It is a known fact that different universes have different time constants; that is, while one universe may experience a second, a different one might experience two. This causes a very large temporal drift between universes where, more often than not, the season doesn't even match up, let alone the day. However, in this holiday season, everyone's holidays are lining up perfectly. The Emperor of Mankind wants in on this.
Join the ponies, humans, daemons, and other creatures for a look at many different expressions of the holiday spirit.
Part of the Songs of the Spheres continuity - a Christmas/Holiday special! Takes place after chapter 073 - The Hunger for Games.
-GM, master of Nirvana.
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Emperor has a Text to Speech Device?
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Yes. It even says text-to-speech device when you meet him in-story.
-GM, master of mice.
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Yes!
Well, it was a wild ride, but hey... I'm just passing through...
Magical spaceship drives causing unusual weather on dead planets? What is this, The Maretian? Because if so, Mark Watney's probably in better shape in this timeline.
Ah, the key to orkish diplomacy: Don't try to make them stop fighting, just point them in the right direction.
Good, she's learning.
Oh, hey, Director Storm still exists. Good for him. And he does love Christmas.
There is something surreally hilarious about an ascended Sunset talking to the God-Emperor of Mankind, though some of that is on my end.
Huh. Uncultured swine that I am, I thought that was a Futurama reference. And now I want to see Rev versus robot Santa.
Not exactly a fair comparison given how Equestria got folded into larger multiversal supernation.
Oh no...
Oh, good, it's just Ahriman. I was worried it was going to be Cato Sicarius.
... Oh my word, she warped herself into Veggie Tales. You absolute madman.
I truly do fear that when the truth about Eve comes out, Pinkie will turn against the MU. That... would be bad.
Well, that's uncanny. I just read a Jinglemas story with the exact same concept.
Later...
"This is literally Yu-Gi-Oh."
"LIES. VILEST SLANDER."
"We've found universes where ka itself revolves around this game. Trust me. It's Yu-Gi-Oh."
"I DID NOT MAKE YOU FESTIVITY ADVISOR FOR YOU TO BETRAY ME LIKE HORUS'S SUNBURNT HORSE DAUGHTER."
"Can we play Magic: the Gathering instead?"
"ONLY IF YOU WIN THIS NEXT ROUND."
There's something beautifully ironic in a minister starting a literal war on Christmas.
(Looks at comments)
Well, someone has to do it.
Aaaand now you've recontextualized the comic I reviewed today. Seriously, when did you bug my house?
In any case, wonderful stuff, from the reconciliation to the introduction of Galaxa Immaterium in all its Bruvaly glory. Thank you for it, and Merry Christmas.
Welp, this got feature somehow, im glad this story is getting more attention, anyway, now to the he next chapter : D
but also four scouting, research, first contact, and occasionally calculated
HE GOT MY NUMBER FIVE MINUTES AFTER YOU GAVE ME THA TPHONE
I’m again stuck by how surreal all this is
Storm caught everyone with a telekinesis crystal, throwing them back
how much you were Scrooging up, but I’m glad your back
1. For.
2. That phone.
3. Struck.
4. Every one, two words in this case because pies. Food pies, not Pinkie Pies.
5. You're.
Well the Emperor's parts were good, but I could honestly skip the rest of it. Leave it to a Starlight to utterly miss the point of something.
I have no idea what I just read but it was hilarious and heartwarming thank you. Merry Christmas
A literal war on Christmas... *groan*
You're supposed to learn to stop being the worst pony.
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I thought so
Funny moments in this fanfic (Cosmo WAAAGHing with the orks, ...) but I feel it is odd to take the parody of an universe in a mix of universes who aren't parodies...
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I've taken lots of parodies as genuine universes. The Pony abridged series and the world of the Flats are the most prominent, followed by this one.
-GM, master of pairs.
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It's ok, I would just have preferred a non-parody Warhammer 40k universe.
While I'm a fan of W40k, I have to admit I don't have much interest in the TTS Emperor parody.
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I chose TTS for a few reasons
1) I enjoy it a bit more. The lore is mostly identical and yet I find it much more enjoyable when taken in slight jest.
2) If the Emperor didn't have a way to communicate Merodi Universalis would probably have just left a standard 40k universe for dead. I wanted them to have at least some reason to stick around and try to fight / help the universe.
-GM, master of riches.
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That makes me think of a Starcraft's parody, Carbot Animations... how it would go if Eve tried to meet them.
"Greetings. I am Evening Sparkle, Overhead of Relations for Merodi Universalis."
"..."
"... Hello?"
"Not enough minerals!"
Ahh, the sporks. I cracked up on seeing them pose a threat in a story of this power level. Even now a mob of human sized angry sporks, in just the right time and place, can be a serious problem. Well, a silly problem that needs dealt with.
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Yeah, I'd just been wondering about him and Tempest last week.
I don't think she would turn against the MU. She might turn against Eve and/or stop serving the MU, but I doubt she'll turn completely against them.
Those are common themes.
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The 'base' canon vs TTS is the difference between 'everything is terrible and it will stay that way' and 'everything is terrible but it just might be getting better' (it's current 'ending' nonwithstanding). I think that and it's humorous approach and reliance on the old, goofy canon significantly boosted the main series' playerbase and helped keep the IP alive, when the 'canon' series stagnated for years. Needless to say, the choice is welcome.
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As for the text itself... Mixed feelings. I liked what you did with TTS bits, I came here for that and wasn't disappointed. I've also not read the main thing, only bits and pieces linked by people in some other contexts, like the SCP episode and now this one. The specific character context doesn't really matter though, the general gist seems to be that ponies are so above it all. Someone has to be, it might as well be them, yet it's still quite jarring. I imagine the main series is essentially more of the same, exploration teams getting abused by various multiverses yet holding back their power for moral reasons, interpersonal drama etc, and pulling the plug on all creation at the end because it is time, or something along these lines. The upvote ratio doesn't lie, not with these numbers on a non-M fic, but I guess it's just not for me.
There's also a bit of a silly thing, but the thought wouldn't leave me that they'd definitely pass our world by, either because it's utterly uninteresting or because some government types they'd start off with would abuse them, like in SCP, it's basicly inevitable. It's a notion that's suprisingly hard to shake.