Oh hell yeah I really liked the original even if it was a bit uh 'verbose' sometimes. Definitely gonna give this a whirl

Man, feel bad for having took this long to resume reading this. Apologies for that. Overall a rather chill chapter meant to establish Perigee's character. I rather enjoyed just how emotionally mature everyone was taking over Perigee's trauma, rather than having the characters flail and only make each other worse.

Really reminds me of something my editor said about the setting: In a lot of post-apoc stories, there is a resource that is sparse yet desired. In Mad Max it's gas or water. In Waterworld it's land. In Snowpiercer it's warmth and space.

In Fallout: Equestria... it's friendship. Healthy relationships are a sparse thing in the wasteland: without them, a pony could be doomed to be consumed by the wasteland itself. The fact that Ministry Mares during the war abandoned the concept of friendship (alongside other ponies) in favor of a harsh, utilitarian 'necessary evil'.

And so far from what I read about this story, the theme is mainly about the faith put into being a good person and a good friend being far more powerful and fruitful, over a faith in draconian ways of life that some ponies are convinced are the only way to live.

In other words, as Hbomber put it in his Transformers the Movie review: the theme is to dare to be stupid.