8-A connection between Suns
Let me tell you one thing: getting a hug when one is needed by a friend is nice. Getting hugged by a Princess is another thing. But the motherly hug I received from Celestia blew everything out of the water in comparison. It was as if all my worries melted away, for this short moment all was right in the world. And as Celestia said those magic words...
“I promise”
The happiness I felt at that moment… it was indescribable. All my fears of never being able to see my home, my friends, my family were gone. I was going home. Well, not right at that moment but with Celestia on my side it was all but guaranteed that I was going to be able to go home. I don’t know how long we stayed in that embrace but I didn't care. It could have been hours or minutes but when my tears began to run dry and my sobbing became quieter Celestia moved away slightly and looked into my still teary eyes with her motherly smile still visible on her face.
“Feeling better now?” She asked as she idly stroked my orange hair with her hand. Looking up into her magenta eyes that were filled with sympathy, I nodded while bringing a hand up to wipe the remaining tears from my eyes. The sound of a door being opened cut through the momentary silence and brought both gazes towards the door. Standing there was the same nurse as before holding a clipboard with an embarrassed look on her face.
“I *ahem* Is this a bad time? I can come back later if you wish Princess.”
Celestia just responded with a small chuckle.
“No, in fact, your timing is perfect Scarlet,” She said while standing up and moving away from me much to my displeasure. Noticing this Celestia smiled at me.
“Don’t worry. I’m not going anywhere, but I doubt that miss Scarlet here could do her job if I was in the way.”
I giggled slightly at Celestia’s attempt to lighten up the mood. It did help me to cheer up slightly as Scarlet walked up to the end of the bed and grabbed the chart hanging off it. She hummed thoughtfully after comparing what was written on my chart and whatever documents she had attached to the clipboard she carried. After quickly writing something down she smiled and began speaking.
“Well, judging by your chart most if not all your injuries have healed but I still need to do a small examination to make sure there aren't any more problems.” She said as she began to approach me. The examination was fairly straightforward. All she really did was remove my bandages and look at the now small patches where my fur has not grown back yet. Thank goodness for the fact that it wasn't very visible due to my fur already being white. Thankfully some fur had already begun to regrow so I guessed those patches would be gone in a day or so. But let me tell ya, being able to move my wings again felt great. I mean, I couldn't move them much as they were still quite tender but still being able to move them at all after having them basically glued to my back for several days was amazing. Feeling the joints in those things pop...oh yeah just thinking about it makes me feel good. After the feeling of absolute bliss, I got from moving my wings was gone I was brought back to the hurtful reality that are my legs. I still couldn't feel them and it was starting to scare me. I mean, it already did and she said that it would heal eventually but that still doesn't remove my fear of not being able to feel my own damn legs completely. Scarlet finished soon after appearing to glance between the ring on my horn and the Princess sitting next to my bed as she jotted something down.
“So, after that, I can say with certainty that all of your external injuries have healed meaning you don't need any more of these pesky bandages,” She said with a smile throwing my old bandages into a nearby bin.”But I still want you to stay here for a few more days of observation.” She said before looking over towards Celestia. “Would that be all right Princess?” Celestia nodded as Scarlet made her way towards the door leaving me alone with Celestia once more.
“Now that that's out of the way I have about an hour before I need to return back to my duties so why don't you tell me a bit about yourself” Began Celestia. Her motherly smile on display once again. Seeing no reason not to answer I told Celestia pretty much everything about myself. Of course, leaving out the whole watching a show about an alternate Equestria where they aren’t bipedal. Eventually, she magicked a notepad into the room breaking my concentration and bringing up one enormous thing I had completely ignored. Magic gaddam existed and I could learn it. Honestly, it surprised me how long I had gone not being in awe at the fact magic was real here. It brought back the memory of how it felt not to have this ring on. Having the feeling of magic being taken away was one thing but there really wasn’t a difference with how it was back home where magic isn't real. But in the short time I had magic I have grown accustomed to a feeling I didn't know I had until it was taken away.
Anyway, now I’m rambling, so let's get back to Celestia doing magic and making a notebook appear while I was describing the wonders that were computers. Yeah, so her bringing that notebook into existence completely destroyed my train of thought as I went ‘Oh yeah magic is a thing, and I can learn about said thing, and do stuff with said thing when I’ll learn about this one thing’. Honestly, the fact that I only just now realized this spoke of either how stupid I am or how hectic my time in Equestria has been so far.
Celestia noticing that I was no longer talking and now just staring at the notebook took on a worried facial expression.
“Is everything all right?” Celestia asked in a worried tone bringing me out of my stupor. “Yeah I’m fine it’s just… the fact that magic is now a real thing and no longer fiction just set in. Do you think I could learn magic?! Do you think you could teach me as well?!” I ask in an excited tone the prospect of learning something only heard of in works of fantasy. I mean who wouldn't want to learn real-life magic, especially from the Princess Celestia herself! But there were several things preventing me from doing just that. The big one is the inhibitor ring doing exactly what it says on the tin. Another problem is that Celestia might not want to or have the time to be my teacher. There is also still the fact I am Daybreaker, even if she knows I’m not her, the magic I must hold as an alicorn child could pose a problem as the amount of power I am probably holding isn’t on the same level as a unicorn child.
Celestia took a thoughtful expression at my response and hummed to herself bringing a finger up to her lips as if weighing the pros and cons of teaching the alien in the body of her version of Nightmare Moon how to use magic. I completely understood the implications of what I was asking. Teaching a small alicorn that probably has enough power to destroy a good chunk of Canterlot if they decided to do so was a serious risk.
“Let me think about it, my little pony.” She responded after a short while. I lost some enthusiasm at her answer.
But hey!
It wasn’t a no~o hehe.
“But let's get back to these high powered computers you were talking about” Continued Celestia now actively taking notes in her little book. I guess I found out where Twilight got that from or maybe Twilight's habits rubbed off on Celestia. “This technology your people have developed is truly fascinating. The best piece of such technology our scientists have developed are small calculators only capable of the simplest of operations.” Now, hearing that was extremely surprising. I knew their technology wasn't the best and that they used magic as a shortcut for most things where we would have used electricity instead. But I honestly expected a bit more advancement in the IT-department.
Now let me tell you something about what happens when you mix a geek that built their own computer from scratch and a world that just recently invented the calculator. You get one extremely happy geek. I already loved tinkering on my own computer to make it as efficient as possible. Hell, I used to build computers as a hobby to make some extra cash. I could be Equestria’s version of Bill Gates if I wanted to be. Ah yes, I could see it now: ‘Micropony the forefront leader in computpony technology™'.
Giggling at the prospect of owning Equestria's version of Microsoft, I began speaking.
“Hehe, give me a workbench and I’ll show you how us humans work our magic”
After a small laugh, I continued from where we last left off. Overall it was a very nice conversation and felt great talking to someone -or would it be somepony- about everything. But as with all good things, it too must have come to an end. At some point, Celestia had to take a leave.
Celestia’s horn glowed briefly as a frown appeared on her face. Sighing, she magicked her notebook away. “It appears that we must cut our conversation short as something appears to have come up that requires my immediate attention.” I began frowning as the prospect of being stuck in this room with nothing to do till Celestia’s next visit was going to be mind-numbingly boring. Celestia, noticing my frown laughed slightly, probably guessing exactly what was going through my mind.
“Don’t worry my little pony, I will be sure to visit you tomorrow.”
This caused a small smile to creep up on my face but I was still going to be stuck in here without anything to do. I had previously looked around my small room and there weren't any books of any kind within my reach. Not even a pamphlet about some fur-care product I couldn’t care less about but could still read to pass the time. “Um, could you please, maybe bring me something to read?” I ask with a sheepish smile plastered on my face. This in turn got a motherly smile from Celestia, whose horn began to glow.
*poof*
Suddenly a book was magicked into existence and landed right on my lap. Looking down at the book now sitting in my lap a smile quickly began to blossom across my face. It was the first daring doo book in the series: Daring Do and the Quest for the Sapphire Stone. It was and still is one of my favorite books of all time as I had been able to snag a limited edition copy back home that has its own special place on my nightstand. I read it almost every night. No matter how many times I read that book it never got boring. So, with stars in my eyes and a massive smile on my face, I said in the happiest voice I had ever used.
“Thank you!!!”
So sweet still I want to Luna in prison
Cute.
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From scratch as in from scratch or buying the components and putting them together? Because if it is the latter case, I seriously doubt she could create a computer without the necessary machinery.
10295606
Oh please. Computer is just a rock tricked into thinking.
How hard can that be? Right...? :)
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Suuuure ;D
HA! She said it!
Do the gambling machines count (like in Viva Las Pegasus; I know I saw some)?
I think my all-time favourite book was Dragon's Pawn by Carol L. Dennis. I must have read it at least 8 times.
and the chess master strikes again
that is, I knew that celestia was a manipulator.
more at this level, and still manipulate the small dayday, for scientific advances, when she didn’t allow her legs to heal it’s just ...
well this is celestia, for all of us ...
equestria will have computers, will she also teach how to draw manga and consequently eroges?
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Like last chapter and the other before i can't wait ro read more. Great chapter makes me happy but also sad. Hope to se more of this even if i have to wait long, take your time to make these wonderfull chapters.
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would you believe me if i said i have no idea what im doing and somehow people like it
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I could that’s how i live life 😋 still great story. Also giving your other story a read as it also sounds interesting and it is a isekai LOVE my isekai. 😋 Well have a nice day fellow tryer of life. 😋
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1.
Please tell me that it means that she build a computer literally from scratch and not bought separate components like motherboard and RAM and then connected everything
If it's the second then.....
Hahaha hahaha
You are joking, right?
It's so fucking simple
Even then if you have a problem with that you only need to watch one Youtube video to do that
It's not magic or coding but basics
2.
Also, don't make it so after their little talk Celestia magically can create a computer
She explained it what they are but not how they work
Even then you can't tell how something works and then build it
I can explain that steam engines work because of created steam, etc
That doesn't mean anything, you won't build a steam engine from that information
The only realistic way for Equestria to have computers is by her becoming Equestria’s version of Bill Gates like she was joking about
Equestria is too focused on magic to do that on its own, they won't even try to research it, even with information that it's possible
I won't even start about the infrastructure, fabrics and streamlined production, etc
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number uno: Yeah she built it from complete scratch no watching youtube vids
Numero dos: Bro nah all she did is explain that they existed not how they work Equestria only has basic calculators she just told Celestia about what they have accomplished not how they work. It's a company secret for Micropony
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I've seen computes that were built by some clever cookies for the computer history museum both from their own pcb design and off the shelf ICs and even more impressive clones of old CPUs using discreet transistors. Granted these homebuilt computers were usually very basic units akin to a scientific calculator with LED based outputs. Not to mention redstone computers people have made in Minecraft. Point is it is possible but I would have to agree she probably assembled a PC with off the shelf components.
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Those were around before calculators, weren't they?
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technically mechanical calculators have existed for a VERY, VERY long time, longer than existing gambling machines.
May I suggest one of the following alterations?
Either:
"It seems that we must cut our conversation short as something appears to have come up that requires my immediate attention."
Or:
"It appears that we must cut our conversation short as something has come up that requires my immediate attention."
Having two instances of the word appears in the same sentence is a bit awkward. Especially for someone normally as well spoken as Celestia.
I don't doubt she'll be able to build some sort of computer, however, I don't know how fast or powerful it will be. Setting up circuitry shouldn't be a problem, it's the cpu that will be the problem, as she doesn't have access to the incredibly expensive, as well as large, machines that make computer chips. She'll probably have to do with what equestria has, but she can reveal the secrets of modern computer chip design to them. But without the fabricators that make all that stuff, I predict she'll probably only be able to make a pc that is on par with a 90s computer at best, at basic calculator at the least, until they figure out how to make more modern components. Having someone who is knowledgeable about the subject helps, but it still takes time to make the stuff. There's no way for to make a modern computer without having access to the technology able to make the component. She will probably need to figure out a magical solution instead.
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Still, the place looked half like the Midway.
10296103
Hm. True...
Will there be long term PTSD issues whenever Luna appears?
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Once you understand what the basic functions that are required for something to be considered a computer, the actual components can be somewhat secondary (as per the redstone computers in minecraft).
From discrete components you can hit about 60s levels of technology, which is still very usable. If you are at relay level technology or vacuum tubes you can hit 40s-50s tech levels. Developing the transistor alone (not super hard, 40s level tech for a point contact or BJT, just add Germanium) would put your name on the map. Just knowing that semi-conductors are the answer would give you a leg up so to speak.
Anything that starts getting into IC's requires electron microscopes and some relatively fancy and esoteric equipment. We are talking years of development but it can be done at a hobby level. With state backing that would be quite a bit easier but may fall outside the knowledge base of the protagonist. 10um is about the limit without a clean room for hobby level photoresist technology to about 1um if you can get a clean room setup (highschool students have achieved this). This is about 70s level of technology. If they already have crude calculators then the techbase does get easier, especially if she acts more as a state sponsored consultant with a team of dedicated engineers. Given that she is biologically an alicorn (and maybe therefore royalty) this might be a lot easier.
If you apply phlebotinum, or for example "gem magic", shrinking spells, or anything of that nature you can probably skip a few steps. Just being able to manipulate things with a "magic field" or using shield spells to "clear" or "contain" an area allows you to do some very interesting things a bit easier. Since we know from canon magic is able to "skip steps" for extremely complex structures at the molecular level "see frog-orange accident" then her just "knowing" what an IC is and generically how it should be made and function, may allow for magic to do the heavy lifting of the needed molecular arraignment to produce functional components.
Really, depends on how hard the author wishes to go on the science and the intersection of the science with magic. Storywise, even her failing or taking a long time at the task can still be interesting to read about and provide character development.
I'm probably over-analyzing this.
The fact that you said Level 4 anthro and and I know exactly what you're talking about means you also must like those charts too hehe
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She had that for a Millenium... Get something new and effective... Listening to Pinkie Pie for a straight hour... WITHOUT BREAK!!!
*DEMONIC EVIL LAUGHTER*
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Hook, line & sinker!
That was Beautiful.
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Best evil genius after Bugwaifu ~♡
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Damn... Discord sure would be your best pal
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That seems to be the norm actual...
Literally every Author i ask kinda told me the same...
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Normly yes. BUT...
A.U. TAG
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You mad genius... That brilliant
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Indeed
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Precision needs time and many steps even with the right tools. They need probably a decade or two for reachng that level from scratch...
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Really? I dont know...
Tell me: if i try murder you and bearly failed but still crippeld you for sure... Would you be...?!
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equestia the place where if they think you are a villen you will become one weather you like it or not
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on some level she is listening to luna and most likly wont stop for a while or at least untill luna shows she is bias and who knows little daybreak might be the one calls her out on it or hopefully fluttershy as i think she would have some choice words for the "reformed" princess who tossed a child out a window and is most likly invading her dreams whenever possible to find "evidence" of evil while her herself shows she isnt as "reformed" as she seems
Somehow I only just now realized this story is a anthro. Never checked the tags and I was just going by what was on the cover art.
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Maybe, maybe not, but resentment and distrust will certainly be a thing.
Honesty this story would be way better if she actually was a six year old dragged from another world, turned into Day breaker... and had no clue about the show at all.
Yeah, Celestia is just as full of bullshit as Luna. She pretends to care but insists on keeping Jolyne permenantly crippled and magicless, meanwhile trying to pump her for imformation on advanced technology. They're beyond redemption now, far as I'm concerned.
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Wat
As far as obvious things go, there is no coincidences.
She was dragged in this world and turned into daybraker because someone decided so. Someone is using her to try to lower everyone's guard against her, and use her efforts to establish a position for themselves, potentially to take over the body when it's grown up enough and strike everyone in the back.
Yes, i think that it's a real daybreaker who prepared a body for herself and a soul to be a scapegoat, in order to later steal it all.
Anyway, I'm bored.
What would i give to have a snarky person who does not break down or reveal their real self immediately as a main character of a similar story.
Yeah, their calculators would not be "small", and could certainly work differently.
The time bomb goes tick tock....
If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.