare.

As for Pinkies, Intresting Relation to reality, that is one hay of a diplomat.

just imagine that, ship poor advanced AI trying to work through the sensor log, and next thing, Oooo What does This button do Dexter?

[Lakeguy]

Have Fluttershy and Applejack not been in the story yet, or did you leave them out by mistake?

[Cordial Nova]

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We just haven't seen or referred to them in the story yet, is all. Applejack will be mentioned in the chapter I'm finishing off now, and they'll both appear in the following one.

[Greatazuredragon]

* Pinkamena Diane "Pinkie" Pie, Bearer of the Element of Laughter, party planner, journeyman baker, and possessor of an unusual relationship to reality

Loved Pinkie's description.

[Stellar Light Sparkle]

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Cloud Kicker sounds like another Captain Jack Harkness...

[Snowkitsune]

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She is She will sleep with anything with a heart beat