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Visit the castle relay 52% Twilight knew something was wrong, even if she couldn’t quite explain why. She couldn’t be home again, not now. Something happened, and now…She emerged from the Golden Oaks library, into a street that was… wrong. The grass was gray, the flowers chalk-white. There were no birds humming overhead, no bees. Not even a passing butterfly.She passed the deserved train station first, the HV-rail buzzing away. A train sat on the platform, its doors open. Leaves clogged the…-
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Keep a pony with it at all times to be ready to talk 78% It wasn’t like they were in any kind of rush—crops would take time to grow with only hydroponics. They might very well be talking to one of the Signalers, wherever the message was actually coming from.Twilight occupied herself helping around medical when she could, and when there was nothing there to do, tinkering around the probe. It couldn’t be coaxed into communicating again, no matter how polite she was—but she could surround it with…
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Salvage derelict ships to build a sister station 65% Twilight knew that if she refused Spike’s idea, she would be harming her relationship with Canterlot’s central computer. But that wasn’t the only reason she ultimately accepted his idea. Twilight didn’t just have to plan for the next few months, she might be planning for centuries of Equestria’s future.More precisely, she was planning for centuries of their future, Node made that explicitly clear when she asked how long the trip would take.“I…
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Set up shelter right here and rest until morningThe field shelter really was its own little marvel of engineering. As they worked together to get the plastic shell standing, Twilight found herself even more confident of its security against the alien environment around them. This one hadn’t been packed away in an air-evacuated storage cell for the duration of the trip—this one was so fresh she imagined it would still be smelling of fabricator plastic. It still squeaked, and the joints were still stiff…
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Guard the prisoner 55%Twilight Sparkle was better now. She would stay better, so long as she didn’t try to use her magic accidentally in the next few days.Unfortunately, that meant she couldn’t possibly look like a skilled unicorn to the prisoner, since the simplest trick of a space-faring unicorn was making their own gravity. But the captured pony had held her mysteries long enough.“You both did excellent work,” she said, as the lift came to a stop on crew level. “I couldn’t have asked for a…
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Use Spike's help to discover what Cozy was up to 55%Twilight watched Cozy burn. One too many times she’d trusted that this pony was dealt with—but each and every time, she’d proven her wrong. She wouldn’t be waiting for her to ruin something else she loved.The furnace eventually went dark, opening to reveal a tiny container of pale ash. Ordinarily their biowaste would go into the greenhouse—but something felt wrong about doing that to the corpse of a pony, even a terrible enemy. She dumped the…
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Wake the crew 47% Twilight still wasn’t fully sure of what Sunset had told her about the end of Equestria, but one thing she wasn’t about to do was take more risks than she had to. Of course, going ‘inside’ the Contingency would be easy in itself. Anytime she neared the strange object, she could feel the gravity pulling her in. The same gravity that had destroyed an army of hostile machines, as well as either killing her crew or just trapping their minds within it.She didn’t know which it was at…
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Send the original signal 89%Twilight didn’t hesitate. They’d come all this way to investigate the ancient creators of the Signal. She dug through the computer for a few seconds, found the recording of the original signal, and sent it back as loud as their transmitter could handle.The instant she started, the vessel stopped transmitting its own signal, changing the overflow of white on all her screens back to the steady background hum of Proximus, still enormously distant.“I sure hope you know what…
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Deliver the probe first. 50% “We’re talking a big risk here,” Applejack said. “By… deliverin’ this thing. I hope you know that.” Twilight found it hard to be annoyed with Applejack now, even though she was pointing out the obvious. She didn’t look away from the controls, concentrating on her path towards a bit of clear ground between two gigantic buildings. The structures on Proximus B were even more intimidating when they were rising up all around them, like Canterlot Station cast to the…
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Try a little longer, 45% “We aren’t going to come all this way for nothing,” Twilight finally declared. “But that doesn’t mean we have to put the Equinox in unnecessary danger. That means trying to dock with that ring or land it on the planet are out of the question. But that doesn’t mean we could learn more about them…” Maybe the planet was safe, maybe it wasn’t. They wouldn’t be able to figure that out from orbit, which was the tricky part.“Give me a little time to think. Until…
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