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No, it’s time to be a leader. Twilight could see the desperation in Applejack’s eyes, the pain and despair. This was a pony on the end of her rope, who had already given so much of herself to save the life of a pony she didn’t even know, who was frayed from sickness and worry over her own death. A pony who had been unexpectedly been returned a member of her own family, only to come so close to having them snatched away again.“No,” Twilight said, voice flat.“What do ya mean, no?” Applejack…-
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Call Applejack immediately 43%Twilight had an awful feeling about this. As she removed the radio from her pack and switched it back on, she could feel the beginnings of nausea in her chest, and the tension in her limbs. It was the feeling she always got when she knew there was going to be conflict. But there was nothing for it. The Equinox’s chief engineer relied on trust more than anypony else aboard. There could be no softening the truth for her, no beautiful lies. If Twilight kept this secret and…
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Give Node the Countermeasure, investigate perpetuity 65%Twilight wanted to leave the mysterious object behind. But not quite so much as she needed to know what it was. It was located on the ground floor, along a straight path directly from the entrance. If the Signalers thought about design even remotely like ponies did, it was probably the main purpose for ‘the Memorial.’ I need to figure out a way to let Applejack study it without exposing her to it like I was.She had a bad feeling that other ponies…
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Investigate the Infusion of Stability insteadIt physically hurt Twilight to leave information behind. But there was no way to rationalize sitting down in an alien device that was covered with warnings she could barely translate. It’s okay, Twilight. It’s still going to be here. I know exactly where this thing is, I can come back to it if I need to. Or they could come back and rip it right out of the floor for study. There didn’t seem to be any Signalers around to tell them otherwise.The “Infusion…
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Perseverance of Insight Twilight didn’t have to think long about her answer. Getting there was a little trickier, but made simpler by the map. That, and the fact that she’d already been to the surface once. There would no longer be any danger to the teleport when she had seen the destination once. So she took them back to the surface, with a single flash of magic from her horn.“I am… unhappy with that process,” Node said, as soon as they were back on the surface. “The way you fold space is……
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Follow Twilight's magic underground 45% “I don’t like any of the obvious paths,” Twilight said, turning away from the staircase up and the hallway deeper into the building. “Those might not show us the truth. But maybe if we can get behind all that…” she hesitated, closing her eyes for a second and following her horn. Yes, there was certainly something underground. It wasn’t that deep, they wouldn’t be climbing miles under the surface like last time.She gestured, setting off in that…
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Neither. Twilight has to know what's in that building 58% We’re not ready for this. Applejack’s health is failing, Pinkie Pie is on the edge of a breakdown, and Fluttershy is two steps from trying to override my command authority. What her crew really needed was six months of shore leave. A little farming duty in the morning, and hobby projects the rest of the day. Equestria’s destruction, if it were really imminent, would not hinge on six months when the trip was forty years.“Node.” Twilight…
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Have Applejack repair, despite her illness. 61%“Well, it ain’t the prettiest work I ever…” Applejack dropped for a second, hacking and coughing out onto the soil. She stood up a moment later, clearing her throat. Cryosleep Caskets were modular, portable hardware—which was a small miracle for the pony Sunset Shimmer, since most everything else in the escape pod had turned to a corroded hulk in the moisture rich underground environment. Twilight had levitated the unit out away from the trees…
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Excavate, find whatever else might be buried here. 53% Twilight stood at the edge of the chasm, staring down at oblivion. Her own hooves were stained, her body was weak and there were multiple small wounds on her body, all from the excavation.The prospector was a mining ship, and so it contained several large diggers. Twilight didn’t know how to operate them, but Pinkie did, and so it fell to her and Fluttershy to go through what she turned up. And whenever radar indicated there might be something ahead,…
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Relax and heal 73% A week went by on the surface of Proximus B. At first Twilight did her best to keep up with every member of the crew, since they spent most of their time arranging the fields and planting all the seeds they’d brought. It was nowhere near to the entire stockpile, but it would keep them fed for months if the crop came in. Not to mention enough Geneseed to wake the rest of the crew.The alien soil had a strange smell to it, like every scoop had been ground with nuts and ash. But the…
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