While experimenting with an unstable magic spell, Twilight Sparkle accidentally creates a wormhole that sucks her into a parallel universe. There, she finds herself aboard a starship where she meets what are probably the most dangerous beings to ever exist, but they seem friendly enough, maybe a little too friendly.

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The year is 3622. Mankind has been a spacefaring species for over a millennium. With traditional governments having long since collapsed, capitalism has taken their place. Mega corporations with private armies are the law in the galaxy as they compete with each other for control over distant star systems with Earth-like planets that could be colonized and used to further expand their empires.

The human race is not the only spacefaring species in the galaxy. Over two centuries ago, Humanity had their first encounter with a sapient alien race that later became known as the achi. Having unknowingly entered achi controlled space, a misunderstanding led to a human fleet destroying an achi patrol, inadvertently starting mankind’s first interspecies war.

Five years ago, after hundreds of billions of lives were lost, mankind finally emerged victorious from a gruesome two hundred year war with the achi, making humans the most powerful species in the known galaxy. However, as the achi know all too well, the greatest enemy humanity has ever known was never the achi, but humanity themselves. For, despite amazing advancements in genetic engineering and cybernetics, humans, at their core remain flawed creatures, beset on all sides by such afflictions of the human condition as greed, hatred, cruelty, and perversion.

With their civilization all but obliterated, what was left of the achi were forced to become obedient, although resentful, employees of the human races’ mega corporations. Those corporations, no longer having to spend exorbitant amounts of money on an interspecies war, could once again channel their funds into populating and exploiting distant star systems. One such star system, deemed H-14, was recently discovered to have a habitable planet. The New Horizons Corporation, which had discovered the planet, immediately claimed H-14, and organized a mission to its habitable planet.