“Young Behertz has a valid question, Captain. And to answer, while this may be hard to believe, those three years were not enough,” the Ambassador stated. He lowered his wing as he looked towards Gilda and Fortrakt. “The first year after contact, Equestria had readily invited the humans in their country, but they delayed. I later found out that they were taking precautions. I was told they were making sure that no diseases would easily spread from their homeworld to ours and vice versa, but, while I never voiced it, I suspected there was more to it. It was only during the year after that they finally start coming in through the portal the Equestrians made.