Time Agency of Equestria: Faster than Light

"Showtime." A pony in a black spacesuit drifted through the vacuum. His dark spacesuit provided the perfect camouflage against the blackness of the universe. His weightless flight ended as he grabbed on to a piece of floating debris, causing the chunk of metal to slowly drift and spin. "Clear." Another pony drifted through the darkness in an identical spacesuit. The debris' weightless spin was altered slightly as she slowly pulled herself against the metal.

A dull-green light brushed over the metal as the second pony slowly waved her hoof across it. "Titanium alloy, aluminium alloy and the bits floating back there are some kind of carbon-fiber-reinforced polymer. This looks like our guy."

"Looks like he got into a bit of trouble. What do ya' reckon it was? Pirates? Some sort of collision?"

"I don't see any tell-tale scarring on this hull. If it was a pirate attack, there would be much more significant damage. Most of the hull around here is still drifting about in large chunks."

"What about a high speed impact? Reckon our guy took a hit from something then?" The stallion kicked off the chunk of metal and drifted towards another. "The debris here are all rather strange. This piece has almost identical scarring patterns as the one you're at. The metal hull is slightly bent and the carbon-fiber is slightly splintered, but there is no heat-scarring or scratches that would indicate an attack or impact." The stallion waved his hoof over the new chunk of debris as the dull-green light swept over. "Scans results are almost identical to the others. What are we missing?"

The mare carefully examined her piece of free-floating debris. To her disappointment, the wasn't any evidence to connect it to an explosion or impact either. Nothing was adding up. The damage seemed significant, and the carbon-fiber wouldn't have splintered without a significant force acting upon it. Then it hit her. "Aurum, what was the default hull color of this class of ship?"

Aurum thought for a moment as a he pondered the strange question. "It would have probably been frost-white or something similar."

"Then why is the white side of the hull bent outwards."

Aurum's eyes widened under his helmet as a sudden realization hit him. The ship was damaged by an explosion, but it wasn't a missile attack or impact. "The explosion came from inside the ship..." Aurum took a moment to bask in his cleverness before the mare issued her next command.

"New Objective: Find the cockpit and figure out what the hell happened here."