One of the oldest tricks in the book is to round up a bunch of random schmoes from an outgroup, declare them enemies, punish them in front of a crowd, and then dispatch them as slaves to the mines.
 
It lets you seize people’s land, profit from their labor, tighten laws to control society, and do it all under the aegis of a benevolent protector.
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@TItan  
The main obstacle would be getting a camera setup with a high enough realtime framerate.
 
Rendering the pony is trivial; pretty much any computer running Windows 95 or newer should be able to handle it. It’s easy to forget now after so many seasons, but one of the key virtues of Friendship is Magic back in the day was that it used old, known technology and was cheap to make. Old for 2010, that is; Flash is positively decrepit these days.
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@Background Pony #0D90  
It’s “Magic can neither be created nor destroyed” or possibly “All magic is related to all other magic, but nearby magic is more related than distant magic” or even “The spell is the caster and the caster the spell.”