It has been three months, in that long period of time, a lot of shit had happened, and I mean a LOT of shit, first off was my raid on the Storm Empire's scientific centers, their research facilities, and what I found was nothing short of amazing.

They had a zetan ship, about a thousand feet long and wide, of course they had gutted the thing while studying it, but what had been most interesting was the fact that the creatures who had been studying it, seemed to have reverse engineered their weapons, shields, engines, even their terminals and other technology, anti gravity engines and shields being the best they where able to do, they had found through heavy research that the alien generators where actually PLASMA generators, about half as powerful as a vault-tec super reactor, but still better than your basic vault reactor.

But since the plasma technology had been a little TOO complicated, they had opted to make their own 'arcane' reactors, simply put they created magic generators, powerful little things to, for them at least, they had the exact power output of a normal vault tec reactor, but there had been other things the zetans never had, and I know that for a fact.

For instance, they had the fucking railgun rifle from GTA5, and panzerhunds, of course they called them stormhounds, I found out just how they had these things to begin with when I was going over their notes, they had tampered with the little portal teleporters the zetans used to move around sections of their ship, and fucking opened a multi dimensional portal, it switched from certain worlds, I quickly had that destroyed, all research into that device had been detonated in a nuclear explosion the size of a skyscraper, I did that by just placing a shitton of mininukes in one area and setting a timer on one.

From what I had seen, they had plans to make more railgun rifles, I say rifle, cause it was about the size of a rifle, and they had made their own stormhounds, and controlled them using the drone control device that zetans used on their defense drones, but the best thing they had done with all that zetan technology? They made their own versions of the deathray, while keeping the original from the zetan ship intact, I would like to mention that this ship was not mothership zeta, nor was it near as large as that mothership, this one WAS the size of a small town yes, but the mothership in the game had been the size of a large city, this one was smaller.

After my raid had been completed, I took the entire ship and everything they had done, and planned, with all that technology I planned to make my own space ship, hell it was already under construction, it was modeled after one of the ships from the UNSC from Halo, it would be about two thousand feet long, and 900 feet wide, I had already taken the plans for the railgun and beefed it up, it would have a railgun in the center of it that would shoot out of the nose of the ship, it would have nuclear missiles, plasma weaponry, beam weaponry, like my beam rifle or like my crystal fighters had, but it would also have more than one of those deathrays, I planned to have it all powered by twenty vault-tec super reactors.

Another side effect of the raid on the Storm Empire, is that without a king, citizens flocked to other kingdoms or empires, mine was the main choice since I had been the one to kill their, shall we say, not so nice leader, the same thing had happened after Bonejaw's little empire fell, diamond dogs by nature, follow a pack mentality, its ingrained in their DNA, so they opted to follow the guy who killed the last alpha, you guessed it, me, they where a bit mad when they had been told there was no digging permitted unless it was in mining areas, as I didn't want someone to tunnel into the underground super structure I had made, but there was also a larger variety of species than just crystal ponies, changelings, and diamond dogs, such as weird anthro style cats, I still don't know what their species name is however.

Before all this had happened, my Empire had a population of 96,000, including changelings, but not including the combat robots I had, now with all the crap that had been going on, all of Bonejaw's empire had fled to be ruled under my name as said before, so that beefed up the numbers by 3,000, while the other species from the Storm Empire beefed that up another 50,000, so now my empire had 149,000, keep in mind each of them are kept track of, they have ID's, information on them is found in the Crystal Empire Citizen Archive, that only I and Pam have the ability to use, as to how I housed and fed these new citizens, I just had more crops planted and the hydroponic section of the underground city underneath the Empire expanded by three miles.

I had also learned that aside from the solitary Yaks, I alone controlled most of the frozen north, its own continent, so I had decided to expand the Empire's boarders, as for how I did this without the snow and ice killing citizens, it was rather simple, within the span of three months I had my own zetan style energy shields, I had one encase the entire Empire, those shields had their own reactors separate from the ones that powered things like lights and heating, the dome shield was just a foot above the shield the Crystal Heart produced.

Since I had almost complete control over the frozen north, I had expanded by quite a lot, using zetan shields as high as the one on the top of the point of the crystal castle, simply placed on tall pillars of concrete I made, covered areas and protected large masses of the landscape from the snow, wind, and cold, after that it was just a matter of having loyal diamond dogs dig in those areas to mine for items like ore and gems, that took about a month itself, along with making another wall to surround that new section of the Empire, before I expanded the Empire had been about, ten thousand miles long and wide, since it was a perfect circle, now it was 30,000 miles large, I don't know how wide it was however, and I honestly didn't feel like finding out, and to give you an example of how large my empire was compared to Equestria, Equestria was 80,000 or so miles large, so my Empire was still TINY compared to that kingdom.

After the land had been mined for everything it was worth, concrete had been poured and the ground flattened, a few minor military bunkers and barracks had been constructed after the concrete dried, then roads where outlined and homes where built, still mostly made of crystal but with metal and wood mixed in, there was also apartment buildings, motels, for the rare visitor to the Empire, shops, and other such stores for things one would need like food, and that took up the last two months, only yesterday did the last house finish construction, after it had been finished the last of my new citizens moved into it, as it was a house that could hold a family of ten, as for how citizens got around my empire? It was rather simple, cars, as mentioned before I had the use of console commands, but I actually had to KNOW the command, and I actually remembered the commands to summon a bunch of the Pre war versions of cars from Fallout 4, so I had a few options for the cars themselves, I modified some to be pony friendly, and left normal ones for the bipedal species to use, I of course ripped out the nuclear engines and replaced them with enchanted crystals to power them, as nuclear powered cars where just to easy to explode and kill or maim others.

Equestria and most other kingdoms had their own little bout of advancement from the raids I had conducted on the Storm Empire, along with a new empire being added to the list of ones that where official, Mount Eris, and Seaquestria was its own kingdom, ruled by a seapony called 'Queen Novo' It would be interestin to see what happened with that empire or kingdom, it was unclear what it was called exactly, so for now I was going with kingdom, but aside from that, ponies, griffons, and minotaur had taken schematics I had given them for the new arcane reactors, reverse engineered zetan weapons, zetan teleporters, and shield technology, and had started using it for their own benefit, already Equestrian airships had shields on them now, even a dragon would have a hard time getting through those shields, the only technology I didn't give them was the plans for the normal alien plasma generator, or the railgun, they had full access to the rest, and that included the magic powered deathray.

But when the raid had finished I didn't just find the ship and the technology that had been being worked on, I also found the zetans themselves, all of them where dead however, dissected like lab rats, a few zetan brains had been placed into a weird biogel sealed into jars, it seemed to have the same abilities as the biogel in the robobrains I was able to create, jar after jar of zetan organs and brains, while their skeletons had been cleaned and stood on display, I had taken those as well, but I did something that either could be seen as a good thing, or a bad thing, I took one of the zetan brains and hooked it into a robobrain chassis head, and set a computer AI, just a basic one meant to do the one task I gave it, to decoding the zetans language and memories into visual files for me to read, and watch later.

What with the new species living within my empire, some of course wanted to join the guard, and I let them, it was much simpler to design power armor for bipeds than ponies, since I just needed to modify the legs, arms, and helmet per species, and not actually change the power armor frame in any way, shape, or form.

I had also been upgrading my wall's defenses, no longer did a pony need to aim any of the wall mounted weapons and fire, I had automated them by attaching a Mister Gutsy unit to the weapons, taking out their vocal units and hover thruster and their arms, and simply programmed them to asses a target, and shoot as needed, however there was one weapon I had new, and it would most likely be able to damage the shields of any ship it hit, and if said ship had no shields, it would most likely destroy it, the railgun rifle as I mentioned before, I had made beefed up versions of said weapon, mounted them on my walls, and did the same to them as I did with the rest of the weaponry, added a Mister Gutsy unit with the previously mentioned modifications.

I had also solved a problem Equestria and most other kingdoms had been facing before with normal ballistic weaponry, they had almost exclusively used revolvers, said revolvers only held 6 shots of the worldwide used standard .45 bullet, so I had my scientists work to design a semi auto handgun that would use that round, and would hold at least 16 shots, what they invented looked a lot like a M1911, but it was different in a few ways, for one it was longer and better gripped for both claws, hands, and hooves, for ponies the trigger would be extended with no trigger guard, for minotaur and griffons it had a trigger guard, and it was completely metal, no plastic or anything like that, since they wouldn't be able to do something like make rubber grips, I mean, I'm sure they could, but they liked things simple and easy to do and use, however that was not the only pistol my ponies designed, I had them design an upgraded ten mm pistol, not for pony use however, for use by the bipedal species that had joined my army, for ponies the somewhat clunky original was perfect for use with hooves, but for those who actually had hands, or whatever their respective species called them, a sleeker design was needed, and it came in the form of the ten mm MK 2, advanced even by modern US standards.

There had also been one thing I wouldn't be sharing with anyone but my own empire, the advanced Zetan communication technology far outdid anything normal radio could hope to do, it sent weak waves of plasma, so weak it wasn't even really detectable unless you knew the wavelength of the EXACT pulse being sent out, within that pulse you could send messages, detect craft, and many other useful little things, however I'd like to make it clear this was NOT a weapon.

I grinned thinking of how the world would change with this new technology, as I said before I already had plans for a large space ship, however I was surprised to learn Equestria actually had a space program, called the ESP, or Equestrian Space Program, they where working on rockets to send ponies to the moon, and suits to allow them to walk in the vacuum of space, however with the new anti gravity engines, they would achieve their goal within a few weeks at most, they had no plans to actually weaponize any space craft.

Some may not know this, but Celestia and Luna have complete control over the entire solar system we reside in, they are mostly known for rasing the sun and moon, however they do much more than that daily, during Discord's reign of chaos, he tossed the system into chaos, destabilized orbits and even crashed a few planets into one another, there used to be 12 planets in the solar system, now remained ten, along with an asteroid belt created when two planets smashed into one another, I planned to mine that field and use it to my own advantage at some point, but that was likely far into the future, for now however I would continue to advance the world, I was just about to try and catch some sleep, since by now it was one AM, when I got a message over the radio, a text message this time, opening it I saw something that confused me, it read. "Dear Lorenzo, your presence is required at Canterlot, as requested by the rulers of the Changeling Empire, who have recently made themselves known, they have asked for a meeting with you to be set up at Canterlot Castle, please arrive by 3 PM." Well fuck yet another empire, lets hope this one ain't evil like Bonejaw's or the Storm Empire was, otherwise they will learn why you don't bring a sword to a gunfight.

Author's Notes:

hiya all! I have a question for ya'll and you actually need to give me a response, what do you think of me writing a non cannon sequel to this where the crystal empire, and all its tech, gets sent to another version of earth? one without things like fallout or mlp, if so, what time period should it be sent to? like ww1? ww2? modern times? I just ask because its an interesting idea I've had in the back of my mind for quite some time , other than this, I hope ya enjoyed the chapter, sorry it took so long to plop this one out, but I'm sick and don't feel like writing moreso than I feel like taking aspirin to stop the pain in my chest from constant coughing and one last side note, and actually respond to it please, what should the anthro style cat species seen in the movie, and made cannon in the show, be called?

now, this is what the ten mm mk 2 looks like, but without the small text other than ten mm, and the word CIGER, keep in mind it looks JUST like this but without the mentioned things, I'd also like to note, that the artist who drew this is amazing, but sadly they do not exist anymore, their artist pages deleted, if you do not believe me just try and find them online, I looked for hours to ask permission to use the picture, however I gave up after three hours