The Stable

I am Hud, i.e. H.U.D., Heads Up Display if you want to be fancy schmancy and correct? I am the Pony who integrated the HUD into the Buck design in the first place. I am not a Technician, technically speaking. I just develop and maintain this special feature into the larger design.

In the stable, we don’t have any helmets or such fancy gadgets and gear. We wear regular street wear and nothing more. This stable is safe and is maintaining a moderate temperature. We only wear clothes for fun and at work.

The HUD of which I am speaking, is integrated into the circuitry of the Buck and gives every Pony the options to see various aspects of the environment around us. I can choose to see the circuits of the Buck on which I am working; the heat in the room, or whatever I can make the Buck see with the built-in sensors and aided by the spell matrix. Pretty neat and quite useful; but you don’t have to take my word for it, just ask any Pony around or check it out for yourself to know what I mean.

Like the rest of the developers, I live in the developers wing of the facility. I am close to my work space, saving me valuable time. Why spend more time of my day, just to go to and fro work? I have better things to spend my time on. Then again, who doesn’t?

If and when I want to walk, or in general have a nice exercise; I go to the exercise floor, where I can do all the exercises I want until my tongue falls out. I do go there, from time to time, a few times each week, as a matter of fact. I do enjoy staying fit and alert, like every other Pony.

I wear my Starlight Pip-buck on my right fore-leg, just above the hoof. Technically speaking, I do not wear it; since it is integrated in my leg, in the fashion of a cybernetic implant. I was born with it, like every other pony in the stable.

At work, I wear a harness, with capacity to hold all my work gear and tools. I only put that on, as I get to work, then I take it of as I leave.

Considering how this is Starlight’s stable, we really don’t need to wear anything. It is never warm, or cold it never rain and is never dry. I have nothing to hide, more than I have anything else I need to show of. It is all in the principles of the philosophy Starlight, the founder of our village thought out before the war even broke out. She brought everything with us, down here.

One thing changed, in the implementation of the buck; it fused to us, holding everything we are and will ever be within the circuitry. I can remember everything with perfect clarity. I never need to worry about forgetting; because the buck remembers it all for me. It is as if I had a portable library with me everywhere I go.

I made one small improvement upon the device, nothing more. Nothing I take pride or shame in. It is my work and who I am. My contribution to our community. Nothing more, and nothing less.

Okay, I am a Pony; not a tool or something like that. All work, and no fun is not my deal. Our founder; Starlight Glimmer never asked that of me anyway. If she never asked that of me, why would I be foolish enough to strive for it? It is no life for a Pony, never to have a moment to herself.

While I may still love my work, I am still just as happy to slip out of my harness and step out of my work-space. Once my hours at work is over, I am happily trotting home.

I love hanging out with my friends, and even the once not working with the development of the buck. Why limit myself, when I have no reason; good, bad or otherwise?

I enjoy going to sugar Belle’s, and grab myself something sweet and yummy to eat. Of course, most of us enjoy going to her place, chewing down one of her fresh confectioneries.

Every once in a while, there is a party, at which Party Favour is entertaining the crowd; even if the little fillies and colts, may be the once most enjoying this. Sugar Belle will also bake the festivity foods and serve us. Unless it is her we are celebrating.

Something I have found a special joy in, is to explore the caves; while I am using the HUD, to see my environment. I did this even before I had developed the system, but it is so much more fun, with the actual HUD in play. The old Eyes forwards Sparkle is no match for the HUD.

I usually start from the gate, enjoying the sensations of the mark of Double diamond. Even if I have no idea, as to how this looks to the Zebras who will eventually find our village and the cave in which we are now residing.

Zebras, what are those? I have no idea, mainly because I have no need of knowing. Maybe I could ask another pony, who lived in the open before the war. Maybe I could even ask Pinkie Pie? I could, but why bother?

From the entrance, I follow a tunnel to where it will inevitably take me. I am taking virtual notes of everything I see, and if something important is found; I will report it to the Over-mare, leaving it in her capable hooves to deal with it.