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. We gonna see ourselves some history today!
Hmmm, Maybe Marcos isn't quite the minority he's been made out to be. We know that the reverend mother is scheming, but I wonder how far it really extends?!
well.........That's ominous
Every update a reason to celebrate the day/night
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True!
Ignacio is quickly becoming my favorite character. He's like that grumpy uncle that everyone still loves to hang out with.
The Crater of Nightmaremoons arrivel... That must be one big ass crater...
Perhaps even Alicorn shaped
Quick question before I continue reading this, is Celestia pushing him into something that directly opposes her own views going to be addressed?
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I don't know if I understand how you're interpreting things given your comment, but in the Greentext, whose most recent update will be chapter 136, there has not been another meeting or POV piece with Celestia as of yet.
Politics in general:
In other news... I really doubt this will go without a hitch... They get in trouble even if they activly try to stay out of em... Getting to the Moon surface invides it
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Like Alastor Moody.
aaah Lily... you are amazing ^^
Sparks dosent need a camera, only to show what she had seen
and so, drugs are going around...
allways xD
so she has a zoom function in her eyes too? xD
uuuuh the one where she got to the moon? neat!
awesome chapter!
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i think i would pay to visit where she landed ^^ heck i would try to invade Equestria to be send there if needed
Awesome chapter, I love how you do the bat ponies
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Yes this describes politics in General the same way that "What does the fox say" describes our attempts at discerning who to vote for in the upcoming elections.
I can see it now. Artemis, Lily and Ignacio all coming up to the lip of a massive crater.
"I 'ope hew comprende why los niños de los League de estrellas zink that there will never be peace"
The crater is filled with bananas.
The one thing everyone can bond over: butts.
Kind of awkward response, that "we certainly do". Would make more sense if it was something like "that they do".
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Maybe it's just me, but "that we do" is one of those phrases that feels like it jumps out and bites me in the nose when it shows up. I prefer keeping TheManFromAnotherTime's original phrasing there.
Watch out for that Moooooooooon.
The very best guards just dont get bored. The trouble is its a very rare capabilitiy to truely have with the required complexity of intelligent thought otherwise neeeded in a gaurd or soldier.?
Ignacious is alll, hey, easy water.
Disgusting habit. Give them good coffee as a gift. Sumatra beans and a french press or campfire percolator that the guards can use on duty.
Volcanic soil makes the finest coffee beans in the world. Maybe the Dragon Lands can start growing and exporting them.
That was a bad move bringing tobacco and smut AND gossip rags about Equestrian ponies in Anon's name. There could well be repercussions(likely with the lunars and diarchs). I also don't think Anon would approve image-wise.
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They brought sports and gossip magazines; nowhere does it say they brought smut. That said, Paris Match (upon which Canterlot Match is obviously based) does publish photos of topless women, but bare breasts are not as big of a deal in French media.
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Princess Celestia asked the Royal Engineer to promise not to build weapons when he got to the point of prototyping examples of the technological marvels he described existing on his world (our Earth, at least late-20th century or more)
Something like ten months later later, she assigned him 3 armed soldiers as an honour guard, which legitimized an interpretation of ancient Equestrian custom that cast him, as member of her Privy Council, as the equivalent of an armed feudal lord. This got him into trouble with Kilfeather's Pas de Sabots. After that, he was assigned another armed soldier from an offshoot race of ponies that had spent the last thousand years preparing for war with Equestria, and Princess Luna asked him to take on the responsibilities of helping to try to reconcile them into Equestrian society.
He came out of a formal challenge and later a murderous attempt on his life with an armoured vehicle that seems to have gotten the attention of even otherwise uninvolved members of the Royal Guard, in the form of Maj-Gen Hoofstrong.
I believe Celestia is a pacifist, but is also practical and flexible, and prefers to be "hands-off" in terms of rulership. Given that Anon has already created his armed contraption, and given that The Whirlwind seemed to impress a great number of soldiers at the presentation, and given that ultimately it's just a cart with some walls slapped on it, a war wagon which the Equestrians might have themselves used in the past, and finally given Anon's own contrition as well as Honour's stirring defence of his actions, she's willing to let this particular "bending" of his promise slide.
But now, since the cat is out of the bag for The Whirlwind, and since he's already trained a group of guards to use it as well as purchasing arms for himself (and taking combat lessons), the logical next step is a combat trial to determine if it even is a worthwhile invention at all. Kilfeather's vacant slot in the MXP Games' Grand Mêlée presents an opportunity that would otherwise be wasted, so why not put him and his guards and his war-carriage to work and see what they can accomplish? If they do well, all the better for spreading interest in this new industrial technology. If they don't, then she can continue to play things slowly with regards to his grand projects like the foundry. The Equestrian government's resources are not infinite, after all.
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Alright but it really doesn't make sense as-is. She appears to be responding aloud to her own thoughts as if someone else said them.
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She's segueing off of Artemis' interjection.
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I know. That's why the wording is awkward.
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I edited the sentence to "It certainly does." You win, this time!
Celestia and Ignacio need to have a conversation...
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You lost me at the next logical step, sorry. It is NOT a useless invention, she knows that. It's alright that she cares about the MXP games, even if it has never been stated before, but to have it be used to further develop military arms and inventions? Why? She wants the pacifist route hwre, doesn't she? She made him promise to make things not made to harm. Why would seeing a goddamned slot get filled in a game she should not hold such stake in outweigh the potentially extremely evil inventions that can come out of forcing him into battle? She is also helping/forcing him to market this thing as a weapon, even if he wanted to continue to better this thing in other ways.
Short: she wants the car to be a weapon, and knows (in her thousand+ years of wisdom)
Said in different terms: Someone is asked to make something to make making food easier or something. They invent the microwave, and have an eggbeater attatched to the side. Nobody gives a shit about the microwave because eggbeater is not good enough. Make the eggbeater better, ignore the microwave. Also now the eggbeater is more important than the microwave, that new invention. Develop the eggbeater so we can see if the microwave is viable.
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I said "worthwhile", not "useless". There's a difference between The Whirlwind being useful but not worthwhile vs it being useless. Obviously it is useful on some level.
If the Royal Engineer does turn "evil" and unleash some massive secret arsenal of warfare gadgets, it would be better to know sooner rather than later. The Grand Mêlée in 3 weeks is a harm-free way (what with the totems' protective powers) to test the thing he's built, the relationship he's established with his honour guard, and to give her a front-row seat to see for herself what happens when once again he is forced to fight.
She does not particularly care about the Whirlwind as a weapon. If the Royal Guard likes it, then they can work with the Royal Engineer to have it.
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Thumbs up for this one... I could completely see that. By the way, how is TLAP doing?
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Fair enough. Also, thanks for explaining this to me. I still disagree with Celestia's lack of pressure towards him making it less military focused, but at least it makes sense now. Thank you!
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Yeah, there are a few ways she could have played that, but the way I see it, going along with it seems like a good way. If she suppresses it, the military will bug her about it. If it wins the games, it's basically done and he can move on to peaceful stuff. If it loses, then he can move on to peaceful stuff. Either way, they stop bugging her about it immediately.
Are they going to the Sea of Tranquility?!
Let me guess, the one she crash landed in?
Hey, hey, hey.
Stay out of my craters.
Well, hello there little items which are surely to make a re-appearance at an opportune time later on.
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I know that's not much of an answer, but I have little to give here on another story. I really need to post a blog update at least. But Valheim with muh roommates...
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Checks off that comment...
Loved the music in the old Dune. I hope they do this new one justice.
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You have lovely craters this time of Eon.
I don't know what it is about that bat... but, for some reason, Ignacio reminds me a lot of Yoda. Good chapter... I look forward to more.
Ignacio is awesome, nuff said.
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They say nothing more and have a sip of tea. They then have a conversation in complete silence while everypony else is just confused. Would Ignacio even drink tea though? Or even coffee? Maybe more of a spicy hot chocolate. Hmmmmm....
born the cold → borne the cold
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Whoops. Fixed!
Ground zero
The crater Nightmare Moon made when she was banished to the Moon.
Decidedly ominous.
Deep and tough chapter. I wonder... How mutch the Eclipse can teach until they die off. How mutch will the Unicorn be able to learn? What will she pass on to future chapters?
I like the cross nation soldier to soldier bonding at the Rookery border.
Something about it reminded me of the WWI Christmas truce of 1914.