A pony flesh cult has stolen an exploration transport spacecraft. Arriving to the protogen's original planet. They landed there in an alien forest where they started gathering resources and traded with friendly locals. While defending against protogens and their mechanoids, along with an unknown force of tentacle people. On top of needing to fight, capture and study the mechanical monsters created by the planet's machine god of sorts.

To be better at reaching their goals, they bioengineered themselfs into false alicorns with uncontrolable tentacles. Eventualy one of the unicorn cultists named Manipulative Shimmer was eventualy able to form an intimate connection with the planet's machine god, present on the planet. Giving them lot of power at the cost of being possessed by it. After that, they upgraded their spacecraft somewhat, adding plasma and railgun Weapons.

However then came a huge attack, ironicaly from the very flesh monsters they were summoning. Causing them to launch the ship to orbit earlier then expected. In the planet's orbit they searched for asteroids to mine and space satelites to deconstruct. A hostile spaceship contected them once, the flesh cult's human crew member managed to successfuly parley.

They even managed to sneak a crew into a unsuspecting spaceship and seduce it's captain. Making a deal where the captain transfered ownership of their warship to the pony cult. Alowing them to integrate it into the cultist's bigger ship.

However the victory was short lived, since then a space cruiser showed up and started destroying the pony spacecraft. In desperation they grabbed their weapons and used their escape pods. Landing in an ocular forest, crashing into a small mountain. Next to which was an archotech structure for study. They were later contacted by friendly locals, who offered to sell them two halfs of a map that would lead to more structures like the ones they landed next to. They would travel to a desert for study of more archotech structures. The lack of food and water in the desert platau seemed like a big issue at first but was solved by finding two patches of arable soil and a small fresh water source near the rocky surface the archotech structures were on.

After days of studying the archotech structures of the protogen planet's machine god. They finaly found their way to the rumored center of it all. The archotech nexus core, the place defended by robots, residence of a powerful machine conciousness. Signs of large battles were present on the way there, with husks of many military and civilians vehicles and buildings litering the way.

The arrival to the archotech nexus felt almost… underwelming. Manipulative Shimmer with his other ponies were expecting more of robot presence defending the powerful machine conciousness. After what they have been through, losing multiple legs on their adventure. None the less after defeating the robotic defences, they invoked the archotech power…

It is difficult to say what happened next but when an anstronaut crew from Anocratic empire decided where ordered to do system surveys there much later, this is what they saw… the planets in the stars system were now alive and gootraxian.