open Celestial Conquest: Equestria Fallen

[Yes-Man 597]

"Thank you master. Now...*Commencing Holo-tape*"

Charons eyes shot a beam at the ground, and soon the words "YOU AND YOUR STAMPEDE/HERD" appeared

"Congratulations! You have just purchased the best model in the galaxy! It has two habit-types: Stampede and Herd. Stampede is mainly for combat, and it's combat inhibitor is programmed to be on an active! It can do many types og combat positions: such as Demolition, Infantary, Sniping, Field Medics, and many more! The Herd is a social model: Made to serve and made to be social! It can cook, clean, host parties, stall, smooth-talk, and so much more! In fact, it can also- *static* Hello? This is Doctor Li of Mariposa Military Research Facility. I have bestowed you with Charon; Mine and my daughters most prized possession. Although I can not leave, my daughter and Charon can. Find a pony named Blurr, and I will send another message."

Charon blinked back on.

"So did you enjoy it?"

[MelancholicMemory 2,025]

DeadEye's heart jumped a little bit at the mention of "cooking." Food, he thought with excitement, having lived mostly off of basic rations for the most decade.

 

However, when the message ended, he blinked blankly. "Charon, by any chance does the name Blurr ring a bell?" He was curious about this mysterious message. It didn't seem like it was originally programmed there.

[Yes-Man 597]

"Blurr? Well, back at Mari-my old home, I had a master named Tabitha whom the other ponies referred to as "Blur". Why does this name have importance to you master? An old flame or something?"

Charon's left hoove crackle and almost collapsed, but he quickly gained balance.

[MelancholicMemory 2,025]

"No. No, it's nothing. Let's just worry about the issue at hand," he stated. There was an awkward pause before DeadEye asked, "So...the holo-tape said you could cook. Is that true? Are you any good at it?" If so, this robot may have been the best thing to  to him in  long time.

[Yes-Man 597]

"Yes, master. Of course I can. My model can cook anything from a greasy spoon-style diner to 5-star cuisine that even the princesses would be impressed by. As my programming tells me, that is."

Charon thought about Inky and realized he could escape at any moment.

"Master, my last master used this slave shock-collar on some of her patrons when they asked. Perhaps we could use this on the dolphin...."

[MelancholicMemory 2,025]

"Great idea, Charon. Make it so." DeadEye was right before. Finding this robot falling out of the sky was one of the best things to happen in a while. They would make great partners. Fate was finally smiling on him for once. He turned his attention back to the controls.

 

"Colt? Are you there?"

[Colt 555]

“In the bucking name of bucks purest self this have been like the longuest 27 minutes in my life” the deep voice of the brown earth pony resounded on the Ragnarock’s deck. He was tired of polishing “30 30” his plasma shotgun now it was shining like a mirror. “I know this is like hell” screamed Northen Star who was now sunken in a pond of boredom and her wings.
Colt was igniting and putting of a flame over his paw with a zombie look on his face and a little drool on his mouth. For Cid he was not complaining he was… asleep.
 

"Colt? Are you there?"

All of the crew, the ones who were awake, turned their eyes with annoyed looks on their faces, “Are you ready to take off Nice Eyes?” the dragon said in a teasing tone.

[MelancholicMemory 2,025]

Upon seeing them all sleeping and hearing the bitter remark, he was a bit angry. We were waiting for you! he thought.Working with this dragon would be more difficult than he expected.

 

"Lead the  way," he said calmly, programming the computer to lock onto Colt's ship. 

 

"Axel, Miss Power, let's go!" he announced.

[Yes-Man 597]

Charon stepped down and found Inky.

"Listen up, Shamu, I know you're thinking about escaping, and I just can't allow that."

He took the slave collar, slapped it around Inky's neck, and activated it using the remote control.

"Try anything funny and you'll get a shocking answer. And, there is the 'fail safe' mechanism. So behave or feel pain. Simple enough, Willy?"

[Colt 555]

The systems in the ship were already ready to lift up, and the final revisions and checklists were done. “Set the course to the sector Star. E.M.I., send the departure protocols and beam the beacon signal to their ship” the dragon said “We wil set up to Warp 4 after we got pass the moon line” Colt said to DeathEye.

The Ragnarok began the deatachment to the royal docs and began the atmospheric flight leaving Canterlot behind a couple minutes later the planet itself. The ship made the orbital operation until the trajectory was the adequate and began the trip to deep space.

Edited February 15, 2013 by Colt

[MelancholicMemory 2,025]

The Dying Star followed closely behind Colt, speeding off into space. DeadEye kicked back in his chair with a sigh. He hadn't gotten a chance to relax in a while, and he should probably take the chance during the trip to the star system. Things were only going to get more stressful from this point on.

[Blitz 127]

(Once again another rushed low-quality post)

 

Purplepower kept her eyes on the screen as they followed the other ship. It had been a while since she had been on a ship so she wanted to make sure she didn't mess anything up. I can't screw this one up..... If I do who knows what will happen! She sat almost motionless in front of the computer, watching everything on the screen.

[Salacious B. Crumb 13]

Charon stepped down and found Inky.

"Listen up, Shamu, I know you're thinking about escaping, and I just can't allow that."

He took the slave collar, slapped it around Inky's neck, and activated it using the remote control.

"Try anything funny and you'll get a shocking answer. And, there is the 'fail safe' mechanism. So behave or feel pain. Simple enough, Willy?"

Inky made a noise that sounded like a mixture between a whistle and a chuckle. "You call yourself a follower of Celestio, one who favors Equestria over any other allegiance, yet you use the tools and tactics of a slaver and a pirate. It's not hard to tell. You're no true-blue Equestrian Law-Enforcement droid, and you and I both know it. But, as I can clearly see, the cards have not been played in my favor. So, yes, it is simple enough."

[Yes-Man 597]

Charon blinked at him. He shifted his hooves and blinked once more. He activated the shock-collar, "laughing" right after he did.

"I'm no follower of that fatflank bucker Celestia, lets get that straight. And I'm liking that you know I'm no normal droid. Keep that attitude and you'll be fine!"

[MelancholicMemory 2,025]

(OOC: I won't let this RP die!)

Finally both ships reached the location they had been sent to examine. Just as they had seen on the map, the massive area was absent of all star, asteroids, or planets, however, somehow one star system remained, somehow fixed in space on its own in the middle of the empty space. It was just one star with one average-sized planet. DeadEye noticed this and called Colt. "Colt are you seeing what I'm seeing? Do you think we should land on that planet and investigate?"

[Colt 555]

“Ok team we know this drill very well, lets do the things nice and easy and keep all in line” Colt said to the crew as each one if its members worked like a nice tune machine knowing exactly what to do.

“E.M.I. launch the scanning pods and try to cover as much as empty space as you can as well as the lone there” he began to issue instruction to the Ragnarock team. “Cid I want a general diagram of what it should be here as well as the diagnosis of the probable causes of this… void”. He turned towards Northen Star that was already over her work outsmarting the captain of the ship “Star make a study on the light curve of the stars as well as a full scan of the coms signals spectrum” , the mare was immerse on her work just answer “I know I know, just let me do my magic”. With a smile Colt then turned to his weapon and mechanic specialist “Im going to need the Endimion ready to launch as soon as possible Brown also run a full test on the vector cannon lets just be sure we are ready to go with that.”

"Colt are you seeing what I'm seeing? Do you think we should land on that planet and investigate?"

The coms channel opened and Death Eye was suggesting an approach, but jumping into the unknown was not a wise decision, ten years of space exploration taught that to the Ragnarock crew. “We are running a full scan on the planet and the rest of the sector DeadEye, in some minutes we will know what’s spots are of our “interest on that planet” let’s just wait for that and focus on them” the dragon said trying to calm the impetus of the special agent. “I would also recommend to keep both ships in the planet’s orbit, we can assemble a small team to keep the risk at minimum and land it with our multipurposefighter, I would like to keep the ships at warp range, just in case we need to get out of here”. There was no singal whatever happened there would not happen again so Colt wanted to keep his crew sife while exploring the surface of the lonely planet.

Edited February 22, 2013 by Colt

[Archi the Atmomancer 564]

Back on Equestria the sun was rising, and Smart Flank's head snapped up from his keyboard as his alarm clock blared. He turned to look at the time and groaned.

 

"Late again, Smart Flank," he thought to himself "Second time this week, might want to consider investing in a new alarm clock if you plan on keeping your job." He Quickly changed into something new, gave his teeth a quick scrub, and trotted out the apartment block door.

 

As usual Canterlot's streets were buzzing, a fact which irritated Smart Flank to no end as he squeezed through gatherings of people until he eventually reached the CISC, where he sat down at his desk and checked his e-mails for assignments an security breaches. Surprisingly, there were none, which gave him a few hours to do as he pleased before the routine maintenance period kicked in in an hour.

 

Remembering that dragon from yesterday, he opened up the Equestrian Archives and did a quick search for the "Beyond the Bounds Project". He did not find the search wanting; there must have been terrabytes of information in here about this single project, but the decided to go for the summary paper at the top of the page.

 

He had to double-take at the author; Welkin Gazer, from the BJI. He'd seen his name in a lot of papers over the years regarding rogue agents, splinter groups and failed expeditions. It seemed to be a running theme, given the details of the paper. Apparently it had been meant to help solve Equestria's energy problems and had involved over 20000 ponies working in concert to create a ship advanced enough for sustained exploration. This dragon (Colt Strahl, was it?) had been overseeing the project himself with princess Luna, although from the sounds of things he wasn't exactly "by-the-book". Ugh, a maverick...

 

He read further and found that the project had been closed down for... well, no reason at all, apparently. that was what he could amount "diplomatic relations" to at any rate. After its closure the crew then went on to steal the ship anyway 5 years ago and were missing in action until, well, yesterday.

 

He closed the report and leaned back in his chair. Perhaps he should catch up on some sleep while he had the time...

[MelancholicMemory 2,025]

@@Colt,

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"Alright then. We'll wait while you run your tests." He turned off the communicator and turned towards the other room.

 

"Hey Charon, come here. Have you ever seen anything like this?" he said, pointing to the screen, which showed the odd changes in this particular star system.

[Yes-Man 597]

Charon looked over and blinked at it. It looked strangely familiar, but if he had seen anything, he couldn't remember.

"They do look similar to something I've seen, I just can't quite put my hoof on it. If I have, it is most likely locked in my forbidden data files."

[Yes-Man 597]

Charon tried to access these files, but his eyes soon showed a 404 error image with a kitten on it.

His eyes returned to normal, and he looked at DeadEye, awaiting an answer.

His left hoof sparked and almost fell over, but he regained balance and shook a little.

[MelancholicMemory 2,025]

@, @@Colt,

"Hmm...interesting. We'll have to look into that later. Well, anyway, prepare to land on the planet. You, the fish, and I will be taking a look around once Colt's crew is done running some experiments. Hopefully, they will finish quickly." DeadEye turned his attention back to the screen. What was happening?

[Colt 555]

@@MelancholicMemory,@,  

The test were still running but the clock was ticking the Landing ship was ready to deploy after and Colt was already inside starting the launching sequence. After opening a channel to DeadEye’s ship the dragon spoke to the ones there “DeadEye do you read? The landing ship is ready, It can carry up to 4 passengers hope your group is not that crowded” he said as the Ragnarok’s bay opened releasing the Endymyon Mrk. III into the space that swiftly moved towards the other ship to pick up the ones over there.

[MelancholicMemory 2,025]

@@Colt,

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"Yes, I read you Colt. We're ready to board the landing ship when it arrives." DeadEye ended the call before calling to the others. "Inky. Charon. Let's go!" He prepared the ship to connect to the landing vessel, before heading over to the exit. It's time, he thought.

[Yes-Man 597]

Charon retracted his buzz saw from his hoof, and gave it a spin with the other. He put it back, and grabbed his magic blaster from the cluttered mess of his things. (Which looks like the Lacerator from Ratchet and Clank.)

He stood ready and looked at Inky.

"Alright, Moby, time to go."

[Colt 555]

The Endymion docked to the ship allowing Deadeye’s crew to hop on board. “You are going to be tight back there but the trip won’t be long ” Colt said to the ones preparing to board the Endymion. Is was a small ship but for 3 that was more than enough, no luxury cruise of course.

“My crew is still running the analisis they should end soon, the report on the planet orbit however seems to be clear and safe for our approximation and posterior land on the planet we will be cursing in that direction“. He informed the now established team as they found a way into the fighter.

“Did you found something interesting?”

 

@, @@MelancholicMemory,@,

Edited February 27, 2013 by Colt