“I always thought there would be more of it,” Princess Celestia said. “When my mother told me how old the world was, how long we had been living there… I pictured something that went on forever. But at least since the Quarantine, that hasn’t been the case. And probably sometime before that. Other ponies’ ancestors explored the stars, and colonized the whole of the universe… but their children are all ashes now. We’re the only ones left.”