My Little Pony: My Little Pony The Martian

Equestria has never been able to find the whereabouts of the Angels 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7 test vehicles.

Angel 3 has successfully completed five inter-dimensional round trips, two of which even successfully triggered emergency measures to return safely from a low-magic world, thus giving the Malaysian space team an overly optimistic sense of security. The sixth experiment only lasted less than a minute before it came to an abrupt end: the Queen of Nightmare Moon in the universe where the destination was located felt that an uninvited guest had broken into her world of eternal night, and effortlessly erased it. The presence.

Angel 4 took over after that. Only one of the first five interstellar tours triggered the emergency termination mode. However, the sixth time it was unlucky and arrived in a universe where the laws of physics do not support the existence of any magic at all. The probe immediately shut down, stranded in an orbit around the sun a million miles away from the nearest planet, and lost contact forever.

Angel 5's maiden voyage went smoothly, but unfortunately it was discovered by the Twilight Twinkle Queen of the target universe during its second journey. She used magic to teleport the detector to herself, shut down its systems, and carefully disassembled it for further study. However, after she reassembled the detector, it forgot the way it came, so it stayed in that world and continued Equestria's eternal exploration of the stars and sea.

As one of the pioneers of many detectors, Angel 6's performance is quite eye-catching: among its seven successful returns, there were two emergency evacuations, and it even detected a radio signal once, but the source was not the fourth star in the star system. Planet, but the third one. In the end, it failed to escape the fate of its predecessors, and unfortunately appeared in the midst of a massive alien invasion fleet on its eighth voyage; the enemy instantly crushed this small machine as ruthlessly as they treated ants. The spaceships then continue their majestic progress, exploring their great experiment on human nature.

Then they launched Angel Seven. It quickly reached a safe operating distance from the planet Horse, and then carried out the first and last inter-dimensional shuttle in its life. The detector has since evaporated from the sight of the ponies, and no creature in the universe has ever discovered it. Its transmission destination was only a few meters away from the lunar surface, and it was shattered into pieces within a second. The remains were like scattered flowers dotted with new members of thousands of craters on the moon.

Although yesterday's setback was still fresh in their minds, the leaders of the Equestria Space Agency and the Changeling Space Program gathered together just one day later; Princess Twilight Sparkle, Moondancer, and Lemonheart sat down at the conference table, and Queen Cocoon, House and Warner von Braun face each other. "So," Cocoon Cocoon began by getting straight to the point, "How long will it take to send Angel 8 to the launch pad?"

What she got was a straightforward answer from Twilight Sparkle: "There will be no more Angel 8."

"What do you mean by this?!" Cocoon's black cheese hoof slammed on the conference table, "Princess, we have no intention of abandoning our people!"

"It's useless!" Twilight Sparkle yelled back, "It took us more than two months to detect only twenty-three worlds. Twenty-three. And that's counting the ones that can only be used." The result of the world that can be summed up in one sentence is that the detector is disabled as soon as it enters! If you don't count it, there are eighteen. If you remove those universes that have "insufficient magic energy to detect", there will only be thirteen left. . In other words, we are facing the boundless unknown, and it will take us three to four days to explore a world. It is simply more ridiculous than finding a needle in a haystack!!!" This time it was Twilight's turn to pound the table, "I can't allow us to be precious. Resources are wasted on such an obviously ineffective solution!"

"Well, in that case," Yuyu didn't buy it, and there was a sharp sarcasm in her soft tone, "What other options do you have?"

"We are almost able to calculate the interdimensional vectors pointing to their location based on the magical link of Amicitas' life support system," Twilight replied, "but we are not sure yet about the distance in the direction of the vectors. If they can establish a Beacon - for example, if you cast some extremely powerful spells, the energy fluctuations can penetrate the barrier of the dimensional interface layer, so that we can locate their exact location!"

What she got in return was a look of disdain from Yu Yu. "I see, so your so-called smart plan," she said sarcastically, "is for Starlight Glimmer to find a way to cast a super powerful spell in a world with almost no magic, right? The ponies' argument is indeed to let I feel so sorry for myself."

Yue Wu jumped up from her chair in anger, "At least we are still actively thinking about solutions!" She scolded angrily, "What ideas can you come up with? What contribution have you made to this project?"

"I contributed the money." Yuxu replied, "various parts, materials and tools. My people also participated. And my aircraft control skills are not dispensable. Miss Moon Dance , these are the contributions I have made. And now I just hope that you can also do your part!"

"What... why... why are you always so conceited..."

Zhujia was lying in front of the conference table, waving his hooves vigorously in an attempt to attract attention. He bared his buck teeth and begged in an almost condescending tone: "Please calm down, everyone..."

"Foals, know that my pride is well deserved for my hard work!"

"Being repaired by us is what you really deserve..."

As a result, the cooperative relationship between Equestria's space research institutions, which had already gone through several ups and downs since the Amicitas crash, was once again broken down, and could only be restored after everyone here had lost the strength to shout at the top of their voices.

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

ESA: Maltimore calls Amicitas, over.

AMICITAS: Amicitas calls Maltimore, uses the fireball suit to reply, completed.

ESA: Amicitas, got it. Report the results of the transformation experiment, completed.

AMICITAS: The dragonfly—the starlight has laid down. The experiment consumed the energy of a battery and tried to convert the surface of the planet in the nearby crater into aluminum oxide as recommended by the Earth. The battery is exhausted after one-tenth of the crater conversion progress is completed, and the inner surface of the crater immediately returns to its original state. It was expected that the spell would require forty-four batteries at full power to seal the cave, and an additional four batteries would be required to make the spell's effects permanent. At present, the maximum number of batteries we can use is only eight and a half. By the time we successfully accumulate the energy required to cast the spell, the cave will be of little use. Over.

ESA: Got it. What about other options?

AMICITAS: Is there a spell that can fuse a large number of gems into one complete crystal? Is it possible to reduce the energy cost of spells? complete.

ESA: We’ll look into that later. But can you please repeat the previous transformation spell at maximum power? complete.

AMICITAS: Maltimore, Starlight is on her back right now with ice packs on her horns. Why are you asking her to try again? complete.

ESA: We need a very powerful spell. We hope it's strong enough for us to detect here, over.

AMICITAS: Berry--we cannot tolerate this waste of magic energy on ineffective spells. What we need is a cave sealing spell that can work under the current conditions. If you have any ideas, please contact us. Over.

ESA: Under study. Communication completed.