@The Toaster Repair Pony  
Since when are fan-fics canon in any way, shape, or form?

@Frustration in Excelsis  
Unless generally approved by /foe/, it’s still not canon

@Appletart  
Far as I know the skin of the Terminators from the T-800 (Technically the T-700, but how canonical the novels are is debatable) forward is literally just artificially grown skin, while the T-600 and below was just a latex mask.
 
Also, synths have been a thing in Fallout since 3, it’s just that 4 was the first to go more into detail with it, and considering all the crap The Institute’s done a gen 3 synth with a reinforced metal skeletal structure isn’t that far-fetched, and it’s not like we know why exactly Coursers are so much tougher than normal synths.

@Deserter
 
i don’t know what Terminator says the skin is on the Terminators but it would be the same as that, since i created her, based on Terminator, the Hybrid one, a year before Fallout 4 was a thing

@Appletart
 
That’s true. I suppose I was thinking more along the lines of synths like DiMA and Nick Valentine – purely mechanical bodies and a layer of synthetic skin. And in Nick’s case also external memories implanted in him, although I believe Nick sees himself as a separate person from the original Valentine, and Crystal Eclair here I understand to be the same person as before, just in a different body from the one she was born with.
 
@Deserter  
Right, that. Gen 2 and older synths don’t have organic components.

@Appletart  
Badically a gen 2 synth with synthetic skin instead of plastic, then?  
Either that or a backwards gen 3, a robot with organic parts instead of an artificial human with robot parts.

@Frustration in Excelsis
 
she is essentially a Hybrid Terminator with a little more organic components, a synth is basically a clone that was synthetically grown

In light of… well, of significant portions of the plot of Fallout 4 and its DLCs, the comments about biomechanical replicants being out of place in Fallout‘s universe are honestly quite amusing, in an ironic sort of way. If I’m understanding things correctly, Crystal Eclair her isn’t really all that different from a synth.

@Appletart  
“It has been a long time since I last read the original.”
 
I wasn’t aware you did in the first place.

Also do remember to spoiler non-safe-rated stuff. We are on a safe image and talking about fics with a lot of grimdark content.

@Background Pony #B00A  
It has been a long time since i last read the original FoE. So the MoA dealt with spy and infiltration, i can easily change that mistake in my fic.
 
I remember Zecora was a double agent when she was found out by Applesnack and murdered. I can’t remember at what stage of the war that Zecora was found out and killed but Crystal was to be after her.

@Appletart  
…yeah, and it:  
-was unique, but also well explained in-universe  
-lasted for a whole 3 chapters before spoilers happened

Oh yay, more tags related to the biggest cockroach in FoE, outside of Somber, to block!

No, wait, I’m right, I misread my comments.

@Background Pony #BE8A  
My bad, he’s right. I guess DBZ made me get the descriptions wrong.

Androids are non-biological, or at least non-natural, as is the case for replicants. They’re distinguished from robots in that they are strictly sentient and sapient, whereas robots may be strictly non-sapient, non-sapient and non-sentient, or not strictly anything besides non-biological.

@Deserter  
But Data from Star Trek is an android and he’s not organic. Everything I know in sci-fi tells me a cyborg is a human with robot bits, like the Borg from Star trek.

@Appletart  
No, that’s an android.

@Appletart  
“The Ministry of Morale deal with infiltration, spying and among other things
 
uhhh no? Spies, like Zecora in case you forgot that Equestria already had a zebra spy who was about 1 step from meeting the Caesar before it all went wrong, and infiltration is Ministry of Awesome. RD specifically mentions to Pinkie (in the memory orb scene where Pinkie’s goons arrest Zecora for being a spy) that she was trained by the best MoA operatives. All of this before the break out that RD and her ministry planned…
 
Morale was basically the police/Gestapo and… Morale Support, keeping the population happy with regulated contraband.. And investigators with private army capabilities (they were about to raid FourStars when the bombs fell). Sure, they dealt with spies…. Capturing and interrogating them. Not creating them out of flesh/crytal/robot parts and flimsy universe-relative logic.
 
oh yeah and >terminator. @Background Pony #19D1 Makes a good point because at that point I’m not sure “universe-relative” even applies to the above statement. But my “Apple” could be your “Stale Bag of Chips” for all I know…

@Appletart  
It doesn’t belong not because it wouldn’t make sense for such a thing to exist according to their scientific advances, but rather it doesn’t belong because of the theme that both Fallout and Fallout Equestria runs with. Retro futuristic science fiction that involves bulky and sometimes humorous robots and cybernetics, for example.
 
There are very few exceptions to this, one which you brought up and another. Aliens and androids, both which only appears in Fallout 3 and is generally disliked by many because of this exact problem. It messes with the formula in a bad way.
 
Project Horizons and Blackjack is essentially the Fallout 3 of the Fallout franchise except worse. It treats the lore like shit and fucks up in so many ways, yet there’s people who loves it more than any other.
 
I know nothing about your character, but if she’s a terminator, that alone rings the bell of “not Fallout” and I can see why people would be pissed. PH has already attracted enough of these kinds of fics. If anything, you could at least justify it as a terminator crossover.
 
@DrNazus  
Like this gentleman is saying, it is also outright against the lore of Fallout Equestria. Yes, Project Horizons does piss in it too, but that doesn’t mean others should too.

@Background Pony #0C00  
Well I did my best. I really have nothing left to say.

@The Toaster Repair Pony  
No, just phrase it appropriately.

@Appletart  
“Cyborgs are not uncommon in FoE.”  
Yes they are though. You said it right there, “Stable 101 was described as praising cybernetic modification”. That stable was geared towards the advancement of earth pony technology or something, and cybernetics like Red Eye’s are the product of 200 years of advancement. I don’t remember anything at all indicating advanced cybernetics were a thing back during war times. If there was, please tell me.

@The Toaster Repair Pony  
Her name is Crystal Eclair because she was born and lived as a Crystal Pony for 26 years.

@The Toaster Repair Pony  
She is based on terminator, a machine designed to infiltrate the enemy. I based her primarily on the Marcus Wright terminator as he used a heart and a brain to make him the perfect infiltrator, that is was she was to be.
 
In Fallout there are things that don’t seem possible or practical, monsters and mutations that are either worthless or super powerful. There are even aliens. Things that don’t belong. A robobrain could be seen as something close to Crystal, nothing in reality suggests a brain alone can be used to control a machine body.
 
We are also in a world full of magic with MLP, magics in practically anything. In the time of the war technology advanced so fast that they had nukes (balefire bombs) and superweapons similar to the Ion Cannon from C&C. Stable 101 was described as praising cybernetic modification. Cyborgs are not uncommon in FoE.
 
The Ministry of Morale deal with infiltration, spying and among other things. Who is to say they wouldn’t want to harness the advanced tech that has been developed to create a spy that can be seen as one of the enemy, be as strong and as agile as one of them. I think she would fit in as she was created towards the end of the war where the tech was advanced enough.
 
Crystal’s story will be centred on finding out the truth to her rebirth as a machine from being a sickly crystal pony and a deeper plot to overthrow the prewar Equestrian Government.