On Fri, 3 Oct 1997, David Johnston wrote:
Ranma Al'Thor wrote:
On Fri, 3 Oct 1997, Paul A. Herring wrote:
A major facet of the whole Moon Kingdom scenario is the fact that
1,000 years from now, Sailor Moon will reign as Queen Serenity over all the
earth. Well, what leads to this take-over? And, as a fic idea. . .
. . .what if a large percentage of humanity decides that it doesn't
*want* to be ruled under an absolute monarchy (however benevolantly run)?
I doubt that it would be a large percentage. And I doubt that it
would be an absolute monarchy.
Not with Usagi as queen :)
That's where the Black Moon Family came from, the people who left Earth
rather than stay under Serenity's rule.
Is this the official version of things?
I'm pretty sure this is what the Manga states.
The Earth freezes over for most of that 1000 year gap according to the
Manga, so no, Humanity hasn't gone anywhere.
Assuming that the Earth is flash frozen in the late 21st century,
it's very possible that this occurs after humanity has established a
sustainable presence in space, at least. If the "freezing over" is
a more natural process, ie. an ice age, then space travel seems like a
an even more likely development.
According to Manga it occurs very soon after Usagi and Mamoru get married
in early 21st century.
In the Sailor Moon Z/Dance of Shiva universe, I put it in 2065 AD. There
is space travel, but you can't get out of the system with it. (Unless you
know a few friendly neighborhood Juraiians :))
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Nor, to my understanding does it state that anyone in the future worships
Serenity. She's the Queen, but then Victoria was a queen and no
worshipped her. (I hope)
However, it's far from unreasonable for there to be a Serenity
cult. After all, she has vast supernatural power, virtually
unquestionable benevolence, innately superhuman charisma and is
personally integral to saving the world however many times.
For a while there was a cult who worshipped Michael Jackson.
Why not Serenity?
There is also a cult that worships Joan Jett :)
But I doubt that Serenity deliberately tried to become worshipped,
or for that matter that she deliberately takes over the world, or would
actively try to expand her domain past whatever it is, whether
it's the world, or just a city-state. Remember, this is
Given that according to the anime, she still can't even do all of her
Kanji correctly after a thousand years, I tend to agree :)
While we're on the subject though, I was rather amused by one of the
social theories in "Together Again". That nobody owns their genes,
but merely keeps them in trust. I take it birth control is illegal
there? In fact, given that they clone people and duplicate their
memories without prior consent, and then charge the resultant
duplicates for the privilege, it seems clear that they think that
This bothered me as well.
a person owns neither their body, nor even their mind. De facto,
they've legalised slavery. In fact, sufficiently ruthless
application of the principle of TINSTAAFL would easily allow someone
to grow a person and keep them indentured indefinitely for a
longer than human lifespan. Ah, the utopian ideals of the future.
As a general rule, however, Usagi wouldn't do things like that. She can't
bring herself to fight people who have slaughtered her closest friends
(see ending of Stars). What would happen with later generations who don't
have her pure heart and idealism, though...
John Walter Biles : MA-History, Ph.D Wannabe at U. Kansas
ranma@falcon.cc.ukans.edu
rhea@tass.org http://www.tass.org/~rhea/falcon.html
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Priss smiled. "This is Admiral Priscilla S. Asagiri of House
Serenity. Request permission to help you kick some giant monster
ass. So did this thing crawl out of your garbage can or what, sis? It
looks like some leftovers evolved into a new life form."
--Dance of Shiva, Chapter 19.