So great was her reign and Brilliant her Glory

Luna blinked the white spots away as the light from the Teleport Rune died down, she shivered as the cold air chilled her through her fur. She looked up at the sky, great billowing clouds of smoke wafted into the sky as snow and ash rained to the ground, her silver armor slowly turning grey from the ashen snow.

"Princess, please follow me," Glade said as he began to walk towards the largest building in the city, a large spire of red brick.

Luna shivered as she sheathed her rapier and began to follow the Thestral known as Silver Glade.

"I understand you have a liking for the Fortress city of Stalliongrad?" The Thestral asked as he continued to walk towards the brick citidel known as Dorath keep, "Do you remember the history of the city?"

"I remember pieces, the city was founded around and Ancient human tower 600 years after they abandoned this region to Discord, sadly that didn't save the humans and over 90 percent of the original human population was wiped out, including the citadels guards,"

"Your half right princess, The citadel is human, but the city wasn't founded by equestrians, it was founded by a human secessionist movement known as the Porish Confederation, they were wiped out by the Equestrian army 30 years before you and the solar tyrant emerged, " he sighed, "The Siege took 10 years to complete, and it cost Equestria 3 of it's grand armies to win, the local humans were ferocious fighters and seemed to love hit and run tactics,"

"I didn't know this, the council before us told us we settled the abandoned tower," Luna stated as she continued to follow her guide, her armor rattled with each step.

Giant factories eventually gave way to sprawling slums and that in turn gave way to gleaming and brightly lit housing, walls and guard checkpoints. Each guard wore a hulking set of Silverplate armor engraved with the Iconography of Stalliongrad, a large sickle crossed with a cog over a half moon.

"The cities coat of arms has changed?" Luna muttered as she marched past another pair of guards, the hulking behemoths of ponies towering above the standard pony. behind each of the towering behemoths was a smaller pony in a bright red trench coat with a large tower hat, almost like a fuzzy chimney.

The smaller ponies each carried a prototype Halberd-Musket hybrid from the Human kingdoms, some of the smaller guards also carried a thinner, longer musket, another human weapon called a Rifled Musket. Luna continued to eye the guards and their weapons as they marched down the final stretch towards the tower.

"Please wait here princess, I have to go and announce your presence,"

Luna nodded as Glade began to jog up the stairs, his hooves clacking against the ground, his figure dissapearing abruptly as he entered the tower. Lunas thoughts began to wander as she stood in the ashen snow, her thoughts wandered to the fun times she had with her sister, the bad times also entered her thoughts.

"Princess," Glades voice broke through her thoughts, "The Governor has agreed to provide us an escort of 40 guards to take us through the mountains towards the meeting place of our army."

Luna looked behind Glade as she saw a large contingent of Red coated guards marching towards her alongisde a smaller contingent of the hulking behemoths.

"Shall we depart then?" she asked as she looked towards the massive city walls.

"Yes your highness," glade stated as he motioned for the small mass of Guards to fall in behind the princess.

'I will get you for what you did, Celestia, just you watch'.