The nation of Equestria has been exploring their little slice of the universe for some time now. From launching probes into deep space, to landing ponies on the moon. Sending things beyond the grasp of their planet has become almost routine. However, with every mission into space, there comes a time when the voyage must end. What happens when Equestria experiences the end of a voyage that they didn't begin?

Updated and Revised on October 5th, 2014

Rainbow Dash's morning was pretty much ruined.
She tripped getting out of bed and landed flat on her face, giving herself an aching muzzle.
She forgot to buy her favorite brand of hay flakes at the store yesterday and had to eat plain toast for breakfast.
She found out she had to pull double-duty today and tomorrow on the weather patrol.
Oh, and she found a nearly-dead foal, broken and bleeding at the edge of Ponyville.

The rest of her day became a whirlpool of stress and worry but the colt woke up, thank Celestia.
Something's not right, though. Nopony can find his parents, he's not in the registers, and there's an unsettling look in his eye...

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YouTube reading by Fire Hearth

Chinese Translation by forgivenlove

Russian Translation by Likantrop

TV Tropes page, if you're interested in that sort of thing.

On the eve of the five-hundred-and-thirtieth year of Celestial Peace, a shocking accident befalls one of Equestria’s aviators during the Wonderbolts' performance at the Summer Sun Celebration.

Flaire d’Mare attempted to warn against the danger that caused the incident, and thus, she is commissioned to improve the safety of the Wonderbolts’ uniforms at the behest of their tenth leader: General Flash.

Assisted by the optimistic young aviator Fairy Flight, Flaire will do whatever she must to ensure a safer future for the Wonderbolts. 

Even if that means confronting the inner wound of her long-endured grief.

Everyone always tells Twilight that the ones who love us never truly leave us.

But that's a lie. It's always been a lie.

Things that live must also die. It's simply the cycle of life, and that cycle doesn't care about love or the pain it causes.

Until one day, that cycle is broken by a forgotten figure from her past: a little tortoise who's not so little anymore.

This story is, first and foremost, a gift for the incomparable Mushroom, who clearly must be some sort of undiscovered species of fungus dog since we definitely don't deserve her. I have it on good authority that this story gave her Many Feelings, and I hope it gives them to you, too. :)

This also won first place in the of the Quills and Sofas Speedwriting '2021 Gift Fic Exchange' contest portion, which is neat.

Cover art commissioned from the lovely Shaslan!

[Complete! With TVTropes apparently!]
Also, apparently, an animated trailer.

In a world of brass and steam, Twilight Sparkle had thought she had made a life-changing discovery with the invention of the telescope. For better or worse, she was correct.

Now her discovery has not only changed her life, but the lives of those she seeks out in her desperate attempt to contact the only other creature as lonely as Twilight herself.

It all would have been much simpler, but it had to be the one Twilight could only call The Mare on the Moon.

Decidedly not within walking distance, then.

[Featured on EQD before story was meant to be submitted. 4/03/2015]

[Editing team: Southpaw, Wolfvenom, Maskedferret, SwanSong and BluePaladin42, without whom this story would be a fraction of its current state.]
[Special thanks to Novel-Idea for the updated cover]

Rainbow finds a trophy for a pony declared, "an honorary Wonderbolt". Curiosity getting the better of her, she asks about the pony.
She was greatly surprised to hear that, of all ponies, Derpy had gotten the honor, and respect, of the organization Rainbow idolized.

Written for The Wonderbolts Site Contest. I spent more time writing for the Sci-fi contest, with the goal of writing a one-shot for this one afterwards. In honor of it being a Speedwriting contest, I wrote it down over the course of two days and in under three hours total writing time. I hope you enjoy, and good luck to other contestants!

This story is a sequel to Hello?

After Equestria had fallen apart, literally, Luna was the mare to lead the fleet of homeless ships to their new home. A home that she was seeing for the third time.

In outer space, there are very few planets that can support pony life. One such planet is Equinox, named such by Luna herself. Why? Because Equinox is where Luna had attempted to build an empire before the events that led to her becoming Nightmare Moon, and she had taken a massive number of Equestria's somewhat unwanted batponies with her.

Thing is, during her thousand years on the moon, the thriving empire she built had disappeared. Blaming herself, Luna hadn't told a soul about empire, not even her older sister.

But Equinox was the only planet ponykind was aware of that could support pony life, and after thousands of years, it was finally time to unravel the mysteries of what had happened to the once-great Lunar Empire.

And plant some mango trees.

Unlike "Hello?", this story is gonna have a secondary story just for the lewd segments because I feel like it okay I don't care if this is the wendy's drivethrough

anyway I'll link it here once it's done, it's optional

Oh, hi!

Silverwing is an UnderWorld guardspony, and just like everypony else in (and under) equestria, he is getting ready to be evacuated to outer space!

Well, until he got left behind by the rest of the guards he was with, in the deeper, unsafe reaches of the UnderWorld.

Little did Silver know, he would become the key to saving the entire population of the UnderWorld. Him, and what he finds behind what was once an Equestrian Embassy.

Welcome to my first real story! And it is now DONE! I'm sure it's a bit rocky, but I haven't managed to finish one of these yet! But I have plenty of ideas for what more I can do in this universe I'm putting together :D

And finally, I'll post my inspiration! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNXVC692jrk

Oh yeah, you know what else is a work in progress? A minecraft map of this story's setting! It's not finished either, but if you wanna explore it, here's my MC server discord: https://discord.gg/cnMG7uK

The map in question is the UnderWorld map, a recreation of the entire place in minecraft, and it's pretty slow going so this story is probably gonna be finished before the map is, but eeyyyy it's something!

A young boy in the city dreams of seeing the stars through the smog. Far away, somepony hears his dreams.

Speedwrite on a whim after having a fleeting thought upon sending a friend a picture of the night sky I took while on vacation once. Well, if you can call about three, four, hours a speedwrite.

The star system Omega Centauri was just another oddity on a map to scientists in the not too distant future. However when they found the star was orbiting an earth-sized, earth-like planet instead of a black hole as its motion had suggested, a mission was scrambled to investigate this most unusual of celestial behaviors.

Hamstrung by politics, and nearly crippled before it began, the 'Lone Ranger' mission was reduced to just one crew member and left to his own devices.

These are the logs of Arrow 18 and its lone commander. This information is classified TOP SECRET by the Global Space Agency.

Do NOT tell the princess.