set in an alternate steampunk Equestria, we follow the tale of Steam Pipe, the mechanic, and Brink, the artist, as they are drawn into a war for all of Equestria and through the twists of fate, become members of the royal air privateers, or in short, Luna and Celestia's elite, private sky pirates and save Equestria from the dark magic and mechanical horrors of an enemy they had long believed to be dead and gone.