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A crossover between ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic]]'' and ''[[Sins of a Solar Empire]]'', written by Dalek Ix.

Equestria has been part of the Trade Order for a thousand years, enjoying prosperity. But as the Summer Sun Celebration looms and Nightmare Moon's return is on the horizon, forces align on both sides.

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It can be found [http://www.fimfiction.net/story/4387/Friends-of-a-Solar-Empire here] and [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7556482/1/Friends_of_a_Solar_Empire here]. And [http://forums.spacebattles.com/showpost.php?p=6995016&postcount=1 here's] an index on the Spacebattles forum.

[[Needs More Love]] and [[Needs a Better Description|A better description]].


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* [[Ace Pilot]]: Pegasi and Griffons in general. That someone managed to find a way to let them control fighter craft with their wings helps.
* [[All There in the Manual]]: The Spacebattles threads.
** To elaborate: Most of the fic's [[World Building]] is on the forums, in the form of "extra documents" written [[In-Universe]] (for instance, Cloudsdale is described in a tourist brochure). There's also some elaboration of story elements in the discussion. None of this is ''necessary'' to understand the fic, but definitely helps flesh out the story.
* [[And I Must Scream]]: [[Word of God]] on what happened to Discord. The Traders sealed his statue in a small ship, put it on auto pilot towards empty space, and kicked on the FTL. A ship can ''only'' drop out of FTL if it enters a strong gravity well, and their are ''very'' few planets or stars in the ship's path. And Discord is ''still'' stuck as a statue during all of this.
** To make matters even worse for the bastard, the overall flight path is perpendicular to the plane of the galaxy, so he's heading straight into intergalactic space, the emptiest place in existence. There won't be any conflict to free him for a long time.
** Also what happened to some members of the [[Complete Monster|Horizon Corporation]], also by [[Word of God]]. While the Universal Trade Sanction (which makes them unable to even buy ''food'') was handed down by the Investigation Directorate, the various factions of the TEC also handed down their own punishments...including ''Cognizant Cryocontainment''. 
* [[Author Appeal]]: Crossovers. This ''is'' the same guy who brought us ''[[A Hero (fan work)|A Hero]]''.
* [[Cruel Mercy]]: By [[Word of God]] what happened to the people running the lab that Twilight came from.
** It's less [[Cruel Mercy]] and more an indirectly-caused [[Fate Worse Than Death]]. [[Complete Monster|Not they they didn't deserve it, in any case.]]
* [[Cassandra Truth]]: [[My Significance Sense Is Tingling|Pinkie Pie]] keeps telling high command that their orbital fighter bays could ''really'' do with some flak-cannons. Predictably they take no notice.
** Averted when [[God-Emperor|Celestia]] tells the TEC that her currently insane sister will be returning to wreak vengeance soon. [[Dangerously Genre Savvy|They send a battlefleet.]] And Admiral Kol.
* [[Disproportionate Retribution]]: The Trade Order's Investigation Directorate. Their response to the actions of the [[Corrupt Corporate Executive|Horizon]] [[Complete Monster|Corporation]] was to hire a [[More Dakka|Marza-class dreadnought]] to blow up the asteroid their facility had been built on, and then ban the rest of the Traders from doing business with them. Not even to buy ''food''.
** [[Asshole Victim|...Disproportionate?]]
* [[Fictional Document]]: The "Extra Document" files.
* [[Fusion Fic]].
* [[Gattaca Babies]]: Twilight Sparkle.
* [[Gosh Dang It to Heck]]: A human colonel is described as wearing "an apple-eating grin" when [[Noodle Incident|a crazy shore leave involving Fluttershy]] is mentioned. An odd example, as it appears in narration, not dialogue.
* [[Proud Warrior Race]]: Gryphons, Pegasi and the Kol family. It made them oddballs in the peaceful Trade Order. Then the Vasari turned up.
* [[Humans Are Warriors]]: As explained in a letter to the [[Proud Warrior Race Guy|Gryphus Republic]] the humans of the Trade Order are peaceful by conscious choice, not by natural inclination.
* [[Hypercompetent Sidekick]]: Lampshaded; Rarity thinks the only reason she survived in position to become competent was thanks to the local [[Colonel Badass]].
* [[Mega Corp]]: The TEC is an alliance of these; Rarity's ship is even owned by one.
* [[Noodle Incident]]: Apparently, Fluttershy joined Rarity's crew in some rather over-the-top antics on their last shore leave.
** And Colonel Rekav is no longer allowed to gamble ''anything'', for some reason.
* [[Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale]]: Averted. ''Hard''. The author goes out of his way to make it clear that space is ''fucking'' '''''huge'''''. He even describes Twilight and Spike seeing the TDN ''Novus'' as a tiny point in the distance as a minor miracle.
* [[Shout-Out]]: Rainbow Dash's callsign is "[[Battlestar Galactica (2004 TV series)|Starbuck]]".
** Equestria's Argonev starbase is called the ''[[wikipedia:Kasztanka|Kasztanka]]''.
* [[The Stinger]]: Both chapters so far end with flashbacks to Twilight's past, in the form of "holo-vids".  {{spoiler|Word of God is that Celestia is the one watching them.}}
* [[The High Queen]]: Princess Celestia, who is still ruling Equestria, controls most of the pony species by the strength of tradition and by being an honestly good ruler and noted as being one of ''the'' most important members of the TEC.
* [[Tranquil Fury]]: In a flashback, A TEC fleet arrives at a planet conquered by the Vasari, and finds it [[Moral Event Horizon|turned into a giant slave camp and strip mine]]. When soldiers are sent down on a rescue mission, Rarity calmly orders them to shoot ''any'' Vasari they see, no survivors. Even the resident [[Colonel Badass]] is surprised. 
* [[Transhuman Treachery]]: A predecessor to the Trade Order tried to do this, [[Final Solution|in a very complete way]]. They're the reason why [[No Transhumanism Allowed|Transhumanism isn't allowed]]. (See the [[Complete Monster]] entry for details.) 
* [[Officer and a Gentleman|Officer and a Gentlepony]]: Rarity.
* [[Unusual User Interface]]: Pegasi and griffons control their fighters with their wings.
** Even Rainbow Dash finds it a bit odd, musing that it came about because "a human (took) a foal’s suggestion too seriously".
* [[World Building]]: Arguably one of the most popular aspects of the fic.

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