Artist’s comment:

Sweetie sat astride the projectile as she stared down into the compartment she'd open up. Floating in front of her was a part of wire cutters. Unable to decipher the puzzle in front of her she asked her two friends.

"Um girls. Are there ghosts or undead up here on the moon, and if so does SHADO hire them as pilots?"

Scootaloo looked up from the manual she was reading. "What? Sweetie what are you getting at?"

"Yeah Sweetie." Applebloom agreed. "Why would ya ask sumthin like that?"

The unicorn filly pulled an another hoof full of wires out of the bowels of the missile as she spoke. "Oh! That's because this thing has a deadpony switch, and I thought maybe its because ghosts need to throw it so the can pilot the interceptor and shoot this missile!"

"I think ya can lose that." Applebloom said. "Just cut the important wire ta it."

"But which one is that?" There's several different colored wires going in to it!"

"That's easy Sweetie! Just cut the red wire. That's what they do in all them films and TV shows I watch!" The earth pony turned her head slightly and looked over at the pegasi. "Having any luck that there manual ya got there? Any closer ta figuring out what makes it tick." She emphasized this point by tapping the missile.

The orange pegasus shook her head. "Nope! I can't make heads or tails of most of this stuff! It's all just gibberish, charts, and more math than Miss Cheerilee ever gave us!" She glanced over at the earth pony who lying on her back staring up at another open panels. "How are things on your end?"

Applebloom shook her head. "I'm still trying ta wrap my head around this here contraption?" she reached up and tapped a front hoof against the housing above her. "And why would ya name this here thing the Demon Core?" Link
Sweetie looked over and up at the item in question. "Don't know, but it's got a cool name to it! And that yellow and black sticker on it looks wicked."

Applebloom sighed. "Yeah whatever. Pass over that screwdriver Scoots. I am going to poke at this and see I if can figure out what it does."

This is one of the drawings I started during my most recent Picarto stream. The theme that evening was the work of the late Gerry Anderson. I of them was the TV show UFO. Link On the SHADO moonbase, the Interceptors based there Link were usually launched in groups of 3. There primary weapon was a nuclear warhead tipped missile. So as recently assigned pilots the CMC are curious to learn how the heck these missile work.