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// Introduction 
// Story: Warpony 40k 
// by Luckythebrony 
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Introduction

It is the 41st Millennium.  For more than a hundred centuries the Empress has sat immobile on the Golden Throne of Equestria.  She is the master of ponykind by the will of the gods, and mistress of a million worlds by the might of her inexhaustible armies.  She is a rotting carcass writhing invisibly with power from the Dark Age of Technology.  She is the Carrion Lady of the Imperium for whom a thousand souls are sacrificed every day, so that she may never truly die.

Yet even in her deathless state, the Empress continues her eternal vigilance.  Mighty battle fleets cross the daemon-infested miasma of the warp, the only route between the distant stars, there way lit by the Astroharmonicon the magikal manifestation of Her will.  Vast armies give battle in her name on uncounted worlds.  Greatest amongst her soldiers are the Equestus Marestartes the Space Mareines, bio-engineered super-warrior mares.  Their comrades in arms are legion; the Equine Guard and countless planetary defense forces, the ever vigilant Equinistion and the tech- ponies Equestus Marechanicus to only name but a few.  But for all their multitudes they are barely enough to hold off the ever- present threat from aliens, heretics, mutants-and worse.

To be a pony in such times is to be one amongst untold billions.  It is to live during the kindest and most bloody regimes imaginable.  These are the tales of those times.  Forget the power of technology and science for so much has been forgotten, never to be relearned.  Forget hatred and progress, for in the grim dark future there is only harmony through war.  There is only a false peace amongst the stars, only an eternity of carnage and slaughter and the laughter of thirsting gods.