A unicorn commando from the war survives the Last Day and finds herself magically transported to one hundred and seventy years later. Her new life in the wasteland is filled with old friends, old monsters, and old villains. Because War Never Changes.
The Rust Rebels must be the Echoes equivalent of the Rust Devils if I had to guess, so, do they also have the brains to use robots or not? Or are they just gonna send half-naked ponies armed with baseball bats and switchblades infront of fully-automatic .45 fire?
8768168 You'll find out soon, but they only reference Rust Devils in name. In reality, they're a lot more like gunners, but they are not raiders. Everypony makes the distinction between bandits and raiders, and it's an important one. Bandits you can pay off or even hire. You might even walk into their camp and sell stuff.
Raider just kill you. Always kill you. Never not killing you.
8768399 Ah, really nice to know we get to see a more in-depth look at 'enemy' factions, unlike other fanfictions or games where they are just cannon-fodder for the bad guys or reskinned/rewritten raiders.
>Cashew wouldn't let up. “Hiding behind a good deed does nothing. You executed those ponies without a second thought.”
“Killin' raiders?” Dust snapped a bitter laugh. “Sounds fine to me when I say it like that.”
Cashew's glare did it's best to shoot me. “They were prisoners! And that colt-
I stopped. Pouring magic into a spell, the overglow on my horn lit us up light a beacon in the early night. “Rapists and murderers!” I spent the energy, the healing glow covering the floating mare's entire body. “Kill them, or leave them be! Those are my options. I can’t imprison anypony; there isn’t a prison to put them in. Anypony with a gun is the law, isn’t that the way things are here? I killed them, on the spot, and if I hadn’t they might be hunting us down even now.”
Her jaw clenched tight. “All ponies deserve a chance.” It was frustrating that we saw so close to eye to eye, but she just didn't understand my rage. If only things hadn't ended up this way.
Oi, really? Those steelmuzzles done worse. Eh, idealists.
>you you’re barding your
It's like you're using tts.
>“The Rust Rebels inhabit the Ironshod Armory. We Steel Rangers have been trying to take it for months, but the gangers have managed to jury rig enough of the facility to produce basic firearms and ammunition. We need the facility operational, but we don't have the equipment or training to take on that many ponies without laying waste to the facility.”
I smiled. “You need someone who can kill without heavy ordnance. You can't just swap out rocket launchers for machine guns? I know ranger armor is capable of that.”
Cashew shrugged and shook her head. “Then we run into the other problem; there are a lot of Rust Rebels. We don't have the numbers to assault them on equal hoofing like that. We've been fighting them openly to thin the herd, but their numbers don't go down, while we can't replace our losses.” If they produce BASIC firearms, not those beastly antitech rifles Srs should be fine and dandy since their armor were basically pony-sized personal tanks, especially with repairing talismans built in, non? Oh, well...
Oookay, memory orb. It was nice, my definition of “nice”, BUT! You DEFINITELY should mark memory as well as memory orbs episodes with something like italic or anything else, otherwise it's a pain to understand and concentrate properly.
>I frowned. “What- no, I don’t use it for that. Thank you, though, for you assistance. I promise it won’t be long before I visit Tower.” Where did Tower came from? I could logically assume that this is the place where Moondancer dwells, but it wasn't mentioned at all in bot this and previous chapters.
>Mustang would have had a replacement. Would have had?
Well... too much, too fast. I'm not talking about how convenient it was for Rrs to grab the sword right before or for Cashew change her opinion in a matter of a day, but, eh. Too much, too fast. Otherwise? Well, it's okay, even if I sometimes find it difficult to believe on how fast her magical reserves replenish themselves.
8835610 Steelmuzzles - That's exactly why she's so upset about it. There's a lot going on with the Steel Rangers around here, and Cashew is trying to make it better.
TTS - ...What's that? Text to speech? No, I'm just the only one editing at this point, and sometimes I miss things.
Rust Rebels - They have AP rounds, and not just for their guns, but for the same turrets the Steel Rangers had set up in the first place. Of course, then you might wonder how they took it if the Rangers had emplacements to defend it. That question does get answered. Also, a repair talisman doesn't help if the bullet that pierced the armor killed the pony inside, and from what I've learned about what happens when rounds penetrate the armor of actual tanks that basically means they die almost every single time.
Memories - Was this a hindsight on the previous memories as well? Hmm, I try to make it very obvious within a line or two that the scene has changed to a memory because I don't want large sections of text in italics or anything else. I could do a mini chapter title... idk.
Tower - That is a result of the same change that cause the Acolyte mistake from before. Originally, Dust met Ruby before she reached Station.
Would have had - slightly awkward but entirely correct. Like when I had had a coffee. It means you did have but don't now.
Too fast - Convenient. Yes. Very. Wink. Cashew personally wanted nothing more to do with Ruby, but her understanding of her duties as a Ranger overrode that when she had time to think about it. She knows that Ruby is powerful and can help the Rangers get back what they've lost. She also knows that Ruby is valuable to her faction because of her knowledge of pre-war anything.
I like to think of magical energy like a muscle. You exercise it and it will grow stronger. The difference between a pony who hardly uses magic (Littlepip at the beginning of FoE) to a pony who uses it all the time (Littlepip at the end of FoE) is quite large. All of the Battlemages spent ten years nearly exhausting their magical reserves multiple times a week. Think of them as Olympic Athletes of magic. I guess I need to explain that in the story, but I haven't seen a good spot to do that, yet.
“I think you're right to do that.” I blinked and looked at her. She was avoiding my eyes but I could still see something in her pained face that had my attention. “The rangers... we need somepony to show us how foolish we are. Everything Dust said is right. We've become no better than raiders.”
That's gotta be a first for both the game series version of the brotherhood and equestria's. Quite interesting.
as a fan of fallout I can say one thing:
Fallout: Equestria is stupid
The Rust Rebels must be the Echoes equivalent of the Rust Devils if I had to guess, so, do they also have the brains to use robots or not? Or are they just gonna send half-naked ponies armed with baseball bats and switchblades infront of fully-automatic .45 fire?
8768168
You'll find out soon, but they only reference Rust Devils in name. In reality, they're a lot more like gunners, but they are not raiders. Everypony makes the distinction between bandits and raiders, and it's an important one. Bandits you can pay off or even hire. You might even walk into their camp and sell stuff.
Raider just kill you. Always kill you. Never not killing you.
8768399
Ah, really nice to know we get to see a more in-depth look at 'enemy' factions, unlike other fanfictions or games where they are just cannon-fodder for the bad guys or reskinned/rewritten raiders.
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And a few other things... before and after killing you
>Cashew wouldn't let up. “Hiding behind a good deed does nothing. You executed those ponies without a second thought.”
“Killin' raiders?” Dust snapped a bitter laugh. “Sounds fine to me when I say it like that.”
Cashew's glare did it's best to shoot me. “They were prisoners! And that colt-
I stopped. Pouring magic into a spell, the overglow on my horn lit us up light a beacon in the early night. “Rapists and murderers!” I spent the energy, the healing glow covering the floating mare's entire body. “Kill them, or leave them be! Those are my options. I can’t imprison anypony; there isn’t a prison to put them in. Anypony with a gun is the law, isn’t that the way things are here? I killed them, on the spot, and if I hadn’t they might be hunting us down even now.”
Her jaw clenched tight. “All ponies deserve a chance.” It was frustrating that we saw so close to eye to eye, but she just didn't understand my rage. If only things hadn't ended up this way.
Oi, really? Those steelmuzzles done worse. Eh, idealists.
>you you’re barding
your
It's like you're using tts.
>“The Rust Rebels inhabit the Ironshod Armory. We Steel Rangers have been trying to take it for months, but the gangers have managed to jury rig enough of the facility to produce basic firearms and ammunition. We need the facility operational, but we don't have the equipment or training to take on that many ponies without laying waste to the facility.”
I smiled. “You need someone who can kill without heavy ordnance. You can't just swap out rocket launchers for machine guns? I know ranger armor is capable of that.”
Cashew shrugged and shook her head. “Then we run into the other problem; there are a lot of Rust Rebels. We don't have the numbers to assault them on equal hoofing like that. We've been fighting them openly to thin the herd, but their numbers don't go down, while we can't replace our losses.”
If they produce BASIC firearms, not those beastly antitech rifles Srs should be fine and dandy since their armor were basically pony-sized personal tanks, especially with repairing talismans built in, non? Oh, well...
Oookay, memory orb. It was nice, my definition of “nice”, BUT! You DEFINITELY should mark memory as well as memory orbs episodes with something like italic or anything else, otherwise it's a pain to understand and concentrate properly.
>I frowned. “What- no, I don’t use it for that. Thank you, though, for you assistance. I promise it won’t be long before I visit Tower.”
Where did Tower came from? I could logically assume that this is the place where Moondancer dwells, but it wasn't mentioned at all in bot this and previous chapters.
>Mustang would have had a replacement.
Would have had?
Well... too much, too fast. I'm not talking about how convenient it was for Rrs to grab the sword right before or for Cashew change her opinion in a matter of a day, but, eh. Too much, too fast. Otherwise? Well, it's okay, even if I sometimes find it difficult to believe on how fast her magical reserves replenish themselves.
8835610
Steelmuzzles - That's exactly why she's so upset about it. There's a lot going on with the Steel Rangers around here, and Cashew is trying to make it better.
TTS - ...What's that? Text to speech? No, I'm just the only one editing at this point, and sometimes I miss things.
Rust Rebels - They have AP rounds, and not just for their guns, but for the same turrets the Steel Rangers had set up in the first place. Of course, then you might wonder how they took it if the Rangers had emplacements to defend it. That question does get answered.
Also, a repair talisman doesn't help if the bullet that pierced the armor killed the pony inside, and from what I've learned about what happens when rounds penetrate the armor of actual tanks that basically means they die almost every single time.
Memories - Was this a hindsight on the previous memories as well? Hmm, I try to make it very obvious within a line or two that the scene has changed to a memory because I don't want large sections of text in italics or anything else. I could do a mini chapter title... idk.
Tower - That is a result of the same change that cause the Acolyte mistake from before. Originally, Dust met Ruby before she reached Station.
Would have had - slightly awkward but entirely correct. Like when I had had a coffee. It means you did have but don't now.
Too fast - Convenient. Yes. Very. Wink.
Cashew personally wanted nothing more to do with Ruby, but her understanding of her duties as a Ranger overrode that when she had time to think about it. She knows that Ruby is powerful and can help the Rangers get back what they've lost. She also knows that Ruby is valuable to her faction because of her knowledge of pre-war anything.
I like to think of magical energy like a muscle. You exercise it and it will grow stronger. The difference between a pony who hardly uses magic (Littlepip at the beginning of FoE) to a pony who uses it all the time (Littlepip at the end of FoE) is quite large. All of the Battlemages spent ten years nearly exhausting their magical reserves multiple times a week. Think of them as Olympic Athletes of magic.
I guess I need to explain that in the story, but I haven't seen a good spot to do that, yet.
Well that's different
That's gotta be a first for both the game series version of the brotherhood and equestria's. Quite interesting.
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