"I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man."
-Thomas Jefferson
Three hundred years ago, Equestria tried to assimilate Earth.
They failed. They fled, rather than face justice.
We moved on. We conquered the stars, we made a civilization that spans across the infinite void. We built true harmony between species.
We thought we'd seen the last of Celestia, but as a desperate mobile colony on the fringes of known space came to discover, we were wrong.
It is time to finish what was started by our forefathers.
Based on TCB: Not Alone, by Starman Ghost.
EDIT: Following Starman Ghost's deleting of Not Alone, I've replaced the above link with one leading to a PDF file uploaded to mediafire.
EDIT (14/04/2014): The character of Evening Star was originally created by Starman Ghost. I am using her without his permission.
I love it.
The first part makes me think of David Weber, with a touch of Robert A. Heinlein.
The second part evokes a little bit of Clancy and Cussler.
Nice to see it finally on this site.
>immediate thumbs up
>immediate favorite
Hot damn. Glad it's finally up here. When's the guesstimated release of chapter 2? As long as chapter 1, or was most of the time with 1 taken up by establishing the setting?
Firebird! Firebird! Firebird!
First thing I noice about this story is its word count. Time to start reading...
Firebird's of course awesome, but come on, Sunrise Glory needs some love too! I love me a scientific pony.
Now please let Celestia get a curbstomb to the flank. And also give Bon Bon her punishment. It's loooong overdue.
1855035 Long, long overdue... And poor Mayor Mare. :( Dammit, it's rare for me to find sympathy with her. Here, outright anguish.
Xenolestia, your time has come. The ledgers must be balanced. There must be an accounting.
I come back from the Christmas Party, and there's the first chapter of "Conquer the Stars."
And who says Daleks only know hate? They clearly know of christmastime generosity...
Wait, was this that unnofficial sequel to Not Alone? I swear I saw something like it on Spacebattles. . .
Sorry if I'm wrong and my brain's just derping.
Hmm? I thought Comedy and Tragedy were mutually exclusive tags now?
1855139 It is the sequel to 'Not Alone'. No derping from you!
I love love love the Jefferson quote you have there. It's enough to warrant a fave by itself.
I can't wait to see where this goes.
Wow, I was wondering if you were going to post this here.
I LOVE IT
1855139 Ix, since someone's already gotten confused, could you add a note in the description that this is a sequel to Not Alone?
Anyway, it's looking great. Your portrayal of Luna is both plausible and delightfully frightening.
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Thanks for clearing that up fellas, much appreciated.
On another note, Merry Christmas to you all! Yes, even those who don't celebrate it. You don't get a free pass on the well wishing just because you don't celebrate it.
Ohohoho...
YES FUCKING YES!
Also, tag overload. Might want to trim it down just a bit.
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Thank you. I'm taking my cues from Clancy, and the Calvin was partially inspired by the Rama from Rendezvous With Rama, by Arthur C Clarke. I'm also drawing something's from Ghost in the Shell.
That being said, there are references everywhere. Try and find them!
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Well, I can reasonably write 1000 words per day, now that I've got my rhythm. The problem is that I'm having the forums review what I write, and while I might write fast, corrections are slow. The first two scenes alone took weeks of back and forth arguing to get them right.
185500
I just knew you'd say that.
1855148
I plan to make the reader experience a roller coaster of emotion, to make them laugh and cry and laugh again.
Tell me if I succeed.
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Done!
1855290 Danke
Yes Yes Yes Yes!!!!
may celstia's head finally get cut of her bitch of a body.
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*angy Dalek glare*
This, my dear Dalek, is the perfect Christmas Gift! One I hope to repay come New Years by releasing chapter 1 of TCB: Systems.
And casting Luna as the primary antagonist was a brilliant inversion of the usual formula for Anti-TCB fics! For obvious reasons, Celestia usually gets this role. Yet Not Alone Celly was, quite frankly, a pathetic villian. An incompetent Buffon made dull-witted via a thousand years trapped in a perpetual Hug Box. An idiot, basically. Luna as discribed by Starman Ghost, however...
1855301 what?
we are ALL thinking it. ANd also when is the story you know with all the different world equestria gets sent to going to be updated?
BTW, a friend of mine drew a picture of Major Firebird
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That was nice. Felt a bit info-dumpy in the beginning, but yeah, it was good.
Oh good. I was waiting for something like this. 8 D
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No, not really.
Some people want an actual story, rather than yet another mindless Equestria Stomp. Those get boring after the first thousand or so times.
Fortunately, Ix won't descend to that level of idiocy and his story will have interesting characters and an actual plot.
Nothing much to say other than interesting.
Ooo, I've been waiting for this one to finally get here!
1855436 ok maybe i was a little overboard. sorry but still this is a amazing story.
This . . This is great. An entirely new story which can exist as an alternative universe sequel. Far too long I have seen TCB stories which just recap what has happened or new events, but nothing like this my good sir.
Also, I am hesitant to say that those downvotes you have received are from bias views on TCB, not on this story's merits.
How often will you release new chapter?
Copy/paste your story in this: Auto-Reviewer
That should cover the myriad of dialogue punctuation mistakes in the story.
You can thank me later.
Tons of exposition, not always handled as well as it could/should be. Granted, being a lover of chrome-speak myself, you get a pass. I must admit that I ended up skimming anything that was a lot of words without any quotation marks in sight.
Them tags are hurting my head.
Wow, I've been wondering what you've been up to Dalek and I am not disappointed! What I know about TCB is from TVTropes so I'm not totally up on what happened in this continuity, but this is shaping up to be a great tragedy. I'm not sure yet who is going to become pony-Hitler in the uprising; whether it's Trixie and her skillful showmanship and resentment of Twilight or Firebird with her connection to the successful humans and deep vehemence of the Diarachy.
I hope this ends with the Princesses doing the smart thing by surrendering and letting the Terrans put their collective combat boots to the collective necks of Gaia.
1854971 You and I read from a lot of the same authors.
Praises to the dalek emperor
1855694
Well, it's a sequel to TCB: Not Alone. That will have all the continuity you need. It's a rather good story. However, it's rated mature for gore (by mod fiat, though there isn't more gore than any FOE fic), so make sure you hit view mature first.
It's very helpful for giving you some context.
This if fucking wicked awesome!
It seems like Equestria's brush with humanity has left some serious wounds. Riots? Sounds awfully like us. I bet that police force is made up of newfoals.
1855694
I advise going back and reading "Note Alone," by Starman Ghost, if you haven't already. It's the prequel to this story
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It isn't- word of god is that Newfoals are utterly incapable of violence, to the point of, if a lynch mob was carrying one off, they would suggest that they tie his/her legs together so the newfoal doesn't hurt one of the angry mob by kicking accidentally.
... That's not my words, those are from the Spacebattles Thread.
A bit strange at first, with the very broad introductions, but the story quickly got VERY good when those ended.
I await an update, should you choose to supply one.
Finally finished the chapter. Holy crap. I await for more.
This could not have been any better!
Insta Like/Fav
this story, it pleases me, also, where can i find the original TCB stroy, i would LOVE to know the backstory
Is it just me, or is that a reference to the SCP Foundation?
Favoriting so I can see what happens next.
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Well, this story is a fan sequel to "TCB: Not Alone," a deconstruction of the original "The Conversion Bureau" story. I advise reading "Not Alone," before reading this.
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ahh thanks, ill get right on that!
That's what you get for overshooting the infamy limit. The Equestrian War of Containment anyone?
Also, Bitaly eh? I wonder if any in-universe characters notice the eerie parallelisms with Earth in the geographic namings.
This is terrible. But largest... what?
