OOC:
You might want to stick around and pay attention to the comments that will start appearing on this entry: I predict that they will get rather interesting.
IC:
Wow, I really need to catch up on these letters.
In the most-recent chapter of “The Best of All Possible Worlds”, I introduced the visual metaphor of an “eye in the sky” watching everything that happens in the city of Canterlot. That mental image inspired in me the idea of a rather different sort of “eye in the sky”: a unique version of a first-contact scenario between Equestria and Earth.
Journey of the Sorcerer
Part Four: The Search for Intelligent Life in the Universe [576.839]
Checklist of known human colonies
The unmanned Stark Colony on Mercury: Negative.
The Perelandra Satellite orbiting Venus: Negative.
Over a dozen lunar colonies: Very Negative. The Moon took an active part in the War, and ended up even more radioactive than the Earth.
I consider it ever-so-slightly rude when one artist takes somebody else's work and then runs with it, especially if they do it without asking permission. But the fact that you are reading the third segment of a series called "Misappropriated Fanfiction Theater" proves that sometimes I just can't help myself. My only excuse is that I'm sticking it here in my blog, where fewer people will see it.