Fallout: Equestria

Fallout: Equestria is a crossover fan-fiction written by Kkat. The fan-fiction blends the worlds of the television series with the [http://en. .org/wiki/Fallout_(series) Fallout] video game series to create a new world with elements of each. It is noteworthy both for its size and for its deep following, including a small but significant sub-culture that has developed around it. The story has inspired thousands of other works, has its own wiki and multiple fan sites, and is in enough demand to be made available in multiple formats (including an audiobook) and multiple languages.
According to the author: "The goal was to create a story where the setting flowed out of the Equestria of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. Fallout: Equestria is a fusion story rather than a classical crossover." I didn’t want to just dump ponies into the world of Fallout. Instead, the biggest challenge was crafting a post-apocalyptic, Fallout-inspired story which a fan of My Little Pony could read and ask 'Can I see this actually happening with the world of Equestria and the ponies I know?' and have the answer be, within the framework given, 'Yes.' The core of the story of Fallout: Equestria has its roots in the major themes of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. And part of what makes the fusion of the worlds work is that those themes have at least some echoes in the games."
History
Fallout: Equestria was published in the form of a serialized novel. It was written in just over eight months, between April 2011 and December 2011, with the final part of the story published on Christmas of that year. The first attempt to publish the novel took place on a website formerly known as Fallout 3 Underground (currently VGU Network), a site for fans and modders of the Fallout game series. After receiving negligable feedback, the author began publishing the story on Equestria Daily, a site dedicated to the fandom surrounding My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. Fallout: Equestria spans 45 chapters (as well as a prologue, introduction, epilogue, and afterword). The story is just under 608,000 words long, making Fallout: Equestria one of the longest self-published works of derivative fiction.
The Story
Premise
Fallout: Equestria follows the adventures of Littlepip, a pipbuck technician from Stable Two. As the story opens, Littlepip is an unremarkable mare with no friends, a distant relationship with her mother, and an unrequited crush on her idol, stable-singer Velvet Remedy. When Velvet Remedy escapes from the stable after offloading her pipbuck on Littlepip to escape tracking, Littlepip leaves the stable herself to track the pony down. She discovers that the Wasteland outside the stable is habitable, but not very friendly.
Through Littlepip's travels across the dark Equestrian wasteland, she sees many horrific things such as raiders, slavers, and ponies living in dreadful conditions. She meets a mysterious character who calls himself "Watcher", who tasks her with making some friends. After Littlepip finds Velvet Remedy, she discovers that the Wasteland needs her for another, greater quest.
Over the course of their journies, Littlepip and her companions also gradually piece together the history of Equestria in the years leading up to the war, when the mane six ruled the country through their six Ministries.
In an interview for a My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic fan podcast series, performed by proxy, the author described Fallout: Equestria as "an epic story (both in length and in scale) that fuses together the conceptual world of the Fallout series of post-apocalyptic games with the My Little Pony cartoon that we all love. Yes, it is Fallout with Ponies. But that concept is just a vehicle for a telling a tale about standing up against evil no matter the cost, and about lighting candles in the darkness. Ultimately, Fallout: Equestria is a story about the both the value and vulnerability of virtue and the power and necessity of friendship. Themes which I believe are closely tied to the heart of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic."
Setting
Fallout: Equestria is set entirely within the universe of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, with only superficial ties to the Fallout universe via borrowed concepts and inspired-by technology. The story occurs two centuries after a great war between the pony nation of Equestria and a zebra empire ends in a megaspell holocaust that decimates much of Equestria and the known world. The story takes place in a region known as the Equestrian Wasteland, which includes several locations featured in Friendship is Magic, including the ruins of Ponyville, Canterlot, Manehattan, Fillydelphia, and the surrounding countryside.
The Wasteland is home to various environments ranging from barren wasteland to the decimated ruins of pre-war cities, and there are numerous environmental hazards that plague the countryside. The region is perpetually covered by a layer of near-impenetrable clouds which prevents direct sunlight from reaching the ground, restricting the growth of healthy plant and animal wildlife, which is mostly mutated and irradiated.
Cultural, social, and technological advancements have stagnated since the end of the great war. Numerous small settlements dot the region, home to descendants of survivors from the war, though population remains low due to the perpetual state of lawless anarchy. The lack of any large-scale civilization in the Wasteland has allowed the propagation of numerous violent bands of raiders and slavers, who terrorize and harass the last bastions of civilization. Various Stables -- underground, village-sized fallout shelters constructed by Stable-Tec in order to house and protect the citizens of Equestria in the event of a megaspell attack -- also populate the Wasteland; some in states of decay, and some still well-preserved and even functioning after centuries of operation.
Perspective
The tale is told from the limited first-person perspective of the narrator and protagonist Littlepip. With the exception of the Afterword, the story never strays from her point of view and never describes things beyond her perception. Scenes from the past, describing events that lead up to the apocalypse and the rolls of characters from the My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic series in those events, are told through audio recordings and logbook entries left on computer terminals, as well as the device of "memory orbs" -- objects that contain specific stored memories. The events seen within these memory orbs are described from the protagonist's perspective and colored with her interpretation and commentary. Fallout: Equestria is written in past tense, and Littlepip, while narrating, will very occasionally break character to directly address the audience, most notably in the Prologue and in the beginning of the thirty-seventh chapter to describe a major change in the storytelling format.
Structure
Fallout: Equestria was published online as a serialized novel where each chapter was read and reviewed before the next chapter was written. The author used feedback from the audience to help improve the quality of the story with each chapter, including addressing issues that confused the readership. -- a delightful picture of Applejack transposed into a ponified Fallout setting. The picture got me thinking about how my two passions could possibly be combined. Once I had started thinking about it, I was driven to see if I could actually manage to pull it off.", including Polish, Russian, Italian and Spanish. Additional projects include efforts to translate the story into hand-drawn and animated comics, as well as an associated radio play.
Online Print
Google Docs was the primary means of distribution when the story was first released. It is the source from which all references in this encyclopedia are made. As of December 2011, the story is complete, and no further additions or changes are planned. The Fallout: Equestria page on Equestria Daily includes links to the separate online document for each part of the story. and transferred his eBook compilation projects to Jamie Ryan.
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Novel
The Fallout: Equestria Book Design Project is printing not-for-profit Fallout: Equestria novel collection. The project started in December 2011 and printing Fallout: Equestria as a series of five volumes formatted and optimized for print on paper medium, with a limited run of approximately 250 copies. As of May 2012, the project is in its final stages. In this printing, the story has been copied word-for-word from the original Google Docs, and also features chapter images, section headers, a table of contents, and page numbers. The Fallout: Equestria Book Design Project is primarily organized and takes place on the project's Facebook page.
Audiobook
The Fallout: Equestria Audiobook is a single-actor series of audio recordings produced by Scorch Mechanic. The audiobook is currently available as a series of YouTube videos as well as downloads in MP3 format.
Reception
Fallout: Equestria has become one of the most critically well-received derivative works in the My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic community. It has been granted a Legendary tag on Equestria Daily, a recursive Fallout: Equestria fanfiction by Somber).
Fallout: Equestria has a substantial cult following that has produced thousands of new works of art, models, video, and music dedicated to the fan series , as well as over 200 stories that take place within the Fallout: Equestria universe and explore its lore. Multiple fan-driven roleplaying games are in development based on the story.

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