Fallout Equestria: Mindscape

There was a time in the land of Equestria.

There was peace, there were happy families who lived together, foals played in the streets and the worst a pony had to fear was the day to day interactions. Ponies died at old ages surrounded by happy ponies who loved them. There were many ponies in these days.

There were many, many happy families, all with needs, emothions, feelings, and wants. With wants come happiness and disappointments, disappointments give way to anger, anger leads to hate, and hate.

Hate leads to war.

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There was a time in the land of Zebrica.

There was peace, this peace was tenuous. There were many predators that roamed the land and devoured whatever they could find. Fear was a prominent feature in the daily lives of the zebras that lived there.

Fear breeds adrenaline, fear fuels survival, survival fuels innovation,innovation breeds plenty, plenty gives way to greed, greed gives way to selfishness, selfishness hurts those you love, hurting those you love leads to sorrow, leads to fear, and fear.

Fear leads to suffering.

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There was once a race of proud predators who once lived on the open seas. These creatures called themselves griffins.

These griffins lived on small eyries that barely supported themselves against the rough waves of the seas. They could only roam so far from their homes for food, and eventually the food learned to avoid the eyries.

Food became sparse, they built. They built ships. These ships were only small things but once they learned, they built the greatest designs for travel, they built galleys, galleons, men of war, they built trade ships, and they became masters of the seas. Food was no longer a problem, they entered a time where no griffin wanted for food, but soon they discovered that they weren't the only beings to have discovered sea travel.

This other race held valuables, jewels, silver and gold, the likes of which the griffins had ever seen. The griffins took these with ease, and sold them to their bretheren. The others wanted more.

The demand overcame the supply, so they stole more and more. The griffins became tyrannical rulers of the seas. They became pirates.

They pillaged and plundered, pillaging and plundering led to raids, raids lead to sieges, sieges led to war, and war.

War never changes.