The majority of mankind has accepted the concept that Equestria is just what it appears to be: a friendly and guileless nation suddenly and unexpectedly thrust into the riotous, unsupervised playground that is humanity's geo-political arena thanks to the inexplicable opening of multiple stable portals between the two worlds.

But of course, there are always people who look at candy-coated perfection and wonder what might be concealed beneath the colorful exterior.

Steve Stanbury (AKA Bitwise) has recently been granted one of the first work visas and is bound for a human technology consultant position in Manehattan. He is not one of these benighted individuals, the contrarian one in the accepting ten.

At least… not yet.