Dark clouds arose from the ground in the distance beyond the city, across the strait to the houses of industry, from where the factories, mills, smelters, refineries, coal yards, ironworks, and the famous Manehatten train yards called home. It was where the wrought iron leviathans and the great wyrms of steel and fire were constructed and brought in the lifeblood of the city, the ore and raw materials harvested from the fields and the bowels of the earth in the mining and farming townships that so defined eastern Equestria.