This assumes a vanilla Equestrian future, rather than the specific one of the Shadow Wars Story Verse, though some of the comments apply to my SWSV as well. Generally, the SWSV Equestria advances faster than this, as can be seen by reference to the noted story.

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In the finale you have the following Mane Six pairs:

(1) Applejack x Rainbow Dash: Not made explicit for obvious reasons, but they're clearly living together, and bickering like an old married couple. The interesting thing is that the more-femme AJ is more likely to be full-on lesbian and the more-butch Dashie bisexual, given that AJ's never had a crush on any male character but Dashie once had a crush on Soarin'.

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Introduction: In vanilla canon, it's obvious that the destinies of the Cutie Mark Crusaders have been very much shaped by their friendship with each other, and their repeated attempts to find their Cutie Marks linked their Talent epiphanies. This to the point that they actually got their Cutie Marks simultaneously, and their Cutie Marks are linked by all being within the same shield design that they made as their symbol. And, as we've seen, as a group they seem to have the

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Depends very much on my quality of life. If I were 123, but as healthy as I am now at 53, or even better as I was at 23, I would want to keep living. Luna discusses that issue in her little speech: that one deciedes to live day by day, year by year, and that few Ponies would wish to die if they chose it that way. Obviously, if I were in horrible pain and otherwise suffering, life might become a burden -- though even then, I might hope for a cure from whatever was causing me to suffer.

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(expanded from a comment to one of my own threads)

I. Purposes

The purposes of colonization of other worlds are identical to the purposes of colonization of other lands on one's own planet, because the Universe is continuous and other worlds are no less real than one's homeworld. These include the extension of the area one's own civilization, the exploitation of the resources contained thereupon, and the physical occupation of this area by one's own military and civilians.

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I have thought more than once about the Equestrian future. The most detailed exploration of this in my writing is Twelfth Equestriad Interview, which takes place in YOH 1548 (forty-eight years since the Liberation of Luna), and projects an Information Age civilization reaching for the rest of the Solar System and the stars beyond. But, of course, this takes place in the context of the main Shadow Wars worldline, in which there is a massive technological revolution between around YOH

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Introduction: Got this series premise yesterday.

Setting: Tranquility City, Luna, YOH 1595-1605 (95-105 years After Luna's Return, 71-81 years after the Last Battle).

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II. Direction of Change

The next major question, after "how far into the future?" is "what sort of changes occur?" We first should determine the direction of change. There are five overall possibilities.

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Introduction:

Unless Equestria is destroyed fairly soon, it will have a future, and the future is an interesting place in which to set stories. The question is, what sort of future?

I. Distance

The first question is, how far in the future are we? Borrowing from science fiction, we can distinguish some categories: I'll divide them into five here.

A. Very Near

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The following is taken from Twelfth Equestriad Interview -- it's Luna's answer to the question of whether or not immortality for all Ponies is possible -- or desirable. The context is that this is 48 years after her Return, and 24 years after Celestia discarnated and vanished into another dimension fighting Equestria's foes, leaving Luna as sole Ruling Princess (so she gets to implement policies based on her beliefs).

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I have completed Twelfth Equestriad Interview. At 15,741 words, and 6 chapters, it weighs in as a fair-length novelette. It was started on March 3rd 2014, lay fallow with 3 chapters for over a year, and then I returned to it and finished it in April-August of 2015. This is the first multi-chapter story I've completed since Dragonshyness in June 2014, and hence represents something of a victory for me.

I now stand at 13 completed and 20 incomplete tales.

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I have written about half of Chapter 5: "Final Segment" and all of the Epilogue. There's now almost 3400 words written in addition to the 8500 words published. Obviously, I'm not going to publish the Epilogue until I finish the Final Segment -- there's probably another 1500-2000 words left to write, for a total length now of 14,000 to 15,000 words. So probably by the end of this weekend, I'll have a third novelette finished. Pre-yay?

Last night I slept safe in my bed and awoke after a good night's sleep. I did not fear that, in the night, the enemies of my country would come and destroy my house and kill myself or my wife or any of my loved ones. I take this for granted, as do most Americans. Even though I know better, having extensively studied both military and social history, I tend to assume that peace and law are the norm, war and crime very rare exceptions to the rule.

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Introduction: I've been thinking about the roles the Cutie Mark Crusaders will play in the Shadow Wars Storyverse. Here are the results of my speculations, some of which I've obviously had in mind since I started Twelfth Equestriad Interview.

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