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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*sigh* I admit I started reading the greentext. Couldn't hold myself.
But good job nonetheless.
New chapter is here and it is amazing!
So not only is he going to be a Royal Engineer in the sense that he’s going to industrialize Equestria in a bid to improve the lives of it’s citizens, he’s also going to be doing some social engineering to make the batponies lives better by acceptance and inclusion?
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I was waiting for this scene. Would have been cheesy and confusing from a lesser author, but he pulled it off and the adaptation did too. Nice work!
Good chapter, but I was expecting a bit more pushback from Anon on the secrecy part.
How do there people expect to integrate the batponies back into society while simultaneously preventing any knowledge about them from spreading?
So far, nobody appears to actually be sharing why they're sticking with all the secrecy. And honestly, the absence of reasoning makes the whole thing feel rather artificial and contrived.
I've seen a lot of takes on thestral origins. Literal moon-dwellers is a new one, though.
I’ve always held the music from the first Parasite Eve as a standard for explaining things of a grim nature.
no wonder pony's put the roal sisters on sutch a high pedestal xD
Well... That was an interesting experience.
Sorcerous, ethereal experience from beyond mortal comprehension?
Anon: I sleep.
Biscuits and coffee?
Anon: REAL SHIT?
This really is the way I would imagine a being as old and experience as Luna to literally defy logic and reality with her mere presence and voice...awesome chapter but yeah I would like for Anon to interject or say something about the secrecy
Lunas "presence" is fucking rad. That aspect of the story/world building is, fucking rad. The perception/reality warping is *far out* really gives the Princesses that Divine Feel
Such a noble cause, though the enforced secrecy seems a little counterproductive.
I’d love to see Anonymous, his guards the Princesses all chilling on a super-casual day.
Well I will be, I was half joking but turns out I was right, she meant the batpony arrival.
And hey I think with this Luna will leave the room with a smile and with a friendship bond getting stronger between those two.
Last chapter set the stage. This chapter the heart of the show was revealed. What next i wonder?
Kinda sad everyone just forgive Sunbutts mistakes
I wonder if only the Ponys noticed the illusion show or if Anon has the biggest balls to just ignore it and focus dead on Luna.
Sooo... What about courting Batponys? Light there heart with the blaze of love and passion ♡
Anons Vip escort ( Ebonshield excluded ):
I think Celestia get off to easy... Why? That why:
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It's more likely that the moon-aura is a racial thing. Anon, being non-pony, might not even notice it. The same would likely go for other non-pony races.
Thats some serious dope, man.
Ok... Here is my plan to lure out Batponys... Ready?
M-A-N-G-O'Sssss...
Wait, I am confused. So which ponies have been living on the moon for 1000 years and which ponies went to sleep only just now waking up? Did they wake up on the moon as well? And what happened when they tried to attack Questria? It sounds like there were two different attack forces? Why are they separately defeated? How the heck did anyone live on the moon for 1000 years, what kind of society did they build? How did they live? How did they get back to the world? Have there been bat ponies living in a Questria during the past thousand years? I am confused.
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The Bat Ponies were banished along with Nightmare Moon for a thousand years. Nightmare Moon/Princess Luna/The Mother of Stars was the spiritual leader of the League of Stars cum Batponies while she slumbered on the moon for a thousand years, before she awoke for her prophesied return. The batponies, who were banished to the moon with her, spent those thousand years awake on the moon, planning their vengeance and conquest of all Pony kind.
As for the rest of your questions, they are very good questions, indeed!
Having Anon work for the benefit of the bats without being fettered by dadt would have been better and would have shown a lot more trust. It also would have worked better. Heck, she could have trusted her sergeant and left it to her to control what could be let out because there could be reasons.
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When Luna rebelled and tried to take control of Equestria from Celestia a 1,000 years ago, some amount of pony followers calling themselves the League of Stars (which were all conformed of Unicorns, Pegasi, and Earth Ponies) joined her. While Nightmare Moon fought Celestia in 1v1 combat the League of Stars fights the ancient equivalent of the Royal Guard.
Once Celestia defeated and banished Nightmare Moon to the moon, she gave the option to the League of Stars of rejecting Nightmare Moon and repenting or joining her in exile on the Moon. Many ponies repented, but some chose to be exiled instead to the moon.
Seeing as the moon was inhospitable for pony life, with the last shred of her power Nightmare Moon turned the exiled League of Stars ponies now on the moon into Bat Ponies, and then went to sleep for 1,000 years. In that time, Bat Ponies (now calling themselves the Children of Stars instead of League of Stars have been living and thriving for 1,000 years on the moon, getting ready for the return of Nightmare Moon.
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As for DADT, it will be discussed in the next and further chapters and explained how and why it came to be.
I still wonder if the pony princess powers do anything when confronted with an anon.
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You should read the latest chapter, it answera those questions.
And, amusingly, being somewhat immune to the subtleties of magic by dint of his human nature, Anonymous witnessed naught but a princess speaking to him from across an office room.
I cannot put in to words how much I loved this chapter. Just reading the experience that the Honor had from her perspective was one of the most exhilarating things I've read in a while! I love any story that can bring out and showcase the Princesses' divinity like this. Keep it up!
Hell yeah, ethereal weed magic, that's rad. On a more serious note, that was pretty intense, awesome chapter.
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That's what happened to The Moon Rises! Thank you!
Stellar Ebonshield? I thought her name was Purity Ebonshield
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Stellar is one of Ebonshield's titles. Glamerspear's internal thought processes mocked it during her Manaburn induced emotional episodes.
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My best guess is that DADT is more a reaction to the batponies themselves than to potential Equestrian reactions. Because as worrisome as it is that some ponies might know of and let those ancient stories color their beliefs, they probably generally still have great faith in their Princess(es), who are saying that batponies are 'okay.'
But batponies have had a thousand years of planned aggression, and it's been less than a generation since they found out they were in the wrong. You're going to find that a lot will be hard-pressed to give up their world-view even when their Goddess says to do so. Some of the truly obstinate may give that up only in death (even if it's just via aging). If the rest of Equestria learned now that a large portion of the batpony population is still struggling with thoughts of overthrow, things could get so much worse very quickly.
I think DADT is part of trying to present to Equestria only those batponies who can comport themselves, so that the rest of Equestria doesn't justifiably turn on them, and to give the rest of the batponies time to "mellow out."
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https://woonastuck.tumblr.com/page/187
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DADT is still a Bulshit rule. I mean; yeah i see how it came to be, but if no one make a move to understand the otherside, the only information to rationalize what Thestrals are, are the rumors and spieciest story.
And there are ponys that had nither heard or cared for this story when confronted with a thestral; Best to see by Artemis.
Sure most ponys will still juge by appearance and superstition and the process to reintegrat thestral into a modern sociaty wil take more then decades . But there to be no effort at all for a reintegration is absolutly abhorend.
Btw. a pretty d*ck move from Celly, to just not include the idea from Luna from th begining or make sure that the guard is adequart prepared or to consult with Luna and make new plan after she had forgotten the inclusion of Thestrals in his Quarturnion. Lunas idea is not bad ad'all; it is also the seemingly only step she took for Thestrals to came out. Foalsteps and such.
Celly is also pretty forgetfull to give Anon, an Alien from another world, who has absolut no idea of even an beginning of equestrian society's decorum and manerrism, disregarding the hight-society of nobels, with no teacher or guidline. Just throse him in there to deal with it by himself. it didn't need to be one of his guards; an assistent or something like that would help to.
Either she forgot or she mantiond it and her subordinates disregarded it or she thourgt that her ponys will have a plan amd forthought for this matter. Regardless it shows the lack of communication in all the Organisation structure.
Well after this rant,
Thanks for the Chapter.
I can't wait for the next one and hope you are not overworking yourself with dayly chapter releases.
(sorry for the bad english, hope you can understand me non-nativ english speaker)
Uhhh another question is Batpony the slang or derogetory or the actual discription of the Thestral species?
And, is Anon afectet by the Ilusions/Legilimency the drama Princess Luna had put on everyone else?
realy her point could not be made without the hole specialeffect-thing from her?
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Ops, yeah I've forgotten about that
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At the risk of beating a dead horse and spoiling something: DADT isn’t there because of old prejudices.
Related thought to my earlier comment:
Does Luna's room happpen to contain a basket made from strange seaweed and/or a picture of a pair of young batponies?
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I don't follow.
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I have provided the path, you must walk it yourself.
Translation: I'm tired, go read the comic. Is gud.
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I already went through it. It's cute but I don't see any batponies.Never mind. Earlier it got to the binoculars and then it looped back to the beginning. This time it didn't. Guess the page load just fucked up.
This is the update that pushed my lore & worldbuilding buttons back in the land of greens and continues to do so now. Love it! Absolutely love it!
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thank you for showing me this
The stars will aid in her escape
Is this memeing upon moon nazis? :D
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Shhhhhhhh
How else do you xpect there to be needless drama?
i understand now.
She is a good mother at all ^^
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I feel slightly offended xD
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If it's stupid but works. It isn't stupid.
Wow that was magical to read. No pun intended.
Thank you!