Its amazing the damage that joy can deal.
The pleasure of present hides scars unhealed.
The crystal empire serves as a very interesting case of the massive impacts of equestrian
weather manipulation.
The Crystal heart, an artifact powered by the joy of the crystal ponies manages to hold
back the cold.
Ensuring the survival of a civilization, but not without consequence.
The crystal heart serves as a safe guard for the hundreds of Chrystal ponies that give
it power, but the straights it places on the environment could be dour.
But To truly understand the power the Crystal hearts got, we must first know how weather
acts where its not.
The princesses themselves say that "Weather this far north has a will of its own.".
So I believe the use of meteorology, or weather science is condoned.
No weather ponies are ready or able to tip the scales, so A more scientific approach
should be less prone to fail.
A main component of meteorology is the study, of air, and how it acts and moves within the
atmosphere.
While all air may seem similar its definitely not, there are two main types and differences
are stark.
Types of air differ in 3 mains ways, Their temperature, density, and the amount of moisture
contained.
Though counter-intuitive air is not dry.
For a percentage of it is water invisible to our eyes.
Water Vapor, water in its gas phase, takes up space left by air and from it clouds can
be made.
Warm air is hot and has the tendency to rise, Its not very dense and holds amounts of moisture
that surprise.
Cold air is cool and usually falls.
As a result its far denser and holds little moisture at all.
These two types of air tend to keep to themselves, forming large groups called masses, not meeting
if it can be helped.
But regardless of their preferences these two masses do meet, forming borders, called
fronts wherever they greet.
These fronts vary in shape,size, and strength.
They can also span entire countries with their considerable length.
Within them various weather patterns arise, but the intensity of these upon the temperature
difference relies.
The hotter the warm air, and the cooler the cold, the stronger the front and weather more
bold.
Of these fronts there are 4 main types, named after the mass that pushes the air out of
sight.
Warm fronts are formed where warm air runs into cold.
They make weather that is relatively mild, but the span of these fronts mean it lasts
a for a while.
Light showers and storms are what to expect, but despite their width, not much power they
project.
Cold fronts are formed where cold air rams the warm, and since cold air falls.
it crashes into warm air as a steep wall.
Creating short but violent storms.
Thunder, lightning, and heavy rain are the norm.
Thankfully these last for only a short time, but can be quite dangerous for those caught
in their grind.
On Stationary fronts, masses seem to abide.
Warm and Cold air seem to stand side by side.
When cold air and warm push each-other with equal force, a stationary front forms as a
matter of course.
Cloudy weather forms and some rain and snow, but once the balance shifts another front
starts to go.
Precipitation, water falling from the sky, is common along these fronts.
When moisture from warm air, the cold air shunts.
The cold air can't hold the vapor so it goes, condensing into water that is ejected, and
from the air and flows.
It moves though air in the form of clouds, and can take various forms along its way to
the ground.
If the air is near freezing it can fall as hail sleet or snow, but if the air is too
warm, only rain is sowed.
With or without pegasi this cycle appears to be maintained, which is why i believe it
should be explained.
In the Chrystal empire the weather is untamed, no weather pony could stop its foul reign.
Even the princesses, strong as they are, failed their efforts to properly bar.
And so the Crystal Empire would have been consumed by ice, if not for the repair of
a certain device.
The Crystal heart by itself can hold back the cold, but precisely how it works is something
I haven't been told.
I only know its powered by crystal pony joy, but I must speculate on how that power is
employed.
I believe the crystal heart use's its power to maintain a warm air mass, one robust enough
so that no cold front may pass.
With this mass the heart holds a stationary front, one that no cold air can conceivably
stunt.
It generates and holds a small pocket of heat, a place where crystal ponies can safely retreat.
At least so long as the heart is intact, but a cry from an alicorn babe can change that.
The moment the heart broke the stationary front collapsed, causing cold air to close
in fast.
But the type of front formed when the crystal heart broke, is likely a type about which
i haven't spoke.
Occluded fronts form when warm air is pushed high, by two colder masses lower in the sky.
This usually a occurs when one front runs into another's rear, and the weather produced
around these fronts can be severe.
When cold, warm, and cool air meet, an occluded front forms and its a special treat.
Cold air pushing into the cool air low on the ground, with warm air above hovering above
and around.
Creating unpredictable weather patterns and storms, that can deviate extremely far from
the norm.
Heavy rain, wind, and thunderstorms are common to see, but these are far from the worst possibility.
Occluded fronts have been known to make, cold core funnel clouds from which tornadoes take.
Once the Crystal heart stopped bringing the heat, the warm air would rise quickly leaving
cooler air in its seat.
Meanwhile cold air pushes in from the outside, and the weather formed from these masses should
be despised.
Since the warm air has stayed so for years on end, and the cold air has stayed frigid
since the empire re-began.
I believe the occluded front was of the appropriate strength, to form ice-nados that through the
city could snake.
// If not for the princesses buying time, In
these twisters the townsfolk could have been en-twined.
Of course while the princesses's resistance was fair, they couldn't stop the drying of
the air.
At occluded fronts the air significantly drys, and combined with low temperatures ice, snow,
and hail forms before our eyes.
In the case of the Crystal empire , there was so much ice and snowfall, that the townsfolk
were cut-off with no escape at all.
Beyond repairing the Crystal heart the ponies only hope, was hunkering down in the palace
until the storm broke.
I'd choose the palace because its sufficiently high, to ensure the crowd won't get trapped
as the snow piles climb to the sky.
Fortunately the Crystal heart was repaired, and the empires citizen's by the end had little
need to be scared.
But the survival of the empire is balanced on a knife.
Should the heart stay broken its end is in sight.
Watching the crystal ponies live their lives, reminds me of all creatures who live below
the waterline.
Like a levy to the ocean, the Crystal heart holds back the cold.
I pray that it stays protected so that the empire may grow old.
But to you this information is likely old hat.
Aside from the meteorology, these conclusions have sat.
Laid out for all to see for years, but there is more about the crystal heart to which our
thoughts can be steered.
First on other ways such a powerful artifact can be applied.
Its vast utility cannot be denied.
An artifact such as the Crystal heart, give ponies the ability to select their weather
a la carte.
Pegasi have control of the moisture in the air.
They can manipulate clouds and shift the rains to here and there,
but in order to do this great resources are required.
Complex Machinery, coordination, and large amounts wing power must be sired.
They may move the clouds that bring the snow, but winter is coming regardless how slow.
Temperature appears to be beyond a pegasi's pail, they can move the waters, but when it
comes to heating air, fail.
Only with coordination with the celestial powers, can the temperature be regulated and
the seasons flour The Crystal heart by comparison seems simple
to use.
To work, joy need only be infused.
And while pegasi control moisture in the air, and the princesses the movement of celestial
spheres.
the crystal heart directly controls the temp, and with it the creation of no weather pattern
is exempt
The ability to control the temperature and moisture of the air mass, give Ponies near
complete control of the weather and with it no foe could pass.
Generals and Strategists have dreamed and have actually tried to influence the heavens
along with the earth upon which they fight.
Most just took advantage of weather patterns that exist, and there are plenty of examples
of this.
Cloaking an army in the cover of a storm, waiting for a gale to create a natural ford,
Carefully deploying sailing ships upwind, and allowing typhoons to destroy enemy fleets
out of season.
Generals have literally prayed to ensure the weather would be with them on their campaigns,
but ponies need not pray, for they would know, exactly what the weather would show.
Using Pegasi and the Crystal heart, ponies could precisely control the weather they impart.
In the case of the Crystal ponies up in the north the crystal heart alone would be a fitting
retort.
By regularly changing the hearts power and range a constant blizzard around the empire
could be amplified and maintained.
The enemy lines would be frigid and pelted with ice.
While Imperial troops could languish in weather that was nice.
Their foe's supply and communication lines would be cut or strained.
The strong blizzard grounding any flyers or planes.
Any soldiers fighting the empire would stay in a frozen hell, only broken by the occasional
dry air spells.
Of course these would likely be accompanied by attacks.
Crystal pony troops would be fresh, but most foes would immediately crash.
Fleeing back to the lands from which they came, bemoaning another war general winter
has claimed.
The only possible force that could sustain such an attack would easily have to be the
yaks, Their bodies have a natural resistance to
cold, live in the mountains, and still act extremely bold,
but even they have been seen overwhelmed by snow, and current projections suggest their
numbers are too low.
Should any force decide to invade the empire, the Crystal ponies could ensure that it would
backfire.
So far most of this has been up and up for the pones, so long as their barrier stays
up they could rarely be owned, but this like all things come at a cost, for
the ponies gain is another's loss.
For 1000 years the Crystal empire had been erased, No crystal pony could be seen or found
in this space.
1000 years is a lot of time for something else to move in, tundra aside.
What appears to be an empty desolate waste, to others could be a thriving settling place.
Assuming no magical creatures had set up shop, there are other more mundane animals that
could have lived on this plot.
Reindeer, caribou, moose, bears, lemmings, foxes, wolves, owls, and hairs.
And this assumes no other species had emerged, evolved specifically to the land on which
the crystal empire returned.
All abruptly pushed to the side, once the crystal empire re-appeared to equestrian eyes.
To add further injury to injury on stationary fronts where cold air and warm constantly
bunt.
Regular snowfall and blizzards could be expected to form.
Harsh weather comes to places where cold and warm air are at war.
Further accelerating the destruction of habitat, forcing nearby flora and fauna to fall further
back.
But these problems are only local in scale, There also may be regional and global implications
entailed.
A permanent mass of warm air sitting this far north would likely throw a wrench in the
work of any climactic conditions found, before the crystal empire popped up out of the ground.
During the 1000 years without the crystal heart, wind could flow easily through these
parts.
Aside from the buildings the terrain looks flat, winds and fronts of air could move through
without a spat.
Such a large obstruction blocking or instantly warming those winds, could cause immense changes
to the weather within.
The possible changes in climate are above my pay-grade to find , and data i can't get
would be need to be defined.
But i would be remiss, if i skipped the opportunity to reflect on this.
The effect created by such a large pocket of warm air, sounds similar to how the climate
of large cities is impaired.
The effect is formally known as the Urban Heat Isle, describes how urban areas are warmer
than more rural domiciles.
The cause is slightly different in this case, but i believe the effects are about the same
for each place.
For most cities its caused by the accumulation of heat, on surfaces like asphalt, metal , and
concrete.
The crystal empire has only the crystal heart to blame, but the effects largely remain the
same.
Urban heat isles create more storms and rainfall down wind, as the moisture in the warm air
washes into colder regions.
Should the heart let any moisture or warm air escape, down wind of the empire more storms
would take.
Unfortunately the increased rainfall, likely turned into snow, could probably hurt nearby
nations we know.
With this information would it be wrong to propose, that the snowfall that buried the
Yaks was in part caused by the crystal pones.
Of course other effects of the Urban heat isle don't apply, Crystal Ponies in the empire
don't have the tech to pollute the water and sky.
And some effects of the isle are positive still, it lengthens the growing season so
more crops could be tilled.
Of course this only helps the ponies inside, beyond the crystal hearts, barrier crops would
still likely die.
But take heart, actual heart not one made of stone.
For i'm not here to denigrate the crystal ponies and their home.
Though their ingenuity they manage to survive, in an environment too extreme for most ponies
to stay alive.
Far from succumbing to pressures without, they manage to shine with their joy harnessed
to keep the cold out.
Even if a few animals may have been displaced, I believe something greater may have been
put in their place.
The climate effects require more years of study to define, and if they are true the
empire can respond in kind.
Weather ponies could be dispatched to help handle the threat, or the heart itself could
be edited to protect, not just ponies, but yaks and wildlife as well.
Changes in climate need not be death knells.
Assuming any of these threats even exist.
This is my speculation so none may persist.
Perhaps my paranoid mind has once again been caught, presenting another demented thought.