For his hard work to the Crown, the Royal Engineer of Equestria has been honored with a retinue of VIP bodyguards who protect him everywhere he goes. Their ordinary, everyday adventures together wind up being anything but ordinary.
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Oh boy. Will our Royal Engineer make the link with old Warhammer Forty Kay ?
The Whirlwind is a good name. And the Epona would work better for a prototype plane.
Makes me wonder if the ponies have myths that involve Sleipnir. Maybe more Earth Pony myths ?
*BEEP* *BEEP* *BEEP* Oh what's that? It sounds like the 'this is a bad idea' alarm is going off.
And that can only mean my 'this will not end will well' indicator will be off the charts next chapter.
Hoo boy. Feeling secondhand anxiety for fictional characters is something I'll never get used to. Considering the story this far has been 90 percent slice of life, I'm just waiting for whatever thing to come along and blow up in our heroes' faces.
Personally, I think disguising Purity is a short-sighted mistake. I understand we want ponies to be more receptive to this new technology, but we also want progress with the prejudice that bat-ponies and equestrians have for each other, and seeing them work together on a battlefield would likely bring a lot of progress with it. I am definitely interested in this trinket Purity has mentioned, though. I wonder if whatever it is could give Anon a disguise as well...
nice references lol now imagine a Whirlwind
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painted with orange and white
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Plot twist: Anonymous gets into HH, but plays the local version of Tyranids (Parasprites?) instead of any of the tech-based armies
Beautyful lore! Magnificent chapter & great amount of details. Awesome storyline
Before anyone asks, 'SPAD' is short for "Self Propelled Anti-Aircraft Defense system".
ebony darling, it will not doo well for the reputation of the batpony's if you steal evreything you need xD
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I think the major reason for disguising the Sergeant isn't that it's not a good idea to show her working alongside the other members of the quat in front of Equestrians, but rather that if the Royal Guardsmen like Hoofstrong were to realize that a Batpony is part of the presentation they'd be prevented by DADT from divulging any information about the prototype and the presentation at all. The main reason for the prototype's showcase is to convince Celestia to do the investments to begin the Royal Engineer's industrialization project, but also to spread the word of his ideas and that of his book, not to facilitate the introduction of bat ponies into Equestrian society.
The RE will simply have to figure out another avenue by which Bat ponies might become more integrated with Equestrian ponies, but I think that he already has something in the works when he went talking almost all night with the Rocks in the Rookery.
This is such a good story
Ooooh riiiight it hasonly been two weeks since he has his guards...how time flies.
I think I said it in a previous comment, but I absolutely adore the way that, when the story is being viewed from ebonshield's perspective, the adjective-noun order gets flipped on occasion, the way a native spanish speaker will when speaking english.
also this story is like crack to me and I wish I had the self-control to hold off until I had several new chapters to read at once.
Wondering if the whirlwind is a reference to the Wh40k Imperial guard anti air platform
A pony driving a car, while a unicorn passenger is firing magical spears at a Pegasi in knight’s armor who’s using a magical rocket lance.
Why isn’t there any fanart of this yet? That is basically a poster image for pure awesome.
Lily takes great pride in her skills and not hitting a target is like a personal insult to her.
What are the odds she didn’t die in battle but in a tragic accident when she crushed headfirst into a wall while driving the lance.
Turns out Anon hasn’t just a huge amount of technological knowledge, he also knows how to make a good sales pitch.
Can’t wait for the first complains about how these inventions makes hard-working Earth Pony carriage drivers lose their jobs.
And another reason why this rule is just plain stupid!
So it’s two hours of “Llamrei asked species X to pull the chariot but for reason y they weren’t a good choice.” and by the point the story teller finally reaches the part with the Pegasi everypony must’ve fallen asleep.
No! Bad Bat! Bad! They are already several high-ranking Bat Ponies who hate you. Including your mom. If anything goes wrong and they figure out that you did this, you’ll be an outcast. Worse, this will also damage your VIP’s reputation and give Carmen a way to pressure Anon into her schemes.
Yes! So glad the car got named!
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Don't you mean the space marine rocket artillery tank?
If I'm not mistaken, the Imperial Guard self propelled anti air platform is the Hydra.
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Pretty sure it's just a reference to the Wirbelwind (Whirlwind), the German self-propelled anti-air gun
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I mean, there is a reference link at the bottom of the chapter...
Oh no. The Royal Engineer is a nerd.
As a former Tyranid player, Space Marine Whirlwinds give me nightmares... and now The Engineer is designing one.
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Wuz wrong with that?
Epona hu?...
link is gonna be piiiised.
"How about 'Whirlwind?" *horrifying flashbacks to War Thunder*
I love the world building and mythology you've come up with using legendary figures from our mythology Llamrei Is King Arthur's mare and Epona is a Horse Goddess in her own right.
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Eh, it's not really stealing per se as much as Scrounging!
"Scrounging and scavenging has developed into an art form because the bureaucracy that stands between front-line troops and supply depots often means that standard written requests take months to fill."
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NERD!
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10659904 I am a proud nerd, thank you very much. Wouldn't be here reading about pastel ponies if I wasn't.
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You mean the Anti-everything that exists at 3.7 or lower?
Interesting so she is gonna steal an illusion item of some kind to appear as a "Sun" pony? I wonder how this will backfire 😂
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For some reason I missed that...
Wirlwind? *yawn! Let me know he makes a Basilisk Earthshaker!
SHATTER THEIR SKY!
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Who can assemble a steam-powered car and fight equines in armor with his own suit and club.
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Hehehe, most of us Engineers have nerd blood.
Its nice to see things coming along nicely, nice lore on the legend of the pegasus.
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Yeah, that was cool. I also appreciated that they didn't default to Faust as the creator goddess.
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Pretty sure you would have named it 'sexy'
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Sounds about right. German Engineers were the best *smug face*
To bad the politics ruined everything *sad face*
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A suggestion. But there might be a better one. Not that i found one
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The best kind of nerd
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God i love this game. As long no russian op tank/planes etc are on the enemy team...
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*high hoof* (^.^)/)'(\(^-^)
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The best kind of nerd
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Yet...
I read "Whirlwind" and my brain went:
The wurblewind flakpanzer?
Yeeeap!
Whirlwind for single projecting unicorn mobile carriage?
If he scales up to dual, triple, quad independant swivel turretcorns, are those going to be Reaper class?
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It's a reference to the Wirbelwind, a German Flakpanzer using a Panzer VI Chassis.
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I forgot that game existed, wow. I miss zipping around in my tier one Tetrarch MK1 at high speed knocking out T-28s
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All those poort tanks...why would they expect a dedicated SPAA to actually be the best TD at its Battle Rating
Oh gods. They gave it The Name for a SPAA. I don't think unicorns are quite up to the laser-cutters a Wirbelwind spews out, but that thing can even give ground attack JETS a hard time.
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3.7? I think you mean any tank in the game!
Bootleg Warhammer GO!
Ahhhh, my days wasted away playing Company of Heroes came back hearing that name
Bopbopbopbopbopbopbop
Hmmm It's more of an 'ostwind' type than 'wirbelwind',
What's with having 1 "gun" instead of 4, unless you're saving that for the same type just to throw javelins.
Hehehe First thing i had in mind as i read whirlwind xD
Anon:
Glammer:
Sparks:
Honour:
Lomaghaoth- Irish- "Multi-wind"
So pegasi are Irish?
Well that can only go over well.
......You know, it's surprisingly easy to forget that, for all her laid-back attitude and willingness to defy tradition, Ebonshield IS still a Batpony that grew up on the dogma of Celestia being the Ultimate Evil. Granted, she seems to be content with what amounts to minor pranks, but still.
The Wirbelwind lives in Equestria...... this pleases me hehehe