The Resurgence-class Battlecruiser commanded by Admiral Kejim was in orbit of the planet. The Battlecruiser was the only ship in the sector, apart from smuggler's using this system as a way to get their passagers or cargo into the core worlds without being detected by the First Order or The New Republic. The Battlecruiser known as the 'Arrestor' could be clearly seen from the ground on the planet of Equestria. The 3,000 meters long ship was twice the size of its predecessor. Kejim was a Vice Admiral during the Galactic and Imperial Civil War. His faction, the Imperial Remenant retreated into the Unknown Regions to become what today is the First Order. He often was praised for his tactics, after all he was the younger brother of High Admiral Vosh. Not to mention that his father was also an Admiral. But for the Republic and the Galactic Empire. Unfortunately both were now dead. His father was killed in the Battle of Endor and his brother died during the Second Battle of Coruscant, both of which ended in Rebel and New Republic victory.

Operation: Cinder was supposed to help the Empire retaliate and defeat the rebellion but instead it failed. After Cinder and the Battle of Jakku it was enough for the Empire to split into different factions. Some controlled just maybe one planet while others controlled multiple systems. The Imperial Civil War ended quite quickly with the signing of the Galactic Concordance.

Those who were either a part of the Imperial Remenant or still loyal to Palpatine fled to the Unknown Regions, where they became the First Order and secretly built their military up. Then the First Order revealed itself to the New Republic and destroyed it. With a single command from General Hux the entire Hosnian system was no more. Though it didn't take long after the Hosnian Cataclysm for the Resistance to fight back and destroy Starkiller Base.

Admiral Kejim saw to avenge everyone who died that day. His occupation of Equestria was the way he saw it. While he had to admit that the ponies were a unique species that the galaxy has never seen he still had plans to exterminate them. But unsurprisingly the High Command was worried that another genocide would lead to the Resistance fighting the First Order head on.

An officer approached Kejim from behind.
"Sir, our scouts have located what seems to be a third high value target south of the capital."

"Send down a detachment to arrest her, see to it personally Commander."

"Yes, sir." The officer left the bridge of the Battlecruiser.

Three troop transports left the main hangar of the Arrestor. They began to enter the atmosphere and were difficult to be seen due to night time. The Transports were flying approximately 20 feet from the ground to cover their approach. It wasn't long before they arrived infront of the castle. The three troop transports landed and opened the front door.

Three squads of Stormtroopers left the transports. The first consisted of mostly Riot Control ones that were supposed to keep any curious ponies away while the other two would secure the castle and capture Princess Twilight Sparkle and arrest any surrendering ponies.

The two guards at the entrance attempted to stop the Stormtroopers from entering but their attempts did nothing as two shots to the head were enough to make them fall dead to the ground.

A Pegasi guard on the balcony saw this and knew what he had to do. He quickly made his way to where the Princess of Friendship was, in the cutie map room.

"Uh, no. But I'm a fast learner!" Rainbow Dash said.

"Too fast I'm afraid.." Rarity replied.

The guard burst into the room. He saw the Alicorn sitting in her chair on the opposite side of the room and quickly trotted to there.
"Your Highness, they're here!" He said.

Suddenly a loud sound coming from the doors was heard. A detonator had blown the doors open. The thick smoke disappeared slowly and the Stormtroopers used it to their advantage.
The squad of 9 Stormtroopers quickly entered. They gathered up the three guards and the Main 6 towards the east wall. 8 of them were aiming their blasters at them while the ninth attempted to locate the Princess. The sergeant eventually saw how the lavender pony was different than all of them. He assumed that she was the Princess and unknowingly he was right.
He instructed the Alicorn to follow him. He took her outside of the castle where he told her to enter one of the transports. She did as told and immediately upon entering the door closed. The lights turned on and she was greeted by two Stormtroopers. Both having a black pauldron. She stood silent.

About 10 minutes later the ship had landed. The door slowly opened and revealed a massive hangar. Stormtroopers, Officers and other essential crew were everywhere. To her it was quite a surprise to see how well organized the enemy was. Though right after she felt an extreme amount of pain coming from the back. She looked back and saw how one of the Stormtroopers had grabbed her tail and was just ignoring the fact that Twilight was being dragged on the floor and getting hurt. His friend didnt seem to care and did not even look once at the Alicorn.

Minutes passed and eventually the Stormtrooper holding her stopped. But she was then thrown into a cell. The unclean and cold floor made everything worse. Though she was at least grateful that the cell was quite big. Even had bathroom. It was nice for her to know that the First Order at lead cares about its prisoners more than the Empire.

Elsewhere

The remaining Main 6 and the three guards were at Fort Kilo. The old Imperial base. It was still night and freezing temperature while being outside didn't help. Infront of them stood an officer and what seemed to be a heavy Stormtrooper preparing his FWMB-10 to fire at the ponies if the order is given.

The officer was just about to order for the death of the ponies when his comlink beeped. The officer pressed on a button and made the comlink display a live image of a person in blue.

"Commander. I have new orders for you. Instead of executing the associates of the Princess, have them transferred to the brig on my ship."

"Yes, sir. We'll do it right away." The commander replied and finished the conversation.

Once that was finished he ordered some of his men to move the ponies to a transport. Once they finished, the transport took off. Heading for the Arrestor. The transport landed inside of the same hangar that Twilight's did. But instead of being dragged onn the floor they were escorted at gun point.
Suddenly one of the guards attempted to flee he managed to avoid the blaster fire coming from the Stormtroopers but he bumped into a Stormtrooper on patrol. The guard looked up at the Trooper who was also looking down at him. Without question the Stormtrooper aimed his blaster at the guard and fired. The dead body of the unicorn guard fell to the ground.

Applejack was thrown into the same cell as Twilight, Rarity and the young pegasi guard, Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash and finally Pinkie Pie and the last guard.

"Applejack?" Twilight asked.

"Ya, it's me Twilight." The country mare answered.

"What happened?"

"Well, ima be honest and say that we nearly got killed but then the officer got new orders and brough' us here."

"Oh. Well, I suppose we're all stuck onboard."

One day later...

Kejim was on the bridge of his Battlecruiser. He was looking at the TIE Fighters heading beyond the sector to intercept a Corellian YT-1930 freighter which scanners had picked up. Further scannings showed that the ship was transporting massive amounts of kyber crystals. The same crystals used to power up lightsabers.

Suddenly a scanner started to beep.
"Sir, we're detecting a ship exiting hyperspace!" An officer in the pods where all technical stuff to command the ship was said.

"First Order or the New Republic?" Kejim asked.

"First Order. It's the Tector."

The Battlecruiser known as the 'Tector' emerged out of Hyperspace. A smile appeared on Kejim's face. Seeing the Battlecruiser of his friend Admiral Tarron. Admiral Tarron also used to be an Imperial Admiral like his friend. Both pledged their loyalty to the First Order at the same time and have been in it for more than a decade. The First Order Admiral hailed his friend in order to open a communications bridge.

"Kejim, it is nice to see you again." Tarron said.

"Indeed. Though may I ask why you have come here?" Kejim asked.

"High Command has located a new threat, well two. The Imperial Archives state there were four rulers. We've captured three so far. The second thing is that there is apparently something called the Elements of something. If we don't capture them as well then, I don't know what can happen."

"Very well. My scouts will work on finding this fourth ruler and these elements." Kejim finished the conversation.

About five minutes he saw two Troop transports leaving the ship. Presumably carrying the scouts. The Admiral left the bridge afterward and went to his own quarters onboard. Kejim opened the door and closed it. He sat down on his desk and started to read on what these Elements could be.

'According to speculation, these so-called Elements of Harmony are capable of bringing balance, harmony and spreading friendship. The books regarding the history of the world claim that they've helped in saving the planet from chaos more than twice in recent history.'

"Interesting." He muttered.

Kejim's studying was cut short. A knock on the door leading to his quarters was heard. The Admiral stood up and made his way to the door. He opened it and was greeted by an officer. The officer had a worried type of expression on his face. Kejim could tell that there was trouble onboard his ship.

"Sir... It's the p-prisoners..." The officer struggled to say.

"What about them?" Kejim asked.

"T-they've escaped!" The officer let out.

Author's Notes:

Apologies for the previous version. It was poorly written I will admit. Hope you like this new version. If not I'll write it again I suppose :/
For those who haven't read an Imperial Occupation let me tell you that this fanfic takes place one year after the events of The Last Jedi. Don't worry! Even though I've already seen the movie I promise that I won't spoil anything!
Feel free to show support and if you don't like this fanfiction then please tell me why so that I can improve!

Also yes, the title for the chapter is a reference to Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Season 1, Episode 5 in which a B1 Battle droid asks "Do we take prisoners?"