It was about a month since I learned about the cats rapid advancement, as such I decided to help them, they had technology a lot like the nazis did, and had actually been developing jet engines. Since I know quite a lot of random shit, I helped them design their jet engines and the aircraft that would use said engines, it could go mach one. It had swept back wings and a lot of fancy shit, it could shoot their new air to air R4M rockets, or use the 40 millimeter autocannons in the nose, honestly the most advanced air to air or air to ground fighter, aside from mine of course.

I had given the abyssinians the ability to produce transistors and microchips for their terminals, which had just about reached 90's levels of computing power, they hadn't invented a primitive form of the internet yet, but I'll let ya'll know if they do, besides this their capital had been turned into a megafortress, huge concrete walls, 600 millimeter artillery around the entire capital aiming out, and damn these things where like the german super railguns used in world war two, railguns meaning they where towed by train and shot while still on the tracks, these however couldn't be moved, Carnelia's explanation on that amount and size of the cannons, was to deal with dragons, which made sense, not all dragons where kind.

Rather recently while digging a new area out for concrete to be poured, something had been brought to me that had been dug up, it looked like a baseball sized orb which held a static looking galaxy within it, when Chrysalis saw it she flipped out, seemingly they are called 'Galaxy' or 'Universe' gems and are VERY rare, so I had it plopped into my crown as the center gem, which made her laugh, as for how rare these things where, you could get several billions bits, PER GEM, if they where real, it seems these only form when concentrated bursts of magic strike the planet from the sun, sort of like an EMP would from our own sun on Earth.

The Griffon Empire, in an attempt to keep up with the cats, whom had begun producing tanks, King Tiger tanks for any whom are wondering, and yes I did give them the designs for them, had begun to produce tanks like the ones the british had in world war one, the Mark series of tanks, along with the FT renault light tanks, and they where mass producing them at a rapid rate, and selling them to any kingdom or empire who had the coin to pay for these things.

I have been getting some questions lately, so I thought I'd enlighten you all, some of you wonder what civilians use for air transport since the military grade aircraft are clearly off limits, they used lofite airships like my old air force did, large and bulky, but fast as well, of course these had no weapons, and would ferry citizens across the empire whom simply didn't feel like driving or taking a teleportation gate. They where not like airliners on Earth either, you had a LOT of room to move around, kinda had to when species you fly around can get as big as a minotaur, whom can be up to 15 feet tall or less, they didn't go high enough that food tasted like shit, so dining services where available as well, like Hydra Steaks.

Each passenger airliner had its own kitchen area so all the food was prepared in flight, and speedy to boot thanks to the use of MagiHeaters to cook the food, think like a magical stove and microwave combination, sept it didn't make food taste like shit when you cooked in it, unlike a microwave, Magiheaters where my Empires version of the microwave, but magic, nearly every household had one.

Another thing had come to my attention in my research of this world, seemingly just like MY Equestria, this one didn't know about a lot of foods, like cheesecake or peanut butter, so I decided to rectify that by entering the Annual Canterlot Baking Contest, the gist of it went like this, you bake something and bring it to the contest for Celestia herself to try, and you could make up to seven items. I had decided on my own recipe for a Crystal Berry cheesecake, No Bake cookies, and a Chocolate Fudge cake with chocolate frosting and peanut brittle on top to decorate it, I had already arrived about 15 minutes ago and set up at the table provided. I had been getting a lot of stares likely due to who I am, because of the rare gem now in my crown that glew slightly with a white light, and because of how 'exotic' the things I had made seemed to ponies whom had never thought or heard of them, when asked to try some, I denied any whom asked, I would be waiting until Celestia herself came to judge my treats.

Another 15 minutes later Princess Celestia had come out and was beginning to sample the various pastries and cakes, there was even a chocolate moose that some bald donkey had made, didn't look half bad, then one guy made a replica of canterlot using doughnuts and ice cream which looked good I will admit, overall it took about another half an hour before Princess Celestia got to my table, seems she decided to pick me last, I looked over to see Pinkie Pie had a confident smirk on her face, from what I had been told, she won every year, with her crazy cake recipe she had won the Goddess of the very Sun itself over with her skills of baking. Due to that not many new people/ponies entered the contest, the rare few that did always gave up after two years of not winning, unless they had some will and kept trying new family recipes to try n win the Princesses taste buds.

Celestia looked down at the small assortment of treats I had produced, her eyes slightly glittering with curiosity and wonder before she looked up at me and spoke. "Lorenzo? I didn't expect you to be here, let alone join the contest, regardless, these look rather good, care to explain what they are?"

I smirked and nodded. "Indeed I shall, this." I pointed to the cheesecake. "Is a Crystal Berry Cheesecake, and no I know what your thinking, its not actually MADE of cheese, its called that due to the color of the treat before adding the berries, this." I pointed to the no bake cookies. "Are no bake cookies, and just as the name implies, no baking is necessary and you can have cookies in 40 minutes if you know what your doing, and that." I pointed to the last delectable. "Is a fudge peanut butter cake with chocolate frosting and peanut brittle crushed and sprinkled on top."

Celestia seemed amazed for a few moments, unable to say anything, before her horn lit up and she cut herself a piece of the fudge cake, and took a small bite, the small bite turned into her CRAMMING the entire slice into her mouth with a hum of satisfaction which just caused me to laugh, making her face turn red for a moment, before she composed herself and tried a no bake cookie, the same result ensued. "I take it you like my treats so far?"

Celestia could only nod as she took a slice of the crystal berry cheesecake, and took a bite, the instant the flavor hit her tongue her eyes went wide, VERY wide, which I found rather creepy, before she swallowed and announced. "And the winner of the Annual Canterlot Baking Contest has been decided, King Lorenzo is declared the winner!" She handed me a metal, and then crammed the rest of my treats down her maw before she grinned at me in a way that looked...off, and before I knew what was happening I had been teleported into her bedroom, or whatever you want to call it.

I gave a confused look as I landed on the bed. "What the hell was that for?" All I got in response was a grin, and she pounced

Author's Notes:

Hello all! I wrote this in a txt doc so I could see it in the part of my screen that isn't fucked up and all rainbowy, and minimized chrome to edit it as such, its harder to do than writing flat out on fimfiction, but easier than trying to write and not see a quarter of what I say lol, I'm at 25 bucks on Paypal, any donations are helpful in getting me a replacement device, as it seems the cost of replacing the screen would far exceed the cost of just buying a new cheap 150, 200 dollar laptop, and consider the one I have now was 450 bucks, from 2016, the email for my paypal is [email protected] ,regardless I hoped ya liked this

Note a friend made a side story that is considered cannon to my story, please check it out reading it is mandatory to understand some things that will happen later on or in chapters I wrote before this https://www.fimfiction.net/story/460761/diplomacy-in-the-east-a-new-empire-side-story

I made a blog, please read it https://www.fimfiction.net/blog/895960/i-made-a-map-of-the-empire

other than that, hope ya enjoyed dis my fine friends

and here is the kitties new jet