Bridging Ages, Bridging Worlds

Two worlds have to learn how to cope when their fates and populations become increasingly intertwined.

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Formerly The Conversion Bureau: A New Age, A New Life

In the year 2080, Humanity sits at a crossroads. Technological innovations have advanced to the point to where most mundane tasks can be accomplished by machines, as well as the nano-scale manufacture of most materials. However, the greed of a few and the lingering ecological devastation to get to said point leaves humanity on the precipice of nothing short of a society-ending cataclysm.

Seeing this, visitors from another world wish to aid Humanity along this crossroad. Unfortunately, due to circumstances beyond any's control, there is no recourse for moving any human off-world, so any disaster could potentially overwhelm any assistance Equestria can render.

Actually... there is one option those of Earth have if they wish to leave. Though is it an option that anyone would even accept existing, let alone take advantage of?

And what happens when an ancient entity sees said option as the first step in correcting a grave error she had committed so many eons ago?

ARC I: A New Beginning (Chapters 1 - 4) -- Introduces the feature characters of Part I for the most part.

ARC II: A New (Old) Magic (Chapters 5-14) -- The Conversions of the Four Conduits and their trails in re-igniting Terran Magic.

ARC III: A New Movement (Chapters 15+) -- Magic is unsealed on Earth, and the various extra-governmental groups begin to form.

General Story Notes:

1) This is a general rewrite of The Conversion Bureau: A New Age, A New Life. While the general plot outline will (hopefully) remain the same; specific interactions and characterizations will be clarified, modified, or outright reworked in order, to I feel, better facilitate my storytelling.

2) Once the original chapters (which can be downloaded from here as an EPUB or as a PDF ) are done being rewritten, Part II will be merged into this story space and that second one will be formally deleted.

3) If you are so inclined, I've also preserved all the original comments on the story as they were posted immediately before initial chapter deletion (viewable here)

4) While the general tone of the story is general flavors of adventure, there are some long phases of slice of life and world building. Because for whatever reason the Administration decided that Slice of Life and Adventure are mutually exclusive tagging-wise.

5) The Equestria (and the wider world of Equestria which I term Equus) is a heavily modified Equestria from the end of Season 2. Therefore consider it an Alternate Universe that runs mostly parallel with canon from S1 and S2; though I always reserve the right to use any bits from S3 or the ongoing S4.

6) Yes this is still a TCB story, but I feel that the grouping, my own statements, and the plot itself would kinda beat that into people's heads, so including it the title was just further redundancy.

WARNING To New Readers: Any canon character used is subject to MY Personal interpretation of that character. If you believe this is a problem in any specific scene or in general, do not be afraid to ask how or why I am using a character a certain way. I actually like the discussions in these regards.

( Original Vector art for the Elements of Harmony )

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