PRESIDIUM REPAIRS COMPLETE, NEW EMBASSIES FOUNDED!
By Vila T’dire, 012/14/2186

It has been a long few months, but Citadel authorities are officially announcing the completion and re-opening of the Presidium. The new Council has already moved in, and the races of the galaxy are setting up their embassies at this very moment. With the re-opening of the Presidium comes four new embassies: pony, griffon, zebra, and changeling. We had the opportunity to interview Princess Twilight Sparkle, who is closely overseeing the foundation of the pony embassy.

Vila T’dire: Princess, what does your kind hope to accomplish with the foundation of your embassy?

Twilight Sparkle: “For us ponies, our goal is simple. We want equality in galactic society, and we want it for everybody, not just ponies. On Equis, the ponies always worked towards achieving harmony. It’s a difficult task, but there is no reason for us to restrict it to our own world.”

VT: Your leadership knew of the existence of aliens for months before revealing it to your people. How do you justify this?

TS: “It’s not a secret we wanted to keep, but we felt that it was safer not to tell anypony with the information we had. We didn’t want to say, “Hey, there are aliens,” and then walk off with nothing else to say. That is why we waited until we did; we wanted to meet with actual aliens first, and to get more information on the galaxy at large. If we had just come out and said it right after meeting Legion, there would only be panic. By waiting for information, we were able to avoid panic.”

VT: Speaking of Legion, the ponies have announced an alliance and friendship with the geth. Given the geth’s past, this is a fairly controversial decision. Why was it made?

TS: “We ponies owe Legion everything. He saved our lives against the collectors, and put himself in harm’s way to stop Cerberus. And we know about their reputation, which we believe is one unfairly given. I am fortunate to be able to call Legion a close personal friend, and that is not a title I give out easily. Synthetic or not, he has shown himself to be one of the most caring people I’ve ever met, and I think that, if people give the geth a chance, they will come to realize this as well.”

VT: One more question for you, Princess: what do you say to claims that pony history is “something out of a children’s movie?”

TS: “It may seem that way to them, but for us, the history of the rest of the galaxy is something out of a science-fiction novel. I think that, in both cases, the history is just so different that it’s difficult to fully understand. In time, I’m confident that people will look on our history with a bit more… seriousness.”

VT: A good answer, Princess. Thank you for speaking with us today.

TS: Thank you for having me!

A full version of the interview is available to watch on our Extranet site. It’s quite long, but it is very illuminating, and tells a lot about our new friends and allies. Thank you for reading; from the Serrice Times, I’m Vila T’dire.

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Author's Note

And here we have the end of the fic! I have had a great time writing over this past year, and I hope that everybody has had just as great a time reading it.

You may have noticed just how long this fic took to come out; as of writing this, it has been one year and eleven days since it was first published. This means that it took me longer to write this one fic than it took to write Second Contact and A Thousand Voices combined. This is due mainly to a hectic schedule that does not permit a lot of writing, but also to dwindling ideas. I am taking both of these as an indicator that I need to take a break. After all, since signing up for the website in May of 2014, I have written almost every single day for my pony fics. That is a lot of writing, and it really does take its toll. So, until I find I have both sufficient ideas to write, and time in which to do it, I’ll be taking a bit of a hiatus. Should some small ideas pop into my head, I will try to write, but no big projects will happen for a while.

As for Those Who Live On, thank you all so very much for being amazing readers and sticking with me over this year! Your constant support has kept me going, and I thank every single one of you for it.

When I am ready to start my next project, I will make a blog post on my user page. Until then, thank you again, and I will see you next time.