It had Twilight being granted some kind of executive privilege over Ponyville and surrounding lands, she came into conflict with Applejack and other earth ponies who had this kind of corrupt union going, Rainbow Dash was mentioned to have PTSD from a war with griffins and killed an eagle due to being triggered by it, and Twilight in general was this ambiguous chessmaster princess who played sides off of each other. I think she and Rarity literally played chess too in it?

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You beat me to it.

Well done.