Well they stopped Cherry Scones from creating a balefire bomb , but won't the Enclave be interested in what was blowing their cloud cover up? Also I don't get why they think Aria is someone different either, good chapter

The more I read this, the more I love it.

You know I was just playing around with this fic a few days ago with one of my little "I'm going to write a fic and it will never see the light of day" things. Nice to see it updating.

This is one of my favorite Fallout Equestria Stories, keep up the awesome writing!

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Thank you all, I'm glad you like it. I've already begun work on Chapter 14 and hope to get it out before summer classes start back up in June.

4408804 Sounds like a plan, no plan survives first contact with the keyboard.

Are you going to end the story soon and leave it as that or keep going with some of the other loose ends (primarily Candace), in an 'End Act I' way?

Also, nice term- grammar legate. The human equivalent doesn't really apply in equestria, after all.

4447902 I still have 5 chapters left before I'm done with Act I. This will be a three act story so it's still got a good while left. Glad you enjoy the grammar legate term.

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I should start buying shares...

Three acts at your current word density will put you well in the range of megawords.

I am intrigued at the idea that magic exists between dimensions, since its obviously either a force or an action. Its a Force because it acts upon things in the universe, but its an action because it is intangible, like light.

How could such a thing exist between the universal dimensions?

If you don't understand, nvm.

4551761 Have you thought about time? It's an intangible thing, and some view it as a force of nature. At the same time, it's an action that moves things throughout its twisting coils at its ignorant whim, and none are able to control it. Time controls all, and magic could very well be used to explain the vast intricacies of time.

4682588 Time is a human measurement. Like weight, if time is taken off of Earth, it no longer has the same meaning. An hour is 1/24th of a solar day (how fast the earth rotates around its axis, during that time in its movement around the sun.) So if you are no longer on earth, say you're in space, where you're not rotating and light doesn't go directly on you, then what's the point of an hour?

As well, time doesn't have an effect on us. It's the change over time that ages people. Time doesn't cause iron to rust or lava to cool, just the other biochemistries and heat over time.

I would shudder to consider time is explained by magic, when even with magic, Twilight could only go back for a couple seconds, and only within a stable time loop.

Anyways, thanks for understanding! It's quite interesting.

4683296 You're welcome. My counter-argument for this: Time is an action that governs all of the other actions, which in themselves are reactions because it is Time that allows them to go on. Without time, there is no energy, and without energy, then there is no universe. Many people think that the Universe is three dimensions, but what are these dimensions without Time to shape them? Time is energy, and energy is the currency upon which all fundamental things of this Universe function. Time is energy is money.

In space, where there is no true orbital vector, time is still present, because the inertia generated by the minute gravity that is exerted on you from every singular mass in space moves you still, and those gravitational sources themselves move about eachother in an endless dance of gravity, inertia and space.

Another thing that people don't realize is that Space and Time are really the same. What is Space, nothing? But, giving a name to this so called "nothing" indeed makes it something. Space is intangible. As is time. Space is filled to the brim with energy and other subatomic particles that transfer that energy while being wholly unaffected by it. Time is that energy, those particles commonly known as Dark Matter, and it is Time that is Space itself. Time allows all to exist, so spend what little time it allows you to exist as an impossible consciousness wisely.

4683340 The misconception then is that time creates this time-space where the ageing occurs. So they think this therefore gives time another 'dimensional property'.

So, to clear up this misconception. If something has just changed, yes it now occupies a new form (and you can calibrate this change from old form to new form using time); but equally well it's lost its old form - that's now overwritten. Time isn't some on-going extension - or at least if it is, then the past shrinks as quickly as the future extends - so there is a net nothing. We simply exist in a momentary instant of a particular universal configuration, which changes continually, to a next instant and configuration. All individual objects have their own event (time) series. They are unsynchronized (at least there seems to be no evidence that they are synchronized). There is no universal frame by frame advance, just merely unsynchronized events happening individually.

In other words Time has no depth or dimensional properties. We exist in the merest slither of 'time' which changes (advances) only as events happen. And events overwrite what previously existed in the slither, so the slither never need have any depth (and "depth" is just an approximation caused by the observer's de-minimis limitations). The slither of time is as small as the observer can make it - limited only by the 'instantaneous-ness' of quantum events.

And the real truth is that as there are zillions of events happening all the time and they are unsynchronised, there probably isn’t a ‘moment’ when there isn’t something happening in the universe somewhere. So an ‘instant in time’ probably never actually occurs.

*Edit: This was taken directly from this source: http://www.thisistime.co.uk/time-allows-ageing/ *

Space can exist outside of time, like when you talk about wormhole theory and FTL. The fact is, Time cannot be inter-dimensional, because it doesn't effect the universe.

4683619 The Universe and Time are independent of each other, yet run completely parallel and are synonymous. The Future consists of chances of what will happen in the Present, the one point of time that is perceived spontaneously. As we "progress" in Time, the possibilities of each individual Future is narrowed down as each action and reaction occurs independent, yet reliant, of each other action and reaction, eventually Presenting itself.

The events of the Past are merely echoes of the Present and Future, extended as a memory within the strings of the Continuum that permeates the Universe as Space. And while the Past has already been decided, the Future can still be touched by those echoes, and create more chances of something occurring in the Present, showing as yet more nonlinear events that when arranged in such a way with the echoes, creates the prospect, the illusion, of a solid Timeline.

((I feel like we're working together on a University thesis))

4683678 (Aren't we completely at odds though? I still don't think that Time is dimensional, or even 'real' in the scientifically provable sense.)

I don't think that space and time are linked, really. Space-time seems to be a sticking point, particularly for scientists. Einstein showed that space and time are connected. And he did this without a full understanding of what time is, else he would have put it in with his theory.

So breaking down time does impact on what we think we understand space-time to be. But the starting point to that has to be to understand time itself.

Time makes no causal impact, it has no outcomes, it doesn’t do anything; there’s nothing to evidence it has an existence - you can't see it, hear it, smell it or touch it (all we observe are events). It's not like speculating about say, gravity - where the effects of gravity can be seen, proved and hypothesized. Time causes nothing, affects nothing and produces nothing. How can it be a science problem then?

1. There are TWO root dictionary definitions of time:-
a) as an abstract framework for measuring, reference and indexing events (i.e. the t in science); and
b) as a non-specific collective term that refers to events (the unfortunate phrase 'time passing' is only actually evidenced by events happening).

2. Period (or interval or duration) appears to justify the existence of time; after all period is defined as a division of time. Here we show that period and interval are definable in terms of events only. And once you have defined period in terms of events, time itself becomes redundant.

The above two points, taken together, determine that time can always be expressed explicitly in terms of something else - events (or happenings, or change if you prefer); and hence time ceases to be a necessary concept - it's merely a useful abstract. Everything can be explained outside of the need for the word time.

So, if time doesn't actually exist, except through a backlog of events, how can it be the way magic works, since magic is supposedly extra-dimensional? Dimensional as in 4-D existence. (I am working under the assumption that magic exists. However, it is a force, and it is an action, so what IS it, because nothing can be both a force and an action? Btw, if we do solve this problem, can we like, post it here on FimFic? Just like, our conversation? Do you think that would fly?)

4683756 Precisely. I'm glad I have found someone that can keep up. I wonder if there is such a thing as "the study of Time?" That would be pretty neat.

((Probably, but we'd have to ponify ourselves...or make it an argument between Twilight and a human.))

4683811 Yup, its called Horology.

4685998 Beautiful. Whorology, eh? huehuehuehue

4687990 That's incredibly mature of you. Your intelligence surpasses all understanding.

4688791 Why thank you, kind sir. I am, after all, only of the age of 24 years. I am prone to such...childish behaviours, as a result of my younger physical age.

4688807 Undoubtedly. But, as a mere child of 18, I find your use of lewd discourse both unrefined and barbaric. Now, how shall we deal with this problem? Pistols at dawn or a sword fight?

4688857 I'm afraid I have you at a disadvantage in both regards, as I am a Scadian Knight captain, and an accomplished marksman. Mayhaps there are other dueling formalities that we have an advantage over either?

God this is fucking awesome. I love your story telling so much

I'm guessing you didn't make the school deadline?

4785057 Sadly, I did not. I got really sick during the break, then school kicked my butt. I am, however, about 3/4 done with the new chapter. Sorry I keep taking so long.

4788078 My stuff is much more delayed, I can't complain too much. Take your time, I'd rather good stuff than garbage anyways.

Ah, saw this over on the ELP forums!
Probably gonna read this next seeing that I am done PH (Until part 70 comes out!)

4826700 Hope you enjoy it. And yes, I'm still working on Chapter 14. Life keeps getting in the way and this is such a major chapter I keep rewriting things cause I want it as close to perfect as I can.