Quote: Necratoid wrote:
Oddly you have stated nothing to confirm or deny any actual Sailor Senshiness involved. Considering you have a magic princess of Neptune, who lives there
no less, who is going to visit Lum... I can't see not using it.
Which means you have to decide which group of enimies are going to be currently facing the Senshi. If its the Dead Moon Circus its going to mean Lum is
going to report the giant invisible circus tent that is hogging airspace. Lum is literally a legal alien to Earth. She actually has a valid visa and renews
it at one point. If its the first season I'm guessing the one other surviving planet in the solar system is going to be full of not happy when they learn
Beryl is back. Though your lead male does fit the targets of the Death Busters... Pure heart (focused on the task of getting a complex multipart degree and
all) so I can see that being the type chasing him into the shrine. (Taking off his power wasting stuff would provide the burst of spirit power at that time
for the kitsune to note without making him a complete demon magnet.)
On the subject of Princess Oyuki and Haruka, many years ago I tried to write a Sailor Moon/UY crossover of my own. Never went anywhere (big surprise), but if
you see anything you like in this setup snippet, blackaeronaut, feel free to swipe it...
Ten thousand years ago, there existed on Earth and the Moon the shining civilization known as the Silver Millennium.
Its elite defenders drew mystic power from the uninhabited worlds of the system to become the invincible Sailor Senshi; the Senshi representing the inner
planets kept peace among the Kingdoms of Terra and Luna, while the four Senshi of the outer worlds stood guard against threats from outside.
All this we know.
But what were those outside threats...?
The Silver Millennium was not the only candle in the darkness of space. Light-years away, an even greater culture arose
on a world called Elle.
As the Silver Millennium was discovering space travel, settling Luna and establishing the great crystal castles orbiting the other worlds, the Ellsians were
just finishing the process of rebuilding their entire star system into a Dyson sphere. A "sphere" in the shape of a vast, perfect rose, the flower
they admired above all else.
Having nearly endless living space within the Great Rose, the Ellsians could have
stopped there. But they were an insatiably curious people in those days, so explorer ships equipped with experimental stardrives were sent out to look for new
worlds and new life.
The first aliens they encountered were the Oni of Urusei, a primitive but highly intelligent race possessed of many
strange powers. The Oni took well to contact with Elle, trading magics for science and putting their own odd twists
on the technology of the Great Rose.
Next on the list was Tengu, a world whose inhabitants were already familiar with interspecies cooperation; it being home
to two interdependent sophont races, the avian Karasu and humanoid Konoha. They too meshed well with the Ellsians and Oni; not long after contact, the four
races officially formed the first interstellar government: the Far Stars Alliance. Elle remained the dominant member of the Alliance, but it was clear that
the others would soon become equal partners.
Explorers from all three worlds now combed the stars, contacting yet more aliens: the spritelike folk of Coronis, the
shapeshifting cats of Mau, and the shy, skittish people of Chuu.
The next alien contact proved troublesome. The proud warriors of Fukunokami, who claimed to be gods fortunate enough to
have incarnated in the mortal ream, took the Oni crew of the first ship to meet them to be legendary demons, and attacked. The Oni-Fukunokami War was quickly
halted by the other Alliance races, but the two worlds nursed a quiet hatred of one another.
It was some decades later that the ships of the Alliance discovered Sol System and the worlds of the Silver Millennium.
The kingdoms of Earth and Luna, wary at first, soon entered into trade pacts with the Alliance; though they never formally joined, the Silver Millennium and
the Far Stars Alliance developed very close ties. The Mauans in particular became close to the Moon Kingdom, sending two of their wisest sages to become
advisors to the throne.
It was a ship of Alliance scientists who unearthed Sol System's best-kept secret: the planet Neptune was not a gas
giant, as the Silver Millennium had thought, but a vast illusion concealing an inhabited world!
The Yuki-onna of Neptune had long ago concealed their world, mistrusting the intentions of their insystem neighbors;
diplomatic parties from Earth, Luna and the Alliance worlds calmed their fears, and the ice-folk came out of their shell. One major diplomatic problem had to
be resolved: the Silver Millennium had been drawing on the magics of Neptune to empower one of the Sailor Senshi, not knowing that there were inhabitants who
might object. This was solved when the Queen of the Moon Kingdom offered to empower one of their own royal line, creating a second Sailor Neptune.
Shortly afterwards, as part of a new treaty between the Alliance and the Millennium, Queen Serenity used the power of
her Silver Crystal to do the same for all the Alliance worlds, endowing their chosen representatives with the ability to tap into their worlds' mystic
power and become Senshi. Both governments came to regret this somewhat, as the Far Stars' Warriors proved a most unruly lot; they became known (though
never to their faces) as "those obnoxious Sailor Senshi."
As the years passed, the two interstellar powers grew closer. A marriage was arranged between the princess of Urusei and
the second child of Queen Serenity, but before it could take place events took a dark turn.
This too is well known: how Beryl, sorceress-queen of a small Terran nation, was consumed by her desire for Endymion,
Prince of the Golden Kingdom of Earth, and struck a bargain with the demoness Metaria to gain him; how the forces of the Dark Kingdom conquered Earth,
corrupted the four greatest warriors of the Golden Kingdom, and launched an all-out assault on the Moon to sieze both Endymion and the Silver Crystal; and how
the Silver Millennium fell in fire and darkness, and Beryl's forces were banished to another plane.
But there is more to the tale.
Beryl knew that the Far Stars Alliance would send forces to aid the Moon Kingdom; planning far in advance, she sought
out criminals, powermongers, and revolutionaries on every Alliance world and forged them into a dark army. Using Metaria's power to twist their soldiers
into demonic youma, the newly-formed Dark Star Marauders began a campaign of terrorism and conquest whose true purpose was simply to distract the Alliance
while Beryl took control of the Silver Millennium.
In the end, Beryl's ambition brought down not merely the Silver Millennium but all of interstellar civilization.
The Marauder War destroyed the Alliance, crippling starflight capability and throwing most worlds back into the dark ages; only Elle maintained a technological
civilization, and even they took millennia to rebuild. The Marauders were defeated in a suicide strike by the last combined fleets of the Alliance, led by
Sailors Neptune and Uranus alongside the Far Stars Senshi; a tattered remnant survived, fleeing to a distant world and placing themselves in suspended animation, waiting for Beryl's signal to inform them that the Millennium had fallen and the power of the Silver Crystal
was on their side.
They would wait for a very long time.
In the millennia that followed, stories of the Far Stars Alliance and the Silver Millennium faded into legend. Legend
became myth, and even myth was long forgotten by the time the Dark Kingdom finally broke free...only to be destroyed
once and for all by the reincarnated Sailor Senshi.
But not before Beryl had sent out a signal, urgently requesting reinforcements...
The worlds of the Alliance have only redeveloped star travel within the last few centuries, and most were completely
ignorant of one another until recently. Urusei, now known as Oniboshi, has become the most cosmopolitan, powerful world in known space; sentients of a hundred
different species trade, work, and live alongside the Oni. Fukunokami is a close second, still nursing a grudge whose
causes were long ago forgotten; the two worlds have subsumed their agression into the mock-combat of Setsubun. The Yuki-onna made contact with Oniboshi long
ago, but retained a lingering distrust of Terrans and kept them out of interstellar affairs for some time. Tengu only recently regained interstellar travel;
most of the ruling Konoha have been wiped out by a terrible plague, and the remainder are now combing the galaxy in a
desperate search for compatible breeding stock.
Earth, isolated for many years, was rudely introduced to interstellar society a year ago when the Oni, deciding that
humans were too warlike for their own good, put on a show of "invasion" to get them working together rather than against one another. The rather
ridiculous, typically Oni Tag Race plot backfired slightly when the human champion actually won, but things seem to
have worked out well all around (though certain people in a particularly infamous neighborhood in Nerima would no doubt insist otherwise).
And then there is Elle.
The rebuilt Rose Empire has lost much of its ancient curiosity, keeping to the shadows and concealing its power. Only
in the last year has the Great Rose revealed itself to the rest of the galaxy, as its mad princess sought to add a certain Earthling to her collection of
frozen paramours; the other worlds are still wondering what the vastly powerful and highly eccentric Ellsians may choose to do next, noting with apprehension
their casual defeat of a large detatchment of the Oniboshi Space Navy.
Much else has happened in the last year. The forces of the Shadow Galactica, led by the insane Sailor Warrior Galaxia,
smashed their way through a dozen worlds before meeting defeat at the hands of the Warriors of Earth; many of Galaxia's conquests are still in a state of
chaos. A power vacuum is waiting to be filled...
...and Beryl's signal has just been answered.
As you can probably guess, Lum and friends would have turned out to be the reincarnated Far Stars Senshi; on top of that, Ataru is the reincarnation of
Princess Serenity's younger brother, and adopts the identity of "Tuxedo H" (throwing razor-sharp hentai DVDs or something). The Dark Star
Marauders (led by the infamous oni Shutendoji) would be handicapped by the fact that they'd rescued Jadeite from the ruins of the Dark Kingdom, not
realizing that Beryl's death had debrainwashed him. Their overall plan was to sieze control of various mystic/holy sites on Earth and the other worlds to
complete the "Fearful Symmetry," resurrecting and empowering Metaria (and maybe Beryl, but Metaria's the important part).
--Sam
"If that's art, then art is dirty and weird!"