When humanity's first FTL capable ship lands on Equis the residents are terrified and the crew have to negotiate with the races of Equis, some who look at them as animals, others who hate them for their advancement over them and whose who look at them as possible ally's, friends and something more?
Private Ryan is just a marine who survived the fall, but when he gets flung out into a new world everything changes for him. Now he has to protect the only human settlement on Equis while dealing with his species dark past of genocide and destruction.
Join him and a few more soldiers in a fight to quite possibly ensure the survival of humanity.
(This story was partially inspired by ShadowWalking18's story World of Ponies: The Pony-Human War).