My Little Pony: My Little Pony The Martian

AMICITAS Mission Three – Mission Day 313

ARES 3 solar day 309

[08:03] JPL: Daily inspection. The solar activity is down a bit, so maybe communications will be smoother today. According to our estimation, Solar Day 318 will be the signal loss day, and Hermes will try to search for signals from Pathfinder every day until a connection is successfully established. If you are lucky, it may be on solar day 328. Hope you are all safe and well.

[08:42] Watney: We're fine, but you guys told us not to build the engine transport pylon on Rover without telling us any reason, which makes me feel uncomfortable. You must have a reason. If you can't send it because of data loss, just keep resending it and you will always get it once. As for now, we're busy studying magic through science, or science through magic, whichever way you choose. Awaiting your reply. --mark

[09:41] System message: Error - The feedback signal loss at the receiving end exceeds the recovery threshold - Information transmission failed

[09:42] Watney: System command: Repeat

[09:42] System message: The previous message has been resent.

[10:41] System message: Error - The feedback signal loss at the receiving end exceeds the recovery threshold - Information transmission failed

[13:19] Watney: System command: Repeat

[13:20] System message: The previous message has been resent.

[14:18] System message: Error - The feedback signal loss at the receiving end exceeds the recovery threshold - Information transmission failed

[14:19] Watney: System command: Repeat

[14:19] System message: The previous message has been resent.

[15:30] Watney: It’s time to do it now.

[16:28] System message: Error - The feedback signal loss at the receiving end exceeds the recovery threshold - Information transmission failed

AMICITAS Mission Three – Mission Day 314

ARES 3 solar day 310

Starlight Glimmer turned off the magic field projection device and proudly looked at the six freshly baked ordinary-sized magic batteries in front of him. Because people on Mark's side requested to postpone the preparations for moving the three Amicitas main engines to Schiaparelli without explaining any reason, she decided to cancel the manufacturing of four giant batteries that was originally scheduled for today. arrange. In addition, temporarily skipping these tasks also meant that she could take some time out of her busy schedule to use up some magic energy and take the opportunity to do some experiments on rainbow crystals.

Over the past few solar days, she and Mark had designed and implemented several experiments on these enchantments that had accidentally attached themselves to the crystals. The results were mixed, for different reasons, and both comforted and confused her.

Experiment 1: Can these rainbow crystals store magic energy? Judging from the readings of the Dragonfly Mana Meter, it should be possible, but even the crystals in the center of this cluster of rainbow crystals that cannot even infect other crystals do not have much storage capacity. If the average reading on the meter is anything to go by, the storage efficiency of these crystals is extremely low compared to specially enchanted batteries.

Experiment 2: Are only crystals growing naturally on the wall infected? Answer: Not really. Five crystal samples collected from the cafeteria were placed on top of certain rainbow crystals; within two days of the experiment, all but the smallest sample had become enchanted.

Experiment 3: Does a crystal have to be in physical contact with an infected crystal to become infected? Answer: It is too early and the conclusion is not clear, but some crystals left in the open a pony's length away from the Rainbow Crystal remained uninfected for four solar days.

Experiment 4: Is there a size limit for this enchantment? The answer based on observation: Yes. There are several crystals smaller than Mark's finger within the rainbow crystal range, and they have not changed yet. Probably because there isn't enough room for the entire enchantment. After examining it carefully (squinting), Starlight was able to find a few traces of random magic, but there was no strange random pattern like a complete enchantment.

Experiment 5: Will crystals that are already enchanted still be infected? Answer: Looks like not. Starlight placed a battery enchantment on a hoof-sized crystal and fixed it between two larger rainbow crystals. Three days later, the target crystal still remained in place and was not affected in any way. More observations are needed before we can draw any conclusions, but for now it appears that both the battery and the sunlight relay crystal are safe for the time being. (During the experiment, she suddenly thought that maybe she could think of some way to design a viral enchantment capable of attacking magic batteries and sunlight relay crystals. At the same time, she also thought that in a place like Mars, this idea would be even more important. Don’t even think about giving it a try.)

Experiment Six (Today): Can Rainbow Crystals Hold Other Enchantments? Answer: Surprisingly, it is indeed possible, but the operation is difficult and the operation efficiency is greatly reduced. Starlight has successfully added standard lighting enchantments to two rainbow crystals. Now they can glow, but still very faintly.

Experiment 7 (also today, using one of the infected crystals produced in Experiment 2): Can this enchantment be removed from the rainbow crystal? Answer: It cannot be completely removed. As with any kind of enchantment, there will always be a little bit left over after removal. But the random tangle of enchantments that Starlight had broken had apparently broken the entire system; the crystal still showed the colors of the rainbow, but the pattern never changed again.

Experiment 8 (officially started today, not yet completed): Will this enchantment affect amorphous rocks?

Experiment 9 (also started today): If other enchantments are added to the rainbow crystal, will the new enchantments be spread along with the original random enchantments?

In this experiment, the remaining three infected crystals that were taken by Starlight as experimental victims were placed in three small sample boxes provided by Mark. One contained ordinary crystal fragments; this box served as the control group. The other also contains regular crystal shards, but the infected crystal placed inside has an additional glow enchantment. The last infected crystal was placed in a box of random samples of amorphous rock from the Martian surface that had been collected while driving the rover to the cave that morning. In another two or three days, the results will be known.

Mark took the last photo of the post-magic surrounding environment today, capturing the scope of the rainbow crystals that continued to spread, and at the same time recording the initial state of the three boxes of experimental samples. "Would you like to write down the results?" he asked, "or would you like me to do it?"

"It's me," Starlight replied. "I've been responsible for translating our concepts into English and providing them to your scientists. And I also want to send reports to our place."

"That's up to you," Mark said, "but let me know when you're done, and then we'll start reading today's book. Today's book is the last chapter of The Two Towers."

Starlight shuddered when she heard this. Judging from the results, Feihuo and Dragonfly's predictions were spot on, but the giant spider monster that came in at the end caught everyone by surprise. It should be emphasized that she has never had any objection to spiders - the star-patterned spiders that appear around the Two Sisters' castle, which is half under renovation, are very cute, and their attitude towards visitors to Everfree is unusually friendly - but she has nothing to do with the huge spiders. There is still a line to be drawn between horse-eating monster spiders.