Spring 1948. The world has changed.
The wars were over, but still they weren’t. We no longer have any nations that can wage wars against each other, now only raiders and remains of societies fought for survival. With the fall of the axis the allies and soviet fell upon each other to gain new grounds. The war they waged against each other was more brutal and horrible than that of Hitler and Discord. It quickly turned to an all-out nuclear war, and they made sure to leave no major cities alive. With the heightened need of resources both the soviets and the allies brought other minor countries into their fold, willing or not. Many survived the nuclear holocaust, but the radiation killed of even more. Sometime in late ’46 I heard someone saying that only ten or twenty percent of the entire world’s population was still alive.
The war did not just affect us of course, but the pony population as well. The royal Alicorns already doubted in humanity since the First World War, but knowing that the second one wasn’t our fault, with Discord working behind the scenes with Hitler, they stayed neutral. They did of course do their best to stop Discord, but they also made sure not to get their nation dragged into the war. The Equestrian Monarchy was a rich nation situated up north, on what we today call Greenland. There are almost no traces of it now, not since the Great Bang in early ‘47.
Greenland got its name from actually being green. But when the Alicorns knew there was no more hope for this planet, they summoned a great spell. The spell, which we call the Great Bang, took away all of the wonders of their nation. The great forests, the mountains, the towns and cities, it all disappeared. The spell they summoned could be heard as a loud bang all over the world. From the stories I have heard, the spell was meant to give them a new start somewhere else. I’m not aware if they succeeded or not, but when they left our world fell into darkness. The old lands which they came from turned cold and inhabitable.
They had been dragged into the war though. Two weeks before they left someone blew up a nuke close to their capital. As no one could be found being guilty the Allies got the blame for it, the bomb originating from America. The Alicorns hated humans now, and the few that lived in Greenland was thrown out or killed. Both the allies and the Soviets wanted the rich resources of Greenland and soon several more nukes fell over innocent cities, both on Greenland and nations close by. It is speculated that by now the strongest Alicorns saw no other way than to give their life in order to summon the great bang.
I live in a surviving society up north, in what used to be Sweden. We are some fifty persons here, and we are happily without any radiation poisoning. Sweden got hit by several nukes, but we survived in far away from the burning cities. We hope that by examining the remains of Greenland and the few magic entities that didn’t disappear with the Alicorns that we will find out where they went. We need them more than could be thought. We have quite a camp, weapons and traps, and still its not safe.
Radiation poisoning not only kill, but it mutates. Mutant people and animals have made the wilderness deadly. Raiding gangs that doesn’t care about anything but themselves kill without having a second thought. Our planet is lost, there is no way any nation will rise again, or humanity as well. We need to find the Equestrians to have any chance of survival.
