Sci-fi AU. Twilight Sparkle has lived on the Cantalot Space Station, capital of the Solar Empire, all her life. But can she adapt and make friends when her teacher, Queen Celestia, sends her away to be the new science officer of the spaceship Ponyville on its voyage to explore the galaxy for much needed resources for the war against the Confederacy of Species?

Additional background information can be found within the Data Files Collections. If you wish to see a part of the universe explained, let me know and I'll throw in a data file.

'Dark' tag refers to the war, which appears mainly as a background event. Other, dark elements may appear in later chapters.

Whilst I assembled the image (in Inkscape), the vectors used were created by Lazy-Joe and Emkay-MLP.
Recently undergone a complete rewrite.
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Disclaimer—All orginal ideas are mine. All copied ideas are not mine. Work out which is which yourselves.