Diaspora - Lunar Exodus [SFW Nobledark Sci-Fi AU]

Cerebrate19
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The End wasn't The End - Found a new home after the great exodus of 2012

loves a Demon
@CobaltTheMadMage  
he grabs his radio.
 
“there’s been an unauthorized and sloppily patched up access to an unmarked tunnel at my location, i’m going in to check it out, send an actual drone to get that hole fixed when i return, okay?”
 
the call placed he enters.
 
“i swear, robobrain if i catch you in an oil bath i’m setting it on fire.”
Coriolanus
Wallet After Summer Sale -

@CobaltTheMadMage
 
[ BGM(Red Dead Redemption Undead Nightmare OST - 39 Diez Coronas) ] [spoiler] [ ~~“Alternate BGM(Undead Nightmare ~~ OST - 1 Undead Nightmare)”:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euu1gNytBP0- :P ] [/spoiler]
 
[ After years on ice, Brontide has been unfrozen to earn his keep on the Moon. While sent out on a rescue op, Brontide awaits whatever life will throw at him. As he treks across the vast lunar sea to assure R. Ventures’ safety and well-being, he ruminates whether he’ll ever see blue skies and green pastures again. He is a stallion ready to give everything for a new home… almost everything… ] [ Stinger ^:D^(Mass Effect 2 Unreleased OST - Generic - Stinger 061) ]
CobaltTheMadMage

And not the angry kind
(Sorry for the late response- I thought I had posted replies but apparently they didn’t go through)
 
 
@Cerebrate19  
While he does not personally recognize this tunnel, he can at least discern a faint trail of hoofprints leading on into the darkness, and apparently no other signs that anyone else besides him had used this tunnel anytime recently
 
 
@CasaBlamCo  
The coordinates he was given lead to a sizeable crater- wide but not too terribly deep- at the bottom of which rests a pile of rubble that may have once been a cave opening. Amid said rubble he can make out an equine figure clad in an exposure suit buried partially under a pile of moon rock, struggling in vain to free his hindquarters from his present predicament.
 
 
@team blueplant  
he takes the piece and stows it in his tool belt
 
“Thank you- I’ll get this in the system as soon as I can; hopefully whatever this was for isn’t important enough that leaving it off until then won’t cause too much trouble.”
 
He packs up his equipment and begins to head off
Cerebrate19
Lunar Supporter - Helped forge New Lunar Republic's freedom in the face of the Solar Empire's oppressive tyrannical regime (April Fools 2023).
My Little Pony - 1992 Edition
Wallet After Summer Sale -
Thread Starter - Emergency: Equestria. (potentially NSFW)
The End wasn't The End - Found a new home after the great exodus of 2012

loves a Demon
@CobaltTheMadMage  
“hmm, the robot is probably not here then, but who did use this?”
 
he follows the tracks. he heard of these dead tunnels, supposed to be sealed off against undue access or due to being structurally unsound, neither a concern for a cyborg from maintenance, maybe he found something worthwhile in there.
Coriolanus
Wallet After Summer Sale -

@CobaltTheMadMage
 
Brontide: [ Backs the rover in reverse toward the craterside as close and carefully as he can, then pulls the emergency brake on. He then climbs into the rear cabin to grab his gear, along with a packaged emergency shelter dome, medkit, and roll of vacuum-seal tape. With his suit and helmet hermetically sealed,
 
^[ SFX(Dead Space 1 - outer space sound effects) ]^ he disembarks out a top hatch and securely fastens his cable printer to the end of the coilgun’s barrel, connects his belt motor to a bit of instantly fabricated cable, then remotely rotates the turret to the rover’s 6 o’clock, now dangling himself past the crater edge with the coilgun acting as a crane. Prepared, he begins shuffling down into the crater as the printer continually creates more length, with extra-carefulness not to jar loose rubble into a rock-slide. ]
CobaltTheMadMage

And not the angry kind
@Cerebrate19  
The tunnels continue for quite some distance, once or twice branching off into yet more dark paths though the still-visible tracks give away which ones were taken. In time, the tunnels seem to feel less natural and more manufactured, until he eventually reaches a more open chamber, with something lying prone in the center…
 
 
@CasaBlamCo  
The figure takes notice of his approach and tries to hail him on his helmet comm
 
“Hey! Down here! Boss sent you, didn’t she?”
 
 
@team blueplant  
Nauhelin gets a hail on his comm “Hey N, are you doing anything important right now? We have a bit of a situation we might need your input on…”
Coriolanus
Wallet After Summer Sale -

@CobaltTheMadMage
 
Brontide: **[ rapid dial-up chimes ]** “Yeah, she did. Are you hurt?” [ Disconnects from the cable when at level-enough ground, then carefully climbs onto to the pile to remove rocks weighing down against R. Ventures. ]
CobaltTheMadMage

And not the angry kind
(Sorry for the late replies- busy again)  
@team blueplant  
“Probably not since our last one went out. Anyway, whenever you’re done sunbathing, I should inform you that apparently somepony let some fruit bats loose in the hydroponic gardens. We’re rounding them up as we can, but we might need you for damage control.”
 
 
@CasaBlamCo  
“Not really; the suit took most of the impact. I can’t feel my legs, though, but I think that might just be cut off circulation.”
 
After a few rocks have been moved, he feels a momentary shift
 
“Oh, uh, I should probably warn you this pile used to be a formation overlooking a cavern I was going to investigate.”
 
 
@Cerebrate19  
The sensor array detects no signs of movement, but as he approaches, the visual confirms he shouldn’t expect any movement any time soon. The ‘roid’s optics seem burned out, and machine fluid leaks from several places leaving a trail that leads further down the cavern. It would appear he found this one on his way back from… whatever did this to him.
Cerebrate19
Lunar Supporter - Helped forge New Lunar Republic's freedom in the face of the Solar Empire's oppressive tyrannical regime (April Fools 2023).
My Little Pony - 1992 Edition
Wallet After Summer Sale -
Thread Starter - Emergency: Equestria. (potentially NSFW)
The End wasn't The End - Found a new home after the great exodus of 2012

loves a Demon
@CobaltTheMadMage  
“… Log 3: i found the missing android in an unused tunnel, it has been destroyed, by the looks of it heavily damaged and left to try getting back to transmission range to call for help… unsuccessfully. following the trail to wherever it may lead now.”
 
that done he proceeds to follow the fluid trail.
CobaltTheMadMage

And not the angry kind
@Cerebrate19  
The tunnel the fluid trail leads down looks less and less natural as he proceeds; if anything, it resembles some sort of derelict ruins more than the changeling tunnels he is familiar with.
 
 
@CasaBlamCo  
“Just me, sir. …should have probably reconsidered taking this course of action on my own.” The way some of the smaller bits crumble downward imply this pit may go deeper than it looks.
 
 
@team blueplant  
He finds the hydroponics farm to be what could best be summarized as ‘organized chaos’. Sure, the site is quarantined well enough, net barricades set to capture any escaping fruit bats, but it is clear the few specimens he can see are more concerned with flitting between the fruit-bearing plants growing here to catch a quick snack while eluding capture by the frantic on-site workers desperately attempting to protect their crops than attempting to leave this goldmine.
Coriolanus
Wallet After Summer Sale -

@CobaltTheMadMage
 
Brontide: “I think if we dig away any more, the gravelly bits’ll all drain down with you, like a sink.”
 
“Just, eh… don’t move at all, and I’ll give you the cable I came down with to hold onto.”
 
[ Heads up the crater for the cable, then goes back with the craterside printer remotely weaving more extra slack. ]
Cerebrate19
Lunar Supporter - Helped forge New Lunar Republic's freedom in the face of the Solar Empire's oppressive tyrannical regime (April Fools 2023).
My Little Pony - 1992 Edition
Wallet After Summer Sale -
Thread Starter - Emergency: Equestria. (potentially NSFW)
The End wasn't The End - Found a new home after the great exodus of 2012

loves a Demon
@CobaltTheMadMage  
“log 4, that robot must have had one incredible battery for dragging itself this far… the place is looking more and more derelict, as if these tunnels were hewn into the moon long before ponies even thought about making it a starship.”
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@CobaltTheMadMage  
“sigh.. good job on the nets but, am I the only unicorn here or what?”
 
he proceeds to grab some bats with magic and put them into a net, then he grabs another net and uses it like a bugcatcher, for bats trapping most of the remaining bats
 
“why do we have so many godam bats? and who let them out? this better not end in a fruit or vegetable crisis or someone will be turned into fertilizer”
CobaltTheMadMage

And not the angry kind
@CasaBlamCo  
Once Brontide is close enough, the suit-clad pony grabs onto the cable with his forelegs. “So I just hold on like this?”
 
 
@Cerebrate19  
There’s something strangely unnerving about this decrepit architecture. The further he advances within, the more the exposed, barren stone surfaces fill him with a sense of loneliness and isolation, even as the shadows themselves seem to move and watch him out of the corners of his eyes. The air here is still and stagnant, but even so he feels a chill like a cold wind pass through him, despite his thermal sensor’s assertions that the local temperature has remained unchanged.
 
 
@team blueplant  
“Was that a trick question?” answers one of his Earth Pony co-workers; indeed, a decent majority of those employed in this agricultural department seemed to be Earth Ponies, with Poniroids a close second. While there were _some unicorns working here, himself included, he does not seem to see any of them present in this room at the moment._
 
“I’m willing to wager this is another stunt by some misguided animal activists.” responds one of the site managers “So far losses have been minimal and whatever has been bruised could still be re-purposed; looks like the worst of it will be a slightly less pretty garden market here or there. You came in just in time, by the way; nice save there.”
Cerebrate19
Lunar Supporter - Helped forge New Lunar Republic's freedom in the face of the Solar Empire's oppressive tyrannical regime (April Fools 2023).
My Little Pony - 1992 Edition
Wallet After Summer Sale -
Thread Starter - Emergency: Equestria. (potentially NSFW)
The End wasn't The End - Found a new home after the great exodus of 2012

loves a Demon
@CobaltTheMadMage  
“l-log five… i am now almost a mile inside the old structures… something feels just… wrong about this place and it’s not the stagnant air… i keep catching movement in the corners of my eyes but… nothing… when i look there’s literally nothing there.”
 
he continues on regardless, secretly dropping a copy of the log, just in case.
literallywho?
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Friendship, Art, and Magic (2019) - Celebrated Derpibooru's seventh year anniversary with friends.
Condensed Milk - State-Approved Compensation
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@CobaltTheMadMage  
(sorry, i was busy and i forgot)
 
“well thats a relief, I still want to know who or what decided to free all these bats, werent this ones in a zoo or something? besides, this could have ended way worse so im not giving this incident a pass. oh and tell those hornheads that if they dont aid on these incidents the next time I will personaly arrange things with them”
CobaltTheMadMage

And not the angry kind
@Cerebrate19  
There is no longer any light up ahead, only the light on his log behind him. His augmentations may give him the ability to see in spite of this, but none of them seem to assuage the feeling that the chamber ahead isn’t as empty as they are telling him. That there aren’t _things hiding in the dark, keeping just out of his view._
 
The cavern widens into a large antechamber, with worn pillars placed in a line ahead of him- no, scratch that, a circle; the line appears to curve away from him at the sides as they disappear into the darkness.
 
 
@CasaBlamCo  
Ventures clings harder to the rope as the layer of rubble holding him in place gives out, and he begins to swing further to the side of the opening toward the tether’s origin
 
 
@team blueplant  
“We’ll see what we can do.” a mare replies “These little guys were probably from one of the display enclosures; unless we have a disgruntled employee on our hooves I don’t think there’s any chance of somepony managing to break them out while they’re in storage. We’ll need to review the security footage to know for sure, though.”
literallywho?
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Economist -
Friendship, Art, and Magic (2019) - Celebrated Derpibooru's seventh year anniversary with friends.
Condensed Milk - State-Approved Compensation
Friendship, Art, and Magic (2018) - Celebrated Derpibooru's six year anniversary with friends.

@CobaltTheMadMage  
“well lets do so, all this seems intentional, and just in the day i woke up from the sleep chamber, i have the feeling that someone or something is doing it on purpose and this is just the start, or maybe im just paranoic, either way i dont trust bats. also, who are you again? the cryosleep cold literaly freezes what we can call my brain”
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