10,000 years ago, Humanity charted the stars and created an empire to survive the ages. They created a society of such power and might, they thought nothing would dare stand against them.

They were wrong.

The Hydra, a race wholly dedicated to the annihilation of Mankind, plunged the fledgling empire into cataclysmic war. For 50 years Humanity fought, but ultimately they lost.

On the eve of humanity’s destruction, 10 humans were interred in cryogenic sleep and sent to a planet Humanity had terraformed: Eques.

For 10,000 years the humans slept, only to awaken In a universe they no longer recognized, on a world full of many multitudes of creatures from myth and legend.

However, something stirs in the darkness. Something long thought to have been defeated, and should the Humans fail, it will plunge all of Eques into darkness.

A/N: hey everyone, I’ve decided to try writing my second story on the platform.

Now this one has a weird background to it: back when the FIM was in its second or third season, I was trying to find a fanfic about the return of Discord. Instead, I found a rather unique HIE fic. It was nothing amazing; the writing was ameuterish and the story was a bit cliched and predictable, but for some reason I loved it.

I built a whole world out of it, tried to imagine what would happen next, and even made some of my own worldbuilding for it.

Right before it’s last chapter was to be published, the author decided he was going to revise the whole story. He did, but it stopped updating before the halfway point and he took it down from Fanfiction.net a year ago. This greatly disappointed me.

However, I’ve read the fic so many times I basically have it memorized and saved the revised version, and since I have way too much free time on my hands, I decided to rewrite it and post it on the platform.

I like to to think of it as a type of recursive fan fiction, and give credit of the story and eight of the human characters to Hawkeye 35 (who also wrote the story COLTS)

Also, bear with me regarding the story image. There wasn’t much that would fit for my incredibly specific story so I had to settle on a sci fi soldier.