@whitestar60  
If you’ve ever seen Red Dwarf, it’s kind of like that, only the characters are a bit more deadpan and the science ten times as insane.

@TheAbridgenator  
That reminds me I do need to finally get around to reading the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.

@whitestar60  
Douglas Adams, yes. XD

@TheAbridgenator  
did you just paraphrase SFDebris?

I like to think that, after the smoke cleared and Sunset returned to Equestria, she became Twilight’s second in command and started boning up on her personal studies, teaching her more advanced practical magic skills to Twilight whilst Twilight taught Sunset her technical and theoretical magic talents. In time, they would ascend to the thrones of Equestria, with Sunset ruling over the day and Twilight the night, both at their maximum power at dawn and dusk.
 
Starlight, in the meantime, studied their work as they interact, and using a combination of people skills from her cult days and Sunburst’s magical analysis talents, she became the Grand Mage of the Crystal Empire. And in time ~~with a little help from Sunburst ~~ she became the new Princess of Love.
 
Trixie, being close friends with two of the three governing deities, used her pull from their governments to become the greatest stage magician in all of Equus; her shows were so influential that they altered the zeitgeist forever, cementing Trixie’s place in history as a pop culture icon in the same vein as Elvis or Mozart.
 
And as for Moon Dancer? She proved that God is dead, and for an encore went on to prove that black is white and got herself killed on the next zebra crossing.