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// Prologue 
// Story: New Cloudsdale 
// by KenSES64 
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        										Prologue

It has been approximately 200 years since the return of the Crystal Empire. Equestria has grown both in size and technology. With it’s growth, many new towns and cities have been settled. One of these new cities goes by the name New Cloudsdale.

New Cloudsdale is a rather large city in the clouds above the ocean not too far from Manehattan. The city itself has an estimated population of a little over 1.5 million inhabitants, of many different species. Speaking of which, Equestria’s citizens have changed a bit as well. As there’ve been more non-pony residents, and terms like “everypony” or “anypony” are now considered to be politically incorrect.

One thing that may be surprising is that even though this is a cloud city, not all of the beings living there are able to fly. One new piece of technology that has been invented in recent years are the Cloud Boots. Cloud Boots are neat little metal shoes powered by magically gems known as spirit stones, created and manufactured by Screwball Industries. These boots allow whoever wears them to walk on clouds, as one might expect from the name.

The city of New Cloudsdale is also known for many of it’s famous sites. From it’s statue of it’s founder, a pegasus pony named Nimbus Cloud, it’s sports stadium where they’ve hosted the Equestrian Games a few years ago, and it has one of the biggest weather factories in all of the world.

In this weather factory that worked a certain pegasus stallion. This pegasus stallion in question may not know it yet, but his life is about to take an unexpected turn when he finds out a secret about the criminal underworld of the city.

This pegasus is a young engineer named Steam Valve.