I grinned, it had only been a week since my fun with Celestia, Blue Gadgets foal, who was named Speedy Gadget, I forgot if I had mentioned his name or not, had actually came up with somethin that I could give to other kingdoms or empires, an automatic gauss machine gun, AGMG, shooting 7.56 mm ElectroMagnetic rounds, it had a drum which you'd hook to the side of the gun, which held 600 rounds. I was very impressed with Speedy Gadget, and before I forget to mention, the kid was a small green crystal earthpony with spiky yellow hair, and a set of electric yellow eyes, his cutiemark being a screwdriver and a box that looked like a terminal.

As for why I said I could give this to other kingdoms and nations, is because while VERY powerful by their standards, its nowhere near as powerful as the automatic railguns you could find fixed to vehicles, the most it would do against my forces would be chip their power armor. And speaking of power armor, I decided to have my own suit of XO-4 made, I designated the power armor used by my forces, XO-3, mine would have built in weapons such as a .90 cal machine guns which would slide out of the sides of my wrists, and various other weapons, which I won't go into detail due to me wanting to keep most of the goodies inside a surprise, but it would make me three times the size I am now while inside it, as such I'd be a behemoth.

Some more important news, I my spider thing is speaking now....so yeah it got citizenship, but one of the other things, was the crystal heart, which had merged with the other heart, was....alive, I got the shock of my life yesterday when I went an walked up to it, jus to check on it, as ya do, an a fucking holographic mare, the four legged kind, appeared from it like a holoprojector might, damn near giving me a heart attack. She called herself 'Crystal' which was fitting, she said she had been slowly growing in power, and that she was happy where she was now, rather than a dying land the anthro empire had been, citizens being unhappy actually hurt her like someone stabbing you would hurt you or I.

She told me she had reformed Sombra, which I already knew, an she was connected to all the mini crystal hearts around the empire, so she could go anywhere they where, which was damn near everywhere, in other news Crystal Prime had been upgraded with a new fusion plant, to replace the old Arcane one he had been using to power his weapons and critical systems. And Blue Gadget had invented something that would be completely useless to my empire, hydrogen car and jet engines, when I asked why he dedicated any resources to these when we already had much better technology, he stated 'he was bored and wanted a challenge', I had the designs logged and the working ones stored away, who knows maybe I'll give these to this worlds empires and kingdoms before I go?

In other news, a project I had in development had come to fruition, a flying aircraft carrier which would be able to carry thousands of troop carriers and fighters! It was six miles long, two miles wide, with six MASSIVE anti gravity engines to keep the damned thing flying, since the aircraft my empire used are anti gravity, they didn't need a runway, so the top was just a long flat roof anti gravity craft could land and hook into with maglocks, magnetic locks which would prevent them from sliding off or falling off, because they dug into the hull at designated areas and activated once 5 feet inside. It was to be piloted by Winter Gust, and dubbed, 'Empires Might', she was ecstatic to get to pilot such a craft, though of course other pilots would be at the helm as well, along with AI meant to help if they couldn't get to the controls.

A new invention had come to light recently, USC's, also known as Universal Storage Crystals, can store any information on em, be it books, music, even connect to a terminal and it can store all the information on the HUMAN internet should it have to do so, I had big plans for those lil things, it was no larger than a mouse for a computer back on Earth would be, but could store and process so much information in such a short time, glorious.

Another....lewder, bit of news, is some of the Kirin had decided to open a restaurant, an your likely thinking to yourself 'Oh Lorenzo! You moron! How can that be lewd?', Well, I'll tell ya, its called Hellfire's Barbeque, and its cut into two sections, the family friendly side, which is the same as any BBQ joint, aside from the kirin server's nudity, and an 18 plus adult section, where kirin would cook food on their naked bodies using cookin oil, in front of the customer, for their viewing pleasure, afterwards they'd stay and act like a plate, so you ate OFF them, turns out when their in a normal state of mind, kirin can actually control how hot they can become, as such they make living grills, it was very kinky to watch. This place specialized in spicy food, which I LOVED, it was ran by a kirin named Hellfire, she was bright orange with a red mane and tail, with bits of yellow mixed into her mane making it look like a static fire, her eyes where a deep crimson, her food was like her personality, Hot n Spicy, which made her adorable at times.

I and my herd had been invited to be the first customers since it had opened only a few days ago, and I hadn't been informed about how the kirin cook food in the adult section, so it was a very weird thing to witness, I panicked and was flipping the fuck out at first about to grab my cryolater to put out the flame, till I was told kirin don't worry about fire as they can swim in pure magma or molten metal if they wanted, with no harm to them, I'm so glad a few of those guys joined the military, they'd be useful as flamer units.

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Outside The Empire, Twilight's Castle----------------------------------------

Twilight Sparkle grinned like a madmare as she stared at the plan she had written out on a whiteboard, it was perfect! First she'd use a teleportation rune to hijack one of those portal gates, and set off her device, her device would set everything right, she would not fail harmony a third time, she refused to allow herself to fail harmony, Celestia, again.

The device she planned to use looked like a basketball sized ball made of metal with random wires and crystals jutting out at weird angles, it glew a violet color like her magic when it was in use, it would fix what the map had desired of her, or what she thought it wanted, without a second thought she lit the runic circle drawn onto the wall, which burned into the crystal of her Crystal Tree Castle...thing, and it sparked violently as it began to spiral with energy and a portal opened, showing her desired location, near the crystal palace, so she flew in without thought of the consequences for what might happen should she fail...no, she WOULDN'T fail, she would not allow it.

Twilight flew high as she could, not even half of the crystal palaces height, but it would do for now, so she flipped the device around in her hands and opened a latch on the back, and flipped several switches and inserted a power crystal, before closing it and THROWING it as hard as she could. Twilight Sparkle, watched the device fall for several seconds before it activated and blew up, sending a huge pulse of violet colored magic in all directions, for several miles it went, before dissipating, unknown to her, it did not have the desired effect, rather than rid of Lorenzo like it had been designed to, it had made all changelings in the empire go into a sudden heat.

This would not be a fun day, moreso when the sky began to violently glow and a strike of purple lightning struck Twilight from the sky, causing her to crash to the ground below as a holographic looking version of herself appeared, crystally looking and radiating harmonic power as its eyes glew with pure white magic. "Twilight Sparkle! I am the Tree Of Harmony! And you have failed my test! You have constantly failed and now you have caused harm to innocent! From this day henceforth you will no longer be the element of magic, nor an alicorn!" Its horn lit up with a radiant white and blue magic as Twilight felt herself being ripped apart and put back together, weaker than before, and she fell to the ground, her wings and horn gone, shorter by several inches, no longer an alicorn, nor even a unicorn, she was weaker than any species of pony, for she didn't even have the natural enhancements an earthpony has.

The Tree spoke again. "I guess I shall have to bestow the element of magic upon another, you are unworthy of it, I have made a mistake in trusting you with its grand power, now, BEGONE!" Twilight was teleported back to outside her Castle, and watched in horror, shock and disbelief as it crumbled into dust before her eyes, and fluttered away in the wind, leaving her nothing.

-----------------------------------------------------------------------Back To Lorenzo---------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Alarms where going off, someone had hijacked a portal gate, then set off some magic bomb in the center of my empire which was effecting changelings in a very...nsfw way, lings where pouncing on citizens to have 'fun' with them, of course they did ask consent, but I relayed to the source of this problem and saw ....Twilight? She looked all glowy n shit, see through somewhat as well...Before I could even pull out my rifle and shoot this purple bitch she looked at me, and spoke INSIDE MY FUCKING HEAD. "I am sorry for the disturbance my former bearer has had upon your land, the effects will only last a day, my interference has made the damage minimal, for her crimes against your people and your kingdom, I give you this gem as an apology." Her horn lit up as some weird white gem formed in my hand, about the size of a baseball, an it felt weird to hold it, I could jus fucking feel the pure magical power within this thing.

I looked up and gave this....thing, a confused look. "What exactly does this thing do?" I stored it into my inventory.

It grinned, which looked weird as she was somewhat translucent and I could see the walls n shit behind her. "In a time of woe and anger, plug the gem into the heart, and watch its power flow throughout your Empire, protecting all within its grasp." Was all she said before with a puft of sparkle lookin dust she was gone, I just looked at the gem in my inventory.

I gave the area she had been a stare for a few moments "The fuck does that mean?"

--------------------------------------------------------Equestria, Canterlot Castle Gates---------------------------------

Thousands of stallions, likely all the stallions in Equestria in one location, where rioting at the gates of Canterlot Castle, rioting violently for equal rights, tired and sick of being unable to do certain things, and being treated like fragile morons due to the rarity of males within Equestria compared to Mares born.

"We want equal rights for both mares and stallions! Make the laws and government fare!" A few yelled in unison, throwing rocks at the gate, forcing the guardmares to raise their shields, they where NOT permitted to fire upon stallions, only taser them, and even then on stun rather than lethal, stallions where to rare to kill or harm in any real way, Equestria had 5 million ponies in it, only about 5 thousand of those were stallions, and all of them where at the gates of the castle ready to storm in and beat the shit out of anyone in their way, to get what they wanted. As more rocks were thrown, a guardmare panicked and fired into the crowd of stallions with her luger rifle, killing one instantly. Within an instant the stallions surged forward in a swarm and began to mercilessly beat the guardmare with rocks, stones, sticks, even makeshift clubs, this was going to be a violent revolution if they did not get what they wanted.

Author's Notes:

Hiya all! I hope ya enjoyed this and are enjoying it so far, I'm sad to say I've had no luck getting the national anthem sung, I found people to do it, but due to this stupid fucking covid-19 shit, they can't meet up an sing it, nor get it done, so I'm FUCKED IN THE ASS, on that end

If you'd like to donate to getting me a new cheap replacement device, then my paypal is [email protected], Any donations are welcome, and I thank you all, to those whom have donated.

I have made a new map of the empire, this might just be the official map! , never know, as time changes I might add or change things! but if I do I'll show ya!

As for some info, the circle with the other colors in it is a city wide beach, the mass of water is a freshwater ocean for citizens to sail an crap, so they don't go outside the walls *and thus put themselves in danger* and the ring of circles on the right is civilian factories, yes, they are larger than a few of the smaller cities, the blocky factories are military only, almost completely automated, thousands upon thousands of miles large, and reaching deep underground and 5 stories up, meant to take a direct hit from several nuclear weapons and continue pumping out shit, the top one is producing only aircraft an shit, while the bottom one produces guns, robots, etc

here is lorenzo in his alicorn armor, its unfinished but I forgot to show it last time

tell me what ya think!
it has occured to me I never showed ya'll the kitty queeno! an if I did I forgot, well, here ya go!

Queen Carnelia!

Here is the bottom of the flying antigrav carrier, the round part is the nose

Don't forget to read the story of my friend below

https://www.fimfiction.net/story/460761/diplomacy-in-the-east-a-new-empire-side-story

one more thing, please check out this story and give it some love, a friend of mine is writing it an he's bummed he never gets featured, and that people don't like his story, go give em some love for me, would ya?

https://www.fimfiction.net/story/440642/the-wish

In other news, I've decided for a non cannon entry into the 'a new empire' series, I shall do the fallout world, and I've decided to just mishmash most games, as who says lorenzos empire can't cross a country with their troop carriers or starships? let me know what you think of this, good idea? or no? why or why not