Then it came into view, and the whole crowd of ponies gasped. This was no mere airship, as the Wing of Midnight had been. That vessel had been advanced, but still not that far outside their experience. But the Emperor, that was more like a city. Bigger than Motherlode by far, if you didn’t count the mines. It wasn’t a graceful, aerodynamic marvel, more like several large buildings welded together with a flat runway near the top layer. Even so, it had the ponies in awe.