"Even I find that woefully optimistic," said Twilight. "Besides, it's worse than you think. I know what Faust's 'plan' is now, and it's not great. The plan was the original blueprint for our world, until Discord changed it. Basically sapience was never meant to happen, and neither was the existence of most of the creatures of this world. Ponies would've been dumb animals, and prey for anything fast enough to catch us, or hungry enough to try."