(AN: Hello, my fellow readers, this is the second codex page for this story. This will cover the three great powers on Equis. So, please enjoy.)

Equestria: born after the ashes of the Great Winter Wars and the aftermath before the land, which, the ponies inhabited, were divided into three basic tribes: Earth, Unicorn, and Pegasus. The relations between them were bad, but when the winter came, it only made it worse as they fought against each other for the last remaining unfrozen lakes and food that hasn’t died from the extreme cold.

United under by their surviving leaders, the unification of Equestria had begun, but not with its early problems. With the end of the ever ending winter and food being plentiful again, many nationalist groups from all three groups erupted in protest in reclaiming their sovereignty over their own lands, counted with exempt uncooperative among the leaders on running the government, Equestria would have ceased to exist if not due the appearance of the spirit of chaos, Discord.

With the appearance of Discord, the country soon fled into chaos as the chaos lord took control and use the civilians as his playthings, controlling them as his slaves to help him conquer other nations that had refused to join the unification.

His rule soon came to end as the appearance of Empress Faust and her two daughters, Celestia and Luna, in their infancy. The appearance of the Alicorns had inspired the enslave populace to rebelled against the Lord of Chaos, beginning the Chaos Wars.

The Wars lasted only about twenty years, with much of Equestria in ruins. With the Armies of the Empress and the Lord of Chaos battling over the lands and seas they can’t hold, thousands die as starvation took hold.

With the war turning into a standstill, Faust and her husband, have devised into developing a weapon that could finally bring the war to an end: The Elements of Harmony.

Finally found the weapon to end the war, the empress launched an all-out attack on Canterlot, the center of Discord’s power base. The siege of Canterlot lasted the entire night as the hordes of Discord’s armies attempted to break out, regardless of them getting massacre, but to only please their insane master.

The siege, and the war, finally ended when Faust two Daughters, Princess Celestia and her sister Luna, use the Elements of Harmony, turning Discord into stone, finally ending the decade-long conflict.

As Equestria slowly recovered from the war, Princess Celestia and Princess Luna ascended to the throne after their mother died of poison and their father disappeared during the siege of Canterlot.

The country soon later came back to normalcy as the rebuilding progress through the years. Soon, ponies were now living normal lives as their nation was now entering a golden age. Yet, beneath this prosper, corruption soon bubble up in Canterlot politics and the increasing angst and jealousy of Princess Luna over Equestria’s subjects favoring her sister sun over her precious night. With her anger increasingly taking her over, devouring her as she plotted to overthrow her sister and take control of the nation.

The plot soon spurts into action as Luna and her loyal supporters storm the throne room, interrupting the daily hearings of the day court. Luna-in her new form- quickly accused of Celestia of high treason against Equestria, calling out that the government of old is filled with corruption and mindless bureaucracy; Proclaiming that he’ll bring a new age of Equestria under her eternal night.

Despite the shock of her sister’s betrayed, Celestia, try and attempted to plead her sister, appealing to her better angels to not doom Equestria into another war centuries ago. But Luna ignored it all, refusing to listen to the one who couldn’t be with her when she was needed; the sounds of pleading and cries of her sister didn’t matter to her anymore.

The Nightmare Moon Rebellion lasted for months as the county wage war upon itself again by the supporters of Luna and Celestia. Thousands die on the battlefield for the lands and the cities that could be barely held by either.

The final battle of the Rebellion soon came as the armies of Luna, now called Nightmare moon, and Celestia clashed over the city that ended The Great Chaos Wars, years ago. The battle rage throughout the ever ending night as both factions battled each other out, many of the city’s citizens had already fled, but some choose to stay in the defense of their home.

The climax of the battle came, as Celestia-while greatly wounded-successfully used the Elements of Harmony on Nightmare Moon, imprisoning her on the moon. With their leader defeat, the remaining loyalists’ retreated from the city itself towards the Everfree Forest; never to be seen again for centuries to come.

The end of the war was a shocking realization and a wake-up call to many that their once-prefect world has been shattered in the battlefields and atrocities committed by both sides that were against each other. The actions of one of the princess have set in an atmosphere of suspicion and distrust towards the solar princess, especially from the nobility, believing that she, one day, would become the same thing that her sister did.

As the years go by, and the wounds from the war were slowly healed, Equestria soon expands towards the outer regions of their native continent. Wishing for a new life, Ponies migrate in the thousands, settling into towns that have been quickly built due to the many mineral mines being discovered. Slowly, but surely, Equestria was able to recover and prosper, hoping that their last war was the last conflict to ever experience in their history.

But the quietness of a new peace soon came to an end, as reports of strange, bipedal creatures roaming around near the new settlements. The news of which has reached the ears of the solar princess. Hoping of not repeating conflict with an unknown species, Celestia sent representatives to nearby settlements, hoping for peaceful talks.

On the year 113 A.N, contact between the Equestria kingdom and the Imperil of Man has been established, but, as time went on, the peace will not last and war will come.

GENERAL INFORMATION FROM THE CANDERLOT ACHIEVES: 1515 A.N EDITION

Type of government: Diarchy with a mix of Oligarchy and Theocracy.

Total Population (not including slaves): Three hundred million

Total human slave population: Fifty-five million

Military power: Five million

Reserve Forces: Three million

Of Age and Condition for Conscription in Emergency: Ten million

Pre-spaceflight technological stage: Late Nineteen Century with bits of late Twenty Century.

The Griffon Empire: Border from the east to Equestria and the south from Zebraica, the Griffon Empire is one of the most militarized nations on Equus. Separate from a large body of water to the Equestrian Continent, The Griffon Empire has crafted a large empire that spans across their mountainous native homelands to the client states of the southern lands.

The Empire’s history was a bloody one, at most. Born from the ashes of the twelve tribes that had contested and fought against each other for resource, pride, land, slaves, or any other reason that’d allow them to go to war with their enemies, furthering developing a martial culture that has allowed them driven at the beginning of their imperialist ambitions in the world.

The Griffon Empire grew as they conquered and settle outside their native homelands, the various kingdoms of other species or their own that has settled before the Unification Wars were soon assimilated into the empire, effectively creating their stance on the world stage.

The Griffon Empire is sometimes, in the political ring, a ‘problem child’ to Equestria and the Zebraica Empire as the Empire bullied, even threaten, to get its way, causing the Relations with the rest of nations of Equus to be tense, if not, hostile towards the Empire.

Human Slaves, white not treated worse by the other two nations, still face discrimination by the Griffons, even to the point of being forced to be entertainment in the gladiatorial arenas.

The most notable practice was the taking of human newborns and indoctrinating them to become the core of the auxiliary corps, turning them into loyal ‘Griffins’, but in human bodies.

The practice was soon implemented to the Zebraica Empire, and then, slowly to Equestria, providing them a slave army to keep their non-indoctrinate brothers and sisters repressed.

GENERAL INFORMATION FROM THE GRIFFIN ACHIEVES IN THE HALLS OF KUNNSKAP: 1515 A.N Edition.

Type of government: Absolute Monarchy with bits of Military Junta.

Total Population (not including slaves): Four hundred twenty million

Total human slave population: thirty-five million

Military power: One hundred five million

Reserve Forces: Sixty Million

Of Age and Condition for Conscription in Emergency: Forty-five million

Pre-spaceflight technological stage: Late Nineteen Century with bits of late Twenty Century.

Zebraica Empire: Know as the ‘sick zebra of Equus’, the Zebraica Empire is a slowly, collapsing empire grip with internal rebellion from slaves and from the lower-caste. Once a thriving empire built upon from the establishment of the third age of Abimbola Afolabi, a sultan who united many of the Zebra warlords that ravaged the interior of their native continent, and at sea in the Mareterranean Sea, an empire that has, in a hundred years, gained complete monopoly of the major sea routes towards Saddle Arabia, and the other spice-export nations that have come under pretense of being vassals of the empire whether by persuasion or by military invasion.

Bordered by the ever-expanding Griffon Empire, The Zebras soon came into conflict with them over colonizing the disputed land. With no other option, the Zebras soon attempted to invade the Griffins, but due to their militarized nature, they were quickly repulsed back. These actions resulted in a number of conflicts with Griffons, causing one of the many factors of the slowly, declining empire.

With the discovery of more, shorter trade routes towards the spice-exported counties, the empire soon suffer an economic depression, along with rampant inflation due to the lack of capital, and one of the many factors was the lack of catching up, technological, with the rest of the world, due to intellectual conservation and the political deadlock.

The Empire continued to decline as their territory declines, causing civil unrest, calls came for modernizing reforms, but fell on deaf ears from the weak sultans that, rather than improve the nation itself, they had rather spend on their own expenses, further the eroding and declining of the Zebraica Empire on the world stage.

Though, it would seem that the Empire is about to collapse to many observers from both Equestria and the Griffon Empire, it is not the case. The leaders of their decline powerbase quickly buy off many of the tribes that were about to secede, hoping to keep their divided empire intact, even to the point of bankruptcy.

Despite the problems, the Zebra is considered a world power, with a large army and navy, despite being antiquated, was able to repress their rebellious populace, and has even conquered several primitive nations, posting a threat to some of the minor nations, especially tensions with the Minotaur Republic.

GENERAL INFORMATION TAKEN FROM THE ZEBRA ACHIEVES IN THE HALLS OF THE ANCESTORS.

Type of government: Absolute Monarchy with bits of Autocracy

Total Population (not including slaves): One hundred seventy-eight million

Total human slave population: two hundred thirty-five million

Military power: five point five million

Reserve Forces: Nine million

Of Age and Condition for Conscription in Emergency: five million

Pre-spaceflight technological stage: Eighteen century with bits of nineteen, and late twenty century.

Author's Note

Sorry for the lateness of this, My attention was diverted to other stories, pony and non-pony related, had me not finishing this quickly than I had hoped to. But anyways, The next story chapter is proceeded nicely, though, it may take a while due to school, and other things that have my life occupied other than this, but I hoped I'll finish it by the end of October or early November, based on if my life is too busy.

Anyways, I hoped you all will enjoy this little piece of this universe I've crafted.