Soon after discovering Rainbow Power, Twilight Sparkle comes across Applejack arguing with a neighbor about the merits of their respective produce. Fortunately, Twilight's been reading and knows just the right way to answer the question once and for all: a cook-off!

So which are you for? Peaches, or Apples...?

At the northernmost edge of Equestria, just past the Crystal Mountains and on the edge of the permanent ice cap covering the Old Territories, winter has always come early and hard to the Crystal Empire. Since the downfall of Sombra and Cadance's assumption of her rightful place as Crystal Princess, she, just like the crystal ponies she leads, has had to adapt to short days and frequent storms at the bottom of the year. By now, a few winter storms seem perfectly normal.

But three blizzards in a month? Weeks before the beginning of winter? That definitely isn't normal. This winter, the Empire may be faced with more than just a few snowstorms, but instead a struggle for its very survival. As its Princess, Cadance will be on the front lines...

(Set after Season 4)

One hundred years ago, ponykind discovered they were not native to their planet, Equus. For the past sixty years, they have been working on a spaceship to return them to their true homeworld. The young unicorn scientist Twilight Sparkle has provided the final piece of the puzzle needed to complete the gigantic mothership intended to lead their return, a technology to fuse pony and machine into a single organism. Refusing to allow anypony else to undergo the highly experimental procedure, she sacrifices herself to become Fleet Command. In just months, the Mothership will finally launch, and an age-old journey will begin.

Elsewhere aboard the ship, six ponies who would, in another universe, have been her close friends and companions prepare. Shining Armor is commanding the vessel's final assembly, including the permanent integration of his sister into its computational core. Applejack commands life support, keeping fifty thousand ponies alive in the depths of space. Fluttershy has just come aboard as the ship's lead zoologist, a renowned expert in animal behavior whose talents will, hopefully, extend to alien life. Rainbow Dash is a scout pilot, one of the ship's complement of defenders, as well as the tip of the ship's mission of exploration. Rarity is a master machinist, ensuring that the new and experimental technology the ship is working on always has a certain artistic flair. And Pinkie Pie is a pastry chef by day and entertainer by night, ensuring in her own inimitable way the ship's continued morale.

But none of them have the power to see what awaits them in their mission...

(MLP/Homeworld crossover)

A compendium of tales about Equestria from the conception of Celestia to the downfall of King Sombra. Translated with footnotes by T. Sparkle.

Updates will most likely be highly irregular.

When Twilight Sparkle makes a shocking discovery during a visit to Fluttershy, she may have to seriously reconsider her opinion of her friend.