Yes, finally. After several gut wrenching rewrites, resulting from very candid - and necessary - feedback from my editors Microshazm and SecondLaw, a major dollop of advice from Chatoyance, and much patience by the selfsame editors through three major revisions (I am forever grateful to all three of them!) here is my first Optimalverse story The Patient.

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The student of Equestrian history knows well what happened to the Crystal Empire when Sombra took over. But keep in mind Princess Celestia's words to Twilight Sparkle on the impact the Empire has had on the happiness of Equestrians. These weren't empty words. Life in both lands was made significantly darker, as many ponies are about to discover.

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Okay, so maybe I have. But, it's not my fault, there were too many contests and events recently that I couldn't pass up...

Oh, yeah. I ran one of those contests myself.

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In the interest of having fun (does anyone need another reason to do stuff?) I have decided to hold a contest: Ads of the Conversion Bureau! See the thread for instructions.

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In this chapter we jump ahead ten year after the Siege of Ponyville. Celestia's grand plan for the unification of the tribes via the Amniomorphic spell is taking root, but at the cost of disruption and disharmony as some ponies are not taking these changes lightly. Luna is taking her role as defender of Harmony a bit more seriously than Celestia would like, but then, you can't make an omelet without cracking a few eggs, can you? And still this volatile situation is only further complicated by

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How far is too far in the defense of the law? Of your country? Of those you love?

The answer to that question has changed radically over the course of human history. The same is no doubt true for Pony history as well. Human history is rife with dark chapters as well as truly transcendent moments. Could Pony history really be any different?

Let me warn you, this chapter is dark. Luna's rebellion did not happen in a vacuum, it had causes, and it is coming.

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The defenders of Ponyville have bravely fought off a monster invasion. But now they're faced with a problem orders of magnitude greater: stopping a sixty foot tall hydra from destroying their town. How will they cope? Can they cope? And where are the royal sisters?

Renaissance Pony chapter 13: The Siege of Ponyville

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April Foals' Day

Oh day of Foals
Of steadfast goals
Where all opposites do swap

When Google
does it own bamboozle
and snares a billion fops

And best of all
The trolls shut up
And sulk in mute disgrace

By amateurs
Both young and old
They're on this day displaced!

Mankind Triumphant - Relic has just hit the 1000 views mark!

I should feel happy about this but I admit the feeling is bittersweet. Life in general has been very good for me in recent months, but work has kept me VERY busy and I've precious little time to write, read other authors' stories on FIMfiction, or even to engage properly in this community. Sigh.

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A law of physics: every action has an equal and opposite reaction. Stated otherwise, all actions have consequences. Starswirl took action at the Unicorn Estates General meeting, and now, as a certain farm-pony would say, the composting is about to hit the windmill.

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