My Little Pony: My Little Pony The Martian

Bright sunlight surrounded a few fluffy clouds, illuminating the Gryphon Sea, Horseshoe Bay, and the headland that separated the two. The sunlight simultaneously illuminates the spectacular glass curtain wall buildings on the side. This group of buildings is located on a small corner of rock protruding from the middle of a large pointed land that protrudes into the sea, and looks particularly dazzling. Five years ago this peninsula was so unknown that it didn't even have a name... and then the Space Age dawned. Now here is Friendship Point, home to the headquarters of the Equestrian Space Agency (ESA), the jewel in Princess Twilight Sparkle's crown, representing the backbone that inspires the development of the highest technological achievements that bless all living things in Equestria, constantly pushing the limits of knowledge.

Twilight Sparkle, the original founder of the space project, was sitting at his desk in the Environmental Control Systems Building, repeatedly reviewing the design of the Sparkle Engine. Although the space program is no longer her responsibility—Moondancer is now in charge of ESA, and the Changelings have complete control over the day-to-day affairs of Houston—she designed the ship and created the engine. , it was she who cast the Master Drive Crystal herself, so she still felt the need to take responsibility.

She had not rested in the past ten days. After all, even if Amicitas and its crew disappeared collectively, friendship issues and royal affairs could not be delayed. But even though she couldn't be there, she devoted all her time to overcoming the difficulties and trying to figure out what went wrong. Now that she finally had a free day, it was particularly necessary to return to the place where the incident occurred and solve the problem that she had created.

The only thing that can comfort her now is that no matter where they are, at least the missing crew members are still alive. The environmental maintenance system of the Amicitas spacecraft entering fail-safe mode was certainly a shock, but the simultaneous failure of the life-support systems of the five astronauts' spacesuits was even more of a shock. Twilight wants to strangle herself; Chrysalis is also furious at the loss of her people and the pony pilot who once led her to realize her dream of space, and prepares to send Twilight on her way. At this time, only Moon Dancer and the Queen's men continued to deal with the two, using the art of language to finally convince them to calm down and wait for the space suit system to return to normal.

Fifteen hours later, a miracle happened, and all five spacesuits came back online. Twilight attempted to reactivate Amicitas' air and water supply at that time, but the system immediately went into fail-safe again. When the life support systems of the five spacesuits shut down again, they tried to activate the main system again, but failed. The most straightforward conclusion to draw from this is that the crew found some kind of shelter, but it was not on their ship... The ship itself was nowhere to be found.

Traces are hard to find.

The spacecraft had been under surveillance by tracking magic and on-the-spot telemetry, but it quietly disappeared not far from its destination. The spacecraft was not destroyed, nor did it enter an invisible state, nor was it teleported to other places, it just disappeared out of thin air. Attempts to track and locate the body through life-support systems failed, and the investigation hit a dead end - as it turned out, the tracking yielded no response. Using the space station and several changeling-built craft, they experimented with attempts to re-establish telemetry over the same connection, with either failure or damage to the life support crystals on both ends of the system.

Dr. Warner von Braun of Houston has begun designing a rescue craft that will be assembled in orbit and use structures and equipment similar to those of a space station. But the actual construction plan is far away... because no one knows the location and condition of Amicitas and its crew. Are they in orbit or have they landed on a planet? Are there other horses around? Are you being held captive or are you free to explore? There are too many questions of this type, and completing the answers to these questions can prevent the creation of a completely useless spacecraft.

And the problem with the Twinkle engine must be fixed before any subsequent spacecraft launches. After all, any rescue spacecraft must be powered by a flash engine... and if the engine has the same problem and the rescue team is stranded together, it will undoubtedly make things worse.

"Oh! Sorry to bother you, princess!"

Twilight looked up. A young, unfamiliar earth pony appeared in the previously empty room. Her cutie mark looked like a pool of flowing unknown liquid. She was holding a coffee cup on one of her front hooves. The new horse's facial expressions were more vivid than those of the Maud Pie, but not much better. "Good morning!" Twilight said, "Don't pay attention to me, I'm just here to take care of some things."

"It's one o'clock in the afternoon now," the earth pony looked at the purple princess with concern and said, "How long have you been here? Where is the hall supervisor?"

"I told her she could rest at home during the day shift today," Twilight said. "I'll tell Moondancer before I go back... Um... I'm so sorry. What's your name?"

"Kuqi," the pony replied, "I joined the job two weeks ago and my duty is to patrol this room."

"Oh," Twilight Sparkle said, "Um, do you have any previous space flight experience?"

"No," Kuqi admitted, "My previous job was as a finish line referee for the professional snail racing competition. Before that, I was a telegraph operator. I also served as a volunteer for the magic energy attenuation observation project."

"What?!" Twilight responded immediately, "The magic energy will not decay."

"Professor G. Stephen Hawking said that magic energy will decay at an extremely slow rate," Kuqi said, "so slowly that no magic energy has completely decayed since ancient times. But the professor is sure that any day in the future will There may be magic that completes the decay, and he will have the opportunity to observe it.”

"Female mouth..." Twilight responded, "Then... you can continue to do your job."

"As ordered." Kuqi pushed a metal chair to the table, facing a wall full of instrument readings showing the operation status of each working life-sustaining spell; she sat upright on the chair, her curved He put his front hooves on the edge of the table and looked into the sky.

Twilight tried to focus back on her work, but the presence of another pony kept distracting her. For three whole minutes, she couldn't calm down and read through her notes. When she looked up, she found that the dry paint was not moving at all. Observation four minutes later showed that she still maintained her previous position and had no tendency to move in the future. Twilight stared at her for a full two minutes before she noticed she blinked.

"So..." Twilight tried to say something to ease the awkward atmosphere, "Do you like this job?"

Kuqi shrugged slightly and said, "As long as you can make a living."

AMICITAS Mission Three – Mission Day 28

ARES 3 solar day 31

"So," Dragonfly asked Berry, "what do you think is the relationship between humans and clothes?"

"What do you mean?" Berry answered as she turned off the water supply to her spacesuit.

Dragonfly turned on the water supply in her space suit again, and the dripping water slowly moistened the Martian soil used for farming. "Did you notice that when Mark takes a shower - and by the way he's been showering much less often lately - he always hides behind the curtain to change?" She turned off the water again.

"No, I haven't noticed." Berry seemed to have something in her words. She turned on the water supply to her suit again and tapped the timer with her hoof.

"And the humans who appeared in the movie Mark showed us on the computer, are they all wearing clothes?" Dragonfly asked again, opening the water valve, "Of course, the one named 'Daisy' in it There are some exceptions for people. If she were a pony, you would have seen her cutie mark." The water supply was turned off again.

Berry stopped the water supply when Dragonfly was halfway commenting on Daisy Duke's outfit, and then turned it on again. "I really haven't thought about this problem," she replied patiently, "it doesn't seem to have anything to do with me." At this time, she turned off the water valve and walked to the next piece of soil that needed watering.

Tingting turned on the faucet and followed all the way, leaving a trail of water stains behind him. "I was thinking that ponies all have fur, right? But Mark seemed to be naked except for the top of his head and the rest of his face." .Maybe he is ashamed."

"Diao Ting, pay attention to the water supply." Cherry Berry warned.

"Maybe humans have noticed other animals," Dragonfly was completely immersed in the world in her mind at this time, ignoring Berry's warning, "and then thought: 'It's so embarrassing, I have to hide it so that other animals don't Know……'"

"Dingting!" Berry yelled, "Watch your faucet!"

Dragonfly blinked. "how……"

The flow of liquid in the drinking tube of Dragonfly water stopped abruptly. The light on her suit's life-support system went out.

"...?" After finishing speaking, Tingting looked down at the space suit. "Uh... not good," she said as she kept flipping the switch, her heart gradually sinking.

"Be sure to tell me that you turned it off yourself." Berry said.

"What happened?" Spitfire asked, and continued counting, "Thirteen, fourteen, fifteen." Then he turned off the water supply to his spacesuit.

"I think..." Qingting could hardly breathe at this moment, "I think I may have overturned the car just now... I think I just..."

Twilight Sparkle looked up from her notes. The indicator lights corresponding to the two space suits of the Amicitas crew just turned on - but they were only supplying water. Air transmission remains off. This situation seemed to go on for a long time, and just as the third spacesuit started to provide water, the first two pilot lights went out. "What is that?" she asked. "Are they really thirsty?"

"This happens from time to time," Kuqi replied, his body motionless, "It usually stops after a few hours."

"And you didn't file a report because of this situation?" Twilight Sparkle refused to give up.

"I'm not hired to make reports," Kuqi replied, "I'm only responsible for surveillance."

Twilight's jaw almost dropped. "But...but you never told any other horses what you saw?"

"Of course I will," Kuqi said. "Yuewu will come to check the post at the end of each shift and ask what we found. For example, today I will answer that Feihuo, Berryberry, Dragonfly and Fireball drank water many times. , the average duration is 12 seconds, and the interval is about half a minute... If there is one as usual, it lasts for about two hours." She raised her hoof and pointed at another set of indicator lights and said, "In addition, Leonid is in the cabin. While walking outside, she drank water five times as usual between 2 and 15 pm; Rainbow Dash's breathing indicated that she took a nap in her cockpit between 2:40 and : pm; and have……"

"I know!" Twilight hurriedly interrupted, "But this situation is not normal, is it?"

Qi Qi’s hoof returned to the table. "But it's not abnormal."

Twilight sighed and went back to her work. She could indeed go to Moon Dancer and ask for an explanation, but it would not be of much use and would only waste Moon Dancer's time. Maybe Kuqi is right. This type of behavior is indeed strange, but these signs alone do not indicate...

A buzzer sounded on the panel - indicating that the life-sustaining spell's failsafe had been triggered, shutting down transmission to a certain terminal. A red indicator light corresponding to the life support system of a certain Amicitas crew member's space suit came on.

"It's not good," Kuqi said, "This has never happened before. It seems that Dragonfly is a little thirsty today."

"Wait a minute," Twilight muttered, "changelings are almost never thirsty."

"Maybe I accidentally took an extra puff." Kuqi left her chair, walked to the control panel, and pressed the switch to reset Tingting's life support system. The water supply and air supply indicator lights came on at the same time. Soon after, the air transmission indicator light went out first, and a few seconds later the water supply indicator light returned to normal. The alarm did not sound again.

"Everything is as usual." Kuqi returned to his position.

"...I messed up a big thing." As soon as Tingting finished speaking, water suddenly splashed out and wet her front hooves.

Berry watched the changeling hooves hurriedly turning off the water supply and let out a long breath. "You are really lucky sometimes!" She still snarled, "You have to be careful in the future!"

"Actually," Spitfire added, "why don't you teach Mark how to use our space suit?" The alien was walking around on the dirt-covered ground carrying a small box of water, slowly Add water and use your fingers to work the water into the top layer of soil. "If you can't operate it carefully..."

"It's impossible to recover." Dragonfly said, staring at her spacesuit.

"what?"

Dingting pointed to his spacesuit. "The life support system of my space suit should not have returned to normal." "Normally we all think that if a space suit triggers a failsafe, the space horse will be dead; and in any case, all the main crystals The operation and control of the space suit are all carried out in the same building in Maltimore. Their operation is very stable, and no one has the intention to supervise it later. So the space suit cannot...maybe...unless..." Those pairs of blue shoes Se Youguang's eyes suddenly widened, and the holes in his wings trembled and beat against the loose fabric fibers of the space suit.

"Unless what?" Berry asked.

"Shut up," Tingting replied, "I have to think carefully." She has obviously been trained, hasn't she? Working together within the tribe, doing rocket parts manufacturing and various other jobs related to Berry, and being trained to control all the horseless probes and satellites launched by the Changeling Space Agency (CSA)... Although she has not been there for a few months. The work is a bit unfamiliar, and usually other horses are responsible for the work...but...

Long story short. The shorter the better. What is the most important message she could send if given the opportunity to communicate? What is the minimum number of letters it takes? All security dispatched rescue? (ALL SAFE SEND HELP) Not dead yet? (NOT DEAD YET) Send snacks? (PLZ SND MOR SNAX)

Her eyes wandered around and finally landed on the main environment maintenance system of the Amicitas spacecraft. The pipes connecting the water supply system and the ventilation system have been removed, leaving only the box with a few switches and indicator lights on the front panel. She ran over, changed the transmission mode from automatic to hoof, and opened the main water supply valve.

Done. Perfect.

She ran back to the mound and said, "Attention, everyone! I have something important to tell you! Everyone, watch my movements and follow them, and pay attention to maintaining the same rhythm, okay? The most important thing is to be neat and orderly!" She was careful Lifting the space suit above the soil, holding the water supply switch, he began to flip the switch in a quick and cautious rhythm.

Tick-tick-tick-tick-tick-tick...

"Here we go again!" Twilight Sparkle shouted, "It's even weirder this time!"

Now the water supply indicator light of Dragonfly is beating in an irregular rhythm. The lights flickered on and off almost in rhythm, but all Twilight could think of was that there was something blocking the flow of water, which was impossible from the current situation.

"There is no explanation!" the princess shouted, "Ms. Kuqi, please call Moon Dancer now, right away!"

"I have to watch this panel." The dead paint still didn't move.

"This order comes from you... Look, here comes another one!" Twilight pointed at the indicator light corresponding to Berry. At this time, it lit up a few times with the rhythm of Dragonfly, and then turned off again after a while, "Excuse me! Can you ask Yue Wu to come over?!"

"I have to watch this board." Kuqi was still stubborn and watched as Berry's indicator light once again kept up with the rhythm of Dragonfly. Feihuo also joined in. After a few flashes, he fell behind, but I saw the fireball coming up again, always flashing, conveying this never-ending pulse.

A few seconds later, four of the five spacesuits joined in, delivering the uniform, irregular beat.

"If you don't go, I will!" Twilight became furious, "She needs to know what's happening now! What else do you have to say?"

"I said," Kuqi said, "N.W.A.T."

"What the hell? Now is not the time to lose your mind!" Twilight yelled, flapping her wings excitedly, "Speak to me!"

"U.R.N.T.H.E." Kuqi cleared his throat, pointed at the indicator light and said, "Write down N.W.A.T.E."

Twilight suddenly understood something. "It's Moss code." She gasped. Although she had some knowledge about it, it was the first time she had witnessed the application of this form - usually this kind of code was used for telegraph or radio communication, but it was not conveyed in the form of this indicator light. She quickly brought a pen and paper, recorded the spell, and said excitedly to her, "Keep reading the letters! You are employed by the royal family for life!"

Kuqi kept calling out the letters, and Twilight recorded them on the side, repeating them over and over again until the following information appeared:

Turn on the main water supply (TURNTHEMAINWATERON)

"Turn on the main water," Twilight screamed, "Turn on the main water!!"

Kuqi sighed and prepared to move down from the chair.

"No need!" Twilight shouted and ran towards the large control panel of the Amicitas spacecraft's life support system, "I'll do it! Just keep watching!"

"This is my duty." Kuqi said quietly, appearing calm.

"How long are we going to keep doing this?" Fireball muttered, keeping the same rhythm in his claws as the other suits.

"Go on!" Dragonfly shouted, "Some horse is watching! There must be some horse watching! Just wait until they find out..."

The indicator light of the life support component of the Amicitas spacecraft suddenly came on, and water jetted out from the nozzle on the front panel, flying across half of the living area. Mark was frightened and ran to get a box to catch the water, but the flow of water suddenly stopped halfway.

"They received it." Dragonfly exclaimed.

Starlight, who had been lying on the bunk and taking a nap to recharge, jumped out of bed and walked over, asking, "What was the sound of water just now?"

"They received it!!" Dragonfly cheered.

"They received it!!!" The roar of the fireball filled the air.

"They received it." Berry sighed, her hooves became weak and she collapsed on the soft soil.

The main water supply was activated again, spurting out stream after stream of water, splashing intermittently for a while. Mark moved a drawer from the cupboard to collect water, and when it was full, he brought a basin instead.

"E-S-A-F-5-4...D-E...B-L-M-E-S-A...K." Tingting kept reporting the characters it received. When the beat returned to the beginning, she said, "Friendship Point is calling ESA Mission 54, it's us!"

On the other side of the universe, Kuqi was staring at the water supply indicator light of Dragonfly, while Twilight Sparkle wrote the letters and numbers she reported:

BLM-ESA DE ESA-F54K

"Okay! Great! Great!" Twilight was surprised and happy, "The communication connection is connected! They can talk to us!!" A bunch of magic spurted out from Twilight's corner, shaking the surrounding air, and struck The glass windows that penetrated the dome of the hall soared into the sky, blooming with fiery trees and silver flowers, illuminating the entire Youyi Cape.

"Moon Dancer will come over if he sees it!" Twilight said, "Who can survive the storm until the clouds clear and the moon shines! Everything will finally come to light!"

Mission Log – Solar Day 31

Well, today I saw it - a musical starring the three ponies, a bug horse, a dragon, and the best time since Lewis last treated us all to a trip to the Strawberry Waterpark. This is the worst waste of water I have ever seen after a day.

I only took part of it. Whatever they did, they reactivated the ship's primary life-support systems, spraying water everywhere—far more than I needed. What I need in the residential area is moist soil, not mud; and I don’t want the newly cultivated top soil to flow into the gaps in the access panels and damage the precision electronic instruments that help me survive in this barren land. But I did take some footage of them singing and dancing, and there was also footage of five aliens spraying water everywhere from their spacesuits to a neat beat. See the attachment for the video file.

Even Fireball was smiling today. He laughed even harder than he did when he saw Roscoe drive a police car into a pond three times in the same episode—a sure sign that something serious was going on. This dragon really enjoyed watching the car crash footage.

They continue to celebrate to this day. The previous fountain show ended with a long series of splashes from the water supply port of the spacecraft. Most of them were caught by me and poured into the water recycling machine. It won't be long before I have to consider building a temporary water reservoir - even though we've been pouring water into the soil, the main tank is actually already full.

But - there is nothing to worry about with this kind of problem!

Wait a moment - Starlight finally walks towards me. She said she didn't plan to use the translation spell in the near future, so I was curious whether she had changed her mind on a whim, or whether she wanted to communicate with me using the little English she had just learned.

Mission Log – Solar Day 31 (2)

Record of conversation between Starlight Glimmer and Mark Watney (note: the entire conversation is in English - no translation)

Starlight: Mark! We spoke to the family!

Watney: Are you talking to your family? Your family? Are you connected to your world?

Starlight: Yes! Blah blah blah! They received it!

Watney: They know you're alive?

Starlight: Alive! Yes! Know that you are alive! good! very nice!

Watney: That's awesome!

Starlight: What does "mixed jile" mean?

Watney: Awesome, just... just so, so, so good!

Starlight: Half-time...

Watney (feeling the atmosphere a bit awkward): Mu Feng-Mu Ji-乛亅. Excellent. It’s great to connect with home!

Starlight: Yes! Awesome... Great to talk to home!

Watney: What did they say?

Starlight (shrugs): Said "how". We just said it. Will talk again tomorrow.

Watney: That's it?

Starlight: Not good. (Pointing to the muddy soil aside)

Watney (realizing that now is not the time to take language lessons): OK, that's it. Let me know next time you communicate.

Starlight: OK!

It’s really embarrassing. They turned the water dispenser into a telegraph. Although it takes some effort to use and makes a lot of noise, at least it works.

They are in contact with the mother world. Don't get me wrong, I'm excited for them too, but I feel so damn jealous right now. We don't have a magic conduit to John, Capol's personal manager.

And even if there is such a thing, I don’t remember Morse code. We had done too much survival training that was completely useless and was mainly for team building purposes, after all, the possibility of us landing in the Sahara Desert or a tropical rain forest was slim. Unfortunately, learning Morse code was not very impressive to me.

See if there is any remedy. Maybe there will be Morse code diagrams in the information packaged by NASA...

……found it! It's right here, under the Emergency Communications Protocol column! I really want to thank this antique from seventy years ago! Sometimes NASA's aging bureaucracy is still very friendly!

But now how do I use it? The radio is broken, so unless Pony and the others have something I can modify, the radio won't work. In other words, communication can only be one-way. I had to think of something that NASA couldn't possibly not see.

Stone. There are tons of rocks on the ground outside, and even more around the edge of the slope in Area E. I was able to find some stones to spell out the dots/dashes of the telegraph code, which is much better legible when read from orbit than the Roman alphabet. By the way, even Roman letters will work. Why didn’t I think of giving it a try before? It's not difficult to say "Help - bring food and hay".

good. That's the plan. I would write the same information twice - once to the north of the residential area and once just to the east of the e-zone. There will always be a satellite that takes pictures of it.

Now I just have to figure out the content of the message. The shorter the better, and can be coded using hacks I learned when I was eight years old. It still took a while to build something out of rocks that could be seen from the track.

But this is still... I can send a message to the earth! I get excited just thinking about it, what a great idea!

Transcript – Hydraulic Telegraph Switch – ESA Maltimore Center ＜-＞ ESA spacecraft AMICITAS

(Note: Standard telegraph communication techniques were used throughout/the simplified abbreviations of Moss code were translated)

ESA: Maltimore calls Amicitas, over.

AMICITAS: Amicitas calls Maltimore, over.

ESA: Reporting status, completed.

AMICITAS: Five crew members landed safely. The spaceship crashed. The planet's environment is unfavorable for survival - the air is unbreathable. A base was found on the surface, and an alien was trapped. Food rationing is being implemented. Aliens are sharing food and trying to grow it. Need rescue. The water is making a mess here, please contact us in 24 hours. complete.

ESA: Copied. Stay safe. Communication ends.