Planetshine's Space Odyssey Book 2

Everypony got out of stasis, for me, looking at the mission time. The mission time that was expected was about 2000 years, but the counter read 2 trillion years, not sure how, but it was really that long. Everypony was surprised that the Galaxy Diver wasn't harmed by anything, strange but awesome. I checked the mission log, reading it.

+2176y 118d 1h 29m 54s Enter Alpha Centauri A's SOI
+2176y 118d 18h 32m 22s Start burn to put Galaxy Diver on an orbit around the galaxy with an 8696:1 resonance with Alpha Centauri A
+2285621952384y 24d 7h 2m 35s Enter Alpha Centauri A's SOI
+2285621952385y 114d 5h 33m 17s Captured into an orbit via Polyphemus gravity assist

I complained, 'Fucking seriously, 2 trillion years, how does that work? That can't make sense, can't it?'

'Well I have no idea,' Dr. Whooves replied, checking the equipment.

'Hmm,' Flamerider thought, 'My theory was that we actually were in stasis for the 2 trillion years.'

'How is that possible though,' Ocellus asked.

'Yona thinks that it is possible,' Yona quickly shouted in front of everyone.

'Can you guys just shut the hell up,' Flamerider yelled. 'There is a chance we actually did it, the equipment looks to have not aged but the time did pass, ok, that's my theory, now don't discuss this shit anymore, my head's going to explode.'

Everyone agreed, and we then slowly but steadily waited, waited to enter Polyphemus' SOI that is. After a while, we were finally in, but we were in a hyperbolic orbit with a very low relative velocity to the actual planet as our orbit of Alpha Centauri A had a 1:1 resonance with the planet.

The next thing was to aerobrake in Pandora's atmosphere, which in this case was pretty thick, meaning that we had to spin the craft around like crazy to dissipate the heat. Pretty much everyone puked, only Flamerider and Lyra not puking. For some reason, even though coming in at interplanetary speeds, we didn't disintegrate and got into a stable orbit around Pandora, which on the first hoof looked a lot like Equestria in terms of the land.

Then, Sandbar put it in a very low orbit, just above the atmosphere, looking for a great place to land.