Author's Note

So I'm back after a long 4 years. Granted that's partially due to me losing interest in the whole multi-colored small horses thing, and also partially because I forgot my information, but that's neither here nor there.

I noticed that this site is still used, though not as much as it once was. I also recently read a story that has since be unofficially cancelled, as it not updated and the author not appearing online since posting it, so I decided to take inspiration and make my own because it seemed like a cool concept.

Keep in mind it's been 4 years since I've tried to write something, so I don't expect it to actually be a good read, but I can at least pretend to hope someone enjoys it. The last time I worked on something was The Dusk of a Rainy Day, which depending on how hard I cringe at my past writing, I may or may not continue since it's current status is cancelled.

Again that all depends on if I continue enjoying the aforementioned multi-colored small horses thing since I have been falling in and out of it over the past few months. We shall see how it goes. anyways, before this authors note turns out as long as the story itself, I'll take my leave. Hopefully someone enjoys the read.

P.S.
ㅤㅤI'm not super great at photoshop or anything but I tried my best to make a decent
ㅤㅤstory profile image thing. Apologies for the bad job.

CT33-DP

{// boot sequence initiated . . . //}

A small and circular ring begins to whine mechanically, surprisingly loud for its small size. A small green light flickered rapidly. It was the core of CT33-DP, a probe made solely to explore and discover the CT33 galaxy. In what was no smaller then a ring one would wear on their finger, it was a highly intelligent and sentient piece of artificial intelligence.

{// boot sequence in progress . . . %47.56% . . . //}

CT33-DP was nearly ready to be sent off on it's journey. The human scientists and engineers just had a few things to check, but then it would be installed into it's chassis and launched out to begin its long voyage, though not as long as it would take colonizers to get to CT33.

{// boot sequence successful . . . input administrator password . . . //}
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{// password accepted . . . initiating primary systems . . . //}ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤ

The previously green flickering light changes to a solid blue, the mechanical whining of it fading. Such a small and advanced device was a super computer in and of itself. Tens of thousands of yottabytes of data could be stored, so CT33-DP could scan and store data on every star, asteroid, comet and planet it passes by. It could even scan a planet, determine what it's made of and what materials could be found, as well as mapping the surface and storing the data as a 3D, 1:1, hyper realistic looking file for scientists and researchers to examine whenever CT33-DP transmits its information back to it's human creators. A true testament to just how ingenious human technology and science can be.

{// primary systems initiated . . . initiating subsystems . . . //}

Despite the impressive technology that made up CT33-DP, it's chassis was still relatively primitive. It was a tubular shell with solar panels on it. There were a few exterior panels and boxes, but it was rather bare overall. Equipped with nothing but electric propulsion RCS thrusters, the chassis of CT33-DP wouldn't be able to do too much in terms of tight maneuverability, but it was enough to do what it needed to do. To actually get to the galaxy CT33, the chassis would be shot from an Intergalactic Propulsion Cannon, or IPC. A cannon that can, as the name would suggest, propel something from one galaxy to another one quickly. Even so, CT33 being on the edge of the known universe, it would take roughly two hundred years to reach its destination. Two hundred years in the future, CT33-DP would reach it's destination and begin it's discovery and scanning of the CT33 Galaxy, and then transmit all of the information it had collected over those two hundred years, right back to its human creators. A rather long wait for them, but the average life span for a human was one hundred and fifty years, anyways.

{// subsystems initiated . . . initiating CT33-DP A.I. Core . . . //}

A mechanical arm then lowered towards the ring that was CT33-DP and carefully picked it up, moving it over to its chassis. Gently placing it into its place, the mechanical arm retreats as a panel then covers the open side of the chassis, then being welded into place. Once again, a very primitive chassis for such an incredible piece of technology inside of it, but it would serve it's purpose adequately. It was then a loud, blaring alarm began to sound.

BREEEP BREEEP BREEEP

The alarm blared, red warning lights flashing along with it. The chassis and CT33-DP was ready to be shot out towards the CT33 Galaxy. The human engineers and scientists cleared the area, airlocks shutting as the room the IPC was held in depressurized. The main hangar door then slowly opened, the blaring of the alarms being drained out by the endless and silent expanse of space. Even though it could not be heard, the IPC began to growl violently, an electric buzz emitted from it that would deafen anyone in it's presence. The barrel of it began to glow a very bright electric blue, all of the power from the orbital station being drained and put into the cannon, prompting emergency power to switch on. The humans knew that launching CT33-DP at such speeds would take an tremendous amount of power, but admittedly they didn't expect it to cause the orbital station to boot into emergency power mode. Thankfully though, the IPC drew all the power it needed, leaving enough of the emergency power to keep the life support of the station on.

{// CT33-DP A.I. Core initiated . . . ready for launch in . . .//}
{// 3 . . . //}ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤ
{// 2 . . . //}ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤ
{// 1 . . . //}ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤ
{// launching . . . //}ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤ

The electric blue light of the cannon and the deafening buzz suddenly stop, but only for a fraction of a second as a massive, blue explosion fires out from to front and the side of the cannon, the CT33-DP being shot out so fast that it could rip right through multiple earth sized planets and still be moving impossibly fast. The immense power needed and the energy generated from the cannon was so massive that the entire orbital station recoiled, being set into a relatively quick spin, effectively being knocked out of orbit of earth. It would take just as much power to restabilize the station, but they were still on emergency power. Unfortunately for the humans, this would be a tragedy that would result in the passing of nearly fifty thousand of the best and brightest humanity had to offer, but at the very least, the launch of CT33-DP was a success.

{// launch successful . . . estimated time until arrival:ㅤㅤ 203years\11months\23days\9hours\24minutes\11seconds . . . //}

{// launch successful . . . estimated time until arrival:ㅤㅤ 203years\11months\23days\9hours\24minutes\10seconds . . . //}

{// launch successful . . . estimated time until arrival:ㅤ ㅤ203years\11months\23days\9hours\24minutes\9seconds . . . //}ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤ
ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤ
And CT33-DP was off. It's grand, universe crossing voyage began. In a relatively short two hundred and three years, it would arrive at the CT33 Galaxy to discover and explore it. But unbeknownst to it and the humans who created it, it would discover a planet full of intelligent life, their intelligence on par with 18th-21st century humans. Something that CT33-DP would attempt to, and fail at, to transmit back to humanity. What lies in store for the AI? ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤ
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To Be Continued

Teaser for next chapter below

It was cold, the silence was deafening. There didn't seem to be any sense of gravity or atmosphere, something that the disoriented mare noticed relatively quickly. Climbing to her hooves, she opened her eyes. What was before her was... Breathtaking. One would expect it to be alarming, be she felt no such emotion at that very moment. Before her was a planet - Gaia. Her home, and the home of millions of others. She was in space. And not just that, she was on the moon. Looking around, the realization finally fully set in.

Panicking, she expected to begin suffocating, but that feeling never came. In fact, she seemed to be able to breath perfectly fine. She was confused, but that was the least of her concerns at the moment. How did she get here? Why is she here? Why can't she remember any of that? The last thing she could remember was an immense hatred towards a certain individual... Her sister Celestia, a princess of Equestria.