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// Introduction 
// Story: Fallout Equestria: Old World Dreams 
// by KDarkwater 
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Fallout: Equestria
Old World Dreams
By K. Darkwater







Fallout: Equestria concept by Kkat.
My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic © Hasbro, Inc. and created by Lauren Faust.
Fallout series © Bethesda Softworks.















War.  War never changes.

Ponies have struggled for survival since the first days of known history, when unicorns, pegasi, and earth ponies lived apart in uneasy alliances of convenience.  The unicorns, with their magic, brought about night and day.  The pegasus ponies, with their wings, brought about the weather.  The earth ponies, with their hooves and earthly knowledge, brought about sustenance.  Their differences were many, their struggles long and bitter, eventually rendering their homelands inhabitable.  Forced to resettle elsewhere, their reunion in a new land was, as expected, unpleasant.  But the disaster that claimed their homelands crept behind them, forcing them to acknowledge the futility of their infighting.  They sought to reach out, to mend ties which they had neglected, and newfound bonds of friendship defeated the coming storm.

To honor the strength of their new ties, the tribes named their new home Equestria, and spread out across its vast, fertile fields and forests, settling new villages and re-establishing the status quo in a symbiotic circle of self-nourishment and replenishment.  In time, two alicorn sisters would come to lead their little ponies, overthrowing an ancient force of discord to ensure their kind could prosper.  Peace and harmony reigned across Equestria for many centuries.

In these new lands lived other races—griffons, zebras, dragons, and others untold, lost to the stoic, unforgiving passage of the eons.  History, as always, was doomed to repeat itself, and so it was that new differences between the ponies and their neighbors led to the destruction of much of the world, burned in a hail of megaspells and balefire in a total war never before seen by ponykind.

In those dark hours, when distrust and chaos destroyed harmony and balance, those who could took shelter from the destruction in great underground Stables.  And when the danger passed, they were to emerge to begin anew, to avoid the mistakes of their ancestors and build a new home from the ashes of Equestria That Was.

But Stable 115, built in the verdant prairie lands at the edge of Equestria, never received the signal from Stable-Tec to begin their exodus, and in the chaos of the Last Day, their communications with the outside world were hopelessly crippled.  Thus, each generation a scout is chosen from amongst their numbers to venture out into the world, to discover Equestria’s fate…and its potential future.

None have ever returned.