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* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Queen Odilla at one point decided to extend the blockade on the G.D.R to rainclouds, knowing that human food was toxic to griffons and hoping to force them to give the province in order to feed the starving Griffons. Not only did it fail, as humans understood why their food was toxic and found a work around, but it also destroyed any loyalty the G.D.R griffons still had towards her.
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''[[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/244611/an-academic-visit An Academic Visit]]'' is a short story based on [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic]] describing experiences of a pony mathematician Silver Compass during his visit to a blockaded province of Griffon Empire. A province that has been effectively occupied by strange creatures calling themselves 'humans'. During his stay here, not only does he encounter the works of a society that chose a drastically different direction of development compared to that of Equestria, but also learns about the events that immediately followed the first contact.
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''[[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/244611/an-academic-visit An Academic Visit]]'' is a short story based on [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic]] ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' describing the experiences of a pony mathematician named Silver Compass during his visit to a blockaded province of the Griffon Empire. A province that has been effectively occupied by strange creatures calling themselves 'humans'. During his stay here, not only does he encounter the works of a society that chose a drastically different direction of development compared to that of Equestria, but also learns about the events that immediately followed the first contact.
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''[[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/244611/an-academic-visit An Academic Visit]]'' is a short story based on [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic]] describing experiences of a pony mathematician Silver Compass during his visit to a blockaded province of Griffon Empire. A province that has been effectively occupied by strange creatures calling themselves 'humans'.
During his stay here, not only he encounters the works of society that chose a drastically different direction of development compared to that of Equestria, but also learns about the events that immediately followed the first contact.
During his stay here, not only he encounters the works of society that chose a drastically different direction of development compared to that of Equestria, but also learns about the events that immediately followed the first contact.
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''[[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/244611/an-academic-visit An Academic Visit]]'' is a short story based on [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic]] describing experiences of a pony mathematician Silver Compass during his visit to a blockaded province of Griffon Empire. A province that has been effectively occupied by strange creatures calling themselves 'humans'.
'humans'. During his stay here, not only does he encounters encounter the works of a society that chose a drastically different direction of development compared to that of Equestria, but also learns about the events that immediately followed the first contact.
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* GodzillaThreshold: Imperial Army gave humans such a scare they started using weapons of mass destruction with reckless abandon. Large areas surrounding the Earth side of the portal have been devastated as teh result.
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* GodzillaThreshold: Imperial Army gave humans such a scare they started using weapons of mass destruction with reckless abandon. Large areas surrounding the Earth side of the portal have been devastated as teh the result.
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* NoBiochemicalBarriers: Averted hard. Life on Equis, while carbon-based, uses mostly different set of amino acids than life on Earth. While not outright poisonous, consuming otherwordly food is still ill-advised.
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* NoBiochemicalBarriers: Averted hard.Averted. Life on Equis, while carbon-based, uses mostly different set of amino acids than life on Earth. While not outright poisonous, consuming otherwordly food is still ill-advised.
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* CurbStompBattle: These are implied to have gone both ways. Griffons were routing the armies of African states due to being ImmuneToBullets, but folded when more developed nations [[AlwaysABiggerFish joined in]] and used weapons of mass destruction against them.
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* CurbStompBattle: These are implied to have gone both ways. Griffons were routing the armies of African states armed with conventional weapons due to being ImmuneToBullets, but folded when more developed nations [[AlwaysABiggerFish joined in]] and more developed nations]] used weapons of mass destruction against them.
* GodzillaThreshold: Imperial Army gave humans such a scare they started using weapons of mass destruction with reckless abandon. Large areas surrounding the Earth side of the portal have been devastated as teh result.
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* ImmuneToBullets: Griffons, at least in regard to regular ammunition. However, it's stated that humans have found a way to circumvent this.
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* ImmuneToBullets: Griffons, at least in regard to regular ammunition. However, it's stated that humans have found a way to circumvent this.this by using ColdIron.
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* AssimilationPlot: Humanity is accused of playing a long-termed cultural and economic one with intention of destabilizing the Empire.
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* AlienInvasion: Goes both ways in the backstory. Griffons managed to take over a portion of Africa before being beaten back. After that, human military captured the portal and prevented griffon mages from closing it, leading to occupation of the province it contained.
* AssimilationPlot:Humanity is Humans are accused of playing a long-termed long-term cultural and economic one with the intention of destabilizing the Griffon Empire.
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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Using nuclear weapons to break the fighting spirit of your enemy and thus avoid even greater casualties. Are we talking about Hiroshima?
* FirstContact: Discussed. A griffon character muses that humankind must have felt lonely being the only sapient species of their homeworld, and dreamed of a contact with another civilization. Said contact came in form of griffon armies invading the Earth.
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* HumanityIsAdvanced: Subverted. Nations of Equis are ultimately portrayed as being simply different, rather than better or worse. In particular, during the conference it's shown that while humans are leaps and bounds ahead in fields like computational number theory, Equestrians have better understanding of multidimensional topology and manifolds.
* PeoplesRepublicOfTyranny: Downplayed. While the former province is now called Griffon Democratic Republic, it's far from being a true democracy.
* PeoplesRepublicOfTyranny: Downplayed. While the former province is now called Griffon Democratic Republic, it's far from being a true democracy.
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* HumanityIsAdvanced: Subverted. Nations of Equis are ultimately portrayed as being simply different, rather than better or worse. different. In particular, during the conference it's it is shown that while humans are leaps and bounds ahead in fields like computational number theory, Equestrians have better understanding of multidimensional topology and manifolds.
* PeoplesRepublicOfTyranny: Downplayed. While the former province is now called Griffon Democratic Republic, it's far from being a truedemocracy.democracy.
* ProudWarriorRace: Griffon Empire, of course. They don't take it well when they are beaten on their own turf, too.
* PeoplesRepublicOfTyranny: Downplayed. While the former province is now called Griffon Democratic Republic, it's far from being a true
* ProudWarriorRace: Griffon Empire, of course. They don't take it well when they are beaten on their own turf, too.
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''[[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/244611/an-academic-visit An Academic Visit]]'' is a short story based on [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic]] describing experiences of a pony mathematician Silver Compass during his visit to a blockaded province of Griffon Empire. A province that has been effectively occupied by strange creatures calling themselves 'humans'.
During his stay here, not only he encounters artifacts of society that choose a drastically different direction of development compared to that of Equestria, but also learns about events that immediately followed the contact.
!! This work provides examples of:
* AlienArtsAreAppreciated: Not necessarily applied to arts per se, but there exists a massive demand on magical items produced in GDR, which makes for significant part of their income. Similarly, griffons are said to be absolutely fascinated with computing technology if it involves touchscreens.
* AssimilationPlot: Humanity is accused of playing a long-termed cultural and economic one with intention of destabilizing the Empire.
* AtomicHate: Humans nuked a large griffon city to shock them and force them into considering peace talks. It worked, but a character claims that the destruction of administrative and economical center has devastated the entire province to the point of it being effectively abandoned. It also attracted the attention of [[PhysicalGod the Princesses]].
* CultureClash: Constantly. The fact that griffons of GDR have started to adopt some human habits doesn't help.
* CurbStompBattle: These are implied to have gone both ways. Griffons were routing the armies of African states due to being ImmuneToBullets, but folded when more developed nations [[AlwaysABiggerFish joined in]] and used weapons of mass destruction against them.
* [[UsefulNotes/FermatsLastTheorem Fermat's Last Theorem]]: Known to Equestrian society as "Startswirl's Unsolved Theorem". The protagonist is very grateful to receive a proof, though he notes that some of the approaches used have no analogues in Equestrian mathematics.
* GreatOffscreenWar: The Griffon-Human war has formally ended some years before the events of the story, but the hostility is still high, and the GDR is effectively under lockdown by the Empire.
* ImmuneToBullets: Griffons, at least in regard to regular ammunition. However, it's stated that humans have found a way to circumvent this.
* NoBiochemicalBarriers: Averted hard. Life on Equis, while carbon-based, uses mostly different set of amino acids than life on Earth. While not outright poisonous, consuming otherwordly food is still ill-advised.
* HumanityIsAdvanced: Subverted. Nations of Equis are ultimately portrayed as being simply different, rather than better or worse. In particular, during the conference it's shown that while humans are leaps and bounds ahead in fields like computational number theory, Equestrians have better understanding of multidimensional topology and manifolds.
* PeoplesRepublicOfTyranny: Downplayed. While the former province is now called Griffon Democratic Republic, it's far from being a true democracy.
During his stay here, not only he encounters artifacts of society that choose a drastically different direction of development compared to that of Equestria, but also learns about events that immediately followed the contact.
!! This work provides examples of:
* AlienArtsAreAppreciated: Not necessarily applied to arts per se, but there exists a massive demand on magical items produced in GDR, which makes for significant part of their income. Similarly, griffons are said to be absolutely fascinated with computing technology if it involves touchscreens.
* AssimilationPlot: Humanity is accused of playing a long-termed cultural and economic one with intention of destabilizing the Empire.
* AtomicHate: Humans nuked a large griffon city to shock them and force them into considering peace talks. It worked, but a character claims that the destruction of administrative and economical center has devastated the entire province to the point of it being effectively abandoned. It also attracted the attention of [[PhysicalGod the Princesses]].
* CultureClash: Constantly. The fact that griffons of GDR have started to adopt some human habits doesn't help.
* CurbStompBattle: These are implied to have gone both ways. Griffons were routing the armies of African states due to being ImmuneToBullets, but folded when more developed nations [[AlwaysABiggerFish joined in]] and used weapons of mass destruction against them.
* [[UsefulNotes/FermatsLastTheorem Fermat's Last Theorem]]: Known to Equestrian society as "Startswirl's Unsolved Theorem". The protagonist is very grateful to receive a proof, though he notes that some of the approaches used have no analogues in Equestrian mathematics.
* GreatOffscreenWar: The Griffon-Human war has formally ended some years before the events of the story, but the hostility is still high, and the GDR is effectively under lockdown by the Empire.
* ImmuneToBullets: Griffons, at least in regard to regular ammunition. However, it's stated that humans have found a way to circumvent this.
* NoBiochemicalBarriers: Averted hard. Life on Equis, while carbon-based, uses mostly different set of amino acids than life on Earth. While not outright poisonous, consuming otherwordly food is still ill-advised.
* HumanityIsAdvanced: Subverted. Nations of Equis are ultimately portrayed as being simply different, rather than better or worse. In particular, during the conference it's shown that while humans are leaps and bounds ahead in fields like computational number theory, Equestrians have better understanding of multidimensional topology and manifolds.
* PeoplesRepublicOfTyranny: Downplayed. While the former province is now called Griffon Democratic Republic, it's far from being a true democracy.
