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out in the deep forests some adventuring ponies make an odd discovery, and the princess of nerds mounts and expedition to investigate.
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Yeah, it’s sort of the Story that Editing Forgot. Sorry about that. I’m hoping to tie it into the stuff I posted earlier in the thread a long time ago more directly. I’m trying to get a little focus back. I’m glad you liked it though 😊
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neat little story there! thanks for posting it
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Just tell them about Kentares IV.
The Amaris Civil War and the Succession Wars would rattle them like nothing else, knowing how little friendship meant in the face of Feudalistic Stellar Nations flinging nukes at each other in response to the question, “You and what army?”
Haha. Alright, fine, let’s see what I come up with. :P When it’s ready (which could take a while, all things considered) I’ll drop you the FiMFic link in your DMs should you wish to read. ^^
Well…have you considered just saying that you were inspired by some batshit insane moron writing crackfic on a booru? Just a thought here. ;)
Also: I’m trying to put together another installment. I won’t say it’s going smoothly, but at least it’s going. Hopefully I’ll post before the next millennium.
Haha, yeah, a Timber Wolf would have been far harder to justify, as it (and most of its prerequisite techs, for that matter) wouldn’t be invented until after General Kerensky had been long dead. I thought it was either the Flashman, Mackie, or Urbie because you didn’t mention reverse-joint legs (which I incorrectly understood to be what “digitigrade” legs were, hence erroneously identifying the Crab as a Marauder) so I assumed normal, humanoid legs like Celestia’s own Atlas. But without that assumption, a Catapult would have been my first guess, yeah.
… Admittedly, Flashman legs are a bit weird looking. Some art makes them appear digitigrade or even reverse joint, others more humanoid. Which is it, BattleTech artists?!
@Podbeing
Weeeeeell, aside from my now fully-cemented headcanon that Celestia has an almost-full lance of functioning SLDF BattleMechs hiding under Canterlot for over a millenium, I think I can squeeze out a good handful of stories based on this concept alone. Only thing is, I didn’t actually come up with it; you did, and I don’t know how to credit you should I actually buckle down and write what I have bouncing around in my head. Heh.
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i can relate to that. its been one of those weeks. i basically got home today and put that drawing together.
but i am glad it could lighten your week a bit.
Oh wow…if you’ve got something, WRITE it! Let other people revel in your skull-droppings, you beautiful mutant, you!
Let’s just say that early on, young Cellie and Luna took part in cross-species movie nights for decompressing after training. And on-the-job training. A lot of the Equestrians would have, if for no other reason than to learn about the humans who were helping to save their world.
Good catch :) Twilight isn’t so good at telling much about weapons and she was kind of overwhelmed. But Luna’s mech is actually intended to be a Catapult, since I thought that might suit her personality better. It’s loud, agile for its size and can put a shitload of explosives in one small place. I probably did a shitty job of describing it. But since you mentioned the Flashman and the Mackie, now I can’t get them out of my head, either. When they finally reach the actually stockpile, I wonder if there’s a few in there…
I’d have gone with a Madcat, but that doesn’t fit the era as well. Not without a lot of finagling.
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I have had a steady succession of shitty days, and then I saw a notification when I came back from work. And then, when I saw this, my jaw dropped and a shiver literally went down my spine and I broke out in goosebumps.
This is perfect. It’s absolutely incredible. I can practically hear the thunder of dozens or hundreds of DropShips coming in for an emergency landing because the planet looks like Earth and they’ve misjumped.
I haven’t forgotten this. Bits and pieces of the story I want to tell are burning holes in my head.
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So, I remembered what “digitigrade” meant, and realized that was not a Marauder being described at all. It was the Crab. That bit about it looking vaguely like a crab was a more important descriptor than the bit about the cannon mount. I feel slightly dumb. lol
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 like to think the celly picked that up from the techs
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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This… This deserves its own short story dedicated to it on FiMFic. I wish I was the one to write it!
As for where Equestria is, I suppose given the context here, it’d most likely be found in the Deep Periphery somewhere. If you accept The Thessalonica Legacy‘s interpretation for the purposes of a BattleTech/My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic crossover, Equus is an alt-universe Terra.
Either way, Nicky K better keep his mitts off it. Actually, I wouldn’t be surprised to find the files about the planet were deleted shortly after the SLDF departed; an effort to keep the locals safe from human-shaped outside context problems later on. That sounds like something General Kerensky might do, to me. lol
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I still have no idea if Equestria is somewhere in the deep periphery, near the Pentagon Worlds, in a different galaxy or in a completely different universe entirely.
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