Fallout Equestria: Gun Trotters

Cloudsdale.

The capital of the pegasi, and the largest weather factory in Equestria.

Gone. Like the city was never built.

The first of many Equestrian targets for Zebra megaspells deployed on the Last Day.

After Cloudsdale was vaporized, the festering thoughts of pegasus isolationism came to a head, and they turned their backs on the world being ravaged with balefire…

…Eventually resulting in the formation of the Grand Pegasus Enclave.

Closing off the clouds from the now-broken surface was met with overwhelming praise…save for one pegasus.

After Rainbow Dash rebelled and returned to the surface, the Enclave called for her head and labeled anypony else who tried following her as Dashites — traitors to the Enclave, who had to live in exile in the Wasteland with their identities tarnished by their namesake: A branding of the Ministry Mare’s cutie mark over their own.

Two hundred years have passed since the Last Day, and the Enclave still maintains a thick layer of cloud cover over the Equestrian Wasteland. Its fleets of cloudships and powered armor, though still airworthy and a threat, are showing their age and require increasing care to stay in service. The pillaging of installations above the clouds, alongside conflicts with griffons over their territory and resources, have partially solved this, even giving science/intelligence divisions opportunities for advancements in armor, weaponry, and several experimental projects.

That being said, the pegasus population is still strictly controlled due to limited production of food. Additionally, cracks in the image the Enclave works so hard to maintain are starting to show, despite the crackdowns on dissent and the magnitude of punishment following conviction.

If these issues aren’t addressed soon, more pegasi may start to question the status quo and possibly form a rival to the Enclave, posing a threat to it and the security it provides for the ponies above the clouds.

Just like how the zebras struck first, and wiped out Cloudsdale.

Because war…war never changes.