Fire and Iron

It is the Fifth Millennium. For more than fifty centuries the Alicorn-Emperor has ruled Equestria. He is the master of Ponykind, and master of a million lands by the might of his inexhaustible armies. His psychic power watches over all of Equestria from his throne in Canterlot.

Yet even in His eternal vigilance not all is within His sight. Mighty battlefleets of airships roam the sky, vast armies give battle in His name on uncounted war fronts. Greatest amongst His soldiers are the Divina Militibus Imperatoris, the Emperor's Holy Knights, bio-engineered super-warriors. Their comrades in arms are legion: the Imperial Guard and countless Provincial Defence Forces, the ever-vigilant Inquisition and the tech-priests of the Adeptus Mechanicus to name only a few. But for all their multitudes, they are barely enough to hold off the ever-present threat from aliens, heretics, mutants - and worse.

To be a pony in such times is to be one amongst untold billions. It is to live in the cruellest and most bloody regime imaginable. These are the tales of those times. Forget the wonder and awe of magic, it has been twisted and warped beyond recognition. Forget the promise of understanding and progress with Friendship, for in the grim dark future there is only war. There is no peace in Equestria, only an eternity of carnage and slaighter, and the laughter of thirsting gods.