Ah, sorry I missed the question fromAs to answer it, there's quite an in depth reasoning behind it.But it already starts with the fact the show indicates not all relations are perfect. There's been fights and possibly even wars, as they seem to know the term 'war'From Nightmare Moon, the the wildlife such as the Hydra, to other factions such as the Changelings. Twilight mentioned the term War before, and in recent episode there was even a more direct use of it.It shows that things can go wrong, even though this doesn't imply they can't improve!!! My universe is set in the past, the show indicates Gryphons are a lot more accepted now-a-days. So I'm exploring the possibilities of a hostile relationship. The name "First Contact War" implies a sense of alien to it as well. I wanted to explore the contact between two completely alien species, in more ways than one. Two sentient intelligent species as well. (and possibly more, such as I've shown by creation Bovine pictures, and others)The closest humans have come to historical first contact would probably be the colonization of the Americas. Where the natives did not speak the same language, nor had the same culture. They did however have the same bodies and ancestors. That contact didn't exactly go well. Gryphons and Ponies don't even share the same bodies! Language of any form could be totally unknown the other. Ponies having hooves, rather than claws and paws. A gesture in claws could be seen as completely offensive to those with hooves, and so on. Those unknown make it fairly interesting for me to explore these things.Love and tolerance already doesn't mean the same for all ponies amongst each other, and probably even less so for the Gryphons or other species (Changelings, wildlife, etc.). A lot of gryphons have been shown to be greedy to some extremes.I also make the contact slowly build up, at first they may not know of each other's existence nor that they already had some small interactions with each other. Perhaps a hunter shot someone down from the other side, not even knowing what it was! Creation a possibly butterfly effect. Especially without direct communication technologies. (Even if those with magic can, not everyone has magic) So news travel slow, across massive distances. Think medieval times. Villages could be completely wiped out without anyone knowing or hearing about it until months later.Grudges can be build up, and ripple into bigger events, and eventually a full on war. Some may not even know why they're at war, others make it their personal vendetta for personal things, and others may try to settle things down more peacefully although those may still be struck down if the other side doesn't agree on that! Making things even worse.So there's a lot of different directions to go in, with a lot of different possibilities across a vast landscape, with hundreds or thousands of smaller stories, events and personalities, all contributing to what could head into any direction, either grim or peaceful.There's a lot more that can be told, but that's also why I'm making an universe out of it. To try and do so with the help of art.Hope I didn't go to deep, and it's still understandable where I'm coming from with this fan made universe.