> Foreman 3721: A New Beginning > by NightFr0st > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Prologue: A Brief History > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- History of the Cragite Infestation of Equestria and Conflict of the Great War by Stone Crag: Equestria was once a nice and beautiful place; everyone lived in harmony, little children plays, a princess hanging-out with friends, until one day a strange-green meteor stroke on the center of the Crag Peak. Since then, the once peaceful place was now a crystal river, everywhere strange crystals emerged from the ground, creatures and inhabitants that moved near it experience a sudden feel of pain and strange sickness. The country was devastated and corrupted with green crystals, researchers studied hard to know the cause of this sudden emergence. Even the high-princess of Equestria hasn’t known about these strange objects. The country now was in a state of chaos, everyone hid in the deep caves of Canterlot or the great city of the Crystal Empire. Everyone was in confusion as to how the strange crystals never grew near Canterlot, Ponyville or the Crystal Empire. The creatures near the Evergreen forest were infected with green substances and crystals and mutated into beast stronger than before. The crystal spread across the planet of Equis and now was a global problem. The princesses gathered all the nations to the safe zones, all the nations Leaders; Dragon, Minotaur, Gryphon and Changelings were at the great palace of Canterlot, The Dragon King, Mir’Dalum; The Minotaur President, Hard Stone; The Gryphon King, Iron Beak and the Changeling New Queen, Firefly, were all at the throne table of Equestria. Luckily after two years of suffering, a rock farmer found a way to stop the effects of the green crystal that they dubbed the Hard Crystalline or the Cragite, when it started to sprout near Crag Peak Mountain. He was just working at his home when he accidentally smashed a piece of Cragite and stumbled at it, he was baffled when he didn’t have the symptoms of Cragite radiation. The report reached at the Canterlot Castle, at first they thought it was just a simple rumor, then when it reached the research team assigned to eliminate the threat they started to create a tool to destroy the crystals. When the time came, the tool was complete the first ‘Shredder’ was mass produced two and a half years prior. The first test went successfully and the green crystals were collected for research. The harvested Cragite was sent to the research lab near Ponyville headed by the newly crowned ruler, Princess Twilight Abigail Sparkle. Years went by and the research team made a great discovery… when the crystal was cut anywhere at its body, the radiation ceased and the cut crystal was ready for extraction. The harvested Cragite was put at a location far from the population, hundred silos was made in order to store the harvested Cragite. The ever growing number of harvested Cragite was increasing and the princesses made a new discovery, the crystals has a strange magical influence near the Equestrian crystals especially, Ionian, a pinkish-blue crystal commonly grows at the Crystal Empire or at the crystal caves below Canterlot. The Ionian crystal stops the growth of the Cragite, the pinkish-blue crystal was made into a new tool, “The shredder mark III” where the blade was made into pure Ionian metal. In years of research and survival a new enemy sprouted at the east part of Equis, The Mutonians or what the princesses called the Dwarven. Their race was always an enemy of Equestria or the other nation allied with it. They are a series of bomb-crazed small creatures almost the size of a teen pony or 4 hoofs. Basically they made the Cragite into their own use, making Cragite bombs and weapons. The two factions are now at war, The New Alliance or TNA versus the Global Liberator Republic or GLR. The TNR is an alliance of four races: Ponies, Dragons, Griffon and Changelings. The Ponies are the main species of Equestria, considering the fact that the Royal Princesses and the Elements of Harmony are ponies. The next was the Dragons, their high-altitude flight and massive strength is a great advantage for frontline and defensive battles. Griffons are a brave race, after many experiences of battles made them a great set of warriors for the new alliance and also they make a great scout with their fast flying speed. The next were the Changelings, they used to be the enemies of the Ponies but after their last queen betrayed their Empire, their Emperor, Great Scarab, exiled the past Queen and her forces to the badlands and sent his daughter, Queen Glow (or Firefly which she calls herself), to Equestria to tell the Princesses about their apology. Queen Glow was a great strategist of The Changeling Empire and she also plans missions involving recovery and stealth. Together they uphold the forces of the GLR. While the GLR was made of three forces, the Minotaur betrayed Equestria after they were convinced by the dwarves, that their races were part of their bloodlines. The next was the Dwarves, the main race of the GLR, they traded their life to science and gathered their forces against Equestria because the Princesses contradicts the laws of physics. Then the last was the banished race of Changelings. The Former-Queen Chrysalis and her hive joined the forces of GLR to go against the Queen and King of the Crystal Empire. The TNA was almost a quarter from the enemy faction’s technology and devised their own opposing to their sources, Ionian; they forged their swords with the anti-Cragite crystal. The sword was proven to be ineffective against the enemy and their ranged weapons. After a month of expanding their armaments, an inventor created a new weapon the IIW-07 or Ionian Infused Weapon 1007, a projectile based weapon, with rounds of Pure Ionian Energy made the weapon the first that could best the enemy’s developments. The said weapon was issued then other researchers and inventors made their way to WarTech Inc. headed by the Element of Honesty Applejack Stephanie Apple and her brother Big Mac. Together they produce tons of weaponry, upgraded them and mass produced once it was completed and sent to the battlefield. The war will still go on until the end of time or when one faction will fall. The war was called the Great War… End of “History of the Cragite Infestation in Equestria, and Beginning of the Great War”. … And it is still greatly going on until a new threat was emerging in the depths of space. It has been ten years since the Cragite infested Equis, and seven and a half years since the GLR invaded. The two factions reached “Intergalactic Age” three years ago when the GLR banished from the face of Equis and moved to another planet as they discovered space travel. The TNA soon followed as they developed ships that could travel around space. A year later, TNA made colonies from other planets near their system they improved their weapons and they also made refineries and Ionian Growing Structures or IGS. The GLR also made their own Cragite growing facilities and found many planets away from the TNA, they also discovered galaxy-traveling system they called Slip-space tech and moved into galaxies far away the TNA galaxy called Pony Land. Since then the traces of GLR was gone from the Pony Land and the new TNA was formed involving defending their galaxy from threats and insuring safety of the colonized planets. After one and a half years the TNA discovered FTL travel and devised a technology called FTL or faster than light travel. Since then they discovered one race of intelligent life forms, called the Humans they formed an alliance since both of them had the same problem of Cragite while the Humans called it Tiberium. Together they dominated ten galaxies and two-hundred star systems and made one enemy the Covenant is what they called themselves. The planet of Equis was now what it was used to be before, a peace and secure planet after the Main Deposit of Cragite was exterminated from the core of the planet.