In the thirty-third century, ponies regularly travel to other stars using spaceships equipped with artificial intelligence. These “Spaceplones” look like mechanical ponies with engines and wings, and their friendship-capable artificial intelligence keep the pilots company and enable travel at superluminal speeds using the Friendship Drive.
While ponies can change their profession more easily, to a spaceplone, the purpose they were built for is part of their identity. Multi-role designs exist, but most ships are constructed for very specific purposes.
However, when ponies designed the computer architecture for the artificial mind of the spaceships, they used the minds they were familiar with as a template and ships can experience many aspects of the equine condition much in the same way ponies do.
In today’s episode of “imaginary dichotomies”: Freighter and combat spaceships.
Based on my (as of yet unfinished) other story “Friendship Drive Charging”, a crossover between MLP:FiM and the game Elite:Dangerous https://www.fimfiction.net/story/472354/friendship-drive-charging it is recommended you read at least some of that one first for context.
Abort that orbit insertion, Captain Infodump. Lore should be snuck gradually into the story, not front loaded into the story landing page.
A more effective long description might be to imply the setting and lore and pose a story question to the reader; perhaps, just as an example,
"Captain Charactername and his Spaceplone Shipname face a test of their courage and guile while smuggling in the Omega Sector."
Boom. Done. 20 words, introduces the character and the feel.
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this story is a spin off of the story that establishes the lore. i would love to do it better like that, but if i introduced the lore again a second time, i'd basically be rewriting the original story