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// Prologue - The end of an age? 
// Story: Equestrian Eclipse 
// by AppleNitrox 
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Prologue : The end of an age?






15 years have passed since the defeat of Nightmare Moon and return of Princess Luna. Luna is not happy with the politics that her sister, Celestia, pursued in order to change entire Equestria and be the only Princess. It all began when Celestia started giving restrictions to ponies, Equestria became more controlled. These restrictions were believed to save Equestria from future failure and rebellions. Luna knew it isn't right to control their own ponies. Another factor that was driving Luna towards rebellion was that her own sister cut her power. Luna was just a Princess to show-off at official events while Celestia held true power over Equestria.

The breaking point was when Celestia discharged Luna's personal guard and replaced it with her own to keep an eye on her. The things that Celestia did to ponies was for example more inspections on what ponies sell. It was believed to save ponies from dangerous substances.

Luna didn't want to do this because of her own good, Luna wanted to do that for all ponies. She found many ponies that listened to her, she began to gather them under her command. Small forces grew into a big army very quickly, many of her royals captains converting ponies in Trottingham, Ponyville, Fillydelphia and other pony cities to join the New Lunar Republic.


Celestia saw what was happening, she tried to talk with her sister Luna, but answer that she heard was that it is nothing, no big forces and no rebellion. New Lunar Republic didn't have any territories, they instead gathered into a secret society. Celestia made a decree :
“Everypony that will support the New Lunar Republic, or will try to change the views of ponies to join Luna's forces, will end in prison.”

After the decree Luna needed to escape, she wasn’t safe in Canterlot Castle anymore. She was living in one of her royals captains' home. Greensword was a tough pony, with a posture was larger than normal. His left eye had a scar from a sword, Greensword was blind because of it. He was promoted to main General of NLR very quickly.

Because of the decree, Celestia forced ponies that believed in Luna and supported her to flee into hiding, they choosing old warehouses or destroyed buildings for their meetings. Large number of cities had a captain that  led New Lunar Republic forces in the city. A rebellion was needed, but Luna couldn't make that happen yet. They needed a plan, one that would allow conquering cities with minimal pony losses. And there still was one other problem - New Lunar Republic needed a capital city. Without it, they couldn’t start a real rebellion.

Celestia, growing frustrated with the rebellion, decided to take action. She ordered her best spies to infiltrate the New Lunar Republic. They were tasked to take down leaders in several cities.  The Spies did very well, especially one of them - Goldenhood. She was a thick pony, but swift and agile. She performed numerous tasks for Celestia, including assassination. Forces in  Manehattan were defeated, every supporter of Luna in the town taken to prisons of Canterlot. Some of them were sent to the mines and other places to work, where they could be useful to the Solar Empire.

Greensword was angered by this turn of events, nopony ever saw him in a mood like this before. He asked Luna for permission to attack Fillydelphia and to take the city. Luna, at first reluctant to take cities by force, gave her permission to conquer the city for New Lunar Republic. City was taken with minimal loses, because of propaganda and information on what happen in Manehattan, which convinced ponies to join Luna.  On the map of Equestria, a new country arose called the New Lunar Republic, with the capital city of Fillydelphia.


The war, has just begun….