[ WP ] The `` grim and gritty '' re-boot of a beloved children 's television show goes horribly , horribly wrong . Or perhaps horribly right .

It is the first day of the first month of the year 1 P.I. ( *Post Illucescente*, or *After the Dawning* ), although history has not yet named it as such. 
 
 It has been nearly a millennium since the War of Five had concluded with a total stalemate, forcing the Unicorns, Tricorns, Pegasi, Earth Ponies, and the Sand Nomads into an uneasy peace. In time, the blood spilled upon the earth had dried to dust and blown away. The conflict became tepid, but the enmity each nation held had never died. 
 
 It had been two centuries since the Alicorn Conquest, forging the land of Equestria into a singular and mighty empire. In Canterlot, the seat of Equestria's power, resides Queen Celestia, undisputed Ruler of All Ponykind, Defender of the Realm, Mother of Peace, the Thousand-Year Monarch. 
 
 Today, an Earth Pony named Applejack will have a fateful encounter with a cell of anarchist freedom fighters. Today, the buried legacy of Earth Ponies will be exhumed. Today, a nation will be conceived. 
 
 My Little Pony: Nations
