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Message in a Bottle

by Starscribe
Humanity's space exploration ultimately took the form of billions of identical probes, capable of building anything (including astronauts themselves) upon arrival at their destinations. One lands in Equestria. Things go downhill from there.
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There are 100 billion stars in the Milky Way, and humanity is determined to explore every one. We send probes, probes with the blueprints to reproduce human explorers upon arrival. Uninhabited worlds the galaxy over can be colonized and populated, until after many years they too can join the vast throng of interstellar civilization. But if a probe is very, very lucky, it will land on a populated world instead. Equestria is one such world.

Even so, it's far from perfect for colonization, not with an environment lethal to human life. But each probe is resourceful and armed with the greatest machine intelligence mankind has devised. If placing a human mind into a newly manufactured human body won't work, it will just have to get a little more creative.

This story was written at the behest of Canary In The Coal Mine, who is sponsoring it on my Patreon. As usual, cover by Zutcha. Editing by Two Bit and Sparktail.

Fantastic prereading help from: Chyre, Danger Noodle, Doctor Disco, and Doggyshakespeare (who also did the Esperanto translation). Thank you all for helping to make this story more readable and more consistent for everyone.

Teen
Complete
Drama
Mystery
Sci-Fi
Profanity
Violence
Death

514,272 words: Estimated 2 Days, 6 Hours to read: [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]

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89 Chapters:

  1. G3.01: Synthesis Complete [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Sep 28th, 2020
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  2. G3.01: Some Transit Required [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Apr 4th, 2017
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  3. G3.01: Repair Protocol [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] May 19th, 2017
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  4. G4.05: Meaningful Contact [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jun 5th, 2017
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  5. G4.05: Refractory [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jun 5th, 2017
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  6. G4:05: Transitional State [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Apr 29th, 2017
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  7. G4.05: Adopting Change [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] May 19th, 2017
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  8. G4.05: Collect Call [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] May 19th, 2017
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  9. G4.05: Interpolation Error [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] May 20th, 2017
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  10. G4.05: Taking Stock [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Apr 6th, 2019
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  11. G4.05: Special Delivery [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] May 27th, 2017
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  12. G4.05: Policy Impact [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jun 3rd, 2017
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  13. G4.05: Native Contact [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jun 10th, 2017
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  14. G5.01: Cost of Employment [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jun 17th, 2017
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  15. G5.01: Settling [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jun 24th, 2017
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  16. G5.01: Designation Earth [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jul 1st, 2017
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  17. G5.05: Satellite [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jul 11th, 2017
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  18. G5.05: Collapse the Wave [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jul 15th, 2017
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  19. G5.05: Deadlight [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jul 22nd, 2017
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  20. G5.05: External Contacts [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jul 29th, 2017
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  21. G5.05: Wonderbolts [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Aug 5th, 2017
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  22. G5.05: Transit Equus Zero Violet Zero [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Aug 13th, 2017
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  23. G5.05: Marked by Harmony [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Aug 21st, 2017
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  24. G5.05: Heart [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Aug 26th, 2017
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  25. G5.05: Security Override [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Sep 2nd, 2017
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  26. G5.05: Gyroscopic Failure [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Sep 10th, 2017
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  27. G5.05: Blood and Ink [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Sep 16th, 2017
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  28. G5.05: Datamine [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Sep 23rd, 2017
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  29. G5.05: Crisis Response [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Sep 30th, 2017
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  30. G6.3850: Harmony Remembers [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Oct 7th, 2017
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  31. G6.3850: Welcome to Othar [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Oct 14th, 2017
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  32. G6.3850: Mission Complete [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Oct 21st, 2017
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  33. G6.3850: Equestria by Wire [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Oct 29th, 2017
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  34. G6.3850: Not What You Think [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Nov 4th, 2017
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  35. G6.3850: Birds in the Underground [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Nov 11th, 2017
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  36. G6.3850: Dragon's Folly [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Nov 18th, 2017
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  37. G6.3850: Ceres Proclamation [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Nov 25th, 2017
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  38. G6.3850: Major Inglorious [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Dec 9th, 2017
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  39. G6:3850: Missing Pieces [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Dec 9th, 2017
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  40. G6.3850: Command [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Dec 16th, 2017
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  41. G7.01: Forefathers [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Dec 23rd, 2017
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  42. G7.01: Colonial Governor [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Dec 30th, 2017
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  43. G7.01: Plan of Action [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jan 6th, 2018
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  44. G7.01: Momentum [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jan 13th, 2018
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  45. G7.01: Guest of the Princess [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jan 20th, 2018
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  46. G7.01: Pyrrhic [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jan 27th, 2018
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  47. G7.01: Map Reduction [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Feb 3rd, 2018
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  48. G7.01: Army of One [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Feb 10th, 2018
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  49. G7.01: Opening Volley [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Feb 17th, 2018
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  50. G7.01: Love in War [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Feb 24th, 2018
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  51. G7.01: Selene [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Mar 3rd, 2018
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  52. G7.01: Polaris [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Mar 10th, 2018
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  53. G7.01: Love the Truth [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Mar 17th, 2018
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  54. G7.01: Harmony Control [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Mar 24th, 2018
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  55. G7.01: Citizen of Equus [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Apr 1st, 2018
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  56. G7.01: Debt [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Apr 7th, 2018
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  57. G7.01: Downstream [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Apr 14th, 2018
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  58. G7.01: Home [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Apr 21st, 2018
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  59. Part 2: The Long Con [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jun 2nd, 2018
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  60. Part 2: Invariant Conditions [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jun 2nd, 2018
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  61. Part 2: Mission Parameters [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jun 2nd, 2018
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  62. Part 2: Jump [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jun 2nd, 2018
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  63. Part 2: Contact [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jun 2nd, 2018
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  64. Part 2: Storm [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jun 2nd, 2018
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  65. Part 2: Eye of the Maelstrom [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jun 9th, 2018
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  66. Part 2: Atreides Class [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jun 16th, 2018
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  67. Part 2: Turnover [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jun 23rd, 2018
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  68. Part 2: Allegiance [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jun 30th, 2018
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  69. Part 2: Jailbreak [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jul 7th, 2018
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  70. Part 2: Friend on the Edge [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jul 14th, 2018
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  71. Part 2: Persuasion [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jul 21st, 2018
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  72. Part 2: Message and Messenger [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Jul 28th, 2018
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  73. Part 2: Intrusion Testing [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Aug 4th, 2018
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  74. Part 2: Orbital [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Aug 11th, 2018
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  75. Part 2: Citizen Permissions [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Aug 18th, 2018
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  76. Part 2: Celestial [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Aug 25th, 2018
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  77. Part 2: Unwilling Partners [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Sep 1st, 2018
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  78. Part 2: Escape Vector [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Sep 8th, 2018
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  79. Part 2: Hostage [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Sep 15th, 2018
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  80. Part 2: Hedgemaze [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Sep 22nd, 2018
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  81. Part 2: The Florist [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Sep 29th, 2018
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  82. Part 2: Revivification [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Oct 6th, 2018
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  83. Part 2: Breach [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Oct 13th, 2018
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  84. Part 2: Deploy [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Oct 20th, 2018
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  85. Part 2: Detonate [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Oct 27th, 2018
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  86. Part 2: Emperor's Gambit [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Nov 3rd, 2018
    5,540
  87. Part 2: Citizen of Equestria [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Nov 10th, 2018
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  88. Part 2: Storm Broken [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Nov 17th, 2018
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  89. Epilogue [Fimfiction.net] [Cache] Nov 24th, 2018
    6,360
Published Apr 1st, 2017
Last Update Apr 6th, 2019

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