An ONI Officer who didn't immediately jump into fucking people over for the slightest benefit? Color me surprised!

Twilight will definitely enjoy her peaceful time on the peaceful planet of Harvest. Nothing can possibli go wrong!

I say give it a two weeks at most and some of those men going to think Twilight looks awful pretty for a pony

Staying awake long enough to look out the small window near her bed, she quietly wonders if the star Harvest is orbiting is one of the billions she saw in Luna’s night sky. And, as sleep claims her, she wonders if Luna will be able to find her in her dreams.

Of course Luna will find you. It may take her some time, but she WILL find you.

Also, I almost didn't catch that Star Trek reference.

Very good shit, I look forward to moar!

If ya keep cranken em out ima start ass kissen

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Will she become a Spartan II like Chief and Blue Team?

I always wondered what happened to that Bird-of-Prey.

Well time for Twilight to learn how to jump feet first into hell. Nice chapter.

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That's not even possible

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Much like Xblaster has stated, it is not possible for Twilight to become a Spartan II. The augmentation process is very much tailored to human genetics and incorporates some very ethically horrendous things. Beyond that, she is also in her 20s, which is about 9 or 10 years too old as for the augmentation process to work, and the training to really stick, the Spartan IIs were abducted from their homes between the ages of 8 and 11.

All that said, Twilight's own unique biology may very well afford her advantages Humans don't have. You'll just have to stay tuned to see :D

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Twilight would look very pretty in a UNSC officer's uniform.

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Need to get her in some UNSC Marine dress blues.

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I mean her ability to use human equipment also depends on if your ponies are also semi-anthro or not. Mine are just mostly choose to be quadrupedal unless doing something where being a biped is useful like dancing or fighting or wielding weapons or nailing things in.

The Royal Guard are mostly eye candy for the princesses.

So yeah if she can move about bipedally for long periods of time it will help her not be looked down on literally and figuratively.

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Most of the tech is going to be used telekinetically for Twilight, as her body isn't made to stand on two legs for long. She'll do so in some situations where she has to do something like steady her rifle against a window.

The Royal Guard in my universe is, mostly, ceremonial at this point, but they are trained to the same degree as the USMC, they are capable of fighting, or in the case of a threat that actually needs Celestia to step in they are capable of delaying the threat to give her or Luna more time.

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You mean she could become one without the augmentations and training that Chief and the other Spartans had when they became Spartan II’s meaning she could gain Spartan Armor. Thanks to her unicorn biology she can be equal to the Spartans.

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She can't gain the Spartan II armor. MJOLNIR costs almost the same amount as a UNSC Destroyer, they're not going to give it to her.

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Then what will she gain?

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Wait and see, but she'll get armor.

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Fair enough. Most ponies in mine can't stand on two legs for long at the start of it because they haven't built up those muscles. Harry Potter, his adoptive parents, the CMC, the Mane 6, Big Mac, and His godmother Princess Celestia have spent years becoming comfortable on two legs.

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Even then if she puts on a custom suit of spartan armor it'll just kill her since iirc the suit specifically needs a augmented human that can handle it

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If she joins the UNSC in the war, probably a custom ODST suit of armor but like he said, we shall see.
Edit: That and the cover art might be a slight giveaway lol

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She gets a custom set of first Marine and then ODST armor, yes. I'm still debating on if I want just generic ONI to make it, or have Halsey get involved. I am leaning towards Halsey, though, because we all know she'd be overjoyed to poke and prod at an alien that isn't trying to shoot her.

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If you really want to dig into it probably le doctor, but probably later. For now ONI custom armor and when things start to turn hot of course she'll be told of twilight

O. N. I is playing nice, much much better then what I feared

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Oh ok.

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Yup. Though I have to rework al-Cygni's dialogue a little. I was discussing some of the military aspects with Commander Applejack yesterday and ilher and Ponder were close but not quite.

So they'll still play nice but not too nice.

Well twilight hope you ready to kill some alien bastards cuz the covenant is coming to town

I find it funny how many people want her to become a spartan that's kinda silly. I like the idea of her using her skills and magic to survive this soon to be very dangerous world. I have always found Twilight going to x world to be the best concept mainly due to her willingness to learn about the world. Most of the mane 6 would either be complete civilians or honestly shot their first day. Great job on this story looking forward to more.

Moby Dick to whale research and documentary to Star Trek IV does seem like a natural progression.

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Glad you enjoyed Twilight falling down a whale shaped rabbit hole.

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You're also the first to spot the voyage home in the list of things she watched

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Am I that old, or is everyone else that young.

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I don't know, I'm 31 and grew up with a family who loved Star Trek so.... could be both?

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I watched it, I just didn't remember the name so I didn't comment. It's my mom's favorite episode/movie. (I'm 24)

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Truthfully one of the best. I always lives Wrath of Khan and Undiscovered Country myself with Voyage Home being close behind.

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Two words: Catherine Halsey. She was an ONI officer and had the same thing about her.The Spartan 2 program was where she did her worst crimes against humanity and even then that was mostly out of desperation.

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Basically Twilight is going to ascend during this story? it's basically the equivalent of the Spartan 2 augmentations for a pony. I guess that's why you didn't make her an Alicorn outright as she should be by this point in the timeline if you're mentioning Rockhoof and hearthswarming

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May I make a suggestion if you're going to use the doctor? Since we know that Spartan 4 mjolnir can be used by relatively augmented humans along with Twilight ascending she get a version of that like a prototype that Halsey was developing to satisfy the so-called "cost effectiveness problem" could even use the Mark 7 nanotech as part of how it reshapes itself to Twilight after all that's how the person using Mark 7 in Cannon made it look like they're mark 5 variant

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Rockhoof, along with the other pillars, are heroes from antiquity and well documented. So he doesn't have to be around yet for Twi to talk about him.

As for hearths warming, I tend to take the stance of t he series took place over a longer timeline than t he short span of time they claimed in the canon.

Right now, she isn't an Alicorn because this is taking place prior to the return of the Crystal Empire, which was Twilight's final test before they gave her Star Swirl's journal. She'll ascend, just not yet.

Going to like this one and add to my favorite stories so I can keep abreast of any updates you have. Like what I see and have read so far keep it up.

Stumbled upon this story, very interesting so far and things certainly gonna be going down, gonna be very interesting to see Twilight's reaction to the Brute's and very curious how different [no matter if it's significant or minor] things will go with Twilight there.

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Thanks :D I am hopeful to update soon, so thanks for the favorite!

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I am hopeful it will be an enjoyable journey to read! But we shall see!

Well now... you had my curiosity, now you have my attention. Can't wait to see how Twilight's presence affects the... "friendly" interactions no doubt waiting around the corner

Good read so far! Looking forward to the next chapter!

I'm liking Natalie. That give me bad vibes for her future. Loving this story gona be tracking it now.

And three, Lyra was right and Twilight was never going to live this down.

Hah! So it’s one of those Ponyvilles, eh?

Alright. I waited a bit for a few updates to come out before I started reading because there are so many horrible crossovers out there, and I wanted enough to see if there was an improvement trajectory if I didn’t like it at first.

Clearly that was wasted time, because this is good from start to not-finish. I’ll be quite happy any day I see this update.

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Yeaaah, the next chapter will be out soon? Sometime this week I hope, I sorta got blindsided by both life and writer's block.

But I am glad you have enjoyed the story!

Also, yes, Lyra is obsessed with humans, because y'know why not? Could be funny later in the story!