I can't help but wonder if the Tree of Harmony, like Tarnished Teapot himself, came about because nature needed to restore balance.

Oh, so is it another door that only Tarnish can walk through without dying?

8059543
Maybe the doors just have gas vents built in.

8059549
8059543

Or maybe trees have odd perspectives, like calling things dead metal.

i think the entire world and everyone in it might be artificial. Including tarnished teapot.

Diamond dogs are often samurai. If they are enhanced, are they street samurai? Is this Pony-Shadowrun?

I take it it is not normal that the trees speak in one voice? It is so explicitely stated.
But, just because the oldest tree is 200 years old, that doesn't mean there haven't been trees that perished.

Director Solis just sounds too sunny not to be involved in some alicorn meddling. Either Skyreach did not want alicorns to be present in the statue, or the alicornlessness states that Skyreach was a very early project.

8059563
kudz, we've seen things like rock lizards and the likes in this verse. There might be live metal for all we know.

This makes me wonder of the origins of pony life.

Was it man-made? Natural? Natural, but modified almost beyond recognition?

Skyreach, man. The questions keep piling up.

8059596

Are men centaur made?

8059593

In this instance, it is dead metal and the trees are somewhat correct. It is metal pulled from the earth, smelted, and given an unnatural shape. It has lost its connection to the earth. It is dead metal.

8059599 Are centaur man-made? Did a centaur happen when a human screwed a magical horse?

Like, honestly. Literally bull-horse-men that drain magic. How do you explain that away?

8059624

Oh, this will be fun. Judge all centaurs on Tirek.

Trees are awake now? Weather control? Death?

Well those trees have been waiting for someone to eat from them, damn Centaur tech, and my money is nullwood.

And nice how they refer to him as pony of the earth, Terra Firma did a thorough job on that unicorn.

On the theory that Solis was a Centaur and the symbol of Celestia's cutie mark represented him, how does that tie into Celestia? And similarly for Luna? Could their cutie marks be nothing more than a 'maker's mark'? Could they have been 'made' to 'manage' the other ponies after Solis and company left/died/retired/etc.?

So many questions.

What really freaks me out is that I believe it was Pebble or Sumac that said they were told NOT to ask about Skyreach which means that what ever this place is and whatever happens here to the Fabulous Furry Four, it ain't going to be pleasant.

8059627

Oh, this will be fun. Judge all centaurs on Tirek.

All scientific theories must start with at least one piece of data. Preferably more, but at least one. (I'm sure Twilight would agree with me.)

I'm not a G1 expert. How did the people in it get to that world and is that canon for the Weedverse?

Man I really should study up on G1. So much stuff from the Weedverse comes from it.

8059642

Solis, as stated, was a she.

8059574
"No, Tarnished, you ARE the automatons!"
And then Tarnished was automatons.

Welcome to the genetics labs where living weapons are fashioned with the future in mind!

I am forced to wonder though, what is Skyreach

It's what happens when Albert Wesker joins the Brony Fandom.

8059732
Nah, aint seen any zombies or mind controlled ponies whose head explode into a tentacle parasite yet.

8059738 Oh don't worry I assure you will see that and more once you step beyond that door.

Well if that park isn't a monument for an act of prodigious hubris I'll eat my hat. I don't own a hat.

They reached too far and meddled too much didn't they? Figured they could grasp the sun itself and with an army of automatons, science, and raw magic at their grasp they could create a perfect world of endless comfort, they could engineer reality to be the same as The Summerlands, but then either they misstepped or maybe the old goat himself looked upon their society of perfect ley lines and fully integrated networks of arcanotech, a crystal lattice of paradise and like a gods damned prion changed the formula of reality one little bit and watched everything domino into ruin.

That total meanie.

8060028

Yes. This. More or less. Grogar corrupted the artificial ley lines and watched everything collapse upon itself.

8060040

Grrrrrr, I knew it. Why is it now that Grogar really upsets me?

8060040

And Grogar would win only because he didn't care if everything would die if he destroyed the sun and moon. He wanted to rule over an empire of the dead anyway.

8060073

Correct.

Hmm dead air for trees... at a guess would say that it is without any CO2 as there is nothing breathing inside...

Now... nitpicking a bit:

and Vinyl cast a spell, focusing intense heat on the area. The snow steamed, and the vapour rose in lazy, wavering wisps.

The amount of energy needed to vaporize that much water that quick is astounding... [citation]
And if that much heat is dumped there it would just roast all of them...

Interesting chapter, have to say that place is a cluster fuck of genetic testing and manufacturing gone to shit. At lest Celestia and Luna came out of. It.

Well, there's no comment on this yet, but...

Hmmmmmm? Dragons might be non native races, or perhaps one of the younger, rather than older races?

Or maybe the Centaurs just hated them and didn't want to include them in their vision?

I suspect closer to the former, but possibilities abound.

It's a bad idea reading this at 12 am...'_'

8247796
Try at 05:12. I havent slept yet and I'm starting too feel like pasta. Imma go to bed now...

So this is one of the facilities the centaurs created in preparation for the oncoming apocalypse in the past? This fruit grove to ensure endless supply of food? And this director perhaps aided in the Articial Creation of Celestia and Luna as well?