Luster Dawn, in search of a way to better the lives of all creatures across the planet, runs the Canterlot Royal Research Institution and creates a variety of wonders to aid the lives of all creatures, including genetic manipulation of Dragons to control their growth cycle, crystalline prosthetics for ponies of all kinds, and an upgrade for Equestria's oldest guardian...
(A short and quick fic set before the unknown disaster that destroyed Equestrian society, more or less this is just a way of exploring some of my weirder headcanons that I came up with after watching the G5 movie. Much like my previous fic, "The Changeling Mission")
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So, an explain-whatever-puzzles-the-fans headcanon dump. Not a fan of it, especially with the amount of techno-babble used here. Why would people talk like that? However, I appreciate someone finally noticing that Harmony is technically AI, but it does not mean that it must use the cliche of robot speak consisting of terminology and a bunch of formal answers. Especially considering its nature and origins. Where did she learn that? Why should prefer it over canonical
mysteriousways? I am not saying that this is impossible, just OoC with no reason shown.Also, the explanation for G5 racial friendship crystals falls apart if we don't throw away the fact that the crystals do not work by themselves and actually are linked to some amount of the said racial friendship. If it would work at all, then the reason of Harmony depowering was whatever definetely-not-magic-of-friensdhip-y conflict happened before G5, but if I got it right, in your version she is not linked to such things anymore.
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I won't deny that it's more or less a headcanon dump... But I do refute you calling it techno-babble... Yes, while magic isn't a thing in real life, I was heavily basing it on actual electromagnetic engineering, for example, the etching process is actually how circuits are produced IRL, granted not with mini enchanted robot arms, but still. Furthermore, I did do a fair bit of research into wireless power systems and transmission devices to explain how the crystals worked. And as for the way the ponies talk, I imagine it's a bit of a side-effect of working in the scientific fields for long enough, the pony who the unnamed alicorn spoke to talked more or less normally, and that's because she's an architect or construction worker.
And well, I just generally have a bit of a bias toward fancy sci-fi technobabble explanations to things. It's more or less one of the defining traits of my writing style, if it isn't for you you don't have to read it.
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Sorry for being too rough on that, I think that techno-babble can be wrong term. It was the manner of speech mainly. Take this, for example
This is something one expects in a lecture or interwiev, when the speaker wants to show how smart and educated he is, but not in a casual dialogue. Why not something like
This is kinda different, but still works, imo. I thought you implied that they already modified kirins, by the way. And there is a reason that they can't send a mission to cast magic on dragons.
Certainly an interesting idea!