Ever since the birth of life there has been great good as well as great evil, neither one ever able to finally kill the other. Eons have passed and many life forms have lived and died throughout the universe, most on the planet Earth. But there was also another planet, far away from Earth where life once existed, but was consumed by evil.

Mining ships like the USS Centurion have been around for many years now, deep space mining becoming a common job among ponies, dragons, and even gryphons alike. Ore from the asteroids is harvested to fuel the various starships and fighters that fly throughout the known universe. For the USS Centurion, it was just another flight out to gather ore. What they found however, was the greatest evil that anybody had ever seen or heard of before.

A few weeks pass with no contact from the Centurion, which was scheduled to unload nearly three days prior. Fearing the worst, Celestia sends her best crew straight out of flight academy to aid them. Will it be enough though to stop the nightmare before it can truly begin...