because if you take out celly and luna, you've got twi and cadence to deal with.

probably a big enough crisis might get equestria's military reinveigorated no offense to shiny but he's a pretty incompetent head of the army to allow canterlot to be taken twice.

perhaps

I think Tirek is a special case

sorry my bad three times

he seemed pretty invulnerable to anything ponies threw at him

what was number 2?

I know the changeling invasion was 1

storm king invasion

but even then, he was being mind raped by the changelings

Is he even captain of the guard then?

I thought he was Cadence's husband then

it's a good question I think he might be head of the crystal empire's defense force

maybe?

so he was probably too busy blowing his load in cadence to be bothered with advancing airships.

figuring that was someone else's job that day

based on some tiny quirks about equestira I'm convinced that it was once an imperialistic power

Well my theory is that ponies used to be a sort of a balkanised group

and mostly racially segregated.

I imagine Celly and Luna basically did a god emperor on everyone's ass

to play devils advocate a throw away line from shadow play might offer an explanation. they mentioned they sent the guard all over equestira looking for the pony of shadows and they basicly left the capital unguarded for the storm king to march in

pony of shadows?

the balkanization is fact at this point but celestia and luna were invited from some unseen pony empire ofscreen to be monarch also a canon fact

the villan of the season 7 finale

I don't remember this episode

I must have missed it

I thought season 7 finale was the one where Glimmer and Trixie go on a lesbian bug squashing adventure

that was the season 6 also discord was there

@Deleted User It's time to clean the floors.

there's a book called the journal of the two sisters that's canon and basicly describes the begining of celestia and luna's reign

I do love lore expanding episodes

I'd love to have a pre sisters series of MLP

that book was pretty enlightening about celestia and luna's story fun fact the play from the more recent episodes basicly confirms the book is canon

sort of their version of KOTOR

but again I imagine Celly and Luna probably had to do distasteful things in order to bring order to equestria

The god Emperor from warhammer was the same

but I believed his goal was a nobel one.

they didn't equestria was united before celestia and luna turned up. the period of expansionism I think happened afterwards was likely pretty brutal

so who ruled before them?

maybe it was more of an alliance or federation before then?

https://www.amazon.com/Little-Pony-Chronicles-Princesses-Friendship/dp/0316282243