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Akamia

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It really does, doesn't it? Maybe time doesn't flow quite the same wherever Equestria does as it does in "our" reality, because reasons? The SLDF might have been there longer than you would reasonably expect. Long enough to engage another deadly enemy in a prolonged campaign, and then maybe even rest and recuperate with their new allies until a way home was found. Alex K. MIGHT have seen the tactical advantages of being able to escape to a hidden bolthole where time gets funny, maybe funny enough to give them a larger operating window for repairs and strategy, and where there are friendly locals with some odd abilities. He'd be canny enough to use it as a storage space and emergency shelter, but ethical enough to protect the indigenous sapients from harm by ensuring almost no one understood the method to get there but him and a tiny handful of trusted allies. "GOD GAME BRIGADOON." Sorry. Charles Stross fan. Anyone who wanted to talk about the two or three years they spent "elsewhere" fighting actual demons was free to, but they'd laughed at as complete lunatics, and Kerensky would make sure there wasn't much physical evidence to back it up. And most of his people were good enough and loyal enough that they wouldn't. These were people who literally followed him into the deep unknown out of loyalty, remember? And any rumors that Kerensky was getting tactical assistance from a magic talking white horse, or a dragon and a griffon or whatever would be dismissed as the talk of drunks or mental patients.


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It would be interesting if someone finally found a way in centuries later. Or dug up an old Kerensky journal no one had ever seen before, moldering away on a hard drive in a computer at an abandoned base or something and came poking.




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Holy wall of text, Batman! Sorry about that. I forgot paragraphs were a thing..
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Don’t worry about it!


 
To be honest, unless simply being on Equus (or even Equestria in particular) slows one’s aging processes at all, I would expect time to have flowed normally (accounting for such things as relativity, of course) unless the good General turned out to be somewhat younger than he looked at the time of his death. Though if you factor in the fact magic permeates the place, I suppose it’s plausible it may have that effect, among others, on decidedly non-magical humans. I dunno. lol


 
So... Based on your descriptions, I was able to work out that the BattleMechs in that hidden base were Celestia’s Atlas (either base Atlas or Atlas II; latter seems unlikely, though, but who knows?) and a Marauder likely piloted by someone I’m not familiar with. Megan, perhaps? So what was Luna’s ‘Mech? Based on that description, it sounded like it was either a Flashman, Mackie, or an UrbanMech, from most likely to least likely.

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I really want a Mackie in a _*MechWarrior_* game someday. It’s not like they went extinct or anything, despite being literally the first BattleMechs ever made-~~
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Akamia

Veteran MechWarrior
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It really does, doesn't it? Maybe time doesn't flow quite the same wherever Equestria does as it does in "our" reality, because reasons? The SLDF might have been there longer than you would reasonably expect. Long enough to engage another deadly enemy in a prolonged campaign, and then maybe even rest and recuperate with their new allies until a way home was found. Alex K. MIGHT have seen the tactical advantages of being able to escape to a hidden bolthole where time gets funny, maybe funny enough to give them a larger operating window for repairs and strategy, and where there are friendly locals with some odd abilities. He'd be canny enough to use it as a storage space and emergency shelter, but ethical enough to protect the indigenous sapients from harm by ensuring almost no one understood the method to get there but him and a tiny handful of trusted allies. "GOD GAME BRIGADOON." Sorry. Charles Stross fan. Anyone who wanted to talk about the two or three years they spent "elsewhere" fighting actual demons was free to, but they'd laughed at as complete lunatics, and Kerensky would make sure there wasn't much physical evidence to back it up. And most of his people were good enough and loyal enough that they wouldn't. These were people who literally followed him into the deep unknown out of loyalty, remember? And any rumors that Kerensky was getting tactical assistance from a magic talking white horse, or a dragon and a griffon or whatever would be dismissed as the talk of drunks or mental patients.

It would be interesting if someone finally found a way in centuries later. Or dug up an old Kerensky journal no one had ever seen before, moldering away on a hard drive in a computer at an abandoned base or something and came poking.



Holy wall of text, Batman! Sorry about that. I forgot paragraphs were a thing..
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Don’t worry about it!

To be honest, unless simply being on Equus (or even Equestria in particular) slows one’s aging processes at all, I would expect time to have flowed normally (accounting for such things as relativity, of course) unless the good General turned out to be somewhat younger than he looked at the time of his death. Though if you factor in the fact magic permeates the place, I suppose it’s plausible it may have that effect, among others, on decidedly non-magical humans. I dunno. lol

So... Based on your descriptions, I was able to work out that the BattleMechs in that hidden base were Celestia’s Atlas (either base Atlas or Atlas II; latter seems unlikely, though, but who knows?) and a Marauder likely piloted by someone I’m not familiar with. Megan perhaps? So what was Luna’s ‘Mech? Based on that description, it sounded like it was either a Flashman, Mackie, or an UrbanMech, from most likely to least likely.

-I really want a Mackie in a _MechWarrior_ game someday. It’s not like they went extinct or anything, despite being literally the first BattleMechs ever made-
No reason given
Edited by Akamia
Akamia

Veteran MechWarrior
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It really does, doesn't it? Maybe time doesn't flow quite the same wherever Equestria does as it does in "our" reality, because reasons? The SLDF might have been there longer than you would reasonably expect. Long enough to engage another deadly enemy in a prolonged campaign, and then maybe even rest and recuperate with their new allies until a way home was found. Alex K. MIGHT have seen the tactical advantages of being able to escape to a hidden bolthole where time gets funny, maybe funny enough to give them a larger operating window for repairs and strategy, and where there are friendly locals with some odd abilities. He'd be canny enough to use it as a storage space and emergency shelter, but ethical enough to protect the indigenous sapients from harm by ensuring almost no one understood the method to get there but him and a tiny handful of trusted allies. "GOD GAME BRIGADOON." Sorry. Charles Stross fan. Anyone who wanted to talk about the two or three years they spent "elsewhere" fighting actual demons was free to, but they'd laughed at as complete lunatics, and Kerensky would make sure there wasn't much physical evidence to back it up. And most of his people were good enough and loyal enough that they wouldn't. These were people who literally followed him into the deep unknown out of loyalty, remember? And any rumors that Kerensky was getting tactical assistance from a magic talking white horse, or a dragon and a griffon or whatever would be dismissed as the talk of drunks or mental patients.

It would be interesting if someone finally found a way in centuries later. Or dug up an old Kerensky journal no one had ever seen before, moldering away on a hard drive in a computer at an abandoned base or something and came poking.



Holy wall of text, Batman! Sorry about that. I forgot paragraphs were a thing..
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Don’t worry about it!

To be honest, unless simply being on Equus (or even Equestria in particular) slows one’s aging processes at all, I would expect time to have flowed normally unless the good General turned out to be somewhat younger than he looked at the time of his death. Though if you factor in the fact magic permeates the place, I suppose it’s plausible it may have that effect, among others, on decidedly non-magical humans. I dunno. lol

So... Based on your descriptions, I was able to work out that the BattleMechs in that hidden base wasere Celestia’s Atlas (either base Atlas or Atlas II; latter seems unlikely, though, but who knows?) and a Marauder likely piloted by someone I’m not familiar with. Megan perhaps? So what was Luna’s ‘Mech? Based on that description, it sounded like it was either a Flashman, Mackie, or an UrbanMech, from most likely to least likely.

-I really want a Mackie in a _MechWarrior_ game someday. It’s not like they went extinct or anything, despite being literally the first BattleMechs ever made-
No reason given
Edited by Akamia