"...as for the Why: beyond the obvious financial motivation, it's exceedingly simple... because I can."
Derpy, Pinkie Pie, Sweetie Belle, Chrysalis. Myself, summed up in four MLP characters. I'm a deeply flawed individual, but if you can get past that, I'm sure we can be the best of friends.
"If I desire to possess everything, does that not make everything mine by right?"
"Her crews are babes or madmen? Her port is all to make? You're manned by Truth and Science, and you steam for steaming's sake?" - Rudyard Kipling "The Three-Decker"
I am the Seneschal, the ruler of the eternal circle, and I have come for ponies.