Talk:A Matter of Principals/@comment-4066758-20180805204506/@comment-4531340-20180806055621

She probably had complete and total faith in Starlight to hire good substitutes (and probably included a contact list among all those papers she prepared for Starlight - that's one of the possible explanations for how Starlight was able to get Spitfire).

And to be completely fair, the Mane Six had only ever been called by the map as a group twice - once right after the map's activation (to Starlight's village) and once when there was a known villainous entity running amok (when they were summoned to the Hollow Shades - and then, it was just the map being helpful and pointing out where to find the Pony of Shadows).