Alternate Timelines Provide Potential · 2:17am Dec 30th, 2015
I had abandoned Equestria Nova, because I found the reasoning for it to be faulty. I was kind of raging against Friendship is Magic and other things. Looking back, it was not my best moment. I abandoned it, and started looking at other possibilities.
However, after the "Cutie Remark" and its alternate timelines, I have been provided with some possible openings to resurrect it. I'm concentrating on the Sombra timeline in particular. The idea being that the timeline didn't start and stop with Twilight's arrival and departure. It had existed and continued to exist, Twilight's short time in it a result of the time travel spell.
The war against Sombra raged from almost two decades until the Equestrian forces won through attrition. However, before being vanquished, Sombra committed the ultimate act of spite. He used his dark magic to destroy the infrastructure and rendered the water, soil, and air marginally usable. Their natural resources exhausted by the war, and their kingdom poisoned, Equestria was dying.
A century of trying to restore their homeland went by in vain. It continued to degrade as the once grand kingdom cannibalized itself to try to maintain smaller and smaller pockets of civilization. Celestia, desperate to save ponykind, looks to the mirror she and Starswirl the Bearded had used to travel to other worlds. Two parallel beings cannot exist in the same world for too long without breaking down the separation between worlds. However, a world with barely any parallel would not suffer that problem. If they could not restore Equestria, they could escape it.
A team from across Equestria is assembled. They will travel to one of these distantly reflective worlds as an advanced scout force. The world can only be accessed once every five moons, and they would take that time to establish a presence and explore this strange new world in preparation for colonization.
However, these brave explorers might have found themselves in more of an adventure than they bargained for.
Yes yes yes!