--------------------------------------------The Castle of Friendship-------------------------------------------
“Come on Twilight, let's go to bed already” Spike complained, the small dragon looking sleepy.
“No, Spike, this is too important. A star has appeared that Princess Luna didn’t put there. This could be a huge discovery! What if it's a comet or some other form of debris? What if it's on a collision course with Equis!?” Twilight was starting to get a worried. What if this new star was out of Princess Luna’s control? Was that even possible? Twilight didn’t know but she knew one thing. That star was an unknown, but not for long.
Twilight had set up her largest telescope atop the castle's highest spire. From here she could get a good look at just what that lighted object could be. After finishing the setup, Twilight slipped a ring connecting to the telescope lense onto her horn.
“What's that for?” Spike piped up.
“This is a magic transfer device. It’s meant for me to amplify the magnification of the telescope, and also allows me to project an image of what it’s seeing as an image in the air.” Twilight explained as she began the transfer. What looked like a portal appeared in front of the both of them showing a close up of the night sky. “Hmmm. Spike? Did we double check the trajectory?”
“Actually we triple checked it. It's all right. but all I see is one big bright light.” The little dragon answered.
“Maybe if I zoom in some more…” she said as she strained a little more to output more magic.
The image zoomed in, and what it revealed astounded the both of them “Spike! Quick! take a letter to both of the princesses”
“Already on it!” Spike called out digging in a drawer for more parchment.
-----------------------------------------------------I.C.S. Maria-------------------------------------------------
The fleet had finally achieved a solar orbit aligned with their target. Now the first phase was to begin. “Captian, launch the satellites and have mission control group 1 guide them into position around the planet. Also, have the Ptolemy and the Falcon prep 12 expeditionary squadrons each and hold them on standby.”
“Sir! Yes Sir!” came the captain's response.
Admiral Malcolm pressed a button on the console before him and a small red light began to blink, indicating that the microphone was online. “My fellow humans, long have we struggled to bring our journey to a close. Though none who took the first steps away from our mother earth are still with us, we have finally arrived. The future of the human race is upon our shoulders, and our trials are only now truly beginning. But we must march forward! We must endure! And now, for the first time in twenty million years, we have a home again!”
If the void of space could carry sound, anyone near the fleet at that moment would have been deafened by the roar of cheering that came from every human aboard those vessels. As the cheering carried on though, many of those in charge of the preparations had been busy with the work of launching, guiding, and monitoring hundreds of thousands of satellites. As these satellites came online, one after another, they showed statistics that had not been expected. The atmosphere was indeed made up of nitrogen, oxygen, carbon dioxide, and trace amounts of other gasses, but it had a much higher iron, and silicate ratio than originally predicted. The planet had liquid water covering about 60% of its surface. it even had vegetation! But what no one had been expecting, was the signs of animal life upon the surface. Not just animal life, sapient animal life! Man-made structures dotted the landscape in some close knit areas, with wide expanses of open land between. extensive forests bordered barren wastes, and clouds seemed to move as if directed in certain areas.
“Captain Valelor, get the the Ptolemy and the Falcon on my com line now!”