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The Thaumic Solution 73% It wasn’t exactly a list of good options. Twilight could practically taste the chaos in Canterlot as soon as they tried anything that might leave their two halves of pony civilization with some lasting class divide. Node could only give vague answers about how long it would take to reach the Flotilla once they stepped into the Highway, but Twilight didn’t think the enlightened races there would take too kindly to their arrival if their ship was in the middle of a civil war.…-
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Build a Habitat 54% In some ways it was the hardest decision Twilight had made yet, with the possible exception of whether or not to trade Equestria’s safety for its freedom. After all, the crew of the Equinox amounted to a small minority compared to the number of shiprats, which the Canterlot’s dubious sensors placed somewhere in the low hundreds.Even if their hugely weakened bodies could survive being frozen (and eventually revived), there was a very real chance that their friendliness with the…
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Join the Flotilla 66%There was definitely a part of Twilight that reveled in the idea of staying back to stick it to the forces arrayed against them. The Hunger had cost her so much--had nearly devoured her civilization whole, and somehow finding a way to stop it had a deeply personal appeal. If Equestria wasn't in her hooves, and it was just her and her friends left, she might've done it.But they weren't alone. Over a hundred thousand creatures were frozen on the Canterlot, all depending on her Twilight…
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Second Chance heard it like a voice, though it was not a voice. "Installation Complete. Performing Startup Sequence." As though she had been abruptly plunged into a sensory deprivation chamber, her senses were suddenly cut from her, and she was floating bodiless in the void. She would have screamed, except that the Nanophage had stimulated a state of sleeping immobility in order to protect her from herself.It was a good thing too, because panic rose in her. The being now named Second Chance had seen and…-
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Ashton’s world didn’t end right away.But from that moment on his father was fiercely focused on their departure. They had enough money now that he didn’t have a work shift, and thus had as much free time as he wished to prepare.Contrary to what Ashton might’ve expected, he didn’t pull him from school and flee into the unknown. Dad made that clear the next morning, when he tried to sleep in. “You’re going to class,” he said, flipping on all the lights. “An inspector is going to talk to…-
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Ponies worked fast. It was amazing just how quickly the cave transformed around her—whole sections of crystal cut down while carts with massive lengths of steel were rolled in past her. Harlequin got a chance to see firsthoof just how the ponies built such amazing things.She did her best not to do her assigned job of setting out cots and blankets—things that changelings didn’t use to begin with—and instead tried to memorize the map. It was hard, and even harder to be sure that she was remembering…-
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Chapter 12: PrecursorsCelestia's throne room looked oddly empty with the whole court gone. Without the guards, without the servants, it seemed as though it were too big. Still there was Celestia, whose presence filled the massive vaulted space in ways not explainable by normal geometry. The guards had been a little surprised when Celestia had asked them and everypony else to depart. She was expecting somepony, and only she would be permitted to enter. They were less surprised that the pony Celestia was…-
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“Alright, alright, think.” Jackie slipped sideways into the air, but not actually traveling anywhere. She stepped into the dream, and slowed time down around her to a trickle. That was one of the advantages to the sleeping world—time was fickle. Years could pass in a single evening, or else eight hours could feel like seconds. Obviously the former was more useful to her here.She floated through the void between dreams, conjuring herself an environment more out of instinct than desire. A model of the…-
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Ginny’s plan was every bit as awful as Star had imagined. At least the Commissar had been there quickly to put an end to the degeneracy and get them both in chains. The public trial was like stepping sideways into another reality, where Harmony hadn’t mattered to her and she’d cared about nothing but her own happiness. Only her horrified parents were missing to make the miserable affair complete.She’d been right in her guess of punishment too—Commissar Golden Shine chose the pillory, where her…-
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The ponies stationed inside Normandy all lived in one little building, which like everything there had been very hastily constructed. The single-story military-style barracks might not have all the technological amenities of the human structures, but it had been built with old-fashioned earth pony sturdiness and rustic charm. After living in pony-built structures her whole life, Amber would've felt quite uncomfortable in any of the human structures all around her. To say nothing of when she dreamed of…-
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