Everyone was taken by train to a launch facility in the middle of the desert where a shuttle was waiting. While they waited for the signal to board the shuttle, they dressed in uniforms with their names on them. As they finished lacing their boots, the pad workers notified them over an intercom that the time had come to board the shuttle. After climbing on board and fastening seatbelts, everyone braced for the launch. The shuttle started tilting backwards until it pointed straight up. The shuttle blasted off and reached space in forty-five minutes and everyone started looking around for the ship. They looked for three minutes, but couldn't see anything. They were startled when several lights suddenly illuminated and revealed their ship, which was called the Seed of Equestria. The ship was pitch black on its skin and had a rotating wheel with four connections from its middle. When the shuttle was docked, everyone took their seatbelts off and pulled themselves through the connection tunnel and boarded the main vessel. The shuttle was released back to the ground because the ship had its own smaller shuttle for short excursions.
"I built many parts of this ship. I will show you around.", Flurry Heart said.
Everyone looked at all of the different areas throughout the ship and were amazed at how much food was stocked for them. Twilight noticed during the docking sequence that the vessel had no thrusters, and questioned Cadence about why that was.
"Good question, Twilight. Flurry designed a whole bunch of ships like this one. They are black to blend in slightly with the space around them. They are prototypes of something called a "solar-sailer." This is a ship that does not leave a trail of thrust behind it because a retractable sail converts space energy into an endless supply of fuel.", she answered.
The wheel was the only part of the ship with gravity. This was because of the fact that the wheel was in constant rotation. The stasis capsules were in one of the four parts of the wheel. Flurry demonstrated how they worked by opening one. The glass hatch opened sideways down the middle and the retracting platform rose upwards. There were padded straps attached to the platform that would gently grip whoever was laying on it, and wires and IV lines to attach to the catheters that the crew had in their limbs to pump in nutrients to keep them alive. Flurry activated the sail and joined everyone in the sleep station to watch the deployment over a camera. Twilight was shocked when she saw how massive the sail was. It started out folded up nicely, but after it was extended out, the ruby red canopy unfurled. Flurry had also programmed the star coordinates of the new planet into the navigation computer and written an additional program to wake her up so she could wake up everyone else once the ship arrived in orbit around the planet. Once everyone was on a platform, Twilight laid down on hers and attached the tubes, electrodes, and straps. The straps quickly tightened up and held her still. The platforms lowered into the capsules and the hatches closed over everyone. Instantly, the pumps started giving nutrients and the sedative was administered. As the sedative took effect and everyone became sleepy, they started shivering when the capsule slowly became colder and colder. As their eyes slid shut, they watched as the hatch windows frosted over with ice crystals. Everyone slipped out of consciousness and into a deep slumber.