This war lasted multiple years and forced Equestria into a rushed industrial revolution as the two superpowers raced to outdo each other in the fields of arcane science, industry, and wartime technology. The Great War was a decades-long militarized conflict between two global superpowers, the pony nation of Equestria and an unnamed zebra nation with whom it shared a border. In time, Equestria became a global superpower.ĭuring the War The Great War Main article: Great War Sometime after its creation, the alicorn goddesses, Princesses Celestia and Luna, rose to power and ruled interchangeably for over a thousand years.
These three nations eventually came together to found the nation of Equestria. Little is known about the true origins of ponies only that they were an intelligent species that later gave birth to various civilizations, the only such known being the nation of Equestria.Īt one point in time, ponies were politically divided by race into three nations of unknown origin.
