Chapter 108
I slowly moved around the dream portal before me. Fluttershy was sleeping peacefully back in Ponyville again, surrounded by her animal friends.
I didn’t know if she wanted to come with us when we moved, but she’d get the option, same as everypony else.
Luna watched as I felt the dreamportal, slowly circling it.
“You’re right,” I said after a moment, “It does feel different. It’s there, but just barely. She no longer feel like a pegasus,” I said and looked over to Luna, “Was that there before, but the curse was masking it somehow?”
She nodded, “That’s my theory,” she agreed, “But it should always have been there.”
I nodded and touched the dream again, feeling for the signature of the thestral before I reached out into the dream realm, shifting dreams around before I stepped back and looked.
Hundreds of dreams had gathered before us. How many…
I tapped my hoof against the not-ground and shifted them around into groups of ten by ten dreams before I took to the not-air to make it easier to count.
Ten. Fifteen. Twenty. Twenty-three and a bit.
I went down to land again, gaping at Luna, “Two thousand three hundred and some,” I said as I stared at her, “And that’s just the ones asleep right now.”
“You found them,” Luna said with a smile and moved up to give me a small kiss.
I nodded, “Say two thousand five hundred, three thousand at the upper limit, Sparks and Midnight can handle decursing maybe five a day if they do nothing else, but three is more reasonable. Which means that if they started today, it will be done in… two and a half years or so, say three because ponies need breaks,” I sighed.
Not like anypony else could even cast the spell! Apparently the mix of control and power meant only the element of magic could cast it and only with help from somepony just as good.
I sank down and shook my head, “This isn’t going to work,” I finally said, “I can’t ask them to go into the jungle with us for three and a half years! They’re needed here, what if you need the elements!”
Luna moved up next to me, putting her wing across my back and pulling me close, “Page… I think the elements are going to be spread out anyway. I think Miss Fluttershy would go along with the rest.”
“And leave her animals behind? Don’t think so.”
“I think it’s more like they would come as well,” Luna said with a small smile.
“Ah,” I sighed and leaned against her, “Sorry for being a bit whiny.”
“You’re not whiny,” Luna said seriously, “You’re overwhelmed,” before she smiled, “You should see the minor panic attacks my sister had when we started to form Equestria.”
I looked at her in surprise, “Panic attacks? Sunshine?”
Luna giggled, “Indeed,” she said and then sighed, “And me as well. It gets easier with experience and age, My Page.”
“Maybe I should take lessons or something,” I said and leaned against her.
Luna blinked and then smiled, “I think that’s an excellent idea!”
I looked up at her in surprise, “Huh? What do you mean?”
Luna smiled at me, “Well, my sister and I do have experience in these things. We’ll teach you!”
I shifted my wings beneath hers, “I...I don’t know…” I said with a frown, “Where would we even find the time?”
“Like this,” Luna said and nuzzled at my ear, “It doesn't take all night to handle the dreams of ponies. We can handle a couple of hours of lessons.”
I frowned, “But that’ll cut into Luna time.”
She grinned at that, “I don’t know about that, I think that might be useful as a… incentive to do well?” she said and the dream realm around her rippled, leaving her wearing a short skirt, white stockings and a white blouse, her mane tied up into a ponytail.
Oh.
Wow.
“Well, that’s different,” I said and grinned, “That works!”
She smiled playfully, “I thought you’d enjoy that idea,” she teased before she shifted her wing with a small frown, “But realistically, most of the lessons would be with my sister. She always was the one who was better at the things you need to learn. Organization, delegation and politics.”
“I guess that makes sense,” I admitted with a small grumble. Damn it, I had hoped we could-
“If you ask nicely, maybe she can dress up too,” Luna teased with a small nuzzle at my ear.
I blushed at that mental image and then quickly rolled to bring my hoof into contact with her ribs, starting to tickle her.
Luna squeaked and quickly scrambled away before sticking her tongue out at me before diving out of that plane of the dream realm.
I quickly rolled onto my hooves and spread my magic out, tracking her before following.
The chase was on!
A couple of hours later Luna rested her head against my chest as I stroked her mana softly as we relaxed among the dream portals leading to Griffon dreams, “I had… I had hoped there would be more of the- of us,” I said gently, “It would have given us more options.”
“Such was?” Luna asked and nuzzled softly at my coat.
“The village idea,” I admitted, “It was never optimal. But if there had been tens of thousands of thestrals, even ten thousand… there had been more options. Encourage more to reveal themselves, encourage more education. More… dispelling of myths and other stupid fears about how they are. But with only two and a half thousand, even with all that most ponies will never see or meet a thestral. With no chance of it working, how could I possibly ask any more to go through the ritual just for that? But with two and a half thousand… it’s not a matter of acceptance right now.”
Luna lifted her head to look at me, “It’s not?”
“Not only at least,” I said and looked up at her, “It’s a matter of survival now. With that few… another hundred, another two or three hundred years, there might not be any thestrals left. At least not enough to keep a stable population. Before.. Or during… anything else, thestrals need something that’s theirs. Something they can call home, know they have a solid foundation. Somewhere they can be safe and comfortable. To not be shattered to the winds in small family groups, if even that. I had hoped… I had hoped there would be more.”
Nodding, Luna bumped her nose against mine, “You give them that. My sister and I will address things here.”
Smiling sadly, I pulled her into a gentle kiss.
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and now page will finally learn how to princess
I am kinda hoping the numbers are wrong, after all, it would not surprise me if Threstrals have a different sleeping schedule than most ponies so many of them could be awake at the time.
But I doubt it.
You'll need to start screening them now and start arranging marriages. Just barely enough for a stable population. Even if bats keep surfacing in the regular population if too many are lost due to predators or nobles you might as well change them to pegasei and accept the loss.
10514900
With or without crown?
10514914
the curse might be affecting that. Still... any number smaller than ten thousand is cause for alarm.
"Cadence, I swear to Celestia, if you go into the basement again, I'm staging an inter-"
*is a potted plant*
2,500...
That is not a lot. But it is better than nothing.
I think I read somewhere that to have a healthy genetic make up to avoid in-breeding problems further down the line; 20,000 people would be a comfortable threshold to have diversity. Don't hold me to that though. I'm just a guy from the internet.
Page will fix it though. I am deciding to be optimistic today.
My pessimistic thoughts can take a hike for this one.
Really not digging this whole colony idea. Yeah, things would be rough if they just got rid of the curse and tried to integrate with the rest of the pony population, but trying to send them all to one area out in the wilderness? They'll just become isolated and even less real to the rest of Equestria. Not to mention that with just bat ponies in the town (or even just a vast majority) they'll be missing out on the things the other pony tribes provide. Shoot, it's basically voluntary exile to a pretty horrible place they know nothing about, is filled with pony-eating predators, has no infrastructure, and is far from any other civilization. To Tartarus with that.
And Fluttershy going down there? I just can't see it happening. She's got friends in Ponyville and she's comfortable there, she just doesn't seem like the sort to pick up everything to go on that kind of adventure. And all her animal friends? Having them go with her down to a jungle filled with predators is ridiculous.
Numbers, colonies and crowns oh my.
That's at least a medium-well Oof, there.
10514971
True...
But those studies assume they come from the same stock or even a region. Things are looking kinda good on a genetic level.
Luna said that they were rare back when. So a thousand years where they are hiding from everyone including each other. Meaning the chances of bat on bat is astronomically small. While they all hail from the same tribe it has been so long that inbreeding will not be a problem for the first generation. They have muddled bloodlines so much with the other tribes they are about as related to each other as they are to Celestia. I think you only need to be twice removed before it is okay.
So 2,500 is a perilous number but it might still be doable. There is still the Legion, immigrants and, if the cure is easier to break and done to the masses, more bats can start trickling in as non-bat parents win a proverbial lottery.
10515006
Of course...
That assumes the curse is not messing with the genetics. In which case only the current bats are able to make more bats. And Page; a fresh source...
10514914
its difficult because nobody, not the writers or even fimfiction can pin down the population and density of equestria. its a problem with the soft approach to everything, like the crystal pony tribe is even more screwed, they have at max a few thousand in that city and they don't have any other crystal ponies anywhere else but there, so say a common disaster destroys the crystal city, that's it. they're functionally extinct.
as it is, page (or hiver) hasn't really investigated what the incidence rate of having a batpony would be on a non-cursed but mixed relationship, if it requires specifically two thestrals then he's going to be going down some seriously sketchy territory by essentially trying to force thestrals to pair up. this almost requires them to covertly establish an agency of the crown to handle, so they can pull from a larger prospective, and because they need to work out the logistics of breaking the curse
Mane
HA! This chapter made my checklist valid. Especially the bloodmagic Argument since they cant have big loses to the Thestral population!
There for removing the bloodmagic is shooting himself in the knee.
10514916
That bullshit. Than leaving em alone entirely is better.
Less tax wasted, curse already ruine Thestral birthrate plus they cant mate with eatch others if they left alone. Same argument with climate change or saving dying races like white tigers, pandas, humans and lions.
10514916
For comical effect you might use 'tiara' since that would be the female equivalent 
Its private time. Dont think any of use would wear a crown
10514919
That why breeding us the number one priority. Its literally a pony tribe dying out. Cut on nobels pocketing themself overcharged monthly payments and pump it into the tribe. Terminate the opposition like Naysay since he literally trys to do genoside. Subspecies is still its own race if its that different in body structure un ny eyes.
10514931
Doubtful. Cadance obsession is a funny comment story but the moment you hurt her familie its no longer fun but a seriouse mental condition.
Humor in limits.
10514914
Agreed! They've almost exclusively had the fact they need to be diurnal to blend in taught to them from very early foalhood.
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You have a good point here and there but you miss major points.
1. Yes you create a rallypoint that if possible has 90% or more Thestrals. You need to maximum the Thestral birthrate after all. We are below 20.000 requirement already.
2. PRIORITYS cultural development and integration is literally pointless if they die out.
Equestria is not dependant on them.
3. Infrastructure is there but its weak. Every colony has that. But its not like we play 'Anno-gameline' here we have Equestria to finance the Colony, supply em with blood and food/medication and professionals for non biast education and development.
4. Isolation toward pony population yes BUT it presents perfect ground to integrate Changelings and Griffons etc. The Changelings will be the guards and caretaker of the pony Thestral. Griffons will help the population with hunting experiences that is in there very nature and improve familiarity with non Ponys.
5. You forget again the prioritys. Fluttershy had no fellow Thestral and there for isolated herself and surrounded herself with NON PONYS. Pretty telling...
If you have the choice between 7 good friends ( Aj, Rainbow Dash, Rarity Bell, purple smart, Spike the Dragon, Pink Terror, Discord - Discord is not even Ponyville bound ).
Fluttershy final can be herself. Make a lot more friends and even find a lover! Hell... Stallion will activly come and whoo her on themself anf Fluttershy have only to accept what in turn even makes her social problems no longer a point of concern.
*Celestia wearing a tight-fitting pantsuit with teacher glasses*
Celestia: I heard from my sister you need to be...*wacks a ruler against the desk*...educated.
Page: *gulp*...yes madam!
Celestia: Ok then~! We'll start with macroeconomics!
Page: *pout* Well THAT got way less sexy...
Celestia: Don't talk back to your teacher! *wacks ruler on Page's hoof*
Page: OWWWW!
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Especially since good students get reward ( snu-snu with breaks ) wile bad students get punisment ( Chrysalis and Skitter join in snu-snu without breaks food,water,toilet breaks not counted ). ♡
10515111
1. We don't yet know how the removal of the curse affects offspring. Because of the Cakes (two earth ponies having twins that are a pegasus and a unicorn), predicting what tribe future foals will be is anyone's guess. Putting all of the bat ponies in one place and saying "These are your recommended partners." is a pretty messed up way of going about things.
2. Sending them off to a jungle filled with pony-eating monsters is likely to hasten their extinction more than anything else.
3. The thing is, normally colonies are created for a reason, such as expansion or resources. The jungle is inhospitable and it's unknown if there are any resources there worth the risk. Even if there are, sending an endangered species to such a dangerous place is a terrible way to go about it, especially if many of those ponies aren't prepared for such a situation. They'd have support from the kingdom, but much of it would be days away at the very least.
4. What do changelings and griffons have to do with this? Why drag them into this disaster that they have no stake in? Based on what we've seen of the jungle, griffons and changelings would be too far down on the food chain to serve well as guards or hunters in that environment. Griffons have been shown to be selfish, so why would they want to go to a jungle they know nothing about and is filled with things that will be all too eager to kill them? And the changelings have enough problems already to get involved in this. My point about isolation is that the bat ponies will be far from the rest of Equestria's population and many of the ponies back in Equestria would just forget about bat ponies entirely since they never see or interact with any of them.
5. As for Fluttershy, how much of that is just her personality and how much of it is a result of her being a bat pony and hiding it? Helping bat ponies gain recognition, acceptance, and understanding among the rest of the ponies of Equestria would help her a whole lot more than sending her off to a colony full of other bat ponies to continue hiding from the rest of the world.
You keep talking about priorities, what exactly do you think they are here? Yeah, it's really bad that the bat ponies have such a low population, but this plan Page has really isn't conducive to increasing that number. Getting their numbers up is important, but you have to remember that they're all still their own person. You can't just round them all up and ship them off to start a colony without being called a monster.
The way I see it, they need the following to reasonably start a colony in the jungle:
1. Colonists with the skills and desire to leave everything behind to go out and start building their lives over pretty much from scratch. They'd be leaving behind friends, jobs, and a reasonable expectation of comfort and security.
2. More knowledge about what is in the jungle and what they need to prepare for. Is it nothing but dinosaurs in there now? If so, hunting is out. What about fruit? What is safe to eat and what isn't and how do they grow it?
3. Personnel. They'll need guards, construction workers, farmers, weather ponies. Some of the bat ponies may fall into those categories, but the majority probably won't. How many are animal caretakers, astronomers, sculptors, artists, etc.?
tl;dr - Sending an endangered species into a monster-infested jungle you know nothing about is a terrible idea. It would be much better to focus on making the bat ponies welcome in Equestria. With them all outed, they'd likely congregate in some areas where the weather is to their liking and if they're all nocturnal, they'd likely be spending more time with each other than other ponies anyway and be more likely to form relationships. Yeah, it'd take a very long time, but that's the nature of trying to help a population recover. They should be playing the long game here instead of gambling on this crazy colony idea.
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I think that most peeps (Maybe even the author as well) did not even think about thinking about seeing this as a opportunity to integrate the other creatures that aren't a part of the primary trio of tribes. (And aren't already widely accepted in equestrian society)
10515092
I assume the bullshit is about "accepting the loss"? Not sure as sentence and paragraph structure is horrible. I'll answer as best as i can;
If there are not enough bats there are not enough bats. I agree; its bullshit. But absolute. Unless we turn other ponies into bats nothing can be done in that event. Which is why i suggest turning them into pegasei. The bats can't recover so "GG ancient unicorns, you win" and sweep whats left into the pegasei and end the bigotry by no pony left to target. Let the vampony legends fade away. The Royals will remember and they will do better.
Not sure where you are going with climate change and what argument, specifically, you refer to... leave it alone? Let god sort it out?
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10515014
Valid points. But let's also remember, there's no need for urgency to "cure the blood curse" once they have migrated to their colony.
In the company of their own, they don't have to work at keeping themselves hidden for one. And some might be able to convince their normal-pegasus relatives to join in as well and help with integrating thestrals into the rest of Equestria society while essentially existing as a semi-autonomous principality a la the Crystal Empire.
As been brought up before, the "blood curse" might also simply be an adaption to living with the dangers of the jungle. And given the drain on the Twilights when they try to remove all the curses, it's going to take a LOT of time, and the colony gives those waiting plenty of time to make more thestrals, as well as enough data to see if removing the curses is really in their best interest or not. Even if it turns out that the "cure" is actually detrimental to the race, with all the time and effort it takes to remove the spells laid upon the thestrals, there will be very few ruined thestrals about should it be decided to abandon the effort to remove the spells.
10515168
Except, it's already known that the jungle is far more favorable to their comfort than anywhere in Equestria. And since the vampiric thestrals are so much physically stronger than either the current ones in walking about in hiding or the fully "cured" ones, it's very likely the vampiric condition was an adaptation to living in the jungle--while it's yet to be seen whether that vampiric adaptation was natural or deliberate.
10515203
Nothing is lost until ones gives up. Surrender and its over. Perhaps they really dont have the numbers to geneticly savely create more in the long run IF its by random. I thing if the striktly add some requirements like every mare need x number of foal with different stallion its easy to archiv. Moral is a luxuary outside of war and extinction level treats.
I would be encourage them via monetary support helping them to raise the foal with Changelings to make it easyer integrate them to Thestral sociaty and passivly creat massiv supplys for Changelings in the long run.
Example: Every mare needs to have 5 foals lets say 1 foal every 6 years. If the Mare cant raise em with Changeling help the Changelings take over the individual foal. I think Chrysalis would be in approval.
10515168
Its a messed up situation. At one point you have to make things work. Also if your dating pool of your Village is 9/10 Thestrals i doubt it will be a problem.
Agreed. That why i think Bloodmagic and legion training will need to become mandatory.
Blank Page Legion will be the most elite branch of military soon. Since they are Ponyville 2.0 on steroids.
Ressources are rich ( wood, plants, meat, magic research opportunitys, rock and perhaps gems ).
Indeed, the start will be very difficult but you will create a massiv economy boom. Food, material etc need to be transported. More airtransport companys/builder will be spawned. The crews to fill em will increase jobs for that alone. Soldiers for defense will need to be hired and trained. The Expeditions inside the jungle alone will be a massive tourist boom.
Griffons when generaly invide is send out will come there for.many reasons. There economy is down the drain! Alone for that reason they come to join. As Guards, weather managers or food hunters. Perhaps evrn more. Jobs i cant think about right now.
Its already more than there own Kingdom can offer.
Changeling get most out of it. The will be Guard, caretakers in general and im pretty sure they will be do common that you find 1-3 in every Household ones they established the Village/City. The political benefits and feeding grounds are waaay to enticing for Chrysalis not to create a subhive there. Matter of factly ones they become everyponys overall helper there Naysay etc. will ne hard pressed keeping there Xenophobe campain up. Especially if Page keeps that development in the Newspapers.
Of couse only the ones following the offer can be influenced. The success will coax out the rest to join/follow. That why this high value opportunity project of Page will not only save the Thestral sub-race, improve Equestrias economy and cooperation between races but also kill of the Xenophobe notion of Equestria that seems to be focused in Cantetlot overall in time.
[To be continued...]
10515111
Where's this 20,000 Requirement coming from? I have heard in the past for re-population efforts with enough Genetic Diversity to do so without planning would need only a few hundred people, can't remember the exact number, and the lowest possible for it to work but with strict planning would be 160-180. They are well above the numbers I have heard in the past to create a stable population.
Perhaps something along the lines of Robert Heinlein's Howard Families. (see Methuselahs Children) would work.
Ira Howard sets up a program to encourage marriage between people who tend to have longer lifespans than the average person. Breeding for longevity was the goal.
Candidates were identified and then sent a list of people. If they just happened to marry someone on that list there were certain rewards. Financial grants, rewards for each child, scholarships and so forth.
Something along that line might work for Page.
Single threstrals are located and given a list of other single threstrals with Crown funded rewards,
Grants, payment for all foals (recessive genes in non threstrals) with enhanced rewards for threstral foals.
Very rough outline but the idea is there. Lots of other things to work out for pony society.
10515258
The hypothetical situation we are... arguing?... over is one that the bats cannot maintain a diverse genetic pool no matter what is done. Medical science is exhausted, ect. This means that the bats, eventually, will have to inbreed because not enough bats. Through that inbreeding we get defects, one such defect is sterility; the inability to produce offspring. So the bats die out. Those defects can be bred out but bats can't be part of it and it'll take a few generations leaving members of other tribes with the defects for X generations.
The hypothetical situation has reached a point of no return. Not giving up is great but your dooming untold hundreds to thousands of future bats to live life with potentially crippling defects. All that for them to die out anyways. That is why endangered species are so carefully screened and breeding controlled to the tiniest degree; to prevent this hypothetical (that you assume can be fought off with sheer will) from happening.
That is also why Page shouldn't go all the way to the jungle; he might force this vary hypothetical to occur.
10515350
Bloody hell... Never expected a Fox to be able to do this sounds.
10515354
Really? Only so few are needed? Ok... If that true im baffeld
10515358
Perfect example to lure the Thestral there to populate this area, work there and most importantly breed and grow in numbers.
10515373
That number of 180 is with genetic engineering and carefully arranged breeding, or something like that. If allowing things to proceed naturally, the minimum is something around 2,000 to 10,000. So 2,500 Thestrals is on the lower end of naturally viable
3rd last paragraph, shattered-skattered. Sorry, there are more typos but that one needs to be fixed.
Maybe not a colony but maybe a retreat, like a very large family reunion. Where thestrials can meet hang out and find others.
10515006
You do make some fair points.
The thing I was reading that statistic from was about space colonization I think, so the people that were brought along for the colony were all they had to work with for the foreseeable future. But like you said, Page and the thestrals are not alone with only the 2,500 to go from. I'd be actually surprised if some thestrals left their non-bat family behind, so we can assume that most would bring a +1, bringing our estimated numbers to 5,000 on the lower end? Just a very vague guess.
Different matter in space though. Space is scary and inhospitable.
But I still want to be one of the people to colonize it.
10515108
to be fair, there's a lot of roles in society that happen exclusively at night. equestria is somewhat industrialized so a certain portion of the population is up at night at least maintaining boilers, factories, and other things, there's the guard and police of various sizes maintaining order, and rail workers that have to keep the system running, port and mail workers transporting and offloading goods. Presumably there's something involved in managing cloud city movements so they arrive on schedule. If you're a batpony you probably can blend in working nights. Just ideas on how one could interpret Equestria's loose industrialization
Its one of those parts the show did portray right that in an agrarian time most people did sleep (especially since cows and livestock in Equestria can just take care of themselves) but 1000 years on ponies had reasons to be up all night.
10515168
Here's hoping Tia blasts his idea with yours.
I'm actually hoping that with them being nocturnal that those asleep are the minority. Good chapter though
10515771
I think a population of 5,000 on the low end is being very optimistic. Suppose you've got 3,000 bat ponies (Page did say that there were likely some that weren't sleeping at the time he made his guesstimate), how many of those are going to want to "come out"? Of the ones that come out, how many are going to want to go start this colony in a jungle (especially after hearing about how the expedition there went)? Now how many of those are going to be able to convince their family to come with or be willing to leave their friends and family behind? People gotta remember, ponies aren't like humans, who have historically proven themselves to have a strong desire to bend the world to their whims and be top dog. If these ponies have comfortable lives, I just don't see them wanting to throw it all away on a risky venture like this. I'd say of that 3,000 total bat ponies maybe half would be willing and able to leave to go start this colony. Then you're gonna need to send support with them (guards, craftsponies, organizers, etc.), which will be a significant number, especially since they're starting from nothing. Now how many families (of either the bat ponies or support) would go with them? By the time everything gets built and set up, how many of the support ponies will decide to just settle there instead of going back to wherever they came from? In the end, the bat ponies will still likely end up being very outnumbered, which defeats the purpose of creating a place just for them.
10515471
Thanks. Good to know there not so screwed after all. Still tough times ahead.
10515917
Also some fine points.
My 5,000 guesstimate was on the incredibly vague chance all the 2,500 thestrals would go, and that all 2,500 would bring one other along. With what you said you are right; 5,000 would likely be the high-end guess instead.
However, I have noticed that while the pony society lacks the same drive we humans have to push forward, they make up for it in loyalty. An example would be when Page asked for volunteers in Canterlot to try the (at the time) risky spell to remove the curse. All of them showed up, and only under the reason that they trust Page to do the right thing. There could be a lot of reasons we don't know for why these thestrals have such blind trust in Page for a tribe that hides itself in fear on a daily basis, but to me it felt a lot like the loyalty inspired by Celestia and Luna. I wonder if its a conditioned response over thousands of years to trust an Alicorn.
With that said, due to their trust in Page many more might come along than expected.
But of course, these are all just speculations based on what little we know.
2500 this is extinction level panic time.
this has to work.
10516073
The lack of information right now is the main issue. We don't know much about this piece of land Page acquired is, where it is, what's nearby, etc. And just how far does two million bits go? When are they planning on going? Are they going to try to remove the curses from all the bat ponies before leaving and make plans and prep in the meantime or are they going to head out immediately and cure ponies along the way? Are bat ponies just as capable of weather manipulation as pegasi? What's the food situation like where they're planning to go? There are just too many unknowns right now. However, even if it is the best place ever for a colony, I still maintain my stance that a colony is the wrong way to go about helping the bat ponies.
10516124
its not in the jungle, just on the outskirts. Page's expedition was deep, like days into the jungle. Presumably they're about as good at weather since they blend in right now but whether they have enough to tame wild storms is up in the air. Two million bits is gonna get eaten up very quickly if they aren't producing anything of commercial value (mangos, grow mangos!) but that all seems like par for the next story depending on how long this one goes, a timeskip is inevitable now.
10516073
alicorns are almost always the tallest, that's something even we humans can't seem to break away from.
10516263
Alicorns inspire loyalty and kindness when they haven't gone bonkers that is.
The most not fun comment section chapter of all stories of the one Hiver had made
11669620
Considering the chapter content that's not surprising...
You have lost me here.
If the problem will solve itself in 200 years or so doing nothing is the best course of action....
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