At the bottom of Stable 10, the great generator that has kept its residents alive for centuries is beginning to fail. As solutions are sought within, one pegasus sets her sights on the very ponies who built - and possibly sabotaged - her home.
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I have some opinions on what happened to the Crystal Empire when the bombs fell, but something tells me you're going to have to wait a bit longer before you find out.
On the plus side, new chapter's up!
Who needs Cozy Glow when you've got these two?
Wow, Twilight. Just...wow. No wonder she didn't like seeing Dash's element: she is literally the pony!Devil.
Also, inb4 Uber-Ghoul Big Mac controlled by Uploaded RoboSpitfire is the last boss of this fic.
Oh no, Rarity turned off filters while browsing Derpibooru.
Okay, but the thing I don't get is, they did get talisman-based power going, right? Runs the stables, the power armor, etc. Could they just not deploy it quick enough to remove their need for oil? Or was it more that by the time they did, the war kept going for war's sake (or for
CelestiaEquestria's pride) and nobody was able to shut it down?Nice that they manage to murderously stop the sharing of peaceful tech, but the balefire bomb tech gets leaked. Good job, Shitfire. Of course, inb4 this show-and-tell Twiggles and Flush want is the reason the zebras get the tech.
I also don't get Celestia's aversion to solar power. Like, solar energy isn't really any different from...using sunlight to grow a tree and then burning that for power, just more efficient. Has nobody made this argument, or is she just too stubborn (/old/hidebound) to accept it?
In summary: clearly everyone in charge deserved to burn—too bad about all the innocent deaths that came with it.
...Oh hey, realism!
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About that...
Rarity has some interesting hobbies. On a positive note, Shino gave the green light for me to tap some of his characters for Renewal! Not going to waste the opportunity!
I don't want to spoil anything so I'm keeping mum on any details talisman-related for now. Regarding Celestia's aversion to solar power, that's a combination of her being unwilling to do anything that she thinks could be seen as ceding the power of the sun to anyone who isn't her, and a bit of digging her heels in now that she's experienced strong pushback from Jet Stream. Her image as an all-power alicorn is at risk and after ruling so long with that fiction, she's unwilling to risk letting the status quo change.
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Wait...*rereads* AAAAAAAA
Jet Stream: "OK, Boomer." *does it anyway*
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Golly!
That cliffhanger. I trust Aurora will make the right choice.
Unless she has an Arbu moment.
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I have no idea what she'll do, check back with me in four weeks! ;3
oh boy! what a twist! this is so exciting! :D
ohh shiiit thats a cliffhanger if i've ever seen one 😋
Come on, Aurora, do the right thing!
Explain the situation and ask if them they want to move to the stable.
"The shard of met had lodged itself"
"The shard of metal had lodged itself"?
"She stared at her party disassembled"
"She stared at her partly disassembled"?
"now and Vhanna’s ancestors might one day"
"now and Vhanna’s descendants might one day"?
"trigger happy hornet seven on the best"
"trigger happy hornets even on the best"?
Well! A lot happening and revealed here! :D
An(other) excellent chapter; thank you for writing! :D
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"About that... "
Why, whatever could you possibly mean? I don't recall seeing any characters named "Cozy Glow" in this story.
On a completely unrelated and random note, given that adobe, as I understand it, can come in a range of colors, would you say that you tend to think of it as being, say [checks wiki] a sort of moderate scarlet, for the purposes of using it as a color description?
(I'd at first thought, looking at the chapter, that she was disguising her eye color as well as her name, but then on looking at some more pictures of adobe I wondered if perhaps it's the same color, just thought of/described differently.)
By the way, when I first realized who "Primrose" was early on in the chapter, I found it interesting, but had a mild reaction... compared to the one I had later on in the chapter when I suddenly realized "WAIT a minute!" and checked that, why, yes, what appears to be the most powerful pony in one of the two most powerful factions in the Equestrian Wasteland does appear to have the same name, among other similarities... :D
"Rarity has some interesting hobbies."
Huh. I'd assumed she just had that drawer for work. ...Not sure whether you're joking here or not. :D
"On a positive note, Shino gave the green light for me to tap some of his characters for Renewal! Not going to waste the opportunity!"
Oh, nice. :)
"Regarding Celestia's aversion to solar power, that's a combination of her being unwilling to do anything that she thinks could be seen as ceding the power of the sun to anyone who isn't her, and a bit of digging her heels in now that she's experienced strong pushback from Jet Stream. Her image as an all-power alicorn is at risk and after ruling so long with that fiction, she's unwilling to risk letting the status quo change."
Ah, thanks; I'd been wondering about that too.
So there's potentially an added tragedy here, regarding how much could perhaps have been avoided if solar power had just been sold to Celestia in a different way at the start, before she'd started digging in. I mean, wouldn't be that hard, I imagine, to flatter her in the process, playing up how Equestria would be even more, and literally, built and run on her glory.
(At least, I imagine that could work, though Celestia in this story is interestingly different in a number of ways from the sorts I more usually encounter, given her known-to-her-to-be-false claim of moving the sun.)
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Thought it would be a good one!
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I've got my fingers crossed!
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The adobe in this context is just brick red, same as her character art from the show. <3 I wonder how she hung around this long?
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Wait, aren't you the one writing this story?
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I just write it, the damn characters do what they want!
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"The adobe in this context is just brick red, same as her character art from the show. <3"
Ah, thanks! :D
Was the ambiguity deliberate?
"I wonder how she hung around this long?"
Oh, just healthy living, I'm sure, certainly no forbidden magic involved or anything. :)
(Though I too am curious about the details. :D)
Just now caught up with this story, and damn is it good : )!
Okay, am I the only one who noticed Roach describe the ignition talisman under Gallow's bed that turned him and then chapters later he just barely manages to avoid seeing the picture of it on the pip buck? If all this culminates in her showing the picture to someone and Roach saying, "Oh, they look like that? Yeah we left on of those behind under the bed." I suspect I'm not the only one who will be annoyed.
Also, didn't the first stable get sabotaged and blown up by twilight to kill hundreds of ponies and settle a grudge? If there is still a working generator it would have to have survived the blast and the centaurs left below ground.
(BTW, barring this place being occupied I would love to see what light source can take 220 years and still work. I need some of those around the house : )
Also, Luna survived a nuke to the face? And has been hanging out this whole time? There's a story there...
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Oh, thanks for correcting that transposition in numbers.
Also, is the ancient deathclaw that trashed the solar array, the one with the 'unexpected intelligence' really Big Mackintosh, hence 'Mack' the deathclaw? If so, do we get to see how he wound up there?
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Oooh, things are being noticed! Hokay, no spoilers, but the things you noticed aren't errors. Thingy things are things... ;)
However, Stable *2* was the one being used to house the first MAST demonstration that blew up. Stable 1 was the one Celestia, Twilight, and Co. watched from remotely. The two Stables were prototype models and 2 was unfinished when it went up in a cloud of smoke. Stable 1 is still intact, and it does happen to sit only a few miles from the ruins of Stable 2. Hmm...
As for Luna, well... more on that later. :)
Assuming there's an exchange at all. Not like you cant just... invite them in.
Me, several chapters ago: "A stallion named Jet Stream who runs a rocket business? Man, what a coincidence! I know about this tumblr blog and some...other stories...involving a stallion named Jet Stream that runs a rocket bus-
...
Oh.
Seeing as Google has become nigh unusable in the past years, I can't find anything to show what Adobe colored eyes would look like; do you have an example perchance?
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Pretty funny that she basically disowned rainbow for bending the rules for the good of equestria, while sequentially replacing her with ponies that also did so. The only difference being in who answered to who. Part of me wonders whether spitfire would have cooperated had she not been kept out of the loop
Yeah you weren't kidding, this is a much more comfortable relationship between the team, I really really like the vibes of where this is going. Nothing like a good ole barbecue to bring the family together!
Just had the realization that there's been 200 years since the primrose in the flashbacks and the primrose there now.......
I'm guessing this implies that Trixie was executed or imprisoned for life; which makes me sad to hear. Poor thing deserved to at least make it to a stable
Awwww this is so cute <3 I'm really happy with how they've softened up <3
I can see here what you were saying about her suppressing her feelings on things / being numb to them. It's also really interesting (and relieving) to see her very aversive to using these weapons. I think she put two and two together and realized that the weapon she intends to use is the same thing that caused big macs mutations, just on several thousand orders of magnitude bigger. I hope she clued in when they all tasted metal and felt their magic affected
Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaamn shivers down my spine at this. Wow. I'm speechless. What an interesting turn of events!!