“A house divided against itself cannot stand.”-Abraham Lincoln

1400 years ago on the planet of Epona, three bickering pony tribes, the Earth Ponies who tended to crops, the warrior Pegasi who had the ability to fly and control the weather, and the wise Unicorns, whose powerful magic allowed them to accomplish the hardest of tasks, unified after a freak blizzard forced the once bitter rivals to look past each other’s differences and work together to survive.

The three tribes found a land called Equestria, where they would live in peace and harmony with each other. Or so they thought.

After a few hundred years of silence, the spirit of chaos known as Discord stole power from the two heirs of Equestria and ravaged the nation. One by one Discord turned the ponies against each other and made them forget the nature they once held true. It seemed for a while that the ponies were forever destined to be miserable under the spirit of chaos. To them, the situation seemed hopeless.

Unfortunately for Discord, he did not properly dispose the sister alicorn heirs, Celestia and Luna. After years of training, two sisters braved all odds and overthrew the Draconequus and finally gave Equestria the harmony it desired.
Soon the sister Alicorn “Goddesses” began their quest to keep ponykind from returning to the state of chaos. They and the bearers of the Elements of Harmony, a peacekeeping force that could only be used by ponies of the purest heart, would make sure that pony kind would be safe from all the evils the universe offered. However, society can only go so far with pain as a driving force for evolution. The alicorns had to live under a totalitarian rule and control even the simplest parts of pony freedoms to preserve peace (even if it was nice for the common people).

Unity came to the species of humanity in different forms. It all started when WWIII ended on Earth at 2030. For what had started out as a unified Arab attack on Israel soon escalated to the bloodiest conflict humans had ever seen. NATO, the Neo USSR, the Far East Nations, and the Arab-African Alliance (AAA) fought each other for their own reasons. But why reasons and battles when war never changes and deep down the cause of war remains the same, human desire and ends the same, with death.

Eventually the conflict went nuclear and a small number of nations such as North Korea, Iran, and a couple states in America were totally decimated with no trace of life remaining. United under the suffering, humankind unified under a single, social democratic global government to lead the masses.

Not wanting to scar Earth any further, the humans decided it was time to colonize other planets to take the burden off their home planet. Using the secret plans of the former American government to evacuate their people into space in the event of extinction, the humans were able to develop tools for an age of interstellar travel such as terra-formers, space battleships and faster than light travel. As a result of the colonization of numerous worlds, the humans called their government the ‘United Terran Federation’ or UTF for short. A new extrasolar era had begun .

Unlike ponies however, humans did not believe in controlling freedoms to preserve peace. War never died and never will for humanity as not everyone accepted these ideologies. Major insurrection groups rose over the years and challenged the new government. They did anything to get power, even commit the genocide of innocents.

Set backs aside, humans felt that if they could amongst themselves, why not form alliances with other species? So while the primary reason to colonize planets was to accommodate the ever growing population, another reason why humans wanted to colonize planets was to solve the question if they were the only residents of the universe. While humans did technically find aliens, they were plants or small mammals and reptile animals, not sentient beings like them.
For a while it seemed that humans would never make their “First Contact”.

Until now…

Author's Notes:

Please don't abandon this story yet if you think the prologue was bad. The story does get progressively better according to a few pre readers.