Harmonic Gift From The Stars

by DTavs exe

Mini Chapter 5: Star-Stuff

At the Star Gazer’s Laboratory for Planetary Studies in the Institute of Sciences of Canterlot, two ponies adjusted the new equipment brought directly from Laburinthos, said equipment was also donated by Marquese Star Gazer, a noble who was always driven to science and technology. Unlike Celestia’s School for Gifted Unicorns, everypony was able to attend this school even if the grand majority was still unicorns due to that tribe being the most prominent in Canterlot.

“Hey Tracker, are you done calibrating the new telescope? We are way behind schedule and I don’t want to lose track of the asteroids we have been following for moons,” a dark blue coated pegasus with a brighter blue mane said to his colleague.

The blonde freckled earth pony was adjusting the telescope “relax Hunter, we have plenty of time, besides it’s not like the Princess will punish us if we present this late, believe me, I know her, did I ever tell you that time I was on a cruise with her and her family?”

Star Hunter rolled his eyes, “yeah, over twenty times already, I used to live on Ponyville you know? I was her neighbor for years.”

Star Tracker laughed, “doesn’t count, you never talked to her.”

“Yes it does.”

“No it doesn’t.”

“It does too.”

“It does not”

“What is this all about?” came a masculine voice from the door.

“LORD GAZER!” both young stallions said scrambling from their current positions bowing to the Marquese.

Star Gazer smiled and walked to the younger ponies, “come on you two, I said multiple times not to bow to me, we are all the same, we are all made of star-stuff after all, we even have the same first name the three of us.”

Both lifted their heads, “I’m sorry Lord Gazer, force of habit,” said the pegasus Star Hunter.

“Yeah, almost every noble and royalty is pretty snob,” said the earth pony Star Tracker.

Star Gazer gave them a warm smile and walked to a model of their planetary system, softly touching the only planet that showed green and blue on its surface, he said with his soft voice, “look here at this tiny ball. This is here. This is home. This is us. On it everypony you love, everypony you know, everycreature you ever heard of, everycreature who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every Hunter and Tracker,” he rubbed the heads of both the pegasus and earth pony, “every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every royalty and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every superstar, every supreme leader, every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there-on a little ball suspended in a sunbeam,” he then pointed at some graphics that showed theories about where their system was within the entire galaxy, a mere point in the vast of the universe, “It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of pony conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.”

The interns looked dumbfounded with their mouths open at the words from the Marques, he walked to them and closed their mouths with his hooves, then he went to the giant telescope he donated to the institute.

“Lor… I mean Star Gazed, the telescope is almost ready to go, I was just about finishing with the calibrations.”

“Great,” he checked on the notes on the desk, “I see you already made calculations on the location of those asteroids you have been following Star Tracker, do any of them present a threat to our planet?”

“Not at all sir, the only two that will pass the closest are not big enough to survive atmospheric entry, well unless they are made of pure iron or any other hard metal, with this new telescope we will be able to see them with better quality in a few days when they are close enough to visually identify their composition.”

“Excellent, I have great hopes on you two and I feel it in my bones, somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”

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A few days later, Star Hunter was watching through the telescope and writing on his notepad, “oh crap,” he said while checking his notes twice.

“What’s wrong Hunter?”

“You won’t believe it, by my new calculations, K03GO7T is going to crash into planet Ahgg in a month and a few days, K03BA0L just collided with K03BC5N and the remaining are not big enough for study, all that will be trapped in the gravity of planet Moochick in mere hours, those were my favorite asteroids, how about you?”

“I lost track of one of mine, I guess I’m not as good as I thought with my calculations.”

“Relax dude, it was just one of what? Ten?”

“Six actually,” he said with his face down.

“Hey, that still gives you an eighty three percent rate of success, cheer up newbie.”

“I guess you are right, but from those five left, two are heading to planet Hydia so they are likely to be trapped on its gravity or one of its moons, Reeka or Draggle.”

“What of the other three?”

“There are two that are heading directly here, one is big but hollow, it has a huge hole right in the middle, it appears to be made out of silicate so it’ll burn in entry when it enters in about two moons, the other one is medium size but like I thought is not big enough to survive entry in eight moons, unless is made out of iron and even then its remaining might not be bigger than a hoofball, here this are their coordinates.”

“Yeah, that one looks like a donut, it kinda makes me hungry… wow the other one is amazingly spherical.”

“Yeah gotta love round asteroids.”

“Wait… Tracker you said is going to arrive in eight moons?”

“Yeah, why?”

“Can I see your notes Tracker?” Star Tracker gave his notes to Star Hunter, he ran to his notes, he made some traces and calculations for at least ten minutes, “AW COME ON!”

“What?”

“Like I thought, look at these.”

“Is this correct? Damn, it’s going to collide with one of yours in two moons, ok that’s it.”

“Don’t mind Tracker, still got one left right?”

“Yeah and it’s the biggest one, but as per my calculations it will pass barely close enough to study it and then will head directly to the sun, I was about to check its progress, it should be clear enough now to identify its composition, here check its coordinates.”

Star hunter moved the telescope to the coordinates given and stared at the asteroid, “ok, that’s weird, the telescope can’t focus on your asteroid.”

“What? Let me see...that’s not possible, we should be able to see it clear by now… unless.”

“Unless what?”

“Unless the asteroid had a reflecting surface,” came the voice of Marquese Star Gazer behind them.

The pegasus was confused, “but that’s impossible, something with a smooth surface enough to mess with the lens of the telescope couldn’t have been done naturally.”

Star Tracker had a smile from ear to ear, “maybe it’s ALIENS!”

“HAHAHA yeah right Tracker, even if there is life on other planets there is no way they could travel that far, isn’t that right sir?”

“Oh young stallion, the universe is immense, you should be aware of that and the sky calls to all of us. I bet that if we don’t destroy ourselves, we will one day venture to the stars, who say in the infinite space aren't some creatures that already travel the void.”

“You are probably right, but if they were that smart they would have changed route, they are heading directly to our sun, aren’t they Tracker?”

“Yeah, but who knows, they will be the closest to us in five moons and soon after they will be caught in our sun’s gravity, if they are aliens they should change their course by then, should we report this to Princess Twilight?”

“Let’s hold this up for the moment, we should wait until we can see what it is.”

“Yes sir!” both Star Hunter and Star Tracker said in unison.

“Let’s just hope this is more interesting than a shiny asteroid,” Star Gazer said looking through the telescope.

To be continued

Author's Note:

Hey guys! Just a short one this time, one would think that with all this quarantine, I would have more time to write, but it's quite the opposite, I work on a callcenter so I'm working from home now and it's an eternal back to back since not everyone can work from home, and due to the lack of personnel we are call after call after call after call after call after call-

GET ON WITH IT!

Oh sorry, so with all this that is happening, I'm kinda scared that after the storm passes, the economy doesn't recover fast enough for me to keep my job, so since we are understaffed, I'm putting all the overtime I can to save in case I lose my job, after all I have two other mouths to feed.

And we eat a lot!

Yeah I know Pinkie. Don't worry guys I'll keep writing and I won't take more hours this weekend since I'm exhausted and I don't want to lose my mind... more...

Dude, you should rest, tomorrow you need to make a gazillion hours line to buy groceries.

Don't even remind me.

Hey what's with those weird names for the space rocks?

You mean K03GO7T and K03BA0L? Those are just packed temporal designations used to name small worlds, the first 3 denotes the year they were discovered I=1800s J=1900s K=2000s and L=2100s of course since on this fic we are on the year 10xx A.S. they actually mean I=800s J=900s K=1000s and L=1100s A.S. instead of A.D.

What does that mean?

What?

A.S.

Pinkie! you should know that, it means Anno Sole or year of the sun, it counts from the year that Nightmare Moon was banished from the world! This is elementary stuff girl!

Oh yeah... and what does A.D. means?

Kinda the same, it means Anno Domini witch translates to year of our Lord, you know Humans tend to be kinda religious bunch and is reflected even in our science. Anyway the other part of the name of the asteroids means the half of the month it was discovered and the order that was discovered in that half month, it's too long to describe it on this note but you can search it online, it's pretty interesting. Anyway, I hope you liked today's mini chapter as always every comment, advice, request, demand or complain is appreciated and don't forget:

Be polite, be careful, educate yourself as much as you can, respect  your neighbor so that they respect you and may the force be with you,  say goodbye Pinkie.

Goodbye Pinkie.

Say Goodbye Izzi.

Live long and prosper.

Oh I see you found my Star Trek tapes, wanna watch them together?

Sure, by the way why does that handsome captain sounds familiar?

Oh... well, have you met Apple Bloom's Grandpear?

The sweet grandpa that sells pears in the market?

Yeah... well...

The notes it's getting longer than the chapter guys, lets wrap it up.

Comments

[Booster Spice]

Stalight, Starbright,
is that an alien I see tonight,
wish I may,
wish I might,
They close the curtains tonight.

[Dashie04]

So, is earth trying to find Equestria, or the other way around? Either way, it’s pretty cool.

[DTavs exe]

10175936
That's nice, never heard that poem before, seems fitting.

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I wonder what will follow in the next moons.

[SoraMiner1]

I hope that it is humans coming to the pony planet.

[DTavs exe]

10176866
I like chocolate milk...

[Kirov]

Soviet March,When?

[DTavs exe]

10180313
I see you are a comrade of culture as well.

[Kirov]

10180655
Speaking of culture,when will u retake Jerusalem.

[DTavs exe]

10180660
As soon as the quarantine ends we all march to retake the land and expel all the Saracen, DEUS VULT!

[Kirov]

Christ and Combat?