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If roughly half the Diamond Dogs stay, that’ll make for a more cosmopolitan Canterlot eventually. Splendid.
I like these Diamond Dogs. They are good boys.
if some dogs stay they could make or convert a section of the city into one that has easyer acess to the underground and if they get contacts with a few of the good ponys it could become quite the nice district of the city maby ever the main worker and inovation district with enough effort
10238083 They’ll have a taste of post-Stone Age life. Too bad racism will boot them back. It also won’t be easy skipping the Industrial Revolution though.
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to be fair, the ponies are about to go through a sort of a technological revolution as well, so the Dogs could do it together with them
best part is that, no short OR long term damage to the environment
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And likely put a twist in the Cadence kidnapping.
Caves full of Diamond Dogs are hard to stash alicorns in.
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Ah, but those were caves, not sewers, and clearly had no dogs. So the dogs did not go there.
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Given a significantly expanded and welcomed Diamond Dog population, you'd expect Canterlot to develop downwards as much as it does upwards. Especially someplace likely good for potential gems with all those crystalline formations and mining going on, and property values on the surface being higher than they'd be below (unless, perhaps your pony last name is Pie.)
"Downtown Canterlot" would take on a whole new meaning. (And it's not like Diamond Dogs LIVE in the sewers, but having a home on the same level...)
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If the Diamond Dogs stay exclusively to have jobs being sewer cleaners, and later by extention 'garbage boyz', then inevitably it will create a race-locked social underclass. That's not good. Especially if ponies are still inherently tribalistic. It's one thing for them to be at odds with each other over the traits of the tribes. But it'll be a whole different ball game when they have something as different as Diamond Dogs to suppress. It'll help to unite the tribes, but will be detrimental overall.
The perception that Diamond Dogs are sewer-dwelling stink-sacks has to be headed off before it has a chance to FORM a stereotype. DDs need representation higher up in the burgeoning infrastructure and even up in the aristocracy in order for this to happen. I would vote to get them in on the electrical teams. Firm grasping appendages will make for a good backup to unicorn horns when it comes time to have Linemen.
Someone needs to be gently nudged not to do new unique tests in front of payers that dont take too good to sudden injuries. then again, he did promise Celestia there would me no smoke, so thats bearings properly designed, fuses, trips, measuring and control equipment, so many new trades required to build on themselves. Especially if instead of using low efficincy incandescent, given the knowledge, theyll be able to find combinations of existing minerals and go to solid state light? Start with Fools Gold for a tiny fraction percent efficiency then find which bit actually glws, and have Earth Pony Glow Farms producing them in the future?
The two water streams side by side like tat, I hope its because they are both heading out, one clean from the fountains and city surface water drains, the other from actual sewer, because otherwise the supply water is next to the sewer, in something built like the Titanic. Too many toilets flushing etc and the sewage water surge lifts over the barrier and contaminates the fresh water?
Would be intresting if Celestia also got to read The Library, to at least she was kept up to date with overall ideas, and found a certain SciFi short story. Strikebreaker.
It would be intresting if that same library lent the Sewer Dogs a new name for their Overseer.
Harry King.
Which Im sure Celestia would allow because of the nobles complaints about both parts of the name, and the whole. Never mind the work.
I wonder how long before they find electroluminescent ELF radio piezo crystals?
I'm mad at myself for realizing just now that work pants is related to fancy pants
Looking forward to see what happens with the canterlot diamond dogs now that some are staying
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While that's perceptive for the future, the diamond dogs still need to be integrated into society before they can be represented by it. Getting them jobs in a new and rising industry is a very good start, because ponies everywhere will be needing the diamond dogs to dig the infrastructure for the plumbing and maintenance, and their representative is going to be a fancy-suited dog talking to the council very soon.
That begged the question... is there any cleaner serivces in Canterlot before Ian come?
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Ponies were expected to clean their areas.
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Telling, too, that it was not a pony who thought to ask that important question.
Something worth noting, if Ian can remember that out of all the other things he has to keep juggling.
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Sewer workers, yes. General plumbers also. Not to mention sewer plant workers, Water resource engineering , Civil engineers, hydrological engineers. And if they can be engineers, they can be electrical engineers and mechanical engineers, too.
The DDs are going to be very much in demand and respected, not to mention wealthy. That DD with the suit is going to be a “suit” own a corporation hire other DDs not to mention ponies. Because while there is prejudice, he saw the value in the suit. He will be the type to hire the best regardless of species as long as they are good at what they do.
It’s not limited to Canterlot, either. Manehattan and other cities that develop will want running water and electricity, too. Who you going to call? The firm with the most experience. The one with all the equipment already paid for.
I think he is starting to realize that he can have the same future, even if some things are changed. Honestly though? He has already changed the future by stepping into the conflict at the start of this story, how long would it have lasted and how much progression would it have given had he not been there? It would have likely lead to a short insurrection against Celestia and THAT would have likely caused the waterfall and river we see in the show.
War breeds advancement though Necessity after all.
That he will, the Pants Family will see a bright future indeed.
It honestly makes me wonder how he hasn’t realized how much he has changed without intending to do so? The future is going to be different just by him being there, much less all he has done and will do.
It’s also disconcerting how he will advance into the future, we all know something is going to happen that will throw him into the future somehow and I am just hoping it effects his marefriend too.
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In that example, he changed the future... to where it was. He fulfilled a prophecy, as it was, and so created Fancy Pants, who already existed, in the future.
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Ah but that is the point! He changed the future by helping get said family started sooner, he effectively changed the path of this persons future by setting it strait and on said path!
Had it not been for him interjecting himself into the dispute at the beginning of the story, how long would it have taken for Pants to end up where he would have been to set up his family’s path to the future?
He is changing things and not even knowing it!
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this is less of a back to the future time travel story, and more of a harry potter and the prisoner of azkaban situation
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Not really, it’s more along the line of a Split timeline akin to Fallout.
He created a point in time that branched due to his mere presence in the past, the more he does the more that changes, the more that changes, the less like the future he knows it will be. Just by being there he has changed the future, while some things will stay unchanged and what not, he can still change things by action to the point some ponies won’t be born.
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Btw, how far past the Banishment of Nightmare Moon is this?
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Close enough that recognition of the event is still a living thing.
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So about what? Between three and five decades? It would have To have happened in less then a Century as past that the even would have started to fade due to loss of records and oral disruption/decay. But still be past a decade as no mention of the move to and building of Canterlot has been made to my knowledge.
On a side note, do you plan to keep him in this era of time or somehow catapult him (and his soon to be wife) into the future? I ask as it seems kinda pointless for him to do all of this work and not live to see the fruits!
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I offer no assurances of that.
Things can remain in living memory for as long as anybody who was alive at the time is still alive.
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Wasn’t look for assurances, was just curious as I can think of any number of ways to shove them into the future with the most prominent one being “Magic Bullshit”
“For as long as they live” being the key word, going of the story I have yet to see any mention (to my remembrance) of the event so my guess would be that it’s been at least 30+ years and it has all but faded from the hot topic list.