The warplight drive has become the core of civilization, expanding the horizons of equines and letting them spread across the stars. Aided by the Veritas Inter-Systemic Trading Coalition, ponies have taken up residence in three separate solar systems: Celestia, Hooftauri, Horsehead. Now, Equus is a desert. It's been abandoned to the consequences of rampant expansion, and the world is now one of extremes, of enormous sandstorms and oceans of caustic acid.

In the year 662 ALR, a Starjumper SS14 jumpship malfunctions catastrophically in the Celestia system. In a lonely lifepod, a pony plummets to the unforgiving planet below. He must brave everything that stands in his way if he wishes to return to his job, his home, and his life.

After all, it's a long way down.