The House of Path has many unusual members. These are episodes in the lives of several of them. Can a changeling queen learn to love? Can an immortal alicorn deal with death? Can an ordinary pony learn to deal with life?
Page generated in 0.026 seconds
Total duration
1,044 users online
1,430,367 hits today, 1,960,719 yesterday
My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Fanfiction
Designed and coded by knighty & Xaquseg - © 2011-2024
Support us
SubStar
Chat!
Discord
Follow us
Twitter
MLP: Friendship is Magic® - © 2024 Hasbro Inc.®
Fimfiction is in no way affiliated with or endorsed by Hasbro Inc.®
Interesting worldbuilding. If the Pif Anomaly is supposed to be a 'normal', ie like in our universe, main sequence star it shouldn't contain methane. Then again, it's odd in so many other ways, that's just an afterthought compared to some of the really weird stuff.
There are enough pieces to have fun speculating about the space around Equus. It's a hundred light years across, and bounded somehow. Given the size, it seems more like a pocket universe than the inside of something like a huge opaque dust cloud that blocks light from outside. The lack of elements... heavier ones maybe?... also implies a separate sort of space from the kind of universe we know. As for the mini-stars... well, either not in our sort of space, or something made them.
My deeper speculation, spoilered in case I'm right:
The impression I get is that Equus is contained in some sort of deliberately created environment on a stellar scale, whether in an artificially cut off area in the 'real' universe or in a pocket space of it's own. I think it's a nursery of sorts, and Pif's Anomaly is the teaser and marker showing the inhabitants where the exit is when they're ready to step outside to meet the neighbors.
I'm looking forward to seeing what happens next from both sides of the planned cross-connection. Though Equus should dread the results if Discord and one of the Rakshan Deities get into a pranking contest together.
This remind me of one Mass Effect crossover, where Equus was surrendet whit a super dense cosmic cloud and could be only accesed whit a realy special mass relay. Whitout that there was no way in and out even for the Reapers and for light it self. It was so hide it almost counted a pocket universe.
I wonder what is that "star" and how will the Lunar colony archive hyper space travel??
While I am no astrophysicist, I do know something about it.
A red dwarf CAN be an anchor, pivot point, center of mass of a system (use your choice of words), but, for a planet to have a revolution of one year around it, it will be dim, providing little light or heat. However, it will not be insignificant. If I remember right, it should have a visible disc, if it is above the horizon when Celestia's sun is below the horizon.
Celestia's sun will have to be a bigger than moon-sized body with a high revolution rate around Equus. Since we do not know if there are any eclipses of the star by the moon, I can assume the two bodies are NOT coplanar, but I cannot explain why the two would not appear in the sky simultaneously. I'm not that good an orbital mechanic. Okay, so Celestia and Luna are.
About the stellar distance conundrum, I would say that Equus is in some sort of diffuse nebula or dust cloud that obstructs the light of distant stars. Maybe that puts a limit on how far they could see.
A reference source for studying the orbital dynamics around a red dwarf star can be found in Dr. Robert L. Forward's Rocheworld series of novels, in the technical appendix.
Those are my two cents. You got me hooked, Goldfur. But, then again, you knew that, didn't you?
8146147 a Black dwarf is also something they could be orbiting. Black Dwarf being what is left over after a smaller class star reaches the end of its life. It then becomes a White Dwarf which is in size comparable to earth but in mass comparable to the sun. after this cools and all its thermal energy is released it cools to become a massive black object floating in space with the mass of a star.
None of these have been thought to exist yet in the universe as the universe is to young.
Only bit that bothers me is the fact that they have a method of spectral analysis, but don't know the compassion of the "star" they are looking at. So long as they have a sample elements of it on hand, hoof, claw, what ever, they should be able to identify them by ionizin themail and compare it to the absorbtion line coming off their star. And they shouldn't be seein anything heaveier than iron, iron makes stars go boom.
Anyway fantastic story, keep up the good work!
And suddenly, pony playing Pokémon
8147117
How does a star go boom by iron?
8147117 If the unknown elements aren't found, or just haven't been found yet, on Equus, then they can see the spectrographic lines, but not necessarily know what the elements are. Historically speaking, that's what happened with Helium, which is named for our sun because they found the helium lines on the spectrographic analysis of the Sun before it was isolated in the labs on Earth. Being a noble gas made it harder to get hold of since it generally doesn't react and is too light to stick around in the atmosphere under Earth gravity.
8148133 It's not that iron on it's own makes stars go boom, it's the process of forming iron that makes stars go boom. Stars make heavier elements by fusing lighter elements together. For the lighter elements, this process gives off more energy than it needs to make happen. This extra energy from fusion causes pressure that counteracts the gravity that would make the star collapse. This works fine, until the star runs out of all the lighter stuff and starts making iron. Iron needs more energy to make via fusion than the process gives off. So suddenly all that internal energy pressure that was stopping the star from collapsing of it's own weight goes away... and the star collapses in on itself.
The inside of the now much smaller star has the same amount of total energy squashed into that smaller space, which means there is a lot more pressure and heat, so everything left that can still undergo fusion does... all at once. That's one type of supernova.
8145833 Two basic (probably not the best word to describe what I'm about to describe, but I need something that would be plausible) options would be either to warp space or fold space.
Warping space just means you make the distance in front of you shorter and behind you longer. You still need propulsion, but you move faster because you turn what would be 1 mile in front of you and 1 mile behind you by compressing that mile into a shorter distance while expanding the one behind you.
Folding space would require you to basically bend reality over to punch a wormhole between point A and point B and then you just fly your ship across the "bridge" of space you created.
I say those are both "basic" because I can think of one other option that involves multiple realities in the membrane model of reality where each reality is just a big sheet laying atop another sheet of reality and so on and so on. If you could punch through that membrane of reality into an adjoining reality, you could go there, where the laws of physics and reality are fundamentally different, and drive through that reality to where the dimensions line up for your destination and punch back through. That would require a reality that would have no light speed limit or for distance to be shorter than in the actual base reality, but that would probably require a lot more work than doing the "basic' options.
Space travel is fun!
PS: There is a 4th option: The Pinkie Engine. Build an engine that can move however it wants with no attention to reality or physics. But I don't think we ever will be able to quantify Pinkie.
8145724
My personal belief is that the Equestrian sun 'orbits' the planet is due to Discord being bored with planets orbiting suns.
My fav he head Canon sciencey explanation for Equestria son is that Celestia doesn't actually move the Sun what she actually does is adjust the rotation of Equus itself so rather than controlling the sun she's controlling Equus which is still pretty impressive so basically without Celestia Equus would be tidally locked to its star and one side would perpetually bake while the other side perpetually froze leaving just a single band livable land along the prime meridian or equator depending on Equus orientation to the Sun I think I may have gotten that from one of your stories actually
Quick Question: At the start of this chapter it mentioned Free and Long Path, but at the end it made a mention of Lord Path as if he was a separate entity? based on how many years have passed this doesnt 100% surprise me, just curious is all.
11645049
Just a more formal expression of his status to the group as opposed to the familiarity of a relative.