I look forward to more.

Oooh new Silver story. Can't wait

*finishes reading* Hehe. me likey so far.

I too fell for the self insert... Sounded fun in my head, and so you have Ian the light bringer

This takes place significantly before Luna's return.

Yeah, it's feel like it happened at least a hundred years before canon :).

Let's see where this goes.

Why do I imagine him telling Celestia some human dark humor like "we're all white on the inside" or "a Jew made germ-x because he had germanphobia"

Yup, she desperate if theyll hire just anyone these days.

Just hope he rmemebers how many lemons or potatoes it takes to recharge his phone, or its Very quickly going to end up a rather unintresting brick. Because Noone will beleive him enought to even bother dropping a scan spell on it. Maybe Celestia herself can handle macroscopic volumes of not just atomic level resolution, but subatomic resolution for the stressed gate fets?

Roman roads are good enough, theres a couple of UK main roads that are basically just tarmaced over the surface in places. Its the geometry and multilayer compacted stone base that makes it resiliant, and the 10 fully kitted men wide with shoulders that makes them modern useable?

I have a feeling that he will become Twilight's science tutor. Need to see where this would go.

so this will update 1/month

AAARRGGHH
only you could write a story like this plot idea well and at this point im just about impatient enough to throw money at you for this story specifically!

I love your works David Silver, but i hate how your writing skill somehow supercedes my miserly principles!

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this story is 800+ years before Twilight exists.

The banishing of her sister is... still fresh in her mind, however long ago it was for the rest of us." She put a hoof over her chest. "Goodness, I only hear about it from my granddame.

Can anyone recall for me the lifespan or maturation rate for ponies in David Silver's Equestria?

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Just hope he rmemebers how many lemons or potatoes it takes to recharge his phone, or its Very quickly going to end up a rather unintresting brick.

Google Says...
It Only Takes 110 Pounds of Potatoes to Charge a Smartphone

He'd be much better off with a portable Ac/Dc dynamo and connected bettery pack, or better yet, a portable folding solar panel.

Do you suppose you can point a solar panel indoors at Celestia and still get full insolation?

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Because you know some very awful Ian's, and your brain is making a comparison connection through your sense of humor.

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Are you the patron behind this story?

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It aint the potatoes that supply the power, they just supply the corrosive juice, its teh amount and sequence of metal. the trick I was meaning was how many mpotatoes etc, or even Volta pile, that will generate the required Voltage, so that Twilight can measure it and replicate it, as the current then drawn is limited by the charger circuit within the phone.

I can only remember that a lead/lead oxide/sulphuric acid cell is 2 volts and delicate USB cant handle 6 volts instead of 5 volts, so you need a voltage divider or a silicon rectifier diode for the voltag drop. And a voltage divider you lose a lot more power than you use in charging and you have to know about the parralel, serial arrangement of resistors to try and stuck within load limits etc.

If you have a wind up torch with charger socket, or a solar power brick, then things are a lot easier, Twiligh has something not a phone to accidentally explode first.

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I see. So this story will explain how train, helicopter and indoor plumbing exist in Twilight time then.

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Just for you, I made a new tier, the Cheering Pony. For $20/month, you can request an extra chapter on any currently ongoing story (this story would be valid). If you put in more on top of that $20, each $20 is another chapter/month.

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guilty as charged

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your gift of attention has given me many strong feelings. This is unconfortable.

Time for me to head to patreon then and figure out how to do the money thing

meanwhile you should mention that new tier in a blog post to your followers. Do it.

I'm intrigued. Please do continue, this beginning is rather novel and has potential

Clearly this guy isn't a believer in the Prime Directive!
But, in a world of magic, maybe Ian is just the thing to spark new ideas and progress. He won't make it as an entertainer, but as a bard? Hmmm...
Keep going! ;)

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I have done this thing. Do you have a link to said Patreon?

I pulled out my phone. I had no signal, of course. Would that I could have GPS, but it would take a long time before the world was ready for that leap. I settled for pulling up a document to read about the proper construction of a road. It was nice to think of a proper road while I scrambled up the rocks and gravel of what they called a road and I would barely call a path.

???

The other, the pegasus, bobbed his head. "If you were here to answer the call for entertainers, you just had to say so." He extended a wing to the left. "Head that way around the castle until you get to a silver-colored door. That's the entrance for servants and the like. They'll get you to the right place."

The other pegasus

Still, nothing. I tried waited a few minutes that felt like hours before balling a hand into a fist. I swung with my entire body to make a good slam, but the door opened just as my fist arrived. I tripped right over the pony wearing a maid's outfit that had opened the door and fell across the poor unicorn mare. She squealed in surprise and scrambled out from under me. "Who are you?" she demanded, fur bristled.

waiting

Hmm. How interesting. I notice that at least from Ian's thoughts, he doesn't indicate if he knows anything about the show (or if the show even existed in his world), or if he merely somehow arrived in early-age Equestria and just rolled with it when he found he was in a land full of magical ponies. Probably the latter.

Really, forget the cultural stuff. If he could just teach some engineering and math, he could put Equestria's science ahead several centuries. Math is math, no matter where you go, and lots of science builds off of good math (though with magic in the mix, physics is going to be a bit different).

That said...I wonder how long it'll take before the charge on his phone runs out, unless magic magically keeps it charged

Had they already suffered plagues? It seemed inevitable, with the way things were set up. Too many horses in too small a space with too little hygiene. It didn't much matter what city of what species it was. I counted myself as lucky. I was the only human around. I was in a sea of ponies, but none of them were a direct threat to my health, at least in terms of germs. Hopefully? Could magic diseases hop across species? I hastened my steps towards the castle.

Is it bad that I've been in this fandom long enough to know that there are no equine STIs that can jump to a human?

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Maybe he has a rechargable case with solar panel and spare battery? Or if he has the cable and adapter with it, he could just stick into a potato or a melon with electrolytes around it. It'd be slow but it'd eventually get charged.

The guy seems a bit arrogant. It also seems hre's relying on his phone to access the Internet (somehow) to give him the knowledge. I susp[ect he's going to come a cropper.

Just realized this has been in my read later folder for ~2 years....... well better late than never I guess

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