RoMS' Extravaganza

by RoMS


2015 project - The Child of Solace - Intro

Short description:
Centuries ago, Ponykind fled from Equestria, letting many parts of its history sink into oblivion. It just needed a captain and its crew to wake up the past.

Long description:
My name is Starscape, captain of the Dust and its crew of smugglers and outlaws. Until recently, my name meant nothing: Just a little yobbo going on a ruin crawl to stay up in the sky another month. Somehow, fate stretched its hoof. As we paid a visit to a newly discovered solar system, we found something that would spark troubles of galactic proportions.
What we found wasn’t a something, though. It was somepony. One that will later be called the Child Of Solace.

Introduction.

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An era of Science, ordeals, and upheavals once came in the magical land of Equestria. Science aimed at the stars and competed with its wise and ancient sister: Magic. Magic, seeking for revelation and inner contemplation, looked at its younger relative with fear and suspicion. Both so stretched apart, they found their most vivid expression in Ponykind, this fool race. Equines, always led by great intentions, threw themselves at each other’s throat. They waged a war that spiralled out of control. Blood quenched the thirst of Equestria’s furrows. And at the end, when the mists of war finally dissipated, an unexpected outcome shook the nation’s foundations. Magic, though raw and powerful, was defeated.
However it came with a price, as everything. Ponykind lost its most precious gift in the process: Equestria itself.
Kiln of a long lasting battle of ideologies, that admirable land that saw the birth of Civilisation was no longer fit for life. Consequently, Science did what it was meant for from the start, aiming skywards at the stars and beyond the cold emptiness of space.
The time of Ponies on Equestria was over but the end it was not. A new epoch followed: an era of exploration, expansion, exploitation, and unfortunately… extermination. Ponykind spread, broke down, thrived… It fed on as many divides as the mysteries that still lie far up the stars.
And, as everything, the sky was forever changed.

The Child Of Solace