Even with help from the non-Equine races, Equis lagged far behind human technologial advances, though the age of the craft made this even more obvious. If the estimated million year origin was accurate, the vessel would likely be primitive to any humans now, their species many times older than ponies. Even if they'd wanted to, however, copying the original ship was impossible, even once the crash site was sectioned off and the wreckage taken for examination. Too much of it had been destroyed from the entry into the atmosphere, and much of what had survived that was annihilated upon hitting the ground.