[Fallout Equestria] Setting discussions

RoboRed wrote:Related, posted this morning: http://jalopnik.com/the-ten-largest-ships-ever-conceived-476070485

O. Hinds wrote:

Harmony Ltd. wrote:

O. Hinds wrote:(The name "Elusive" isn't mine, just to be clear; I found it being used for R63 Rarity somewhere else.)

That was what I was pointing out.

O. Hinds wrote:...I hadn't thought of it like that, but I suppose that there are similarities, yeah. Interesting.
Oh, random: I think that Elusive City's mass transit system is an urbanaut-style monorail. I also seem to recall that my latest detailed thoughts about this city had it being roughly crescent-shaped. I had a pretty fun time researching floating structures for its non-seaplane/amphibian new airport.

Well, first thing first... Is it a fleet of ships, a single monolithic structure, or a mix between the two ?

A mix. It started out as just ships anchored near each other. Once enough industry was available (factories in Masozi and raw materials from the earliest days of the recolonization), the ships were moved right next to each other and linked close together with flexible connectors (sort of like the Raft from Snow Crash but more high-tech and less run-down). More and more ships have been added over time, and the connections between them have become increasingly complex (including the aforementioned mass transit system). Purpose-built structures have also been added, particularly for handling traffic in and out of the city (the new dry airport is one very large floating platform).

Regarding the pictures you posted, I suppose that parts of the city might look something like that. There's not much housing up on the top decks, though; the city tries to produce as much food as possible on-site.

O. Hinds wrote:To anyone who's interested, WovenTales's SPP map is finished (version 1.0, at least) and linked in my signature.

Oh, CamoBadger, there's a tower in what might be the are of ATR. You can probably get away with ignoring it and still not eliminate the possibility that it exists in the world of ATR, but I thought that you might want to know.

CamoBadger wrote:

O. Hinds wrote:To anyone who's interested, WovenTales's SPP map is finished (version 1.0, at least) and linked in my signature.

Oh, CamoBadger, there's a tower in what might be the are of ATR. You can probably get away with ignoring it and still not eliminate the possibility that it exists in the world of ATR, but I thought that you might want to know.

Oh, sweet! It's a little far to be seen in ATR most likely, but it's still good to know!

O. Hinds wrote:

CamoBadger wrote:

O. Hinds wrote:To anyone who's interested, WovenTales's SPP map is finished (version 1.0, at least) and linked in my signature.

Oh, CamoBadger, there's a tower in what might be the are of ATR. You can probably get away with ignoring it and still not eliminate the possibility that it exists in the world of ATR, but I thought that you might want to know.

Oh, sweet! It's a little far to be seen in ATR most likely, but it's still good to know!

Ah, nice; from the sound of it, you've found it to be just the right distance away: close enough to be included if you want but far enough to be plausibly left out if you don't.

https://cloudsville.rpg-board.net/t973p390-official-project-horizons-comment-crew-chat-thread#162800

TL;WR

(you bet your fucking -ass- you will)

Harmony Ltd. wrote:Oh, and feel free to do so. It's probably going to keep expanding, so there'll come a point where it'll be NEEDED.

So better to start early.

New Oatleans stuff:

CamoBadger wrote:I suppose I can do that. I don't think that talking about geography will spoil anything.

New Oatleans stuff:

Probably very poorly worded and confusing, but I hope it makes some sense...

Kkat wrote:I didn’t need clarification on what The Sealing was. Nopony who lived in a Stable would. But I did wish to know more about the Stable whose floor plan I had in my PipBuck. “Stable Three?”

SteelHooves grunted. “The Let’s-Get-Along Stable,” he snorted derisively. I saw Velvet’s ears perk at that.

“It was clearly an experimental Stable,” SteelHooves rumbled. “Virtually all of the zebra citizens of Equestria were ‘randomly assigned’ to Stable Three. They would have made up half of the Stable’s population.”

Xenith frowned at the unpleasantness of the interruption but nodded at SteelHooves’ assessment. “It was long before even my grandparent’s time, but the stories passed down say that the Overmares told all in the Stable why they had been chosen. And why the Stable had no texts of history or posters of current events.”

Ah. Instead of altering things, Scootaloo and her friends had simply filtered out as much of the Ministry of Image’s influence as possible.

Velvet Remedy questioned, “Overmares? Plural?”

Xenith nodded. “One pony and one zebra.”

My experience with Stables was clawing at the back of my mind. Still, if there were survivors… “What went wrong?”

“Why would you assume something went wrong?” Xenith gave me a questioning look. “Zebras and ponies can live together quite harmoniously if each gives the other the opportunity.”

SteelHooves again provided the answer I was looking for. “Stable Three was built within the limits of the one city in Equestria with more than a hoof-full of zebras,” he informed us. “Canterlot.”

You know, my official statement about canon, not just in Fallout Equestria but also pretty much any franchise is the following :

I don't give a fuck


I just try to respect what I consider to be the spirit of the thing and its major plot points. As long as it respects the core themes of the work, it's okay in my book.

So whatever, I'll do what I want, YOU HEAR ME KKAT! I. DO. WHAT. I. WANT!

Spoiler:

CamoBadger wrote:That apparently only Canterlot has an actual zebra population and every other city in the entire kingdom is apparently like "lol, I've never seen a zebra in my life".