"We came here because we wanted to be friends with you, that's all. We want to learn how ponies live, maybe share some of our ways so you don't have to figure them out the hard way, like we did. Honestly, it's... incredible to me how much we have in common. Most of the theories I studied on what alien life would be like suggested you would probably depend on whole suites of senses that we don't have. You might've been so different we didn't even recognize you were alive, or vice-versa. But here you are, using a language with nouns and verbs and adjectives, building..." She stopped walking then, staring forward. "Honest-to-God Old West boomtowns... and setting up governments that are familiar enough to recognize."