What caused the Pony Apocalypse? Nobody living today really knows. A very few of the oldest ponies remember a time before the apocalypse, when Equestria had a day and night, when food grew, when whether changed predictably, when every day wasn’t a fight for survival. Even they disagree on what caused things to change though. Some say it was the dragons. Some say it was Princess Luna who staged a coup. Some say that Princess Celestia went mad and took her own life, plunging Equestria into insanity and darkness. It might have been any of these things, all of them, or none at all. At the moment it doesn’t matter much. Every day is a fight for survival. Every day is a fight for friendship. Every day seems to bring new challenges, new dangers, new heartbreaks, and new terrors, while a bloated, nightmare moon casts a sickening glow over the landscape.