Based on a Wikipedia article by the same name

After an incident known by both species as "The Rift", Human and Pony kind took their first steps in establishing relations with another civilization separated by both time and space. But five years later, when free travel between worlds is finally permitted, the questions are still asked: What's going to happen now? Will our beliefs be changed? Our politics? How do we deal with ponies in a legal sense? And what of our scientific and ecological status?

... Who are we now?