[Sad][Adventure][Sci-Fi]
Author: The_Mechanic
Description: Strange things happen when magic and technology come into contact. When that happens, events on one world can become a part of something that happened on another... many thousands of years in the past. Inevitably, what is lost can always be found... even if by the most unlikely of individuals.Prophecy Prologue
Prophecy Part 1
Prophecy Part 2
Prophecy Part 3
Prophecy Part 4 (New!)
Additional Tags: Technology, Magic, Past, Present, Hope
24 comments:
The author email is new
More sad ponies? I don't think I can handle this.
Ponytech, that looks fun, reading!
Hmmm... the setting intrigues me... Shall I read this? D:
Sounds rather interesting. Is this complete or incomplete?
Magicks?
Interesting. Will read.
@Sethisto
S'up
@JoeyH
Not complete. I'm pretty sure...
It's off to a good start. Can't wait for the next part.
Speaking as the sort-of-not-really-I-guess-you-could-count-it-if-you-squint editor of this fic, I'd strongly recommend you give it a try. If what the author told me about the future of the fic is any indication, it looks to be an excellent exception to the norm with regard to the quality of a certain, slightly infamous genre of pony fic.
@Aquaman52
Coudn't have said it better myself.
I recomment anypony to give this a try and judge for yourself.
The writing is certainly good, and the author can make a scene flow, yet it looks like it might very well be yet another Magic VS Technology story despite the fact that in the show Equestrians use both technology AND magic, and treat magic as a science.
I will wait for future updates to see how it goes, but I am getting a bit tired of the whole magic vs tech thing, especially with settings that are the opposite.
That description is simultaneously specific and vague.
Also, wat?
I don't know about anyone else but I've read it all so far and I'm hooked already, can't wait to get my hooves on the next chapter
magic always wins against technology
although magic is science :)
oh dear. this is every daydream i've ever had about the ponies. every. single. one. why didn't i ever write them down?
as to this story, uhm, it's fairly well done. i like it. some hiccoughs in it but nothing i can remember off hand. i know that some readers were leaving as i read because of confusion over so many OC characters. uhm, i think Equestrian naming conventions don't work too well outside of animated series, they all run together a bit. the author did a really good job in making each character unique and having only a few in scene at any one time, though.
uh, uhm, something about it is making me not vote as high as i should and i really wish i could figure out why. i'm sorry. there's nothing BAD about it, at all. it's really nice. author's jealousy, perhaps? this is an idea i've been playing with for months and yet never wrote it down to any high degree. i'm sorry.
that's probably it. i'll give myself a few days to get over my childishness and come back to give this story the star rating it really deserves. i'll not star it just yet. sorry about that, author. you deserve better.
@Shoggoth Hint: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura
@Shoggoth Science becomes magic once all is known and the degree to which science can manipulate the natural laws goes beyond the mere macroscopic world.
"What is magic but science that has achieved its ultimate form?" I recall something like that from somewhere. Might have been the Technomages from "Babylon 5".
Let me add my voice to the accolades, as one who's seen a lot of this behind the scenes. :) Take this as an example of how to do a number of things properly.
huh... how the hell does one upload a complete human consciousness into a nonhuman species near-instantaneously?! It almost seems to break physics, and the extreme g-forces experienced by the nanotechnology capsule cannot have been minor. And it strikes me as a rather extreme measure to use a laser beam from space to drill through science knows how many layers of building just to get to a single freshly braindead patient; a cloned body sent by capsule into the Everfree would seem somewhat easier, more certain and less traumatic. I wouldn't blame the subject for having memory lapse after having a freaking mind upload...
Such a strong start, and then an enormous delay. The waiting, she is painful.
23 posts, all within the first day. Then, it disappears off the map. You really should update more frequently or write most of it down before uploading. That way, less pain from cliffhangers.
`Appletank
@Alondro
Actually, it's Arthur C. Clarke and the Quote is "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic"
On another note, I'm loving this story, the way Storm keeps dropping into his other persona is an interesting twist.
@Anton Koffield The Technomages in Babylon 5 said something to that effect, likely adapted from Arthur C. Clarke. My idea of how this would work in Pony takes into account a universe in which magic is allowed by its physics. In such a world, highly advanced technology could 'access' the powers of magic in the same way our advanced technology is now able to tap into the properties of quantum mechanics (especially for computing).
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