Leaf Fall 30th 3472 EE
I've finally calmed down enough to write about this. When I first got the news it took Atlas sitting on me and Luna's full telekinetic power to stop me rushing off and doing something foalish. As it is I spent a week out in the badlands, working off my mad. Trolling gryphon tribes into hunting me for their lunch, then beating the pinion feathers off of them, helped some. And that dragon shouldn't have looked at me funny.
I'm not making sense, something I've often been accused of. So lets take things in sequence. We put together our presentation, and it was a massive success. We demonstrated our spells and models, and explained the principles behind them, running well over our allotted time. We got a standing hoovation, the first ever in the history of the Academy.
There were a lot of neigh-sayers who seemed to thing that a group of dilettante nobles, especially a 'mixed' group such as ours could possibly develop anything useful. I think we pretty thoroughly demolished them with our demonstration. Our prototype gliding wing got particular attention, and the balloona (Ball of Luna is just too cumbersome for everyday use, and besides Luna gets all embarrassed at the name.)
So why am I furious? Because of what happened afterwards. The Royal court learned about our demonstration and immediately responded. Their first ukase makes all clouds over Equestrian soil Crown Property, to be taxed and assessed as land is so that it can be used 'for the greatest good of Equestria' (read 'for the greatest good of the top clique of nobles that run the court.').
Flying chariot ownership is restricted to unicorns, and non-magical flying devices are forbidden. Apparently they would present too much risk to existing air traffic. The exception is balloonas, but only if they are powered by heating charms woven into the bag. Fires in the sky are also apparently too great a hazard to traffic. No matter that the slowest pegasus can run rings around a balloona, even towing a chariot.
Finally, and this demonstrates what they are really saying, all further research into WANDs is forbidden on pain of life imprisonment and mutilation. Apparently, only those born to magic (unicorns) are able to fully understand it, or handle it safely. To give pegasi or powers forbid Earth ponies that power would be to unleash disaster.
No matter that no one's actually tested this idea, except for us, and as far as we've been able to tell there's no problem, apparently it's a 'law of nature'. They've taken every development we've come up with, every new idea that was meant to make ponies equal and free, and turned them into tools of social control.
Well, I'm still furious, but it's no longer a purposeless fury. I had an epiphany as I was standing over the unconscious body of that dragon. I looked at a triangular mountain with the sun just setting at it's peak, and a bare crescent moon at one limb, while a smaller mountain sat at it's other side.
Rather than creating tools to equalise ponies, why not make the ponies themselves equal? If all ponies had the magic of unicorns, the wings of pegasi and the strength and toughness of Earth ponies, the existing clique of unicorn nobles would not be able to stand against them.
We three can make a start. With our researches into magical energy flows, we have plotted and typed each races' magical patterns, and should be able to figure out a way to share them. That's where that mountain came in, it suggested a triune, one of the simplest power sharing rituals among unicorns. If the arithmancy carries over, all the participants will get not triple the powers they had, but sextuple. Of course, it would be considered impossible by standard
It's defined by the number of ways a set of entities can connect. Of course, no-one's ever figured out how to create a sharing ritual with more than 5 entities, as synchronising that many individuals and controlling 15 times their power is about the limit of the state of the art in ritual circles, the Pentium. I believe we can adapt a standard three entity circle for our purposes, one that allows the three users to safely consume the six times power increase, known as a three ate six configuration.
If we three do it, our base power levels should mean we three would become the most powerful entities in Equestria. That should help us prevent any backlash or persecution. If we can expand the method to others, we can create an unbeatable block that they would hesitate to try overwhelm by force. And if they try to legislate against us, all they'll be doing is stopping themselves from joining in.
Atlas is uncertain, but he's willing to follow my lead, as he's at least as angry as I am. Luna is excited by the prospect, I should have guessed from the way she uses the Flutterwings spell whenever she can. Seems little sis has wing-envy. We will have to do our experiments in secrecy, to prevent them from being pre-empted.
Though with any luck, if they find out and try to ban this, we can play up the persecution angle, since as far as anyone will be concerned, the experiment will only affect us. Atlas is convinced with our family's political power we can make a stand on the basis of the Crown interfering in our rights as nobles (to do whatever the hell we like!). Put on that basis, we should be able to get support from nobles who don't want to see their own privileges eroded, if we prepare in advance.
Sorry, I had to go find a rainstorm. Talking politics, especially the kind that goes on in noble circles always leaves me feeling dirty. Note to self: Could we manifest a cloud inside a bathing room, and heat the water as it falls? Or maybe manifest the cloud from the hot water in the tub. A hot shower might be an interesting experience.
We have a new plan, and this time we will succeed. Equality Crusaders go!