"While we slept, numb to the universe, these ponies built their lives on the moon. They were no longer the League of Stars -- they were the Children  of the Stars, and we were their Mother. Their society was founded on one goal to the exclusion of all other considerations: preparing for the  day when their creator would rise up, and lead them to triumph over the  hated sun, and all of its 'prisoners' -- Celestia, the other ponies, and all of Equestria."