[Official!] Project Horizons Comment Crew Chat thread.

[Aonee]

I'm pretty certain you're right about that, yes.

[Harmony Ltd.]

Hmm, good, just what I needed to justify the fact that not even Celestia One was enough to decisively ensure victory for one side.

With a little tweaking, and by drawning out the bloodshed for long enough, I can even make a convincing case as for why the Enclave didn't try to decisively attack Spike's Cave during that time [edit : during the time it tooks people to find the last Elements and activate the Gardens of Equestria], them having already too much on their plate with the Battle of Filly.

Though this force me to revise a bit the reason why the NCR later decided to move all the industrial equipment out of Filly instead of trying to rebuild the city : it had been so thoroughly thrashed by the months of fighting & the Enclave's bombing campaign that it was far easier to go back from scratch (when taking into consideration the other factors I exposed earlier, re the city being a deathtrap no one in their sane mind would want to live in).

And the reason why it took so long for the Reclamation / Salvaging effort to take place (maybe it started earlier, like in 7 or 8 A.S instead of 10 A.S) was that there was other, higher priority things the workforce was needed for. Like actually making guns, ammunitions, healing potions, etc... instead of trying to set up an industry to do that.



Did Equestria have an automotive industry ? I was thinking of having the NCR make most of its (new) guns relatively crude "AK" style guns made of sheet metal, using hydraulic press salvaged from a few industrial plants it found in Manehatten.

[Harmony Ltd.]

Yeah, those were the two fronts of the war. Wasn't that were they had Ditzy use the sonic radboom so they could use celestia 1?

Indeed I think it is, yes.

[RoboRed]

french canadians are crazy:

[Harmony Ltd.]

seizure warning:

[Stringtheory]

seizure warning:

BUCKING FUBBLES!!

[O. Hinds]

Yeah, those were the two fronts of the war. Wasn't that were they had Ditzy use the sonic radboom so they could use celestia 1?
I think it was since Littlepip and company were at the other battle location, Maripony, and there were no rays of death firing from the sky there.

Nearly right, but LittlePip was fighting at Neighvarro.

With a little tweaking, and by drawning out the bloodshed for long enough, I can even make a convincing case as for why the Enclave didn't try to decisively attack Spike's Cave during that time [edit : during the time it tooks people to find the last Elements and activate the Gardens of Equestria], them having already too much on their plate with the Battle of Filly.

They'd also already tried and failed.

But for now, I leave you with this song, an ol’ favorite.  I dedicate this one to Strawberry Lemonade, Amber Waves, and every other pony who gave their lives at the Battle of Dragon Mountain.  You stood fast, defending valiantly without even knowing what you were dying to protect.  Only trusting that your sacrifice was for the good of all Equestria.  Your bravery and loyalty are unparalleled.  And I promise you this: you didn’t die in vain.  Someday very soon… as soon as my little quest is complete… everyone will understand your sacrifice.  And history will remember your names with reverence.

Did Equestria have an automotive industry ? I was thinking of having the NCR make most of its (new) guns relatively crude "AK" style guns made of sheet metal, using hydraulic press salvaged from a few industrial plants it found in Manehatten.

I don't think so (though my provisional headcanon has the NCR eventually getting one). Maybe use presses from railway industry? I'm not sure how skywagons were manufactured, but you might be able to use stuff from that, too.

[Ironmonger]

Harmony, it might be better if they use something like the Garand, Mondragon, or BAR. Though that's just my opinion. All three of those are much older designs that perhaps could be built witch greater ease than an AK.

[Harmony Ltd.]

Hmm, yeah, I could imagine those kind of guns being produced in great numbers "by hand" before any real industrial infrastructure could be put in place. Though at that time they would have preferred using all the guns already laying around to fight, even if it would prove a logistical nightmare to supply all the different kinds of ammunition, where they are needed.


@ Hinds : I would imagine that Fillydelphia wasn't the only place in pre-Apocalypse Equestria where there would have been steel mills & laminating equipments. If anything, and if Manehatten was a trading port like I imagine it to be, you could easily imagine that they could find a number of somewhat salvageable equipments in one of the peripheral industrial zones of the city.

[RoboRed]

ironlulz:

[Ironmonger]

ironlulz:

>Jumps out of the closet.
No mobile link...
>Camera zooms in.
>Starts screaming in rage.
>Nosebleed.

[RoboRed]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=iXFgoQnijLE

mobile.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=iXFgoQnijLE

[Ironmonger]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=iXFgoQnijLE

mobile.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=iXFgoQnijLE

They need to blast that over loud speakers at terrorists.

[Frost]

It sounds like a lawn-mowing jet engine

A lawn-mowing jet engine of rainbow piss

[O. Hinds]

Yeah, those were the two fronts of the war. Wasn't that were they had Ditzy use the sonic radboom so they could use celestia 1?
I think it was since Littlepip and company were at the other battle location, Maripony, and there were no rays of death firing from the sky there.

Nearly right, but LittlePip was fighting at Neighvarro.

If that's the right name for the cathedral in the middle of everfree then yes.

Maripony, Neighvarro, and the Cathedral are three separate places, and LittlePip (IIRC, but I'm pretty sure; I'd check, but there's a thunderstorm in progress that might get bad enough for the RAs to send us downstairs any time between now and midnight) was fighting at Neighvarro at the time of the Battle of Fillydelphia.

[O. Hinds]

Yeah, those were the two fronts of the war. Wasn't that were they had Ditzy use the sonic radboom so they could use celestia 1?
I think it was since Littlepip and company were at the other battle location, Maripony, and there were no rays of death firing from the sky there.

Nearly right, but LittlePip was fighting at Neighvarro.

If that's the right name for the cathedral in the middle of everfree then yes.

Maripony, Neighvarro, and the Cathedral are three separate places, and LittlePip (IIRC, but I'm pretty sure; I'd check, but there's a thunderstorm in progress that might get bad enough for the RAs to send us downstairs any time between now and midnight) was fighting at Neighvarro at the time of the Battle of Fillydelphia.

I thought there were two battles going on. Littlepip sent no forces to Filly for the red eye vs. enclave fight going on there beyond Ditzy and Lion/Mouse, the former to open the sky, the later to catch her.
She sent some of Gawd's forces to fight above and defend Tenpony, clearing the sky there so that it could wipe filly from the face of the earth once Ditzy did her thing.
Everyone else went to the Cathedral where, among many things, Littlepip got the offer to become an alicorn god while everyone else fought.

What's Neighvarro, then?
I just remembered that Maripony was probably the first goddess site and that place was already nuked by this point.

Ah, no, the Cathedral was earlier. Or the Battle of Fillydelphia was later, depending on the exact nature of your temporal confusion. And I have now been able to look it up:

Last Night:

 “I’m so sorry…” I told Homage, my voice trembling.  My friends were all off making their own preparations.  It was just me and her, me alone with the sprite-bot in a secluded corner of the cave.  

“For what?” Homage’s voice was soothing.  “You did good.”  

“I’m sorry for leaving.  And… because…”  I thought of the dead, all those I didn’t save back in the Everfree Forest.  “Not good enough.”

“Stop focusing on the few you couldn’t save and remember that they all would have been dead if it weren’t for you.” Homage chided.  “You saved the wasteland from Taint.  And not just what would have been spilled.  By obliterating both Maripony and Red Eye’s Cathedral, you’ve protected Equestria from all of this happening again.

Ten Minutes Ago:

Brilliant, blazing light erupted across the sunlit skies over Fillydelphia.  Beams of purest sunlight, thin as tree trunks, rained down from the crisp blue like white-hot javelins, incinerating everything they touched.  

The Twilight Society guided the megaspell’s power judiciously.  Instead of bringing the megaspell’s full power to bear, destroying the landscape, they wielded it with surgical precision.  Celestia One struck down the worst, the most dangerous, on both sides.   The goal was not to win the battle, but to end it.  And to save as many of the innocent and the helpless as possible.

In the end, the ponies in the ritual chamber decided, they had chosen to do the right thing after all.  Not the pleasant thing.  Not something, if they had their preference, that they would ever do again.  Not something that would make it easy to sleep at night.  But the right thing.

***     ***     ***

Right Now:

My hoof hit the hard red barrier, sparks of energy crackling out from it.  The shield felt as solid as a steel wall under my hoof.

I reared up and slammed my hoof against the shield surrounding the S.P.P. Central Hub once again, and fell on my tail when I rebounded.

Oh, and yes, Maripony was the Goddess.

[OneMoreDaySK]

@swicked
Aaaaaaah! Your avatar! It's so bright. Cannot comprehend!

[Admiral Stoic Rum]

i laughed hard

[RoboRed]

...The Great and Powerful Trixie needs bear hugs. *tackles*

[Aonee]

Don't forget your required daily pinecone endorsement, Trixie. Or are you no longer in that line of work?

[Ironmonger]

...The Great and Powerful Trixie needs bear hugs. *tackles*

I want some of that too!
>Tackles Trixie.

You...You know what I mean! Shuddup.

[Ironmonger]

...The Great and Powerful Trixie needs bear hugs. *tackles*

I want some of that too!
>Tackles Trixie.

...ow.
And to restate: ow.
Why is it always the heavy ponies that attack me?!

"Are you fucking calling me fat?" Cast says in anger. He looks himself over and sees that he's quite literally five times Trixie's size. "...Never mind."

Had to.

[Guest]

I'm maybe gonna be on a jury!

Also, yay Trixie!

[Admiral Stoic Rum]

is this another cinnamon bun incident?

[Ironmonger]

is this another cinnamon bun incident?

I'm not sure I understand.

[Aonee]

is this another cinnamon bun incident?

I'm not sure I understand.

well, I suppose it is true that Trixie has no wings to crush, but I'm sure her horn will come off if you're not too careful.

[Ironmonger]

Oh, that. See, when one says something vague like that I'll know yet not know what's happening. It drives me up the wall.

[Admiral Stoic Rum]

1800: I'm Waiting very Patiently for Murky Number Seven...

2325 Facedesk facedesk facedesk facedesk....

[Admiral Stoic Rum]

Oh, that. See, when one says something vague like that I'll know yet not know what's happening. It drives me up the wall.

What do you mean you just roleplayed and I was making fun of it with the trixie thing and you did not get it!?

[Ironmonger]

It...just...brain...circle-goery...gah!
>flips table.

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