An asteroid of enormic proportions strikes Equestria, and the few pockets of survivors are forced to begin a new civilization in the harsh new environment.

Marmalade Jalapeno awakens hundreds of years after being put into stasis inside an underground shelter known as an Cradle. The Cradle's are the direct result of the Harmony project, a massive undertaking in which hundreds of Cradle's containing cryogenic pods were sealed under the surface of Equestria in order to preserve enough of pony population to rebuild civilization in the future.