I finally understand what they are doing here. They aren't trying to make alicorns, they're making pegasus-unicorn hybrids. That's why they're failing so much. From what I understand of it, which is second hoof knowledge from Luna, the Earth Ponies' natural magic acts a kind of stabilizer. The physical antony of Alicorns doesn't work. Things like the bone density wouldn't provide support for the muscles, especially the ones needed for flight.

Earth Pony Magic tends to be less obvious and it therefore ignored. Even in the case of Pinkie Pie. Her magic isn't in the form of flight weather control, or in manipulations of reality, but in herself. She has some kind of hyper awareness that controls her involuntary movements. She is excellent example of Earth Pony Magic, their magic is eternal, whether its the ability to still function through life, at the age of 80(the standard life expectancy is about 73) or pull a cart over their weight.

I realised what their mistake due to the fact that I haven't seen a single Earth Pony. I fear that they may have a 'breakthrough' and find out that they need Earth Ponies. If these unicorns take over equestria, then mad science, or rather magic would be rampart. It would be nearly as bad as Discord's time. Wait, Discord came after the wiengios. The wiengios. They aren't here yet. I hope I die before that. Is that selfish? To want to not live through such times? Is it really that bad to not want to partake in certain actions? To die instead? Make no mistake, should I live, I will partake in that, no, this war. Willingly or not.

I'm already partaking in this war, I'm assisting the Unicorns, passively. I'm assisting their research. I could have already caused an inevitable victory for them. Sweet Lucky Stars, have I doomed equestria?

Possibly. I still could manipulate key events. Thank you luna, for being slightly obsessed with the history leading to the event. I could theoretically cause certain battles to lean one way or another.

The history books may say that the three Tribes were(are?) at constant warfare with each other. The reality of it however is that the pegasi were(again, are?) extorting the Earth Ponies for protection, though not unjustly. The unicorns had, as their 'first' act of aggression, 'liberated' several dozen Earth Pony farming villages from their 'oppressive' government.

The Earth Ponies hired, yes hired, pegasi to retake them with minimal collateral damage. In short, we mostly succeeded. We couldn't get a few (where is now ponyville, manehatten and Froggy Bottom Bog) due to artillery on MT. Canterlot.

But to do that I would have to escape. That is a problem. I might be able to escape alone, well, I know that I can escape this facility alone, but afterwards? I might last a few nights, but I wouldn't bet on it.

No, if I want to escape to safety, it would have to be a group effort. At least I won't have the moral dilemmas of leaving her here. You know, number 1157. They strip us of anything that connect us to our old lives. Except our marks of power(I still refuse to call them, cutie marks), they're still baffled by my apparent lack of one. It was worth it to get one of those patches. They were originally made for the embarrassingly blank flanks, about oh, say about 300 years after Discord.

right after Discord, Luna and princess Celestia put every capable pony to work. The pony's Mark of Power would decide what work they would receive. If you didn't have one, your pay was likely being drained by their superiors. Of course the average joe schmoo didn't know that. Fairly soon, "blank flank" meant that you could barely provide for your family, and was used as an insult.

So some of the better off families had these patches made to maintain the family image. But it died down a lot for the next hundred dozen years. However they made quite the resurgence do to a plague that caused massive fatigue and hid cutie marks. After this the term "blank flank" became worthless weakling.

Recently, (or is it much later from Now?) it has been some kind of fetish. So yeah I got some odd looks, and disturbing ones while getting it, but it has proved to be useful. How would I explain my shield Mark of Power?

Wow I have been rambling, I need to start planning the mass escape.

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