The D.S.S Caelestis, a colony ship of untold technological advancements has ascended beyond her home planet, with its denizens in tow as electronic personalities in a limitless digital environment known as the A.R.K, or the Automated Restorative (K)Cortex. Designed to bring Equisian life to its new home(s) among the stars, the ship was designed for a mere maiden voyage. However, once the people expressed no will to leave, Princess Twilight Sparkle, the savior of her people, modifies the ship for a sustained multi-star orbital pattern.

It has been ages since the original colonists left to inhabit the new worlds of each system as they were found habitable and the citizens of the Caelestis face an oncoming disaster. A single vital material to the ship's reactor has finally seen its time end and now requires replacement. The Equis Council sends forth a group of its best operatives to gather the material with help from the colonists, but perhaps they will find something far more shocking than they believed they would in these boonies, as they once believed the colonies to be...