Early population takes a hit from a robobrain. Stable is sealed off until it leaves. Caves are breached by miners. IMMEDIATELY, a cave floater appears and engages the first hauler it sees (who happens to be the militia commander.) Although he is armed with a combat rifle and armor, he doesn't have too much skill and he is cut down, although he softens it up enough for the ramshackle militia to kill it. He had the most badass name and a gunner CM too: "Craterstorm." Four more cave floaters appear along with some random ghouls and kill almost the entire population before escaping to the wastes. It is winter of the first year.
Two remain. A farmer who is now expedition leader, and a young earth pony foal with a hammer/mace CM by the name of Paper Fistdroplet. Radrats come from the caves and devour almost all of the food stockpile, leaving only a small amount of meat and no drinks. A raider thief steals my early lucky find, a power talisman
The farmer goes up to the surface for a drink from a pond. He transforms into a taint abomination from the floater sap and falls into the pond. The kid is standing amongst the corpses of his parents and former friends in the meeting hall. He goes stark raving mad. The abomination then finally moves out of the pond and into the meeting hall, paralyzes the kid and does nothing else.
(do keep in mind this is happening over the course of several months)
ghosts rise, bodies rot to skeletons, then spring finally arrives. 31 migrants come to discover a mutant abomination standing beside a babbling insane colt. Violencepages lives.
(since the last survivor was a child, I got the 'ol blank noble screen. it was fixed about a year later when an overmare was elected, but I had to wing it without a military or appraiser
)
...Fast forward 3 years, the stable is a bustling metropolis at 151 ponies, with a healthy and trained military, a wall assembled by the new amateur mason squad, and a booming salvage industry. (Although for ALL OF THIS TIME we have been dealing with a fucking pandemic of floater sap. I swear, a third of the population was in the hospital on account of rotten flesh or blisters. We had no real doctors, and the only medical CM that ever came died early on. My best current doctor is still only novice in everything.) We have an AMR squad, the 2 ponies in it BOTH have sniper CMs and are training fast. The captain is already an expert.
"A vile force of darkness has arrived!"
I note that the incoming single raider squad is only hammerponies with rusty sledgehammers. They can't possibly be a match for my combat armor clad, energy lance wielding militia. So I send them in. There is precisely one survivor in the military, the wife of the now deceased commander. (I don't know WHY the snipers decided to charge them
) She cut down the last raider, who was his killer.
We suffer a tantrum spiral. MANY insanities happen, and for IDIOTIC reasons and my own laziness, the hospital community starts dying of thirst. This pushes the tantrum spiral out of control. It's months before the population eventually stabilizes at.... 30. Amazingly, the mare who is now the only soldier (and now commander) never even threw a tantrum after watching her husband and 11 children die. She is now nicknamed 'Mare Hitler' and remains the militia commander.
With this population of 30, I play my cards very close to my chest. More sieges and large ambushes come over the next 3 years. The first scouts of the steel rangers appear. In one of the slaver ambushes, one pony gets trapped on the wall from fear and shot ELEVEN times and lives until the ramp is built to that area where the doctor carries her down. I have a screenshot of her ungodly wounds laying around somewhere. She lasts a surprisingly long time in the hospital before she eventually dies of blood loss. That show of living deserves respect.
I find Spitfire's Thunder. Too bad nobody has the CM or experience to use it (Mare Hitler is an experienced markspony as well, but needs to be educating the rifle squad). Dammit. The military is reformed and building up under the supervision of Mare Hitler, who is now an expert gunner (with an herbalist CM
). The only combat CM in the fort, a spear CM, is captain of the new energy lance squad. They are training very quickly. I am about to get the first battle saddles finally built and working.
No migrants came during this entire time of several years. I'm assuming that has to do with exported wealth, but I just exported thousands worth of goods in a wastelander caravan. The population is now 32 (some deaths and rehabilitated slaves. I dunno what to think of the new slaves.)
It took 2 years to clean up all the corpses. That's the story of this stable so far, in the year 207. We'll see how long it lasts. This no migrants thing is scaring me.
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