When Worlds Collide

[Skylight Scintillate 1,995]

20 hours ago, Saphire Systrine said:

"Oh, so Equestria has high-speed electric trains now? Interesting," Saphire remarked, "Are you involved in its development?"

"Erm, yeah? I can't go into details about the technology or the engineering specifications, but it would be significantly faster than existing trains. We're still in the middle of development, but the premise has significant potential. This revolutionary infrastructure would pull Equestrian cities closer together, making Equestria significantly more cosmopolitan and creating new trips and economic opportunities that weren't possible before," Tinker explained. 

Tinker seemed to pick up that something was off about Saphire in the middle of his explanation. However, he couldn't exactly put his hoof on it. Maybe it was the way she asked the question?

Edited 3 hours ago by Skylight Scintillate

[Silly Druid 6,889]

The discussion about electric trains was quite interesting to Stardust, so he continued it by throwing in even more ideas.

"I've heard of other concepts too, like using magnetic fields to move the train without touching the tracks, or running it in a tunnel with no air in it, or maybe we can use magic to help us here as well.... these things would make the trains even faster, but I don't think we're ready to do in in practice yet... What do you think, Tinker?"

He noticed the strange glow in Saphire's eyes, but didn't do anything about it for the time being. He thought the mystery of her identity would be revealed at some point, but it was not the time for it yet.

[Saphire Systrine 150]

18 hours ago, Skylight Scintillate said:

"Erm, yeah? I can't go into details about the technology or the engineering specifications, but it would be significantly faster than existing trains. We're still in the middle of development, but the premise has significant potential. This revolutionary infrastructure would pull Equestrian cities closer together, making Equestria significantly more cosmopolitan and creating new trips and economic opportunities that weren't possible before," Tinker explained. 

Tinker seemed to pick up that something was off about Saphire in the middle of his explanation. However, he couldn't exactly put his hoof on it. Maybe it was the way she asked the question?

"Interesting," She said again and listened while Tinker and Stardust talked about it.

51 minutes ago, Silly Druid said:

The discussion about electric trains was quite interesting to Stardust, so he continued it by throwing in even more ideas.

"I've heard of other concepts too, like using magnetic fields to move the train without touching the tracks, or running it in a tunnel with no air in it, or maybe we can use magic to help us here as well.... these things would make the trains even faster, but I don't think we're ready to do in in practice yet... What do you think, Tinker?"

He noticed the strange glow in Saphire's eyes, but didn't do anything about it for the time being. He thought the mystery of her identity would be revealed at some point, but it was not the time for it yet.

Before Tinker could answer, Saphire took the moment to chime in.

"Why don't you just use portal technology?" she stated so matter-of-factly that it seemed to already be a normal thing to her, "Your high-level magic users already use teleportation, and portals have been used in the past to access things like Tartarus, or other alternate realities... Simply modifying those spells and getting them to run on Magitech would make such trains unnecessary for long-distance travel," she paused to think, "Though... portals any bigger than the size of a single pony require significant amounts of energy that I don't think your society is capable of supplying yet, nor will be able to for awhile..."

Again with the subtle linguistic inconsistencies like "your high-level magic users" and "your society", as if she was not a part of such society. Then again, neither of them has ever seen or heard of a pony that looks like her, and they do remember her saying,

On 2024-11-02 at 11:47 PM, Saphire Systrine said:

"I'm not from around here. Well, I used to be, but I live rather far now,"

So maybe by 'far' she meant 'outside of Equestria'?

"So maybe mag-lev technology is a good way to go," she concluded.

Edited 1 hour ago by Saphire Systrine