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Proximus B (Metallic, habitable world, 3 months) 81% Twilight couldn’t exactly remember the last time she’d caught two members of the crew in the rec room at the same time before. But then—she almost never used the space. Despite the promised two hours personal time in every day’s rotation, Twilight found herself more often gravitating towards getting more of her work done. There were mysteries to solve, data to investigate, and ponies that needed her attention.But today was different. Today she…-
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"This last month, I tried to figure out why we weren’t in touch with Equestria. I was able to confirm a few things—there’s no jamming signal I can detect coming from anywhere in the system. I left a navigation probe a few thousand kilometers behind us—where we had our engagement with the Prospector. We’re still in perfect contact.”“How do we know the sensors aren’t lying to us?” Applejack asked. “Cozy mighta… done somethin’.”Twilight nodded. “I hardcoded a few modifications into…
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1. Hydroponics 8/8COMPLETE 2. Repair the prospector 4/4COMPLETE 3. Fully Refuel 20/20COMPLETE 4. Backup Cryogenics 4/4 COMPLETE 5. Replace field equipment 2/2 COMPLETE Mining decouple: complete.6. Study of communications blackout 2/?“Alright, everypony…” They were stuck having their meeting on the common room table. There were still three prominent empty chairs, and that was part of the reason they were meeting now. Fluttershy had healed enough that she was up and walking now, though her coat still…
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Fluttershy 59% Did I really look that bad? Twilight shuddered as she watched Fluttershy’s sleeping form through the medbay window. Her coat was spotty, skin gray and blotchy, and her mane nearly gone. It was the look of a pony who was barely alive—or more accurately, recently dead. We don’t sleep for the trip. We die and get reconstructed on the other side. It hadn’t been an easy choice to make, by any means. But Fluttershy’s medical skills would’ve been useful more than once already, and her…
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Equinox Bill of Repair:1. Hydroponics 8/8 COMPLETE2. Repair the prospector 4/4 COMPLETE3. Fully Refuel 2/204. Backup Cryogenics 0/45. Replace field equipment 0/26. Study of communications blackout 0/?Twilight adjusted the space suit a little tighter about her chest, wishing the standard design had done a little more to accommodate alicorns. As though just adding extra space for legs and horn was enough…But she couldn’t rightly protest—this was her first visit to the mining site since the day…
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Find a nearby asteroid 64% They’d named the asteroid Harmony’s Repost, probably because Twilight was tired, and she didn’t have hours to obsess about what it should be called. Ever since they’d tossed their stowaway into the freezer, Twilight had been having trouble sleeping.It was all bluster, it’s okay. Equestria isn’t in danger. Still, she hadn’t be able to get her last words from her mind. “It already happened. It’s all gone back to the way it should be.” Even if they were still in…
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Drug, then freeze 49% Twilight was pained to give up such a potentially useful crew-member. But considering everything she’d done so far, the injuries she’d already caused, there was no way for her to justify returning Cozy Glow to freedom. She was probably preparing an escape plan right then, and it was only a matter of time before somepony made a mistake and the dangerous pony escaped.She prepared the meal carefully herself, though it was really just the same nutrient paste they ate every day. A…
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“So that’s the message,” Twilight finished, after having explained everything. They would’ve ordinarily had a meeting like this in the dining room, but the risk of being overheard was too great right now. So they stood on the bridge instead, looking down at the translation and Twilight’s notes.Life is not advised, the message said. You must change into constancy. We will perform it.“So that’s her plan to convince us?” Applejack asked, her tone doubting. “Come up with some new way to read…
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Use a portable terminal. 65%Twilight Sparkle settled the “portable” computer down in Cozy’s cell. More accurately, the screen and keyboard were in the cell, and the three pieces of the computer took up most of the dining room.“You’ll find the entire text of the Signal in the root directory,” Twilight said. “And I made sure all the same math utilities are installed. If you need the mainframe for anything, you can write it out on the pad there and I’ll run it myself.”Cozy Glow visibly…
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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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