Ship lands after clearing crystal forest. Who will be watching / lookout? (they can be lookout from the control room, cameras for the win.) This should give people time to talk. (Ask Emerald to pick three of her people, possibly including herself, to help.)

3 : Lofty Loam 3 : Rusty Clutch 3 : Golden Twinkle

Crystal forest growth event, very sudden. Wildlife on the hull, some kind of mutant bugs. A mysterious light in the sky above that vanishes after a minute or two (wirewind seen from below.)

Letter for shadow: Elly sending RBO to help the great steel sty. Docktown has installed a client government with the support of the Black Hoof in the Red Barony, isolating the new baronness after her knights were routed and fled back to her fortress; she has cut off the supply of water in response and water for people is being brought in by rail, but crops are threatened. Libby, inspired by the party, has gone to try to broker some kind of peace deal.

Sudden growth on last watch so they can just leave.

(if you want to know the number she said, the diameter of Equus is in the wiki and you have the coordinates, assume they travel 15 hours a day at 280 kp/h avg.)

Cloud Lane writes. He expresses affection for Emerald and asks about the foal, and wants to let Emerald know that the political situation in Crystal Cliffs has become unstable; recently Prince Ice Fog's government has been scandalized by the revelation that two of his thugs who were executed for embezzling were actually innocent, and his remaining thugs have found out about it and become harder to manage. Cloud Lane curses the efficiency of the thug rumor mill. He hopes Discolor is doing well and that the party is enjoying safe travels.

Oct 05 22:36:02 <Bryce-GM> SG: 1 degree 13 minutes east. 37 degrees 9 minutes north. TDI 148°8'12"E 8°7'23"N

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sN50REVTQn8Gew_2k5z95ofUL2k7JTmfdHOAfwgwX9E/edit

Describe GM_AEC here.

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AEC307 " "

CONSOLIDATED MARETONIAN HEAVY INDUSTRIES

ALL-ENVIRONMENT CONSTRUCTOR MK III

UNIFIED ORGANIZATION FOR INTERSTELLAR COLONIZATION - HARMONY

About 10m high, 15m wide, and 45m long.

Normal crew: 3 line officers, 3 engineering officers, 6 engineering dept, 6 deck/ops.

a tall orange and white unicorn mare, Linguistic Universal

Actual crew now: Lt. Lofted Loam, a pegasus pony/bat pony, he has a background in environmental engineering before he joined the Maretonian air force to fight in the civil war.

• LL: Well. I'm Lofty Loam, I'm a batpony. I was in my senior year of college studying environmental engineering when the Discordian wars broke out, and I decided to make a bit of a pivot. I became an officer in the Maretonian air force, then was transfered the UOIC.

<Bryce-GM> LL: As luck would have it, I ended up in stasis on the Harmony, and Elite Librarian had me thawed out. <Gabrio> Gabrio: That is quite lucky <Emerald> [in a melodramatic voice] Welcome... To the FUTURE! <Bryce-GM> LL: Thanks.

Loam is tolerant of changelings but thinks they will need to mend their deceptive ways. Loam is dark blue with a reddish-orange mane, azure eyes

May Flower (helmsmare/quartermaster) mare unicorn, pale pink with yellow and rose mane. from Equestria, Pebble.

• MF: I'm the helmsmare most of the time.

<Bryce-GM> MF: I'm actually a navigational assistant. <Bryce-GM> MF: I'm from Equestria. <Bryce-GM> MF: City called Pebble, in the South. It was near a big dam. <Discolor> (Heh. <Merihu> (I don't think we met her. Is she new?) <Discolor> (Discolor has something to say when she's finished.) <Qotho> Nice to meet you May Flowe <Discolor> (She spoke to Discolor earlier in this meal.) <Bryce-GM> MF: I like flowers... and hummingbirds. I hope there are still hummingbirds.

• Golden Twinkle (engineering) unicorn mare, yellow coat, platinum-=blonde mane, brown eyes

Lt Jg / sublieutenant Rusty Clutch (engineering) earth pony stallion, rust-colored mane, light grey and white coat.

• RC: I'm Rusty Clutch, I'm an engineer. On the Harmony itself, originally, this little thing is a bit new to me.

<Merihu> (Yada yada live the good life in the off-world colonies.) <Bryce-GM> RC: I got my cutie mark fixing stuff as a foal. <Merihu> Merihu: And now I know your power. <Bryce-GM> RC: Don't really like to talk about myself that much, truth be told.

Oily Feathers, pegasus stallion (engineering), dark grey coat and black mane OF: I'm Oily Feathers. I'm a mechanic. Goldie will keep the AEC from falling out of the sky, but I keep it from smelling so bad you throw yourselves out. <Bryce-GM> OF: My special talent is actually robotics. That's sort of like golems, <Bryce-GM> but easier to mass produce. <Bryce-GM> OF: Though, we've all gotten pretty versatile lately. <Bryce-GM> OF: 'Cuz, you know, there's supposed eighteen of u

Linguistic Universal, a mare unicorne.

"Helm, ascend to 100 meters."

"Helm, make your heading 32 degrees."

"Propulsion, prepare to get underway."

The have it mostly working, but don't have enough people to run it 24 hours a day, and many of the automatic systems are not working since the central computer (AECAN307) is senile and keeps repeating a banal song when unmuted.

Decks: Two habitable; there is service access to the bottommost, which is tankage, and a flying bridge on the top. Upper deck: control room/bridge, multipurpose living room, kitchen, hygiene facilities, living quarters for 6 officers, 12 crew (3 bunks to a room, 4 rooms), and environmental engineering crew (1 double-sized room with an office area, 3 rooms with 3 bunks). Each has a thick window. Stairs up to the flying bridge and down to engineering. Airlock.

Lower deck: engineering facilities, equipment bay, engineering control (lower level of control room/bridge).

Large windows on the top, stubby wings with glowing panels on the bottom, makes a noise sort of like unicorn telekinesis but much louder and lower-pitched. The telekinetic manipulator array deploys on folding-out arms from the side. (Can be configured e.g. for a plough or a gripper)