Mars Pony Tumblr: http://askmarspony.tumblr.com/
 
Hard science and ponies? Sounds like a good time to me.
 
Artist’s Notes:  
It’s for my Marspony tumblr, and the setting of a big fanfic project I’m starting on.
 
The setting is a few decades after the end of season 3. Several subsidized companies have began colonization efforts on Mars. A pony pays for a ticket, and gets to go to Mars on a 2+ year trip. Thousands have gone already, and many have stayed.
 
Want to go to Mars? The ticket’s about the equivalent of ~$300,000 USD. It’s definitely not cheap, but not impossible for mid-upper class ponies, either! But for safety, you have to take a series of courses and some training with the crew you’ll fly out with. That’s what this is!
 
See how it mentions things like: “see ‘Water Cycle’”? Those things will be illustrated (Cycles, Using the DCM, and Procedures, respectively) in parts 2, 3, and 4.