Friendship is also math.
I can hear the stress in that word!
The final quote in your post there has a name "Me" and no arrow to return to whomever alerted you to the correction. Why is there no arrow? And why is there post doing the correction?
Oh Celestia is a total screw-up* but that doesn't begin to justify the level of irrational hatred Sunset displays. Which even at the "'Thank you for being honest with me, and I never want to see you again'." stage manifested as banishing Celestia from the planet.
1) Philomena is Celestia's pet, not Fluttershy's.
Because generally by the time I get corrections I'm at work, so I can't update my Word document until I get home. And if I don't make note of the errors I spot, I'll probably forget them.
In this story, she's been ruling for about 1030 years and is about 1050 years old. In canon, it's really not clear.
Woe, friendship be upon ye.
I noticed that parts 8 and 9 are labelled under a second 17th January in the TOC, but the parts themselves say they take place on January 18.
Thank you, corrected.
Correct. And by that same token the sincerity of her hurt feelings don't justify unreasonable expectations.
Reasonable expectations like not expecting someone to be able to teach you to care about others when power is at the forefront of your mind, and you can't bear to admit flaws as much as you claim they can't.
intelligence
So, then. Zartok hasn't gone running off half-cocked yet. Either he's smarter than that, or he just wants to make sure he's fully cocked.
So presumably, he's going to want more information before he acts. And who better to ask than his erstwhile intelligence Lantern?So... Villages. Small towns... A pastoral lifestyle? Is this the Reach equivalent of an Agri-world?
...Or perhaps the people are choosing to live a simpler life.With an empire as large and as seemingly decadent, surely a quite, pastoral lifestyle might appeal to some. Like the Reach equivalent of Amish...
So advanced, but distributed by choice.
You two think in different ways. He looks to the military application, you look to the logistical.
...Or they simply don't care about losing a few colonists.
And that sums up so much of the Reach, doesn't it? Resource-efficient and specialised...
Ooh, he didn't like that comparison.
Something Drusa is not as good with, compared to raw data.
But why do they accept it? Cultural indoctrination? Lack of concern?
So it's engineered, then. They modified their citizens. Entirely as I'd expect.
In other words, the Reach plebian caste... Are conditioned to not worry about it, their 'betters' will protect them.
Heh. Subtle burn there, Zartok.
If you're advanced enough to create sufficiently developed synthetic minds, you can easily decide what goes into their makeup.
Almost certainly. Any advanced race will make adjustments to their genome, of course. Removing genetic flaws and weaknesses. But evidently the Reach took it to an extreme at some point...
...You think they had the subversion method ready and waiting for when force of arms failed?
Like the already-subtle methods the Reach use to subvert planets now.
Misdirection and sleight-of-hand.
Pfft. Any race advanced enough to modify themselves like that probably have solutions for that attack route.
And a biological attack can always mutate, and then you get killer super-virii.
Just because he prefers conquest by strength of arms, doesn't mean he's ignorant of other ways.
Lady still has much to learn.
And then wiped them out afterwards? Inefficient.
A literal Pre-fab colony complex...
Ah, now that's a good angle. A population basically brainwashed into loyalty won't need much in the way of policing...
Telling.
Good question. Are you going to attack them or something?
Planning for the future, but willing to put it off till later. Very good work.
Thank you, corrected.
I think you responded to the wrong thread.
She was being escorted from the palace when she decided to go for the mirror.
I... Don't believe that's the case?
Oh crap thanks
