Prolouge

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If I'm going to tell you about the story of my life, explain how I got to this place with these ponies, and why I did what I'm going to do next, I may as well start by explaining a little bit about Pipbucks. What is a Pipbuck? A Pipbuck is a device. Worn on the foreleg just above the hoof, issued to every pony in a Stable when they become old enough to start work.  A blending of unicorn pony magic and science, your PipBuck will keep a constant measure of your health and even help administer healing poultices and other medicine, track and organize everything in your saddlepacks, assist in repairs, and keep all manner of notes and maps available at a hooftap.  Plus, it allows you to listen to the Stable broadcast whenever you would like as it can tune into and decrypt just about any radio frequency.  And that's not all.  A pony's PipBuck generates an E.F.S. (Eyes-Forward Sparkle) that will indicate direction and help gauge whether the ponies or creatures around you are hostile.  And, perhaps most impressively, a PipBuck can magically aid you in a fight for brief periods of time through use of the S.A.T.S. (Stable-Tec Arcane Targeting Spell).  Oh, and a feature not to be forgotten: it can keep track of the location of tagged objects or people, including the wearers of other PipBucks.  So if a pony somehow got lost -- don't ask me how you could get lost in a Stable, but it does happen on occasion -- then anypony who knew the lost pony's tag could find them instantly. 
It can even be made to glow like a lamp.

So yes, PipBucks really are a testament to unicorn pony arcane science.  And yes, having a PipBuck is a big advantage.  So with how wonderful and miraculous all that just sounded, it's hard to impress upon ponies who never lived in a Stable just how ordinary, how pedestrian, a PipBuck was in the eyes of the ponies living in Stable Two. And why I decided to leave the safety of the Stable to find the GCCK. The Garden of Celestia Creation Kit to hopefully restore order and friendship to the now barren wasteland that is now Equestria. So who is the little pony who wants to restore order so badly? My name is, Sketchy Sculpture. A kind and caring pony who loves everypony. Or at least before the war. That damn war. Those damn Zebras. Why would they want to start a war with us? Why would they want to drop megaspells? Why would they want to destroy the beautiful land of Equestria turning it from the lively sprawling land it once was into a barren radiation filled wasteland?

Out there, there is not friendship. Out there, everyone is a killer. Out there, to survive. Is simple. Its either kill or be killed. And I am not a killer. But I will have to start. Because it is a now harsh world. It is now a land filled with ponies, griffons, etc. who want you dead. I am not going to die tonight. Or any day after that. Until I find the GCCK, I will not stop until I do. I will restore order. I will restore friendship.

I am... A new Hope.

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