From the Dust

by Platinum Jack

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I, am Quicksilver, a hardware engineer for Stable-224 and if anyone is reading this, then i am already dead and you are reading this text file found on my pipbuck. It is mandatory for all personnel in the stable to keep a journal so that their behavior and thoughts can be cataloged and studied, though I am not entirely sure why we have to do this. My story starts off in the grey halls of what i will forever think of as my true home, stable-224, and everything that happens within the stable in the next 24 hours will ultimately lead to my life being changed forever.

Now, since i know that some out in the wastes can't even fucking read at all, i'd assume even fewer know the history of our world, what the stables are, what pipbucks are, well, you must know what they are to have found this file but I'm still just gonna run through it all first. It was over 200 years ago that the balefire of the megaspells burned our world to dust, killing millions in it's wake. The stables were hundreds of bunkers built to house ponies so that when the apocalypse did happen, some would survive. The pipbuck is a small wrist mounted computer all who live in my Stable are given in when they get their cutie mark.

The pipbuck can do a shitload of things, from holding text files to being able to pick up radio signals, and also giving the wearer an edge in combat using systems the military saw as cutting edge during the great war, like being able to detect life and being able to tell what kind of possible intent they would have on the wearer. The pipbuck also has a system called S.A.T.S, Stable-Tech Advanced Targeting System, using spells that slow time, light up the target, and give you the statistics on your accuracy if you were to target a certain body part of the target, like the head or the leg and that kind of shit, which was pretty useful, but since we never fought anyone in the stable these functions were never used.

So that's basically it, i think it's best if we skip al lthe boring stuff, and start off from where shit went wrong.

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