Groom Hornwell's 2022

Almost a century as the ruler of equestria, Twilight Sparkle was losing it, everything of it.

First, it was her friends and almost all of her relatives. They had passed away and their successors were lost in time, or simply didn’t care about the Council of Friendship.

Then, it was Spike who had to leave. He was growing big and irascible. She couldn’t help but to kick out the great beast he had become. Her last sight of him was when he flew into the sunset.

The goddesses, Luna and Celestia, had vanished. How, nopony could officially explain. It could only be theorized what happened to them.

The princess of Love, Mi Amore Cadenza, had already parted to the stars when Flurry Heart was just a filly. She was officially the first alicorn to die, killed by dark magic related to Sombra.

Almost every day, Twilight was brought new friendship problems and other conflicts.

Her body looked young, majestically slender and tall, but her mind was old and rusty.

Although she still had two disciples left.

Flurry, her niece and her only blood-relative alive, had become the marshal of the royal guards and the wonderbolts, then called The weapon or simply Weapon. With the mandatory drafts, its numbers quickly increased from a few hundred to almost ten thousand.

Her second disciple was the newest alicorn, Luster Dawn, daughter of Sunburst and Starlight Glimmer. She was the commissar of the Stablo, acronym for Stable Oversight. Her duty was to command the law enforcement of all the regions of Equestria.

Many moons after Twilight’s ascension, she did the unthinkable. She, tired of solving crimes commited by griffons, banned them from living near ponies.

The press was shocked but couldn’t do much when the Stablo raided them and arrested anypony who expressed a contrary opinion on the matter of griffons.

That species was only the first to be deported away.

Then it followed the hippogriffs because of the Feather Fever mass contagion between pegasi. According to the commissar Luster Dawn, that disease was the hippogriffs’ fault. No journalist dared to object.

The anti-non-ponies laws enacted by Twilight had a widespread reaction around the whole Equus world: Griffonstone threatened a war, Seaquestria begged for justice, the Neighpon government asked what happened to the kirin colony in Peaks of Peril, Queen Chrysalis started to recruit the resentful changelings, and the dragons swore to kill anypony who got into their territory.

The only ones that seemed unaffected by Twilight's laws were the yaks. They lived far away from the ponies anyways.

Zebras and donkeys went missing or were arrested.

Every day, fewer ponies dared to express their own ideas.

The ponies, happy or not, had silent peace for a while, especially for Twilight in her high castle.

But peace always dies young. And war makes sure to bury it deep.

Equestria and its ponies, found themselves surrounded by enemies of other species. That’s why the Weapon was created, and thousands of young ponies have been dragged to war.

Three pony classes were defined, either officially o de facto: the poniticians, mainly unicorns. The soldiers were mostly pegasi. And the draught-ponies or working class consisted of a majority of earth ponies and few unicorns and pegasi.

It was the year 2022 after Celestia's birth, and it was Twilight Sparkle’s era.